Invisible Dog Artists Open Studio
Saturday April 24th
Noon to … late
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Come and join us at The Invisible Dog for a very exciting event. Our twenty-seven artists will be opening their doors to you once again. On April 24th, 2010 take the opportunity to see how our talented ones have grown and evolved since last fall.
They are the heart and soul of our art center and will be welcoming you from noon all the way till midnight.
New York Times
A burgeoning new art center in Brooklyn +
Le Monde
La fourmi géante de Robert Desnos au coeur d’un miracle new-yorkais +
Brooklyn Eagle
Something unusual is afoot in Brooklyn +
Brooklyn Based
Simply breathtaking +
South Brooklyn Network
When The Ant debuts The Invisible Dog has come back to life +
Artcards
Totally amazed +
France Inter
Un centre d’art très prisé +
French Morning
The Ant under construction +
(video)
ArtsThree +
La fourmi géante d’un poète ressuscitée
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 20th – SUNDAY FEBRUARY 21st
11am to 5pm
Presented by Beam Camp, the Brooklyn Inventgenuity Festival brings kids and their parents together with artists and big thinkers in a full weekend of hands-on making and building workshops and demonstrations. Girls and boys aged 6-17 and their parents can make amazing things out of electricity, fabric, wood, dirt, food and other materials, join in a signature Beam Camp Project, set individual and group World Records and learn the art of fixing common household objects.
Read The New York Times review
The weekend will be jam-packed with a tremendous range of projects taught by some of New York City’s most imaginative and resourceful minds. Scheduled presenters and workshops include the Fixers Collective, Steve Gerberich’s Flap-Pet Shop, Art Bots by Christian Cerrito, and hydroponic agriculture, presented by Brooklyn Farms.
Recession Art is a new arts organization devoted to helping emerging artists show and sell their work while giving middle-income art lovers and collectors an opportunity to buy original work at reasonable prices. We believe that in spite of hard economic times, artists and art lovers don’t have to put their passions on hold! We aim to break the traditional gallery model and make exposing, purchasing, and enjoying art more accessible for people who have been hit by the recession. We believe that we can start our own art stimulus plan today!
Recession Art – No Money No Problems
October 3rd – 10th, 2009
Weekdays Noon to 10pm
Weekends Noon to Midnight
copyright – 2009, Martine Fougeron
Martine Fougeron explored the building at 51 bergen street and through her pictures shows us what she felt and what she “smelled”.
LAST DAYS / CLOSING DAY NOVEMBER 22th
The latest group exhibition produced by No Longer Empty, “The Invisible Dog” is a show “out of nothing” in a warmly decrepit out-of-use belt factory on Bergen Street in Brooklyn.
Following the tails of the Improv Everywhere stunt last week, the show presents a multitude of site-specific works reflecting both the history of the space and the profound beauty of the Invisible Dog. A rift on the 70′s gag, it’s a void object waiting for creative minds and hands to bring it to life.
Steven and William Ladd, two artists residing in Brooklyn, NY, were invited by The Invisible Dog to create a chandelier for the art space. Upon visiting the art space, the artists were immediately drawn to the basement, where they found buckets piled high with old belt buckles and industrial parts. Sifting through the treasure-filled buckets was right up their alley. For years, they have been getting their hands dirty while cleaning, purifying and transforming objects into beautiful structures. The massive chandelier they designed and created combined elements of the found buckles with intricate hand-loomed, glass-beaded textiles.
Video about Steven and William Ladd
PERMANENT COLLECTION
photo:simon courchel
THE INVISIBLE DOG
is pleased to invite you
SATURDAY OCTOBER 3rd
from 6 to 9 pm
SHOP ART GALLERY – VISUAL VERNICALAR
photo:simon courchel
One of the most complex and crucial questions of twenty-first century culture is how to preserve history while simultaneously making way for the new. Nowhere is this dilemma more peaked than in New York, where constant motion and blink-and-you’ll-miss-it change have long dominated the ethos. But today New Yorkers are increasingly aware of the value of preservation, of both the natural world, our city’s legacy, and our communities. Recent civic projects like the High Line signal a subtle but undeniable shift in New York culture: now, repurposing already-existing architecture seems more of the moment than does anything brand new. Call it gentrification backlash, call it environmentalism, call it recession chic, but its effects are palpable, and sometimes, startlingly touching.
