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AFC Goes To Bushwick

Bushwick Open Studios: What’s on the Street

by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on June 3, 2014
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A tour through the Bushwick street fair portion of BOS.

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Bushwick Open Studios, 2012: Tidings from a New Frontier

by Paddy Johnson on June 7, 2012
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What do the results of navigating over 500 Bushwick Open Studios (BOS) look like? We don’t know—we didn’t attempt to see half that many galleries. Still, we were able to produce a few highlights from the work we saw. What we liked, what we sort of liked, and WTF, after the jump.

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Report from Holy BOS: What Medieval Christians Might Have Done With Projection Technology

by Whitney Kimball on June 6, 2012
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I am aware that I sound like I’m describing an acid trip at a Criss Angel performance here, but bear with me.

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Bushwick Basel Participants Report: BOS a Success

by Paddy Johnson on June 5, 2012
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At 1,500 bucks, Bushwick Basel might have the smallest operating budget of any art fair we’ve been to, but it drew some of the largest crowds at this weekend’s Bushwick Open Studios. Debuting at artist and fair organizer Jules de Balincourt’s Starr Space, the fair attracted 11 galleries from around the neighborhood. It was, by many accounts, a success.

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Recommended Bushwick Open Studio: David McBride

by Paddy Johnson on June 1, 2012
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David McBride makes his paintings with a stencil and blue, red, and brown glaze. The result is a studio filled with what appears to be a lot of chocolate brown paint. The importance of the subjects is not immediately apparent: in one painting, he pairs a roller coaster with a clothesline of hanging flags, while in another, he fills the canvas with botanical illustrations. The key to understanding the work might be the 3D glasses painted above, which remind us that these paintings, like everything else we see, are constructed from light. It’s an almost obsessive interest in practice, and we like that.

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Recommended Bushwick Open Studio: Lee Lee Chan

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on June 1, 2012
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LeeLee Chan’s sculpture, painting, and photos all fit squarely in the same world. The paintings and photos focus heavily on reflection, while her sculpture combines reflective, industrial items with organic elements. There’s a preciousness in her placement and handling of delicate clusters that seems to talk about both nature and commodity. Evoking the language of Eileen Quinlan, Chan’s manipulation of scale and focal length produce paintings and sculptures that seem otherworldly.

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