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Stand4 Gallery and Community Art Center

Mission Statement

Founded in January 2017 as an artist-run initiative, Stand4’s pursuit is to be alive and working towards a better world through the arts as an active medium of engagement. Stand4 serves as a generator of meaning, action, agency, collaboration, and social justice. It is shapeless, non-conforming, and responsive to the times. Stand4 is meant to exist as a catalyst: a way to envision a more socially and environmentally just future.

“Tell the Stars”Threaded Narratives of Resilience, Empowerment, and TransformationSeptember 20 - October 25, 2025 Openin...
09/23/2025

“Tell the Stars”
Threaded Narratives of Resilience, Empowerment, and Transformation

September 20 - October 25, 2025 Opening Reception -
Saturday, September 20,
3:00 - 6:00
Artist Discussion/ Saturday, October 25, 3:00 - 4:00
Gallery hours: 12:00-3:00 and by appointment.

Alisa Sikelianos-Carter
Esperanza Cortés
Talin Megherian

History… we forget that it goes right up to yesterday. “The Lure of the Local”, Pg. 13

Tell me…
about the past
a story
the truth
why?
A star’s life begins with collapse. Its light reaches us even after its death.
Stars are the seeds of life.
We are stardust.
Our stars are telling our stories.
Our Tellers are our stars.

The “tellings” in this exhibition are rendered through the works of the artists Alisa Sikelianos-Carter, Esperanza Cortés, and Talin Megherian. Their art gives voice to the exploited, excluded and displaced, lives lived through the ages that make up our today. By weaving through the labyrinths of violence and cruelty, they illuminate themes of light, beauty, and transformation.

Tell the Stars celebrates histories of resilience and resistance that, like starlight, continue to shine even after The Tellers have passed on. Their stories are eternal and transcendent, bridging time and culture.

Sikelianos-Carter, Cortés and Megherian mine the past to imagine new futures, a new covenant and new becomings… …a world where Earthly life is a place of healing.

Opening April 19!Essential Shore / Permeable Future April 19 – June 21, 2025Bay Ridge Public Art & Ecology BiennialCurat...
04/02/2025

Opening April 19!

Essential Shore / Permeable Future April 19 – June 21, 2025
Bay Ridge Public Art & Ecology Biennial

Curated by Jennifer McGregor

Participating artists: Cynthia Alberto, Graciela Cassel, Betsy Damon, .betsy Thomas Gallagher, Jan Mun, Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere, Seema Lisa Pandya, Nicole Peyrafitte, Sunk Shore: Clarina MacLow and Carolyn Hall, Hannah Salyer, .salyer Brooke Singer, Ana Bessie Ratner (The Other Almanac)

Essential Shore/ Permeable Future will present free public artworks, interventions, and programs throughout the community that strengthen people’s relationship with water and the Narrows shoreline through an environmental lens.
Visit the exhibition page on our website to view the artist project gallery and the schedule of events.

Consider donating to Stand4 to support the growth of fine arts programming in South Brooklyn

ContingenciesOctober 18 - November 23, 2024Astrid Christiansen Anna Lise Jensen Opening Reception, October 18, 7-9 PMS...
10/14/2024

Contingencies
October 18 - November 23, 2024

Astrid Christiansen
Anna Lise Jensen

Opening Reception, October 18, 7-9 PM

Special Programming

October 19:
-12:00- 1:00PM
Verrazzano Anniversary Celebration
Anna Lise Jensen serves vegan pizza and Danish beer while conducting video interviews as part of the 60th anniversary of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, with a focus on the bridge’s missing bike/pedestrian lane.

-1:00-2:00PM
Artists Talk

November 23:
12:00 -2:00PM
Closing Reception

Gallery hours: Saturdays 12:00-3:00PM and by appointment

We are in a time of expansive change. Climate, war, technology and political upheavals are creating a sense of insecurity and anxiety about the future that has many of us considering a Plan B, a contingency plan. If this comes to pass…then I will do this…The future is always uncertain, but we now find ourselves continually bracing for the next disruption that can be inconvenient at least or tragic at most.

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