SIX WAYS OUT

June 18, 2004 — July 17, 2004

“Six Ways Out”
Todd St. John
Eric Elms
Patrick Rocha
Maya Hayuk
Craig Metzger
Neck Face
curated by Max Fenton
Opening Friday June 18, 2004 from 8 PM – 11 PM
On view through Saturday July 17, 2004
Brooklyn Fire Proof, Inc. presents Six Ways Out with new work by six emerging artists working to explode the conventions of their media, movements and moment.
The wooden sculptures, wheat paste posters, oil paintings, installations, paper cutouts and graffiti of Todd St. John, Eric Elms, Patrick Rocha, Maya Hayuk, Craig Metzger, and Neck Face couldn’t look more dies-similar, but they are champions of their respective crafts. Each challenges the classes of art that separate low from high, street from gallery, underground from mainstream, and popular from fine.
The current vanguard of art looks more disparate than alike, more fragmentary than coherent. And yet, the idea of art making has never been stronger. Creative energy flows in every direction.
Please join us for the opening on June 18 from 8 – 11 PM as the newly renovated Brooklyn Fire Proof, Inc. brings together these six artists, six models for art making. With more than fifty new pieces and an enormous collaborative mural, Six Ways Out aims to show these works as myriad projections from the shared prism that ties the new art together.
GALLERY HOURS: 1-6 PM Friday and Saturday
or call for appointment 718 302 4702