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Bushwick Open Studios 2012

Bushwick Open Studios, 2012: Tidings from a New Frontier

by Paddy Johnson on June 7, 2012

What do the results of navigating over 500 Bushwick Open Studios (BOS) look like? We don’t know—we didn’t attempt to see half that many galleries. Still, we were able to produce a few highlights from the work we saw. What we liked, what we sort of liked, and WTF, after the jump.

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Bushwick Basel Participants Report: BOS a Success

by Paddy Johnson on June 5, 2012

At 1,500 bucks, Bushwick Basel might have the smallest operating budget of any art fair we’ve been to, but it drew some of the largest crowds at this weekend’s Bushwick Open Studios. Debuting at artist and fair organizer Jules de Balincourt’s Starr Space, the fair attracted 11 galleries from around the neighborhood. It was, by many accounts, a success.

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AFC’s Recommended Bushwick Open Studio Recap

by The AFC Staff on June 1, 2012

We spent all week posting artist interviews, and now we’re putting them together to make one handy recommendation list. There are 500 open studios to view this weekend, not to mention all the event spaces. Don’t go in blind. If you want to preserve your sanity, use this list and refer to our map. It will make your life easier.

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Recommended Bushwick Open Studio: David McBride

by Paddy Johnson on June 1, 2012

David McBride makes his paintings with a stencil and blue, red, and brown glaze. The result is a studio filled with what appears to be a lot of chocolate brown paint. The importance of the subjects is not immediately apparent: in one painting, he pairs a roller coaster with a clothesline of hanging flags, while in another, he fills the canvas with botanical illustrations. The key to understanding the work might be the 3D glasses painted above, which remind us that these paintings, like everything else we see, are constructed from light. It’s an almost obsessive interest in practice, and we like that.

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AFC’s Official Party Schedule for Bushwick Open Studios

by Whitney Kimball on June 1, 2012

This week, we’ve been pumping out our guide to Bushwick artists’ studios and group shows. It’s finally time to roll out our schedule of major events, openings, and parties. We’ve grouped the stops by proximity, and they are linked to our official AFC BOS map.

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Recommended Bushwick Open Studio: Lee Lee Chan

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on June 1, 2012

LeeLee Chan’s sculpture, painting, and photos all fit squarely in the same world. The paintings and photos focus heavily on reflection, while her sculpture combines reflective, industrial items with organic elements. There’s a preciousness in her placement and handling of delicate clusters that seems to talk about both nature and commodity. Evoking the language of Eileen Quinlan, Chan’s manipulation of scale and focal length produce paintings and sculptures that seem otherworldly.

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Bushwick Open Studios: Everything But The Studios

by Whitney Kimball on May 31, 2012

View The Official Art Fag City BOS List in a larger map

All this week we’ve been recommending artist’s studios, but gallery spaces are joining in on the Bushwick Open Studios weekend, too. We sifted through the listings to pick out a few of our favorites. Among them, we’ve got neighborhood institutions like NurtureArt, Momenta Art, and “Mayor of Bushwick” Jules de Balincourt’s studio, but also brand-new spaces, sculpture gardens, walking tours, and a community darkroom. All are worth checking out, and to make it a little easier, we made you a map, too.

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Recommended Bushwick Open Studio: Tatiana Berg

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on May 31, 2012

Tatiana Berg’s paintings look like her lipstick and her shirts. That’s meant as a compliment — she clearly likes pastel, loose patterns and the 80’s, and so do we. Berg is also rarely content with standard canvas shapes. In one metallic-colored piece, she combines five separate canvases to create an anvil-like shape. In another series of tent-shaped paintings she equips the pieces with wheels and brakes. Our favorite, though, may be the painting in which Berg overlays colorful polka-dots with a creamy transparent white. She then runs through the paint with her fingers as though it were fog on a car window.

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Recommended Bushwick Open Studio: MaryKate Maher

by Paddy Johnson on May 31, 2012

MaryKate Maher’s work is a little like a Matthew Ronay sculpture minus the steroids. She’s got the hand-made abstract sculptures and the discrete arrangements of objects, but skips the cum finish lines and hanging anal cupcake beads. Instead, Maher opts for scary. In one piece, a lamb—covered in what appears to be human flesh—has had one leg transformed into gold. In another, what appears to be a witch’s broom is coated repeatedly with black resin. When Maher tells us there’s no intended narrative, it seems like the spookiest answer possible.

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Recommended Bushwick Open Studio: Max Razdow

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on May 31, 2012

Gatherings of expressionistic figures communing in mythical settings define Max Razdow’s paintings and drawings. While some of his pen and ink drawings verge on storybook as in the “Future Myths” series, others are weirder, and more open to interpretation. “Man Speaking (to computer),” is one such a example, as we have no idea how to interprete a barrel-chested figure shooting blue mist out of his mouth into a black triangle. In addition to having exhibited multiple times in Belgium and Brooklyn, Max Razdow shows with Freight + Volume.

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