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makeshift [gardenz]


  • BROOKLYN METAL WORKS 640 Dean Street Brooklyn, NY, 11238 United States (map)

Opening In the Gallery at Brooklyn Metal Works on Friday, July 12, from 7-9PM.

On View July 12 - August 25 11AM-6PM.

We are also hosting an Artist Talk with Sulo Bee on August 24, 2-3:30pm in the Gallery.

The otherness, the ethereal, and the shadows converge in a single moment to create a liminal space of gathered memories. Parts and pieces of pastel dreams, soft star dust, and flowers blooming on trellises— spectral echoes in an in-between place. 

Here, these elements intersect with the planes of reality, creating makeshift gardens where semi-corporeal creatures serve as artifacts of their melding — collecting stones and elemental spirits to manifest a physical body in an alternate realm called $P4RKL3_FiLTH_CL0UD_NiN3. 

Between destinations and uncertainties lies a mezzanine, a place that exists in transition, between what was and what will be, on the precipice of what has yet to become tangible— makeshift gardens not meant for staying, but merely passing through.

“For this specific exhibition, I am thinking about the moving targets of my identity and the intersecting planes of reality they exist within, specifically liminal spaces as moments of extreme transition — and how these ‘Makeshift Gardens’ act as a space of solace and comfort —- a combination of the uncertainties that surround moments of transition and illuminate the dark like bright starlight . These makeshift gardens act as a buffer between myself and society, an in-between place meant for passing or transitioning.” - Sulo Bee

Sulo Bee is a nonbinary creature maker and world builder based in Central Texas. They hold a BFA in Metals and Jewelry from Texas State University in 2018 and an MFA from SUNY New Paltz in 2022. Sulo has exhibited their work nationally and internationally with various galleries in the United States, Europe, and Australia. They are a co-founder of Queer Metalsmiths where they seek to uplift queer voices in the field of metalsmithing and craft. Sulo was named one of ten artists in the nation for the 2022 Emerging Artist Cohort with American Craft Council and later received the esteemed Marzee Graduate Prize at the International Graduate Show with Galerie Marzee. Throughout 2023, Sulo was a participant in the GEMz talent programme with Current Obsession Magazine and developed a body of work for exhibition at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, Netherlands for the OBSESSED! Jewellery Festival on display through January 2024. Recently, they were commissioned to create a piece for the Museum of Art and Design. The acquisitioned work debuted at the Museum of Art and Design in April 2024 for the “OUT of the Jewelry Box” exhibition.

Sulo is currently a Lecturer in Metals and Foundations at the School of Art and Design at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.

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