Tempest
September 10th, 8.30pm
Colin Adams-Toomey, Sky Bennett and Anna Paratore will perform an excerpt from the Tempest.
James Leonard – 927 Days at Sea
Sepember 11th-October 2nd
Events:
Saturday September 17th, 8pm – if you look up” buy Anna Azrieli and Performance by Joseph Keckler
Wednesday Sept 21st, 3:30pm – James Leonard is introducing the program “Vagabonds!” with a FREE class. Sign up
NOTE: New Date! Sunday October 2nd, 7pm – Miho Suzuki: 100 Days After
James Leonard’s multi-disciplinarian works are drawn from his interaction with the world around him, touching on themes both timeless and urgent. At Open Source Gallery, Leonard is presenting “927 Days at Sea.” Witty and politically charged, the exhibition includes his “No Fishing” paintings, “Anchor and Chain” sculptures, and an “un-Suicide Note”, which “unless between now and then he has died of causes unforeseen,” still holds true.
In presenting these odd elements of Americana and distorting them through subtle shifts in form, context and scale, Leonard creates a dynamic between the viewer and the work. He writes: “I want my works to generate complex meanings, meanings that tumble from clarity into contradiction: chaos and then back again.”
Confronting the mystery of human cognition is at the heart of Leonard’s studio practice. Unable or unwilling to work consistently in one medium, he chooses the material that best suits his conceptual needs. The “No Fishing Signs” are painted on cardboard remnants, words are crossed out and others added, creating an overall affect of ironic discomfiture. His handcrafted “Anchor and Chain” contains a subtler humor. Woven from delicate wire and hot sculpted and hand ground glass, their fragility undermines the object’s traditional use, to anchor. The “un-Suicide Note” communicates with the viewer in the form of a suicide note. Leonard, however, declares his intention to live.
James Leonard’s serious concerns and cynicism regarding humanity are buoyed by a lively sense of humor. This is an artist adrift in a sea of complexity, who endeavors to fish for meaning in an absurd world.
Soap Box Derby
Brooklyn Independent Television, a community media program of BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn
At the Soap Box Camp children aged 7-12 are learning to construct functional soap box racers out of recycled material. We introduce the campers to a variety of tools and supervise them closely while they build their contraptions with hammers, nails, handsaws, screws, etc. ALL TOOL USE UNDER STRICT ADULT SUPERVISION. The artists Hubert Dobler, Raphaela Riepl and Monika Wuhrer are conducting the workshop following last 3 year’s rave reviews: [Daily News (2-page spread!!!), Brooklyn Independent Television, Popular Mechanics, Park Slope Courier, Brooklyn Paper, among others].
The culmination of the camp is the annual soap box derby on 17th street .
on view now
Patrick Cadenhead: Spring and RenewalOpening Reception: May 5th, 2012, 7-9pm May 6th – June 3rd With Spring and Renewal, artist Patrick Cadenhead seeks to create a multi-sensory meditation on religion, laundry, and our denial of decay. Large sculptures caked in common cleaning products make up this installation, as active fountains push water and soap over and through, constantly changing [...]
upcoming
MS 136
Koko
eL Paper
riepl & co marianas trench discoveries inc
Nick Kline
Kathleen Vance
Michael Poetschko
past
Felipe Mujica: One day this will NOT be yours
BETWEEN MOUNTAIN
Between Mountain – part 2
Peter Feigenbaum
The Meeting
Karl Spörk, Another Meeting
Leigh Davis: The Burrow (H.H.)
Evan Robarts and James Moore: the cave
Sara Bouchard: The News: Monday-Friday, Parts 1 & 2
Open Source 2011
Open Source Soup Kitchen
Borderland Collective
Jason Reppert: Parlor Tricks
Felipe Mujica: One Day This Will All Be Yours
Green Idea Pool
James Leonard – 927 Days at Sea
Soap Box Derby
Naoe Suzuki and Dramahound Productions: Mi Tigre, My Lover
Associated
Raphaela Riepl: adorable steamed sea urchin
Allison Read Smith: Thugs
Open Source Gallery 2008-2010
Soup Kitchen 2010
Pirmin Hagen: First
Nobuko: wa
ORFI nyc: live gig 2010
Peter Feigenbaum “Trainset Ghetto: Streetsmart”
Images NYC
make Soap Box Racers for the Soap Box Derby
ONE BIG WINDMILL
Open Source Residency w/Austrian Artists
Patricia Watwood: Portraits 20/10
Cornucopias: Paintings by Rachel Youens
Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau: Wang Bin Torture in Commercial Quality, High Quality and Museum Quality
Akiyuki Ina: Emitting Evanescent Beauty
John Coburn: Fairlane Marauder
Soup Kitchen 12.1 – 12.24
Sara Ching-Yu Sun: Nov 7th- Nov 30
Victoria Stanton and Christian Richer: Sat Oct 10th
Patrick May: October 3 – november 2
