Eagle + West, Greenpoint

BROOKFIELD

Brooklyn, 2022

Selected and curated artworks for the Eagle + West permanent collection. The 30-40 story residential towers designed by OMA and Marmol Radziner, opened in the winter of 2022.

The Eagle + West project is unique in that it faces multiple horizons: the flourishing public promenade, the flowing East River and the breathtaking Manhattan skyline. However, the specificity of the building is that it too offers a new kind of skyline to Manhattanites, defined by a harmonious cascade which allows for the sun to shine through and the air to travel. 

This negative space between both structures is the main inspiration for this selection. More specifically the natural movements that happen within that space from the sunrise to the sunset and their reflection onto the water and the urban landscape. 

Therefore all the paintings, etchings, photographs and drawings presented here connect to that in-between, whether literally or metaphorically. Introspective paintings on meditation practices complement photographs of a sky printed on aluminum; scans of passport imagery elevated into landscape painting welcome residents and their guests, while lumen prints echo the views of the sunset terrace.

Artworks throughout the property assemble artists from different generations and divergent backgrounds. Using various media, they discuss, play with, confuse, and reflect all that Brooklyn is and can be. Most of the 21 artists in the space come from different coordinates of the globe: Mexico, Sweden, Argentina, Japan, Brazil, Korea, United Kingdom, Canada, Ecuador, and India. The collection, composed of mostly female identifying individuals, features both young and established artists, many of whom are included in major museum collections: in the US at the Queens Museum, New York; the New York Public Library, the Drawing Center, New York, or the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx; as well as internationally at FRAC Museum, Orleans, France; Museo Tamayo; and City Museum of Mexico, both in Mexico City, Mexico, to name a few. Some of the works are included in the collections of various institutions from Whitney Museum Library, New York, to the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Artists included: Carly Burnell, Rachelle Bussières, Celeste, Jesse Chun, Maya Ciarrocchi, Bel Falleiros, Linnéa Gad, Manuela Garcia, Tania Kovats, Victoria Manganiello, Kanako Namura, Kaveri Raina, Eva Robarts, Jerónimo Rüedi, Oscar Santillán, and Letha Wilson.