Opening “Set it Off” Reception
Thursday, February 4, 2010 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Free to the public (Contributions very welcomed)
Please join us for the first viewing of the highly anticipated exhibition, The Gentrification of Brooklyn: The Pink Elephant Speaks. This is your opportunity to see what everyone in Brooklyn will be talking about this year. This reception will include a public art performance, a musical set by Brooklyn-based author and DJ, Rich Burroughs, the opportunity to meet the featured artists and a presentation by the exhibition’s curator and Brooklyn native, Dexter Wimberly.
This event will take place at MoCADA (80 Hanson Place).
Free to the public (Contributions very welcomed)
$5 for adults, $4 for students (with valid ID) and seniors. Free for children 12 and under.
Hours of operation are Wednesday – Sunday, 11am to 7pm
For more info, please visit MoCADA.
PAST EVENTS
TRA Gallery & Adriala Gallery Present
2009 Fulton Art Fair Members
Retrospective Art Exhibition
Sat. Nov. 7 – Sat. Nov. 28
Opening Reception: Sat. Nov. 7, 2009, 5pm to 8pm
Closing/Artist Talk: Sat. Nov. 28, 2009, 5pm to 8pm
The “2009 Fulton Art Fair Members Retrospective Art Exhibition” is a group exhibition designed to spotlight artworks of the new and existing Fulton Art Fair members who participated on the fence in Fulton Park during the summer of 2009.
Participating Artists:
Bob Carter
Brent Bailer
Brian ‘Strong-Wind’ Williams
Denzil Belisle
Diane Grazette-Collins
Dindga McCannon
Edward Martin
Emmett Wigglesworth
Fedrecia Hartley
Gerald Jones
Gina Samson
Gloria Aziza Lawyer
Iram Yeates
James Mingo
Joseph S. Bell-Bey
Karl A. McIntosh
Kennis Baptiste
Michael Bates
Otto Neals
Robert Daniel
Ruben Holder
Rudolph Greenaway
Sadikisha Saundra Collier
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GRAND OPENING ART SHOW:
SOULstice: On Nature, Spirituality and the Sacred Feminine Energy
featuring
Otto Neals
Ed Bates
Will Gray
Amete Sellassie
& Brian “Strong-Wind” Williams
end of solstice week: Sun JUNE 27, 2009 3pm to midnight
Deep in the heart of Brooklyn, a Vortex is Born. Where humanity reconnects with Nature.
A sacred space for the creation and appreciation of art opens to the public as a space for: artistic encouragement learning and teaching healing and praying displaying and representing the sacred feminine nature of FINE ART for the SPIRIT. Please come down and show your support.
Show is open thru the end of the summer by appointment. To inquire about the purchase of artwork or to show support, please write to info@adrialagallery.com
Otto Neals :: www.ottoneals.com
Born in Lake City, South Carolina, artist, sculptor and printmaker Otto Neals taught himself all mediums except printmaking which he learned at the Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. His commissioned works include a 20-foot mural at Brooklyn’s Kings County Hospital, a bronze work at the Brooklyn Children’s Center, 10 bronze plaques at the “Harlem Walk of Fame” and a bronze work at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Neals’ work appears in many collections, public and private and has won many awards.
Ed Bates, painting
Edward Bates, (b.1925) is a native of Atlantic City, NJ and has lived in New York since 1957. After serving in the Navy for two years, this African American artist made his home in Brooklyn, NY and became a Textile Designer. Presently, living in Deer Park, NY, Edward is married to his wife Gladys and together they had six children. Upon retirement after already painting for 30 years, Edward was able to devote his time and passion to the development of his skills as an artist. A self-taught artisan, Edward lists amongst his achievements being the Grand Prize winner of a citywide contest sponsored by the New York City of Housing for his portrait of Eubie Blake. Edward has been a participant in the Fulton Street Art Show for over 25 years.
Will Gray, photography
Mr. Will Gray a former teacher of photography in the early 70’s saw the medium as a way to communicate with wayward youth from the Fort Green section of Brooklyn. Mr. Gray was instrumental in the development of a community based photographic appreciation program that exposes underprivileged youth to the joys and excitement of photo journalism through visits to museums and art galleries. Mr. Gray’s experimentation with lighting, exposure settings and abstract dark room development techniques, such as double exposure has led Mr. Gray to develop his current view of photographic imagery. Mr. Gray’s desire to capture nature’s own paint palate has motivated the current photographic offer offerings.
While most of the photographs in Mr. Gray’s repertoire are of various species of orchids, they also include other flowers such as lilies and roses.
Amete Sellassie, painting
With almost 20 years at the NYC Department of Education and no formal art training, Amete Sellassie first began painting six years ago when she was assigned to assist an art teacher and she discovered the world of pastels and began painting. She found her inspiration in the works of Georgia O’Keefe and Frida Kahlo and later decided to try her hand at portraits. Amete Sellassie ais known among her peers as an iconographer because her work depicts biblical figures and scenes inspired by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, as well as historical portraits of Ethiopian nobility.
Brian “Strong-Wind” Williams, Photo-Healing
It is through the camera lens that Strong-Wind captures the “Healing Energy” of the Earth.
Born in Queens, N.Y. in 1964, Brian Strong-Wind was raised in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York and currently resides with his family in the Clinton Hill section of this borough. He attended Brooklyn Technical High School and The Technical Career Institute (T.C.I.) for Electrical Engineering. Brian Strong-Wind has been a licensed Private Investigator and owner of a Security Company (Talon Investigation & Security Company, Ltd.) for over 25 years. He holds two Black belts in Korean Martial Arts and specializes in Armed and Unarmed Executive Protection. Strong-Wind displayed an interest in artistic expression at an early age (Martial Arts, Poetry and Drawing). However, it was not until a trip to Teotihuacan, Mexico in March 2002 (during the Spring Equinox), that Brian Strong-Wind says he was “Spiritually Commanded” to take photographs with the intent to heal others.
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Brian, this is beautiful!