Dumbo NYC

Five Events For tomorrow, Thursday in Dumbo 4/12/07

1. Exhibition: Jeremiah: A Romantic Vision @ powerHouse Arena
2. SEED collective shopping event @ Retreat
3. Opening Reception for Hilary Lorenz’s “Tracing Nature” @ Safe-T-Gallery
4. Dumbo Neighborhood Spring Party @ Smack Mellon
5. Opening Reception for David Sokosh: Cabinet of Curiosities @ Underbridge Pictures

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1) An exhibition of work from Jeremiah: A Romantic Vision By Jeremiah Goodman

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When: April 12–May 26, 2007
Where: The BoConcept Skylounge at The powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street at Water Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Jeremiah’s expressive watercolors not only act as an archive of interior design for the second half of the 20th Century, but also provide a glimpse into the artist’s unique ability to infuse a depiction of domestic space with sense of drama and emotion second only to being there. In addition to making art based on the interiors, Jeremiah also painted commissioned studies for rooms-to-be, creating the beautiful plans on which the rooms themselves would be based. Jeremiah: A Romantic Vision is a sumptuous retrospective of Jeremiah’s career.

Over the span of his over 50 year long career, Jeremiah has painted renderings of the interiors and homes of such influential icons as President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan; legendary theatre personas Mary Martin, Sir John Gielgud, and Richard Rodgers; Baron and Baroness Philippe de Rothschild; jewelry designer Elsa Peretti; Greta Garbo; Cecil Beaton; Betsy Bloomingdale; the Duchess of Windsor; fashion designers Elsa Schiaparelli and Bill Blass; Diana Vreeland, interior designers Billy Baldwin and Mario Buatta; and famed photographer Bruce Weber; in addition to illustrating rooms for House and Garden, The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar,and Interior Design, a publication for which Jeremiah illustrated each month’s cover for 15 years. Jeremiah: A Romantic Vision offers a rare look at a true life of grandeur.

2) SEED collective shopping event @ Retreat

When: Thursday, April 12, 5-9pm
Where: Retreat lounge, 147 Front Street, Dumbo Brooklyn

SEED is a collective of 10 independent designers, including clothes, jewelry, hats and handbags.
myspace.com/seed_designers

3) Opening Reception for “Tracing Nature” by Hilary Lorenz

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When: Thursday April 12, from 6 to 8 PM
Where: Safe-T-Gallery, 111 Front Street #214, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY

The show features Hilary’s latest water-medium drawings and prints reflecting on her endurance experiences in the rugged mountains of New Mexico and upstate New York.

Hilary Lorenz “Tracing Nature” is a drawing project that visually translates the physical and visceral experience of hiking remote landscapes.

Opening Reception Thursday April 12
Exhibition runs April 12 - May 12, 2007
www.safetgallery.com

4) Smack Mellon Neighborhood Spring Party

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When: Thursday, April 12, 5-8pm
Where: Smack Mellon, 92 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn

To Thank you for supporting the local businesses, we invite you to our neighborhood party! Come meet your neighbors and enjoy food, drinks, and art in Smack Mellon’s beautiful waterfront space.
www.smackmellon.org

5) Opening Reception for David Sokosh: Cabinet of Curiosities
When: Thursday, April 12, from 6 - 8 PM.
Where: Underbridge Pictures, 111 Front Street Gallery 202 DUMBO Brooklyn

David Sokosh: Cabinet of Curiosities. Contemporary Tintypes and Ambrotypes.

Cabinet of Curiosities is the debut of a new body of work by David Sokosh. These one-of-a-kind photographs are created using the Wet-Plate Collodion method, popular during the middle of the 19th century. It is the process used by the famous Civil War photographer Matthew Brady.

These images explore the photographer’s collecting obsessions. From plaster casts of Renaissance sculpture through animal skulls and other natural history materials to antique electric light bulbs and early scientific equipment, the photographs provide a rare glimpse into this photographer’s unique world.

Wet-Plate Collodion was the second major photo technique, the first being Daguerreotype. From the 1850’s through the 1870’s most of the photographs made in America were created using this method. Contemporary photography uses gelatin as the vehicle for photosensitive silver. Wet-Plate uses Collodion, which is gun-cotton dissolved in ether and alcohol, as the vehicle. The process requires that a plate of metal or glass be coated with Collodion, then photosensitized, exposed and developed while still wet, all within a narrow window of opportunity (approx. 5 minutes) before the Collodion has irreversibly dried. These images are unique originals, each created separately in the camera, not printed from negatives.

The exhibition runs through Sunday May 20th.

www.underbridgepictures.com