SUPERFRONT

SUPERFRONT BK is accepting proposals from curators for an exhibit to open early/mid April and show through May of 2010. Gallery space is approximately 200 square feet at a storefront on Atlantic Avenue in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.  Gallery hours are 1pm – 6pm Sat & Sun.

Since January 2008, SUPERFRONT has invited students, emerging architects, designers, visual artists, and performance artists to engage in a public forum that raises awareness of contemporary architectural practice and theory. Dedicated to supporting, promoting, and producing radical contemporary architecture while fostering creative interdisciplinary exchange, SUPERFRONT also runs a satellite gallery at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles.

Please email info@superfront.org with proposals or questions.

SUPERFRONT invites you to celebrate the success of the 1st annual Architects-in-Residence exhibit and publication of the MAKING SPACE catalog.  Please join us at the gallery (1432 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY) on Sunday, March 28th from 5-8pm.

MAKING SPACE presents the work of FRANCISCA BENITEZ and PAWEL NIEDZWIECKI.

An artist talk on collaborative work, featuring FRANCISCA BENITEZ and her featured collaborators from New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) community centers in Brooklyn, will take place during the closing. MAKING SPACE catalogs will also be for sale.

In MAKING SPACE, SUPERFRONT’s two Architects-in-Residence explore the notion of residency in New York.  Both artists/architects have responded to SUPERFRONT’s spatial identity as rooted in its location in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.

PAWEL NIEDZWIECKI, trained as an architect, has literally resided in SUPERFRONT’s artist studio space during the past 5 months, producing work that explores personal affections through architectural methods. Niedzwiecki’s ink drawings often reference musical composition as an
architectural language.

FRANCISCA BENITEZ explores what it means to inhabit New York’s system of public spaces, from community centers to Brooklyn sidewalks. Alongside her own highly political and conceptual series of graphite rubbings of built surfaces, Benitez exhibits pieces made by or in conjunction with
residents of public housing.

This exhibit and the Architects-in-Residence program are partly enabled by generous donations from Nilizandr Gilbert and Sarah Millsaps.

Pawel Niedzwiecki, “Koi Tail”, 2009 and Francisca Benitez with Alena Adams, Takiera Dominguez, Imani Gibson, Lynee Jacobs, and Giselle Nieves, “Independence Community Center’s Entrance”, 2009

Opening Sunday, January 3, 2010 5:00PM – 8:00PM

3 January – 28 March 2010

Press on MAKING SPACE in Architect’s Newspaper.

MAKING SPACE: THE FIRST ANNUAL EXHIBIT OF THE ARCHITECTS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM

As Architects-in-Residence, both practitioners have responded to SUPERFRONT’s spatial identity at the gallery’s storefront location in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.  Whether at the scale of the physical walls of the gallery or at the larger scale of central Brooklyn, the Architects-in-Residence present work in dialog with the gallery’s location on Atlantic Avenue.

The title of the exhibit, MAKING SPACE, alludes to the physical production that both practices share.  As much of contemporary architectural experimentation occurs in the realm of the digital (computing space, ordering space, animating space), MAKING SPACE presents a surprisingly physical and hands-on selection of works.  Both Architects-in-Residence work in physical media, where materiality can both record information and elude reproducibility.

Click here to preview the catalog essay.

The MAKING SPACE exhibit and the Architects-in-Residence program are partly enabled by generous donations from Nilizandr Gilbert and Sarah Millsaps.