The Active Space hosts another multi-​exhibition and open stu­dio event for Bush­wick Open Stu­dios. On view June 3 – 5, the open­ing recep­tion is on June 4 from 7pm-​10pm with live paint­ing by Veng RWK and Nathan Pick­ett, and music by DJ Grimace.

Direc­tional Float
Curated by Ash­ley Zelin­skie and Brian Maller (Curbs & Stoops)

Direc­tional Float fea­tures work by artists Sebas­t­ian Vallejo, Rachel Labine, Jason Mones, Jonathan Chap­line, Ted Gahl, Alan Flem­ing, Sarah Young, Samuel Adams, Gina Beaver, Fedrich Tor­res Ond­ina , and Chi­natsu Ikeata.

Sarah Young Live Per­for­mance
One time per­for­mance on June 4^th at 8pm.

As old as the world is a visu­al­iza­tion of Tal­mu­dic text brought into the con­tem­po­rary realm by stag­ing the issue jus­tice onto the female body as directed by the tex­tual source itself. I take rab­binic inter­pre­ta­tion found in the Tal­mud (San­hedrin 36b-​37a), which uses a source of erotic poetry from the Songs of Songs (Thy navel is like a round gob­let full of fra­grant wine; thy belly is like a heap of wheat hedged about with roses) to illus­trate jus­tice, specif­i­cally using female body imagery to sym­bol­ize a San­hedrin, a rab­binic court. I actu­al­ize this bizarre metaphor in a series of pho­tographs. To do this I asked two women who each are hav­ing their own strug­gle against an estab­lish­ment of reli­gion to col­lab­o­rate with me in mak­ing images. One woman dropped out of a rab­binic insti­tu­tion and one is being chal­lenged by ortho­dox male rab­bis on her con­ver­sion to Judaism. Here the woman’s’ per­sonal nar­ra­tive becomes instru­men­tal in telling the hid­den mean­ing of the ancient text. In the per­for­mance I will con­tinue the bizarre rela­tion­ship between charged female sex­u­al­ity and ancient jus­tice by plac­ing a live model in the life sized dio­rama, who has had her own unique strug­gle with reli­gion and place another through­out the room singing the clas­sic bib­li­cal text in a chal­leng­ing new way.

Stay Gold
Curated by Robin Grear­son and Throw Away Art

A show­case of exem­plary artists who live and cre­ate in Bush­wick. Each of these artists has devel­oped their own visual lan­guage. When their work is con­sid­ered together, a motif emerges which reflects the con­flict­ing com­plex­i­ties of the human iden­tity and expe­ri­ence. Par­tic­i­pat­ing artists include Don Pablo Pedro, Nathan Pick­ett, QRST, Quel Beast, and Vahge.

Tues­day Peo­ple
Curated by Kata­rina Hyben­ova (Bush​wick​Daily​.com)

“Tues­day Peo­ple”, cel­e­brates Bush­wick and its vibrant art scene, indus­trial ten­der­ness, and the peo­ple who cre­ate in this dynamic atmos­phere. The goal is to intro­duce the mem­bers of the com­mu­nity to each other and through telling their story, enhance inspi­ra­tion and col­lab­o­ra­tion among peo­ple of all kinds. The exhibition’s name comes a Bush​wick​Daily​.com col­umn of the same name fea­tur­ing local creatives.

The fea­tured artists made work respond­ing to each other in their own cre­ative lan­guage and media. Painters, writ­ers, musi­cians, pho­tog­ra­phers, sculp­tors, fash­ion illus­tra­tors, psy­chics, and oth­ers were paired up to cre­ate work shar­ing each oth­ers sto­ries. The result is a sur­pris­ing, inter­ac­tive, and community-​driven exhibition.

Par­tic­i­pat­ing artists include Andrew Birk, Axel Dupeux, Kate­lan Foisy, Ryan Ford, Rafael Fuchs, Richard Haines, Mary Judge, James Mar­shall, Lena Mar­quise, Ali­cia Papanek, Frank Rath­bone, Tes­cia Seuf­fer­lein, Alli­son Somers, Jackie Sum­mers, Ari Snei­der, Linda Thach, Veng, and Jason Zucker. Con­cep­tual Devel­op­ment: Lena Mar­quise. Stu­dio Helpers: Maria Mod­rovich Zuska Kep­plova, Florin Poe­naru, Gat Carmi ‚and Mariya Pylayev.

Open Stu­dios

Works in progress by artists; Sebas­t­ian Vallejo, Brian Maller, Jonathan Chap­line, Jef­frey Pena and Ash­ley Zelinskie,.

Event Infor­ma­tion:
Pre-​Opening Party Fri­day June 3^rd 7pm-​10pm

Open­ing Night Sat­ur­day June 4^th 7PM-​10PM with per­for­mances and live paint­ing.
Bev­er­ages pro­vided by Dog­Fish­Head Craft Ales.

566 John­son Ave.
Brook­lyn, NY

Tags: Active Space, Ashley Zelinskie, Directional Float, multi-exhibition, Sarah Young, Veng RWK

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