Anonymous Brooklyn is for everyone.

Anonymous Brooklyn is an installation built one person at a time. Over the course of New York City Jewelry Week all artists are invited to bring a piece of jewelry for display In the Gallery at Brooklyn Metal Works. All the work will be placed on one wall, and each artist will have only small nails to hang their piece. (We will have a hammer of course!) This is an accumulation, an accretion. Whoever hangs the first piece gets the first pick of placement and from there it grows. It might grow over, it might grow under. No artist will harm the work of another, but elbows will rub, hair may fall in your eyes, and proximity will certainly alter perception.

This call for entries in ongoing throughout the installation period. We will accept works until the installation closes on Nov. 19 at 5pm.

Drop off and installation:
November 14 – 18, 11am – 6pm
November 19, 11am – 5pm

Opening November 19, 6 – 9pm

De-installation:
November 20, 11am – 6pm
November 21, 11am – 6pm

In the Gallery @ Brooklyn Metal Works
640 Dean Street Floor 2
Brooklyn, NY 11238

Bring us your jewelry. One person, one piece. Check our open hours to bring and install the work. Your work will go through a formal documentation process where we photograph the work and receive your information. You will be given a coat check number in exchange for your work. You will participate in an installation performance. You will be photographed installing the piece and all pertinent information about that piece will be offered to the interwebs on all of our available platforms. Participants must be willing to wear a mask while performing these tasks. No name attribution will ever be publicly associated with the works or released by BKMW. If a work sells the name of the artist will be disclosed to the buyer if desired.

To participate in Anonymous Brooklyn, fill out this form before dropping off work.

All you need to do is fill out our intake form and then come by and install your pieces during our open hours. There is no review process to accept works, everyone is invited to submit one piece. Just fill out the form here!

Suzanne Sullivan

While I’m away, please mind my fountain.

Opening Reception September 16, 7-9 pm

Installation on view through October 30

I am a ceramicist based in Philadelphia.

I am preoccupied by what is popularly referred to as the literal – what an object literally is or does or is intended to do. I tend to shy away from metaphors. The pieces in this body of work all have to do with water. They are made to work with water. And in this exhibit, water represents preciousness but then again it doesn’t. Water’s preciousness is not abstract; water is precious, literally. With this in mind – and with water at the center of this project – I wanted to keep things practical. In so doing, I made buckets, goblets, pitchers, spoons, scoops – vessels of all kinds, using clay and glazes and gold. I made a fountain, and I set it in a room that encourages, I hope, the visitor to contemplate perceptions:  

·      What is precious? 

·      What is literal? 

·      What is function? 

·      What is abstract? 

Meanwhile, I would ask the viewer, if they would, to please mind my fountain while I am away. 

-Suzanne Sullivan