Bullet Space
{{Short description|Urban arts collective}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Bullet Space
| image = Bullet Space front entrance.jpg
| caption = Bullet Space front entrance
| alt = front door on street
| formation = {{start date and age|1985}}
| headquarters = 292 E 3rd St.
New York City, New York, U.S.
| coordinates = {{Coord|40|43|16.2|N|73|58|47.2|W|display=inline,title}}
| leader_name = Andrew Castrucci
}}
Bullet Space is a legalized squat, artists' collective and art gallery on the Lower East Side of New York City, founded in 1986 by Andrew and Paul Castrucci, among others. In 2009, it was legalized by the city.
History
The building at 292 East Third Street on the Lower East Side in Manhattan was squatted in 1986.{{cite news|url=http://gallery.98bowery.com/exhibition/castrucci-bullet-space-your-house-is-mine/|title=Andrew Castrucci & Bullet Space: An Art Squat in the 1980s & '90s|last=Miller|first=Marc H.|access-date=January 15, 2022}} Featuring living spaces as well as a gallery and exhibition space, Bullet Space shows politically oriented street art. It became an art gallery. The collective's Your House Is Mine artists' book, from 1992, collects thirty-three signed silkscreen prints made in the aftermath of the 1988 Tompkins Square Park riot, with artwork from David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong, Sandra "Lady Pink" Fabara, and Lee Quiñones, writing from Miguel Algarín, Chris Burden, Martha Cooper, Allen Ginsberg, Cookie Mueller, Public Enemy, and Andres Serrano, and has been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Getty, and the Walker Arts Center, among others.{{cite news|url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/design-for-a-difference-andrew-castrucci-interviewed/|title=Design for a Difference: Andrew Castrucci Interviewed by Chris Molnar|magazine=Bomb Magazine|access-date=January 15, 2022}} In 2009, it was the first of the East Village squats to become legalized by the city.{{cite news|url=https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/squat/|title=A Tenement Transformed Tells the Lives of Its Squatters|last=Moynihan|first=Colin|access-date=January 15, 2022}}
Artists
File:Bullet Space Second floor hallway.jpg
The gallery has housed or exhibited artists including:
- Lizzi Bougatsos{{cite news|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/qbwb4w/mob-is-opening-at-bullet-space|title=The "Mob" Exhibition Is Opening at Bullet Space|last=Lamothe-Ramos|first=Annette|access-date=January 15, 2022}}
- John Farris{{cite web|url=https://www.tribes.org/web/2016/02/11/6995|title=John Farris, Bohemian Poet Who Chronicled Life On The Lower East Side|last=Ferguson|first=Sarah|access-date=January 15, 2022}}
- Leo Fitzpatrick
- David Hammons{{cite web|url=http://bulletspace.org/site/projects/wrong-place-for-the-right-people|title=Wrong Place for the Right People|access-date=January 15, 2022}}
- Richard Kern
- Chris Molnar{{cite news|url=https://sensitiveskinmagazine.com/john-farris-final-poems/|title=John Farris - Last Poems|access-date=January 15, 2022}}
- Raymond Pettibon{{cite news|url= https://spiritstereo.medium.com/the-wrong-side-of-history-31437af9b9a9|title=The Wrong Side Of History|last=Molnar|first=Chris|magazine=The Shadow|access-date=January 15, 2022}}
- Melvin Way{{cite news|url=https://brooklynrail.org/2010/05/artseen/and-one-more-thing-david-hammons-melvin-way-walter-sipser-andrew-castrucci|title=And One More Thing|magazine=The Brooklyn Rail|access-date=January 15, 2022}}
- David Wojnarowicz
References
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External links
- [https://www.bulletspace.org Bullet Space Website]
- [https://www.howlarts.org/event/andrew-castrucci-36-years-at-bullet-space/ Howl Arts presents Andrew Castrucci: 36 Years at Bullet Space]
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Category:Contemporary art galleries in the United States
Category:1985 establishments in New York City
Category:Art museums and galleries in Manhattan
Category:Art museums and galleries established in 1985
Category:Squats in New York City