Brooklyn Abstraction: Four Artists, Four Walls
About This Event
This installation of works by Maya Hayuk, José Parlá, Kennedy Yanko, and the late Leon Polk Smith—four artists with strong connections to Brooklyn—creates a dynamic environment through four distinct, visually immersive experiences.
About Brooklyn Abstraction: Four Artists, Four Walls
At the Brooklyn Museum, *Brooklyn Abstraction: Four Artists, Four Walls* is a live, in-gallery presentation that gives four artists a wall each and treats the museum itself as the medium. The event traces how abstraction can register place, movement, and memory without resorting to narrative, using the architecture as a fixed frame. In a city where studio space is precarious, the format quietly foregrounds scale and access as part of the work. The result reads less like a survey and more like a set of propositions about what abstraction can do in Brooklyn now.