Beginnings — (est. August 2012) is a small storefront gallery in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, with seven different artist/curators presenting a program of contemporary art in a welcoming environment.

The Beginning is the first group show, a gorgeous catalog of nearly thirty artists, traveling the underground and overground international ley lines with stops in Californian bio-geometry, Berliner clear-imagination, Providential neo-psych, op-sculpture Japonisme, the zen meshes of Chicago, Brooklynite paint concrète, rigorous Anglican graphism and many more wild and wonderful points along the way. Paintings, drawings, photographs, marks on paper and cloth and other objects, shapes, colors, lines, 2-D and 3-D things to look at—no unifying theme or concept—but strangely coherent as a sampler of the seven curators’ brains.

What’s art for anymore? How can contemporary art be bought and sold in a healthy, progressive way? How can new artists support/be supported in their community? In the 21st century, what are the most satisfying and effective roles of the gallery? The gallerist? The gallery-goers?

We got no idea, but we’re happy to present this art and these artists.

List of Artists:
Mari Andrews
Nick Butcher & Nadine Nakanishi
Heather Culp
Stephen Eichhorn
Amze Emmons
Matt Furie
David Giordano
Matthew Giordano
David Jien
Daehyun Kim
James Kirkpatrick
Chris Kline
Aidan Koch
Oliver Kossack Matt Leines
Isaac Lin
Matt Lock
Simon Massey de Vallazza
Otto Milo
Mumbreeze
Peter Nencini
Daniel Owen
Nick Payne
Jenni Rope
Andreas Schimanski
Eric Shaw
Lanya Snyder
Marta Stockwell
James Ulmer