THE JAVA PROJECT

Pool Party
Keith Sirchio
Curated by Carl Gunhouse

252 Java Street, Brooklyn, New York
Aug 2 – Sep 7
Opening Sat Aug 2nd 5-8PM
By Appointment

Water evaporates, concrete crumbles, memories fade like paint. "Pool Party" is a document of McCarren Park Pool circa 2002. Pre-outdoor music venue and twenty years before its official reopening as a public pool in 2012. A graffiti covered relic, mysterious caverns of cut steel, overgrowth pushing through the weather-cracked cement; another echo of Greenpoint's past.

This exhibition coincides with the book release of

"Pool Party" by Keith Sirchio
Risograph printed
7"x10"
60 pages
Edition of 100 Photographs of McCarren Park Pool, 2002
w/ quotes from the 1968 film "The Swimmer" Directed by Frank Perry, Screenplay by Elenor Perry, based on the short story by John Cheever.

Photographer and longtime Greenpoint resident Keith Sirchio moved to New York in 1992 to study cinematography at the School of Visual Arts. After working in the field of music videos and independent films, he found himself more intrigued taking still images of what was happening behind the scenes. His photography journey cut through the storied halls of Magnum Photos as an intern and landed him a spot in the Camera Club of New York’s first wave of residency artists. Ever since, Keith has worn his shoes out exploring the backstreets of Old Havana, packed NYC music venues to the sweat-drenched mats of Muay Thai fighting rings in Chiang Mai, capturing the poetry of everyday life and the fringes of underground scenes through his gritty, cinematic eye.

His work has been a part of group shows at Parlor Gallery in NJ, Royal Society of Art in BK, Mana Contemporary in NJ in addition to solo exhibitions at Lorimoto Gallery in QNS and Human Resources Gallery in LA.

Carl Gunhouse is an Adjunct Faculty member at Montclair State University. He received his M.F.A. from Yale University and B.F.A. from Fordham University. Carl’s work has exhibited at Photoville, Spring Break Art Show, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Modern Art, the Foto Galería FCE-UNC, Córdoba, Argentina, as well as shows in England, Russia, Sweden, Netherlands, Iceland, Finland and New Zealand. His pictures have been featured in Vice, The New York Times and Maximum Rocknroll. He has had monographs published by Halfmoon Press and Arts & Sciences Press. He is a co-founder and director of Transmitter Gallery. He is director of Waal-boght Press.

Carl has been working on a project on men that includes professional wrestling, punk rock and Downtown Brooklyn.

For press, general inquiries and Appointments, please contact Carl Gunhouse at newxschool@msn.com or 917.881.3576