San Art featuring ArtsPSWT

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San Art is not only known for their framing, but for museum quality exhibitions tucked away in the northwestern corner of Gowanus 
(254 3rd Ave, ~Union St).

They are excited to welcome select members of the Park Slope / Windsor Terrace Artists collective this summer. Susan Newmark, Rene Murray,Mieko Asada, Caroline Curtin, and Rich Garr come together in ‘Multiple Frequencies,’ a multidisciplinary exhibit conceived by longtime local potter Rene Murray. You'll find diverse approaches and expressiveness, and accomplished use of media that includes clay, collage, drawing, and paint. Some pieces are large and forceful, others are small and quiet. Some explores human figuration, other art is more abstract. Viewers are taken on subway rides, boat rides, dinner parties and into architectural dreamscapes.

SPECIAL EVENTS:

All five of the artists joined “ArtsPSWT” to meet other artists and show art. But their influences on each other- and their various communities- run deep. This can be seen in their individual work, and in unique art venues all over Brooklyn. We're proud to host a particularly wonderful mix here at San Art. For many local artists being in Brooklyn can be overwhelming. There are dozens of schools and studios, and seemingly unlimited talent. On top of that, venues to show art around the City are often expensive, exclusive, and even predatory. Thankfully, alternative art spaces abound, as do dense creative communities. Up the hill from the Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn's Park Slope and Windsor Terrace neighborhoods have a long history of housing artists. This is highlighted every year in their annual Open Studios- usually in June. There is a theory that old Park Slope "house tours" of the 1960s evolved into these Open Studios, but the group's current era seems to have began with the Brooklyn Museum's "GO Brooklyn" open studios initiative in 2012. Though many current ArtsPSWT members missed this, the spirit of mining Brooklyn's art talent and community lives on. Literal connections made back then are still healthy. And so is the spirit of creative collaboration. As Caroline Curtin puts it, "Community begins close-by then grows outward." Building local connection is essential amidst the scale and distraction of New York City. Personal connections in this group are essential, and outside of their formal meetings (often at the Old Stone House) PSWT artists keep in touch at local creative hotspots like 440 Gallery, Gasworks, 615 Green community garden and Freddys Bar. Relationships are also nurtured through studio visits, group trips, and by attending the art openings of others in the collective (which has ~60 members). The group's individual artists each have unique art backgrounds, and are often connected to great local or global institutions. Sometimes both. The ArtsPSWT connection, "empowers one to expand the scope and boundaries of artistic practice," says Curtin. We think you'll see that clearly in Multiple Frequencies.

San Art regular open hours are:
Tuesday-Friday: 11AM - 7PM
Saturday: 10AM - 6PM

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