June 30 - July 31, 2021 Opening reception: Friday, July 2, 4 - 8 PM

Brooklyn, NY - 440 Gallery proudly announces the 2021 Summer Theme Exhibition, “Patterns,” featuring twenty-nine artists selected from a national call-for- art. This show of twenty-eight multi-media works is a collection of contemporary art with the subject of pattern in both everyday and special situations interpreted by each artist. Abstraction, implied realism, sculptural effects, and time-based works are some of the processes explored. Juror Sarah E. Brook has curated the show as a means of broadening geographic participation and thematic content for the gallery. 440 Gallery’s annual Summer Theme Exhibition is popular with art followers and collectors alike, as a showcase for bringing new talent and voices to our space.

Exhibiting artists: Christin Baum, Katina Bitsicas, Amanda Michele Brown, Brian Cavanaugh, Phil Desantis, Katrina Ellis, Lenore Fiore Mills, Yen Ha, Erin Juliana, Kris Elliot King, Jin Lee, Monika Malewska, Patrick McCoy, Kenneth Murphy, Nicholas Papadakis, Sunmin Park, Janet Pedersen, *Becky Plattus, Morgane Richer La Fleche, Michael Sylvan Robinson, K Sarrantonio, Suzanne Scott, Jae Song, Meredith Starr and Dayna Leavitt, Werner Sun, Millette Tapiador, Jeanne Marie Wasilik, Despina Zografos

ABOUT THE JUROR

Sarah E. Brook is a Brooklyn-based sculptor and installation artist from the Nevada high desert. She is particularly interested in the way perceptual experience can align (queer) identities.

Brook has exhibited at Lesley Heller, Field Projects, Re:Art, the (un)Scene, NARS, Ground Floor Gallery, The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art (NY) and was included in the 2019 BRIC Biennial in Brooklyn.

She has been awarded the 2019-2020 Leslie-Lohman Museum Fellowship (NY), the 2018 Media Arts Fellowship from BRIC (NY) and residencies from Marble House Projects, I-Park, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Jentel Foundation, Playa and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Public art sculptures include Open Shelter (Prospect Park, NY, 2016), Viewfinding, a year-long installation and collaboration with queer poets (Riverside Park, NY, 2018-2019), Align (permanent installation, Crystal Park, NY, 2019).