SPOS — Sunset Park Open Studios

2024 PROGRAMMING

Visit our 2024 Central Points for on-site support during the SPOS weekend!
Makerspace (opening hours: SAT-SUN 11AM-4PM)
NARS Foundation (opening hours: FRI, 6-9PM | SAT-SUN 1-5PM)

Admix Metal
107 27th St

Open house featuring designs and work by Sung Joon Kim and Isaiah Ship, the founders and creators of Admix Metal. Our displays will include recent custom metal and wood work as well as the beginnings of a house curated product line with home decor items such as coasters and frames.

FRI (6-9PM)
SAT (1-5PM)
SUN (1-5PM)

ArtCake
214 40th Street

Open Studios featuring Charity Baker, Jim Condron, Jan Dickey, Martin Dull, William Fleites, Alyssa Klauer, Christina Massey, Justin Natividad, Richard O'Russa, Kim Uchiyama, Scott VanderVoort

FRI (6-9PM)
SAT (1-5PM)
SUN (1-5PM)

ArtBuilt
140 58th St.
Brooklyn Army Terminal, BLD B, 7th Fl.
Studio #E10, #W2, #W16, #W17, #W28, #W32

Open Studios featuring Nino Tsiklauri, Oscar Lopez, Matt Rubendall, Purgatory Pie Press, Cesar Valdés, Ella Wearing, JB Morton, Vandana Jain, Ianthe Jackson, Mike Estabrook, and Andy Mazzella

SAT (1-5PM)
SUN (1-5PM)

BioBAT Art Space
140 58th St.
Brooklyn Army Terminal, BLD A, Ground Fl.
Main Entrance Located on the Waterfront.

Water Stories invites audiences to immerse themselves in the poetic essence and ecological significance of water. The exhibition highlights stories of our local waterfronts, coastlines and waterbodies and places them in conversation with global narratives, historical legacies, and imagined futures. Through a blend of immersive multi-sensory installations and interactive artworks, this exhibition encourages a reflective journey and underscores the critical importance of water in all our lives.
Curated by: Elena Soterakis

Exhibiting Artists: Anne Hollænder, Arantxa Araujo, Christopher Lin, DB Lampman, DLX Design Lab, Edrex Fontanilla, Elizabeth Hénaff, Heather Parrish, Keren Anavy, Léonard Roussel, Nathan Kensinger, Ranjit Bhatnagar, Sara Kostić, Sarah Nelson Wright, Seth Wenger, Yan Shao, and Yoko Shimizu.

In addition to works presented in the gallery, Water Stories features a year of public programs and community engagement activities. These events aim to strengthen our connection to local waterfronts and inspire us all to be citizen scientists. By fostering meaningful dialogue around the stories and experiences of water, we hope the exhibition will cultivate reverence for the natural world and strengthen our bonds with global waterfront communities.

SAT (12-5PM)
SUN (12-4PM)

brooklynONE productions
51 35th St.

Join us on Saturday, October 19th 2024 for our next group art show… and Halloween party! brooklynONE presents ART OF THE LIVING DEAD!

20+ NYC-based artists take on the undead. All original artwork will feature zombies! Come check out what this eclectic group of artists create! (All art will be for sale, too!)

The gallery will open for public viewing at 1pm, and we’ll have some Halloween-themed activities for the kids (mini-pumpkin painting, scary mask making)… and then at 8pm the big kid party will begin! Featuring DJ Jen Jones, a costume contest hosted by Martin Monster (enter to win prizes!), themed cocktails, face-painting, themed cocktails by our friends at Frying Pan BK, and more!

Featured artists: Alfred Accettura, Nelson Asencio, Brien Cardello, Benjamin Colón, Allison Conway, Donny David, Mike DeVito, Christian Fattorusso, Stephen Gracia, Danielle Rose Fisher, Miguel Heredia, Boris Jairala, John LaMacchia, Lockheed Lee, Tommy Lombardozzi, Adam Mazy, Josh Peters, Kieran X. Quinn, Aubrey Reyes, Lea Simoniello, Kane Slomko, Kenny Wong, and Myron Mike Young.

FRI (6-9PM)
SAT (5-11PM) Halloween Party begins at 8 pm
SUN (1-5PM)

Genspace
132 32nd St.
Unit #108

Join Genspace for presentations by artists and designers who work in collaboration with bacteria, plants, and fungi to explore new materials and new modes of thinking. What can we learn from non-human life forms? What is the role of care and experimentation? And what future can we envision or create in the lab?

About Genspace:
Our mission is to foster a safe and inclusive community where all people – including those from non-traditional and underrepresented backgrounds – can experientially learn, boldly create, and meaningfully grow with the life sciences.

FRI (6-9PM)

Office of Council Member Alexa Avilés
4417 4 Ave.
Ground floor

In preparation for the upcoming election and in collaboration with Council Member Alexa Avilés' District 38 office, filmmaker and artist Jaime Sunwoo hopes to activate our community to get out the vote and learn about local voting initiatives. The film celebrates suffragists of color who fought for women's voting rights, the progress we've made, and the continued fight for equality.

Her short film, Equality Tea, draws parallels between the fraught histories of the tea trade and the suffrage movement. Throughout America, women organized tea parties for meetings and fundraisers to support the suffrage movement. The Woman’s Suffrage Party sold ceylon, young hyson, gunpowder, and oolong tea under their charitable brand “Equality Tea.” Yet the history of tea is steeped in inequality, driven by colonialism, war, and appropriation.

Created by Jaime Sunwoo. Original score by Matt Chilton, based on a 1895 suffragist anthem by Augusta Gray Gunn. Commissioned by Park Avenue Armory and The Laundromat Project for 100 Years | 100 Women.

Subtitles: English, Spanish, Chinese

FRI (6-9PM)
SAT (6-9PM)

J&M Studio
201 46th St.
2nd Floor

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, Daina Higgins, Deb Monti, Derek Buckner, 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.

FRI (6-9PM)
SAT (1-5PM)
SUN (1-5PM)

Makerspace NYC
140 58th St.
Brooklyn Army Terminal, BLD B, Unit 5N-1

Open Studios featuring DB Lampman, Eto Otitigbe, Yuya Saito, Ginger Gordon, Alexis Tingey, and others

Makerspace NYC is a non-profit community-based organization dedicated to building economic growth and supporting innovation in our community. Founded in 2013, our mission is to promote creativity and collaboration across disciplines and to make technology accessible to anyone who desires to make or invent something, regardless of skills or experience. We support individual entrepreneurship and help artists, craftspeople, engineers, inventors, and small manufacturers grow their businesses by offering low-cost access to advanced manufacturing and industrial equipment including welding, woodworking, sewing, laser cutting, 3D printing and other CNC technology. With three locations in Staten Island and Brooklyn, we offer over 50,000 sq ft of industrial equipment, artist studios, and an outdoor community sculpture park in Stapleton called Maker Park. We host public programs that include blacksmithing, beekeeping, community events, as well as artist residency programs. We offer skills and project-based educations programs which serve approximately 4000 K-12 students and 300 adults annually. We also partner with community organizations and city agencies to offer workforce development training programs.

SAT (12-4PM)
SUN (1-4PM)

NARS Foundation
201 46th St.
4th Floor

Open studios 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, and Woojae Kim

Exhibitions On View:
Human-alike, curated by Linda Rocco, featuring works by Petra Cortright, Sarah Friend, IOCOSE, Kalen Iwamoto, Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, and Bogosi Sekhukhuni.

Avatopology, a solo exhibition by Frank WANG Yefeng, curated by Natasha Chuk.

Special Event:
Live performance by Dan Lippel and Douglas Boyce on Friday, October 18, from 7-8 pm.

FRI (6-9PM) Performance begins at 7 pm
SAT (1-5PM)
SUN (1-5PM)

Tabla Rasa Gallery
224 48 St.

Tabla Rasa Gallery presents two exhibitions and Open Studio with Audrey Frank Anastasi.

Exhibitions On View:
Epitome featuring works by artists: Stephen Basso, Anne Kornfeld, Carl Dimitri, Joseph Anastasi, and Esteban Chavez.

ref-u-gee, presented by Tabla Rasa Gallery and Valentine Museum of Art in tandem with the release of the limited-edition monograph accompanying the acquisition of the commissioned series of works painted by artist Audrey Frank Anastasi.

About Audrey Frank Anastasi:
Creating artwork can be a powerful universal vehicle for human connection. For me the challenges to touch the timeless themes, iterated in visual art, literature, drama, and music throughout recorded history, while remaining relevant and responsive to ones own cultural place in the timeline. Since childhood to the present day, I’ve been a painter and visual artist. My images are primarily painted directly from life, with a subject typically casting a gaze back at the viewer. My paintings respond to themes of humanity - my fellow women, forced migration, social justice, civil rights, natural and man-made calamities, as well as the respite of natures continuum. My process comes from my desire to bypass self-conscious inhibitions in the pursuit of expression.

FRI (6-8PM)
SAT (1-4PM)
SUN (1-4PM)

Tanya Weddemire Gallery
254 36th St.
Industry City, BLD #2, #C257

Ethiopian Artist group show JAH•RAS•TAFARI taking place from October 17th to December 21st at the Tanya Weddemire Gallery in Brooklyn NY.

Featuring the works from five Ethiopian artists: Addis Gezehagnn, Workneh Bezu, Wendi Demeke, Seyoum Ayalew, Abraham Woldegebreal

The activation highlights the rich textures of both figurative and abstracts works rooted in their culture, offering diverse approaches and formats. This activation is a celebration of Tanya Weddemire first journey to the African continent : Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is one of two African nations never to be colonized—serving as a profound inspiration for their body of work.

FRI (11AM-6PM)
SAT (11AM-6PM)
SUN (12-5PM)

Target Margin Theater
232 52nd St.

Target Margin Theater presents Show / Boat: A River directed by David Herskovits performed by an ensemble of Target Margin Theater artists.

Open in progress sharing of developmental workshops for our upcoming production of Show / Boat: A River in anticipation of our full production in January 2025 at NYU Skirball Center.

Target Margin Theater’s mission is to re-invent what theater can be without any assumptions, in the most inclusive way imaginable. Every experience we create should be surprising, challenging, and delightful for all.

FRI (3-5PM)
SAT (3-5PM)

Thomas VanDyke Gallery
434 39th St.

Thomas VanDyke Gallery presents solo exhibition Fortune Cookie by Jaeyi Kim.

Thomas VanDyke Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in Brooklyn, New York, working with artists local to New York City and from around the world. The gallery has established a reputation for innovative exhibitions that have helped to promote and further the creative processes of artists in a wide variety of disciplines. Established in 2022 on 39th Street in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Thomas VanDyke Gallery hosts art exhibitions as well as live performances, workshops, community events, concerts, and produces original creative content both online and in the gallery.

FRI (6-9PM)
SAT (1-6PM)
SUN (1-6PM)

Tin Cup Cafe
719 4th Ave.

Tin Cup Cafe presents solo show of paper cut-outs by Molly McIntyre.

Molly McIntyre is a cut paper artist who lives and works in North Sunset Park. Her work is inspired by her everyday experiences navigating life as an artist and mother. She is co-director of Tiny Dancer Gallery, in Gowanus, Brooklyn.

FRI (6-9PM) Artist Present
SAT (8AM-5PM)
SUN (8AM-5PM)

67 35th St.
3rd Floor, #B331

Open Studio with artist Jeanette May.

About Jeanette May:

My still life photographs of vintage tech embrace our anxiety around technological obsolescence. I reference classic “vanitas” still life paintings, Cabinets of Curiosities, and contemporary advertising photography. I collect radios, landline phones, clocks, and movie projectors from a range of time periods and photograph digitally. Early training as a painter influences my attention to color and composition.

SAT (1-5PM)

254 36th St.
Industry City, BLD #2
5th Floor, #B541

Open Studio with artist Stephanie Eche.

About Stephanie Eche:

My work is about my experience as a third-generation Chicana (American of Mexican descent) mother, artist, and community member, living in New York City. I am interested in preserving my insights because they help fill the void of lived experience by women of color that colonialism and capitalism attempts to erase. I draw inspiration from mestizo cultures, my own automatic drawings, family records, mothering, and literature to create imagery that helps me reclaim and understand my identity. I make paintings to make solid the memories that slip through my fingers.

FRI (3-6PM)
SAT (1-6PM)
SUN (1-6PM)

33 35th St.
Industry City, BLD #5
4th Floor,#B023

Open Studio with artist Joshua Peters.

Joshua Peters has been a working artist in New York City for more than 2 decades. Graduating from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2002 with a Masters in Fine Arts (emphasis on Drawing and Painting(, Joshua came straight to Brooklyn. While juggling a job in the fitness industry and his own penchant for weightlifting, Josh grew his practice diligently albeit slowly having his first one man show in Chelsea in 2012. Six years ago he made the leap and opened his own studio in a warehouse in Sunset Park.

FRI (6-9PM)
SAT (12-5PM)

362 39th St.

Open Studios featuring Todd Cramer, Manuel Hernandez, Jackson Hill, Victor Chinedu.

About the artists:
Todd Cramer (b. 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada) is a New York-based artist whose diverse artistic practice encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture, and performance. Drawing inspiration from the realm of old video games, comic books, and comics-derived art, he embraces the freedom of automatism, allowing his hand to guide the creative process without inhibition. His imaginative works take the form of psychic landscapes, where monstrous figures, vivid colors, and a garish, comic, and grotesque aesthetic intertwine. Having pursued an MFA at the esteemed New York Academy of Art, his multidimensional approach extends across various mediums, seamlessly incorporating text and curatorial projects. With figurative paintings that challenge conventional notions of scale, stylization, and paint application, his art provokes and challenges viewers, evoking an introspective and thought-provoking inner dialogue.

FRI (1-9PM)

364 39th St.

Open Studio with artist Trevor Warren.

Trevor Warren (b. 1996, Tacoma, WA) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He attended The Johnston Center for Integrative Studies where he majored in Art and Environment. His work has been the subject of exhibitions at CANADA, East Hampton; Halsey McKay, East Hampton; Storage Gallery, New York; Printed Matter, New York; Incubator, Brooklyn; Chophouse Row, Seattle; Beatnik Lounge, Joshua Tree; and Ann Peppers Gallery at the University of Redlands, Redlands. Warren was nominated for the Emerging Artist Grant in 2023 by the Rema Hort Mann foundation. He is a book publisher at the artist-run gallery CANADA and a co-founder of the independent literary arts publication Counterbound.

FRI (6-9PM)
SAT (1-5PM)
SUN (1-5PM)
*Any time with appointment

218 41st St.
#303

Open Studios featuring Jessica Nissen and Tim Clifford.

About Jessica Nissen:
Everyone’s memories no matter how vivid or murky become compressed and are filtered through understanding and new experience. There is a continuous effort to reconcile what we are and what we are becoming: to find connections and to feel connected. Rare spurts of lucidity may, if we’re lucky, reveal relationships between all that is variant, salty, elegant, chaotic, terrifying, breathtaking, and fragile; moments of collision. The more we become aware, the more the questions change, driving us to make these visions tangible. The “Froth” painting series is a return to imagery inspired by the rhythms and systems in nature. The language of nature is universal. We recognize ourselves in the organic; we search for ourselves in the synthetic. These works reflect forms that are fragile and are in constant flux composed of an undefined liquid in mid churn...perhaps the primordial mud from which life arises or maybe more ominously towards which we are headed. These are turbulent times and the paintings reveal an unsettling tension between lushness and the apocalyptic.

SAT (11AM-6PM)
SUN (11AM-6PM)

507 41st St.
Corner of 5th Avenue

Open Studio with artist Sandrine Gigon.

About Sandrine Gigon:
Simplicity and ordinary life has become an extraordinary and transformative experience. I enjoy the moment and integrate shapes of nature in my work. I constantly play with colors and lines. I try to spend as much time as possible outside as it is my inspiration. I see the landscape as life-force and try to feel the energy and emotion around places and things. I currently concentrate on woodcut techniques.

FRI (6-9PM)
SAT (1-5PM)
SUN (1-5PM)

13 42nd St.

Featuring three murals, including two completed and one work in progress, by artists Ji Yong Kim and Yukiko Izumi.

About the artists:
Ji Yong Kim is a Korean American visual artist and an arts educator from Sunset Park, Brooklyn.Over the years, Ji Yong has created over 10 murals and installations in New York City. The sites ranged from public schools, library, community centers and shelters for victims of domestic violence. Most recent mural includes “Chromatic Symphony of Greater Harlem” in Henry J. Carter Specialty Hospital, and “Color of Sound” in Murray Hill, Queens. Additionally, Ji Yong led volunteer painting sessions working with NY Cares and cooperate volunteers. “Embrace” (2017), “Our World Our Stage” (2017), and “On the Lotus Boat” (2018) are some examples of public collaboration.

Yukiko Izumi is a freelance graphic designer and muralist based in Brooklyn, NY. Originally from Japan, she holds a B.A. and M.A. in Interior Design and Living Environment Study from Bunka Gakuen University, and an M.A. in Industrial Design from Designskolen Kolding in Denmark. Her passion for Japanese simplicity is deeply rooted in her upbringing and was further influenced by a year-long stay in the United States at the age of 12. This experience inspired her to explore Japanese design and foster a cultural bridge between Japan and the U.S. Through her visual art and design, Yukiko seeks to transcend language barriers and connect with diverse audiences.

SAT (1-5PM)
*Outdoor event, canceled in case of rain

1 43rd St.
1st & 3rd Floor

Open Studios featuring Con$umr, Deborah Simon, Peekaboo, Rebecca Miller, and Xingze Li.

About the artists:
Rebecca Miller - I am working on studies of tonal color in landscape. I will also be showing Rustic Loom textiles.

Peekaboo is a queer interdisciplinary artist who uses her body, nudity and sexuality to examine the world with hopes of inspiring compassion for the human experience. She has spent the last twenty years working as a full time burlesque performer and performance artist. Her work explores intimacy by subverting the expectations of the viewer and using her body as a tool to explore larger topics of gender, sexuality, sex work, and feminism with a little playful humor sprinkled in, all while holding space for the audience to process their own individual emotional responses. While most of her work consists of performances in the nightlife world, she is growing her practice into the visual arts and has been creating video art, paintings, and installations.

Con$umr is a self-taught artist from Brooklyn, New York. Without formal training he began making art in 2014 by using image transfers as his primary method. Shortly thereafter, he experimented with the process of stencil making. Mixed media and stencils are the primary means for exercising his vision. Inspired by pop and street art, his iconic piece, LoveSpray is a perfect blend between the two. His work has been shown in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Florida, Texas, California, Massachusetts, Arkansas, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Greece and the U.K. His collectors are from all over the world.

Xingze Li - Poised at the intersection of photography and sculpture, I create ethereal portraits of walls and interiors. My work lends weight to mostly unassuming blank walls and banal corners in domestic and semi-public spaces.

Deborah Simon - My art is a visual way of questioning our relationship with animals. The animals in my sculptures and paintings become inverted anatomies showing their interior organ structures painted and embroidered on the body’s surface or through translucent skin. The realistic animal, with its unblinking stare focused on the viewer, is juxtaposed with a fantastic interior, forcing us to reflect on and consider our relationship with animals and the cultural baggage we bring to them. The animal is no longer an odalisque for us to admire but a full participant in the conversation about our fractious relationship with them.

FRI (6-9PM)
SAT (1-5PM)
SUN (1-5PM)

250 44th St.
Units #102, #114, #309, #315
Open Studios featuring Jeffrey Kurland, John Jackson, Kate Stone, Jeremy Canfield, and Mollie Ruskin.

About the artists:
Jeffrey Kurland - Abstract paintings and painted collages; large and small scale artworks; on canvas or paper

John Jackson - I am a painter currently exploring a conceptual drawing and painting series based on images created through collaborating with A. I.

Kate Stone - I work across installation, sculpture and animation to imagine the ways in which our minds and bodies are reflected in the spaces we occupy with a specific focus on the cognitive dissonance that occurs when we consume the horrors of the external world from the (dis)comfort of our living room sofas. My animations combine stop-motion, collage and miniature sets to describe labyrinthine, distorted interiors. My sculptures employ carpet, found furniture and other household materials to imagine a process in which domestic space absorbs so much residue of life that it is animated into a living organism. Drawing inspiration from science, mythology, suburbia, human anatomy and horror tropes, I build worlds that exist between interior and exterior, reality and superstition, architecture and the body. They are psychological spaces in the midst of transformation, being overtaken by supernatural forces that represent the anxiety that world events bring into our personal lives and private spaces.

Jeremy Canfield - Experiments in watercolor and the built or discovered environment

Mollie Ruskin - Mixed media, mixed ideas, mixed visions. Illustration, painting and collage.

SAT (1-6PM)
SUN (1-6PM)

283 47th St.
#203, #303

Open Studios featuring Nick Benfey and Studio 203 Collective (Edward Cheng, Madeline Collins, Harlan Erskine, Sumner Hatch, Ross Wheeler)

About Nick Benfey:
Nick Benfey was born in Amherst, MA. He received his BA from Bowdoin College, and his MFA from Hunter College. He lives and works in Brooklyn.

About Studio 203:
Studio 203 is a collaborative space for artistic processes related to photography. Our artists work in a variety of techniques, from contemporary digital practices to analogue silver and non-silver printmaking. We share resources, skills, ideas, and feedback and support each other in collective projects and experiments.

FRI (6-9PM)
SAT (1-5PM)
SUN (1-5PM)

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