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Sunset Park Open Studios 2023

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Sunset Park Open Studios SPOS is an annual, multi-day arts celebration of exhibitions, events, and open studios throughout Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Featuring hundreds of participating artists and art spaces from across the neighborhood, SPOS is free and open to the public. This year, SPOS will be held from Friday, October 13th through Sunday, October 15th, 2023. Throughout the weekend SPOS will welcome visitors to meet artists, curators and researchers from around the globe, and experience the beauty and diversity of the artistic process in both studio environments and institutional contexts alike.

Sunset Park Open Studios is a project of Sunset Park Wide Open, a non-profit organization founded in Fall 2023 by Sunset Park artist studios, galleries, and community organizations to recognize and promote the vibrant creative culture of Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

Sunset Park Open Studios 2023 is presented by the following partner organizations and individual supporters: Art Cake, BioBAT Art Space, Context Space, Genspace, J&M Studios, John Avelluto, Makerspace NYC, NARS Foundation, Robert Melzmuf, Tabla Rasa Gallery, Thomas VanDyke Gallery & Yi Gallery.

La Magna Performance

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Tides of Light | After Party | BioBAT Dark Space

La Manga is a Brooklyn-based cultural identity laboratory inspired by the spirit of the modern and ancestral people of the Colombian Caribbean coast. La Manga have performed at Lincoln Center Joe's Pub, Nublu, MoMA PS1, Museum of the City of NY, Queens Theater, and the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.

Organized by

Matteo Rini

Tides of Light / Vibrant Matter Phase II: Opening Reception

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Tides of Light, Phase II of Yoko Shimizu’s largest solo exhibition in America. Shimizu’s new collection of work invites viewers to appreciate how non-human life can inform the artistic process and be welcomed as an intelligent and creative collaborator. Drawing inspiration from the scientific exploration of natural elements, Shimizu makes the invisible visible, creating a series of installations that explore the intelligent properties of living systems.

Exhibition Dates

May 6, 2023 – September 9, 2023

Artist

Yoko Shimizu

Curated by

Elena Soterakis

Vibrant Matter: Opening Reception

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Vibrant Matter is a solo exhibition by Japanese bio-artist and researcher Yoko Shimizu that features a selection of the artist's work exploring the dynamism, agency, and expressive potential of living systems. Working with plants, microbial organisms, and natural phenomena as subject matter, material, and artistic collaborators, Shimizu's work probes and reveals the invisible intra-acting forces that animate processes of creation, adaptation, growth, and transformation in all organic matter.

Exhibition Dates

October 8, 2022 – April 26, 2023

Artist

Yoko Shimizu

Curated by

Elena Soterakis

Live Performance, Sychrony, by Lorena Mal

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Please join us for the live presentation of Synchrony, a concert by Lorena Mal with piano performers Lauren Aloia, Ian Miller, Daniel Rudin and Madeline Smith.

This composition is based on the heartbeat data of all living organisms found publicly to date on scientific literature, as polyrhythmic relations to experience different bodies across states of sleep, hibernation, calm and activity.

This concert is presented at BioBAT Art Space’s main lobby gallery located on the Brooklyn waterfront entrance.

Pianos sponsored by Steinway & Sons.

*This event is free and open to the general public.