Month: April 2020

Artists at Home: Nicholas Galanin

Artists at Home: Nicholas Galanin

As part of our Artist at Home series, Open Source Gallery board member Dennis Norris II conducted an interview with Nicholas Galanin, who previously exhibited at Open Source. Nicholas Galanin (b. 1979) is a Tlingit/Unangax̂ multi-disciplinary artist. Galanin apprenticed with master carvers and jewelers, earned 

May 5th, 7pm Zoom Link Meeting ID: 817 7827 4156 
Password: 017950 Ethan Crenson and Amanda Alic run Fuse Works, an organization that exhibits, publishes and promotes artists’ multiples. Ethan also collects and studies mushrooms, fungi and slime molds.  They live in lock-down in Brooklyn 

The Octopus Waffle Lab book launch

The Octopus Waffle Lab book launch

May 8, 2020 2pm EST, 20:00 Central Europe Where: ZOOM Meeting ID: 819 4200 6211, Password: 038255 Open Source Gallery and Void & Co. are pleased to invite you to the launch of the booklet produced to accompany The Octopus Waffle Lab with an essay 

Woman with Cat Since the pandemic hit, I’ve been doing a lot of livestream model drawing sessions to keep my creativity and art alive and going, and it’s been not only a lifesaver and keeper of sanity, but a real return to ways of working 

The Gift of this moment is the Imagination Join us for an online studio visit with Patricia Watwood who’s going to share fresh work in process from the studio, and talk about diving into narrative worlds of possibility.  Watwood’s complex narratives are constructed from a 

Artists at Home: Immy Mali

Artists at Home: Immy Mali

As part of our Artist at Home series, Open Source Gallery board member Emma Lewis conducted an interview with Immy Mali, who previously exhibited at Open Source. Immy Mali lives and works in Kampala Uganda. Using a variety of media including, text, video, sound, sculpture, 

Alise Loebelsohn has been working on paintings non stop recently. My paintings emerge out of the process of the materials that I use. My work is about the patterns and images that randomly appear in nature all around us. The shapes are built up through different 

Artists at Home: Monica Jahan Bose

Artists at Home: Monica Jahan Bose

Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist who has exhibited her work extensively in the US and internationally, including eighteen solo shows and numerous group exhibitions. Through over twenty performances and dozens of art actions, Bose has engaged thousands of people. Her 

HTBAF: Americana

HTBAF: Americana

APRIL 24th, 8pm on Zoom Stories hold space for our experiences to be shared, digested and held in the histories of our bodies. Cowboy hats and Cuban heels, BBQ, braids, big cars, Hillbillies, highrise skylines, million-dollar election campaigns, the all mighty cheeseburger … all of 

Rebecca Aidlin has been working on a grouping of watercolor paintings, each about 5.5″ x 8.25″, called Paul’s Kite, to be installed in an interior window of her uncle Paul’s home office. The final piece will measure about 51″ square, filling the entire window. The 

Soup Kitchen on Zoom

Soup Kitchen on Zoom

Open Source is an organization that relies upon and thrives on our community. During this pandemic, we have had to re-think all of our programming–which is in-person and dialogue-focused–to find ways to move into a virtual sphere. What is more comforting than our December Soup 

Artists at Home: Leigh Davis

Artists at Home: Leigh Davis

Leigh Davis is an interdisciplinary artist interested in the intersection of culture, community, and memory. In recent years, she has been producing a body of work about end-of-life experiences (ELEs) and their role as tools to help us understand both the emotional intricacy of grief 

Artists at Home: Crack Rodriguez

Artists at Home: Crack Rodriguez

Victor “Crack” Rodriguez is an artivist that lives and works in La Libertad, El Salvador. He is a member of the art collective The Fire Theory and the art movement Los Siempre Suspectosos de Todo (“The Always Suspicious of Everything”). His practice and actions are 

Artists At Home: Adam Chad Brody

Artists At Home: Adam Chad Brody

  Adam Chad Brody has been raising crickets in his apartment in Brooklyn since 2017. His project explores the art of farming, inter-species relationships, the potential for crickets as a sustainable and accessible food source, and the therapeutic benefit of cricket songs. Adam has presented 

Open Source programs during COVID-19

Open Source programs during COVID-19

Open Source is an organization that relies upon and thrives on our community. During this pandemic, we have had to re-think all of our programming–which is in-person and dialogue-focused–to find ways to move into a virtual sphere. We are currently developing two programs and we 

Tales Your Mothers Told You

Tales Your Mothers Told You

Image: Tales from our mothers (2016) – Site specific performance housed within a bouncy castle at Point Fermin Park, San Pedro, CA.   Stemming from a performance where Soyoung Shin and Anthony Bodlović processed stories from their own mothers, we invited you to share the