DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival // Current

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Glen Hutcheson-- sculpture, painting, drawing

Open Studios at 20 Jay St., Suite 307. Saturday September 27th, 12-6 PM. I'll have work to show in clay, cardboard,... more

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Smack Mellon Teams Up WIth The League of Women Voters

On Saturday, September 27th and Sunday the 28th, during the Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival, Smack Mellon and the League of... more

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Little Monsters

You will see Little Monsters on September 27-28, from 1-6 PM. At Studio Milo, 20 Jay Street, Suite 214 Brooklyn, New York... more

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Do You Believe in Fairytales?

To rediscover your childhood dreams, just come this September to DUMBO. Find the Yellow-brick road and follow it to the Magnus... more

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Mark Taber at 135 Plymouth St. invites you to visit during the festival

Visit me at 135 Plymouth St. on the 5th floor. I'll have signs posted at the door and in the stairs to guide you along the... more

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Smack Mellon Gallery Opening and Open Studios

Smack Mellon's three-person solo exhibition featuring new projects by installation artist, Sarah Kabot, multi-media artist,... more

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Assisted Living- wire/words installation by Naomi Grossman

Naomi Grossman's wire installation, Assisted Living, will be on view at the 12th Annual Dumbo Art Festival from September... more

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City of Light

Reina Kubota’s City of light is our city's transformation of litter to light. Where: Tobacco Warehouse,... more

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Views of Brooklyn

Steven Harris has been creating unique images of DUMBO and the surrounding neighborhoods for many years starting in the early 90s.... more

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Come see my studio during DUMBO Art Under the Bridge

Miranda Maher No. 209 20 Jay Street See you then!

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Ashley Taraban-Oil Paintings at 89 Bridge st.

Abstract objects and the nuances of energies interacting. Balance in abstraction.

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Naomi Grossman: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2008

Artist Naomi Grossman's chairs made of wires and words suspend ghost-like from the ceilng in her project 'Assisted... more

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come and get it

for the 2nd year in a row i will be giving away my art. its free. stop by 10 jay street #210.

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Park Projects: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2008

As part of the Art Under the Bridge Festival 2008, both the Brooklyn Bridge Park and the Empire Fulton Ferry State Park will... more

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D'ART BUOY - MAKING MUSIC IN THE EAST RIVER

D’Art Buoy is a site-specific multimedia installation that interacts with the D.U.M.B.O. waterfront. It is composed of a... more

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Aswoon/Susan Woods Studio

Please visit us in our gallery space over the festival weekend. On view will be artist Susan Woods' latest work of sculptural... more

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Dumby is missing!

Shaped and formed by curiosity, fantasy and false information, Eva jung's 'Missing Dumby Project' is a moving... more

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"WORDS WILL NOT FAIL WHEN THE MATTER IS WELL CONCEIVED"- Horatio

Paintings/ Acrylic on Canvas Tohmas Gustaf Elmlund 20 Jay Street Studio #315

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Jonathan Herbert / Naked Girls

68 Jay Street No 803 Friday 7 - 9 pm Saturday Sunday 12 - 6 pm ON LINEN oils ON PAPER conte, charcoal, gouache, acrylic

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Sarah Beddington: Crossing Sept 13 - Nov 16, 2008

Curated by Tania Duvergne

The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) is pleased to present the first major New York solo exhibition by British artist Sarah Beddington. Crossing is a site-specific, mixed media installation responding to DAC’s ship-like interior and past maritime activity of the waterfront neighborhood of Dumbo, Brooklyn. The exhibition’s premise draws on the story of ‘The Experiment’, the second ship to make a direct crossing to China from the newly independent United States in 1785. Over two hundred years later, Beddington weaves an array of fragments backwards and forwards through time and space while interposing details of the historic voyage with current global realities including trade, transport, cultural exchange, migration, and travel.

Beddington began to develop Crossing through extensive research of 18th century records of the expedition of Captain Stewart Dean and his nine-man crew from New York to Canton (now Guangzhou) in China aboard a small Hudson River sloop. The ship, named ‘The Experiment’, weighed a mere 85 tons, tiny in comparison to the 1000 ton East India trading ships typical of the period. The captain financed the risky enterprise by selling shares in the sloop to investors and bringing a variety of goods to sell, in large part, American ginseng. A year and a half later, ‘The Experiment’ returned home safely bearing a hold full of Chinese tea, silk and porcelain. Beddington’s installation, Crossing, takes this entrepreneurial venture as an initial point of departure for a journey that moves seamlessly between past and present, east and west, dreams and reality.

The core of the exhibition is a three-channel video projection characteristic of Beddington's cinematographic style – meticulous framing, sensuous imagery and suspense reminiscent of film noir. Mixing color and black-and-white footage, digital video, still images and Super 8mm film, the piece undermines any clear distinction between past and present. A feeling of the continuous motion of a ship is juxtaposed with an evocation of the lonely, inner world of those on board giving the work a haunting, surreal quality. The accompanying multi-layered sound piece adds an additional sensory component to the experience and heightens the psychological tension. Using a variety of other elements, including sandblasted glass panels and an intricate twenty foot drawing in silverpoint depicting a contemporary aerial view of the Hudson River leading from Albany – where ‘The Experiment’ was built – to New York and the open sea, Beddington invites the viewer to construct their own narrative.

As with all of Beddington’s work, Crossing examines the intersection between the social, the personal and the political to be found at the periphery. The environment created for DAC reflects on the idea of ‘journey’ – both actual and metaphysical. Through fractured perspectives, stolen glimpses and a sense of parallel realities, the exhibition proposes a voyage where timelines are blurred and destinations unknown.

Gallery Hours: Wednesday- Sunday 12-6 or by appointment

First Thursdays Oct./Nov. open until 8:30pm

Dumbo Arts Center
30 Washington Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718.694.0831

The exhibition will be open throughout the Art Under the Bridge Festival 2008.

We hope to see you there!
Curated by Tania Duvergne The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) is pleased to present the first major New York solo exhibition by British... more