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For immediate release: May 2nd, 2011
Artist Community Opening
Doors to Public
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – The Artists of 35 Claver Place
announce their participation in the 2011 SONYA Studio Stroll. On May 14th
and 15th, fourteen artists
living and working there open their studios to the public for a unique
glimpse at their art and creative process.
SONYA Studio Strollers will enjoy a variety of
media, ranging from live performance to portrait photography to painting and
sculpture.
Meet
the Artists of 35 Claver Place:
Kennis Baptiste, working with printmaking,
painting and drawing, will be showing complex charcoal line drawings, where
the drawing was captured without any lines intersecting. He will also be
presenting a collection of traditional portrait drawings that emphasize the
essence of beauty. www.kennisbb.com
John Bjerklie, working in a variety of mediums,
will be working live on new pieces for the next phase of the "WorldWiDeTour"
project that began at ArtLot in 2009.
www.johnbjerklie.com
Poogy Bjerklie, a painter working
in oil on board, will be showing work that uses
detached observation of the natural world to elicit a sense of place,
solitude and stillness.
Elisabeth Condon,
a painter,
will be exhibiting work that overlays the visual memory of her native Los
Angeles with places she has traveled--Miami, Cadaques, Saratoga Springs,
Sydney and Beijing--in landscapes where Yuan Dynasty scrolls meet the
Flintstones
www.elisabethcondon.com.
Her studio will be open on Saturday, May 14 only.
Andrei Dmitrichev, a photographer, will be
presenting his newly published book of photographs: PORTRAITS OF SPACE.
www.dmitrichev.com
Beka Goedde, working with
prints and sculpture, will be exhibiting a
selection of recent drawings, collage, works on panel and prints that
explore the perception of change, duration and the physical body in space.
www.bekagoeddestudio.com.
Her studio will be open on Sunday, May 15
only.
Melissa Gorman, an artist and graphic designer normally working with drawing and
printmaking, will be showing felt sculptures that
explore themes of repetition and repair, often
using symbolic forms to represent complex emotional responses and
relationship dynamics. www.melissagorman.com
Karl Kelly, a painter,
will be showing watercolors that explore the lyrical nature of the linear.
Jen Lame, a filmmaker
and editor,
will be talking about her current video project, a study of the recent
phenomenon of life coaches: http://streetcat.tumblr.com
Her studio will be open on Saturday, May 14 only.
Joel Mellin,
a
multi-instrumentalist and composer, will be showcasing a suite of newly
commissioned compositions for Dublin’s Rex Levitates Dance Company as well
as recent computer controlled multichannel audio installations.
www.joelmellin.com
His studio will be open on Saturday, May 14 only.
Anna Rose, a
photographer,
will be exhibiting a mix of
personal and editorial work, photographs of people and travel.
www.annarosephoto.com. Her studio will open on Saturday, May 14
only.
Peter Schroth, a painter, will be showing a series of
acrylic paintings; silhouettes of floral subjects, organized around color
relationships. www.peterschroth.com
Chris Sorensen, a photographer, will be showing selected works from his
portraiture and personal photo projects. www.chris-sorensen.com
Alex Waxman, a writer, visual artist, and musician, will be
exhibiting his current body of work, which employs collage of found images
and objects. www.alexwaxman.com His studio will be open Sunday, May 15 only.
For more
information on the individual artists, please visit the artist's website or
www.35claver.com.
Also invite you to visit our Facebook page: Artists of 35 Claver
Place for up-to-date information on upcoming exhibitions or events for
all our artist residents.
Gina Inverso
and Anthony Chamberlain transformed the spacious lofts of the former Inverso
Warehousing Building into 35 Claver Place, an artists’ live/work community
over many years since 1985. 35 Claver Place enjoys a long history of
nurturing and supporting the art and artists of Brooklyn.
SONYA, the
South Of the Navy Yard Artists (www.sonyaonline.org), a non-profit
organization of visual artists based in the Ft. Greene, Clinton Hill, and
Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhoods of Brooklyn, presents the Stroll as a free
self-guided walking tour of studios and galleries showcasing the incredible
variety of artwork created by Brooklyn-based artists. For the last seven
years, 35 Claver Place and the artists that live, work and create there,
have participated in this exciting event.
The event is free and open to the public.
Dates:
May 14-15, Noon – 6:00 pm each day, rain or shine
Location:
35 Claver Place (between Fulton and Jefferson), Brooklyn
Contact: Gina Inverso: 347-404-7758
Email:
35claverplace at optonline.net
Website: www.35claver.com
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