Brooklyn, NY: "FOUND & LOST", a solo exhibition of work by Elizabeth Meggs, runs from August 6 - 31, 2022, at  Sweet Lorraine Gallery, located at 183 Lorraine St., 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11231. The opening event will be held  August 13, from 6 to 9 pm, with an outdoor reception on the roof deck (*rain date is August 20 from 6 to 9 pm). 

Artist-designed work will be featured, including prints, posters, fabric design, and clocks. The exhibit explores the  discoveries and losses many have experienced in the world in recent years, from profound themes such as hope,  time, or love, to mundane items such as umbrellas. Intended as a vibrant, colorful, and fun summer exhibition, this  exhibition and opening event are a personal expression by Meggs of gratitude for life, and a catalyst for seeing  friends and building community through August, after recovering from being hit by a car and sustaining a head  injury in late April of 2022. 

The exhibition includes work done during the darkest days of the Covid-19 pandemic. A large scale version of the  HOPE poster that Meggs designed for the Hope Poster Wall in Richmond, Virginia, will be on display. This poster  was featured in Print Magazine's "The Daily Heller." (https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller designing-a-beautiful-word/ ) 

Meggs' "Care Squares" design that raised funds to support 3,000 meals via Feeding America, as well as a full wall sized version of colorful "Art Hearts" graphics will also be on exhibit. Fabric inspired by legendary English hill figure  known as the Cerne Abbas Giant, a mixed-media cheeseburger self-portrait (made by Meggs in response to the car  crash incident and head injury), and a broken umbrella linocut installation further amplify the titular "Found & Lost"  theme by making nods to history, identity, and humor. 

More than 25 "Art Clocks" will also fill the gallery, presenting Meggs' exploration of time via color and form. Meggs  relied on a decade of experience as a non-representational geometric color-centric painter to consider the  possibilities of how form and color might be rendered functional while being visual poems as measurements of  moments. Read more about the "Art Clocks" here: https://elizabethmeggs.medium.com/designing-time fc40a588c1f0 

In the past decade, Elizabeth Meggs has had five solo shows of new work, and exhibited in 75+ group shows,  including "Go Brooklyn!" with Brooklyn Museum, Mariner's Museum, Galapagos Art Space, Edward Hopper House,  Pratt Institute, and more. A "Sing For Hope" piano she painted was placed at Hudson River Park and Lincoln Center.  In 2021, she was one of 78 artists selected for CowParade New York City. Her cow was named the number 6  favorite by "TimeOut New York" (https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/meet-the-incredible-painted-cows-in this-years-cowparade-082421). In 2022, she was selected as one of ten artists in NYC to create an ice sculpture for  the Inaugural Governors Island Ice Sculpture Exhibition (https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/photos governors-island-winter-ice-sculptures/). See more at https://www.elizabethmeggs.com and  https://www.meggspaintings.com.

Sweet Lorraine Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Karen Gibbon’s newest show Choose Your Own Adventure.

Gallery tours are by appointment only and require a mask and social distancing. Please schedule your visit by emailing us at Tiartstudios@gmail.com

When I create a world for others to enter, I challenge myself to build a space that is both assertive and deferential, both declaration and invitation.

First, these materials are personal. They hold the stories of my own search for narrative and aesthetic resonance. The worn wood I found and carried particular distances, the shapes of light were given through bright windows I passed, the painted words came with the sudden sharpness of specific love. The objects here tip in rhythm with my own body’s height and lean—my own desire to feel held in what I create.

Perception and identity are indivisible—our own histories and embodiments instruct our seeing. But perception is not entirely subjective. There is still and always some shared ground, a parallel responsiveness that must be reckoned. So, second, I build as an offering. There are rhythms here for everyone, originating in my own intention but still beyond what I have authored. To succeed, this space must be vaster than my own vision.

In this particular historical moment I am trying to hold my own lens in a compassionate tension with the lenses of those whose beliefs shock me. I am trying to give rage a rest. Rage lets me make myself different from the problem, lets me wall my own self up on the right side of things: a critical distance. I want to build faithful to my own reference point but in a way that does not depend on othering, on toning my own clarity against one I call outsider. I want to learn an accountable generosity that is not naively permissive, yet still expands into the reality that none of us hold an absolute truth. So, what is the shape of this space?

Find your place in here, find the angle your body needs. Let the light surprise you, its tilt and lean, its launch. Be held, be known in your own ground. Then be more.

-Sarah E. Brook

Join Katerina Lanfranco for the online opening of Nature Poems. Instagram live at 6pm @katerinalanfranco

Join Katherine Keltner for the online opening of Quarantine Meditations. Instagram live at 6pm @katherineketlner

Sweet Lorraine Gallery is please to announce the opening reception for Toxicus Masculinum. A two person show featuring work by Zebadiah Keneally and Elliot Purse curated by Katie Hector. Toxicus Masclinum will run from Sept 17 - Oct 15th and is open by appointment. The opening reception will be held on September 17th from 6-8pm. Please be aware that masks are required in the gallery at all times, social distancing rules will be enforced, and temperature checks will be made at the front door.

Ti Art Studios is pleased to announce the second edition of Saturday Morning Cartoons. A screening of animations featuring work by 18 young artists, curated by Amanda Bonaiuto. Saturday Morning Cartoons will be screened live at Tiartstudios.com.