Exhibitions

On Tuesday, May 2, 2010, Fourth Arts Block (FAB) will present its latest ArtUp public art program. "Small Voices" is an exhibition by young artists from Community Word Project (CWP) of poems and murals on six panels mounted on the scaffolding bridge. Whole Foods Market Bowery will host an opening reception, which is free and open to the public. The opening will include performances by young poets and an informal collaborative poetry workshop.


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On Friday, January 22, 2010, Fourth Arts Block (FAB) will present “Are We There Yet?” by K. Savage, the latest in FAB's ArtUp public art program. The exhibit will display six panels with Japanese hand-cut paper and acrylic on masonite, mounted on the scaffolding bridge at 70 East 4th Street Cultural Center. The series represents an autobiographical account of the impact of six female artists who redefined art history and continue to influence contemporary art.
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On Saturday, September 26, 2009, Fourth Arts Block (FAB) will display a new ArtUp public art project titled, “CYCLE” in tandem with FAB’s Festival & Block Party. The rotating art exhibition is installed on a scaffolding bridge located at 70 East 4th Street between Bowery and 2nd Avenue. “CYCLE” is a collaborative piece by Pasqualina Azzarello from Recycle-A-Bicycle (RAB) and nearly a hundred 4th and 5th grade students from The Earth School in the East Village. The mural explores the word cycle as a verb in terms of process and motion that sustains the students’ interpretation of a bicycle cavalcade. The work will be on view from September 26, 2009 through January 2, 2010.

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“Between Coincidences" is an exhibition of black and white photographs by Alex Harsley. The series of photographs in this exhibition presents the magnetic energy of East 4th Street by introducing the viewers to community leaders, members, and ordinary moments of the past that in present day are testament to legacies of perseverance and will. A crowded Cooper Square Committee meeting, a bustling block party on East 4th Street, a stomping ground for the usual suspects, and cool fire hydrant water shooting across the street are bold images of the neighborhood. Independent from each other, Wilbert Tatum and Jean-Michel Basquiat strolled, pondered and operated on this street, while Ellen Stewart and Alex Harsley continue to do so. These photographs provide the audience with a glimpse of the vitality that existed in this petri dish that we know today as the East Village.
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“A Closer NY” encourages the audience to seek beauty in imperfections. For over eight years, Sherry Mills has roamed the streets of various cities and has taken a non-judgmental approach on the subject matter of her photography, whereby she makes no attempt to interpret what happened before or what will occur after, at a specific location. These events are not important in the captured moment. Mills is not trying to contain the changes with each photograph but to depict its impermanence. Check out Sherry's work at www.acloserny.com.
 
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The Lower East Side now quartered and knighted by real estate brokers, as the “East Village” was similar to Babylon. Drugs, AIDS, prostitution, and crime governed the area south of 14th Street, west of the east river, north of Houston Street, and east of Bowery. The poor living conditions in tandem with dirt-cheap rent attracted artists and lefty non-artists. This terra firma inspired non-artists to be artists and artists to go beyond the two-dimensional and three-dimensional mediums to performance art, music and literature. Three students at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art have been inspired by this zeitgeist. Each of them explores and contextualizes various aspects of that period with a glimpse of the bittersweet coming of times.

FAB is in collaboration with ArtForward to produce "ArtUp".  This rotating public art program embellishes scaffolding with artwork to encourage a revitalization of the East Village and the Lower East Side.
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