SUNSET PARK OPEN STUDIOS
October 18-20, 2024
Sunset Park Open Studios 2024 (SPOS) is an annual, multi-day arts celebration of exhibitions, events and open studios throughout Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Featuring hundreds of participating artists and art-spaces from across the neighborhood, SPOS is free and open to the public. This year, SPOS will be held from Friday, October 18th through Sunday, October 20th, 2024. Throughout the weekend SPOS will welcome visitors to meet artists, curators and researchers from around the globe, and experience the beauty and diversity of the artistic process in both studio environments and institutional contexts alike.
Friday, October 18 | 6-9 pm
Saturday, October 19 | 1-5 pm
Sunday, October 20 | 1-5 pm
Exhibitions on View:
In parallel with the open studios, NARS will present two major exhibitions. Human-alike, curated by Linda Rocco, will be on view in the NARS Main Gallery, featuring works by Petra Cortright, Sarah Friend, IOCOSE, Kalen Iwamoto, Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, and Bogosi Sekhukhuni. Simultaneously, Avatopology, a solo exhibition by NARS International Residency Alumni Frank WANG Yefeng, curated by Natasha Chuk, will be showcased in the NARS Project Space.
NARS Special Event:
As part of SPOS, a live performance by Dan Lippel and Douglas Boyce will accompany Avatopology on Friday, October 18, from 7-8 pm.
Featuring NARS Residency Artists:
Ali Kaeini | Béatrice Côté | Ian Ha | Jen Aitken | Jieun Lim | Jeehee Yoo | Jung Won Lee | Lafina Eptaminitaki | Letizia Scapello | Philippe Caron Lefebvre | Sao Tanaka | Sheyda Azar | Woojae Kim
As part of the Sunset Park Open Studios 2024, NARS Foundation A.i.Rs, Lafina Eptaminitaki, Jieun Lim, and Woojae Kim enliven the Sunset Park Open Studios with a tripple in-studio installation titled 3 Studios. This activation opens the studio to critical access, contemplating on social form and acts of process-making.
Lafina’s performative act Walking, Waiting, Writing with Rocks invites the public into the staging of a mound of rocks carefully arranged by hand into lines across the studio floor, forming a written field of stones and becoming both language and landscape. Using every inch of her studio space through a process of assemblage, Jieun’s Method invites the audience to enter a situation, where existing elements within the studio’s contours are in play. Woojae’s reading from his installation I Hear a Silent Dissonance connects the process of making drums, site visits to fire-affected forests, and personal memories. A sound composition of handmade drums will accompany the reading.
Lafina’s performance will be on Saturday, October 19 starting at 2PM, located in Studio 406. Woojae’s reading performances will be on Saturday, October 19 starting at 3PM, located in Studio 414B. Jieun’s studio installation is located in Studio 414C.
3 studios is organized by NARS Curatorial Fellow Dylan Seh-Jin Kim.
J&M STUDIOS Artists:
Open Studios Featuring: Anita Trombetta | Anzia Anderson | Andrew Schwartz | Amanda Leung | Artemis Herber | Benjamin Lee Sperry | Braden Bandel | Carol Suiya Yuan | Caroline Cloutier | Christine Mendoza | Deb Monti | Derek Buckner | Daina Higgins | Douglas Paisley | Eliza Clark | Eric Clinton Anderson | Eun Young Choi | Fred Fleisher | Greg McMurray | Indiana Hoover | Jas Pinturas | Jean Auguste Alix | Jeremiah Teipen | Joseph Bochetto Walsh | Joseph Hartley | Judy Giera | Julia Elsas | Kalya O'Donoghue | Katherine Plourde | Katerina Pansera | Margot Werner | Magdalena Santos | Marie Gagnon | Mary McIntyre | Miranda Norris | Naomi Nakazato | Niamul Bari | Nikolina Kovalenko | Patricia Orpilla | Peter Walsh | Rachel Handlin | Rachael McArthur | Richard Rosenblatt | Robert Melzmuf | Robin Feld | Sarah Gratz | Sean Patrick Smith | Tim Norris | Veronika Golova
Click here to viw more past Open Studios at NARS.
