Transport III with Underwater New York

Proteus Gowanus is thrilled to join Underwater New York in curating the final phase of Transport

Transport III with Underwater New York

Join us on June 12, at 6 pm, to celebrate the show’s opening.

Underwater New York is an online anthology of stories, art and music inspired by the objects and phenomena beneath the waters around NYC. Transport III will exhibit work inspired by these objects and their journeys through the waterways. On view will be artwork ranging from paintings to letterpress prints to stories in bottles, from artifacts to photographs to artist books to installations.

Proteus Gowanus Benefit Party


Proteus Gowanus invites you to

A Benefit Party to Celebrate Five Years on the Alleyway


Saturday, May 22nd, 7 – 10 p.m.

RAIN DATE: Sunday, May 23, 7 – 10 p.m.

Tickets here

Featuring
Optiks/Alley
A multimedia installation/performance by Paul Benney and friends
inspired by Newton’s Opticks and West Side Story. Viewers will be
transported down the alleyway through a dream-like world
of theatrical lighting, video and an original sound score

And a Laboratory of Protean Workshops:

Rocketworks Countdown 3, a triptych moon launch video by David Eustace

Improvisational Mending with the Fixers Collective: bring a broken object!

Individual and Dual Stunts in the Reanimation Library with Andrew Beccone

A Secret Museum, a private viewing of Morbid Anatomy Library’s collection with Joanna Ebenstein

The Mysteries of the Gowanus Unveiled in our Hall of the Gowanus by Eymund Diegel

An Oulipian Escapade with Tom LaFarge and Wendy Walker’s Writhing Society

Music by Union Street Preservation Society

A selection of Thai hors d’oevres by JOYA restaurant
and wine will be served

Tickets $60 each
Space is limited, tickets will be sold on a first come first served basis

Toying with Forms

Sunday, March 2nd, 3:00 p.m.
$5 admission

Karen Hewitt, toy designer, toy historian, and educator, will consider the relationship between toys and art with a particular focus on building toys and their historical and contemporary parallels in the art world.  This talk will include images, historical objects, and personal reflections related to art, toys and play.