Fine Grit: Art & Ideas in Wood

On View April 13 - May 12
Opening Saturday, April 13 from 1 - 6pm
Gallery Hours: Saturday & Sunday 1 - 6pm

@ BWAC Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
481 Van Brunt Street Red Hook, Brooklyn 11231

Fine Grit is an exhibition of contemporary artists who use wood as a primary material in their work. From traditional techniques such as hand carved sculpture, woodcuts and pyrography to more recent technologies such as laser engraving and 3D printing, artists have long used wood as a source material and medium. Wood comes directly from nature and each piece has its own unique lifecycle, evident in the processes artists and other makers utilize while working with it.

Fine Grit features artists who make work out of wood using a variety of different techniques, methods, aesthetics and scale. This group of artists use wood as both material and subject matter, addressing topics such as forestry, ecology, architecture, human consumption and the changing climate.

The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC) is an artist-run, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit art space with 25,000 sq. ft. of exhibition space set in a Civil War-era warehouse on the waterfront of Red Hook Brooklyn. The wood beams original to this 1860s historic structure supports not only the gallery walls but artworks on view. Fine Grit is curated by Alicia Degener, artist and President of BWAC.