GUY DENNING • DAVID WALKER "SURFACE TENSION" . . . SATURDAY

OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, June 12, 7-10pm
Musical Guest: DJ REHKA spinning the sounds of Indian Bhangra

Brooklynite Gallery invites you to experience "Surface Tension", a joint exhibition featuring Guy Denning and David Walker, two artists, who through the human form, explore two different concepts, using two entirely different techniques.


Guy Denning

Wielding brushes and knives, Guy Denning battles a myriad of ideas that stir around in ones head in hopes that the visual translation might become the remedy. These disparate thoughts that don't connect to anyone or anything in particular are expressed through precarious self-portraits and female figures. Denning's canvases are layered with oil paint and medium thinners, then seemingly blasted with a fire-hose. His work has all the makings of a piece by a classically trained painter, yet the added angst of a back street fist-fight.


David Walker

The gestural approach Walker uses when creating his alluring female portraits can only be achieved using a self-imposed rule of "no brushes, only spray-paint" techniques. For Walker, the subject of his work inherently lies in the facial expression-- just the right one that is. Using found imagery pillaged from peoples photo albums, snapshots and old magazines, Walker's focus is on the subtleties of expressions, constantly in search of a precise emotion or tilt of the head that catches his eye and can expand the distance between his work and that of an intelligible portrait artist.

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Besides the visuals you'll experience inside and out in the rear of our gallery, DJ Rekha will supply you with her own brand of audio pleasure. She invites you on journey into a world that merges the traditional Bhangra music of South Asia and the Hip-Hop beats of today. Special dance performances to take place as well.



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Come see why The Village Voice says our opening night parties are "one of the three things that define the beginning of summer in NYC."



Brooklynite Gallery is located at 334 Malcolm X Blvd., Brooklyn, New York 11233. We are open Thursday thru Saturday from 1pm – 7pm or by appointment. We are located 2 blocks from the A or C subway to Utica Ave. stop.

Can't make it to the opening? Check out STREAMING LIVE COVERAGE on our website: BrooklyniteGallery.com Clikc on the LIVE TV link.

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ARTIST: DAVID WALKER

Images courtesy www.artofdavidwalker.com

Long term member of the Scrawl Collective (Nick Walker, Will Barras, Mr. Jago), British portrait artist, David Walker, has the ability to capture intricate details of his subjects using his trademark, multi-layered style and only a spray can. Using self-enforced constraints, such as a 'no brushes rule', David is pushing the medium in his own unique direction.



As a prelude to his upcoming two-person exhibition with Guy Denning entitled, "Surface Tension", David Walker has released a mixed media screen-print at a very reasonable purchase price.


"Breathe"
David Walker
Mixed Media Screen-print on Archival Paper
Edition 50
30 in. x 22 in. (76cm x 56cm).
$90
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Hand rolled aluminum paint on grey stock. This is
actually aluminum based not just a pigment, so it's
reflective. White and off-white spray paint details
while wet then hand pulled black, oil-based
screen-print ink on top.

Check out our on-line SHOP section for this and other
prints from an solid roster of artists.

www.BrooklyniteGallery.com

OPENING THIS SATURDAY! DOLK • M-CITY "EUROTRASH"

We've been anticipating this one for a long time and are extremely excited to announce that this Saturday, "EUROTRASH" will finally open. This is your chance to see up close, the work of two of the most prolific stencil artists working in the public space today.



Dolk has been leaving his mark throughout Brooklyn this past week. Both artists have joined forced to produce some striking images on both canvas and on walls in our outdoor space.



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"EUROTRASH"
DOLK • M-CITY
OPENING RECEPTION:
Saturday, May 8, 7-10PM

Special Musical Guest:
DJ EVIL DEE (Da Beatminerz)
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Can't make it to the show? Check out our
STREAMING LIVE COVERAGE of the opening
on our website: BrooklyniteGallery.com

Brooklynite Gallery is located at 334 Malcolm X Blvd., Brooklyn, New York 11233. We are open Thursday thru Saturday from 1pm – 7pm or by appointment. We are located 2 blocks from the A or C subway to Utica Ave. stop.

And if you're not already doing so FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @BklyniteGallery

"EUROTRASH" UPDATE & PRINT RELEASES

If you've been tracking the details of our upcoming "Eurotrash" exhibition for DOLK & M-CITY, then you're fully aware that there's been more twists and turns then the script of a daytime soap opera.

Volcano ash aside, we think we finally have a date in place for the opening night festivites-- SATURDAY, MAY 8, 7-10pm (NY). In the meantime, both artists have decided to drop a few hand-sprayed stenciled prints for your viewing pleasure. All four available TODAY in our on-line SHOP section.


"M-CITY 293"
M-CITY
Edition of 50
Hand Sprayed Stencil on Paper
27.5 in x 19.5 in.
(70 cm x 50 cm)
$175


"M-CITY 294"
M-CITY
Edition of 50
Hand Sprayed Stencil on Paper
27.5 in x 19.5 in.
(70 cm x 50 cm)
$175


"OLD SCHOOL"
DOLK
Edition of 20
Hand Sprayed Stencil on Paper
40 in x 27.5 in
(100 cm x 70 cm)
$1100


"OLD SCHOOL" (LTD)
DOLK
Edition of 3
Hand Sprayed Stencil on Paper
40 in x 27.5 in
(100 cm x 70 cm)
$1500

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ALL prints will be available in our on-line SHOP section
TODAY(Tuesday, April 27th).

www.BrooklyniteGallery.com

DOLK "OLD SCHOOL" LIMITED EDITION PRINT SERIES

In conjunction with his upcoming "EUROTRASH" exhibition opening here on April 30th with M-CITY, DOLK will be releasing a very limited edition, large size (100cm x 70cm paper), print series. The print will be available in our ON-LINE SHOP. A few will be held back for show attendees. Please check back with us as the show gets closer to find out release time and date.

M-CITY will also be releasing a print for the show. More info to come.

"EUROTRASH"
DOLK • M-CITY
April 30 - May 29
Opening Reception: April 30, 7-10pm (NY)
www.BrooklyniteGallery.com

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SPECTER • VARIOUS & GOULD "MAKE IT FIT" OPENS SATURDAY!

This Saturday is sure to be a show for the ages. All the right elements seem to be in place (including the weather) for an amazing opening night. The work is stellar, the installations are being constructed --the murals just about dry now.

We have several musical performances that aim to create just the right soundtrack for "MAKE IT FIT", a collaborative effort by Brooklyn-based artist SPECTERand the duo from Berlin know as VARIOUS & GOULD. We couldn't be more thrilled to be hosting this exhibition. Come see for yourself.

"MAKE IT FIT"
SPECTER • VARIOUS & GOULD
OPENS THIS SATURDAY!
MARCH 20, 7-10pm
Special Musical Performances
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DESPITE THE RUMORS: NO ARTISTS WERE HARMED DURING THE MAKING OF THIS VIDEO



SO WHAT IS "MAKE IT FIT" ALL ABOUT YOU ASK? WE'LL BECAUSE IT'S OUR JOB TO TELL YOU, WE CAME UP WITH THIS. . . .
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The concept of “work” can be interpreted in many different ways depending on whom you hit up. Brooklyn-based artist, SPECTER and German duo VARIOUS & GOULD have each located discarded materials, used skill and ingenuity and re-conceptualized things in pulsating ways you might never have imagined. All this done in effort to turn the concept of “work” on its ear in an exhibition appropriately titled, “Make It Fit”.

Cart-pushers, delivery boys and slave-laborers – take the spotlight in much of the work created by the artist who goes simply by the name SPECTER. With all of his portraits based on real people living at the bottom of the capitalist barrel, Specter forces the general public to see what they might rather not – those who got left behind. Collecting materials in much the same fashion his subjects do, SPECTER incorporates shopping carts, bicycles, and crates along with engaging images of your everyday worker, paying special attention to what makes them tick. His work is hand-crafted, retro-fitted, clever and fresh.

For the creative team of VARIOUS & GOULD the concept of “work” means looking well beyond the vigor of the everyday tasks one has to perform for a paycheck and instead focusing on the surprisingly graceful interaction between a laborer and his tools. Imagine peering into the cut-out holes we often see at a construction site and being exposed to a vibrant world of multi-colored uniforms, enlarged tools and graphic text. A world where workers trade body parts depending on their needs, moving in tandem while performing their repetitive tasks in a choreographed “workers waltz”. Using found objects, work related symbols and their refined silkscreen techniques, the line between work and play becomes blurred inside the imaginative minds of VARIOUS & GOULD.

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Brooklynite Gallery is located at 334 Malcolm X Blvd., Brooklyn, New York 11233. We are open Thursday thru Saturday from 1pm – 7pm or by appointment. We are located 2 blocks from the A or C subway to Utica Ave. stop.

THIS SATURDAY! SEE SOMETHING NEW!

"STEALTH: ARTISTS ABOVE THE RADAR"
COLLIN VAN DER SLUIJS / DEREK SHUMATE
OPENING RECEPTION: FEBRUARY 13, 7-10PM EASTERN

Special Musical Guest: SIFUNK & GARMUNKLE
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Let the New Year finally begin with some cosmic style at Brooklynite Gallery's first exhibition of 2010, Stealth: Artists Above the Radar. The show highlights two pop art surrealists from opposite ends of the world: Collin Van Der Sluijs, a native of the Netherlands and a specialist in mixed media, who will be showcasing his latest paintings of bizarre animal/human space creatures, and Houston-born abstract artist Derek Shumate, who'll show off his layered, multicolored graphic designs that blend headline news with the artist's fertile imagination.         -Araceli Cruz VILLAGE VOICE

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