Brooklyn: Minus Space & Tompkins Projects

KCLOG recently paid a visit to Minus Space and Tompkins Projects, a couple of great spaces that have raised the standard in terms of what defines an artist-run program.

Minus Space was founded in 2003 by artists Rosanna Martinez and Matthew Deleget in the Carroll Gardens/Gowanus section of Brooklyn. They are the only venue in the United States that is equal parts studio, exhibition space, and information resource that is dedicated to the practice of reductive art. A strong emphasis is placed on building communities on a local and international level, culminating with last year's exhibition at P.S.1 to mark the 5th anniversary of Minus Space.

On view through Dec. 5: Douglas Melini: It Flows Over Us Without Meaning

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Founded by artists Milton Stevenson & Jeanne Jo, Tompkins Projects in Bedford-Stuyvesant has put together an impressive, inaugural exhibition in Abstraction Ain't Dead. The show includes collage, painting, and sculpture from Anthony Baab, Laura Braciale, John Fasano, Joshua Abrams Howard and Ziad Naccache. On view through Nov. 21.

John Fasano

Laura Braciale (left & right), Joshua Abrams Howard (center)

Anthony Baab

Ziad Naccache

Greenpoint, Brooklyn November 2009, Apartment Show: TULSA DOOM

Apartment Show brought the funk last night to Greenpoint with TULSA DOOM.
Artists include: Bridget Finn, Patrick Walsh III, Zak Kitnick, Seth Kelly, Sean Keenan and Ariel Dill

Ariel Dill

Ariel Dill

Sean Keenan

Seth Kelly

Sean Keenan

Seth Kelly

Bridget Finn

Bridget Finn

Bridget Finn

Seth Kelly

Patrick Walsh III

Zak Kitnick

Zak Kitnick

Studio Visit: Christopher Davison

While visiting Philadelphia a few weeks ago, KCLOG stopped by artist Christopher Davison's studio for a visit. His work reveals a deep personal narrative that he explores through drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture.

Give a Talkin', 2009
flashe, ink wash, cut paper, gouache, Micron pen on Rives BFK, 15" x 20"

New paintings and etching plates in progress

Recent works on paper

Davison's work space was arranged with recent ink wash drawings, paintings in progress, and a fresh set of etching plates. There were old photographs pinned to the wall alongside some of the works that are used not so much as a direct visual reference, but more to evoke a certain feeling and sense of place. The surface of the works utilize the immediate, venerable state of the materials, while offering a physically worked quality that reveals itself through various combination of cuts, marks, collage and washes.

Gallipolis, 2008
flashe, ink wash, cut paper, Micron pen, gouache, Pitt pen Rives BFK, 20" x 20"

Polliwog, 2009
flashe, cut paper, Micron pen, ink wash on Rives BFK, 15" x 20"

While his etchings retain a more precise, linear quality to them, his collection of handmade books offer a raucous encyclopedia of possible colors, styles and subject matter.

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Handmade artist books

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Summer Book, Pages 17-18, 2007
gouache, cut paper, Pitt pen, ink wash, 11" x 20"

July Drawings #01, 2006
ink wash, colored pencil, Pitt pen, graphite on Rives Heavyweight, 8" x 10"

Treasure Drawings #04, 2007
gouache, india ink, colored pencil, cut paper on Rives BFK, 10" x 14"

DUMBO: Wade Kavanaugh & Stephen Nguyen

Artists Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen Nguyen collaborate to create The Experience of Green, their ambitious site-specific installation composed of hundreds of sheets of crimson tissue paper @ DUMBO Arts Center. Check out Charlie Finch's recent review on Artnet. On view Through November 29th.

Brooklyn Oct 09: The Dirty Dirty, Pseudonymous.

Deep in the heart of Brooklyn, almost out to Conney Island, inside a small dark basement lies The Dirty Dirty. In this show Pseudonymous, artists were asked to make a work of art anomalously under a pseudonym. The artists include, Arnold Potsanspans, Beryl Read, Bizzy Weis, Bruce Springstone, Bucketman, Dr. James Watson, Goncarlo Sovandara, Henrik af Klint, KJV, Laszlo Moore, Mary Sue, Muschi, Penelope Fallsalot, Re:Cycle, Runs With Space, Sugar Monroe, Swisher Sweet and Willy Lamb.

Enjoy the dirty images from The Dirty Dirty!