Invent the Museum Held Over for Atlantic Artwalk! You can still experience the Upper School's Art Club's Invent the Museum exhibit at Gallery Hoyt, 77B Hoyt Street, Brooklyn, Saturday, June 5 and Sunday, June 6, 1 pm to 6 pm both days. At Saturday's Artwalk Block Party on Nevins Street (between Atlantic & Pacific), also check out the BFS table where our students will be selling $5 art to benefit the Michael Nill Endowment Fund for Faculty Development. Hope to see you there!
The Art Club at Brooklyn Friends Upper School presents a student-run gallery exhibition, “Invent the Museum”. Opening Wednesday, May 19, the High School students have worked collaboratively to create the theme, ideas, content and design of their very own “museum” show. In addition, they designed the announcement card and installed the show, working on the “behind the scenes” side of running a gallery.
The students have constructed more than an art exhibit for viewer’s perusal, they present the audience with a mini-museum that engages in an ongoing conversation, asking the viewer to question their notions of art and how they interact with the objects and ideas exhibited. Students ask and present the question of what kinds of objects do museums contain, how do museums display works of art, how are museums organized for the viewers’ interaction, and what don’t museums display?
In “Invent the Museum” students chose to react to or reinvent an artwork or art idea that already existed in the world. This theme allowed students to research artworks of interest from a wide range of time periods, artists, artistic movements and media. They also learned about how artists and art movements from WWI to the present have developed new art ideas and expressions in reaction not only to the world around them, but often to the art that came before them. As a result, the student artists of The Art Club have constructed a show that presents their unique, contemporary take on both famous and more obscure artworks that span from the Renaissance to Postmodern times.
In addition to making individual artworks, students have also collaborated on a number of projects involved in creating the show, including a display of plush, post-modern Mona Lisa dolls and a “stained glass” style window. These projects were intended to be “site-specific” and utilized the student’s research of various contemporary exhibition installations and designs.
“Invent the Museum” will take place a few blocks from Brooklyn Friends School in a small storefront space at 77B Hoyt Street, between State Street and Atlantic Avenue in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. The students will have an opening reception on Wednesday, May 19 from 5 - 7 p.m. The “Museum” will also be open on Friday, May 21 from 5 - 7 p.m., Saturday, May 22 from 12 - 3 p.m., and Monday, May 24 from 4-6 p.m.