Tag Archives: Capricious Space

Images from the Twilight of the Mammalian Era – Melanie Bonajo at Capricious Space

On Friday, September 11th, there will be an opening reception for Dutch artist Melanie Bonajo’s show Captive Lives Western Spectacle at Capricious Space in Brooklyn from 7-10pm. Bonajo recently talked about her project, which deals with the relations between humans and animals, at too much chocolate:
“While taking these images I started to study animals from a [...]

From Blue to Blue

The photography of Martien Mulder, hitherto featured in a slew of international galleries and magazines, is now on view at Capricious Space. Mulder’s preoccupations appear to be with plantlife and portraiture, pretty much in that order. The former she treats with an almost spiritual reverence—venerating verdant palm trees in Brazilian Mist (2001) and Plant in [...]

Amber Ibarreche at Capricious Space

Capricious Space is a refreshingly modest studio near the corner of Bedford and Broadway avenues in Williamsburg. As its name suggests, the space is fickle: sometimes a gallery, sometimes a performance venue—but always a consistent arbiter of good taste. For the next month, Capricious Space will be showing the work of Amber Ibarreche, a Brooklyn [...]

Web Folks Meet In Real Life

It’s likely that you’re a young person between, say, 18 and 35, and that you spend a good chunk of your time on the Internet. It’s also likely that you spend little of that time considering the ontological nature of online commerce, or how exactly one might describe that nature, or if one can describe [...]

boo boo & The Known World at Capricious Space

What do tree branches, horsehair, glass, light and tumbling mats bought on Craigslist have in common? Personally, they are all items that I’ve found next to my bed after nights of heavy drinking. Coincidentally they are also key elements of an installation called boo boo by New York artist Anne Hall, which opened at Capricious Space [...]