FiveMyles_Gallery

FiveMyles Gallery

FiveMyles Gallery

Gallery in Brooklyn, New York

FiveMyles gallery is located in the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn.[1] Founded in 1999, it is a non-profit gallery that exhibits visual and performance art. Its founder/director is Hanne Tierney.[2] FiveMyles was the location for the Crown Heights Film Festival in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021.[3]

588 St Johns Place, Brooklyn

Early years

The gallery was founded by Tierney in 1999 as a place to show her own work. She had named it after her son, Myles, a filmmaker who was killed while covering the war in Sierra Leone.[2] The first exhibit was a show of African photojournalism.[4]

Operating outside many of the familiar patterns of commercial galleries and artist-run spaces in New York City, the gallery's roster of artists often features lesser-known presenters from within the Crown Heights neighborhood and artists from the African continent and the Caribbean.[5]

In 2000, FiveMyles received an Obie Grant for[6] "presenting magnificent contemporary performance work."

In 2005, programming included, in addition to visual art exhibitions, a performative program attributable to Ms. Tierney's longstanding practice of multi-media theatrical puppetry.[7]

References

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    "FiveMyles". FiveMyles. Retrieved 2019-10-21.
  2. [2]
    Jones, Alex A. (2019-03-07). "HANNE TIERNEY with Alex A. Jones". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
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    "Home". crownheightsfilmfestival.com.
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    "As a haven for the arts in Crown Heights, FiveMyles Gallery is miles ahead". New York Daily News.
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    "Past".
  6. [6]
    "2000s". Obie Awards. Retrieved 2022-03-26.
  7. [7]
    Cotter, Holland (2005-05-06). "Art in Review; 'Man, the Flower of All Flesh'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-10-19.

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