> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Musings & Images from the 2011 Bushwick Open Studios - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/2011-bushwick-open-studios/ - Published: 2011-09-13T15:19:43.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T15:35:59.000Z - Description: I admit it, sometimes I'm slow to post something. Case in point, my article on the 2011 Bushwick Open Studios was published in the summer edition of the Brooklyn Rail but I never got around the publishing in here. So, here I go. Posting this piece I wrote before summer started right before the seaso - Author: Hrag Vartanian - Tags: Art, #image-position-hidden, Ben Godward, Bushwick Open Studios, Jenny Morgan, Joann Kim, Photo Essays, Tamara Gonzales, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011) I admit it, sometimes I’m slow to post something. Case in point, my article on the 2011 Bushwick Open Studios was published in the summer edition of the *Brooklyn Rail* but I never got around the publishing in here. So, here I go. Posting this piece I wrote before summer started right before the season ends. I’ve also uploaded a whole bunch of photos from my tour of the neighborhood. For more photos from BOS 2011, visit the Hyperallergic [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150243539894812.345102.90675054811&type=1): > What a difference five years makes. From a scrappy and dispersed open studios festival, Brooklyn’s — if not New York’s — largest such event, Bushwick Open Studios (BOS), has grown to 161 locations, including 16 information hubs and hundreds of artists over a three-mile stretch of the nebulous neighborhood known as Bushwick. > In 2008, I wrote in this publication about that year’s BOS and mentioned that “If living in the neighborhood once felt like an urban exile, today it’s starting to feel like a form of prescience.” I can assure you the future has arrived. The visual arts community has more than quadrupled, but, like most fortunetelling, it’s not quite what you expected. Full article [here](http://brooklynrail.org/2011/07/artseen/bushwick-open-studios-continues-to-grow-but-at-what-cost?ref=hyperallergic.com). ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-01.jpg) Skewville’s giant boom box dominated Flushing and was a nod to old skool New York, which has almost completely disappeared in Bushwick. / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-02.jpg) Mike Olin’s studio demonstrates his has a thing for leopards eating (or is that humping) people. / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-03.jpg) An installation at the English Kills Art Gallery show with a work by Don Pablo Pedro, “Peony Creampie” (nd), flanked by smaller works by Judith Supine, “Serpent Handler” (nd) and “Black Death” (nd) / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-04.jpg) Cardboard works by Susan Hamburger that resemble porcelain and depicts well-known Wililamsburg landmarks. / vg ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-05.jpg) Artist Lori Kirkbride demonstrating her punch card system. She punches in every time she goes to comes into and leaves her studio. / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-06.jpg) Shawn Gallager, previously known for his *[Star Trek: The Next Generation](https://hyperallergic.com/old-masters-haunt-bushwick/)*\-related work, has moved onto art about comedian Gallagher. / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-07.jpg) This artist, Kohei, gathered retail bags from stories across New York and Tokyo. The silk works are by Mayuko Okada. / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-08.jpg) Interstate Project’s Tom Weinrich during BOS 2011. / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-09.jpg) The art-filled epicenter of artistic Bushwick, Bogart and Grattan Streets. / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-10.jpg) A view of the attendees of Sharon Butler’s “The Economics of Open Studios” discussion, which was part of Austin Thomas’s [Meet me At the Market](http://drawingontheutopic.blogspot.com/2011/05/meet-me-at-market.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) at the local Moore Street Market. . / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-11.jpg) Kevin Regan of Famous Accountants in Tatiana Berg’s studio at 1717 Troutman. / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-12.jpg) A beautiful ribbon work by Stephen Lichty, “Ribbon (Blue)” (2010) at 1717 Troutman. / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-13.jpg) A work by Paul Gagner in the foreground. / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-14.jpg) Some of the watercolors in Warren Thomas’s studio. Thomas is currently a contributor to Hyperallergic but wasn’t when I snapped this pic. The work on the right is titled “Whack-ak-ak-a” (2010). / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-15.jpg) Lovely paintings by Angelina Gualdoni. / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-16.jpg) A lovely view from a patio at 1717 Troutman. / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-17.jpg) Joann Kim and Angel R. Núñez chilling in the Factory Fresh backyard. Tamara Gonzales and Ben Godward are sharing a moment on the right. / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-18.jpg) Aaron Short and Ali Aschman have an affectionate moment in a “house” she painted. / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-19.jpg) A quiet moment in the garden of the Onderdonk House. / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-20.jpg) An orange sculpture by Tyrome Tripoli amidst a very Bushwick setting in the backyard of the Onderdonk House with chicken coop and facotry building. / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-21.jpg) A work by Mary Schiliro, “Dripped dry in Bushwick” (2011), outside Norte Maar on Wyckoff Avenue. / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-22.jpg) A work by Ryan Ford at Curbs and Stoops. / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-23.jpg) This New Orleans transplant, Heidi Elbers, was offering hurricane and King’s bread to visitors to her studio. / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-24.jpg) A child soldier street art piece in the warehouse land near the Montrose L stop. It is by Enzo & Nio. / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-25.jpg) A view of the “Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Work of Art and Tragedy” show at Nurture Art. Boris Raisin’s “Godzilla Does Right” (2011) dominates the space. / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-26.jpg) Jenny Morgan’s paintings in her studio. / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-27.jpg) A view of Andy Jordan’s “You + Me,” which is a sculpture “investigating the impact we have on each others’ thoughts.” / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-28.jpg) Part of the display for Miriam Simun’s “The Human Cheese Project,” which I guess is pretty self-explanatory. There were no samples available for tasting. / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-29.jpg) A work by Ben Finer in a case. / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-30.jpg) Thickly “painted” works by Mathieu Lefevre. / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-31.jpg) Works by Ivy Mix. Thank you, [Twitter](https://twitter.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com#!/chloesuze/statuses/113638666487857152)! / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-32.jpg) Leah Tacha’s “Golfing Buddies” (2011). / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-33.jpg) Paintings by Beth Letain, both from 2011. / hv ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/bos-2011-34.jpg) A view of Lo-Fi Asian Folk’s *Gestures of Orbicular Topology* show out of a garage/studio on Wilson Avenue, near Willoughby. / hv [Bushwick Open Studios](http://artsinbushwick.org/bos2011/?ref=hyperallergic.com) *took place from Friday, June 3 to Sunday, June 5.*