Matthew Jensen, Walking Flatbush
Matthew Jensen is a Brooklyn-based artist who combines photography, collecting, and walking explorations. Jensen takes the common tropes of landscape photography—immediacy, natural beauty—and redefines the experience or act of being there through the objects and documents he collects. For Walking Flatbush (or Crossing Brooklyn, Bay to Bay) Jensen walked the 10.5-mile route from Hudson Bay to Jamaica Bay during the 2014 seasonal shift from winter into spring, collecting artifacts and found objects along his route. Jensen created a walking guide: one side outlining a map of his trip highlighting various historic, topographic, scenic, and curious moments found along the route. The other side shows an image of a bundle consisting of the plants, artifacts and found objects. In the installation he has also included found treasures that span both the beginning of civilization in Brooklyn—arrowheads, clay shards—as well as modern day artifacts found along Flatbush. Find out more at jensen-projects.com.
Click here to download Walking Flatbush (or Crossing Brooklyn, Bay to Bay): https://jensenprojects.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/walking-flatbush.pdf
PUBLIC PROGRAM
Found Objects Road Show
At our April 11th "Spring Fever" BRIC House Party, Matthew Jensen will highlight his project Walking Flatbush by hosting an archeologist version of Antiques Roadshow, looking over his found objects with Archeologist Alyssa Loorya from Chrysalis Archaeological Consultants, Inc. Come and see the histories contained in these objects.
2-3pm | ARTIST STUDIO
Venue Information:
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