Recent Projects

Salvajes - Asya Geisberg Gallery
September/Ocober 2011

Alberto Borea, Florencia Ecudero, Ricardo Gonzalez, Claudia Joscowicz, Irvin Morazan, Meyer Viasman, Carlos Vela-Prado, Manuela Viera-Gallo

Curated by Guillermo Creus

This two part exhibition especially organized as part of Beat Nite Bushwick Festival, 2011, brought together 11 artists working in diverse medias, with no conceptual or visual connection whatsoever between their individual works.

Live and Let Die - Fortress to Solitude at Nurture Art Non Profit, Inc.
July/August 2011

Sarah Frost, Nadja Verena Marcin, Ash Sechler

Curated by Guillermo Creus

Through each of the pieces in this exhibition, the artists will poke at and directly address the gallery audience’s reactions to the artworks within the safety of a gallery setting, but at the same time transport the viewers outside of their own comfort zone. By engaging through different conscious choices of metaphorical violence – which is in many cases the driving force of the artists themselves - these works play within a pathos that, somehow jokingly, creates a degree of tension in its audience by visually and physically engaging them into the (visual) space that the artwork owns.

A line of souls and a few words from the holy
February 2011

Jenna Bauer, Darren Goins, Michael Hilsman, Joseph Kosuth, Anthony Patti, Don Pablo Pedro, Aaron Ribeiro, Maresa Rutter, Allison Schulnik, Ash Sechler, Robert Selwyn, Alfred Steiner, Stephen Truax, Vargas-Suarez Universal

Curated by Guillermo Creus

This two part exhibition especially organized as part of Beat Nite Bushwick Festival, 2011, brought together 11 artists working in diverse medias, with no conceptual or visual connection whatsoever between their individual works.

Thing Spending
November 2010

Jeff Frederick, Corey Escoto, Brian Kapernekas, SKOTE, Maximilian Schubert

Curated by Regina Rex @ Fortress to Solitude

Fortress to Solitude hosts Bushwick art-collective Regina Rex to curate this exhibition in conjunction with the in-house curated exhibition Download/Destroy. THING SPENDING brings together sculpture, performance and video that consider obsolescence and immateriality an essential component in the framework for making.

Download/Destroy
November 2010

Kate Gilmore, Amanda Long, Ash Sechler, Siebren Versteeg

Project Room: Andre Butzer, Christophe Ruckhaberle, Jonathan Allen, Jeff DeGolier, Alexa Hoyer, Ash Sechler, Egill Kalevi Karlsson, Naomi Miller, Jessica Kiel-Wornson, Brendan Carney.

Curated by Guillermo Creus

This multimedia exhibition comprised of 4 site specific technology based video installations expands on the idea of the conflicting complementarily in the relationship between technology and human nature.

Callicoon Affair
June 2010

Pierre Obando,Brooke Moyse, Daniel Heidkamp, Becky Kinder, Aaron Ribeiro, Marcel Huepauff, Ryan Schneider, Brendan Carney, Amy Lincoln, Amanda Church, Jeffrey Sims, Christophe Boursault, Guillermo Creus , Peter Fox, Ginny Casey and EJ Hauser.

Curated by Guillermo Creus and Aaron Ribeiro

Occupying a homemade pop-up booth in Callicoon Creek Park for NADA’s County Affair, Fortress to Solitude brought to the Catskills a small showcase of Brooklyn painters. The setting at this laid-back outdoor event allowed for a showcase of artists from New York City in a rural county fair upstate New York.

Bushwick Schlacht!
April 2010

Gregory Amenoff, Axel Anklam, Kamrooz Aram, Abel Auer, Josh Blackwell, Christophe Boursault, Nicholas Buffon, André Butzer, Brendan Cass, Amanda Church, Elizabeth Cooper, Holly Coulis, Ariel Dill, Hannah Dougherty, Raynald Driez, Sven Drühl, Dawn Frasch, Sven Drühl, Brian Faucette, Bella Forster, Peter Fox, Tine Furler, Rico Gatson, Alicia Gibson, Torben Giehler, Andrew Gilbert, Tamara Gonzales, Sebastian Gross-Ossa, Stefanie Gutheil, and others.

Curated by Guillermo Creus with Tom Sanford and Marcel Hüppauff
Special thanks to Photios Giovanis.

"BUSHWICK SCHLACHT! Half Germans, Half Americans - a battle royal of painters to see once and for all which country is the super power of contemporary painting." The German title of the show Bushwick Schlacht! (Bushwick Battle!), refers to the original conception for the show: a battle and at the same time collaboration between artists mostly from the US and Germany, with the idea of creating all kinds of visual interrelations between each individual work, sourced from different aesthetics.

The Portrait Show
November 2009

Mauricio Alejo, Jonathan Allen, Lucas Blalock, Phong Bui, Katie Commodore, Claudia Cortes, Carter Davis, Peter Dobill, Glen Fogel, Karen Heagle, Andrew Hurst, Barney Kulok, Anne Kunsemiller, Christopher Lee, Loren Munk, William Powhida, Don Pable Pedro, Kevin Regan,Tom Sanford, Ash Sechler, Alfred Steiner, Pablo Tauler, Cibele Vieira

Curated by Guillermo Creus and John Beeson

The second installment of Fortress to Solitude, entitled A Portrait Show, will present artworks that engage portraiture in a wide variety of ways. Though it is generally considered to be a formal, traditional and relatively staid artistic practice, portraiture nevertheless maintains some presence in the production of these twenty-three New York based artists.

A Paiting Show
June 2009

Eric Ayotte, Lisha Bai, Jesse Bercowetz, Diane Carr, Amanda Church, Elizabeth Cooper, Guillermo Creus, Don Pablo Pedro, Peter Fox, Adam Henry, Baptiste Ibar, Benjamin King, Giles Lyon, Chris Martin, Tom Meacham, Simonetta Moro, Paul Pagk, Anna Pedersen, Gary Petersen, Eulas Pizarro, Tom Sanford, Suzanne Song

Curated by Guillermo Creus and John Beeson

The first ever Fortress to Solitude art event, brought this pop up show was part of the 2009 Bushwick Open Studios Festival in NYC. A group show of paitings, mostly geared towards strategies of abstraction (with some figurative works as counterpoints), this exhibition presented the works of 22 New York based contemporary artists.