The DUMBO 1st Thursday Gallery Walk. DUMBO 1st Thursday features area galleries and artists’ studios, open from 5:30 to 8:30, on the first Thursday of each month. There is no admission fee – participating galleries are open to the public. Gallery receptions, neighborhood dining and bars, and live music add to the evening’s festivities:

November 6, 2008 First Thursday Participants include, but are not limited to the following list. Please check with each gallery to confirm that they will be open late on Thursday.

5+5 Gallery, 111 Front St., Suite 210
A.I.R. Gallery, 111 Front St., Suite 228
Amos Eno Gallery, 111 Front St., Suite 202
Aswoon Gallery, 14 Jay St.
Brooklyn Arts Council, 111 Front St., Suite 218
Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation, 111 Front St.
DUMBO Arts Center, 30 Washington St.
Farmani Gallery, 111 Front St., Suite 212
Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main St.
GalleryQB, 163 Plymouth St.
Gloria Kennedy Gallery, 111 Front St., Suite 222
Henry Gregg Gallery, 111 Front St., Suite 226
Klompching Gallery, 111 Front St.
Melville House, 145 Plymouth St.
Nelson Hancock Gallery, 111 Front St., Suite 204
Pochron Studios, 20 Jay St.
Powerhouse Books & Powerhouse Arena, 37 Main St.
Rabbithole Studio, 33 Washington St.
Robert Wilson/rw Work Ltd, 111 Front St.
Safe-T Gallery, 111 Front St., Suite 214
Smack Mellon, 93 Plymouth St. @ Washington Street
Spring, 126a Front St.
Tivoli Home, 111 Front St., 1st floor
Umbrage Gallery, 111 Front St.
VII DUMBO, 28 Jay St.
Wessel + O-Connor Fine Art, 111 Front St., Suite 200

Details after the jump.
Some highlights include:

	Rabbitholestudio Repair & Shine (Lindsay Blatt) Opening Reception November 6, 5-9pm With live music by Hang the Lights and Giancarlo Vulcano’s Vetro. Brooklyn photographer LINDSAY BLATT explores the contemporary artifact that is the neighborhood shoe repair shop. Using a 4×5 view camera, Lindsay captures the skilled men and the old-world tools they use to keep a noble tradition alive. 33 Washington Street, DUMBO Brooklyn, 718-852-1500 www.rabbitholestudio.com
	Pochron Studios Phone Sex: Real and Imagined (Phil Toledano, Rebecca Memoli) November 6th 6:00PM-9:00PM One night only! Phone Sex: Real and Imagined – A collaborative show of Phil Toledano’s photographs from his most recent book Phone Sex, paired with Rebecca Memoli’s photographic project, A Strange Intimacy. This exhibition addresses both sides of phone sex – the reality of the operators’ experience and the interpretation of the callers’ fantasies. Phone Sex: Real and Imagined asks questions about assumed identities in these intimate conversations and their relation to the actual. 20 Jay St, 11th Floor Suite 1100, DUMBO Brooklyn, 718-237-1332 www.pochronstudios.com
	Dumbo Arts Center SARAH BEDDINGTON: CROSSING Curator and Artist Talk: November 6, 7pm Through November 16, 2008 A Solo exhibition curated by Tania Duvergne CROSSING is a site-specific, mixed media installation responding to Dumbo Art Center’s ship-like interior and the past maritime activity of the waterfront neighborhood of DUMBO, Brooklyn. 30 Washington Street, DUMBO Brooklyn Dumboartscenter.org
	powerHouse Books Bruce of Los Angeles (Bruce Bellas) Reception: November 6, 2008. 6-9PM Through November 16, 2008 An icon of gay art and one of the most famous names in physique photography, Bruce Bellas is remembered today as a pioneer of beefcake. He crafted a refined, masterful aesthetic of erotica, whose influence would later surface in the work of Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, and many others. 37 Main Street, DUMBO Brooklyn, 718-666-3049 www.powerhousearena.com
	Melville House Publishing First Thursdays at Melville House November 6, 6.30-8.30pm Hermine Ford / Kathleen Fraisier. As part of Dumbo’s First Thursdays Gallery Walk, a new exhibition opens at the Melville House Bookstore and gallery. 145 Plymouth Street, DUMBO Brooklyn, 718-722-9204 www.mhpbooks.com
	KLOMPCHING GALLERY Seascapes – One Location (Renate Aller) Opening Reception: November 6, 6-8pm 6 Nov – 20 Dec Renate Aller’s first solo exhibition at the KLOMPCHING GALLERY will feature eight archival color-pigment prints from her Seascape project, in which she has photographed the Atlantic Ocean from one location, spanning almost a decade. These images meld light and texture into beautifully hypnotic compositions that are arresting for their simple compositions. The combination of light and texture, transforms the water from moments of turbulence to quiet calmness in which the water’s surface glistens like diamonds or appears like molten lava. 111 Front Street, Suite 206, DUMBO Brooklyn, 212-796-2070 www.klompching.com
	Wessel + O’Connor Fine Art Bruce of Los Angeles Opening Reception: November 6, 6-8pm November 6 – December 20 Vintage Images from the Master Physique Photographer 111 Front Street, Suite 200, DUMBO Brooklyn, 718-596-1700 www.wesseloconnor.com
	Farmani Gallery Los Toros (Michael Crouser) Opening Reception and Book Signing, Thursday, November 6, 2008, 6-8:30pm November 6, 2008-January 10, 2009 Selections from the recently published “Los Toros,” a fifteen-year exploration of the world of the bullfights in Spain, Mexico, Ecuador and France. 111 Front Street, Suite 212, DUMBO Brooklyn, 718-578-4478 www.farmanigallery.com
	A.I.R. Gallery A.I.R. Gallery: The History Show (Work by A.I.R. artists from 1972 to the present) Opening Reception and Book Signing, Thursday, November 6, 2008, 6-8:30pm Part II: November 6 – 29, 2008 Curated by Kat Griefen and Carey Lovelace Works by: Diyan Achjadi, Stephanie Bernheim, Sharon Brant, Daria Dorosh, Sarah Draney, Loretta Dunkelman, Regina Granne, Mary Grigoriadis, Anne Healy, Debra Hampton, Jane Haskell, Michi Itami, Kazuko, Juri Kim, Louise Kramer, JoAnne McFarland, Ana Mendieta, Sylvia Netzer, Beth Racette, Elaine Reichek, Luisa Sartori, Francie Shaw, Elisabeth Munro Smith, Joan Snitzer, Alice Steinhardt, Sheila Ross, Diane Samuels, Kathleen Schneider, Rochelle Shicoff, Elke Solomon, Nancy Spero, Clover Vail, Susan Williams, Mimi Wlodarczyk, Haejin Yoon, and Barbara Zucker 111 Front Street, Suite 228, DUMBO Brooklyn, 212-255-6651 www.airgallery.org
	Henry Gregg Gallery Killing Mediocracy: Paintings, Glassworks, Sculptures (Scott Endsley) Opening Reception, Thursday, November 6, 2008, Live Music – Earth People from 6 – 9 pm November 6 – December 7 A retrospective featuring the works of a modern day artist. On exhibit will be his glass chant paintings which are created with transparent oils and crushed glass, then chiseled to reveal its magic. The result is a symphony of light, color and translucency. His sculptures which are created with animal toys and materials found in the streets of Dumbo, give life to the creature and its habitat. 111 Front Street, Suite 226, DUMBO Brooklyn, 718-408-1090 www.henrygregggallery.com
	Umbrage Gallery Lucky Unlucky Dolls (Lisa Van Noorden) November 6 – November 9 The series by Dutch artist Lisa van Noorden depicts child soldiers in a medium accessible to all audiences, from adults to young children. 111 Front Street, DUMBO Brooklyn, 212-796-2707 www.lucky-unlucky.com | www.umbragebooks.com
	Gloria Kennedy Gallery “The Gloria Kennedy” Exhibition Reception November 6, 2008 November 6 – December 20, 2008 The “Gloria Kennedy” exhibition spotlights new and existing hand built ceramic art created by Gloria Kennedy. 111 Front Street, Suite 222, DUMBO Brooklyn, 718-858-5254 www.gkgart.com
	Safe-T-Gallery The Last Polaroids (Gail Thacker) In the big gallery we will feature veteran photographer Gail Thacker in a show called “The Last Polaroids. ” The show highlights work she has done with the final carton of film she received from the Polaroid Company – one of the last batches made. (Image credit: Backstage Bitch” © Gail Thacker.) 111 Front Street, Suite 214, DUMBO Brooklyn, 718-782-5920 www.safetgallery.com
	Safe-T-Gallery Dots. Lines. Figures. (Saki Kishimoto) November 6 to December 13, 2008 Then in the smaller gallery we are happy to introduce a very interesting young Japanese painter, Saki Kishimoto, in a show of her multi-layered, somewhat conceptual but strongly visceral paintings. Many of her paintings start as images from YouTube or Facebook and are then “infused with desire.” (Image credit: Melnikov’s House” © Saki Kishimoto) 111 Front Street, Suite 214, DUMBO Brooklyn, 718-782-5920 www.safetgallery.com
	Galapagos Art Space Michael Arenella and His Dreamland Orchestra Thursday, November 6, 8pm $12 An eleven piece ensemble steeped in the hot-dance band tradition of the Jazz Age joins us the first Thursday of every month. They play their “Hot-and-Sweet” music anywhere that fine and eclectic tastes meet. 16 Main Street, DUMBO Brooklyn, 718-222-8500 www.galapagosartspace.com
	Smack Mellon Live Music, Beer & Art Thursday, November 6, 8pm $12 Kevin Congelton Trio–Music Performance starts at 7pm. Smack Mellon presents great new sounds by local musicians every first Thursday of the month. Come and enjoy the great view and have a beer courtesy of Kelso of Brooklyn. 92 Plymouth Street, DUMBO Brooklyn, 718-834-8761 www.smackmellon.org