Kentler International Drawing Space, located in Red Hook, Brooklyn, is dedicated to bringing important and timely contemporary drawings and works on paper to the public by local, national and international artists, as part of the cultural fabric of the community. The Kentler Flatfiles, consisting of drawings and works on paper by over 100 artists, are available for viewing by curators, collectors and the general public. The Kentler gallery, founded by artists Florence Neal and Scott Pfaffman, opened its doors in April of 1990 and quickly became the focus of a burgeoning artists community in this historic, inspiring, yet challenging area of the New York City.

          The gallery is located in a storefront space which faces Van Brunt Street, a busy commercial avenue. The building was built in 1877 by the Kentler family as a men's haberdashery which served the Brooklyn seaport business workers. Today the neighborhood is a lively mix of Black, Hispanic, Italian, and Irish families, public schools, parks, waterfront piers and churches. The gallery is especially accessible to the public, as its glass doors face a bus stop, attracting notice and visitors who would otherwise have little opportunity to meet artists or to see new works of art.

          The gallery sponsors monthly and bi-monthly exhibitions featuring solo, group shows and installations by some of New York's most exciting emerging and under-recognized artists. Shows drawn from the international community have given travelling artists an opportunity to visit America and bring their work to a New York audience. An announcement card, a press release and photo or video documention accompanies each show. The gallery is open to the public Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 12 - 5pm. Exhibition dates, hours, Artist /Curator talks and special events will be listed in our web site under current exhibition.

CONTACT: Florence Neal, Director

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History of the
Kentler International Drawing Space

Exhibitions
Click underlined dates to view yearly exhibition photos.
Photos of individual shows, starting in 2001, can be found in our Archives.

1990
April Earth Night, Group show
May The Red Hook Story, Invitational Group Show
September The Design Show, Invitational Group show
November Fred Skellinger, Here and Now, Brooklyn artist

1991
January Exploit/Expose-Why War?, Group Show, Poetry and performances
March Robert Sestok, Work on Paper, Detroit artist
April Robert Grenier, Memorial, Brooklyn artist
May Julius Valiunas, Oil & Water, Brooklyn artist
July Brian Jost, Music/Art, Brooklyn artist, musician
August Celebrate Labor, Invitational Group show
October Bill Nogosek, Works on Paper, Brooklyn artist
November Richard Mock, Recent Prints, Brooklyn artist
December Peter Bellamy, The Artists Project, Portraits of the Real Art World / New York Artists, 1981-1990, Brooklyn artist

1992
January Mariella Bisson, First Day in the Forest, Brooklyn artist
March Valentin Popov, Work on Paper, Russian artist living in Califormia
May Jennifer Protas, Work on Paper, Brooklyn artist living in Holland
June Sculptors Drawings Ten years of Outdoor Sculpture Proposals at the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park
July Carrie Waldman, New Work from the Anza-Borrego Desert
September Work, Invitational Group show
October Ettl, Hahn, Katterbach & Zarm, German artists, Works on Paper
November Sherry Hendrick, Watercolors, artist from Detroit
Poetry Reading, Celia Bland & Sharon Kraus

1993
March Bodoya & Cavazos, Multiple Views, artists from Mexico & Argentina
May Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Works on Paper
June Karni Dorell, Works, installation, Brooklyn artist
July Richard Dennis, "Runconada", Watercolors from Mexico
September To Be How do you see yourself, as an artist, in American culture today? Invitational group show
October Jan Theun Van Rees, Branding, Recent Drawings, artist from Amsterdam
November Douglas Campbell, The Illustrated Dream and Derangement
December Friedemann Bender, Hawaiian Work, German artist living in Hawaii

1994
January Michael Delia, Cantata, installation and music performance, NYC artist
February Gone to Pieces: Collage Extremists, curated by Mariella Bisson
April Bill Fick, Satirical Linocuts, artist from North Carolina
May BWAC, PaperWorks
June Teri Slotkin, Mixed Doubles, Photographs / photo session of people in pairs from Red Hook
July Beth Caspar, Loca Sanctorum, Red Hook artist
August Margaret Neill, Fixed in Time, Wall Drawings, Brooklyn artist
September Dissonant Worlds, 6 artists, curated by Howard McCalebb
October Cat Hnatov, Monoprints, Brooklyn artist
November John Morton, New Work from Portugal, Red Hook artist
December DNR Xerox Project An AIDS related collaborative installation, organized by Spiral Arts

1995
February Lillian Maurer, Installation, Brooklyn artist
March Eileen Weizman, Paper Sculpture Installation, Brooklyn artist
April Stuart Nicholson, 200 Object Lamps, Installation, Brooklyn artist
May BWAC, Works on Paper - 64 artists
June Three Printmakers, Bushra Chaudry, John D. Gall, Matt Myers, from New York and North Carolina
August Richard Gins, Subway Riders, Line drawings done on the subway, 1985-95, Red Hook artist
Aug. 13 Teri Slotkin, Couples, Photo Session in the gallery of Red Hook community
September AVOCET, The Avocet Portfolio, silkscreen editions, printed at Art Awareness in Lexington, NY
October Jim Napierala, The Vision Thing (Redux), Drawing installation, NY artist
November Jirí Kornatovsky, Large scale drawings and prints, Czech artist
December Installation

1996
January Jens Veneman Take It or Leave It, paper and mixed media installation, German artist living in NY
February Bettina Magi, Silent Movies, Work on paper and a tableau installation, Red Hook artist
March An Ngoc Pham, Procedure@life.begin...end\repeat.life<, Vietnamese artist living in Brooklyn
April Pat Soderberg , Peripheries, work on paper, Detroit artist
May Small Work: Big Vision, BWAC,Works on paper , 62 artists from the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
June Dale Williams, Work on Paper, Brooklyn artist
July Fran Kornfeld On the Border, A Drawing Installation, Brooklyn artist
August Neddi Heller Paintings & Drawings, Brooklyn artist
September Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles
October Ellen Katterback & Brigitte Zarm, Works on Paper, German artists
November On the Waterfront, Work on Paper, Curated by Jackie Lima
December An Installation of Documentation, Day Without Art Installation, by Keith Hanson
Dec. 15: Poetry Reading: John Penn, Carol Wiersbecki, curated by Tsaurah Litzky

1997
January Gesture as Value Project by Jerelyn Hanrahan, artist living in Italy and Switzerland
Jan 14 - 27 The Big Picture, Prints & Drawings, Group show
Jan. 26: Poetry Reading: David Huberman, Lorraine Schein, coordinator: Tsaurah Litzky
February Ursula Clark, Spirals: Sacred Energy, Brooklyn artist
Feb. 23: Poetry Reading: Cynthia Andrews, Tina Olsen, coordinator: Tsaurah Litzky
March John Morse, 3D22D23D, Installation, New York artist
April David McKenzie, Naked Singularity, Works on Paper, Brooklyn Artist
May BWAC Work on Paper, Group Show, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
June Susan Schroeder, Meditations, paper and dyed fabric works
July Kentler Archives
August Harriet Zucker Unbidden Waters, photographs, Red Hook artist
Weekend: Red Hook Photo Session: Mixed Doubles, photos of people in pairs by Teri Slotkin
September Pi Backus installation, Dutch artist
October Sunny Balzano Work on Paper, Red Hook Artist
November exhibition continues

1998
January Jackie Lima Work on Paper
Jan. 24 - Poetry Reading
February Heimo Wallner, Uli Vonbank-Schedler, Martin Dickinger, artists from Austria, on site installations
Feb. 14 - Poetry Reading
March Gertrude Moser Wagner installation, artist from Austria
April
May BWAC group show, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
June Computer Art / past & present, Curated by John Buchanan, Red Hook filmmaker
July Installation
August Sunny Balzano Large Works on Paper, installation in Archive space
September Mary Rosenthal, Mad Women, Block prints, artist from Ohio>
October Peter Levinson, Lantern, Paper installation, Brooklyn artist
November Morgan O'Hara Drawings, New York artist living in Italy
December Tone Johansen Installation, Red Hook artist

1999
January Home Away From Home An installation of project porposals for Red Hook Homes, Nine artists /Organized by Ildiko Repasi & Pablo Helguera
February Monica Mazzoleni Bound Doors, Photo installation, artist from Italy
March George Schroeder Collages artist from Ohio
April Martin Zet Installation, Czech artist
May BWAC Small Work on Paper, group show, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
June Christel Kremser Couples, photography, German artist
July Installation
August William Moekler Drawing Red Hook, Brooklyn artist
September Claudia Schmacke Installation, German artist
October Harald Busch The Story So Far installation, German artist
November Mariella Bisson Work on Paper, Brooklyn artist
December Marek Chlanda Drawings, artist from Poland, in conjunction with The Museum of Modern Art in Niepolomice, Poland

2000
January Red Hook Eight, Paintings and drawings by Red Hook artists, organized by Sunny Balzano & Florence Neal
February Hildegard Skowasch, Paper installation, German artist
March Renate Hoffmann Korth, Drawing installation and performance, German artist
April Red Hook Housing, organized by Bob James, Red Hook resident
May BWAC, Small Works on Paper, artists from the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
June Ideas You Believe Are Absurd Ultumately Lead To Success Liesbeth Bik and Jos van der Pol, Dutch artists
September Damian Aquiles Silvestre, Drawing installation, artist from Cuba
October Joan Criswell, Imagine II, Brooklyn artist
October 7: Art Metabolism, Video presentation and discussion by Gertrude Moser-Wagner, artist from Austria
November Jane South, Drawing installation, artist from England
December Dusty, Curated by Theo Tegelaers, Artists: Voebe de Gruyter, Cynthia Phillips, Juana Valdes

2001
January Daily Drawings Andrea Callard, Susan Crowe, Rosalinda Kolb, Margaret Neill
February Paintings on Paper Group show of Nine Artists, Curated by Tone Johansen
March Stefano Locatelli, Drawings and paintings, artist from Italy
April Ernesto Pena, Juan Carlos, Double Fantasy Drawings and prints, artists from Cuba
May BWAC, Small Works on Paper, artists from the Brooklyn Working Artists Coalition
June Proximity Karni Dorell, Stuart Nicholson, Susan Powers, Gloria Williams
July Unseen New York 1 - Brooklyn Photographs, Mike Heffernan
September Relief, Block prints. Organized by Beth Caspar Artists: Beth Caspar, Richard Mock, Florence Neal, Bill Stahl,
October Marit Skjermo, Monoprints, artist from Norway
November 911 SHOW Artists Respond, Art made on or after 9/11/01, 87 artists
Nov 1 - Dec 27 Taking Notes Installation by Margaret Neill. Organized by the Kentler for the Lobby Gallery, Brooklyn Public Library
December Ellen MacDonald Paper and drawing installation, Brooklyn artist

2002
January Ellen MacDonald, Paper installation, Brooklyn artist
Jan1 - Feb 28: Screen Memories, Collaboration between writer, Wendy Walker and artist, Florence Neal. Organized by the Kentler for the Lobby Gallery, Brooklyn Public Library
February/ March 4sight, Realism to Abstraction, Elizabeth O'Reilly, Hovey Brock, Margaret Neill, David Konigsberg, Brooklyn artists
March 1 - April 30 Brooklyn Elements An exhibition by Tone Johansen Organized by the Kentler for the Lobby Gallery, Brooklyn Public Library
March/ April Phillip Chen, What We Are Named For, Relief etchings, artist from Iowa
May/ June Small Works on Paper Group Show
Janell O'Rourke, Within/Without, Drawings and paper sculptures, Brooklyn artist
October Aung Myint, Drawings, artist from Myanmar
November Kazuhiro Nishijima, Drawings, artist from Nogoya, Japan
December The PEACE Show, International Call to Artists, Writers and Musicians, Over 200 Artists participated.

2003
January Jared Handelsman Drawing with Light
Feb/March Richard Herbert Howe, Drawings
March/April Ursula Scherrer, Looking into the Dark, Photography / video installation.
May 100 Small Works on Paper / Benefit Show
May/June Jane Ingram Allen, Site Maps, Red Hook, Brooklyn
Sept Kostas Kiritsis Artist's Books, Curated by Mercedes Vicente.
Oct /Nov Dragan Ilic, Drawing / Devices
December Beyond the Page: 3D & The Artist Book, Curated by Maddy Rosenberg. Ten artists. In conjunction with an exhibition at Brooklyn Public Library.

2004
Jan/ Feb Kenya Art, Curated by Judy Ogana & Carol Lees, Nairobi - In conjunction with 5 Brooklyn venues.
March/April Mary Judge, Spolvero Drawings Installation.
May 20 100 Small Works on Paper /Benefit
May/June Katarina Wong, Drawing Installation
July Nature Trails, Selections from The Kentler Flatfiles
Sept/Oct Herbert Brün, Computer Graphics and Musical Scores
ddddSept. 17 & 18 / Symposium and Music performances in conjunction with exhibition.
Oct /Nov Judith Egger, Accumulation, Drawing Installation
Nov/Dec Toine Horvers, Passers-By, Drawings with Written Text

Dec/March 2005 Gyrations, Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles in our new exhibition venue, The New Space.

2005
Jan/ Feb Sasha Chavchavadze - Matchwork, Brooklyn artist.
Feb/March Barry Ledoux, Fall into Language, Drawing Installation.
April Project Diversity, a project of the Rush Foundation, 16 participating Brooklyn venues,
13 Brooklyn Artists
May 19 130 Small Works on Paper /Benefit
May/June Mimmo Roselli, Drawing Space, Artist from Italy
July Flowers / Kwiaty, Guest Curator: Mariola Malinowska, 8 Artists
Sept/Oct Derek Bernstein, Portraits of Amy, Over 300 Drawings
Nov/Dec Elise Kaufman, On the Waterfront, New Drawings, Brooklyn Artist.

Sept - Dec Figurations, Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles, The New Space

2006
Jan/ Feb Ernst Benkert Drawings 1959 - 2004. Incollaboration with a show of Benkert's Artists Books at Proteus Gowanus. Exhibition Catalog.
Feb/March Gelah Penn, Detour , Drawing Installation.
April Critical Mass Curated by Lisa Hatchadoorian,
Drawings by Robert Gunder, Colin Keefe, Lucas Monaco.
April 7 - May 14 125 Works on Paper Benefit exhibition
May 18: Benefit
May/June Figure?Ground. Selections from The Kentler Flatfiles, Guest Curator: Carter Foster, Drawings Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Sept/Oct Monika Weiss, Limen II, Multi-media installation, drawing and performance.
Nov/Dec Marietta Hoferer, Fieldwork, Drawings.

2007
Feb 2 - March 17 Re:Generation / Works on Paper by 13 Emerging Women Artists
Curated by Joan Snyder and Molly Snyder-Fink.
In conjunction with an exhibition at SmackMellon.
March 30 - May 6 Elaine Smollin, Drawing from Palisades
Drawing installation.
June 1 - July 22 Chance and Necessity: Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles
Guest curator: Isabelle Dervaux, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawings, The Morgan Library & Museum.
Sept. 7 - Oct. 6 Paul Santoleri Confluence
Drawing installation.
Oct. 12 - Nov. 10 Nina Buxenbaum Topsy-Turvy
Large scale charcoal drawings.
Nov. 16 - Dec. 15 Observing the Edge
Curated by Jennifer McGregor, Visual Arts Curator at Wave Hill.
Artists: Rica Bando, Bob Braine and Leslie Reed, Theresa Bloise, Kevin Duggan, Bettina Johae, Beverley Ress, Ilene Sunshine, Amy Talluto.

2008
February 8 - March 23
Native Voices: Contemporary Indigenous Art / Works on Paper
Artists: Frank Big Bear, Jason Lujan, Jeffrey Gibson, Joe Feddersen, Miranda Belarde-Lewis, Kay WalkingStick, Lorenzo Clayton, Mario Martinez
Curated by Deborah Everett and Raquel Chapa
Partnering with FiveMyles and Long Island University_Brooklyn Campus to present this exhibition.
March 28 - May 4 Gosia Wlodarczak, Shared Space New York,
Exhibited works are the outcome of numerous performance drawing situations with social interaction.
April 10 - 20 Red Hook Stories
Photographs by Janet Neuhauser (1982 - 1992) Reading from the Red Hook Stories by Maureen McNeil
April 26 - May 11 100 Works on Paper Benefit with work donated by 160 Artists.
Benefit Date: May 15 /Tickets on sale now.
May 24 - June 1 What's the Hook?
Preview exhibition of Harriet Zucker's Community Photo Project
June 6 - July 13 The Persistence of Line: Selections from The Kentler Flatfiles
Guest Curator: Charlotta Kotik
Artists: Ellen Chuse • Ellen Driscoll • Abbygail Goldstein • Joanne Howard • Richard Howe • Nene Humphrey • James Jack • Elise Kaufman • Jiri Kornatovsky • Anne Krinsky • Dawn Lee • Morgan O'Hara • Gelah Penn • Sherae Rimpsey • Claudia Sbrissa • Elaine Smollin • Ilene Sunshine • Alicia Wargo • Martin Zet
September 5 - October 5 - 40 Artists from Argentina / Works on Paper
Curated by Rafael Bueno and Arturo Carrera
October 10 - November 9 Hedya Klein
Drawing installation.
November 21 - December 21 Ernest Concepcion
Drawing installation.

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