Corner Gallery

Urban Folk Art Studios®

Curated by Adam Suerte

On view 9/1-10/29 Brooklyn Made City Point

Urban Folk Art@ Studios, founded in Bushwick, Brooklyn in 1991, is an artist collective known for its counter-culture and blue-collar sensibilities. Initially a print shop specializing in silk-screen printing for bands and non-profits, the collective expanded into curating art shows, self-publishing, mural production, and teaching art to children.

• Adam Suerte
• Jason Mitchell
• Mark Pellegrino
• Mahoney Perkins

Curated by Adam Suerte
Adam Suerte is a multifaceted artist born and raised in South Brooklyn. He graduated from Music and Art High School and as a teenager studied at the Art Students League. While studying Illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design he found himself drawn to a variety of mediums, many of which he continues to work in today. Painting, drawing, illustrating, comic making, and printmaking are the most prevalent. He also enjoys designing fonts and merchandise. In 1991 he founded the Urban Folk Art® Studios artist collective and in 2002 co-founded the full custom tattoo studio Brooklyn Tattoo®, both still active in Brooklyn today. Whether it’s Brooklyn cityscapes familiar to him or graphic urban iconography, these themes are consistent throughout the various mediums his work lives in. Then there are the ghosts……