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14
Feb 10

MAKING SPACE closing reception: March 28th 5-8PM

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.

Exhibits / MAKING SPACE / residency — No Comments
31
Dec 09

MAKING SPACE, inaugural SUPERFRONT Architects-in-Residence Exhibit

MAKINGSPACE-opening

MAKINGSPACE

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.

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17
Jun 09

THE OTHER LINE – opening July 11

THE OTHER LINE
11 July – 12 September 2009
Opening Saturday, July 11 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

SUPERFRONT architecture gallery and project space is proud to present the work of Artist-in-Residence SIENNA SHIELDS HORTON.

During her 6 month residency at SUPERFRONT, SHIELDS HORTON – a painter, multi-media artist and performance artist from Alaska – has produced as series of photo collages that study and re-figure the streetscape of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, while also exploring work with furniture and preparing for a land-based installation in Alaska.

In particular, Shields Horton has focused her process upon the railroad viaduct that defines the industrial character of Atlantic Avenue, the broad street that forms the border between Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights.  Studying this transportation infrastructure through her concerns for color and collage, Shields Horton produces a reimagining of the streetscape.  The work provokes a reconsideration of architectural image-making, whether in its striking contrast to conventional architectural photography or its accidental relationship to collage as a design strategy. 

SIENNA SHIELDS HORTON’s work will be on view at SUPERFRONT from July 11 – September 12.

This exhibit is enabled partly by a generous donation from Nili Gilbert.

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