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October 6 - 28
Brooklyn, NY
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Gallery Exhibition Dates:
Sat., October 6 - Sun., October 28, 2018. Weekends 1-6 P.M.
Opening Reception: Sat., October 6, 2018 from 1-6 P.M.
Ours is a truly unique gallery - 25,000 square feet in a Civil War-era warehouse on the Red Hook waterfront in Brooklyn, NY. The vista of New York Harbor, spanning the Statue of Liberty to the Verrazano Bridge is one of the best in the city. Our 18,000 annual visitors also enjoy the nearby restaurants, bars, IKEA and Fairway Market. Its enormous space affords us the opportunity to exhibit large work, and we welcome it. We will be using 8,000 square feet for this show, and look forward to exhibiting artist's work from all around the country, work in all sizes, and subjects, and media.
We have two synergistic missions:
* to assist emerging artists in advancing their artistic careers
* to present the art-of-today in an easily accessible format
As an expression of culture, art is often unconventional and rebellious; experimental and insightful. Yet, art by necessity relies upon familiar traditions to achieve its unconventional ends. This is why the better we know our traditions, the more cleverly we can break them.
The Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition (BWAC)'s annual exhibition, Material Matters, asks artists who work in a variety of traditional materials -- clay, glass, wood, metal or fiber/textile -- to consider the traditions underpinning their work and the rules and conventions they break in method or material. Artists are invited to submit original works that change traditional "ways of seeing" by demonstrating a break with the past or suggesting a new way forward, whether toward logical or illogical conclusions.
New this year: We have added fiber/textiles to the accepted media.
Our juror is Melissa Stern, artist and journalist. Her drawing and sculpture have been exhibited in museums, galleries, private and corporate collections throughout the world. Her art reviews and cultural commentary have been featured in Hyperallergic, a Brooklyn-based digital arts publication, and she serves as Art Editor for Posit, a journal of literature and art.
Testimonials:
Wonderful space. Totally loved the last exhibition.
Albert TainoImage Areizaga
Put on your walking shoes; there is so much fantastic art to see.
Victoria Lapin
Gigantic scale, relaxing atmosphere, harbor/loft environment. Astounding creativity all around. A must-see weekend destination.
Mary Bullock
Prize Awards:
$450 in Cash Awards:
- Gold -- $250 cash prize
- Silver -- $150 cash prize
- Bronze -- $50 cash prize
- Five (5) Certificates of Merit will also be awarded.
Contact: Virginia Ross
bwacjuriedshows@gmail.com
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