Brooklyn Utopias: Farm City OPENING TONIGHT

I have some drawing and pictures from Maize Field this show which is opening tonight.

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Brooklyn Utopias: Farm City

Exhibition Dates: September 16-December 12, 2010

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 16, 2010 6-8pm

Gallery Hours: Saturday & Sunday, 11am-4pm or by appointment

Location: Old Stone House 2nd Floor Gallery
5th Avenue between 3rd and 4th Street,
Park Slope (take R train to Union Street or R/F train to 4th Avenue/9th Street)

Featuring artwork by:
Andrew Casner, Hernani Dias, Kate Glicksberg, Katherine Gressel, Hugh Hayden,
Kim Holleman, Christina Kelly, Jess Levey, Mary Mattingly, Eve Mosher, Scott Nyerges,
ORPH, Mathilde Roussel-Giraudy , Dan Sagarin, Eric Sanderson, Tattfoo Tan, Work.AC
Katherine Gressel and Derek Denckla, curators
Please visit http://farmcity.us/category/brooklyn-utopias/ for more information!

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Utopia: An ideal place or state.

What would a “Brooklyn Utopia” look like? What is the role of artists in shaping an ideal Brooklyn?

Brooklyn Utopias: Farm City invites artists to respond to urban agriculture, or the practice of farming in or around a city, as a “utopian” solution for Brooklyn. How successful are Brooklyn’s existing urban farming attempts and what additional innovations and collaborations are possible? How can the borough’s rich agrarian past inform its greener future? What about questions of scale, universal access, diversity and feasibility for urban farming that determine if this is a fad or a lasting practice in Brooklyn? And finally, how can the past, present and future of Brooklyn farming inform future “farm cities?"

To address such questions, the artworks in Brooklyn Utopias: Farm City will range from the symbolic and visionary to the literally alive and dirty. These include: sample plant modules from Eve Mosher's Seeding the City rooftop garden networking project, early drawings from Christina Kelly’s Maize Field project that harvests corn in Brooklyn streets; never-before shown plans and sketches by Mary Mattingly (of the Waterpod project and Flock House); a painting by Andrew Casner made from garden compost; a rendering of an idealized agrarian Brooklyn in year 2409 by Eric Sanderson, author of the best-selling Manahatta; and, during opening weekend, tours of actual mobile farms by Tatfoo Tan, Kim Holleman, and Ian Cheney & Curt Ellis.

Brooklyn Utopias: Farm City is part of the Crossing the Line 2010: FIAF Fall Festival, with various events taking place over the next 3 weekends. Please visit http://www.fiaf.org/crossingtheline/ for more information.