Open Source Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Open Source Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Carolyn Hall and Clarinda Mac Low “Sunk Shore”
Open Source Gallery presents Sunk Shore, a site-specific installation and residency by Carolyn Hall and Clarinda Mac Low. Sunk Shore is a speculative, experiential tour of our climate crisis future...More »
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Regin Igloria “Heavy Lift”
In Heavy Lift, Regin Igloria explores capitalism and object- driven ownership. This exhibit features the latest iteration of the artists’ work with movement using a cargo van and the contents of a custom-built...More »
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Ronny Quevedo “Field of play”
Ronny Quevedo presents Field of play, a site-specific installation at Open Source Gallery. Field of play explores the effects of relocation and displacement through the abstraction of games and architecture....More »
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Xyza Cruz Bacani “We Are Like Air”
Open Source presents We Are Like Air, an exhibition and public art project by Xyza Cruz Bacani. Over the past several years, Xyza Cruz Bacani has documented migrant workers in Hong Kong, Singapore,...More »
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Prosjektrom Normanns “Transcendental Tactility”
Prosjektrom Normanns presents Transcendental Tactility, a multi-media exhibition, at Open Source Gallery. Transcendental Tactility is a group exhibition curated by Norwegian artist-run space Prosjektrom...More »
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Mira Gáberová “Statue of Everything”
Mira Gaberova presents Statue of Everything, a multimedia installation at Open Source Gallery. A stage curtain is a peculiar form of a barrier. It is the barrier between our ordinary and mundane world...More »
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Savas Boyraz “Back Drop”
Savas Boyraz presents Back Drop, a video installation for Open Source Gallery. In Back Drop, Kurdish artist Savas Boyraz explores the stories of individual Kurdish guerilla fighters using portraiture....More »
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Cristian Bors & Marius Ritiu “Venus von Hamburg”
Cristian Bors & Marius Ritiu present Venus von Hamburg, an installation at Open Source Gallery that explores politics, heritage, and the economy. While wars in the past have been fought with weapons,...More »
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Sara Morawetz “How The Stars Stand”
“Where is the clock to show us how the stars stand?” – RAY BRADBURY Our experience of time is not constant, rather, it flexes and yields to the specific nature of our passage through space. Bound to...More »
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“Rummage” Exhibition
Whitney Lynn presents “Rummage,” a series of performative installations at Open Source Gallery. Garage sales have a long history, tracing back to the early 1800s, when shipyards would sell off unclaimed...More »
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Yun-Woo Choi “Endless, Seamless”
Given the ubiquity of printed matter in daily life, it is no wonder that people often become more concerned with the representation of a thing than the thing itself. In pop culture, print and images in...More »
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Jasmine Murrell “Some Impossibility Without A Name”
Jasmine Murrell presents “Some Impossibility Without A Name,” an installation for Open Source Gallery. How can we begin again at the end? Where is the beginning of nothingness? Where is the end of...More »
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Tirtzah Bassel “I Want To Hold You Close” at Open Source Gallery
Tirtzah Bassel presents “I Want to Hold You Close,” an installation for Open Source Gallery. In a culture where we are increasingly watching and being watched, Bassel is interested in how we perform....More »
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B. David Walsh “Extracted Bedroom Project”
B. David Walsh presents “Extracted Bedroom Project,” an installation and performance for Open Source. Today, we are inundated with others’ lives – we see their accomplishments and struggles on social...More »
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Lena Lapschina “Yes/No”
Lena Lapschina presents “Yes/No,” an installation for Open Source Gallery. In Lapschina’s work, communication is key. Lapschina is well-known for her systematic and methodical investigation into social...More »
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Sofia Szamosi “Eat Me”
The Open Source Gallery presents “Eat me,” the first solo show of New York based artist, Sofia Szamosi. Curated by Keith Miller, Sofia Szamosi’s “Eat Me” explores the relationship between the artist’s...More »
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Corina Reynolds “Northwestern Expansion”
Corina Reynolds presents “Northwestern Expansion,” an installation for Open Source Gallery. When explorers in the 1400′s patiently waited through harsh winters with their ships sometimes frozen in place...More »
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Emanuele Cacciatore “A Conversation with Consequence”
Without relying solely on conventional aesthetics or contemporary ideology, Cacciatore addresses how we perceive and define gestural painting. The gestural passages in his artwork, although realized through...More »
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Mark Stilwell “The Super Defense Force vs The Tittanno Beast (The Power of the Constructonauts)”
Mark Stilwell presents “The Super Defense Force vs The Tittanno Beast (The Power of the Constructonauts),” an installation and performance at Open Source Gallery. “The Super Defense Force vs The Tittanno...More »
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Hubert Dobler “Roundabout”
Hubert Dobler presents “Roundabout,” a multimedia installation for Open Source Gallery. Abstraction at the intersection of technology and art, Dobler’s work uses chaos and masculine tools, such as motorcycles...More »
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Arne Schreiber “Your Stripes”
For “Your Stripes,” Schreiber’s floor drawing uses both the private, indoor space, as well as the public, outdoor space of the gallery as a reference upon which to develop work. Using a predetermined process...More »
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Katerina Marcelja “Fragment Series”
Katerina Marcelja presents “Fragment Series,” an exhibition of prints for Open Source Gallery. In “Fragment Series,” Marcelja works with clusters of graphic sequences etched on multiple plates. These...More »
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Anja Matthes “Out-Sight-In In-Sight-Out”
Anja Matthes presents “Out-Sight-In In-Sight-Out,” a multi-media collaborative project for Open Source Gallery. “Out-Sight-In In-Sight-Out” examines gender, identity and sexuality through a collaboration...More »
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Katarina Poliacikova “Until We Remember The Same”
From May 2012 till May 2013 Katarina Poliacikova was working on a “collaborative project” with her sister. It consisted of a very simple everyday activity – taking a picture of the sun at the same minute,...More »
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Miho Suzuki “Our Children Today”
Open Source presents “Our Children Today,” an exhibition by Miho Suzuki on view from October 12 – November 6, 2013. Please join us for a reception with the artist on Saturday, October 12, from 7 to 9pm. Kids...More »
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“We Know Not Exactly Where” Exhibition
We Know Not Exactly Where or How is a community-based art initiative inspired by Frederick Law Olmsted, the forefather of American landscape architecture, and participatory artistic practice. Its goal...More »
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Keith Miller “Trees”
One of the inspirations for Miller’s large-scale tree portraits was a scene he encountered while driving across the Great Plains and farmlands: a single tree in the distance. Complete in its solitude,...More »
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Andrea Ray “Utopians Dance”
Working at the intersection of pre-recorded and real-time experience, Ray creates environments with sculpture, light, and architecture from which sound is deciphered. Audio narratives are commonly deployed...More »
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Margrethe Aanestad “HEREIN”
Margrethe Aanestad presents “HEREIN,” an installation for Open Source Gallery. Aanestad’s work explores drawing as a spatial medium, a way of defining the undefinable. Paper, as well as color, becomes...More »
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David D’Ostilio “The Chopping Block”
David D’Ostilio presents “The Chopping Block,” an installation with a performative element. D’Ostilio will demonstrate the skills and rites that his grandfather, a carpenter, teacher, and artist, taught...More »
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Stefanie Koseff “To The Deep”
A body falling through space — but it’s not space, it’s water. The viewer is surrounded by three connected screens of a slow-moving underwater realm. This falling body, a woman in black, and a group of...More »
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Nick Kline “Gilgo Beach”
Nick Kline presents “Gilgo Beach.” Over the last fifteen years, the “Ocean Parkway Serial Killer” targeted sex workers, leaving at least ten dead bodies along a short stretch of dense brush by Gilgo...More »
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Patrick Cadenhead "Spring and Renewal"
With Spring and Renewal, artist Patrick Cadenhead seeks to create a multi-sensory meditation on religion, laundry, and our denial of decay. Large sculptures caked in common cleaning products make up this...More »
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Felipe Mujica "One day this will all be yours"
The title of this exhibition is the negative version of a previous project developed by Felipe at Open Source Gallery: One day this will all be yours. The continuity of this statement – and its supposed...More »
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Peter Feigenbaum Exhibition
“Expanding upon his 2010 Streetsmart project in which he photographed his photorealistic architectural sets of decaying 70s era New York buildings on the streets of Park Slope using surreal compositional...More »
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Karl Spörk "Another Meeting"
Karl Spörk, Another Meeting at Open Source will project the “hen and hare”, a video by Karl Spörk. Spörk’s father, a butcher by profession, instructs the artist how to slaughter animals. Monika Wuhrer...More »
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Even Robart and James Moore Exhibition
Open Source presents Evan Robarts and James Moore. Responding to their environment, Evan Robarts and James Moore will be presenting two site specific works intending to activate the space into a different...More »
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Leigh Davis "The Burrow (H.H.)"
“Now the truth of the matter – and one has no eye for that in times of great peril, and only by a great effort even in times when danger is threatening – is that in reality the burrow does provide a considerable...More »
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"Open Source Soup Kitchen"
Each night in December, a different person signs up to cook a meal for approximately 15 -20 people to be served between 7 and 9pm every night. Kind of like an advent calendar for food. Most of the dishes...More »
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Jason Reed "Borderland Collective"
In late October, artist Jason Reed (director of social art project Borderland Collective) will take residence for 10 days in Brooklyn to collaborate with Open Source Gallery in Park Slope and youth from...More »
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Jason Reppert "Parlor Tricks"
The work being presented by Jason Reppert for his exhibition Parlor Tricks at Open Source is a group of narratively driven sculptural objects. Each distinct, yet interconnected formally and conceptually,...More »
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James Leonard “927 Days at Sea”
James Leonard’s multi-disciplinarian works are drawn from his interaction with the world around him, touching on themes both timeless and urgent. At Open Source Gallery, Leonard is presenting “927 Days...More »
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Raphaela Riepl "Adorable Steamed Sea Urchin"
“I get started with what ever can drive me there. Probably I get somewhere else pretty soon, cause it evolves every second. And I can’t deny that I like entertaining myself, so you really gotta be tricky...More »
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Pirmin Hagen "First"
There are places I remember – some have gone and some remain. There are places we know from pictures, books, magazines and TV and those we know from tales and stories. There are places we visited and places...More »
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Nobuko "Wa"
“和” wa: 1)sum 2)harmony 3)peace Mutual recognition of the existence: According to the Japanese way of thinking, personal values are the tolerance of differences. In this way the harmony between people,...More »
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"ORFI NYC: LIVE GIG 2010" Exhibition
Christian Brown, Don Hearn, Victor Littlejohn, Ana Gonzalez, and Annett Monheim of The Organization for Returning Fashion Interest* present: MELODY AND MIND, a selection of paintings and furniture with...More »
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Peter Feigenbaum “Trainset Ghetto: Streetsmart"
Peter shows a new series of large-scale photographs at Open Source Gallery based on a site-specific installation of his “Trainset Ghetto” sets on the street in front of the gallery storefront space. The...More »
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"Images NYC" Exhibition
Curated by 17 year old Malissa Williams, (who also participates in the exhibition), this depiction of New York City is based on the views of four unique young female artists. Hailing from various parts...More »
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Severin Hagen and Sebastian Koch "At work"
This June, OPEN SOURCE GALLERY will inaugurate its annual residency with emerging Austrian Artists. This year we chose the young austrian talents Severin Hagen and Sebastian Koch. The Artists will work...More »
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Patricia Watwood "Portraits 20/10"
The tradition of portraiture is 3000 years old. The historical recording of our likenesses includes the ubiquity of photography. From celebrities to our sons and daughters, we are “on the record.” What...More »
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Rachel Youens "Cornucopias"
“Youens regards the tabletop as a place of expansion and Baroque elaboration,where questions of verity and fiction dissolve in imagery that is part of a sequential whole; like stanzas in long poems, having...More »
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Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau "Wang Bin Torture in Commercial Quality, High Quality and Museum Quality"
Ondrej Brody (CZ) & Kristofer Paetau’s (FIN) recent work: ‘Painting China Now’ (2007), is a collection of 30 oil paintings depicting instances of violence inflicted by the Chinese government upon their...More »
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Akiyuki Ina "EMITTING EVANESCENT BEAUTY"
Due to the mortgage crisis of 2007, there is a preponderance of buildings whose construction has been indefinitely halted. Inspired by these ghostly structures, Ina has created an installation at OPEN...More »
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John Coburn “Fairlane Marauder”
In a group of new work situated between painting and sculpture entitled: “Fairlane Marauder” the artist John Coburn has produced a series of curiously shaped panel pieces the tones and finish of which...More »
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"Soup Kitchen" Dinners
For the month of December Open Source Gallery is about, Cooking, Eating, Sharing, Celebrating… Dinner is served from 6-8pm It’s time for the 2nd annual open source soup kitchen so if you want to participate,...More »
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Sara Ching-Yu Sun Exhibition
In this project with Ethan Crenson, Sun’s video footage is the result of an intensive period of shooting concerts at the Williamsburg Waterfront and editing silent movements of everything except the actual...More »
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Patrick May "Portrait Photo Considered Harmful"
Patrick May creates lush digital prints which investigate notions of identity and authorship. His current series, “Portrait Photo Considered Harmful”, remixes the familial portrait and vacation photography...More »
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Christian Brown Exhibition
Looking and seeing are as different from one another as registering a pulse is to “living.” Christian Brown’s obsession with, in his words, “the edges of things,” is a collection of detritus that has been...More »
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"The Monster Project" Exhibition
In a collaborative effort with New York City public school children, Kylin O’Brien is painting giant monsters around the city. Still in its early stages, the monster project launched its first huge public...More »
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Scott Groeniger "Relish, Savor, Enjoy"
Using textures and abstractions photographed in China, I am examining the present culture and lifestyle of the ancient cradle of Chinese civilization which is Shanxi Province and the current cultural...More »
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Jeremy D. Slater Exhibition
Jeremy D. Slater is a sound artist essentially, but also works with video and sound in performance and installation settings. He uses his laptop computer to create a variety of sound, image, and interactive...More »
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Fuse Works Exhibition
Fuse Works exhibits multiples and editions by artists who approach editioned artwork as a field of artistic discourse and inquiry itself, rather than simply a means of mass-producing their efforts. Fuse...More »