POINTB HONORS 18 YEARS OF HOSTING INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS IN BROOKLYN
18 X 8 : From point A to PointB and back again…
January 21, 2015 – February 22, 2015
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 21st, 6-9PM
PointB Worklodge
Brooklyn, NY (January 14, 2015)—PointB presents a retrospective exhibition of works by international artists who have held short-term residencies over the last 18 years at PointB Worklodge. Since 1996, the blank façade at 71 North 7th in Williamsburg has held a secret: 8 live-work studios hand built by founding designer Mark Parrish that have hosted over 1,000 artists from around the globe, providing a base for exploring New York and contributing to the local community.
The exhibition featuring works from 80+ international artists including Stephen Chambers (UK), Ardan Ozmenoglu (Turkey), Hugo Curti (Brazil), Peter Martensen (Denmark), Patrico Sanchez Tasisto (Argentina), John Bock (Germany), Ai Sugiura (Japan), Fred Forest (France), Kate Shaw (Australia), Maud Cotter (Ireland), Stefan Kurtel (Germany), HC Gilje (Norway).
Resident artists were often connected to other New York organizations such as Anton Kern Gallery, Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, LMCC, Asia Cultural Society, Residency Unlimited, Bertrand Delacroix, Art in General, Meulensteen (formerly Max Protetch) and Harris Lieberman.
The network of lodgers speaks to the ever-changing landscape of contemporary art, as some organizations once key to those resident at PointB no longer exist, such as Silver Shed, Parker’s Box, and Location One.
Alongside their artworks the artists have provided fascinating photographs of their studios and
surrounding neighborhood from the mid-’90s that documents the changes and gentrification of Williamsburg.
PointB is about access to the city.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 21st, 6-9PM
Closing Reception: Sunday, February 22nd, 6-9PM
Open To The Public: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 12-6PM
Installation work by Deniz Kurtel
The Introspectacular is an ongoing interactive light and sound project by Deniz Kurtel, currently based in Berlin. This mobile piece takes participants into a vast horizon within a very small space with the use of see-through mirrors and LED lights. The installation responds both to ambient sounds and to the midi signals generated by the keyboard, which makes it a spectacular canvas for the participant.
Performance by Alwynne Pritchard | Saturday, January 24th
Alwynne Pritchard, a British artist, composer and vocalist living on the West coast of Norway, will be performing a piece from her recent Vitality Form series. Created after reading psychologist Daniel N. Stern’s Forms of Vitality, these performances explore how movement, force, time, space and intention can be reconfigured in everyday words and actions and through the medium of sound and music.
Screening video works by Antje Christ | Wednesday, February 4th
Antje Christ, based in Cologne, Germany, is an experienced documentary producer and director. Since 1997 she has created a diverse collection of documentary films about foreign countries. Among them there are travel documentaries in New York, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Iceland or the Cape Verde, as well as different people portraits in Europe.
The documentary New York at Second Sight takes glances at the metropolis from an entirely different angle. The three short films New York by Bike accompany the New York artist Steve Silver through different districts of the metropolis—an original and interesting tour even for those who already know the city.
PointB Worklodge
71 North 7th Street
Brooklyn NY
About PointB
Founded in 1996 by artist, designer and architect Mark Parrish, PointB’s mission has been to enhance and enable the mobile lifestyles of creative professionals by providing flexible, ready-to-use work and living spaces and developing a global network for interdisciplinary, cross-cultural exchange.
This was accomplished through the provision of a suite of 8 minimalist and comfortable live-work studio spaces in Williamsburg, which have been inhabited by an ever-changing group of visiting artists. Over 1,000 visual artists, writers, filmmakers, performers, photographers and thinkers have been in residence at PointB, many repeatedly, in stays of a week to 4 months. PointB has always been about access to the city. Like a secret club, not known to New Yorkers but known to artists all over the world, the doors haven’t been open to the public because the studios were not designed to show work, but to make it. Now, nearly two decades after its inception, a number of past lodgers have sent in their works of art for this group exhibition, which celebrates their work, documents their interaction with the local community, and reflects on the changes in the Williamsburg neighbourhood.
Press contact
Press contact: Christine Tran
E-mail: info@pointB.org
Website: http://www.pointB.org
Phone number: +1 571 226 6016
