Eight New Art Spaces to Visit in Brooklyn – Hyperallergic
Installation view of Kiah Celeste’s 2022 exhibition The Right Side Down at Swivel Gallery (photo courtesy the gallery)
A new year is here, and I don’t know about you, but I’m trying to ride high on that fresh-page-of-the-calendar feeling for as long as I can. And what better way to appreciate the blank canvas of 2023 than spending a day visiting new (and new-ish) art spaces in Brooklyn? In our roundup below, we highlight galleries, nonprofits, and project rooms in the borough. Many of these opened their doors to the public in the last year or two; others have been around for longer but recently moved to the neighborhood or debuted additional locations. They all have something different to offer and are living proof of Brooklyn’s thriving, ever-changing art community. Happy gallery-hopping! — Valentina Di Liscia
Swivel Gallery
What is immediately striking about Swivel Gallery in Bed-Stuy is its design, with sinuous, undulating walls like loving clouds that hug the artworks on display. Swivel’s founder, Graham Wilson, refers to it as “an incubator” for emerging and up-and-coming artists, and since its opening in January 2021, exhibitions of works by Kajin Kim, Kiah Celeste, Aris Azarmsa, and many more have shown the endless possibilities of the unconventional space. For Celeste’s solo show last year, fittingly titled The Right Side Down, the Louisville, Kentucky-based artist presented her recycled material and found-object sculptures in a topsy-turvy arrangement that appeared to defy gravity. Opening January 26 is Potheads, a group exhibition featuring works by Derek Weisberg, Anousha Payne, Charles Snowden, Debra Broz, Wade Tullier, and more. According to Wilson, Swivel Gallery donates 10% of sales proceeds to local nonprofits and has pledged to continue doing so indefinitely. — VD
Swivel Gallery (swivelgallery.com)
329 Nostrand Avenue, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
Works by Elena Redmond (left) and Rachael Tarravechia (right) at Tchotchke Gallery (photo Elaine Velie/Hyperallergic)
Tchotchke Gallery
Tucked away in a basement-level Williamsburg space — which is miraculously drenched in natural light — Danielle Dewar and Marlee Katz opened Tchotchke Gallery’s first permanent location after two years of a maintaining an online and pop-up presence due to the pandemic. The exhibition Homecoming, on view through February 11, is their 20th show but only their third physical one, and features paintings by Tchotchke’s four artists — Josiah Ellner, Debora Koo, Elena Redmond, and Rachael Tarravechia. While their works depict vastly different subjects, Homecoming is a cohesive ode to color and personal memory. Ellner’s vibrant large-scale pieces consider humans’ connection to nature, and Koo’s …….