The Hippies

Opening reception October 11, 2018, 6-8pm

Exhibition dates October 12 - November 30, 2018

MEANTIME CO

95 St. Nicholas Avenue

Brooklyn, NY 11237

Brooklyn, New York; October 5, 2018 –– Meantime Co. presents The Hippies, an outdoor sculpture exhibition featuring the work of Rachel Rossin, B. Thom Stevenson, Jillian Mayer, David B. Smith and Johannes Vanderbeek. Organized by Natalia Sacasa, the exhibition is sited in a 25 x 60 foot lot between buildings on St. Nicholas Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and can be viewed from the sidewalk at all hours. All artists work in a sculptural language that mixes sources across culture, history and genre. Bushwick is a culturally-diverse neighborhood teeming with public artistic expressions––murals, graffiti and curious arrangements of toys that hang from trees as you walk the streets. The Hippies aims to echo and harness the social and cultural atmosphere of the area and insert sculpture into the landscape. More specifically, the works chosen for this exhibition address social space, interpersonal communication and use the body and language as iconographic points of entry. The Hippies refers to Sacasa’s childhood memory of the Emeryville Mudflats, a sculpture garden in the California Bay Area which was emblematic of the creative atmosphere present from the 1960’s through the mid-90’s. Visible from the highway, the sculptures were made from a century’s worth of industrial debris that had floated in from the bay. Innovative, radical, spirited, political and personal, the sculptures celebrated as much as they decried. They were built by people of all walks of life, not all of whom would have labeled themselves artists. It can be argued that the Mudflats was a precursor to Instagram: a creative outlet available to anyone and everyone which could be seen by anyone and everyone. Now, this formerly disused lot in the heart of Bushwick is a platform for public creative expression with the hope to further define the ethos of this time and place. Meantime Co. is a new venue for art, books, artist-made utilitarian goods, furniture and objects of curiosity founded by Natalia Sacasa. The Hippies is the inaugural exhibition.

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