2010 B.C.
Brooklyn College
MFA Thesis Exhibition
curated by Siebren Versteeg

may 7 - june 6, 2010
opening: may 7th, 6-9pm
gallery hours: daily 1-7pm

Williamsburg Art & Historical Center
135 Broadway
Brooklyn, New York 11211

J train to Marcy Av / L train to Bedford Av

jeff frederick • david k. friedman • luiza kurzyna • junghwa lim • david loncle • elias necol melad • juan ortega • marina pavlutskaya • antonio serna • matthew franklin wilson • dominik t. wyka • erin zelley • jacob william zurilla

Brooklyn College MFA Art Students Blog

Brooklyn College
CUNY MFA Meet-Up

SUN APRIL 25th 5-8 pm
@ TOM & JERRY’S
288 ELIZABETH ST, NYC

2nd Annual CUNY MFA students Meet-up and slide show down!
BROOKLYN COLLEGE • CITY COLLEGE • HUNTER COLLEGE • LEHMAN COLLEGE • QUEENS COLLEGE

Sign up to CUNY MFA Yahoo Group for more info and details on how to submit your work: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cunyartmfa

Brooklyn College MFA
Open Studios Spring 2010

Boylan Hall, 4th, 5th, & 6th Floors
2900 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn NY ( map)
2/5 to Flatbush Ave

FRI APRIL 16th 6-10 pm
SAT APRIL 17th 1-6 pm

Twenty-seven young artists from the Master of Fine Arts program at
Brooklyn College (CUNY) will open their studios and invite the public
to engage with their creative processes:

MFA Students: Linda Bernal • Julia Cocuzza • Jeff Frederick • David Friedman • Gregory Hayes • Megan Hays • John Keck • Luiza Kurzyna • Michele Liebler • David Loncle • Hector Madera-Gonzalez • Elias Melad • Allison Merz • JungHwa O'Connell • Madison Omahne • Juan Ortega • Marina Pavlutskaya • Ivan Rivera • Noosheen Roostami • Antonio Serna • Natalie Taylor • Miryana Todorova • Boris Torres • Matthew Wilson • Dominik Wyka • Erin Zelley • Jacob Zurilla

Get ready to mark your agenda... As soon as I have the dates for the following events I will post them: Brooklyn College Open Studio Spring 2010, CUNY MFA Meet-Up 2nd Annual Spring 2010, and Brooklyn College Thesis Exhibition 2010...

...I'm also working on putting together a couple of small shows here and there so check back.

I'm a crazy show in a crazy place with a lot of crazy artist. Denatured, a group show organized by Emet Sosna at The Gershwin in New York. The exhibition will run from 15 January - 24 February, 2010.

Also in the exhibition will be works by:
Carla Aspenberg, Megan Burns, David Friedman, Brandon Friend, Andrew Graham, Hidenori Ishii, Eun Jin Kim, Luiza Kurzyna, Jac Lahav, Sarah Nicole Phillips, Don Porcella, Devin Powers, Suzy Q, Lars Rasmussen, Max Razdow, Antonio Serna, and Emet Sosna.

A couple of my new paintings have been included in Higher Ground,
a group show curated by Astrid Honold at Metis Gallery in Amsterdam. The exhibition will run from 14 November - 19 December, 2009.

Also in the exhibition will be works by: Fendry Ekel, Folkert de Jong,
Remy Jungerman, Monica Ragazzini, Femke Schaap,
Akiko & Masako Takada, Abdi Setiawan.

Knife Poetry, my latest media slip will be included in 'Oh, Don’t Get Carried Away'
KP Poetry Journal Volume 1, published by Kunstprojects Berlin. Due out soon!

Artist in Volume 1: Are Blytt, Stefano Calligaro, Hsiao Chen, Sujey Colon, Drawing Guts, Edward Eke, Edvine Larssen, Thurston Moore, Donata Rigg, Ama Saru, Antonio Serna and Susanne Winterling)

Awarded the Emerging Artist Award by Journal of Artist Books at The Hybrid Book conference and fair mentioned below. Brad Freeman, editor-in-chief of JAB made the award based on my work, Good Morning Baghdad.

The next issue of JAB, issue 26 to be published in the fall, will have more information. I'll put the info here once it is published.

Attending The Hybrid Book: Intersection + Intermedia in Philadelphia, PA
I've received a travel grant from The Graduate Investment Program at Brooklyn College (G.I.P.) to attend the conference and fair.

The Hybrid Book
The University of the Arts
320 S. Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA 19102
http://www.hybridbook.org

I've put together After Image, an exhibition based loosely around propositions regarding the image in art. The idea for the exhibition was to seed an idea, written, or visual, and have other artist respond. The results are the text and the assembled works.

The text included comments by Jon Meyer and Ama Saru. The art work included in the exhibition by Darren Bader, Hsiao Chen, Kelsey Harrington, Ariel Herrera, Lansing-Dreiden, Jon Meyer, John Monteith, Arthur Ou, Yadir Quintana, Ama Saru, Antonio Serna, Suzanne Song, Peggy Tan, and Matthew Wilson.

AFTER IMAGE April 23-30, 2009
Opening event April 23, 6-9PM
@315 W39TH STREET, #801

http://afterimage.petitemort.org

It's that time again!! My studio is a mess but hey, I'm not keeping my doors shut.

MFA Open Studios at Brooklyn College.
Friday April 24th, 6-10PM / Saturday April 25th, 12-6PM

BROOKLYN COLLEGE /BOYLAN HALL: floors 4, 5, & 6
2900 Bedford Avenu, Brooklyn, NY 11210

SUBWAY/BUS:
2 to Flatbush & Brooklyn College / Q to Avenue H
B6 or B11 to Bedford Ave at Campus Rd

FOR A DETAILED MAP AND INFO:
www.brooklynmfa.com • brooklynart@gmail.com • tel: 718.951.5572
Brooklyn Art MFA blogspot photo ©Steve Baldwin brooklynparrots.com

Wholesale Milk/Freckles Studio is host the first CUNY wide Art MFA meet-up/exhibition: Hello, My Name is CUNY. Similar to Open Works, we will open our doors to all the art from the CUNY system. Hopefully then we can see the threads running through the public system.

Subscribe to the CUNY Art MFA Group email list : Open to all curent and alumni of the CUNY system. Or visit the CUNY Art MFA Group page online.

Wholesale Milk opens at Freckles Studio. The first gallery post-economic meltdown that is looking forward to it's closing date: April 30th. Long Live Temporary Spaces!
Somethings we hope to happen, a CUNY wide "open" exhibit and a small show of thematic works.

Labor Party: An art project in the form of a party, presented by the MFA Department and the Performance and Interactive Media Arts program (PIMA) of Brooklyn College in partnership with Industry City Art Project. Labor Party was organized as a part of the Brooklyn College graduate class 'Collaborative Strategies,' led by Jennifer McCoy and Michael Connor.

Open Works!: a project operating within Labor Party is an experimental public event that attempts to analyze democratic (horizontal) vs hierarchical (vertical) critique within the artist community. (n.b. The project wasn't fully realized because of external factors imposed on it's scope. This did however bring up larger questions regarding 'public' and 'audience' of art events.) Event organizers: Ama Saru, Hsiao Chen, Peggy Tan, and me.

Several issues of Good Morning Baghdad, were added to the E-flux exhibit OUT NOW!. Other work in the exhibit included work by Martha Rosler, a Brooklyn College Alumni ('65), and activist Kathy Kelly, (Voices in the Wilderness, Voices for Creative Non-Violence). Coincidentally I had met with Kathy Kelly along with Paul Chan at an NYPL event The Art of Disarmament back in 2006.

Brookyln College Open Studios, for 2 nights only trek out to the end of the Q or 2 line- bring a book it's a long ride, but much appreciated if you can come!! Brooklyn College, Boylan Hall, 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY - Google Map

It's Not Easy, A open call exhibition at Exit Art. All email responses to "the recent tidal wave of efforts to go 'green'" were posted in their Subterranean Gallery. Guess which one is mine, then tell me why.

Three Stories Deep, a new exhibition of paintings and photographs on view at New York Public Library Mulberry Street Branch. The exhibition runs from November 7th through December 19th. There is a silent opening on Wednesday November 14th, from 6 to 8 pm. For more information about this exhibition see projects: Three Story Deep (OFFLINE). The Mulberry Street Branch is located at 10 Jersey Street (1 block south of Houston between Mulberry and Lafayette.