by Daniel Sommer, Contributor

To many, trailer parks conjure images of poverty and undesirable living conditions. Brooklyn artist Kim Holleman challenges these misconceptions in Trailer Park, part of the Bushwick Biennial on view now at NutureArt Gallery. In the piece, Holleman turned the inside of a former camper into a live and growing public park. BrooklynModern recently caught up with Holleman inside her trailer and spoke with her about her work.

“I lived in a trailer when I was a young child, and I could always see to the other side of it. I always knew where my parents were, it was very cozy, it was very enclosed, it was a perfect oasis, and enclosed bubble…When we moved out of the trailer into our gigantic house, everything went awry. (This upbringing) give me the insight other people aren’t going to have.”

Holleman used her construction and fabricating background to turn a trailer into a fertile oasis, challenging ones expectation of what the object holds within. Replanting the trailer every spring, the plants themselves are found objects. Each one was found growing in Brooklyn and was transferred to the custom designed planting beds.

Also on view, Kim Holleman’s The View is a theoretical core sample of what the ground we live on has become. The hanging glass case contains a mini ecosystem, complete with living plants and bugs, but also toxins and pollutants. Over the life of the piece, the ecosystem has begun purifying the toxins and regaining control over the toxins.

The Bushwick Biennial includes shows throughout Brooklyn. Information can be found at www.bushwickbiennial.com

For more information on NUTUREart, see www.nurtureart.org.

Irish designer and artist, Joseph Walsh presents his first major solo exhibition of work in October of this year in New York. Entitled ‘Realisations’, the exhibition representing the most significant collection of his work created over the last 10 years, will be held at the residence of the American Irish Historical Society on Fifth Avenue.

‘Realisations’ will feature work from a number of concepts, developed and explored by Joseph Walsh. These include ‘Figure and Form’ which has resulted in the creation of sculptural flowing forms and ‘Prism’, which is a geometric structural form. In this exhibition, each of these concepts are realised through different strands of the work. The limited edition Selected Works will include pieces such as ‘Suaimhneas’ a Rocking Chaise (which is in both the National Museum of Ireland Decorative Arts Collection and the Collection of John H Bryan Past Chairman and Life Trustee of the Art Institute of Chicago) and the Prism Suite which will be exhibited for the first time at the New York show. Joseph’s one-of-a-kind Bespoke work will be represented by two significant pieces kindly on loan from private collections. Some of the Selected Works in the exhibition are in fact now reaching the end of their limited edition while others, such as a chair from the new ’Formations’ series, are just beginning, so this show represents both a fond farewell to some iconic pieces while at the same time introducing the viewer to both new concepts and strands of the work.