BROOKLYN VS. SYDNEY - Opening Reception

Opening Reception: Friday, January 9, 6-9pm Sponsored by Cake Wines and Kopparberg Australia M2 Gallery is pleased to announce “Brooklyn Vs. Sydney”, an exhibition of collage work selected by Kara Brooks, a New York-based curator. Though the title insinuates competitiveness between the two cities, the exhibition is playful and intends to bring together the two communities, united in this common medium. The Brooklyn artists in this exhibition are part of the Brooklyn Collage Collective (BCC), a group of artists that officially began in 2013 by Morgan Jesse Lappin, with the mission to bring attention to the diversity of this art form. The Sydney artists were acquired via the BCC network and social media. “Brooklyn Vs. Sydney” is a tribute to the power and willingness of the collage community. Collage is both an underground and contemporary art form that is relevant to the present day. Incorporating the use of pre-existing materials and objects helps to give meaning to the discontinuity of our generation, so heavily saturated with images. Brooklyn artists: Lizzie Gill, Joseph Karwacki, Claire Lachow, Morgan Jesse Lappin, Jon Legere, Kieran P Madden, Jay Riggio and Richard Vergez Sydney artists: Early Leah, Shannon Johnson, Tulsi Maya, Chelsea Meatchem, Mia Middleton Kubi D. Vladimir ---------------------------------- Cake Wines is a boutique wine producer, created in 2011 by young wine makers and young wine lovers. The wine making team is based in Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills headed up by Tim Burvill. They have also collaborated with Richie Harkham and Dave Macintosh to produce wines out of the Hunter and Yarra Valley. Cake Wines was recently awarded a 4.5 star winery rating in James Hallidays Wine Companion.