Month: November 2020

2020 Fundraiser Closing Event

2020 Fundraiser Closing Event

Friday, December 4 7pm EST On Zoom Join us for the virtual closing of our 2020 Fundraiser with art, music, and fun! Friday, December 4 at 7pm EST, join us for a musical performance by Lily White and the raffle drawing for our 2020 Fundraiser. 

Margrethe Aanestad

Margrethe Aanestad

Margrethe Aanestad and Monika Wuhrer are talking about all the projects they have done together and about Margrethe’s recent work. Margrethe Aanestad is a Norwegian-born visual artist, based in both New York City and Stavanger, a small town on the West Coast of Norway. Aanestad 

Ash Ferlito

Ash Ferlito

Ferlito’s practice crosses the boundaries between traditional categories of painting, printmaking, photography and sculpture. Expanding on the concept of en plein air, Ferlito concentrates her work out of doors, interacting directly with elements of the natural world and focusing on biodiversity. She believes art is 

Traci Talasco

Traci Talasco

Traci Talasco talks about her striking installations and her architectural models. Traci Talasco creates interactive installations that use architecture as a social / political space addressing female identity, balance and imbalance, and unnecessary struggles. Fragmented walls, floors, and interior spaces are stripped of their intended 

Artists at Home: Boa Mistura

Artists at Home: Boa Mistura

As part of our Artist at Home series, Open Source Gallery supporter and community member Teresa (Tree) Santamaria conducted an interview with Pablo Arkoh Ferreiro, who previously exhibited at Open Source with the art collective Boa Mistura. Pablo Arkoh Ferreiro received his degree in fine 

Dominika Ksel

Dominika Ksel

Dominika Ksel talks about their recent start of a fellowship with culture push, public sculptures out of recycled plastics in the Rockaways and how art is a tool to express and teach. We so much appreciate their political and social engagement and are very proud 

Kathleen Vance

Kathleen Vance

  Kathleen Vance talks about her show at Open Source called “From The Woods“, about her beautiful River Installations and about her Traveling Landscapes. With the series “Traveling Landscapes” Vance creates miniature landscapes inside vintage suitcases and trunks. The bucolic scenes harken to a place 

HTBAF: Delight in the Everyday

HTBAF: Delight in the Everyday

Wednesday, November 25 8:00pm On Zoom Open Source Gallery in collaboration with poet Terence Degnan provides an exhibit space that evokes truth and exudes beauty. Through humor, pain, insight and discovery storytellers will bear witness to our past, our present, and our collective futures. Co-hosts 

Zeelie Brown: the world’s most beautiful septic tank

Zeelie Brown: the world’s most beautiful septic tank

Zeelie Brown @ cHURCH OF MONIKA the world’s most beautiful septic tank January 17th, 2021 Sunday, 11am on ZOOM, Meeting ID: 864 5409 2996 In the Black Belt, a region that I grew up on the southern extreme of, people are forced by poverty, state neglect, 

Ingeborg Kvame

Ingeborg Kvame

Ingeborg Kvame is an artist from Stavanger, Norway. Monika Wuhrer co-curated with Ingeborg Find Your Eyes, an experimental outdoor exhibition on Sølyst, an island in Stavanger, where she also exhibited. Ingeborg Kvame works with printmaking, drawing, textiles and sculpture, often using nature as a source 

Eight Digital Exhibition Spaces for the Second-wave Lockdown

Eight Digital Exhibition Spaces for the Second-wave Lockdown

Article by Rea McNamara in Hyperallergic, November 13th, 2020 8. Livestream: Stephanie Dinkins: COMPLEMENTARY When: October 29–December 1 (Extended to December 15th!) Where: Online and in-person via Open Source Gallery (306 17th St, Brooklyn) (Read 1-7 here) With livestreaming emerging as the de facto replacement for in-person 

Screen Breach

Screen Breach

WHEN: Saturday the 23rd of January at 3pm- 5pm EST WHERE: 306 17th Street @ Open Source Gallery in Brooklyn and live streamed via Twitch.tv etc.. Live audience will be outside or inside only 4 people at a time. Masks required.Videokaffe International artist collective, together with 

Workaway Opportunities for Young Adults Abroad

Workaway Opportunities for Young Adults Abroad

KokoNYC goes to Italy! Koko Camp Lecco, Koko Camp Naples, Koko Camp Biella. To apply fill out the form by January 15th, 2021 and send your CV to ricerca&sociale@crams.it The Center for Research, Arts, Music, and Artistic Performance in Lecco — in collaboration with Maestri di Strada Onlus Naples, Cittadellarte Biella, KokoNYC, 

2020 Fundraiser Closing Event

2020 Fundraiser Closing Event

Photo: Michelangelo Pistoletto: chiavi in many – terzo paradiso Friday, December 4th at 7 PM EST Public · Hosted by Open Source Gallery On Zoom Join us for the virtual closing of our 2020 Fundraiser with art, music, and fun! Friday, December 4 at 7pm 

2020 Outdoor Dinners

2020 Outdoor Dinners

December 6th, 11th and 13th: 6pm in front of Open Source Gallery, 306 17th Street For the last 13 years we did host dinners every day in December. Usually we call it the Open Source Soup Kitchen and everyday a different volunteer (often artists) puts