A lively spring season begins at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition on Saturday, April 26, with the opening of four fresh new shows.
"We are excited to open our 2025 art season with four new exhibitions," said Alicia Degener, BWAC President and curator. "We hope everyone comes to see these remarkable shows in a remarkable place."
Animalia, a national juried show, explores humankind’s millenia-long obsession with animals as the subject of art. The earliest known examples of abstract thinking and artistic skills by our ancestors are painted depictions of pigs found on cave walls in Indonesia. In the intervening 45,000 years since their creation, the enduring
fascination with the representation of animals in art has continued and flourished. In cooperation with this exhibition, the nonprofit NYC Teens for Animals, Inc. will host a cat adoption at the gallery on Sunday, May 4.
Threaded Visions: Fashion in Art is a second national juried show to kick off the season. Fashion has long been more than just utilitarian protection from the elements — it is a statement of self-expression, reflecting culture, identity and time. Throughout history, artists have depicted fashion in their work, capturing trends and styles that tell stories of class, power and innovation. Simultaneously, fashion designers have drawn inspiration from art, incorporating techniques, textures and narratives from paintings, sculptures and architecture into their creations. Threaded Visions presents a dialogue between these two modes of expression.
Order/Chaos is the theme of 2025’s first BWAC member exhibition. Order and chaos are often superficially considered opposites, yet both ideas depend upon the other for definition. They often coexist in tension. In this exhibition, BWAC artists explore how they define the two and deal with order and chaos in their work and lives. Expect a wide variety of approaches in answer; as diverse as the member artists.
BWAC’s featured member artist for the spring season is Sergei Saarkian, offering a survey of landscape paintings entitled Dreamscapes: Reimagining What Was Left Behind. Saakian's landscapes transcend traditional boundaries, offering a reimagined world where memory and history intertwine. These works explore the
shifting terrains shaped by migration, conflict, and the passage of time, inviting viewers to contemplate the hidden stories within the land.
All four shows open Saturday, April 26, and will remain on display through Sunday, May 18, each weekend between the hours of 1:00pm to 6:00pm, at the BWAC Gallery, housed in the historic Beard and Robinson Stores Warehouse at 481 Van Brunt St. in Red Hook.
