greenpoint artist studio tour
Please join us for second tour to see 5 Greenpoint-based artists. We will take you into each artist’s studio where they will talk about their work and why they make it. You will be seeing new art works being created and also finished pieces. This is an insider’s opportunity to get a better understanding of the creative process and the inspiration behind the work, with different artists working in diverse manners.
InContext’s Greenpoint Tour will be on Sunday, May 2nd, with an option to meet at Union Square - in front of the Gandhi statue (south-west corner of the park) at 2pm or at the Greenpoint Avenue stop on the G train 2:30pm.
We will visit the following artists:
Andrea Claire is an American artist and architect living and working in Brooklyn and Marfa, Texas. She earned her MFA at California Institute of the Arts and BFA, and B.Architecture at Rhode Island School of Design. She has had solo exhibitionss at I-20 Gallery, Caren Golden FA, and The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas. Her group exhibitions include Elizabeth Dee Gallery, NY, Bellwether, NY, The Corcoran Museum, DC and Muller DiChira, Berlin. In 2003 Andrea was awarded a public art commission by Art in General. She has participated in the AIM program at the Bronx Museum, and artist residencies at the Chinati Foundation, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. In 2010 Andrea (in collaboration with Jason Peters) won a competition for a large-scale sculpture to be build in 2011 at the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum.
Max Key was born in 1973 in Madison County Illinois and now lives in Brooklyn New York. He studied painting at the Kansas City Art Institute earning a BFA in painting. In 2005 Key won the Charlotte Street Award from the Charlotte Street Foundation for outstanding visual art in Kansas City. Key’s work can be found in collections of Hallmark, Sprint, Wachovia, The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, and numerous private collections.
William Suran was born in Chicago, IL in 1974, graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1996, and moved to Brooklyn, New York in 2003 where he currently lives and paints. In June, 1999 Suran decided to stop exhibiting and to concentrate on working on a limited number of large format paintings for extended periods of time, in order to free himself from the pressure of having work to be seen. His paintings have figurative origins that become abstracted through a process of working and reworking and a building up of layers.
Emily Noelle Lambert received her M.F.A. from Hunter College in Painting and her B.A. in Visual Art from Antioch College. Lambert has exhibited nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions in New York, Chicago and South Korea. She is represented by Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, NY and Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago. Lambert has been awarded fellowships from the Yaddo Foundation, Anderson Ranch, Fountainhead, and Woodstock Byrdcliffe AIR. She teaches drawing and painting the Guggenheim Museum and Parsons School of Design.
Amanda Browder was born in Missoula, MT in 1976 and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA/MA from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2001, and taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 2001-07. In 2006 and 2007, she received a Chicago Community Arts Assistant Program Grant. Her exhibitions include the Nakaochiai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Lothringer 14, Munich, Germany; White Columns, NY, Mixture Contemporary Gallery, Houston, TX; The Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, MT; Gallery 400-UIC, and The Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago. Browder is a founding member of the art-podcast www.badatsports.com
We will end with a drink at a local establishment - TBD. Stay tuned!
Tour fee is $75 which is payable by cash or check only. (Limited to 20 spaces) Please email to reserve a space.
InContext Tours are led by Elizabeth Tenenbaum and Elissa Levy. Elizabeth is an painter, illustrator and contemporary art collection manager who lives in Brooklyn. She works with major private collections; consulted for Art in General, LMCC, Tribeca Open Artists’ Studio Tours, and various local community arts groups. Elizabeth is member of ArtTable and is currently pursuing her certificate in Fine Art Appraisal at NYU. Elissa is a mixed media artist, curator and consultant. Her work has been exhibited at the New Museum, NY, White Columns, NY and G Fine Art, Washington, DC. She recently curated a group exhibition at the ISCP, Brooklyn and was awarded a residency at Glenfiddich, Scotland in 2006. She has recently been organizing a series of events entitled “Sewing Socials” where guest are invited to wear clothing that needs repair and a team of darners will mend then.
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