LOST

curated by Will Hutnick

As part of Pratt Institute and Myrtle Avenue Restoration Project’s collaboration, Drawings Along Myrtle Ave., I am pleased to announce LOST, a group exhibition in two locations featuring drawing, collage, painting, sculpture, and installation that questions our notion about the spaces we occupy – physical, virtual and psychological.

Drawings Along Myrtle is a collaborative project between Pratt Institute’s Fine Arts and Foundation department with the Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project (MARP), featuring works from alumni, students and members of the local community. Exhibitions will take place within ten businesses along Myrtle Avenue, engaging the diverse and culturally rich community as a canvas of mutual expression. This exhibition series focuses on drawing as an expanded medium, seeking to identify and showcase works by contemporary artists who are both challenging and engaging the traditional definition of drawing. From sketches to sculpture, installation, mark-making, and mechanical means, each artist explores the notion of drawing as an ever-changing and evolving medium.

Dakota Sica, “The Peace Sign Is Scarring Me”, 2014, spray paint on MDF, 24 x 24″

LOST

October 4 – 26, 2014

Corkscrew Wines – 489 Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn, NY

Pillow Cafe – 505 Myrtle Ave.

featuring: Maria Dimanshtein, Shannon Finnegan, Nick Naber, Jen Shepard and Dakota Sica

The artists featured in LOST are investigating notions of displacement through constructed realities.  The invented environments are at once familiar, fantastical, complex and disorienting.  Through maze-like passages and convoluted patterns, the artists are addressing our own limitations and obstacles – physical and psychological – and whether those barriers and divisions are self-imposed, forced upon by an outside agent, or imagined.  The architectural structures become representative of transitional and ambiguous moments between projected reality versus actuality – the misdirection that is perceived, the communication that is abandoned.

Art Walk: Saturday, October 4, 5 – 7pm (all locations); meet artists and curators on a self-guided tour of all ten sites

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 4, 7pm, Splitty (415 Myrtle)

Closing Reception:  Sunday, October 26, 5 – 7pm, Corkscrew Wines (489 Myrtle Ave)

Nick Naber, “Structure 1″, 2013, graphite on watercolor paper, 22.5 x 28”