The Invisible Dog Announces Their Upcoming Events

51 Bergen Street is a three story factory building located in what until recently was an industrial neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. The history of this factory building reflects the history of this downtown neighborhood.

Although it is only one mile in distance from lower Manhattan, this area was still farmland as recently as the mid-19th century. The reason for this fact is that downtown Brooklyn is physically separated from lower Manhattan by the East River. The downtown Brooklyn area began to slowly change by the mid-1800's because of it's close proximity to Manhattan, but at that time the people who lived in this "suburb" across the river were only able to get to work in Manhattan via ferryboat across the East River.

In April

Thursday April 1st - 6.30pm to 9pm
FRESH
After thousands of community screenings and grassroots word-of-mouth, FRESH has finally been released theatrically in NYC. FRESH is opening at the Quad Cinema Friday April 9th and is kicking off a long series of how-to workshops, farm to table dinners, lectures and tastings with a Wine & Cheese Reception at the Invisible Dog Art Center. FRESH celebrates The Farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system.

Friday April 23rd - 6.30pm to ...
The Invisible Dog Store Grand Opening
Save the date!

Saturday April 24th - noon to 9pm
The Invisible Dog's Artists Open their studios
Come to meet our 27 resident artists. Meet them, talk to them, have a drink with.

Saturday April 24th - Opening 6pm to midnight
Works Progress - Recession Art

Recession Art is a new arts organization devoted to helping emerging artists show and sell their work while giving middle-income art lovers and collectors an opportunity to buy original work at reasonable prices. We believe that in spite of hard economic times, artists and art lovers don't have to put their passions on hold! We aim to break open the traditional gallery model and make showing, buying, and enjoying art more accessible for people who have been hit by the recession. We believe that we can start our own art stimulus plan today!

Featured artists:
Megan Berk, Amanda Boulton, Zach Chupa, Julie Floersch, Emily Francois, Katerie Gladdys, Angela Jann Jonathon Kambouris, Ian Trask, Cubby West, Alison Wilder, Shawn Yu.

Works progress - Recession Art
from April 24th to May 2nd

Friday April 30th to Sunday May 2nd
My dinner with Bernard Frechtman

My Dinner with Bernard Frechtman is a solo performance piece that blends theatrical, literary, and academic idiom. It charts the obsession of a graduate student and performance artist named Shonni Enelow with the midcentury translator and critic Bernard Frechtman, most famous as Jean Genet's first American translator and literary agent, who killed himself in the mid-1960s. Shonni Enelow falls in love with Frechtman, and through her repeated attempts to contact his old girlfriend, the now-famous academic Annette Michelson, she explores the ghostly inscrutability of Frechtman as a metaphor for the desire for, and the impossibility of, total knowledge of either the object of study or the object of love. Serge Gainsbourg's classic "Les Dessous Chics [Chic underwear]," on which the two parts of the piece hinge, crystallizes the paradox: chic underwear, the metonym for total exposure, is actually what prevents it.

My dinner ...
from April 30th to May 2nd

Last weeks - until may 2nd

The Ant by Xavier Roux
The sixty foot long giant insect wearing a hat is inspired from the poem written by Surrealist Robert Desnos.

The Worm by Ian Trask
A transformative cardboard installation which is a new species of detritivore with a voracious appetite and a talent for consuming urban waste.
Ian Trask is in residency at The Invisible Dog.

The Invisible Dog Apartments

The Invisible Dog Art Center provides apartments for people visiting and/or working in New York. Apartments are located at 65 Bergen Street, Boerum Hill, close to the historic neighborhood Brooklyn Heights and its amazing "promenade" with a view on Downtown Manhattan. Each studio apartment is about 300 square feet with a kitchen and a bathroom. They are completely furnished including queen bed, dishes, towels & sheets.

Artist Studios

The Invisible Dog's artists community keeps growing! Discover our current artists
4 Studios are available!
For artists visiting NY, short term lease studios are also available and can be combined with apartments - Applications & requests should be sent by email at
theinvisibledog.ny@gmail.com

Rental Spaces

Weddings, birthdays, parties, fundraising galas, theater performances, concerts, rehearsals, , film shoots, fashion shows, photo shoots, art exhibitions and more... Located on the third floor, the loft is a gorgeous open space of 4000 square feet which is accessible through our artisticly designed, yet historically preserved sublime freight elevator. Although this historic building has been extensively renovated with new windows, heating and electricity, the majority of the original details remain intact. Hardwood floors, brick walls, and 19th century wooden beams give the space a uniquely raw and beautiful atmosphere.

The Invisible Dog Art Center
51 Bergen Street (between Smith street and Boerum Place)
Brooklyn NY 11201
F or G Trains - Bergen street stop
www.theinvisibledog.org