24/7 Gallery

End Of Summer by Martha Mysko

Surreal collision of art, nature, and consumption.

**Martha Mysko**, *In Circulation*, 2023, Belle Isle Viewing Room

Opening Reception: Friday, October 17 – 5-7PM.

Exhibition Dates: October 18 - November 30, 2025

Location: ArtYard Kingston - 80 Smith Avenue, Kingston NY 12401

In this large-scale, immersive shadow box, Mysko transforms the gallery vestibule into a surreal and saturated mise-en-scène, where fragments of consumer culture collide with the art historical. Borrowing its title from a work in Monet’s iconic Grain Stacks series (Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer)), the installation reflects on both the shifting seasons of nature and the cycles of consumption—retail clearance sales, longing, accumulation.

Through the glass, viewers encounter a dense collage of retail fixtures, home décor, synthetic fabrics, and digital prints on layered materials. These elements assemble into a textural landscape—both painterly and sculptural—that evokes illusion, nostalgia, and sensory overload. Mysko’s color-driven compositions create moments of reflection, compression, and expansion, encouraging viewers to linger in visual uncertainty.

End of Summer continues Mysko’s ongoing exploration of domestic spaces and material detritus as narrative tools, blurring boundaries between interior and exterior, public and private, memory and marketplace.

Martha Mysko is the current Co-Head of the Painting Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work has been exhibited at venues across the country including the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Marc Straus Gallery (NYC), and Wasserman Projects (Detroit). She lives and works in the Metro Detroit area.

FLAGPOLE PROJECT

**Becky Brown, Attention, 2025**

ArtPort Kingston is proud to exhibit this flag of Becky Brown that uses wordplay to explore the most desired commodity of our moment: attention. Its phonetic double, “a tension,” speaks to the challenge of controlling this resource with so many forces competing for it. Blocky, robotic lettering is irregularly spaced, reflecting different speeds and lapses of attention. Brown uses the bold, graphic style of flags and billboard advertising, but the work’s “message” is an open-ended reflection on the value and vulnerability of attention itself.

The composition is a visual poem, meant to be seen and read simultaneously. As a draped flag, its text may not be immediately legible, with words broken down into abstract letters and shapes, provoking curiosity. Depending on wind conditions, the complete text will come into focus. This scrambling of meaning challenges what a flag traditionally represents, instead reflecting our fragmented information landscape.

About the Artist:

Becky Brown is a painter and visual artist born in Manhattan, currently living in Buffalo, NY. Her work uses hand-painted lettering, found text and irregular pattern to restore attention and a human touch in the face of advancing online culture. She received her MFA from Hunter College and is an Assistant Professor at SUNY University at Buffalo. Her work has been exhibited at PS122 Gallery, Arts+Leisure Gallery, The Drawing Center, Queens Museum, Pratt Manhattan Gallery and A.I.R. Gallery (all NYC); Last Projects (Los Angeles); Fort Gondo (St. Louis, MO); CICA Museum (Gyeonggi-do, Korea) and Religare Arts (Delhi, India). She has been an artist-in-residence at MacDowell, Yaddo, Millay, Edward Albee and Saltonstall Foundations, among others; and received grant funding from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and Bronx Council on the Arts. Her work has been written about in the New York Times, the New York Observer, Hyperallergic, Two Coats of Paint and Art Spiel, among others. Her critical writing has been published in Art in America and The Brooklyn Rail.

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STAY FROSTY

Stay Frosty is part tailgate, part trunk show, part festival, and part site-specific exhibition located in an open-air parking lot in West Harlem.

Vernissage: Friday Oct 24, 12-7

October 24-26 | 16-20 Convent Ave at 128th Street, NYC

ArtPort Kingston Parking Spot: “Dreamfield Rituals” Curated by Laurie De Chiara

Artists: Jeila Gueramian, Stefan Saffer, Roxy Savage, Becca Van K. and Dasha Bazanova

Tailgating is typically a ritual of the ordinary—cars lined up, coolers cracked open, folding chairs gathered in circles of familiarity. Dreamfield Rituals is a surreal tailgate that turns this familiar scene on its head, transforming a roadside gathering into a dreamlike installation of uncanny objects, textures, and sounds. The exhibition borrows the language of the tailgate—station wagons, coolers, flags, chairs, figurines—but veers wildly off course, opening a space where mystery and play displace expectation.

Jeila Gueramian outfits her 1982 Volvo station wagon with a textile environment, turning the vehicle itself into a vessel of soft wonder and intricate detail. Roxanne Faber Savage reimagines the cooler’s usual cargo, replacing ice and drinks with quivering jello sculptures that vibrate between humor and unease. Becca Van K adds a splash of quirkiness with her woven chairs, hand-crafted perches that turn the casual act of sitting into an intimate exchange with materiality. Stefan Saffer extends a flagline into the air, punctuating the scene with symbolic banners and collaborating on a sound piece that drifts through the gathering like a strange signal. Dasha Bazanova adds her kitsch figurine sculptures, uncanny stand-ins for party guests whose frozen gazes linger between camp and charm.

Together, these works create a disorienting tailgating tableau where the mundane morphs into the marvelous. Visitors are invited not to spectate from the sidelines, but to step into a surreal zone where hospitality and estrangement intermingle, and the everyday transforms into a ritual of imagination.