Few artists unlock the optical potential of black better than Joan Witek, whose compositions hum with subtle illusions.
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SUM Artists: Visual Diagrams and Systems-Based Explorations, on View at the Wellin Museum of Art
Explore how nearly 30 artists visualize data sourced from a variety of subjects, including the arts, culture, history, race, gender, and politics. Open through June 14.
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Paintings About Change, Not Perfection
Sanford Wurmfeld’s magic is partially the result of a mistake he made in 1985.
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Russell Maltz’s Hard-Hat Formalism
Maltz sees a load of cinderblocks as a legitimate painting substrate — even after it’s broken down and mortared together as the wall of an office building.
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Slippery Geometry and Beguiling Color
An exhibition of works by Gabriele Evertz and Sanford Wurmfeld demonstrates that color theory and painting can arrive at very different conclusions.
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DUMBO Brooklyn Galleries Open New Ground Floor Spaces
Five galleries in the vibrant Brooklyn neighborhood of DUMBO will open brand new, expanded ground floor spaces this spring/summer.
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Confounding the Eye: “Breaking Pattern” at Minus Space
Optical painting has been making its presence felt lately, with its 21st-century manifestation swapping the psychedelia and illusionism of its Sixties progenitor, Op Art, for an emphasis on process, systems and formal interrogation.
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Real Estate Company Will Relocate Galleries in Brooklyn’s Dumbo Neighborhood
The lion’s share of the art galleries in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood, long housed along a hallway on the second floor of 111 Front Street, will move this spring.
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Best of 2014: Our Top 10 Brooklyn Art Shows
Between the proliferation of galleries in Bushwick and, to a lesser extent, Greenpoint, the small cadre of Dumbo galleries sticking it out, longtime heavyweights including the Brooklyn Museum and BRIC mounting ambitious shows, and Creative Time parachuting Kara Walker’s sugar sphinx into the Domino Sugar Factory, it’s been an exceptionally strong year for art in Brooklyn.
