2024 EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
See some of the wonderful work exhibited across 21 shows last year.
HAPPY 2025 ALL!
2024 was a year filled with the art 21 different exhibitions and our Holiday Market. Below are highlights of the shows you may have missed. We are actively working on our 2025 calendar which will be posted in the coming weeks.
SUMMER RECAP
Here is a quick glimpse at what you missed or our Summer shows.
FALL EXHIBITION SEASON
We would like to thank everyone that made our Fall Exhibition Open such a success last year. Our shows are for all and it’s especially gratifying to receive so much goodwill from fellow artists.
Cheers~
To all the art lovers that spent time at the gallery or on our site, thank you! We look forward to sharing more exciting shows and new talent with you in 2025!
Cheers~
BWAC Member Spotlight
Welcome to a new feature called Member Spotlight, where you can get to know a little about our artist members in their own words.
We are a community of artists, exhibiting, collaborating, and working together to share our passion with the world.
Meet our artists.
Welcome to our Member Spotlight as we introduce the world to our wonderful members. We are proud to be a member-based organization providing exhibition and collaboration opportunities to artists working in various media.
We invite you to meet some of our featured artists as we “open the doors” to our artist community.
Andrea Biggs
1. Please tell us something about yourself. Where did you grow up? Where did you go to school? Did you have a different career in mind before deciding on being a full-time artist?
I grew up in Michigan. I attended Michigan State University. In my junior year I studied for a semester at Mexico City College where I met my husband Timothy G. Biggs from California. I received my MFA from Bard College while Timothy taught Anthropology at Simon’s Rock Early College. We moved to New York in 1985 and I was represented by a gallery while Timothy studied at Parsons. In 1990, Tim and I launched Biggs Art Studio, a highly successful fine art decorative painting business. For 20 years, we created many mural and other decorative projects for noted clients in New York City and throughout the U.S. and Europe, such as Joan Rivers, Donna Karan and Ellen Tracy. We were members of The Mural Society of NYC and participated in many trade shows including the Architectural Digest Show. Timothy passed in 2015. I was certified as a personal trainer and currently work at a fitness studio in Manhattan. I continue to paint and exhibit. I am a member of the Salmagundi Club, the National Association of Women Artists and BWAC.
2. Can you walk us through your creative process? How do you approach starting a new piece?
I usually start with a subject that interests me, using one of my photographs for inspiration, then build upon that image.
3. Your work is juicy and voluptuous. Have you always worked that way?
No matter the subject--portrait, landscape, flower or still life--I concentrate on creating drama through light.
4. Has your work always been realistic still life, or did you go through phases with other subjects?
Generally, my treatment of the subject has been realistic, but I eventually end up with a more stylized approach.
5. You crop your scenes tightly, which creates an interesting tension, not to mention the sense of ripe fruit bursting off the wall. How did you evolve into doing that?
The only time I cropped the image was for the “Big Fruit” series. Currently, I’m back to painting my true passion, still life influenced by the flower and big fruit series.
BWAC 2025 Membership Drive
Do you want to exhibit more of your art this year? Every artist wants to exhibit their artwork as often as they can, and that is what BWAC is all about. You now have the opportunity to become a BWAC member and get your work shown!
Do you want to exhibit more of your art this year? Every artist wants to exhibit their artwork as often as they can, and that is what BWAC is all about. You now have the opportunity to become a BWAC member and get your work shown!
• Participate in all member exhibitions or as many as you wish in 2025
• Get discounts on submitting to BWAC juried exhibitions
• Join a community of artists dedicated to helping each other achieve their best
For details on how you can benefit from a BWAC membership, and additional info, click here.
Join now and get ready to exhibit new work in the spring!
The 2024 BWAC Fundraising Auction
December 7 to December 22, 2024
December 7 to December 22, 2024
Now you can give the gift of art and support BWAC in the process! Choose from paintings, drawings, prints, photographs or sculpture in a variety of styles and sizes. Bidding on most items start as just $50!
Online bidding begins Saturday, December 7 at 1 pm! You can also see the auction items in person in the second floor gallery the first three weekends in December: 7-8; 14-15; 21-22.
To go to the auction now, click here!
Park Slope Windsor Terrace Artists Winter Salon at BWAC
DEC. 7 to DEC 22 Weekends from 1-6 pm
Fifteen artists in the Park Slope Windsor Terrace collective invite you to view their artwork in a variety of mediums — painting, prints, photography, collage and paper relief — during the weekends of December 7 & 8, December 14 & 15, and December 21 & 22, at 1:00 to 6:00 PM each day
OPENING RECEPTION SAT., DECEMBER 7 from 3-6 PM
2024 Red Hook Holiday Market
The Red Hook Business Alliance and BWAC are pleased to present the 2024 Red Hook Holiday Market!
The Red Hook Business Alliance (RHBA) and BWAC are pleased to present the 2024 Red Hook Holiday Market! Dozens of local artisans and businesses will be on hand with unique, locally-based items for even the most discerning people on your list. You'll find everything from jewelry and fashion to delectable foodstuffs, art cards and affordable art prints ... and more.
The Market is open from 1-6pm three weekends in December only:
December 7-8
December 14-15
December 21-22
Shop local and support local artisans and businesses!
ArtShare for HeartShare Exhibit at BWAC
Now in its 15th year, ArtShare for HeartShare, is a privately-funded transformational program for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
To continue their 15th anniversary celebration, ArtShare artists are exhibiting at BWAC from November 2 through December 22.
Now in its 15th year, ArtShare for HeartShare, is a privately-funded transformational program for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
In-house teaching artists, external arts organizations, and NYC cultural institutions come together to help members of HeartShare Day Programs find and unleash their creative voice through paint, dance, weaving and more.
To continue their 15th anniversary celebration, ArtShare artists are exhibiting at BWAC from November 2 through December 22. Exhibited works -- paintings, drawings, photos and collages -- are available for sale and proceeds return to the artists and also support the continued operational costs of the ArtShare program.
In the BWAC Second Floor Gallery -- stage and café area. Open weekends 1-6 pm
For more information, contact Amihan Ruiz at amihan.ruiz@heartshare.org
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2 to SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2024
Salon des Refusés 2024 - 2, the Extension
SATURDAY Dec 7 to Dec 22: Salon des Refusés 2024 -2
Our Salon show has been extended to Dec 22 to run alongside our Holiday Market. This will be the last leg of the exhibition.
The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition presents an extension of our very own Salon des Refusés 2024
We announced an open call for the Salon des Refusés 2024 exhibit earlier this year for artists who received a rejection letter for The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition. The response and good will we received was so too tremendous that we’ve decided to refresh the exhibit and extend it.
The original Salon des Refusés took place in 1863 when the Paris Salon held its annual exhibition of academic arts. Thousands of artists applied but were rejected and were unable to display their work in the official Salon exhibition. It was determined that their work did not fulfill academic standards of the time. Emperor Napoleon III, who wanted the public to make the decision, organized a simultaneous exhibition of all the rejects in the Palace of Industry. This exhibition included artists such as Manet, Cezanne, Pissarro and Whistler. The exhibition of “rejects” became famously known as the Salon des Refusés 1863.
Dec 7 Dec 22 Saturday and Sunday 1pm to 6pm
In our Second Floor Gallery called Bay 100
Transformation of Clay
This exhibition explores the distinction between movement and fragmentation through the observation of the environment.
The exhibition opens Sat Nov 2.
The second solo exhibition of BWAC’s fall season features Bill Shillalies with a presentation of ceramics entitled Transformation of Clay.
The work explores what Shillalies calls “the distinction between movement and fragmentation” through the observation of the environment: the changes of seasons, rock formation, and natural earth.
Both the practice of making objects and natural forces exert influence on the finished pieces.
Gallery Exhibition Dates: Saturday, Nov 2 – Sunday, Nov 24, 2024, weekends 1‐6 P.M.
In the Ground Floor Gallery.
Opening Reception: Saturday, Nov 2, 2024, from 1‐6 P.M.
Light and Shadow
The Member Artists of BWAC proudly present "Light and Shadow", an artistic expression how these elements impacts their creative process and final work.
The Member Artists of BWAC proudly present "Light and Shadow" a study of how light and shadow impacts various works, processes, and disciplines, from photography to sculpture, painting, and more.
This exhibition seeks to explore how the dynamic of light and shadow is treated and used to define form, affect mood, and communicate through art.
We invite you to see this expression of creativity in our 25,000 square foot Civil War Era warehouse on the Red Hook’s waterfront.
Gallery Exhibition Dates: Saturday, Nov 2 – Sunday, Nov 24, 2024, weekends 1‐6 P.M.
In our Second Floor gallery entitled Bay 200
Opening Reception: Saturday, Nov 2, 2024, from 1‐6 P.M.
FEARLESS WATERCOLORS – “Acuarelas con Cojones”
We are excited about a gutsy watercolor show, starting Nov 2 until Nov 24.
Featuring bold, vivid, flowing, and experimental watercolors relating to all subject matter including abstract, this show will be a great exhibition to conclude our exhibition season.
We are excited about our gutsy watercolor show, starting Nov 2 until Nov 24.
Featuring bold, vivid, flowing, and experimental watercolors relating to all subject matter including abstract, this show will be a great exhibition to conclude our exhibition season.
"Cojones" is one of the most versatile Spanish's words. In this context, the meaning and impact of such a phrase would be lost if translated into literal English. But what a perfect phrase to describe what we want, BOLD, FEARLESS, and full of NERVE watercolors. As the Spanish phrase suggest with guts and panache, "CON COJONES.”
Gallery Exhibition Dates: Saturday, Nov 2 – Sunday, Nov 24, 2024, weekends 1‐6 P.M.
In our Ground Floor Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday, Nov 2, 2024, from 1‐6 P.M.
Spectrum of Exposure
We are pleased to announce our national juried photography exhibition opening November 2, 2024.
We will showcase photography and photography based artwork that exemplifies and defines the realm of photography in our post-Covid culture.
We are excited to announce our national juried photography show, “Spectrum of Exposure” will be opening October 26, 2024. BWAC welcomes back Fritz (Steven) Weiss, former President of BWAC as curator. With his guidance and selections, we look forward to a spectacular show.
Ours is a truly unique gallery – a massive Civil War – era warehouse on the Red Hook waterfront in Brooklyn, NY. Its enormous space affords us the opportunity to exhibit large artwork and photography and we welcome it.
“Spectrum of Exposure”, seeks to explore the status of Photography in the Post Covid World and provide a comprehensive statement illustrating the art, science, vision, and magic that is Photography today.
BWAC is seeking photography based work that exhibit the broad spectrum of contemporary photography in “Spectrum of Exposure.” We’re looking for work that illustrates and helps define the world of Photography in our Post Covid society. Submit your work to be considered for an exhibition encompassing it all.
CALL TO ARTISTS FOR SUBMISSIONS
● Submission Deadline: Final Application Deadline October 2, 2024
● Gallery Exhibition Dates: Saturday, Oct 26 – Sunday, Nov 11, 2024 weekends 1‐6 P.M.
● Opening Reception: Saturday, Oct 26, 2024 from 1‐6 P.M.
Emergence: Self Discovery from Form to Flame
A featured artist exhibition by ceramic artist, Wendy Kusmaul Keeling. Her forms confront grief, trauma, and the need for protection, while striving toward self-discovery, empowerment, and the reclamation of identity
Ceramic artist Wendy Kusmaul Keeling utilizes various firing methods, including wood firing and gas reduction, alongside mixed media to create primitive and instinctual figures that delve into the central themes of the female journey.
Emerging from recent loss and a rapidly changing world, her forms confront grief, trauma, and the need for protection, while striving toward self-discovery, empowerment, and the reclamation of identity.
September 21 to October 13, 2024
Saturdays and Sundays, 1pm to 6pm
BWAC Gallery, 481 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, NY 11231
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 21, 1pm to 6pm and a special reception with the artist on Saturday, September 21 from 4-6pm.
Unseen Realities
On September 21, join us as the BWAC artists explore unspoken and unexpressed threads of existence in an exhibition entitled "Unseen Realities."
Doors open at 1pm and the exhibition is on view every weekend until Oct 13.
The Artists of BWAC invite you explore the creative expression of intangible concepts and emotions captured in paint, ceramics, photography and more in our show entitled “Unseen Realities.”
What is the color of infatuation, or the shape yearning? Language is filled with so many ideas we share and understand yet hold no tangible form. This show seeks to explore the artistic expression of deep, whimsical at times, and thoughtful introspection from our artists of subjects with no intrinsic physical form.
IT WILL BE INTERESTING.
This exhibit is curated by Fortunata Schiano, Art history educator and BWAC Board Member.
September 21 to October 13, 2024
Saturdays and Sundays, 1pm to 6pm
BWAC Gallery, 481 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, NY 11231
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 21, 1pm to 6pm
ANCESTRAL VOICES of the Americas and Beyond”
BWAC is proud to celebrate the heritage, ancestry, culture, traditions, and the stories of our diverse communities in this show.
BWAC is proud to present “ANCESTRAL VOICES of the Americas and Beyond.”
This exhibition will feature original artwork that reflects diverse cultural backgrounds and family histories, reflecting the beauty of tradition, fortitude, and resilience.
The works depicts a range of spiritual and ancestral practices to wisdom, knowledge, and tales of migration, and settlement, that has shaped life in modern society.
This exhibit is curated by Tamavis D. Santiago, Latinx multidisciplinary artist, Board and Artist Member with BWAC Gallery.
September 21 to October 13, 2024
Saturdays and Sundays, 1pm to 6pm
BWAC Gallery, 481 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, NY 11231
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 21, 1pm to 6pm
Salon des Refusés 2024
OPENING SEPTEMBER 21
In light of the many artists whose artwork was not selected for the Brooklyn Museum exhibition, BWAC has decided to host a Salon des Refusés 2024 group show to showcase some of these works.
This exhibit will unite and uplift our artist community as well as complement the Brooklyn Museum show.
The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition presents its very own Salon des Refusés 2024.
BWAC announced an open call for the Salon des Refusés 2024 exhibit on August 7th. Artists who received a rejection letter for The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition were invited to exhibit their originally submitted artwork at BWAC instead. The number of submissions for the BWAC exhibition was capped at 200 artists.
The original Salon des Refusés took place in 1863 when the Paris Salon held its annual exhibition of academic arts. Thousands of artists applied but were rejected and were unable to display their work in the official Salon exhibition. It was determined that their work did not fulfill academic standards of the time. Emperor Napoleon III, who wanted the public to make the decision, organized a simultaneous exhibition of all the rejects in the Palace of Industry. This exhibition included artists such as Manet, Cezanne, Pissarro and Whistler. The exhibition of “rejects” became famously known as the Salon des Refusés 1863.
“As artists, we are very grateful for having the opportunity to submit a work to be exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum,” said Janet Morgan, co-curator of BWAC’s Salon des Refusés 2024. “Still, artists want to exhibit their works, so BWAC is giving them that opportunity.”
Welcome to Brooklyn's Salon des Refuses 2024, an art show at BWAC.
September 21 to October 13, 2024
Saturdays & Sundays, 1pm to 6pm
BWAC Gallery, 481 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, NY 11231
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 21, 1pm to 6pm
The Art of Coney Island 3 - Nat’l Juried Show
Coney Island is a NYC icon for all the reasons we love this city. It’s wild, exciting, fun, gritty, unique and beautiful -- especially to artists -- like no other place. Come celebrate the side show, mermaids, Cyclone, Nathan’s and of course, the beach, through the eyes of nearly 100 artists who haven’t forgotten to add a good dose of freakiness into their creations.
Weekends 1-6pm from Sat 7/13 EXTENDED TO Sun 8/25
Coney Island is a NYC icon for all the reasons we love this city. It’s wild, exciting, fun, gritty, unique and beautiful -- especially to artists -- like no other place. Come celebrate the side show, mermaids, Cyclone, Nathan’s and of course, the beach, through the eyes of nearly 100 artists who haven’t forgotten to add a good dose of freakiness into their creations.
Dates: Sat and Sun 1-6pm, 7/13 EXTENDED to 8/25
In the Neighborhood - BWAC Member Show
A member exhibition, In The Neighborhood presents the artists' perspectives and realities of their surroundings. Whether the artists chose to render images of architecture scenes, human interaction or atmospheric feelings, each piece represents the attachments human beings have for the place they spend their lives.
Weekends 1-6pm from Sat 7/13 EXTENDED through Sun 8/25
A member exhibition, In The Neighborhood presents the artists' perspectives and realities of their surroundings. Whether the artists chose to render images of architecture scenes, human interaction or atmospheric feelings, each piece represents the attachments human beings have for the place they spend their lives.
Dates: Sat and Sun 1-6pm, 7/13 EXTENDED to 8/25
An Open Call for “The Art of Coney Island 3” - National Juried Art Show
Submission deadline: EXTENDED June 19, 2024
BWAC is seeking artworks that use Coney Island as muse to depict the spirit and energy of this iconic Brooklyn neighborhood including the beach, boardwalk, attractions, people, and neighborhood. Submit your work to be considered for an exhibition encompassing it all.
We are excited to announce our national juried art show, “The Art Coney Island 3” will be opening July 13, 2024. BWAC welcomes back Alicia Degener, President of BWAC as curator. With her guidance and selections, we look forward to a spectacular show.
Coney Island, The Nickel Empire, Sodom by the Sea, The Poor Man’s Riviera, boasts both a community and amusement zone accessible for the price of a subway ride. The iconic location is muse to poets, writers, film makers and visual artists.
BWAC is seeking artworks that use Coney Island as muse to depict the spirit and energy of this iconic Brooklyn neighborhood including the beach, boardwalk, attractions, people, and neighborhood. Submit your work to be considered for an exhibition encompassing it all.
The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition is an artist-run, 501(c)(3) nonprofit. With 25,000 sq. ft. of exhibition space set in a Civil War-era warehouse on the waterfront of Red Hook Brooklyn. BWAC provides exhibition opportunities to artists of various levels of experience as well as professional development and public engagement. Explore membership opportunities on our Membership tab.
CALL TO ARTISTS FOR SUBMISSIONS
Submission Deadline: Application Deadline EXTENDED to June 19th, 2024
Gallery Exhibition Dates: Saturday, July 13 – Sunday, Aug 11, weekends 1‐6 P.M.
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 13, 2024 from 1‐6 P.M.
Complete details in the Prospectus PDF here
Ready to submit? Click here
The Creative Process - BWAC Member Show
Our member artists were asked to give you a glimpse into their thought processes on the pieces they are displaying. Did they work from sketches? Were they inspired by a former work of their own, or by another artist? Was their inspiration from nature or their own human surroundings? What did they do and what steps did they take to arrive at the finished artwork? Take a peak into their creative process!
Our member artists were asked to give you a glimpse into their thought processes on the pieces they are displaying. Did they work from sketches? Were they inspired by a former work of their own, or by another artist? Was their inspiration from nature or their own human surroundings? What did they do and what steps did they take to arrive at the finished artwork? Take a peak into their creative process!
Dates: June 1st to June 23rd 2024. Sat + Sun 1-6pm