Upcoming Events
Overflow is a site-responsive Skowhegan alumni group show guest curated by Andrew LaFarge Hamill at Gallery 198 in Brooklyn (July 10–24, 2026), featuring 21 multigenerational and multidisciplinary artists whose work explores relationships to water, urban infrastructure, and the climate crisis. Responding to conditions in Greenwood Heights and the Gowanus watershed, the exhibition extends beyond the gallery into the surrounding neighborhood, including up the hill to Green-Wood Cemetery. Through site-responsive, site-specific, and research-driven installations, as well as sculpture, painting practices, and video works, Overflow connects artistic inquiry with the material realities of local waterways.
7:00 - 7:15, screening of four films
Artists: Taylor Baldwin, Lili Chin, Nancy Cohen, Oscar Rene Cornejo, Jen De Los Reyes, Erik Deluca, Elizabeth Demaray, Sophie Grant, Elizabeth Flood, Andrew LaFarge Hamill, Sujin Lim, Marie Lorenz, Mary Mattingly, Landon Newton, Chris Papa, Jean Shin, Deborah Wasserman, Sterling Wells, Marisa Williamson, Jack-Arthur Wood, and Brian Zegeer.
Time: 5:30-6:30PM Drawing
Location: The easternmost end of 19th Street in Gowanus, by the water. (point your GPS to ‘16 19th Street, Brooklyn NY’. [between FedEx Shipping Center, and Gowanus Dredgers Boat House, behind Home Depot]
Time: 7:00 - 7:10PM
Gallery walk-through with Liz Flood and curator Andrew LaFarge Hamill.
About:
Join artist, Liz Flood, while she guides participants through a plain-air drawing session by the Gowanus Bay.
Together, we'll look closely at the movement of the Gowanus Bay and surrounding infrastructure, bearing witness to this historic and polluted waterway. No experience necessary. This is an opportunity to slow down, engage your senses through drawing, learn some strategies for drawing in the landscape, and meet new people.
What to Bring:
Ink and paper will be provided if needed. If you have them, please bring a paintbrush or two for ink drawing, a sketchbook, and any drawing materials you'd like to use. Also bring a water bottle.
About the Artist: Elizabeth Flood (b. 1992, Virginia) is a Beacon, NY-based artist and painting instructor at Purchase College. She holds an MFA from Boston University and a BA from the University of Virginia. Flood is a Skowhegan alumnus and has completed residencies at MASS MoCA and the Fine Arts Work Center. Her work has been recognized with an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, the Real Art Award, and a VMFA Graduate Fellowship.
Overflow is a site-responsive Skowhegan alumni group show guest curated by Andrew LaFarge Hamill at Gallery 198 in Brooklyn (July 10–24, 2026), featuring 21 multigenerational and multidisciplinary artists whose work explores relationships to water, urban infrastructure, and the climate crisis. Responding to conditions in Greenwood Heights and the Gowanus watershed, the exhibition extends beyond the gallery into the surrounding neighborhood, including up the hill to Green-Wood Cemetery. Through site-responsive, site-specific, and research-driven installations, as well as sculpture, painting practices, and video works, Overflow connects artistic inquiry with the material realities of local waterways.
7:00 - 7:15, screening of four films
Artists: Taylor Baldwin, Lili Chin, Nancy Cohen, Oscar Rene Cornejo, Jen De Los Reyes, Erik Deluca, Elizabeth Demaray, Sophie Grant, Elizabeth Flood, Andrew LaFarge Hamill, Sujin Lim, Marie Lorenz, Mary Mattingly, Landon Newton, Chris Papa, Jean Shin, Deborah Wasserman, Sterling Wells, Marisa Williamson, Jack-Arthur Wood, and Brian Zegeer.
5:30-6:00PM: Presentation
Location: Gallery 198
Time:
6:00-7:00PM: Above-ground walking tour of ghost streams, sewer systems and other underground phenomena.
Location: Gallery 198’s surrounding neighborhood
Bio:
Eymund Diegel is a map maker and citizen scientist working with community groups in Sunset Park and Gowanus, Brooklyn to map the City’s Ghost Streams through a project called NY CSI (Creek Scene Investigation). He worked on the City’s first Sludge (polite term) Management Plan and is intimately familiar with sewer overflows. As forgotten streams and springs are directly tied to the city’s largest trees, he is now mapping the history of New York City’s forest in a search for the City’s largest, oldest tree.
Join us for a concert by Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves, in celebration of their album Bury Deep My Heart (Carrier Records), due out July 24. They will be joined by the band Joy on Fire. Music videos by artists Lydia Ricci and Lola Bean Constantino will also be played. Ticket price includes a digital download of the new album (distributed at the show).
Doors open at 6 pm.
Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves’ electro-country sound draws from the traditions of 1960s country, 1980s dream pop, and modern electronic dance music, mixed with an experimental aesthetic all Lake’s own. Clever yet emotional lyrics, virtuosic musicianship, and a deep love of country music’s past plus a startling new vision for its future combine in Bury Deep My Heart, the band’s second full-length record and first of all-original songs.
Learn more about the band at: https://owenlake.com/
Music videos for four of the songs, “Let’s Go Back,” “Over You,” “Bury Deep My Heart,” and “Cheat to Win,” created by visual artists Lydia Ricci, Jessica Segall, Lola Bean Constantino, and Jeff Snyder, will accompany the release.
Listen, dance, and cry along to “the freshest take on country music you’ll ever hear” (Aaron Fox, author Real Country).
A performance by the band Joy on Fire will follow! Learn more about them at: https://www.joyonfire.com
(Owen Lake photo credit: Angelica Vielma)
Special musical guest, Snark, will perform aquatic music with saxophone and electronics, as part of Overflow, a 21 Skowhegan Alumni Show inquiring into how we relate to the waterways that support contemporary city life.
Location: Gallery 198
Bio:
Snark is a musician and visual artist who uses the tenor saxophone as a gateway to deep and untethered experiments in electronic manipulation, repetition, drone, and emotional frenzy. His catalogue of recordings tracks intimate partnerships with fellow adventure-seeking musicians, and takes shape in spacious long-form compositions and spontaneous improvisation. Inspired by rāga, ceremonial icaros, new age warmth and chthonic dissonance, the music aims to bring lessons from the Other Side.
ALL ARTISTS, NO MONEY
The Brooklyn Art Swap is back! The Art Swap is an evening of direct exchange between artists. No sales. No prices. Just artists trading their own work with one another.
When you arrive, you’ll find a place to display what you’ve brought—on the walls or on tables—and spend the evening meeting other artists and seeing what connections form. Some exchanges happen quickly. Others take time. Some happen through quiet recognition across the room.
You’re welcome to briefly share a few words about your work, or simply let it speak for itself. The evening closes with an optional lottery-style exchange, where chance may also guide where works land. This is not a marketplace, but a shared ritual of circulation and trust—one that allows artworks to move directly between artists’ lives.
GALLERY 198 is located at 198 24th Street, in South Slope, Brooklyn.
GUIDELINES:
- You may bring up to three finished artworks
- Please bring work that another artist could reasonably carry home that evening
- Works should be ready to hang or otherwise easily displayed
- You are responsible for bringing your work with you, and taking home what you receive
- Open to artists based in Brooklyn and Queens
- Limited to 35 artists
You’re encouraged to share what you plan to bring ahead of time using
#BrooklynArtSwap
Registration required.
An Exhibition + Performance by Ryan Bauer-Walsh
Ryan Bauer-Walsh airs their dirty laundry in an intimate act of exposure in FAGGOT BAGGAGE, a solo exhibition and live performance exploring trauma, grief, substance experimentation, survival, and release. The show features over 30 new paintings, each work functioning as both artifact and confession—revealed theatrically as part of an immersive performance experience.
Blurring the line between exhibition and performance art, FAGGOT BAGGAGE invites audiences into a deeply autobiographical body of work centered on loss, acceptance, and the unexpected joy that can emerge from letting go.
This event is presented by Gallery 198 in Brooklyn in conjunction with a two-week solo exhibition.
Doors open at 6:00pm; performance begins at 7:00pm and will run approximately 45 minutes. The August 8 opening performance will be followed by a birthday celebration for the artist, beginning at 9:00 PM. All are welcome.
Trigger Warning: This performance and exhibition contains themes related to sexual assault, drug use, grief, death, and trauma.
Community Component: This exhibition also functions as a clothing drive benefiting Backpacks for the Street. Guests are encouraged to bring one menswear item to donate.
About the Artist
Ryan Bauer-Walsh is a Harlem-based multidisciplinary colorblind and queer artist whose work explores identity, performance, trauma, and personal mythology through painting, installation, and live art.