Inside the Sprawling, Balloon-Filled Scene at Bushwick Open Studios
The Brooklyn art scene has really taken off since a group of local gallerists and artists first got together to organize Bushwick Open Studios a decade ago — so much so that its organizers decided things were getting a little too happening. This year, for its tenth edition, they scaled back the accompanying festivities to New York’s biggest open studio event, putting the focus back on interacting one-on-one with Bushwick’s thriving artist community. But artists like Matthew Callinan kept things festive: He deluged his tiny studio with so many balloons — nearly 700 — that it became a sort of walk-through latex swimming pool. The scene stretched over to neighboring Ridgewood, too, where an anonymous collective called Poissonblanc presented works involving flip phones and potato chips atop pedestals from the Guggenheim’s Peter Fischli and Eric Weiss retrospective, while a spooky, dimly lit performance took place in the basement underneath. See the best moments from it all, here.
1Ryan Patrick Martin at 56 Bogart Street.
2“Chthonic,” a performance by Bert Bergen and Mariya Dimov, at Factory ArtSpace.
3Adam Frezza and Terri Chiao at 56 Bogart Street.
4Kelly McCafferty at 56 Bogart Street.
5Hiba Schahbaz at 56 Bogart Street.
6Seren Morey at 56 Bogart Street.
7Matthew Callinan at Bushwick Open Studios.
8Ryan Patrick Martin at 56 Bogart Street.
9Kirsten Kay Thoen at 1717 Troutman Street.
10Eric Lindveit at 56 Bogart Street.
11Kelly McCafferty at 56 Bogart Street.
12Lulu Yee at 1717 Troutman Street.
13Vanessa Castro at Reservoir Art Space.
14Lizzie Wright and Alyssa Gorelick at 1717 Troutman Street.
15At 56 Bogart Street.
16Bushwick Print Lab at 1717 Troutman Street.
17Lulu Yee at 1717 Troutman Street.
18At 566 Johnson Avenue.
19Lulu Yee at 1717 Troutman Street.
20At Factory ArtSpace.
21Nick Greenwald at Bushwick Open Studios.
22Bushwick Print Lab at 1717 Troutman Street.
23At Factory ArtSpace.
24“Chthonic,” a performance by Bert Bergen and Mariya Dimov, at Factory ArtSpace.
25At 56 Bogart Street.
26At 1717 Troutman Street.
