BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAYWhen your van breaks down and dies en route to Florida from New York, you might get a little cranky and freaked out because you have 40 people’s art in the back and are somewhat behind schedule.
You haven’t met the Buxtons.
- Ad Hoc and Eastern District are in Miami as BKMIA Thursday Through Sunday
Brooklyn gallerists Garrison and Alison from AdHoc found themselves at a U-Haul truck rental agency when it was obvious that fixing their jalopy wasn’t going to happen anytime soon.
“Yeah we’re definitely making some tangy lemonade out of the lemons we’ve been collecting,” says he.
With a show to mount and open in 2 days (Today) in Miami, they asked for a 14 foot or 18 foot truck but U-Haul was out of that size. So they upgraded to the 26 foot, which made the whole process of moving art a lot easier, and together they steered the MIGHTY BKMIA SHIP southward.
“We just got another beautiful space today”, says Garrison, now that they’ve arrived with a truck of Brooklyn Street Art in the land of orange groves and mobs of art-hungry models in stilettos. They are spreading out into their new giant space on 4141 Northeast 2nd Avenue, which is right across the street from their original space. They had a lot of people’s work with them, “Yeah there was no way it all was going to fit in the original space we had”
And the art itself? One of the first things to be unpacked was this badass sculpture.
- UFO and Ryan Doyle at BKMIA (photo courtesy Ad Hoc)
This is an interactive kinetic piece by Ryan Doyle and UFO of 907 crew.
- What’r YOU lookin’ at? (courtesy Ad Hoc)
According to the artists, it’s made of found objects and crafted using caveman spaceship technology. Amazingly similar to the squidlike image in the photo below, this sculpture is mechanized with two worm head, gear drive electric wheelchair motors, and is fully operational with a joystick. And yes, Martha, he does look like a writer (check out the fat marker in his tentacle).
Perhaps a sketch? (photo ©Jaime Rojo)
Ad Hoc is partnering with Brooklyn neighbor Eastern District in a conceptual gallery called AE District to show off some of Brooklyn’s finest street artists, graff writers, and related contemporary artists in a 40+ name show. Names you might know like London Police and Gaia and Morning Breath will be joining talented newbies like NohJColey and Mario Brothers.
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