SUNSET PARK OPEN STUDIOS
October 13-15

Sunset Park Open Studios 2023 (SPOS) is an annual, multi-day arts celebration of exhibitions, events and open studios throughout Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Featuring hundreds of participating artists and art-spaces from across the neighborhood, SPOS is free and open to the public.  This year, SPOS will be held from Friday, October 13th through Sunday, October 15th, 2023. Throughout the weekend SPOS will welcome visitors to meet artists, curators and researchers from around the globe, and experience the beauty and diversity of the artistic process in both studio environments and institutional contexts alike.

Friday, October 13 | 6-9 pm
Saturday, October 14 | 1-5 pm
Sunday, October 15 | 1-5 pm

In parallel with our Open Studios, NARS is pleased to present the opening receptions for 'Enmeshed, Dreams of Water' curated by Bianca Abdi-Boragi, Katherine Adams, and Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, featuring works by Keren Anavy, Sanie Bokharie, Magdalena Dukiewicz, Carlos Franco, Kathie Halfin, Bonam Kim, Umber Majeed, Jamie Martinez, Jonathan Ojekunle, Sa’dia Rehman, Leila Seyedzadeh, and Masha Vlasova, as part of 'The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2023: Contact Zone,’ as well as the opening for 'Fingery Eyes,' a solo exhibition by NARS Alumni Sarah Davidson. Both receptions will take place on Friday, October 13th, from 6-9pm, the former in the Main Gallery and the latter in the Project Space.

Featuring NARS Residency Artists:

Ravi Avasti | Sue Beyer | Jake Couri | Pauline Dumas & Maxime Bagni | Juyon Lee | Lauren Pirie | Sophie Sabet | Tülay Schakir | wei |Ye'ela Wilschanski | Zhuyan Ye | Chi Zhang.

J&M STUDIOS Artists:

Open Studios Featuring: Alec Dylan Burns | Amanda Leung | Andrew Schwartz | Anzia Anderson | Braden Bandel | Carole d'Inverno | Daina Higgins | Derek Buckner | Douglas Paisley | Efrat Kussell | Eun Young Choi | Fred Fleisher | Indiana Hoover | Jahyun Seo | Jasmine Espinal | Jean Auguste Alix | Jeremiah Teipen | Jospeh Bochetto Walsh | Judy Giera | Julia Elsas | Julie Peppito | Kalya O'Donoghue | Katerina Pansera | Katherine Kisa | Louis Watts | Lucy Nordlinger | Margot Werner | Mari Renwick | Marie Gagnon | Mary McIntyre | Matt Ro | Miranda Norris | Naomi Nakazato | Niamul Bari | Nikolina Kovalenko | Patricia Orpilla | Peter Walsh | Rachael McArthur | Rachel Moldauer | Richard F. Kessler | Richard Rosenblatt | Robert Melzmuf | Sarah Gratz | Sophia Chizuco | Tim Norris | Umber Majeed | Veronika Golova | Vivek Sebastian | Weston Frazor | Woolpunk | Yasmeen Abdallah.

Directions: NARS is two express subway stops from Manhattan. Take the “N” or “D” to 36 St. Transfer to the “R” one stop to 45 St. Walk to 46th Street then make a right and walk down 46th street to the building on the corner of 46th street and 2nd Ave on the right. A map of all Open Studios participants can be found here.

SPRING OPEN STUDIOS
June 2 & 3

NARS Spring Open Studios, a two-day exhibition of international contemporary art, showcases the residency and studio artists working in our growing artist community. This event, co-presented with J&M Studios, invites the public to meet over 50 artists from all over the world and to experience the artistic process and the diverse range of artistic mediums presented in the intimacy of the studio environment.

Friday, June 2 | 6-9 pm
Saturday, June 3| 1-5 pm

In parallel with our Open Studios, NARS is pleased to present the openings of Scorched Honey Archive, a solo exhibition by NARS Alumni John Roach, and the Season II International Residency Exhibition. Both opening receptions will take place on June 2, from 6-9pm. There will also be a performance by John Roach on June 3 beginning at 2:30pm.

Featuring NARS Residency Artists:

Chengtao Yi  | Coral Saucedo Lomelí | Cristóbal Gracia | Emily DiCarlo | Jeffrey Poirier | Jie Shao  | Laura Gauch  | Lauren Murao Walkiewicz | Matilde Søes Rasmussen | Robin Alysha Clemens | Sato Sugamoto | Umico Niwa | Zindzi Zwietering

J&M STUDIOS Artists:

Alec Burns | Amanda Leung | Anzia Anderson | Braden Bandel | Carole d'Inverno | Douglas Paisley | Eva Cocco | Fred Fleisher | Scherezade Garcia-Vazquez | Homer Shew | Indiana Hoover | Jahyun Seo | Jean Auguste Alix | Judy Giera | Katherine Kisa | Katherine Vetne | Lucia Warck Meister | Lucy Nordlinger | Margot Werner | Mari Renwick | Marie Gagnon | Mary McIntyre | Matt Ro | Naomi Nakazato | Niamul Bari | Nikolina Kovalenko | Patricia Orpilla | Peter Walsh | Rachael McArthur | Rachel Moldauer | Richard Kessler | Richard Rosenblatt | Rhonda Weppler | Robert Melzmuf | Sarah Gratz | SiSi Chen | Skyler Ford | Sophia Chizuco | Tara Ohanian | Umber Majeed | Vivek Sebastian | Weston Frazor

Directions: NARS is two express subway stops from Manhattan. Take the “N” or “D” to 36 St. Transfer to the “R” one stop to 45 St. Walk to 46th Street then make a right and walk down 46th street to the building on the corner of 46th street and 2nd Ave on the right.

Sunset Park Wide Open is back!
October 14-16th, join us for a weekend of open studios, exhibitions, and events, all across Sunset Park.

See below for the full list of events, exhibitions, and open studios.

Promotional support provided in part by the NYC & Company Foundation and the Office
of The Brooklyn Borough President, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council.

Support also generously provided by NYC Ferry, National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts, and Council Member Alexa Avilés, Thank you to all of our sponsors!

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169 54th St Studios

169 54th Street

Friday 10/14, 6 - 9 pm
Saturday 10/15, 11 - 5 pm
Sunday 10/16. 11- 5pm

Built in 1925, 169 54th Street was an industrial factory for most of its history before being converted into its current use, housing a variety of studios and businesses including artists studios, woodshops, music spaces, small batch food production, small businesses and more.

Open Studios:
#316 - Rachael Scharf: RachaelPots Ceramics - We are a small pottery production studio with a line of hand-thrown functional wares. Ceramics seconds sale: Saturday & Sunday 11am-5pm.
#316 - Sasha Hill: Ceramic artist and teacher creating small batches of unique and functional pottery pieces. Ceramics gallery/sale: Saturday & Sunday 11am-5pm.
#205 - Iliana Emilia Garcia: Visual Artist Open Studio
#220 - Joshua Peters: Visual Artist/Painter Open Studio
#214 - notpaulsimon: Visual Artist Open Studio
#301 - Alan Barnes Netherton: Visual Artist Open Studio
#329 - Yi Hsuan Lai: Visual Artist, Photography and Sculpture Open Studio

Art Cake

214 40th Street

Friday 10/14- 5-7 pm
Saturday 10/15- 1-6 pm
Sunday 10/16- 1-6 pm

The artists of the Art Cake Studio Program are pleased to announce the program’s open studio event with a reception for the artists on Friday, OCT 14 from 5-7P and continuing through the weekend, Saturday and Sunday, OCT 15-16 from 1-6P each day

About Art Cake

Located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Art Cake is an organization dedicated to providing
space for production and opportunities to explore creative practices. The 13,000 square foot building was renovated by Smith & Sauer, in close collaboration with the founders. It features a multi-room exhibition and event space that can accommodate a wide variety of events, from art exhibitions and installations, to film shoots, performances, lectures, and dinners on the ground floor and a complex of affordable artist studios on the second floor. The revenue generated from renting the ground floor allows Art Cake to maintain a self-sustaining model in support of artists working in New York City.

Art Cake Studio Program
Art Cake studio program provides individual workspaces to artists from around the world working in a variety of fine art disciplines. Rotating the artists in residence every one to two years, the mission is to build and support a diverse community of artists working in New York. The complex on the second floor is comprised of ten studios and a shared communal area.

Open Studios:
Layo Bright, Jim Condron, William Fleites, Carolyn Forrester, Carl E. Hazlewood, Justin Natividad, Riley Strom, Kate Liebman, Melika Abikenari, Cordy Ryman (at 226 40th Street)

BioBAT Art Space

140 58th Street,
Building A (entrance located on the Brooklyn waterfront)

Friday, October 14th, 6 - 9 pm
Saturday, October 15th, 12 - 5 pm
Sunday, October 16th, 12 - 5 pm

Exhibition:

Artist: Yoko Shimizu
Show Title: Vibrant Matter

Vibrant Matter is a solo exhibition by Japanese bio-artist and researcher Yoko Shimizu that features a selection of the artist's work exploring the dynamism, agency, and expressive potential of living systems. Working with plant and microbial organisms as subject matter, material, and artistic collaborators, Shimizu's work probes and reveals the invisible intra-acting forces that animate processes of creation, adaptation, growth, and transformation in all organic matter. In both her scientific research and her artistic practice, Shimizu's work asks the question, how do we as humans shift our relationship with nature from one of domination and control to one of symbiosis and collaboration? She develops novel techniques and new materials, harnessing the infinite wisdom of nature and the tools of emerging technology, to push the boundaries of newly imagined non-human forms of communication.

 Yoko Shimizu (Japanese, born 1977) is an Austrian-based bio-artist, researcher, and former NARS Residency alumni. Vibrant Matter is one of her first major solo exhibitions in the United States and is informed by over a decade's worth of Shimizu's scientific research exploring the intersection of biological systems and emergent technology.

BioBAT Art Space is a gallery dedicated to the intersection of  Art, Science, and Technology, cultivating relationships between artists, the community, and future generations of innovators. The art space is housed in the ground floor lobby of a nonprofit bio incubator, BioBAT Inc., located in the historic Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park.

Court Tree Collective

51 35th Street, BLD #5
2nd FL, Suite B236

Friday, October 14th, 12 - 6 pm
Saturday, October 15th, 12 - 6 pm
Sunday, October 16th, 12 - 5 pm

Exhibitions:
Bill Brand’s Masstransiscope
The greatest American art form, Louis Sarowsky, Clarence K.

Court Tree Collective was established in 2013 by a group of artists and creatives with the primary purpose of representing and supporting the work of emerging and established contemporary artists. Since its opening Court Tree Collective has been a staple to south Brooklyn’s emerging art scene and in a short time has exhibited a number of important exhibitions. In addition they have curated a number of exhibitions at satellite locations throughout the states and abroad.

 About the Exhibitions:

Court Tree Collective proudly presents Bill Brand's limited edition Masstransiscope print portfolio. For the first time ever all 57 prints will be exhibited, corresponding to the 228 animated “frames” of the artwork in the subway, an iconic part of NYC’s public art history.

 Court Tree Collective proudly presents The greatest American artform. A dedication to skateboarding and its contribution to global culture. This three part exhibition includes the professional skateboarder/artist (Louis Sarowsky), the photographer (Clarence K.) documenting the modern skateboarder, and skateboarders and admirers (group exhibition) presenting their versions of the skateboard deck.

Genspace

132 32nd St, Suite 108

Friday 10/14, 6:30-8:30pm

Genspace is the world’s first community biology lab — a place where people of all backgrounds can learn, create, and grow with the life sciences. Since 2009, we have served the greater New York area by providing hands-on STEAM education programs for youth and adults, cultural and outreach events for the public, and a membership program to support New York’s community of creatives, researchers, and entrepreneurs.

Biology Lab as Studio: Join Genspace for presentations by artists and designers who work in collaboration with bacteria, plants, and fungi to explore new materials and new modes of thinking. What can we learn from non-human life forms? What is the role of care and experimentation? And what future can we envision or create in the lab?

Presenters: Kathy Mu, Iz Nettere, Aradhita Ajaykumar Parasrampuria, and more.

Presentations followed by a meet-and-greet with drinks and light snacks on the rooftop patio.

International Contemporary Ensemble

Art Cake
214 40th Street

October 16th, 1-3pm

Floating Verses: Community Music Box Workshop
Free Workshops: 1-1:45pm & 2-2:45pm at Art Cake

The International Contemporary Ensemble is an artist collective that is transforming the way music is created and experienced. The Ensemble’s 36 members are featured as soloists, chamber musicians, commissioners, and collaborators with the foremost musical artists of our time. Works by emerging composers have anchored the Ensemble’s programming since its founding, and the group’s recordings highlight the many voices that weave music’s present.

About the Workshop:
Phyllis continues Floating Verses, a global community music-art piece that invites participants to create their own music box strip.  Participants design, draw and punch out their own tunes on music box punch tape. Eventually, these strips are connected together in a quilt-like fashion, adding to the fabric of sound collected from other participants in previous workshops.

The sounds you hear during the workshop are strips from the following places/workshops:
University of Ioannina (Greece)
Far North Festival (Illulisat, Greenland)
Morris Museum (Morristown, NJ)
Philly Magic Garden (Philadelphia, PA)
Ben Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, PA)
SUNY New Paltz, NY
Abrons Arts Center (NYC)

Described by The New York Times  as “spellbinding” and “delightfully quirky matched with interpretive sensitivity,” Phyllis (2022 Guggenheim Fellow, 2019 Cage-Cunningham Fellow) is a composer, pianist and sound artist whose music draws from her tactile exploration of object and sound.  She has performed her music at Lincoln Center, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Abrons Arts Center, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Los Angeles County Museum, Baryshnikov Arts Center and numerous other places.

Industry City Studios

Building 5, 67 35th Street, 3rd Floor

Studio B331 - Jeanette May: visual artist primarily working in photography.
Friday, 10/14,  5 – 8pm
Saturday, 10/15, 1 – 5pm
Sunday, 10/16, 1 – 5pm

Suite B314 - Pavel Kraus: Sculptor Painter, Working in amber, natural resin, and marble
Saturday 10/15 12-6pm
Sunday 10/16 12-6pm

Studio B317 - Erin Juliana and Adam Murray: Erin is a fiber artist and painter who uses the structure of the grid and the fluidity of textiles as a metaphor for the imperfect nature of the human body. Adam combines found objects with handcrafted elements to create sculptures that are simultaneously playful and looming.
Saturday 10/15 12-6pm
Sunday 10/16 12-6pm

J&M STUDIOS

201 46th St 4th Fl

Friday 10/14, 6 - 9 pm
Saturday 10/15, 1 - 5 pm

J&M STUDIOS provides short and long term based rental work spaces essential for a community that seeks to develop their creative works and build their professional career.

Open Studios:
Alec Burns, Andrew Schwartz, Angela Kehlenbeck, Douglas Paisley, Fred Fleisher, Homer Shew, Jaret Vadera, Jean Auguste Alix, Judy Giera, Julia Elsas, Kalya O'Donoghue, Katerina Pansera, Katherine Kisa, Katherine Vetne, Lucia Warck Meister, Lucy Nordlinger, Maryam Turkey, Matt Ro, Nadia Ackerman, Naomi Nakazato, Natalie Birinyi, Niamul Bari, Nikolina Kovalenko, Peter Walsh, Rachael McArthur, Rhonda Weppler, Richard Kessler, Richard Rosenblatt, Rives Wiley, Robert Melzmuf, SiSi Chen, Sophia Chizuco, Tara Ohanian, Umber Majeed, Veronika Golova, Vivek Sebastian, Weston Frazor, Ying Hung

MakerSpace NYC

Brooklyn Army Terminal Building B Unit 1C & Building A Unit 5N-1
Brooklyn, NY 11220

Tours of MakerSpace (Building A & B)
Saturday 10/15, 11am - 4pm
Sunday 10/16, 11am - 4pm

Exhibition Opening (Building B)
Saturday 10/15, 2pm - 4pm

Makerspace NYC is a non-profit community based organization dedicated to building economic growth and supporting innovation in our community. Our mission is to promote creativity and collaboration across disciplines and to make technology accessible to anyone who desires to make or invent something, regardless of skills or experience. We seek to support individual entrepreneurship and help sustain artists, craftspeople, engineers, hobbyists, inventors, and other groups by offering low cost access to a facility that houses industrial and digital fabrication equipment including metal shops, woodshops, machine shop, 3D printing, laser cutting, waterjet and other CNC technologies, sewing/textiles, and more.

Our new studio spaces in Building A offer our members private and semi private studios with a dedicated woodshop, metalshop, and ceramics studio. Our education programs support STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) learning and open new doors to learning, creative problem solving, and invention through the sciences, new technology, and vocational skills for all ages.

Visitors will be able to tour our makerspace in Building B and our new studio space and fabrication shops in Building A. Artists, makers, and craftspeople will be working in both spaces and will have their work on view.

Exhibit: Architectural Studies in Sacred Geometry by Paco Levine
Saturday October 15th 2-4 pm

NARS Foundation

201 46th St 4th Fl
Brooklyn NY 11220

Friday 10/14, 6 - 9 pm
Saturday 10/15, 1 - 5 pm

NARS Foundation is a not-for-profit arts organization committed to supporting artists and curators on a local and international level through a residency, exhibition and outreach programs.

 As part of the Sunset Park Wide Open Event, NARS is pleased to present in the Main Gallery Gathering: Moon Phase, an exhibition by Shane Charles, featuring performances by Kayva Yang and Domenica Garcia. In the NARS Project Space, NARS is pleased to present Undermining, a solo exhibition by Daniel Barragán.

The exhibitions will be on view from October 14th to November 9th, and with an Opening Reception on Friday 10/14, from 6-9 pm.

Additionally, the NARS Season IV Residency Artists, and Studio Relief Program artists will open their spaces to the visitors.

NARS Residency Artists:
Adrienne Reynolds, Ann Kim, Anna Gustafson, Isabella Cruz-Chong, Francesse Dolbrice, Gabriela Těthalová, Hyojae Kim, Kumi Kaguraoka, Linda Sok, MJ Daines, Nicki Cherry, Nicole Ji Soo Kim, Sam Sundius, Sarah Davidson

SPBK Studios

250 44th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11220

Saturday 10/15, 1-5pm
Sunday 10/16, 1-5pm

Individual studios are open to the public during SPWO.

SPBK Studios in Sunset Park is a three-floor former warehouse building with studios used by artists, designers, craftspeople, makers, photographers, musicians, and small businesses.

Open Studios:

#102 - John Jackson, painter 
#106 - Haley Hayden, Kariny Padilla, Jenna Inzetta, artists 
#110 - Phil Falino, painter & filmmaker
#114 - Mollie Ruskin, painting, illustration and multi-media
#113 - Jose Ortiz, Fig. 9, Graphic Design & Illustration
#204 - Augustus Cross, painter
#218 - Luis Restoy, visual artist
#302 - Paul Smereka - woodworking, Kristen Zwicker - sound installation
#303 - Talia Levitt, painter
#312 - Alan Prazniak, painter 
#311 - Tracey Jain, knit textile designer
#314 - Jordan Rare, photographer 
#315 - Jeffrey Kurland, painter 

Tabla Rasa Gallery

224 48th St
Brooklyn NY 11220

Friday October 14, 5:30-8 pm
Saturday October 15 1:00 - 5:00 pm
Sunday October 16 1:00 - 5:00 pm

Exhibition
The Real Deal Tabla Rasa celebrates talent and authenticity in art. Reception is Friday October 14, 5:30-8 pm

Jenny Toth, Agnes Murray, Janet Morgan, Greg Frux, C. Dimitri, Esteban Chavez, Willie Mae Brown, Tom Bennett, Stephen Basso, Joseph Anastasi, Audrey Anastasi

Events

Friday October 14
Opening reception “The Real Deal”

 Saturday October 15
1:30pm - No Bird Brains Here: Reflections on the joy of creating bird reliefs and drawings from life, Jenny Toth discusses recent work
2:00pm - Printerly versus painterly, Agnes Murray and Tom Bennett speak about two approaches to creating monotypes
3:00pm - The Underlying humor in Stephen Basso's art, The artist discusses his work.
4:00pm - Live music with Eddie Karp, Ira Bolterman and Joseph Anastasi

 Sunday October 16
2:00 pm - Hello Mussolini, Dimitri's video slideshow of political cartoons and live musical accompaniment (originally performed at Irondale Theatre in 2017)
3:00 pm - Dance and Draw, Artist and belly dancer Janet Morgan will lead a session of making movements and marks

Target Margin Theater

232 52nd St
Brooklyn, NY 11220

 Saturday 10/15 5-6pm
Sunday 10/16 5-6pm

Target Margin Theater’s mission is to re-invent what theater can be without any assumptions, in the most inclusive way imaginable. Every experience we create should be surprising, challenging, and delightful for all.

Target Margin Theater Open Studio:   
This October, Target Margin will be exploring some of the work and world of Gertrude Stein – in a lab series affectionately called “I Hate Gertrude Stein and Others.” This is the most open and exploratory phase of our work; core artists will engage with the material in various ways to experiment with different approaches. What will it look like? Who knows – anything and everything can happen!

Core Artists: Performers: Daniel Abbes, Ali Andre Ali, Mallika Chandaria, Gina Fonseca, Julia Ty Goldberg, Laura Martinez, Javier Padilla, Hayley Sherwood; Designer: Lindsay Fuori; Director: Adam Kassim

Thomas VanDyke Gallery

434 39th St
Brooklyn, NY 11220

Friday, 10/14, 6-9pm (also open from 10am-6pm)
Saturday 10/15, 11am-6pm
Sunday 10/16, 11am-6pm

Exhibition:
Mushroom People, Lindsey Ross
September 24- November 5

Thomas VanDyke Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, working with artists who are local to New York City, as well as from all over the world. The gallery has established a reputation for innovative exhibitions featuring an array of materials and artistic disciplines. Thomas VanDyke Gallery has helped to promote and further the creative processes of those artists and seeks to be a platform that can bring attention to their work. Established in 2022, on 39th Street in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Thomas VanDyke Gallery hosts art exhibitions as well as live performances, workshops, community events, concerts, and produces original creative content both online and in the gallery.

Yi Gallery

254 36th Street, B634 FL 6R
Brooklyn, NY 11232

Friday 10/14, 12 - 6pm
Saturday 10/15, 12-6pm
Sunday 10/16, 12-6pm

Exhibition:
Artist name: Lilou Oh Yeah
Solo Exhibition
September 24 - October 29, 2022

YI GALLERY program features a diverse roster of emerging and mid-career international artists. Started in 2018 as a curatorial project exhibiting in non-traditional settings, YI has expanded to include a collaborative exhibition space in Bushwick (2020 - 2021). The gallery program continues to evolve with a new space inside Brooklyn’s vibrant creative hub Industry City, launched in 2021. YI is committed to offering a platform for distinctive artistic voices, while enhancing the public’s interaction with contemporary art.

Spring Open Studios
June 3 & 4

NARS Spring Open Studios, a two-day exhibition of international contemporary art, showcases the residency and studio artists working in our growing artist community. This event, co-presented with J&M Studios, invites the public to meet over 50 artists from all over the world and to experience the artistic process and the diverse range of artistic mediums presented in the intimacy of the studio environment.

Friday, June 3 | 6-9 pm
Saturday, June 4 | 1-5 pm

In parallel with our Open Studios, NARS is pleased to present the openings of Memento Mori: The Approachable Shining Stars, a solo exhibition by NARS Alumni Ming-Jer Kuo, and the Season II International Residency Exhibition. Both opening receptions will take place on June 3, from 6-9pm.

Featuring NARS Residency Artists:

Allyson Glenn   | Anne Büscher | Daniel Anthony Vasquez | Guillaume Adjutor Provost | Huidi Xiang | Hyemi Kim  | Hyeree Christina Mary Ro  | Jennifer Chia-Ling Ho | Jenny Rafalson | Jon Ek  | Katie Hubbell | Kumi Kaguraoka  | Layla Klinger | Lau Wai 

J&M Studio Artists:

Amanda Leung | Ana Villagomez | Angela Kehlenbeck | Anissa Lewis | Carole d'Inverno | Charlotte Laporte | Cindy Zaglin | Cj Priester | Damien Ding | David Lindberg | Douglas Paisley | Fred Fleisher | Ginna Triplett | Ian Myers | Isabelle Fernandez | Jean Auguste Alix | Kalya O'Donoghue | Katherine Kisa | Liva Isaksson | Lucy Nordlinger | Mari Renwick | Matt Ro | natchie | Naomi Andree Campbell | Naomi Nakazato | Niamul Bari | Nikolina Kovalenko | Oscar Salguero’s Interspecies Library | Peter Walsh | Rachael McArthur | Ragini Bhow | Richard Kessler | Richard Rosenblatt | Rives Wiley | Robert Melzmuf | Skyler Ford | Sophia Chizuco | Sparklezilla | Stephanie Hargrave | Tara Ohanian | Umber Majeed | Weston Frazor

Directions: NARS is two express subway stops from Manhattan. Take the “N” or “D” to 36 St. Transfer to the “R” one stop to 45 St. Walk to 46th Street then make a right and walk down 46th street to the building on the corner of 46th street and 2nd Ave on the right.

Sunset Park Wide Open is back!
October 15-17th, join us for a weekend of open studios, exhibitions, and events, all across Sunset Park.

Scroll down for locations & more information!

NARS Foundation

201 46th St, 4th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11220

Friday 10/15, 6 - 9 pm
Saturday 10/16, 12 - 5 pm

Exhibitions:

The exhibitions will be on view from October 15th to November 5th, and with an Opening Reception on Friday 10/15, from 6-9 pm.

Bubble Orchestra
Curated by Precog Magazine at the NARS Main Gallery, and with works by Adeniyi Ololade, Patricia Dominguez, Carlos Franco, Amiko Li, Alison Kuo, Umber Majeed, Anjuli Rathod, Ben Ross Davis, Virtual Dream Center, and Blinn & Lambert. 

Spatiotemporal Invaders
An exhibition of works by Jeremiah Teipen in the NARS Project space

Open Studios:

Additionally, the NARS Season IV Residency Artists, and Studio Relief Program artists will open their spaces to the visitors.

Residency Artists: Ahmet Civelek, Asia Stewart, Barnett Cohen, Bradley Marshall, Guillaume Brisson-Darveau, Hae Won Sohn, Niki Afsar, Rodney Ewing, Shuyi Cao, Tenzin Phuntsog, Yoshie Sugito

Studio Relief Artists: Daniel Barragan, Juyi Mao, Haley Matis-Uzzo, Hiromi Kiba.

J&M STUDIOS

201 46th Street, 2nd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11220

Friday 10/15, 6 - 9 pm
Saturday 10/16, 12 - 5 pm

Exhibition:

On Terrain and Emblem
Studio #204
with works by Jazmine Catasus, Melanie Gonzalez, Harley Ngai Grieco, & Nancy Paredes

Open Studios:
Amanda Leung, Andrew Schwartz, Angela Kehlenbeck, Carole d'Inverno, Cinthya Santos-Briones, Damien Ding, David Lindberg, Douglas Paisley, Frank Born, Fred Fleisher, Hiromitsu Kuroo, Homer Shew, Jahyun Seo, Joyce McKee, Julia Elsas, Kate Bae, Liz Jones, Lucy Nordlinger, Margot Werner, Matt Ro, Matthias Liechti, Min-Jer Kuo, Naomi Andree Campbell, Natalie Birinyi, Niamul Bari, Peter Walsh, Rachael McArthur, Ragini Bhow, Rhonda Weppler, Richard Kessler, Richard Rosenblatt, Rives Wiley, Robert Melzmuf, Ron Leach, Rowan Renee, Simone Couto, Sophia Chizuco, Tianlan Deng, Veronika Golova, Weston Frazor, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ying Hung.

Art Cake

214 40th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11232

Friday 10/15- 5-8 pm
Saturday 10/16- 1-6 pm
Sunday 10/17- 1-6 pm 

Art Cake Open Studios

Art Cake studio program provides individual workspaces to artists from around the world working in a variety of fine art disciplines. The complex on the second floor is comprised of ten studios and a shared communal area. A group show featuring work by the participating artists in the studio program will be on view.

Open Studios:
William Fleites, Carolyn Forrester, Carl E. Hazlewood, Naomi Lisiki, Ai Makita, Michael Rado, Michele Rushfeldt, Riley Strom, Dannielle Tegeder

BioBAT Artspace

140 58th Street, Brooklyn Army Terminal Building A
Brooklyn, NY 11220

Saturday 10/16, 12-5pm

Sunday 10/17, 12-5 pm

BioBAT Art Space is pleased to present two exhibitions: Common Frequencies, an exhibition that brings together the works of Lorena Mal, Marcela Armas, Gilberto Esparza, Tania Candiani, and Interspecifics, and curated by Elisa Gutierrez Eriksen. The work of these Mexican artists meets at the intersection of art and science, and explores the relationship between these two disciplines through sound, urban ecology, language, and the construction of collective imageries. The artists—working across performance, installation, photography, sound, and drawing—are inspired by resonance, mechanics, electricity, and magnetism and take these phenomena as the basis for the invention of mechanisms that give voice to nature.

Impending Beauty, a solo exhibition by Tatiana Arocha at BioBAT Art Space Project Space, that transports viewers into a tea room that recalls early 19th Century European opulence, yet every surface bears images of an all-engulfing rainforest. The installation interrogates man’s instruments of aggression as well as those luxurious, ‘civilized’ artifacts and furnishings that hold so much material value but exist purely as a result of the heedless ransacking of natural resources. Within this room nature prevails, the flora and fauna recolonizing their sacred spaces.

Concert: “Household Requiem”

Performances on Sunday 10/17 at 3 pm and 4pm
Household Requiem is a collaboration between Mexican artists Tania Candiani and composer Rogelio Sosa with the Grace Chorale Brooklyn, to be presented in the framework of the Common Frequencies Exhibition at BioBAT Art Space in Brooklyn. The presented piece was composed in response to the pandemic, and the lives that have been lost since 2020. It brings together the inner and external sounds of the lockdown in a composition about grief and unity.

ChaShaMa

140 58th Street
Brooklyn Army Terminal, 
Buildings A & B

Saturday 10/16, 1-5 PM
Sunday 10/17, 1-5 PM

For one weekend only, Chashama’s studio hub at Brooklyn Army Terminal is open to the public!

Explore new works from 117 visual artist studios, interact with our talented studio artists, and wander through this historic Brooklyn Army Terminal during our Open House New York.

This event is done in tandem with Open House New York and partnered with Sunset Park Wide Open.

Participating artists include: Alberte Bernier, Alicia Degener, Amy Ritter, Anh Thuy Nguyen, Barry Rosenthal, Brian Zegeer, Bruce Campbell, Caleb Nussear, Carl Auge, Che Min Hsiao, Christina Giuffrida, David Jacobsen Loncle, Deming Harriman, E Townsend West, Eric Strauss, Geuryung Lee, Howard Gladstone, Irina Kruzhilina, James Kevin Wilson, James Rose, Jamie Harris, Jeanne Marie Wasilik, Jennie Booth, Ji Yong Kim, Jia-Jen Lin, Johanna Ryan, Jonathan Fischer, Katherine Daniels, Kathryn Larkins, Kostas Kiritsis, Kristin Reed, Laura Stein, Leola Bermanzohn, Liza Sokolovskaya, Megan Olson, Melissa Eder, Michael McCarthy, Miranda Maher, Mitch Patrick, Muriel Grabe, Nancy Elsamanoudi, Nicholas Fraser, Noah Landfield, Omer Gal, roberto reynoso, Robyn Gibson, sally boon matthews, Sheryl Oppenheim, Songyi Kim, Sophia Kayafas, Stephanie Beck, Stephanie Corne, Stephanie Norberg, Steve Zolin, Suzanne Goldenberg, Tirtzah Bassel, Wade Schaming, Yana Dimitrova, Yu-Chun "Pony" Ma, Zoe Papini 

Genspace

132 32nd St, Suite 108
Brooklyn, NY 11232

Friday 10/15, 6:30-8:30pm

Biology Lab as Studio:

At Genspace we explore what it means to make work in collaboration with bacteria, plants, and fungi. What can we learn from non-human life forms? What is the role of care and experimentation? And what future can we envision or create in the lab? 

Join Genspace for a drop-in open-house to see objects, multimedia, and other works from artists who've called Genspace home over the years. Explore what you might create with the tools of biotechnology.

Tabla Rasa Gallery

224 48th St
Brooklyn, NY 11220

Saturday 10/16, 1-5pm
Sunday 10/17, 1-5 pm

Tabla Rasa Gallery welcomes the public to visit. There will be a "Meet and Greet" with gallery artists.  Artwork available for viewing and purchase at special studio sale pricing.

Featured artists include:

Stephen Basso, Tom Bennett , Willie Mae Brown, Gregory Frux, Tami Gold, Anders Knutsson, Janet Morgan , Agnes Murray, Doug Newton, Aaron Simms, Jenny Toth, Audrey Anastasi, Joseph Anastasi

Target Margin Theater

232 52nd St
Brooklyn, NY 11220

Sunday, 10/17 from 2-3pm

Variations on “Exercises in Style” is a two day theater workshop for BIPOC youth that invites them to create a variation on the play by Raymond Queneau of the same title. On our first day we will introduce the participants to a variety of theater tools and exercises, from the Viewpoints Method, the Theater of the Oppressed, Kristin Linklater voice & speech, etc. On the second day we plan to develop our own take on the play and come up with a flow of theatrical tableaux. We will open our doors at 2pm on October 17th as part of the Sunset Park Wide Open for visitors to come witness our explorations.

Bios: 

Sarah Bitar is a trilingual actor, vocalist and activist from Lebanon. She graduated from the Stella Adler Studio. She utilizes her craft in acting, teaching and devising to create compassionate dialogue that explores the different facets of the human social experience. Credits include: Glimpse; Revolucion (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); Hail Elisha (LAByrinth Theater Company).

Rawya El Chab is a Brooklyn-based theater-maker from Lebanon. Her career trajectory combines training and experience in classical theatre, contemporary art performance and community engagement. Her work emphasizes the development of ludic practices and the democratization of the tools of theater as a means to dismantle modes of oppression. 

Opening Party: Friday, May 30 6-9pm
Open Studios Continue: Saturday May 31 1-6pm

The NARS Foundation invites you down to Sunset Park to experience artists in their natural habitat: the studio. The 8th Annual NARS Open Studios offer a platform to foster the invaluable exchange between artist and community. Artists open their doors to expose an otherwise private workspace, gaining feedback and broader exposure that might lead to other opportunities. Neighbors and visitors, in turn, get access to the creative process happening right next door and a glimpse into spaces that they might not otherwise see.

Join the artists for a sneak peek of Open Studios and celebration of their new works in conjunction with the opening of Parallel Shift, the 2014 Season I & II Residency Exhibition.

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Participating Artists:
Elodie Abergel, Jose Arenas, Niamul Bari, Ross Berry, Santiago Silva Daza, Ana Delgado, Tai Hwa Goh, Katya Grokhovsky, Ronald Hall, Noël St. John Harnden, Delphine Hennelly, Aleksandra Ioseliani, Tadasuke Jinno, Sophie Kahn, Jan Kaláb, Liliya Lifanova, Cristian I. Mejia, Tracy Miller, Kristine Moran, Ann Oren, Nicola Page, Min Ho Shin, Mark John Smith, Carly Snoswell, Brian Stinemetz, Kate Stone, Masaki Takizawa, Austin Evans Turner and Matt Whitman.

NARS Foundation
201 46th Street, 4th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11220

Gallery Hours
Monday-Friday: 12-5pm And By Appointment Only

The New York Art Residency And Studios (NARS) Foundation Is A 501(C)(3) Not-For-Profit Arts Organization Committed To Supporting Artists And Curators On An International Level As Well As Engaging The Local Community In Brooklyn And The Greater New York Area. NARS Provides An Array Of Creative Support Services And Professional Development Opportunities For Emerging And Mid-Career Artists Through Short-Term Integrated Residency Programs, Affordable Long-Term Studio Spaces, Progressive Exhibition Programs, And Engaging Public Programs. These Services Operate In Conjunction With Our Education And Community Outreach Initiatives. Our Mission Is To Present Diverse Platforms On Which To Nurture Creative Inspiration And Innovative Cross-Pollination Of Ideas.

For Further Information, Please Contact Us At Www.Narsfoundation.Org / Info@Narsfoundation.Org / 718-768-2765.

The New York Art Residency & Studios (NARS) Foundation is delighted to announce its 5th Annual Open Studios. Join us for a festive weekend and get a glimpse into the private studios and working artist environment at the NARS studios, located along the New York Harbor in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. As the arts initiative in South Brooklyn continues to rapidly evolve and thrive, Open Studios offers an opportunity for their unique community to open their doors and showcase their work and diverse practices and mediums. Six artists from Season I 2012 of the International Artist Residency Program will also be inviting visitors into their studios to present what they have been working on during their three and six month terms.

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Shuttle Service:

Pick up location: New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
Pick up times on Satyrday, May 12: 2 pm / 4 pm / 6 pm
Return from NARS Foundation to New Museum: 3 pm / 5 pm / 7 pm

Program:

Performance, May 12, 6pm: Yumi Kurosawa (www.yumikuro.com), koto, percussion, computer sound
Music: Edwin Peralta, dj and Norman Zamcheck, piano
Opening on May 12 in the NARS Gallery: 

Sponsors: The 5th Annual NARS Open Studio Event 2012 is made possible by the generous support of our donors and sponsored by Brooklyn Brewery, Maria's Bistro and Kunjip Restaurant.

NARS Foundation
201 46th Street, 4th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11220

Gallery Hours
Monday-Friday: 12-5pm And By Appointment Only

The New York Art Residency And Studios (NARS) Foundation Is A 501(C)(3) Not-For-Profit Arts Organization Committed To Supporting Artists And Curators On An International Level As Well As Engaging The Local Community In Brooklyn And The Greater New York Area. NARS Provides An Array Of Creative Support Services And Professional Development Opportunities For Emerging And Mid-Career Artists Through Short-Term Integrated Residency Programs, Affordable Long-Term Studio Spaces, Progressive Exhibition Programs, And Engaging Public Programs. These Services Operate In Conjunction With Our Education And Community Outreach Initiatives. Our Mission Is To Present Diverse Platforms On Which To Nurture Creative Inspiration And Innovative Cross-Pollination Of Ideas.

For Further Information, Please Contact Us At Www.Narsfoundation.Org / Info@Narsfoundation.Org / 718-768-2765.

Opening Party: 6:00-9:00pm, Saturday, May 14, 2011
88 35th Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn NY, 11232

DJ: Jay Reid, Edwin Peralta
Band: Non return to Zero (Owen Healy percussion & Sal Piscicelli guitar.)

NARS (New York Art Residency & Studio) Foundation is pleased to announce its 4th Annual Open Studio Weekend featuring more than 60 artists working in studios located along the waterfront in Sunset Park and Clinton Hill neighborhoods in Brooklyn. Visitors get a chance to meet the artists and see their work within the context for their unique studio environment. We invite you to come and get a glimpse in to the working process of the diverse artists working in the NARS studios. Every studio has its own personality! 

NARS Sunset Park Studios: 
88 35th Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11232
253 36th Street, 3rd & 4th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11232
*D, N, R to 36th Street in Brooklyn – only 2 express stops from Manhattan! .

International Residency Artists:
Loren Erdrich, Daniele Genadry, Zerek Kempf, Maia Cruz Palileo, Christopher Robbins

Studio Artists:
Michael Abrams, Doug Angleton, Jose Arenas, Patricia Ayres, Gennadi Barbush, Elizabeth, J. Bisbing, Jean Boggs, Roxanne Bohana, Michael Paul Britto , Dorothea Buschell, Nelson Cabán, Richard Castellana, Jaqueline Cedar Michael Cloud, Justin Davis, Antony Dodds, Keith Driscoll , Michael Ensminger, Aleksander Garin, Scott Geyer, Mark Kevin Gonzales, Griselda M. Healy, Cosme Herrera , France Hilbert. Erin Rachel Hudak, Mikhail Iliatov, Ellen Coleman Izzo, Rachael Kahn, TaiWoong Kang, Kyung Han Kim , Osamu Kobayashi, Roberta Lawson, Conor McGrady, Anatoly Mikhailov , Nyeema Morgan, Patty Neal, Rose Nestler Nestler, Steward Noack, Kevin Noble Sean Noyce, Blithe Riley, Adrian Roman, Dean Russo, Mason Saltarrelli, Steev Scott, Chinatsu Seya, Masaki Takizawa, Tracy Helena Thomason, Ramon Vega, Elizabeth Velazquez, Rachael L Whitney

NARS Clinton Hill Studios: 
47 Hall Street, 6th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11205
*G to Clinton-Washington stop in Brooklyn

Studio Artists:
Sophia Cook, Jared C. Deery, Loren Erdrich, Antonia Fthenakis, Betsy Gross, Yuko Kodama, Jakes Longstreth,
Jonathan Nissenbaum, Marie Peter Toltz, Eric Wolf

The 4th Annual 2011 NARS Open Studio Event is made possible by the generous support of our donors and sponsored by Brooklyn Brewery, Union Market, Maria's Bistro, Gourmet Crescent.

Performance : Burman artist Chaw Ei Thein and Taiwanese artists Chi Wu.

Minxie (electro pop music performance)
Non Return to Zero (Owen Healy percussion and Sal Piccicelli on the guitar)

DJ : Michael Paul Britto, Ahomii & J.Chou Rhythmos, Edwin Peralta

Exhibition Space : “Round the Mulberry Bush” curated by Alyssa Fridgen. The exhibition includes painting, sculpture, installation, and video artworks by Michael Paul Britto, Scott Geyer, Cosme Herrera, Zerek Kempf, Kyung Han Kim, Roberta Lawson, Conor McGrady, Hyo Nam, Sean Noyce, Steev Scott, Jessica Scott-Dutcher, Didier William, Joseph Zuccarini.

NARS Fund Raising Exhibition (benefit show) : curated by Nunu Hung
“Stack Up” will be a fundraising exhibition for NARS Foundation featuring affordable art by NARS and visiting artists, curated by NuNu Hung. Application Form

Workshop : Ellen Coleman Izzo Room #404 (Printmaking workshop)

Cross Promotion : APT Curatorial Exhibition : Studio Project Rooms at 34 34th Street, Floor 4, Sunset Park, NY 11232 / www.aptglobal.org

Artists:      
Adrian Roman, Aleksandar Popovic, Anatoly Mikhailov , Anne Rosenthal, Antony Dodds , Aristidis Danylo Pelonis, Ashley S. Brown , Brian Lynch, Chinatsu Seya , Clarity Haynes,  Conor McGrad , Cosme Herrera, Deborah Katie Hall, Doug Angleton, Elizabeth J. Bisbing, Ellen Coleman Izzo, Emil Bakalli, Gennadi Barbush, Griselda M. Healy, Hyo Nam, Jaqueline Cedar, Jean Boggs, Jessica Scott-Dutcher, Jinsoo Kim, Jin Kyung Chong, Jiwoo Hahn, John McGee, Joseph Zuccarini, Karin Drew, Katya Usvitsky, Kevin Noble, Kyung Han Kim, Madeleine Stern, Maia Cruz Palileo, Mark Kevin Gonzales, Masaki Takizawa, Mason Saltarrelli , Matt Held, Michael Ensminger, Michael Paul Britto, Nicholas Hamilton, Nyeema Morgan, Osamu kobayashi, Peter Emerick, Richard Castellana, Roberta Lawson, Rose Nestler, Roxanne Bohana, Scott Geyer, Sean Noyce, Sky Kim, Steev Scott, Susan Conte, TaiWoong Kang, Thabiso Phokompe, Zerek Kempf

Directions:
Train : D,N,R,M stop @ 36ST.
Drive : Take BQE south exit 23 for 39ST. right turn @ first light. Right turn at 35ST.

Sponsors:

NARS Foundation
201 46th Street, 4th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11220

Gallery Hours
Monday-Friday: 12-5pm And By Appointment Only

The New York Art Residency And Studios (NARS) Foundation Is A 501(C)(3) Not-For-Profit Arts Organization Committed To Supporting Artists And Curators On An International Level As Well As Engaging The Local Community In Brooklyn And The Greater New York Area. NARS Provides An Array Of Creative Support Services And Professional Development Opportunities For Emerging And Mid-Career Artists Through Short-Term Integrated Residency Programs, Affordable Long-Term Studio Spaces, Progressive Exhibition Programs, And Engaging Public Programs. These Services Operate In Conjunction With Our Education And Community Outreach Initiatives. Our Mission Is To Present Diverse Platforms On Which To Nurture Creative Inspiration And Innovative Cross-Pollination Of Ideas.

For Further Information, Please Contact Us At Www.Narsfoundation.Org / Info@Narsfoundation.Org / 718-768-2765.

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