When Deep Dive Art Projects began in 2020, there was no plan for a gallery space. With the print workshop on the first floor, the Deep End’s upstairs provided an office, kitchen, and an intimate sitting room with blank walls. Thus, the Viewing Room was created for small bi-monthly exhibitions of print-based art and works on paper that show mastery, […]
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Amani Williams’s exhibition, Coming at You, Red, Hot and Full of Desire, is a poignant response to the June 24 SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. These monoprints created during her 2022 residency at Deep Dive Art Projects highlight moments of desire, temptation, and arousal through self-stimulated intimacy and consensual partnership. While issues of sexuality, body-positivity and feminism are […]
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Deep Dive Art Projects partnered with Abattoir Gallery in 2021 to publish two soft-ground etchings by internationally-known artist and curator Michelle Grabner, connecting to a new series of paintings shown at the gallery last June. The limited editions evoke a sense of nostalgia and surface memory and expand upon the craft and intimate gestures of the related oil and enamel […]
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Summer is a time for swimming holes: the chaotic community pool, the cool still pond, the turbulent, but mesmerizing surf of our own Lake Erie. Currently, life at Deep Dive Art Projects is feeling like one of those endless pools with a strong jet that one swims against to develop more body strength. Starting a new business and trying […]
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When the dream is about jumping off a cliff into unknown waters, the reality is just as uncertain. In the time that Deep Dive Art Projects has been in activation—like a locust, we were dormant while we gathered energy—projects have slowly started flowing, and the rhythm of day-to-day work has become more and more regular. Over the last few months, […]
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My headlights are the only source of light on the heavily wooded forest road. There is no moon, and I am starting to get nervous about what may—or may not—be in front of me. At one point, I stop the car and get out, engine running. I have stopped only a few feet from a precipice. There is a diving […]
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What does 20 years look like? Over 100 exhibitions, hundreds of classes and thousands of students and audience members, and of course the myriad artists who have worked at the shop—both in our current location and our original spot on 72nd street. Artists from five continents have participated in programs, worked with our resident artists, staff and community, and have […]
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