Triumphant LiC-A Artists Exhibition Opens at Atlantic Gallery Feb 1st

LIC-A@Atlantic Gallery

548 West 28th St., Suite 540, NY, NY 10001
Opening reception: Thursday, Feb 1, 6:00-8:30 pm
Exhibition on view Jan 30th-Feb 17th

The talented artists of Long Island City will all be together under one roof for LIC-A@Atlantic Gallery, hosted from 1/30-2/17 at 548 West 28th St #540 in Chelsea. Carol Crawford, fellow artist & president of the board at LICA, shares one of her annual curating spots with her fellow members at LICA, making this the 4th annual LiC-A@Atlantic exhibition.

A veritable who’s who of artists who live or work in Long Island City, there will be artworks on view by Lia Ali, Diane Bassin, Mindy Bassin, J.F. Bautista, Patricia Brintle, Patricia Bouley, Nicholas Christopher, Anne Closuit Eisenheart, Carol Crawford, Fabienne Cuter, Joseph August De Leo, Kathy Ferguson, Jean Foos, Diana Freedman-Shea, Eric Friedmann, Estsud “cappy” Fungcap, Gilly Gil-Lugo, Michelle Goguen, Asano Agarie Gomez, Raul Gracia, Myrna Harrison-Changar, Erika Horwitz, Afzal Hossain, Glenn Marlowe, Nancy Macina, Thaddeaus Radell, Sarah Richardson, Carol Rickey, Mark Rossi, Theo Sahos, Min-Myng Jung Schaffner, Veronica Soto-Hlampeas, Howard Stevens, Carrie Swim, Therese Tan, Diane Teeter, Kay Towns, Preston Trombly, Marji Wollin and Siu Wong-Camac. With a total of forty exhibiting artists, the exhibition will span the remarkable breadth of artistic styles rooted in Long Island City.

With styles ranging from figurative to abstract, and a variety of artistic practices on offer, LIC-A@Atlantic will hold something for everyone. Come out and support working artists who comprise the artist community of Long Island City in this rare exhibition, catapulting artists who work outside of the scene of usual suspects in Manhattan and Bushwick. Home to formidable international artists Kimsooja and Mark di Suvero, Long Island City’s tribe of contemporary artists explore form and content in unique and surprising ways.

Don’t miss the opening of LIC-A@Atlantic from 6-8 pm on Thursday, Feb 1, and stay tuned for meet the artist nights (6-8 pm, Thurs, Feb. 8 & Thurs, Feb. 15 and Sat, Feb. 17 2-5 pm)

General Arts Preview

-1 Below: A Look at Culture in the Outer Boros & NY Metro Area, Jan 29 to Feb 2, 2018

There are countless gallery guides exploring the cultural events happening throughout NYC, but how many can you find within walking distance or bus ride of your nest? How many events happen right down the street that you could swing by after a nice dinner with a friend? Why does every single blog profile seem to profile events happening in the art areas of Chelsea and the Lower East Side?

With these thoughts in mind, here at -1 Below we take a look at cultural events happening around New York City, minus one boro: Manhattan.

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Below we consider upcoming cultural highlights with five not-to-miss events from Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx… with some cultural events to entice guests willing to venture farther afield.

Artwork by Katherine Toukhy, PES Grab back artist-in-residence (Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ)

“Night Regulation” Radiator Gallery, 10-61 Jackson Ave, Long Island City feat. artists Loren Britton, Maria Dimanshtein, Nicholas Fraser, JF Lynch and Andrew Prayzner – curated by Patrick Neal. An exhibition touching on the fraught and complex relationship between conceptual and formal elements present in contemporary art. Opening: Feb 2nd from 6-9 pm
“Incision: Feminist in Residence” Project for Empty Space, 2 Gateway Center, Newark, NJ (across from Penn station skybridge) feat. artists Chaya Babu, Christen Clifford, Camille Lee and Katherine Toukhy. Profoundly feminist, this exhibition explores the personal and political presence of being a woman artist in a complex, hierarchical art world pantheon. Opening: Jan 31st from 6-8 pm.
“Know Your Mushrooms: Mycology 101” Earth Arts Center, 936 Madison Street, Brooklyn, NY for artists with a taste for the wilder side of nature, this class, led by expert agriculturalist and PDC practitioner Oliver Bolotin, covers key points outlined by Paul Stamets in the tome “Mycelium Running”. This class will cover wild mushrooms as well as growing your own fungi colony at home. Event takes place Sat, Feb 3rd: doors open at 8 pm with discussion beginning at 8:30.
“Reenactment” gallery talk, BRIC (The Stoop @ BRIC Arts) 647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY. Coffee + Conversation discussing current BRIC exhibition “Reenactment” with curator Jenny Gerow and exhibiting artists Maria Hupfield and Farideh Sakhaeifer on how certain histories are privileged, stifled, and/or eventually re-examined. The exhibition features artworks by Ken Gonzalez-Day, Crystal Z. Campbell, Alicia Grullon (pictured in cover image), Hupfield, Sakhaeifer, and Marisa Williamson. Feb 3rd from 12-1 pm.
“Coming to America” Free Screening @Brooklyn Bazaar, 150 Greenpoint Ave, Brooklyn, NY. A light-hearted look at America (specifically, Jamaica Queens) through the eyes of a visitor from our current administration’s so-monikered “shithole countries”, come laugh off our current xenophobia with Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall’s devastatingly witty performance, with turns by the commanding James Earl Jones and Madge Sinclair in the classic 1988 film directed by John Landis. No RSVP required, seating first come first serve. Jan 31st from 8-11 pm.