Williamsburg is home to one of the most vibrant arts communities in the world, with over 25 galleries mere steps from one other. Northside will be working closely with the Williamsburg Gallery Association to highlight shows at select galleries throughout the neighborhood. Below is a list of participating galleries’ programming–stay tuned for more announcements, right here on northsidefestival.com

Williamsburg Gallery Association Events
 


Music in the Galleries

To kick off the Northside Festival, many WGA galleries will have musical performances. Participating galleries include Art 101, Artbreak, Ch’i, Figureworks, Front Room, HQ, Like the Spice, McCaig-Welles, NURTUREart, Slate, and Spread Art. Please see gallery listings below for specifics. Thursday, June 11, 6-10pm

Williamsburg Every Second Friday: galleries open late

Each month the galleries of the WGA open their doors late on the second Friday of the month and host special events. For the last 2nd Friday event of the season, many galleries will have music as part of the Northside Festival. Special events @ 3rd Ward, Art 101, Artbreak, Black & White Project Space, Ch’i, Figureworks, Front Room, Hogar Collection, ISCP, Like the Spice, McCaig-Welles, and Slate. Please see the listings below for exhibitions and events. Friday, June 12, 6-9pm

Second Friday Afterparty

My Moon
84 N 10th St (between Bedford and Driggs)


Each month the WGA hosts an afterparty at a Williamsburg nightclub with live, music, artwork, and drink specials. This month, My Moon will host the afterparty with Northside sponsors Amstel Light and Southern Comfort providing drink specials. Plus, live music by Hess is More and sets by DJ Japanster and DAF 416. A curated slideshow of work from NURTUREart’s Artist Registry will accompany the event. Friday, June 12, 9pm to 2am

Williamsburg Walks

Bedford Avenue


This summer, the WGA will share the art of Williamsburg’s galleries with the community in one block of WGA programming on  Bedford Avenue as part of Williamsburg Walks, with creative programming such as live music, performance art, installations, gallery booths, public & community art projects, and much, much more. Saturday, June 13, 12-9pm 




Crest Fest & the Crest Hardware Art Show

Crest Hardware

558 Metrolitan Ave (between Lorimer and Union)


The legendary Crest Hardware store on Metropolitan Ave. holds its 8th art show and the first ever Crest Fest in Marci Park (Metropolitan and Union). Proceeds go to the refurbishment of the park. The day will feature live music, DJs, art and design vendors, food, drinks, and the art show. Saturday, June 13, begins at 1pm. For more information visit cresthardwareartshow.com.





Participating Galleries: Exhibitions & Special Events
 

3rd Ward

195 Margan Ave (between Meadow and Stagg)

718.715.4691

3rdward.com 

“Sex Cells”

This spring, 3rd Ward asked artists to redefine their cell phones in the nationwide open call, “Sex Cells.” Artists & laymen alike were challenged to create thought-provoking erotic work using only the abilities of their cellular devices. On June 12, 3rd Ward reveals the fruits of their labor (and maybe their loins) with a group show of provocative photos, videos and texts, created only from the rosy little palms of artists nationwide. Indiscreet politicians & sloppy celebrities will finally find out how it’s really done. Gallery hours: Daily, 11am-9pm.

Special Events

Opening reception featuring a live performance by Unicornicopia and DJs all night: Friday, June 12, 7-10pm; Please RSVP to cells@3rdward.com
Moviehouse (an ongoing film series): Sunday, June 14, doors 7pm, movie 8pm


AG Gallery

103 N 3rd St (between Wythe and Berry)

718.599.3044

aboutglamour.net 

“Your Own Fairy Tale”

AG Gallery is pleased to announce their annual Open Call Group Exhibition. This year’s theme is “Fairly Tale” and artists created narratives to express their own fairy tale worlds. Featuring work by: Audrey Hasen Russell, Cynthia Ruse, Joshua Field, Lisa Olson, Roland Lusk, Wei-Hui Hsu, and Yura Osborn. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday 2-10pm, Saturday 12-10 pm, Sunday 12-8pm. On view through June 21.

Art 101

101 Grand St (between Wythe and Berry)

718.302.2242

art101brooklyn.com

Yolanda Shashaty “New Paintings” 

Yolanda Shashaty’s atmospheric paintings, mysterious and inviting, evoke the natural world, with an added dimension. In her own words, “My new work combines nature and abstraction…nature for its inspiration and universality and abstraction for the freedom to take nature where I want to go.” Gallery hours: Friday-Sunday, 1-6pm. On view through June 14.

Special Events

Live music by Konings Blauw: Thursday, June 11, 7-9pm
Reception with Yolanda Shashaty: Friday, June 12, 6-9pm  

Artbreak 

195 Grand St, 2nd Floor (between Bedford and Driggs)

718.302.1021

artbreakgallery.com 

Gabriele Undine Meyer “Hazy Days”

German artist Gabriele Undine Meyer presents a year-long photo essay comprised of photo collages produced from over 5800 photos. The series Hazy Days gives a beautiful impression of painting through photography. The images of Light Days are quite transpatent, giving the appearance of light shining through many layers of photographs. Dark Days is a look into the darker side of daily life. Gallery hours: Thursday-Sunday, 1-6pm. On view through June 30.

Special Events

Live music from Erik Deutsch: Thursday, June 11, 6-9pm
Live music from Indonesian pop sensation Rio Silaen: Friday, June 12, 6-9pm & Sunday, June 14   

The Artlog House

Former Supreme Trading space: 213 N 8th St (between Driggs and Roebling) 
artlog,com/northside

Highlighting Brooklyn’s emerging artistic talent, Artlog.com has curated an exhibition of interactive video installations by Dawn of Man, Jason Krugman, Seth Carnes [sic], José Olivares and Eduardo Lytton. Dawn of Man will transform the Artlog House into a virtual orgy of animals with Living Space, an interactive media based collection of projected installations, creating a tameless, playful, and organic environment for partygoers, music fans, and art junkies alike. This is complimented by two other elegant interactive installations, so please, fan Jason Krugman’s flickering Firefly Wind Light System and play with José Olivares and Eduardo Lytton’s ghostly girls in Portrait of a Memory in VHS. The event is in partnership with the Williamsburg Gallery Association, Indaba Music, Done to Death Projects & Depaz Rum. Gallery hours: Thursday 7pm-4am, Friday 8pm-4am, Saturday 8pm-midnight.

Special Events

Free Artist Opening Reception with drinks by Depaz Rum. Please RSVP at http://artlog.com/member_events/20: Thursday, 7-8pm

Black and White Project Space

483 Driggs Ave (between N 9th & N 10th)

718.599.8775

blackandwhiteprojectspace.org

Alina & Jeff Bliumis “Casual Conversations in Brooklyn”

“Casual Conversations in Brooklyn” is an anthropological inquiry into Brooklyn’s immigrant communities. Confronted by a radically different reality, these new Americans are bound together by pursuing their American dreams and searching for new identities reflective of their new lives. How does one retain cultural roots while creating a new identity? “Casual Conversations in Brooklyn” approaches this and other challenging questions in a two-part site-specific installation occupying both the indoor and outdoor gallery spaces. Gallery hours: Friday-Sunday, 12-6pm. On view through June 14.

Special Events

Closing reception: Friday, June 12, 6-9pm

Capricious Space

103 Broadway (between Berry and Bedford)

718.384.1208

capriciousspace.com 

“We Belong Together” Yale MFA Photography 2009

The photographers in Yale’s class of 2009 approach their work from starkly different backgrounds and points of view. The result is a mélange of subjects and perspectives. Nine images, one by each artist, will be presented at Capricious Space, as well as exhibitions in New Haven, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. Featuring work by: George Awde, Dru Donovan, David La Spina, Justin Leonard, Catherine Maloney, Caitlin Price, Elaine Stocki, and Ka-Man Tse. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 12-5pm. On view through July 5.

Ch’i Contemporary Fine Art

293 Grand St (between Roebling and Havemeyer)

718.218.8939

chicontemporaryfineart.com

Joe Mangrum: “New Creations”

Ch’i Contemporary Fine Art is excited to present Chrysalis Stage, installation and sculpture by Joe Mangrum, the artist’s second solo show at the gallery. Joe’s works were most recently featured at the Williamsburg Armory Night, the Conflux Festival, All Points West, and the Mile High Music Festival. In 2007 he was the artist in residence at the De Young Museum in San Francisco and in 2008, one of the artists featured at the opening of the Sunshine Museum in China. Gallery hours: Monday 9am-5pm, Wednesday-Sunday 11am-7pm. On view through July 13.

Special Events

Preview with an artist talk, wine tasting, and music by the voice, tap and jazz ensemble TrioNada: Thursday, June 11, 6-9pm; RSVP at 718.218.8939
Come meet artist Joe Mangrum at the gallery: Friday, June 12, 6-9pm
Join Ch’i on the WGA block of  Bedford Ave. as Joe Mangrum creates one of his spontaneous installations: Saturday, June 13, 2pm 

Cinders Gallery

103 Havemeyer St (between Grand and Hope) 

718.388.2311

cindersgallery.com

Kyle Field “Knock On Every Door” / Jessie Rose Vala “Storm Season”

A 2-person show featuring drawings, paintings and sculptural elements. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday, 1-7pm. On view through June 28.

Figureworks
168 N 6th St (between Bedford and Driggs)
718.486.7021
figureworks.com

“Adolf Dehn at Home and Abroad: Domestic, Foreign, and Other-Worldly Figures”

Figureworks will showcase Adolf Dehn’s provocative and sensual watercolors, sketches, and lithographs from his travels to Paris, Vienna, and Berlin from the 1920s to 40s. Gallery hours: Friday-Sunday, 1-6pm. On view through August 2. 

Special Events

Live Music from pianist Elizabeth Mabon: Thursday, June 11, 7-9pm & Sunday, June 14, 2-4pm
Opening reception: Friday, June 12, 6-9pm

Front Room
147 Roebling St (between Metropolitan & Hope)
718.782.2556
frontroom.org

Melissa Pokorny & Julia Whitney Barnes “Within the Menagerie”

Melissa Pokorny’s “homemade cultural probes” are assemblages consisting of quirky casts, found objects, and synthetic building materials. Julia Whitney Barnes’s work is often inspired by the evolutionary ability of organisms to adapt to their environment. Gallery hours: Friday-Sunday, 1-6pm. On view through June 21.

Special Events

FLOW music event curated by Jeremy Slater and Partick Todd: Thursday & Friday, June 11 & 12, 7-10pm  

Gitana Rosa
19 Hope St (between Roebling and Havemeyer)
718.387.0115
gitanarosa.com

Tom Bob “The Manhattan Project”

Exhibiting paintings and drawings created throughout Manhattan expressing the energy, color, moods, and emotions of past, present, and future worlds. Gallery hours: Friday-Monday, 12-6pm. On view through July 6.

Hogar Collection
362 Grand St (between Havemeyer & Marcy)
718.388.5022
hogarcollection.com 

Damian Catera “The End of History”

Catera will  exhibiting his newest 5.1 surround sound installation that algorithmically deconstructs Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D-minor for organ along with sampled and manipulated soundless concert footage on digital flat screen monitors and digital works on paper of manipulated compositional sound scores. Gallery hours: Thursday – Monday, 12-7pm. On view through June 22.

Special Events

Live performance by Damian Catera: Friday, June 12, 7–10pm

HQ Gallery
236 Grand St (between Driggs and Roebling)
718.418.7182
hqbrooklyn.com

Jonathan VanDyke “Gloved Impediment”

This site-specific installation is a realization of the artist’s ongoing impulse to make work that slowly unfolds and changes as it performs for the viewer. The central form of Gloved Impediment is an 8′ tall by 25′ long canvas, hung just in front of the gallery’s main wall, loosely, as if it is a curtain. Behind the canvas, a system of tubes irrigates its surface with highly diluted liquid paint. The piece takes on new colors each day that the show is open to the public, so that each week the canvas will reveal new stains and washes of color. Gallery Hours: Friday-Sunday, 1-7 pm. On view through June 28.

Special Events

“Last Waltz on Grand Street,” featuring Acoustic performances by Tommy Lee McKean, Rachel A. Mason, Nicole Schneit, Moku Teraoka and Friends, Living Sacrifice, Jess and Shu, GURPS, Guitars and General Freelove: Thursday, June 11th, 6-10pm

International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)
1040 Metropolitan Ave (at Morgan)
718.387.2900
iscp-nyc.org

“On the Tectonics of History”

Andrea Domesle and Martin Krenn have curated a wall installation with reprints of art works by international artists. This exhibition, which has travelled through Europe, exposes the historical traces of the Nazi era in the 1930s and 1940s. The show investigates the way in which imagery continues to shape our understanding of this regime and subsequently reflects on how present day society deals with this time-period. Exhibition catalogue is available. Gallery hours: Saturdays & Sundays 2-6pm. On view through June 28.

Special Events

“Hear Myself In It,” with live performances by Feather and Folly, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Amelia Saul and Private Time: Friday, June 12, 7-10pm

Jack The Pelican
487 Driggs Ave (at N 10th)
718.782.0183
jackthepelicanpresents.com

“That Was Then”

Group painting show featuring work by Robin Williams, Sarah Bereza, John Jacobsmeyer, Panni Malek, Tom Costa, and others, offers sumptuous renderings of the new world order. Gallery Hours: Thursday-Monday, 12-6pm. On view through June 21.

Janet Kurnatowski
205 Norman Ave (at Humboldt)
718.383.9380
galeriajanet.com

“Inside Abstraction”

Group show curated by Vered Lieb, featuring work by: Srule Brachman, Brice Brown, David Cummings, Scooter Flaherty, Sam Fryer, Chris Martin, Gelah Penn, Michal Shapiro, Kim Uchiyama, Evy Twitchell. Gallery hours: Friday-Saturday 1-7 pm, Sunday 12-6pm. On view through July 12.

Like the Spice
224 Roebling St (between S 2nd and S 3rd)
718.388.5388
likethespice.com

Reuben Negron “Dirty Dirty Love” 

Negron’s painstakingly-rendered watercolors tell stories. Inspired by true events and by the people who surround him, he fashions intimate narratives about lives that normally go unsung. The stories told reveal a melancholic reality familiar to most yet rarely celebrated. By focusing on the everyday and the mundane, Reuben’s work communicates a universal experience that betrays the aspirations and shortfalls of everyone. Gallery hours: Monday, Wednesday-Sunday, 12-6pm.

Special Events

Live music from Bands from Philadelphia, including Wes Mattheu and the New Way Down and more from B-more: Thursday, June 11, 7-10pm
Sex Toy Party: Friday, June 12, 8-10pm
Live music from Bands from Baltimore, including The Expotentials, The Jagged Hearts and more from Philly: Sunday, June 14, 2-6pm

McCaig-Welles Gallery
129 Roebling St (between N 4th and N 5th)
718.384.8729
mccaigwelles.com 

Zonenkinder Collective “Bambule”

A gallery-wide installation and exhibition of artworks by the Zonenkinder Collective. The term “Bambule” derives from the german argot and is traditionally used to describe a form of protest practiced by prison inmates – drumming with different objects, like spoons, inside jail cells to articulate resistance. Through murals, paintings and installations, the Zonenkinder Collective will transform the gallery into a visual epic meant to transport the viewer in to the peculiarity of their world and into the radicalism of their worldview. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday 11-7pm, Saturday-Sunday 12-7pm. On view through June 28.

Special Events

Live music from Plates of Cake, A Fermata: Thursday, June 11, 8-10pm
Opening reception with live music from Superpower, The Brian Wilson Shock Treatment: Friday, June 12, 7-10pm  

Momenta Art
359 Bedford Ave (between S 4th and S 5th)
718.218.8058
momentaart.org

Hunter Reynolds “Real Love: Hurricane Wilma, Hurricane Hunter”

In conjunction with his exhibition, Reynolds will present a remote story-telling/conversation performance via Skype and a mini-documentary covering the destruction of his Florida studio and his salvage efforts that transformed the wreckage into a testament of survival. Gallery hours: Thursday-Monday 12-6pm.

Special Events

Skype Performance: Sunday, June 14, 12-6pm

NURTUREart
910 Grand St (between Olive and Catherine)
718.782.7755
nurtureart.org 


”The Bushwick Biennial”


Within the past few years, the neighborhood of Bushwick has made its way onto the radar of the New York art scene. As condos continue to replace studio space in Williamsburg and other New York neighborhoods, artists are migrating to Bushwick in search of large airy warehouses. Independent gallery and exhibition spaces, eschewing the capitalist-driven Chelsea and Upper East Side models, have followed with a more earnest goal in mind: showing emerging and local artists. Curated by Benjamin Evans of NURTUREart, Chris Harding of English Kills, Austin Thomas of Pocket Utopia, and Jill McDermid of Grace Exhibition Space, the Bushwick Biennial is a collaborative project that explores the artistic growth and talent that is flourishing in Bushwick and East Williamsburg.


Special Events

Live music from DJ Mayonnaise Hands and Albert Shelton, with possible other musical guests: Thursday, June 11, 6-9pm

Parker’s Box
193 Grand St (between Bedford and Driggs)
718.388.2882
parkersbox.com  

Steven Brower “BPL Mission 003 Pre-Launch Operations Test (PLOT) and Bake Sale!”

Our new project is by the Brooklyn artist, Steven Brower who is known for his work involving the aerospace industry, in recent years incarnated in his “dwarf” aerospace company: Brower Propulsion Laboratory. BPL’s next mission will have a pre-launch presentation at Parker’s Box, opening June 5th, and with special events during the Northside Festival! Gallery hours: Friday-Monday, 1-7pm. On view through June 21.

Special Events

Equipment testing, launching, and other important antics: Saturday & Sunday, June 13 & 14

Pierogi
177 N 9th St (between Bedford and Driggs)
718.599.2144
pierogi2000.com 

William Lamson “Work and Trade”

Lamson’s exhibition of recent video, installation, and drawing features three projects in which the artist creates a mark-making system through collaboration with forces outside of his control. In all of the works, Lamson intervenes with natural forces and cultural systems in ways that question the artist’s agency.  Drawings are made, objects are exchanged, and things are collected, but in all of these events the artist works with forces outside his control, be they wind, gravity, or visitors to a gallery. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 11am-6pm. On view through June 21.

The Boiler
191 N 14th St (at Wythe)
718.599.2144
pierogi2000.com 

Jonathan Schipper “Irreversibility”

An exhibition of recent sculpture and installation including: Measuring Angst, a beer bottle which is thrown across a forty-five foot room, smashes against a wall and attempts to reassemble itself; and The Slow Inevitable Death of American Muscle (exhibited in New York for the first time), a live, head-on collision which takes place in slow motion over the course of the exhibition. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday, 11am-6pm. On view through June 28.

Sideshow Gallery
319 Bedford Ave (at S 2nd)
718.486-8180
sideshowgallery.com

Gallery Hours: Friday–Monday: 12–6pm

Slate Gallery
136 Wythe Ave (between N 8th and N 9th)
718.387.3921
slategallery.com 

Dorothy Robinson: “Continental Drift”

A solo exhibition of new abstract paintings inspired by the beauty of landscapes, their underlying geographic processes, and physics. Gallery hours: Friday-Sunday, 1-6pm. On view through June 14.

Special Events

Live music from Ellery Marshall & Micah Keren-Zvi: Thursday, June 11, 7-9pm
Live music from Ellery Marshall & Micah Keren-Zvi: Friday, June 12, 7-9pm
Artist talk with Dorothy Robinson: Friday, June 12, 7:45 pm
Works by Mr. Imagination available at the Slate booth on Bedford Avenue as part of Williamsburg Walks: Saturday, June 13 

Stripeman Gallery
97 N 3rd St (between Wythe and Berry)
347.803.9321
stripemangallery.com 

Crash and Daze “Works on Paper”

Gallery hours: Friday-Sunday, 12-6pm

Special Events

Opening reception: Friday, June 12, 6-9pm

Spread Art
104 Meserole St (between Leonard and Manhattan)
347-526-2737
spreadart.org

“Improvisation”

Spread Art’s Summer group show explores the theme of improvisation. Featuring work by: Heather Garland, Christina deRoos, Micheal Mandel, Irina Adam, Thomas Bell, Avoid Pi, Katharine Ng. Gallery hours in June: Saturday-Sunday, 12-6pm. On view through June 20.

Special Events

Opening reception, CD release celebration for Oxygen Music Collective’s “Ten Years,” with live music by The Tronic: Thursday, June 11, 6-11pm
Artist Brunch Series at Mojito Loco (next door to the gallery): Sunday, June 14, 2-4pm