Today:  Wide Open 2, BWAC’s second national art show opens its doors and Tom Martinez (Witness photographer on OTBKB) with his pal poet Albee Pritchard are included in the show. Pritchard’s book, Howl Now, published last year by Debi Ryan C.E.O. of VoxPop Cafe/Press Brooklyn, will be available for purchase.

Wide Open is a juried show, which received close to 1,600 submissions (of which only ten percent are accepted for exhibition). The show features a diverse range of artwork in a big gallery space good for wall pieces, sculptures and installations of a scale not possible in other space. Smaller works and affordable art (priced under $1,000) are also part of the show, which takes place in one of Red Hook’s most historical and unique spaces. The gallery is in a Civil War-era warehouse located at a frankly luscious waterfront site overlooking the Statue of Liberty and New York Harbor. It is across from the Fairway supermarket and down the block from IKEA.

Also today: at 3PM, the $1,000 Best in Show will be selected and presented by Trotman. In total $1750 will be awarded including the $500 People’s Choice award to be selected by gallery visitors over the three weekends of the show (and all are invited to come and put in their two cents).

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 12, 2011 from 1-6 P.M.