Emily Gherard (left) & Dave Kennedy (right)

BUILDING BRIDGES,
BUILDING SPACE

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This winter brings profound changes for Bridge Productions as we begin our transition into a multi-spoked project featuring, most prominently, an online arts journal. Writing and visual arts have always been at the core of everything we do. Now, in 2019, Bridge Productions is returning to its roots, shifting to become a presentation platform featuring an online arts journal as well as periodic curatorial projects, online shows, publications, and events. These changes will begin slowly, starting with one or two essays or articles a month on our journal. Over time, we’ll launch several other exciting methods of storytelling through our website and social media. In some ways, we’ve already begun— thanks to curatorial assistant Alexis L. Silva, we’ve already held two instagram residencies with great success and will continue these in 2019! We are also excited to announce we’re hosting Brooklyn painter Paolo Arao for a solo exhibition of new works this late spring/early summer, and will announce a location very soon! As a non-commercial platform no longer bound by walls, city, or region; we will have the ability to serve a larger community through digital residencies, social media coverage, short-form writing, essays, and criticism. And we’re excited to see where our other projects take us in curating, in-print publications, and public programming. This is our way of supporting the arts ecosystem at large: showcasing the work of artists, independent curators, writers, and performers and the venues which house them such as pop-ups, galleries, museums, and artist-run spaces. Read the full announcement here on our News page.​

ESSAYS

AUTONOMOUS ENTITIES

​Sharon Arnold considers the ambulatory and fortified nature of architectural forms in drypoint and collage created by printmaker Kim Van Someren.

BETWEEN REALITY & THE CONSTRUCTED WORLD

Guest curator Sequoia Day O'Connell's essay for The Veil, a tender contemplative offering to the shadow self, and the shadow world.

LUNAR EKPHRASIS

Negarra A. Kudumu concludes her three-month curatorial residency with an ekphrasic response to the work of Mike Wagner.