LUMINARY opening receiption
Featuring the work of ITP Alums CHiKA, Melissa Clarke and Andrea Wolf.
LUMINARY Opening reception
Friday, July 17th, 6-10 pm
Temporary Storage
119 Ingraham St., ground floor
Brooklyn, NY 11237
Featuring: [dNASAb], CHiKA, Melissa F. Clarke, Lindsay Packer, Christine Sciulli, Oliver Warden, Andrea Wolf and Natalia Zubko. Curated by Oliver Warden and Hazel Lee Santino for BFP Creative.
Brooklyn Fire Proof and BFP Creative are pleased to present a new group exhibition in Temporary Storage gallery. Luminary will run from July 17th to August 5th, 2015, with an opening reception on Friday, July 17th and a closing reception on August 5th. The opening reception will also feature a one-night-only interactive sculpture.
Luminary is a survey of some of the myriad uses of illumination in contemporary art. The eight artists included in the show-- [dNASAb], CHiKA, Melissa F. Clarke, Lindsay Packer, Christine Sciulli, Oliver Warden, Andrea Wolf and Natalia Zubko--utilize materials in their artistic practice that range from common light bulbs to high-tech projection mapping and interactive LEDs. The show is an opportunity for these artists, who require darkness to most effectively display their work, to be involved in the community aspect of a group show without the gallery-based compromises they would typically have to make.
In “Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space,” Brian O’Dougherty detailed the “rules” of the ideal gallery: The space is white and artificial, unshadowed; the floor either dampens footsteps or reduces them to clinical clicks; bodies are not welcome, only minds. The sensory deprivation of a white cube gallery gives visual autonomy to the artwork, and the art and spectator are isolated from one another and given respective, defined roles. For Luminary, the gallery is unlit save for the ambient light of the artwork itself. The artwork redefines its own boundaries and the gallery space with its cast light, and that light incorporates the spectator into both the art and the room. Rejecting the standardization of the "white cube," the boundless, darkened space allows a metaphor for plurality and inclusiveness that is so often absent when experiencing artwork in contemporary galleries.
Luminary closes August 5th. Gallery hours are by appointment, 12-6 pm Wednesday - Saturday. To schedule a viewing or for any additional information please contact Hazel Lee Santino at creative@brooklynfireproof.com or 646-491-1730.
For more information about the show and the artists involved, please visit bfpcreative.com/luminary. On social media, follow @bfpcreative or #BFPLuminary.