If you are looking to see an array of fresh work from artists living in your zip code, The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition is a great place to start. Located on the first floor of the Brooklyn Museum, the show features work from over 200 artists working in Brooklyn in a multitude of media, including painting, cut wood, ceramics, sculptures, video installation, and multimedia installation. The square space is divided into two parts, the outer perimeter and the inner square. There is so much to look at in either space and your curiosity is left free to roam in any direction as there is no true start and end. One giant painting of a typewriter by Sam Messer has paint globed on so thick it borders on being a sculpture. Another painting by Tabitha Whitley features two youths lounging in the grass on a blanket. The prosaic scene feels like it is pulled straight from one of Brooklyn’s parks, but the exaggerated use of a saturated red hue creates a peculiar tone that subverts the tradition of portraiture and genre painting.
If the Brooklyn Museum is not enough for you, head over to the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition in Red Hook for their Salon des Refusés 2024-2. This one-room exhibition, featuring artists who did not make it into the Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, is every part as diverse as its parent show. One piece by Marlene Weisman titled, Super Deep: Portrait of The Artist is an icy blue holographic painting with nine shape-shifting images that tell an indecipherable story. The unconventional medium and the use of historic photographs engage with the history of portraits in both painting and photography, offering an entirely new take on the form. The combination of both these shows will leave you stunned at the breadth of talent and emotion that can be packed into one single borough.
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