{"id":46606,"date":"2023-05-19T10:41:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T15:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=46606"},"modified":"2023-05-23T12:49:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T17:49:38","slug":"highlights-from-local-objects-international-objects-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2023\/05\/19\/highlights-from-local-objects-international-objects-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"~HIGHLIGHTS . . . from: ‘LOCAL OBJECTS’ \/ INTERNATIONAL OBJECTS \/ BROOKLYN \/ PART 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

A BIG GROUP SHOW – AT A SPECTACULAR . . . NEW GALLERY, INTERNATIONAL OBJECTS \/ UP TILL . . MAY 28, 2023<\/p>\n

here it is coming up on Memorial Day & summer \/
\nand we are still<\/em> talking about . . House, HOME & GARDEN . . !!
\nway to go, NYC !!!!
\nGIVE US – SOME RESPITE \/ IN THIS TOO FAST, CRAZY, WORLD. <\/p>\n

we started with the utilitarian basics: DIY, ‘TURN ONZ’ lightswitches & lamps, presented by Jeffrey Tranchell & crew \/ in the historic Lower East Side. Took a turn, and did a slow-paced rambling through garden Diaries and Memory-making with Josephine Halvorson & her crew in Chelsea; then took a sharp jump over the East River, to land in nature’s ‘disappearing garden’, with Sam Cockrell & his butterflies, at International Waters, and thus from lightswitches & postcards, began an imagined Sci-Fi Time Travel \/ a leap of the imagination inspired by the contrast between International Waters in old school Bushwick . . and its new sister gallery – the palatial, sci-fi palatial !!
\nINTERNATIONAL OBJECTS, and believe me when I say, not being one to dwell often on architecture, give me a pop-up any day \/ this a trip !! this is a . . time travel to the future.
\nthis is a flight from homey gardens, to the big wide unknown. Sky top, concrete terraces – of space ships. <\/p>\n

‘LOCAL OBJECTS’ \/ A BIG GROUP SHOW of mostly LOCAL, NYC artists
\nopened March 18th, & runs thru . . . SUN MAY 28, 2023
\nINTERNATIONAL OBJECTS<\/a>, 53 SCOTT AVE., FIFTH FL, EAST WILLIAMSBURG – BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN 11237
\nVIEWING HRS . . .
\nTHURS: 12 – 10 PM
\nFRI-SUN: 12 – 6 PM<\/p>\n

ALL PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n

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\nTHOMAS BERGER, ‘Greasy Hole Pulpit Chair, 1 & 2’, 2023
\nPaper pulp, wooden frame, polyurethane, and paint
\n108 x 16-1\/2 x 18 in.<\/p>\n

you could say the sci-fi vibe starts with the concrete brute, wide wide spaces, wide, wide & high windows, that open onto endless terraces, that look out over miles and miles of Bushwick Industrial wasteland. only 5 stories high, but the highest building for miles, you could start a fire, and send ‘smoke signals’ – to the Manhattan mainland, unimpeded.
\nbut I say: the sci-fi vibe – starts with that huge wide entry staircase.
\nwhich is so curious, just in that itself \/ that a huge, wide & minimal, but grandly proportioned, concrete staircase would evoke a future-world worthy of Moebius, and, with no elevator in sight.
\nis it the new rule ?
\nthat the more complicated and futuristic we go, the basic DIY skills, come charging back in at us \/ like walking up stairs, with an increasing sense of wonder, and entering a space in complete awe, out of time & body, even.<\/p>\n

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\nSHANIA TABAK,
\ntop, on the wall: ‘Folding Table No. 1’, 2021.
\nsapele, poplar, walnut.
\nbottom, open as a table: ‘Folding Table No. 2’, 2021.
\nsapele, poplar, walnut.<\/p>\n

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\nNICK SULLIVAN, ‘Brown Trust Stove’, 2023.
\nsteel, magazine, pigment, charcoal \/ 19 x 6-1\/2 x 13-1\/2 in.
\nright background:
\nMAX LAMB, ‘Delaware Bluestone Chair’, 2009.
\nBluestone \/ 19 x 13 x 19 in. <\/p>\n

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\nom the wall:
\nSAM COCKRELL, ‘Self-Portrait’, acrylic on shaped canvas
\n41 x 132 in.<\/p>\n

I mean just imagine . . .
\nif this was a future world, skeleton ‘QR CODE’. <\/p>\n

the cabinet beneath it:
\nTAYLOR BALDWIN, ‘Hunger Stone’;, 2022.
\nMixed media \/ 31 x 57 x 18 in.<\/p>\n

these 2 pieces really worked well together, & kept the sci-fi narrative – on high alert \/
\nHunger Games, anybody.
\nagain, primitive DIY seems to go hand-in-glove – with future world scenarios, it’s always the samo, same old same old !!
\nsurvivor vs predator. name your century. name your book of thrones.<\/p>\n

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\nCAIT PORTER, ‘Light Bulbs’, 2023.
\noil on linen \/ 64 x 48 in.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nMEREDITH JAMES, ‘Planter’, 2023.
\nPlanter, wood, acrylic paint, faux paint, LED lights, and pedestal.
\n74 x 58 x 58 in.<\/p>\n

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\nMEREDITH JAMES, detail<\/p>\n

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\nMeredith James, detail<\/p>\n

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\nYIKES . . . !!!
\nSERRA VICTORIA BOTHWELL FELS, ‘Venting’, 2020.
\ncast & powdered aluminum<\/p>\n

UP NEXT:<\/strong> HIGHLIGHTS FROM ‘LOCAL OBJECTS’ at INTERNATIONAL OBJECTS . . .
\nPART 2: FOOD FOR THOUGHT . . . !!
\nPART 3: UP ON THE (MIGHTY) ROOF . . . !!<\/p>\n

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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