Opening Night at The Boiler

Last Saturday night a rowdy crowd of art-party types packed into Williamsburg’s newest industrial art space to rub elbows, throw back four hours worth of free drinks, check out a few art installations and celebrate the grand opening of Pierogi Gallery’s The Boiler, located on N. 14th Street and Berry. The Boiler—which, as the name suggests, is the actual boiler room of an old factory—will be used primarily to show large-scale sculpture, painting and installation exhibitions, in addition to providing ample space for performances of all kinds.
The inaugural exhibition includes works by three gallery artists: Tavares Strachan, Yoon Lee, and Jonathan Schipper. Strachan’s piece, “The Distance Between What We Have and What We Want (Arctic Ice Project),” includes a 4.5 ton block of ice, brought from the arctic and kept frozen by the power of the sun in a solar powered glass freezer. Yoon Lee shows a 20-foot-long painting, while Jonathan Schipper’s “215 Points of View” is made up of a 6-foot diameter sphere covered with 215 surveillance cameras and corresponding monitors—suspended from the ceiling.