SUMMER AT SUPERFRONT : ARTISTS WHO PLAY WELL WITH ARCHITECTS

SUPERFRONT invites you to celebrate summer at the opening of 2 new exhibitions. Join us at SUPERFRONT Brooklyn for the launch of our summer event series – the first annual PUBLIC SUMMER and the group exhibit ARTISTS WHO PLAY WELL WITH ARCHITECTS July 17th 6pm - 9pm SUPERFRONT Brooklyn 1432 Atlantic Avenue in Bed-Stuy PUBLIC SUMMER: Hoop canopy installation by KIT in the backyard of SUPERFRONT Brooklyn Public Summer at SUPERFRONT opens for kids and families Saturday July 10th and continues during gallery hours (Saturday + Sunday 1pm-6pm) through August 14th. Child care activities are free and coordinated by New York City Explorer’s Carnival, a local community childcare program. The installation for this program has been designed and built by emerging New York architect collective KIT with support from SUPERFRONT and volunteers. The installation incorporates over 400 hula hoops, as well as found and discarded materials. Join SUPERFRONT, KIT, and NYC Explorers to celebrate the opening of this project with a reception (for grown ups) on Saturday July 17th 6pm – 9pm. The reception will feature live music and beverages for sale. No cover. KIT is comprised of designers Lauren Page, Phil Kuehne, Justin Foster, and Read Langworthy. The quartet, a combination of academic and professional associations, has a passion for public design and social infrastructure. All are recent graduates from Bachelors of Architecture programs and they currently live, work, and play in New York City. NY City Explorers (NYCE) is a Brooklyn-based family enrichment center created by Kisha Edwards-Gandsy & Keyanna Murrill that provides classes, camps, childcare, two indoor play spaces, and party planning for families throughout NYC. The NYCE Carnival at SUPERFRONT aims to provide safe, carnival style atmosphere complete with scheduled films, games, contests, healthy food vendor sampling, and creative family programming. The PUBLIC SUMMER project has been achieved with the funding and/or materials support of the following organizations and individuals: Design in 5/The Architectural League of New York (competition sponsors), Mark Gardner, Betty Webb, Shinique Smith, Sarah Millsaps, and suckerPUNCHdaily. MORE >>> www.superfront.org Also opening July 17: ARTISTS WHO PLAY WELL WITH ARCHITECTS 17 July – 13 August, 2010 Opening Saturday July 17th 6:00pm – 8:00pm A group exhibit featuring Kim Holleman, Grant Guilliams, Michael Gaillard and Eve Mosher. The exhibition brings together 4 artists of disparate backgrounds who, nonetheless, share a common familiarity with practicing architects in New York City. Curated by Mitch McEwen, Director of SUPERFRONT, with input from Lee Ping Kwan, architect at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, and Mimi Zeiger, editor and publisher of loud paper, the exhibit emphasizes playful and tactile investigations of landscape, site selection, authority, and scale. The resulting exhibit mixes astute games of narrative, word play, and humor with an irreverence for architectural gravitas. Sculptures, drawings, physical models, and instrument-like objects are on display. *** About SUPERFRONT
 Since January 2008, SUPERFRONT has invited students, emerging architects, designers, visual artists, and performance artists to engage in a public forum that raises awareness of contemporary architectural practice and theory. Dedicated to supporting, promoting, and producing radical contemporary architecture while fostering creative interdisciplinary exchange, SUPERFRONT opened a satellite gallery in the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles in 2009. To find out more about our organization, download our 2010 Media Kit here. Check out publications Contact us in NY or LA Follow on twitter