About

SEEK-ART, headed and co-founded by Michele Thursz, acts as a mediator for contemporary voices. SEEK-ART supports concept as a fluid medium, and art as inspiration for the individual, society and commercial industries. Our network of international artists range in their use of medium and practice from traditional to conceptual, sound to moving image, data-dynamic to architecture, and fashion to graphic design.

Seek-art.com, launching in March 2012, is a commercial portfolio and commerce site, supported by featured projects, actions, and dialogues.

Featured Artist

Molly Dilworth is a Brooklyn based artist who views creative practice as a form of research. Using data from a specific site as a structure, she gives form to things that invisibly motivate our actions. She has partnered with green building community organizations, climate change activists, arts organizations and government agencies to make public art pieces that address our relationship to the history, nature and technology.

Her 2010 rooftop painting was made in conjunction with the NYC CoolRoofs program was commissioned by 350.org as part of their international climate change art initiative, 561 grand ave, Brooklyn, NY at the Acorn High School (View with Google Earth). As a 2011 Art & Law Resident, Dilworth is researching the African American Burial sites in Lower Manhattan.

www.mollydilworth.com/projects.html

Featured Project

Lodge 441/Long Island City
25-25 Borden Ave
Long Island City, NY 11101

The project is named Lodge 441 after the first African American Mason Lodge in the US, which was instrumental to the Underground Railroad and a network of master builder societies across the country.

The painting for the roof of SEEK-ART in Long Island City is made with reclaimed house paint mixed with a ceramic additive to improve the efficiency of the building envelope. The composition is based on quilt patterns used for hidden-in-plain-sight communication in the Underground Railroad. These patterns are a combination of American, African and Masonic symbols.

Lodge 441/Long Island City rooftop painting is one in a series of sites marking the history and legacy of the various African American burial sites in New York City in connection with the Underground Railroad and the history of African American Mason Lodges, Quaker safe houses and other partners in the revolutionary social changes of the movement against slavery.

The first painting in the series was made for the New Museum's Festival of New Ideas (May 2011) in the courtyard of Old St. Patrick's Cathedral School Courtyard. Another intervention will occur for the Art & Law Residency exhibition at The Sculpture Center in December 2011.

Upcoming and Ongoings

Molly Dilworth

Artists Alliance Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program
Open Studios
Thursday, Nov 10, 5-9pm
107 Suffolk St
Room 410

Notice of Public Hearing: Art & Law Residency Exhibition
Thur Dec 8, 7 - 8:30
Sculpture Center
4419 Purves St
Long Island City