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Announcing the poets, painters, and performers of The Brooklyn Performance Combine!
Poets, painters, and performers collide in Norte Maar's Brooklyn Performance Combine. Check out this eclectic mix in one of New York's greatest collaborative events!
Announcing the Au Sable River Valley Studio Tour 2018
Norte Maar is pleased to announce the 2018 Edition of the Au Sable River Valley Studio Tour, returning for its fourth year and featuring artist studios and art spaces presenting a wide range of creative artists living and working in the townships of the Au Sable River Valley including Keene Valley, Keene, Upper Jay, Jay, Wilmington and Au Sable Forks.
NM at SPRING/BREAK Art Show (Mar 6-12)
In its first appearance at an art fair, ever, Norte Maar presents “watching the conkers arrive,” curated by Jason Andrew, Kanad Chakrabarti and Sarah Pettitt featuring a collection of works by seven artists from the UK, Canada and Brooklyn, which interrogate language, geography, culture — all involving cross-disciplinary works with abstract grounding, leaving room for reflection on heritage and the borders of experience.”
Event: Coffee with Amy Lincoln (Sun, Jan 7)
Join Norte Maar and artist Amy Lincoln to celebrate her recently commissioned 18' mural commissioned by the Starbucks New York City Design Studio.
New Year Brunch with Roberto Jamora (Sat, Jan 6)
Join us as we welcome 2018 with our annual New Years Brunch featuring a pop-up exhibition and talk with Brooklyn-based artist, Roberto Jamora, Saturday, January 6, 11am-1pm (artist talk at 12noon).
New paintings by Emily Berger opens at NM!
Norte Maar is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Emily Berger from October 21-November 19. On exhibit are new paintings and a selection of drawings the artist created this past summer during her residency at Norte Maar’s Jay House.
New Fall Season at NM
Norte Maar kicks off its fall season of programming with a two solo exhibition of new paintings by Brooklyn-based artists and a new collaborative ballet!
Jay Clay to feature memorial exhibit celebrating potter Paul Z. Nowicki (1941-2015)
When the 4th Annual Jay Invitational of Clay opens this week it will feature in addition to the 30+ artists from the Adirondack Region and including ceramic artists from Brooklyn, North Carolina, Georgia and Boston, a memorial exhibition celebrating local potter Paul Z. Nowicki. The exhibition, titled "The Mark We Leave Behind: selected works by Paul Z. Nowicki," will be held in the main tent on the grounds of the Jay House in tandem with the Jay Invitational of Clay. Opening reception will be Fri, Jul 14, 6-9pm. The exhibition will run through the weekend, Sat + Sun, 9am-6pm.
Winter / Spring Exhibitions and Events Announced!
From exciting new exhibitions of art to riveting performances, Norte Maar is pleased to announce our 2017 Winter / Spring Public Programs!
Long live the age of the apartment gallery!
Apartment galleries have a special place in our heart. Norte Maar’s apartment gallery at the corner of Wyckoff Avenue and Suydam Street in Bushwick, served not only as the foundation of our visual art program but also a historic role in the development of the Bushwick art scene from 2006-2016. Alternative art spaces play a vital role in facilitating conversation, building community, and inspiring creative collaborations. Artist Lynn Sullivan hosts regular pop-up exhibitions in her studio and home.
NM Opens Fall Season With New Worlds in Glass!
Norte Maar’s cutting edge visual arts program continues at its new home in Cypress Hills! Norte Maar is excited to open its fall season with Paracosm: new worlds in glass curated by Suzanne Peck and Erin O'Connor.
Recap of NM's Epic Summer!
The Summer of 2016 has come and gone! But before we leap into the fall, we're recapping one of our most epic summers ever.
NM returns to Midtown Manhattan with a major exhibition focusing on artistic process and materials
Norte Maar is pleased to return to 1285 Avenue of the Americas Gallery with a major exhibition titled Ways and Means: a new look at process and materials in art. Ways and Means will open with a reception on Monday, July 18 from 6-8pm, after which the show will continue through Friday, October 7.
NM opens new exhibition space in Cypress Hills!
Norte Maar opens a new exhibition space in Cypress Hills! Inaugurating the new space will be Kris Graves: The Testament Project, a riveting photography series that skillfully chronicles the artist’s motivation to capture a “re-conception of the contemporary black experience.”
NM's Beat Nite takes on Gowanus!
Norte Maar re-imagines the Beat Nite featuring the artistic community of Gowanus, Brooklyn! Beat Nite is the neighborhood-wide late night gallery hop recognized for putting Bushwick on the map, and for this 13th edition sets its sights on a new part of Brooklyn. On Friday, October 16, join the throngs of art ponies that will trek out to discover the thriving art scene in Gowanus through a self-guided tour featuring 10 galleries and alternative art spaces .
Another July in the ADK!
Another Adirondack Summer! As Norte Maar continues to be a leading force in Brooklyn, many may not realize that the organization was originally founded on the shores of Lake Champlain in the summer of 2004 by curator Jason Andrew and choreographer Julia K. Gleich, playing a major role in revitalizing the arts in the North Country from 2004-2010. Through exhibitions at the farmhouse in Rouses Point and ballet performances in a converted ice rink at the Civic Center, Norte Maar became a signature advocate and presenter of the visual, literary, and performing arts connecting an emerging artistic community within the North Country.
Game on! NM announces its plans for BOS 2015!
Bushwick, Brooklyn - Norte Maar is pleased to participate in the 2015 Arts in Bushwick annual Bushwick Open Studios and Arts Festival. A cultural phenomenon, BOS2015 takes place Friday, June 5 – Sunday, June 7, 2015 and includes over 500 individual studios, shows, and exhibitions involving thousands of artists. This free event invites visual artists, performers, musicians, designers, and the public to celebrate creative expression in one of the most vital arts districts in the world.
NM and Microscope present Burckhardt Film Series in celebration of Edith Schloss.
Norte Maar and Microscope Gallery collaborate to present and evening of Burckhardt Films at Microscope Gallery (1329 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn), Saturday, March 21 at 7:30pm. The series will feature the world premiere of Jacob Burckhardt's film Happy Holi, shot in Sri Lanka capturing a vibrant dance party celebrating the Hindu Holi festival of colors. The evening will also feature a 1955 film by Rudy Burckhardt as well as film of Edith Schloss, the subject of a major retrospective now on view at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, leading a tour of her apartment where she vividly describes her own paintings, her career and her vast knowledge of American and European art history and mythology, past and present.
NM announces major exhibition featuring: pattern + repetition + motif
Norte Maar is pleased to present a major exhibition surveying new work in pattern, repetition and motif titled "between a place and candy: new works in pattern + repetition + motif." The exhibition will be held at 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery (btwn51st and 52nd Street, NYC) and will open with a public reception on Monday, March 16 from 6-8pm. The show will continue through June 12 with gallery hours Monday-Friday, 8am-6pm. This exhibition continues Norte Maar’s mission of re-presenting and supporting the advancement of innovative and transgressive work of both emerging, mid-career and historic artists.
NM announces major retrospective of Edith Schloss (1919-2011)
Norte Maar is pleased to announce its collaboration with Sundaram Tagore Gallery to present a landmark retrospective of work by Edith Schloss (1919-2011), one of America’s greatest expatriate artists whose paintings, assemblage, collage, watercolors and drawings border on the bittersweet, fragile, intimate and naïve. Intrinsically linked to the milieu of Postwar American Art, every aspect of the artist’s eccentric personal iconography will be on view for rediscovery. This is the first show of the artist’s work in New York in twenty-five years.