Salon des Refusés 2024 @ BWAC

December 7 – 22, 2024
Gallery Hours: Saturday, Sunday 1‐6 P.M.
*CLOSED NOVEMBER 30 & DECEMBER 1 (weekend after Thanksgiving)*

In 1863, the Paris Salon held its annual exhibition of academic arts. Thousands of artists applied but were rejected and were unable to display their work in the official Salon exhibition. It was determined that their work did not fulfill academic standards of the time. Emperor Napoleon III, who wanted the public to make the decision, organized a simultaneous exhibition of all the rejects in the Palace of Industry.  This exhibition included artists such as Manet, Cezanne, Pissarro and Whistler. The exhibition of “rejects” became famously known as the Salon des Refusés 1863.

 It is with this in mind that the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition welcomed Brooklyn artists who received rejection notifications from the highly anticipated "Brooklyn Artists Exhibition" at Brooklyn Museum, to exhibit in their gallery...as it was then...let the public decide.

The response and good will received by this show was so too tremendous that BWAC decided to refresh the exhibit with additional artists whose work was rejected by the Brooklyn Museum, and extend it.

The New York Times covered it here: Brooklyn’s Strivers and Those the Museum Spurned.

Read about it on Hyperallergic: An Art Exhibition That Makes Rejection Look Good

I submitted this painting, which was NOT accepted by Brooklyn Museum, but I am pleased to share it with the public (with FREE Admission!) at the expansive galleries of BWAC in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Gowanus Taxis, oil on linen, 24” x 36”

Many other of my artist friends in the Gowanus area, as well as 20 members of Park Slope Windsor Terrace Artists will be in this broad-ranging exhibit.

Thank you, BWAC for thinking of this!