sculpture, traditional, figurative, abstract, surrealism, drawing, landscape, painting, realism, conceptual, performance, video-art, installation, digital, mixed-media, photography

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The first 2011 installment of the Gowanus Ballroom's Art + Architecture series opens Friday, April 8th. Art + Architecture 2011, a diverse and multidisciplinary exhibition of emerging artists, is comprised of works that examine, question, or outright challenge everyday interpersonal and contextual relationships.

Through the integration of a variety of media including painting, sculpture, video, performance and works on paper, the installation weaves a wide ranging fabric of form and style, which envelops the immense Gowanus Ballroom and transforms the space into a thoroughly interactive experience. This affords both artist and audience a chance to dismantle and construct anew one's perceived environment. By alternately reinforcing and undermining the suppositions defining social and physical arrangements, the exhibition implores participants to reexamine the boundaries delineating self.