Rene Murray – clay
Caroline Curtin – clay
Susan Newmark – collage
Rich Garr – collage
Mieko Asada – paint
This show is a gathering of 5 Brooklyn artists—each one in their own personal visual bubble. Some of the work is large and forceful, drawing you in immediately like an artistic punch. Some works are smaller and quieter and push viewers to come in for a closer look. Some explore the human figure, while others take you into an architectural dreamscape. Some are pure abstraction and others have a message to be deciphered. All are alluring, and can delight and challenge.
SPECIAL EVENTS:
● Thursday, July 30, 7PM Opening Reception till 9PM.
● Thursday, August 6, 7PM short Artist Talks- with informal Q & A. Afterparty @ Canal Bar
● Saturday, August 8, 11AM community collage Walking Tour led by artist Rich Garr
connecting past with present Brooklyn; focus on BWAC, the Red Hook fire & Powerhouse
Arts. Details / RSVP here
San Art Framing is excited to welcome select members of the Park Slope / Windsor Terrace Artists collective this summer. Susan Newmark, Rene Murray, Mieko Asada, Caroline Curtin, and Rich Garr come together in ‘Multiple Frequencies,’ a multidisciplinary exhibit conceived by longtime local potter Rene Murray. You’ll find diverse approaches and expressiveness, and accomplished use of media that includes clay, collage, drawing, and paint. Some pieces are large and forceful, others are small and quiet. Some explores human figuration, other art is more abstract. Viewers are taken on subway rides, boat rides, dinner parties and into architectural dreamscapes
All five of these artists joined “ArtsPSWT” to meet other artists and show art. But their influences on each other- and their various communities- run deep. This can be seen in their individual work, and in unique art venues all over Brooklyn. We’re proud to host a particularly wonderful mix here at San Art.
For many local artists being in Brooklyn can be overwhelming. There are dozens of schools and studios, and seemingly unlimited talent. On top of that, venues to show art around the City are often expensive, exclusive, and even predatory. Thankfully, alternative art spaces abound, as do dense creative communities. Up the hill from the Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn’s Park Slope and Windsor Terrace neighborhoods have a long history of housing artists. This is highlighted every year in their annual Open Studios- usually in June. There is a theory that old Park Slope “house tours” of the 1960s evolved into these Open Studios, but the group’s current era seems to have began with the Brooklyn Museum’s “GO Brooklyn” open studios initiative in 2012. Though many current ArtsPSWT members missed this, the spirit of mining Brooklyn’s art talent and community lives on. Literal connections made back then are still healthy. And so is the spirit of creative collaboration.
As Caroline Curtin puts it, “Community begins close-by then grows outward.” Building local connection is essential amidst the scale and distraction of New York City. Personal connections in this group are essential, and outside of their formal meetings (often at the Old Stone House) PSWT artists keep in touch at local creative hotspots like 440 Gallery, Gasworks, 615 Green community garden and Freddys Bar.
Relationships are also nurtured through studio visits, group trips, and by attending the art openings of
others in the collective (which has ~60 members). The group’s individual artists each have unique art backgrounds, and are often connected to great local or global institutions. Sometimes both. The ArtsPSWT connection, “empowers one to expand the scope and boundaries of artistic practice,” says Curtin. We think you’ll see that clearly in Multiple Frequencies
+ Sculpting is the means of self-reflection for Caroline Curtin, whose figurative ceramic and stone works are imbued wit emotional and spiritual depth.
+ For Susan Newmark, collage is the language she uses to explore cultural histories and personal narratives, and her sustained studio practice is a way of finding hope in acts of repair and relationships to place, the natural world and one another.
+ Through Mieko Asada’s encounters with fascinating subway riders, she captures their expressions, movements, and gestures to convey the essence of a moment in transit.
+ Rene Murray loves creating clay buildings, drawing on inspirations from Italy and Spain as the basis for her architectural dreamscapes
+ Rich Garr’s art reflects his joy in finding things, and the challenge of pairing that material with physical design and a passion for activism.
