WHAT TORNADO
Group Exhibition
February 13-27, 2011
Opening Sunday February 13, 6-9pm
Microscope Gallery, 4 Charles Place, Bushwick, Brooklyn NY 11221
Featuring: Peggy Ahwesh, David Baker, Catherine Cullen, Tommy D, Bradley Eros, Katarina Hybenova, Yasue Maetake, Jonas Mekas, Sebastian Mekas, Nathlie Provosty, Bill Roman, Allison Somers, and Moira Tierney.

With almost daily forecasts of ice and snow as a backdrop, our group exhibition What Tornado turns to the weather for inspiration. On September 16th of last year, 2 days before our inaugural opening, a storm plowed through Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Queens, also striking our neighborhood of Bushwick – including the building next door. When we mentioned this to some of the artists and visitors at the opening the common reactions were: “What tornado?” or “I thought that was a rumor."

The video, photo, painting, sound, sculpture, cartoon, performance and other works by NYC – mostly Brooklyn – artists in What Tornado attest to the unpredictability of Nature ...