🎟 Experience Sunk Shore Bay Ridge with Clarinda Mac Low and Carolyn Hall
🐳 an invitation to listen to the water
♒︎ ♒︎ ♒︎ Sunk Shore Bay Ridge ♒︎ ♒︎ ♒︎
♒︎ A collaborative exhibition opening April 19th ♒︎
Exhibition opening: April 19, 3-6 PM, Stand4 Gallery and Community Arts Space
Round Table conversation: April 22, 5:30-7 PM, Bay Ridge branch of the Brooklyn Library
Sunk Shore Introductory Workshop: April 26, 3-5 PM, Stand4 Gallery
Drop-in art-making and conversation: May 3: 12-2, Bay Ridge Library
Public Participatory Performance: May 4: 12 noon, 69th St. Pier
Sunk Shore, created by Culture Push Board Member Carolyn Hall and Culture Push Executive Director Clarinda Mac Low, began as a speculative, experiential tour of our climate crisis future along specific shorelines. The tours time travel into an extrapolated future based on a deep dive into climate change data, creating an embodied experience of information. The practice has expanded to include digital video collages that bring the extrapolations to life, large-scale collage works that immerse the viewer in a future moment, as well as workshops, presentations at conferences, and lectures.
Sunk Shore Bay Ridge, the first Sunk Shore community collaboration, connects different facets of the Bay Ridge community and gives space for considering the past, noticing changes over time, and envisioning the future of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, including the shoreline, upland flooding, sinkholes, and more.
In Fall 2024, Sunk Shore began working in collaboration with Stand4 Gallery to engage other community members across Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, including the Bay Ridge branch of the Brooklyn Library, The Bay Ridge Center for Older Adults, and a core group of collaborators: Adrian Jones, Charlie Maliha, Mariya Isabella, Maureen Godwin, Nick Isabella, and Sally McMahon. Other important interlocutors include Bay Ridge historian Henry Stewart and long-time resident Mohamed Saleh.
Sunk Shore Bay Ridge includes a new artwork by Hall and Mac Low that plays with bioplastic and transparencies; a short documentary and accompanying map by the Bay Ridge core collaborators; a collage workshop at the Bay Ridge Center for Older Adults; a Round Table community discussion; a Sunk Shore workshop; art-making and conversation at the Bay Ridge Library, a participatory performance on the 69th St. Pier; and more!
Sunk Shore Bay Ridge is part of Essential Shore/Permeable Future, the second Bay Ridge Public Art & Ecology Biennial, curated by Jennifer McGregor and taking place at the Stand4 Gallery and Community Art Space and in public spaces around Bay Ridge April 19-June 21, 2025.
Meet the artists of “Essential Shore / Permeable Future” — Opening April 19!
CAROLYN HALL is a Brooklyn, NY-based award winning freelance dancer/performer, historical marine ecologist, and communication instructor, specializing in science communication.
CLARINDA MAC LOW was brought up in the avant-garde arts scene that flourished in NYC during the 1960s and ‘70s. She began performing with her father Jackson Mac Low and with Meredith Monk at the age of 5. Mac Low started out working in dance and molecular biology in the late 1980s and now works in performance and installation, creating participatory installations and events that investigate social constructs and corporeal experience.
TOGETHER they created Sunk Shore, a speculative, experiential tour of our climate crisis future that takes place along specific shorelines. From Fall 2024 through Summer 2025 they will be working to create a series of Sunk Shores in collaboration with Stand4 Gallery and other community members across Bay Ridge.
Sunk Shore Bay Ridge is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature through the kind fiscal sponsorship of Segue, Inc.
Essential Shore/ Permeable Future will present free public artworks, interventions, and programs throughout the community that strengthen people’s relationship to water and the Narrows shoreline through an environmental lens. The activities will take place at Stand4 Gallery, Narrows Botanical Garden, Bay Ridge Library, Veterans Memorial Pier, Bay Ridge Cares senior center, our local book store, The Bookmark Shoppe and other locations, who have agreed to partner with us.
We invited over a dozen New York artists to create interactive artworks and activities that are free to the public and will be presented in Stand4 Gallery and public locations throughout the neighborhood.
Curated by Jennifer McGregor: Jennifer McGregor combines curating and arts planning with ongoing creative projects based on her archive and experiences. Her place-based curating focuses on ecological, historical, and cultural concerns. Based in New York, she works nationally to activate public spaces and create opportunities for artists to engage diverse audiences.
Participating Artists: Cynthia Alberto, Graciela Cassel, Emilie Clark, Betsy Damon, Thomas Gallagher, Clarinda Mac Low/ Carolyn Hall (Sunk Shore), Jan Mun, Valerie Tevere/ Angel Nevarez, Seema Lisa Pandya, Nicole Peyrafitte, Ana Bessie Ratner (The Other Almanac), Hannah Salyer, Brooke Singer
In Spring 2025 Stand4 Gallery and Community Art Space will host its second Biennial, Essential Shore/ Permeable Future, an interactive, public exhibition that focuses on the ecology of Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge neighborhood. Managed by Jeannine Bardo, director of Stand4 and curated by Jennifer McGregor the project is a follow up to our successful 2023 exhibition and inaugural biennial, Bay Ridge Through an Ecological Lens.