Eye Out, New Art in at Slope's Seventh Ave. Art Storefront

The Big Eye is gone from the storefront on Seventh Avenue between Second and Third Streets where artist Mark Ravitz has been placing his work and it has been replaced by new work. The grate was already down yesterday evening, so we could only capture all three of them as they appear behind steel.

Upcoming: Artwalking on Bedford Avenue

A new exhibition of art on Bedford Avenue kicks off this Sunday (April 27) from 2PM-8PM. Per information sent along by Matthew Silver, known to many people as the Bedford Avenue Dancer:

Artwalking: Bedford Ave. An invitational exhibition featuring over thirty storefront installations between North 3rd and North 9th on Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. A marriage of ART + COMMERCE creating abridge to a Williamsburg neighborhood in transition from a new generation of store owners to an artist community over twenty five years old. Over thirty Brooklyn-based artists have created storefront installations often in collaboration with respective store owners. There will also be an array of amazing street performers The curators are Larry Walczak and Donna Kessinger.

The art is on display through June 8. There is more info here.

Art Attack #2: Third & Bond Mural Action Shot

We found artist Pasqualina Azzarello working on her mural at the development going up at the corner of Third and Bond in Gowanus. She has been expanding the huge mural and even extending around the construction trailer. Brownstoner has been running weekly posts about the development. The latest has some renderings of the design from Rogers Marvel.

Art Attack #1: Indigenous on Bedford

We initially stopped to take some pics on Bedford Avenue because we noticed that some space next to the Elliman real estate office had morphed into a gallery. Then, a woman inside motioned to us to come in and we focused on the stunning art. It's the work of Stephen Bennett who has created larger than life portraits of Aboriginal Australians, Namibian actors and more. The artist's website is here.

Bklink: Is Otterness a Lousy Person & Lousy Artist?

"The art world has masticated in contemplation over sculptor Tom Otterness just as the dog he assassinated in the name of artistic expression over 20 years ago might have chomped on a tasty bone. The chance to jump on the Otterness Hate Wagon has come (literally) to DUMBO where the artist’s piece Large Covered Wagon is now on display. (If you get off at the 14th Street stop of the A,C,E you’ve already had a chance to fall in love/hate with his whimsical statues.)"--Brooklyn Heights Blog

Bklink: Otterness Does Dumbo

"While a Tom Otterness sculpture can really brighten up the dark underground of New York, for his latest installation he's shedding some sunlight on his work. The above was just installed in DUMBO near the pedestrian exit to the Brooklyn Bridge."--Gothamist

J. Fiber and Yoon Lee at Williamsburg's Pierogi

With this post, we welcome the contributions of Owen Roberts. His task is clear--to supply us with posts about whatever moves him:

The crowd at the opening at Pierogi, on North 9 Street off Bedford Ave in Williamsburg last Friday night was consistent with expectations--older and very white--but the art was far from predictable.

The first room featured seven paintings by the San Francisco based artist Yoon Lee. From far away, the paintings all look fairly similar, but on close inspection each is based on a unique color scheme and architectural conception. Lee's paintings are analog reproductions of images that originate on her computer, done with precisely layered, thick lines and dots of acrylic paint. From close up they look machine manufactured, but take a step back and you will see a more chaotic, expressive image.

In the second room, a husband and wife duo with a single moniker, J. Fiber—a concatenation of the two artists' names: Jane Fine and James Esber—have fifteen works that combine acrylic, colored pencil, graphite and ink. Each work is a complex arrangement of limbs, flowers, guns and abstract shapes, along with a few phalluses thrown in here and there. The result is something consistent with many recent independent comic book artists' interpretations of anatomy (see Dash Shaw, Gipi), M. C. Escher, and fantastic story telling. Each drawing presents a self-contained world, where violence and masculinity appear at war with feminine imagery.
--Owen Roberts