For & About: Art & Reactions to Superstorm Sandy
BAC Gallery, 111 Front Street., Suite 218, Bklyn
September 27, 2013 – February 14, 2014
ARTISTS: Asya Dodina and Slava Polishchuk, Emile Hyperion Dubuisson, Miguel Garcia, Cassie Giraldo, Sheila Goloborotko, Kim Hoeckele, Nathaniel Kassel, Ilias Koen, Jason A. Maas, Andre Malerba, Brock Mills, Josh Raab, Gaia Squarci
For & About: Art & Reactions to Superstorm Sandy runs from September 27, 2013 – February 14, 2014.
Gallery hours are Monday – Friday, 11am – 5pm.
The gallery will be open extended hours on Saturday, September 28, from noon – 8pm and Sunday, September 39, from noon – 6pm as part of the Dumbo Arts Festival.
Whether it’s Brock Mills‘ “Reddy Or Not,” a photograph of red pigment pouring out of a Sandy flooded studio or Ilias Koen’s embossed topographic map of New York after a dramatic sea level rise, these artists use new and traditional materials to relate to and explore natural disasters like Superstorm Sandy.
Some artists use materials and “marks” from the storm as a kind of collaboration. Kim Hoeckele used the actual storm water and dirt on silver gelatin paper in her work “Ninety-Eight Days.” Miguel Garcia incorporates such marks on canvas that strike a balance between the heroic and whimsical.
Nathaniel Kassel’s textile work attempts to convey the sense of helplessness he felt upon hearing a friend had lost his home in the storm. In the work “Between Earth and Heaven” Asya Dodina and Slava Polishchuk directly address loss among detritus.
For some, Sandy was a pivotal life changing experience. A year after he began volunteering to help victims of the storm, artist Jason A. Maas is employed full time with Respond & Rebuild, a disaster relief organization working in post-Sandy Rockaway. His work “Three Volunteers” was inspired by PPE, the (Personal Protective Equipment) that all volunteers are given.
Emile Dubuisson’s “Blue Storm” makes use of his expertise in film and still photography to capture the beauty of a raging ocean. Similarly, Josh Raab, a documentary photographer and an editor of the online magazine “Jay Pegs” as well as photojournalists André Malerba, Gaia Squarci, Cassandra Giraldo contribute works to For & About that document the storm and its effects.
Sheila Goloborotko takes on reporting of the storm in her piece “Anachronic Patterns”. She wields her experience as a master printer to create a lithograph installation that depicts a reconfigured order of meteorological patterns presented in the local weather forecast during the time Sandy was forming.
A limited-edition zine For & About: Art & Reactions to Superstorm Sandy, which will include works from the Sandy Storyline project, among others, will be available for purchase in the gallery. This publication is a visceral collection of thoughts, observations poems and stories of remembrance from those in Brooklyn who were hit hardest and those who reached out a helping hand to them.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 6–9PM
DUMBO ARTS FESTIVAL HOURS:
Saturday, September 28, 12–8pm
Sunday, September 29, 12–8pm
DUMBO 1ST THURSDAY EVENTS:
Extended Hours: Thursday, October 3, 6–8pm
Scene: Brooklyn Film Screening
Thursday, November 7, 6–8pm
Documenting Sandy: Writers & Photojournalists
Present their Work
Thursday, December 5, 6:30–8:30pm
Extended Hours: Thursday, February 6, 6–8pm