SEPTEMBER 18 - OCTOBER 10, 2021

infinite butterfly

luisa caldwell

OPENING RECEPTION: saturday, september 18, 6-8pm

Luisa Caldwell is a multidisciplinary artist working between intimate works on paper and large scale installation sculpture in the public realm. Caldwell’s use of reclaimed and collected materials is at the core of her large scale installations. Her work focuses on color, nature, pattern and craft. 

The artist fills the Plus/Space with a 14ft floor to ceiling candy wrapper and thread column, made of thousands of reclaimed wrappers, multiplied endlessly with the use of mirror Mylar. Caldwell collects candy wrappers she finds lying on city sidewalks, and that have been sent to her by friends from all over the world. She says she likes cleaning up the earth one wrapper at a time.

Recent solo exhibitions and public projects include Curtain Call at University of Iowa Hancher Auditorium in 2019; A Cat In God’s Garden at Smack Mellon, Brooklyn in 2018; Triple C at LIU Humanities Gallery, Brooklyn in 2016. Caldwell’s work has been reviewed by The New York Times, Art in America, ArtNews, The Huffington Post, Hyperallergic. Collections include Deutsche Bank, The Weisman Foundation, MTA Art&Design and others.

GALLERY HOURS:

Thursday - Sunday, 1 - 6pm, or by appointment. Please email hanne@fivemyles.org, or call 718-783-4438.

DIRECTIONS:

Take 2, 3, or 4 trains to Franklin Avenue. Walk two blocks against the traffic on Franklin. Walk ¾ block to 558 St. Johns Place. FiveMyles is within easy walking distance from the Brooklyn Museum.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

FiveMyles is in part supported by the New York State Council for the Arts, Public Funds from the New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Council Member Laurie Cumbo,  The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, the Perlemeter Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Joseph Robert Foundation, and the William Talbott Hillman Foundation.