#gos2021

[kmainenti]

Thanks to all who came out to visit my studio this weekend! And a big thanks to @artsgowanus @emilychiavelli and @_johnnythornton for making this incredible event happen for the artists in Gowanus, Brooklyn. #artiststudio #newcollectors #keepgowanuscreative #gos2021 #gowanusopenstudios #gowanusopenstudios2021 #brooklynart #karenmainenti @tiartstudios #brooklynartist @ikeausa (at TI Art Studios) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVLIr2HFSvW/?utm_medium=tumblr

[kmainenti]

Sold! We Dare You to Run These Panties (Spun-Lo) Gold leafing on vintage advertisement, 9.25 x 9.5 in, 2018 #newcollector #gowanusopenstudios #gowanusopenstudios2021 #gos2021 #keepgowanuscreative #openstudios #goldleafing #vintageadvertising #karenmainenti (at TI Art Studios) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVHH4YUF1Sr/?utm_medium=tumblr

[kmainenti]

Posted @withregram • @sweetlorrainegallery Check out The World Without Us (Snow Owl Appliances)! Karen Mainenti’s collage in the #time_is_a_ufo show here at the gallery. The gallery is open to the public today and tomorrow for #gos2021 The World Without Us (Snow Owl Appliances) Collage and graphite on board, 11 x 8.5in, 2021 $250 #gos2021 #gowanusopenstudios #artinbrooklyn #paintings #originalart #groupartshow @anedham (at Sweet Lorraine Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVGkRaylHoK/?utm_medium=tumblr

[kmainenti]

Come see me with my new work from my The World Without Us collage series @tiartstudios today for #gowanusopenstudios2021 183 Lorraine St, 3rd Fl Studio 57 Thanks to @tracypennart for the photo and who is showing right next door to me! #brooklynart #keepgowanuscreative #gos2021 #gowanusopenstudios2021 #gowanusopenstudios #collage #theworldwithoutus #openstudios #newwork (at TI Art Studios) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVGNNXIlZm1/?utm_medium=tumblr

[kmainenti]

A beautiful shot of my work up now at NEST at Artpoetica, curated by @joannemcfarland55 and @domenica.bucalo of #AssemblyRequired Visit this weekend 12-6pm and Saturdays through the end of October NEST at Artpoetica is an interdisciplinary exhibition that emphasizes our personal spaces, both internal and external, as infinitely generative and erotic. Learn more at www.assemblyrequiredart.com #gowanusopenstudios #gowanusopenstudios2021 #gos2021 #brooklynart #nest #artpoetica #assemblyrequired (at 543 Union Artists LLC 543 Union) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVGELpNl3Xj/?utm_medium=tumblr

[kmainenti]

Also see some of my new collages from my The World Without Us series in “Unnatural Histories” at the new project space of the incomparable @sashachav called Footnote located at 543 Union St, #1E Assembly Required, a collective of artists, curators and writers that has curated exhibitions in three venues within easy walking distance of each other during the month of October and during the upcoming Gowanus Open Studios weekend. Artpoetica: Union St, #2B Footnote Project Space: 543 Union St, #1E The Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse: 165 at 2nd Street NEST at Artpoetica is an interdisciplinary exhibition that emphasizes our personal spaces, both internal and external, as infinitely generative and erotic. Unnatural Histories at Footnote seeks to unearth obscured stories from the past while creating a space for new stories to be told. And Extraordinary Things at the Boathouse displays past and present objects that we use and discard, in order to challenge our perception of the familiar. A throughline connecting each of these exhibitions is the inclusion of a number of Gowanus artifacts which were originally exhibited as part of a local archiving project called The Hall of Gowanus. Initiated, in part, by one of our members, Sasha Chavchavadze, at Proteus Gowanus in 2009, over the past decade and beyond, community historians have been collecting and documenting the Gowanus neighborhood through found objects, as a way to preserve a rapidly disappearing history. Among the objects incorporated into our exhibitions are old nails, Kentile samples, oyster shells, building insulation, Prussian blue powder, architectural rubble, and a rusty 19th-century iron, fished from the canal. We re-assemble these artifacts alongside (and sometimes in conversation with) the work of the nearly 30 contemporary artists on view. Assembly Required team: @domenica.bucalo @sashachav @alina.grsh @RosamonDrKing @rskhappens @kmainenti @joannemcfarland55 @studiopais @domesticmuseology #assemblyrequired #footnoteprojectspace @artsgowanus #gos2021 #gowanusopenstudios #keepgowanuscreative #hallofgowanus #artifacts Learn more at www.assemblyrequiredart.com (at 543 Union Artists LLC 543 Union) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVFxPdAFvcJ/?utm_medium=tumblr

[kmainenti]

Studio sale this weekend at Gowanus Open Studios! Visit me at my new larger studio at @tiartstudios 183 Lorraine St, Studio #57 #studiosale #keepgowanuscreative #gos2021 #gowanusopenstudios #gowanusopenstudios2021 #brooklynart #artiststudio #openstudios #goldleafing #salonstyle #vintage #beauty @artsgowanus (at TI Art Studios) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVFusEKFG_F/?utm_medium=tumblr

[kmainenti]

Thank you to @artsgowanus for the shout out for my studio #3057 at TI Art Studios at 183 Lorraine St that will be part of the upcoming #gowanusopenstudios2021 Mark your calendars for Oct 16-17, 12-6pm to see my new work (and me!) in person! Posted @withregram • @artsgowanus Showing at GOS 2021: Karen Mainenti! @kmainenti "My work is a re-engagement of appropriated text and images from consumer products, advertising and media. By reframing these messages—often with humor—I reveal the absurdity and unnatural expectations that society has come to accept as commonplace. My new collection of collages, “The World Without Us,” reconsiders ordinary objects as relics of humanity’s time on Earth. I envision the planet after our extinction, with animals appearing to contemplate inscrutable consumer products left behind by the human race. A reflection upon a year upended by the pandemic, where nature has shown that it is simply and unmistakably in control, I consider the passion with which we undertake our consumerist behavior as we essentially destroy the planet." See Karen's work at 183 Lorraine St., 3rd Floor, Studio 3057 during GOS, October 16-17! #artsgowanus #GOS2021 #gowanusopenstudios #gowanusopenstudios2021 #brooklyn #brooklynart #keepgowanuscreative #gowanus #collage #enviromentart #conceptualart #brooklynart (at TI Art Studios) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUdlAAWFhJn/?utm_medium=tumblr