Photo by Joshua Drayzen
Join us Saturday, August 26 from 4–6 PM for an Artist Talk featuring the artists from Transparent Boundaries moderated by artist, NYC Crit Club co-founder and executive director, and founder of The Canopy Program, Catherine Haggarty. For the twelve participating artists, the group exhibition Transparent Boundaries is about finding, testing, and ultimately transforming the barriers that lay between them and the worlds they envision. The event will delve into each artist’s practice and interpretation of the exhibition theme, concluding with audience Q&A.
This exhibition emerged from friendships forged in the NYC Crit Club community. In fact, each of the participating artists are current mentees in the inaugural year of NYC Crit Club’s Canopy Program. The program brought together the twelve artists in the exhibition where they push each other’s work, goals, and build an intimate community together.
The event is hosted at Compère Collective, 351 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn and is open to the public.
Artists: Ana Wieder-Blank, Barbara Owen, Cecil Howell, Jebediah Long, Janelle Junn, Jessica Corujo, Kaira Villanueva, Natalie Ortiz, Patrick Bower, Raymond Hwang, Wendi Men, and Zoë Elena Moldenhauer.
About the moderator
Catherine Haggarty co-founded NYC Crit Club with Hilary Doyle in the Fall of 2017 at Abrons Art Center and has been executive director since. Catherine is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Haggarty earned her M.F.A from Mason Gross, Rutgers University in 2011. Currently, Haggarty is an adjunct professor at The School of Visual Arts (SVA).
Haggarty’s paintings and curatorial work have been reviewed by and featured in Hyperallergic, The Observer, Bomb Magazine, Two Coats of Paint, Brooklyn Magazine, The New York Times, Maake Magazine, Art Maaze Magazine, Art Spiel, Sound and Vision Podcast, The Black and White Project, Curating Contemporary’s book Eraser, and Young Space. From 2016 to 2019 she was a co-director of the artist-run space, Ortega y Gasset in Brooklyn NY and has curated several exhibitions for OYG and independently.
Website: https://www.catherinehaggarty.com/
Instagram: @catherine_haggarty
NYC Crit Club is a radical alternative program offering community, connection, and critique to artists post BFA and MFA. Courses span studio critique, art history, history, art theory, material based intensives, research & writing, professional practices, as well as independent studies for artists. The program supports and strengthens artists’ work while building connections between artists, visiting critics and curators.
The Canopy Program is a year-long intimate program, providing artists access to work exclusively with a Faculty Advisor and cohort of 10 artists for three semesters, Spring, Summer and Fall. Artists meet regularly throughout the Spring and Fall semesters for critiques, discussion and resource building in professional practices and art history lectures. During the Summer semester, artists attend a curated Visiting Artist Lecture Series with Q&A. In addition the Summer Lectures, artists receive intimate 1-on-1 critiques with Faculty and the invited Visiting Artists.
Website: https://www.nyccritclub.com/
Instagram: @nyccritclub
Instagram: @the_canopy_program_
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Compère Collective is a sponsored artist space of Realty Collective, founded by Victoria Alexander, that offers artists a free, 800 square foot storefront gallery space in the heart of Red Hook, Brooklyn on Van Brunt St. Compère Collective specializes in thoughtful community-centric works and has hosted 100 plus artist exhibitions and events since opening its doors in 2011. Compère Collective’s mission is to nurture and host diverse artistic practice and thoughtful dialogue; understanding that art should be used as a catalyst for critical thinking.