Artwork by Matthew Oates
A reminder: if you missed Tuesday’s screening of Clayton Patterson’s Tompkins Square riot footage in its 3.5-hour entirety, stop by the New Museum tonight for From the Underground and Below, a screening of several short documentaries (and an excerpt of the riot footage) by Patterson on the “art, performance, and popular struggle” of the Lower East Side.
Over in Williamsburg, it’s Every Second Friday again tomorrow, so all these galleries are staying open late, and a few others are even holding openings. Read on for our weekend art picks.
THURSDAY
Liminal
Audra Wolowiec’s “sound-sculpture hybrid” of wooden beams and embedded speakers, called “Warm Up,” will be shown in conjunction with a series of charcoal grid drawings by Alissa Blumenthal, a Russian woman who immigrated to New York in 1925 and drew this collection of grids in the ’50s. Except not really, because Blumenthal is the pseudonym of contemporary artist Tatiana Istomina, who made all that up and drew the grids herself last year.
Reverse Space, 28 Frost Street, Williamsburg; 7 p.m.
Summer Break
The closing party for a wildly varied group show, featuring trippy saturated paintings by Matthew Oates, Day-Glo beadwork by Katherine Daniels, photography by Megan Cump, and light installation by Carol Salmanson.
Station Independent, 164 Suffolk Street, Lower East Side, 6 p.m.
Hello World
A unique collection of digital text images made from eight different computer programming languages by William Keegan.
PIPS, 158 Roebling Street, Williamsburg, 7 p.m.
FRIDAY
Magistrates of Marzipan
A series of charcoal and ink portraits based on famous busts by Bushwick-based artist Sarah Intemann, with a focus on “the whimsicality of these men of position in frivolous wigs.”
The One Well, 165 Greenpoint Avenue, Greenpoint; 7 p.m.
Correspondence II
A group show in which TSA trades artist-in-residences with their Philadelphia location, and displays all the eclectic work of their sibling gallery.
; 44 Stewart Ave. #49, Bushwick; 7 p.m.
SATURDAY
The Poemroom: Maps = Spam
An “immersive visual poetry exhibition” by Brooklyn-based poet Drew Vanderburg. You get a free piece of original art with $5 admission fee.
The Living Gallery, 1094 Broadway, Bushwick; 8 p.m.