Exhibition Outreach: Searchlight at One Brooklyn Bridge Park

Guest Curated by Samuel Rowlett
January 6, 2022–March 10, 2022

*Please note: Searchlight will be closed to visitors Saturday, 2/5/22 and on Sundays for the time being.
We apologize for the inconvenience. Please email [email protected] with any questions.

One Brooklyn Bridge Park
360 Furman Street, Brooklyn
(Waterfront side between Piers 5 and 6)

Wednesday–Saturday, 10 AM–6 PM, ~~Sunday, 12 PM–4 PM~~

In Searchlight, their first student exhibition of 2022, The Art Students League’s Exhibition Outreach program, in partnership with ChaShaMa, will feature 25 artists exploring themes of mystery and magic of light source. Guest Curator Samuel Rowlett, a League alumnus who also studied with instructors Jerry Weiss and Dan Gheno at the Lyme Academy in Old Lyme, Connecticut, reviewed over 400 individual artworks and artist’s statements before selecting at the 25 artworks that will be exhibited. Searchlight is focused on the mystery and magic of light, and works in the exhibition play in a range of shadowed depths and colorful surfaces, taking viewers from the small quiet space of a computer screen to the vast landscape of an entire world. A glowing thread weaves its way through each work on view; it runs through a cloud-covered sun in winter and chases a pair of friends ambling through a forest. Light, and the ways in which it can be filtered and interpreted, appears before us in steel thorns, in driftwood textured with beeswax, even in rich abstractions. What is this guiding light in search of? Where will it take us? Visit One Brooklyn Bridge Park for the opening on January 6, 2022, follow it, and find out.

About The Curator: Drawing parallels between explorer and artist, Samuel Rowlett makes work that utilizes the materials and techniques of traditional painting through which to explore forms and concepts of various social and natural environments. Samuel Rowlett has exhibited widely including exhibitions at MASS MoCA’s kidspace/teenspace in North Adams, MA; Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT; The Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy, NY; Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Projects, New York, NY; the Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA; and Nuit Blanche Art Festival, Toronto, Canada. Rowlett’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The New York Observer, The Hartford Courant, Hyperallergic, Connecticut Public Radio, and Canadian Art magazine. Rowlett holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, and has received fellowships/residencies from Yale University School of Art, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), Vermont Studio Center, and Massachusetts Cultural Council. Rowlett has taught workshops at Yale University, Amherst College, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Northern Vermont University, and Interlochen Arts Academy. Born in Leicester, England, now in Western Massachusetts, Rowlett is Associate Professor of Art at Landmark College in Putney, Vermont.