2010 Beta Spaces Exhibitions



Festival Events

Exhibitions

  • 1

    DATA DADA

    Grace Exhibition Space / 840 Broadway 2nd Floor

    Six digital media artists explore the fragmented definitions that constitute our “digital identities”.

  • 2

    CONVERGENCE

    Lumenhouse / 47 Beaver St.

    Artists consider creative possibilities for reuse of plastic and other consumer byproduct materials.

  • 3

    AS SEEN ON TV

    59 Jefferson St. #401

    Multidisciplinary works exploring the proliferation of mass media and its effect on individual and cultural identities.

  • 4

    XX

    245 Montrose Ave. #3L

    2D and 3D mixed-media artwork that contextualizes the female body through sexuality, beauty, desire, presentation, and power.

  • 5

    DOWNLOAD/DESTROY

    243-247 Boerum St.

    This multimedia, installation based exhibition launches the art + [human] technology program of the Fortress to Solitude Art Center.

  • 6

    TRANSMUTATION

    255 McKibbin St. #1A

    Multimedia exhibition of surrealist preoccupations of chance, psychic automatism, tactilism, found objects and childhood.

  • 7

    DATALORE COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: TO THE LIMIT

    Chez Bushwick / 304 Boerum St. #23

    An audiovisual performance incorporating human biofeedback and improvised music.

  • 8

    I FALL, I FLOW, I MELT

    41 White St.

    Video art that explores the idea of escape by means of psychological transportation or transformation.

  • 9

    MARKSMEN AND THE PALIMPSESTS

    Centotto :: galleria [simposio] salotto / 250 Moore St. #108

    Paintings and painted palimpsests that challenge their medium of creation. Catalogue by a Centotto coterie.

  • 10

    MONOTONE SYMPHONY (AFTER YVES KLEIN)

    Cafe Orwell / 247 Varet St.

    A performance inspired by Yves Klein’s “Monotone Symphony” featuring a rotating cast of musicians, artists and writers.

  • 11

    BUSHWICK: MORGANTOWN

    Begins at corner of Bogart St. and McKibbin St.

    A smartphone GPS game. Download the SCVNGR app and find it under treks.

  • 12

    THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION & RECOGNITION OF THE COLLABORATIVE ART GANGBANG

    2 Harrison Pl. #214B

    As a random collective violating one another’s work, we offer you the collaborative Art Gangbang.

  • 13

    LIMINAL

    56 Bogart St. #220

    The liminal state is characterized by ambiguity, openness, and indeterminacy.

  • 13

    THE ROMANTIC IMPULSE

    The Teaching Studios of Art / 56 Bogart St. #3A

    History repeats itself: a group of 21st century artists channel an 18th century movement.

  • 14

    FLAN

    1 Grattan St. #225

    When FLAN vibrates, it creates a visual aroma of pleasure.

  • 14

    SPARKLEMOTION 2: SPARKLIER & MOTIONIER

    12:30-2:30pm 1 Grattan St, 3:30-6pm TBD (check website).

    2nd installment of a spectacle of sparkle, featuring artworks with glitter and bling by NYC artists and designers.

  • 15

    MYTHOLOGIZED

    49 Bogart St. #17

    Verb: Convert into myth or mythology; make the subject of a myth.

  • 15

    HOME-LAND

    49B Studios / 49 Bogart St. #22

    The exhibition is built around the common thread of the artists’ interpretation of the word “homeland”.

  • 16

    FUTURE ARCHAEOLOGY: THE HERE & NOW

    The Keep / 51A Morgan Ave.

    A collective of Brooklyn-based artists exploring ephemeral forms across media.

  • 17

    FOUND: FREE MATERIALS & POST-CONSUMER ART

    Surreal Estate / 15 Thames St.

    An exhibition of art that can’t be purchased, made without the purchase of materials.

  • 18

    LITTERAURBAN

    Office Ops / 57 Thames St.

    2pm A multidisciplinary adventure in diverse geographical locations, integrated by modern dance performance and video art.

  • 19

    AFTER WE MET

    Temporary Storage / 120 Ingraham St.

    An exploration of the ties that can bind two people on a personal level or in an artistic context.

  • 20

    THE BOX WHICH CONTAINS THE WORLD

    Brooklyn Fire Proof Gallery / 119 Ingraham St.

    Four sides, four corners, fourteen artists interpret the same wooden object.

  • 20

    NEW SINCERITY

    Brooklyn Fire Proof Gallery / 119 Ingraham St.

    Post-ironic artworks with a sense of directness, seeking notions of truth. Performance at 5:30pm.

  • 20

    DIGITAL CHIAROSCURO

    Brooklyn Fire Proof / 119 Ingraham St. Unit Number TBD

    An immersive exhibit that explores the interplay of light/ shadow::new media/classical drawing.

  • 21

    MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME

    538 Johnson Ave. #209

    A visual exploration of the invasive suggestion that you ‘make yourself at home’.

  • 22

    WRAPPING PAPER

    964 Flushing Ave. 2nd Floor

    Six artists paint simultaneously on similar paper canvas while visitors observe the process.

  • 23

    INTRUDER

    English Kills Gallery / 114 Forrest St.

    Alley Entrance New work with trees and people.

  • 23

    HALF INVISIBLE

    114 Forrest St. Buzzer #9

    Group show by members of Bushwick-based artist collective “Pioneers of Inspiration”.

  • 24

    B IS FOR BEAR

    Leinad Services Inc. / 1031 Flushing Ave.

    This exhibit in a children’s after school center explores “the hug that can eat you!”

  • 25

    UNKIND

    The Loom / 1087 Flushing Ave.

    An exhibition of artwork demonstrating a visceral, raw emotion.

  • 25

    AMERICAN GARBAGE

    The Loom / 1087 Flushing Ave.

    Before recycling there was American Garbage: The Art of all that is thrown away.

  • 26

    HOME SWEET?

    Better Than Jam Handmade Co-op / 1095 Flushing Ave.

    Home Sweet? questions the romantic idea of the home by digging through the surface to reveal what lies beneath.

  • 27

    POST OX-BOW: SITELESS

    Naxal Belt / 175 Jefferson St. #1L

    12-7pm Exhibition of Fall 2010 Artist residents of Ox-Bow Artist Residency.

  • 28

    COME IN FOR A FREE ESTIMATE TODAY!

    Jefferson Orgy Body / 237 Jefferson St. #1B

    Let our handpicked team of trained inspectors, doctors and laymen examine and repair your broken art.

  • 29

    OBJECT PALETTE

    Tyrome Tripoli Sculpture Studio / 217 Troutman St.

    Collaboration: Experimental musicians and performance artists create their work from sculptors library of materials.

  • 30

    SOUL OF THE BUSH

    Tandem Bar / 236 Troutman St.

    A collection of various artists representing the diversity of the Bushwick artist community.

  • 31

    PUSH POPS GONE WILD

    88 Starr St. #3L

    Please join the Push Pops, an all female interdisciplinary art collective, for their 4th performance to date.

  • 32

    LAUGHTER AS MEDIUM

    Two Eighty Café & Lounge / 280 Knickerbocker Ave.

    5-7pm Fine artists performing live comedy in a bar. Bring the pain.

  • 33

    WELCOME TO MYHOUSE

    MyHouse / 306 Suydam St.

    Marni Kotak welcomes you to her living space as art space.

  • 34

    THE WEST BUSHWICK SMORGASBORD

    2010 Northeast Kingdom Den / 18 Wyckoff Ave. Den

    5-7pm A variety show including dance, comedy, music, performance and visual art.

  • 34

    MAN DIES

    Arch Collective / 18 Wyckoff Ave.

    Garage Juxtaposing classical art-making techniques against the contemporary, creating dynamic exchanges between materials and perspectives.

  • 35

    VERSE SUIVANTE

    NORTE MAAR / 83 Wyckoff Ave. #1B

    An exhibition featuring the next wave of important Brooklyn based artists.

  • 36

    GROUP THERAPY

    Gallery 1R / 26 St Nicholas Ave. #1R

    Video Installation: An exhibition of interpersonal maladjustment.

  • 37

    BOXED IN & OUT

    449 Troutman St. #3-3

    A range of artwork framed by the context of a small black box.

  • 38

    ART OF THE T

    Bushwick Print Lab / 1717 Troutman St. #203

    A group show of T-shirt design and wearable prints.

  • 38

    X VS.Y

    1717 Troutman St. #318

    318 is pleased to present a group exhibition of artists depicting the male form.

  • BUSHWICK AUGMENTED REALITY INTERVENTION

    All Over Bushwick

    Install the Layar app on a mobile device, search for the title above, and see virtual objects alongside reality.