BROOKLYN HI ART! MACHINE
Mildred Beltré, Oasa Duverney
Ancestors, 2021
Silkscreen
18 x 24 inches
Edition of 20, 6 artist proofs
Printed by Kingsland Printing, Brooklyn, NY
Mildred Beltré, Oasa Duverney
Dear Friend, 2021
Silkscreen
18 x 24 inches
Edition of 20, 6 artist proofs
Printed by Kingsland Printing, Brooklyn, NY
Mildred Beltré, Oasa Duverney
Silence, 2021
Silkscreen
18 x 24 inches
Edition of 20, 6 artist proofs
Printed by Kingsland Printing, Brooklyn, NY
Planthouse is proud to publish three prints by Mildred Beltré and Oasa DuVerney of Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine. The prints, Ancestors, Silence, and Dear Friend, commemorate their public art projects since the collective’s inception. Measuring 18 x 24 inches and screen printed in Brooklyn at Kingsland Printing, each print is in an edition of twenty with six artist proofs.
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BROOKLYN HI ART! MACHINE
Brooklyn Hi Art! Machine is a project conceived by New York City artists Mildred Beltré and Oasa Duverney. They started making art together in each other’s apartments. As they shared stories and experiences while doing their work, they wondered if they could bring their neighbors a similar experience. In the summer of 2010, they co-founded a collaborative public art project exploring art-making as a community-building tool. Brooklyn Hi Art! Machine is a community-based, socially engaged project in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Dubbing themselves the Official Unofficial Artists in Residence of their block, they set up tents, tables, a banner, and art supplies on the street outside our apartment building and began working.
MILDRED BELTRÉ is Brooklyn based artist, mother, and activist working in print, drawing, and participatory politically engaged practice, to explore facets of social change. She is interested in studying political movements and their associated social relations and structures.
Beltré’s selected national exhibitions include: Brooklyn Museum, NY; De Cordova Museum, MA; Everson Museum, NY; Fleming Museum, VT; International Print Center New York, NYC; Burlington City Arts, Burlington, VT; Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; BRIC, Brooklyn, NY; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY; Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA; University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; Art in General, NYC.; and international group shows at Projecto Ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Hollar Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic; Brun Leglise Gallery, Paris France, among others. Her work is included in the Special Collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, among others.
OASA DUVERNEY, a New York native, is an artist and mother. Selected exhibitions, and residencies: (2020) 2020 Women To Watch, National Museum of Women in the Arts; (2020) Twenty Twenty, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; BLACK POWER WAVE, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY (2019); Something To Say, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY (2018); The Window and the Breaking of the Window, Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC (2016); The Brooklyn Biennial II, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY (2016); Through A Glass Darkly, Postmasters Gallery, NYC (2012); Rush Philanthropic Foundation Artist Residency (2016), Smack Mellon Studio Artist Residency (2014- 2015); LMCC Workspace Residency (2012-2013). She received her BFA from SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology, and her MFA from CUNY Hunter College.