EXHIBITION

Concrete Muse

Dumbo Arts Festival, New York, Brooklyn, 09/26/2014 - 09/28/2014

ABOUT

oncrete Muse is a site-specific exhibition featuring artists, who regard the things, people, behaviors and other “stuff” of the street as their muse. As opposed to street artists, who adopt outdoor settings as their canvas, these artists bring the outdoors inside to their studios and exhibition spaces.

Each artist in the exhibition transforms the detritus or overlooked objects of our daily, urban backdrop into an unfamiliar, and tantalizing new object or situation. The rugged, post-industrial terrain of DUMBO, Brooklyn provides the ideal context for Concrete Muse and its celebration of makers and the untapped magic of our city’s most gritty nooks and crannies.

Artist Lemia Bodden captures abstracted urban architecture with her iPhone camera.

Deborah Brown paints car salvage lots, cement factories and unidentified detritus at the end of the industrial age. The subject matter is familiar territory for Brown who has depicted the landscape of Bushwick for several years.

In his new series of paintings, Alexis Duque presents us with an idealized city. Baroque in spirit, the works abound with a plethora of distinctive buildings that are a blend of fantasy and reality.

Jack Henry creates totem sculptures using objects scavenged from the streets of Bushwick.

Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow is a performance artist who integrates natural elements into urban settings. She will be hosting an urban picnic of sorts for Concrete Muse!

Eliot Markell constructs burly yet intimate sculptures from the beaches of New York City.

Erika Ranee builds abstract paintings layered with the detritus of her daily experiences by collecting and hoarding whatever falls in her path: scrawls, discarded memorabilia or snippets of conversations from eavesdropping ventures on the street.

Carlo Sampietro‘s The Street is in the House series transforms NYPD police barriers and rusty water pipes into fine art and utilitarian objects such as a sofa.

Denise Treizman excels in creating site-specific installations of objects she’s collected from streets in New York City, China and beyond.

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