“Future Folk: Part 2” at LaunchPad – October 11, 2013

 

 

“Future Folk: Part 2”

curated by Will Hutnick & Polly Shindler

 

Opening: Friday, October 11, 6 – 10pm

October 11 – 20, 2013

 

LaunchPad

721 Franklin Ave.

Brooklyn, NY 11238

brooklynlaunchpad.org

 

with: Emre Kocagil, Maya Hayuk, Josh Reames, Kristen Schiele, Fabian Tabibian, Lars Van Dooren, Rebecca Warlick and Rachael Whitney

 

We are proud to present “Future Folk”, a two-part group exhibition in Brooklyn featuring bold geometric arrangements in painting, collage and installation from over twenty artists.

The work presented is both raw and controlled; herein lies the handmade, the felt mark, the human element.  Some work is meandering and loose; others more aggressively designed and precise.  All artists are investigating a central figure or object – a totem, so to speak.  Grand gestures and minute details are combined with a computer and Photoshop-driven mentality to build these totems.  The artists are joined by their common sensibility and an authentic love of their subjects bordering on nostalgia.  It is almost as if each artist had dreamed them into reality thereby creating an imaginary and invented cultural identity.

 

 

For more information:

hutnickshindler@gmail.com

 

In case you missed “Future Folk: Part I” at Brooklyn Fire Proof on July 26, 2013, head to hutnickshindler.tumblr.com for work by:

Luke Ahern, Amanda Brazier, Lee Lee Chan, Michael Dotson, Sean Robert Fitzgerald, Clare Grill, Jason Karolak, Matthew Mahler, Gaia Nardie-Warner and Shawn Powell