NEW VISIONS: CROWN HEIGHTS ARTISTS  

on view: September 7 - October 5, 2014 
Opening Reception: Sunday, Sept. 7, 5–8pm 
 

Chosen from work seen on studio visits to young or relatively established neighborhood artists,  NEW VISIONS: CROWN HEIGHTS ARTISTS, as organized by artist/curator, Carl E. Hazlewood and FiveMyles’ director, Hanne Tierney, is evidence of the constantly evolving cultural energies focused around the gallery. Included are Lourdes Bernard, Fran Kornfeld, Oasa DuVerney, Carl E. Hazlewood, Musa Hixson, Naomi Safran-Hon, and Amanda Turner Pohan.

The area’s essential fifteen-year-old art space has become a platform for all types of activities and presentations, from its regular exhibitions of advanced art to entertaining puppet shows for kids and grown-ups. The linkages and partnerships it has developed with other organizations encourage vitality and a natural multicultural vibrancy to its various continuing activities. FiveMyles provides a home for the Haitian Cultural Exchange and has participated regularly in projects such as the annual Brooklyn Film Festival,  An Obie Award winning art space , it sis fully embedded in the spiritual and practical life of the Crown Heights community as a multidimensional presence with a cultural impact far in excess of its actual modest size. 
 
While the current exhibition, NEW VISIONS: CROWN HEIGHTS ARTISTS, is not intended to be a thematic show, the work presented tends to cohere around issues of environment as a personal and affective aspect of modern life. The eight artists use various individual methodologies, techniques, visual and conceptual strategies, to communicate with viewers and to activate the cool grey ambiance of the gallery. 

A gallery talk is scheduled for Sunday, October 5 at 4pm.  

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 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, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Greenwich Collection, the Gould Family Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the O’Grady Foundation and the New York State Council for the Humanities.