TEMPEST GALLERY LAUNCH | Rockella Space

TEMPEST GALLERY LAUNCHES:

At One Eyed Studios

 

Tempest Gallery has just moved in to One Eyed Studios and have launched with an exhibition by James Baker, Christopher Baker and Defne Tutus.

 

They will be hosting a special closing event on July 31st between 6-8pm, so make sure to catch this special exhibition before it’s too late!

 

Regular gallery hours are Wednesday-Saturday, 1-6pm. TEMPEST is open to scheduled visits outside of regular hours, please direct message us on instagram @tempest.gallery

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TEMPEST Gallery
1639 Centre St,
Studio 179
Ridgewood, Queens
11385
Enter via Weifield St.

ABOUT TEMPEST

 

At TEMPEST, we want to talk about art in a maelstrom. We invite artists to be unafraid to broach difficult conversations and address colonial structures of violence through their practice in textiles, sculpture and installation. Our main desire is that each monthly show present layered themes where multiple cultural references intersect and tussle.

Launched in 2024, Tempest Gallery is located at Rockella Space’s One Eyed Studios in Ridgewood, Queens. Through our programming and events, we aim to create community and a space for gathering, presenting work and building relationships.

CURRENT EXHIBITION

 

No one really dreams any longer of the Blue FlowerDreaming has a share in history. The statistics on dreaming would stretch beyond the pleasures of the anecdotal landscape into the barrenness of a battlefield. Dreams have started wars, and wars, from the very earliest times, have determined the propriety and improprietyindeed, the rangeof dreams.

We feel provoked by this quote from Walter Benjamin’s essay ‘Dream Kitsch,” originally published in 1927, to heed the strange beginnings of human conflict in something as seemingly innocent and romantic as dreams. Perhaps believing that our dreams are more worthy than the dreams of others is the seed of our mutual discontent.

For our inaugural show at TEMPEST, we want to talk about art in a violent era. We invite artists to be unafraid to broach difficult conversations and address colonial structures of violence. We desire a less oppressive range of propriety in these conversations.

 

 

Lest we be too confused about making political art, Benjamin charms us with the line, The more effectively a man is able to speak, the more successfully he is misunderstood.So we encourage directness in conversation and abstraction in art.

We bring together a painting made 51 years ago by James Baker entitled, August Night I, with four Anthropecene fossils by Christopher Baker and 1 ribbon pelt by Defne Tutus. We’re reaching for dreams that coexist with the dreams of others.

Christopher Baker

Original Moment – as in ancient 

rituals performed to recreate an 

origin story.

Found ceramic shards, plaster,

pigment, glass fibers.

2023

UPCOMING EXHIBITION

 

The New Body, featuring the work of Lena Ruth Schwartz.

Opening Reception: August 3rd, 6-8pm.

Please join us in celebrating an investment of time, energy and will upon fiber, and bear witness to how textiles becomes imbused with the spirity of their maker.

TEMPEST will be closed August 1st and 2nd for installation.