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<\/a>Suerte\u2019s art is heavily influenced by Brooklyn cityscapes. Photo: Adam Suerte<\/p>\nThe opportunity is an artist-in-residence program at Brooklyn Made\u2019s international pop-up in Sugamo, Tokyo, and will feature live painting, public workshops, a meet-and-greet and collaborations with students from Taisho University.<\/p>\n
Brooklyn Made is a project of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce that launched in 2023. It showcases locally made goods and the creative entrepreneurs behind them. It has retail locations at City Point and Industry City in Sunset Park.<\/p>\n
Suerte said he is excited for this opportunity.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI have never been to Japan but have friends who are from there and have visited, and I am really excited to check out all it has to offer visually and culturally in the time we have there,\u201d he told the Brooklyn Eagle.<\/p>\n
As a local artist, Suerte has been working with the Brooklyn Made Store to sell his merchandise and participate in art shows. Last fall, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce welcomed a branding class from Taisho University in Sugamo.\u00a0<\/p>\n It invited a select group of artists who do business with the store to meet and brainstorm products they would sell at a university-run satellite pop-up of the Brooklyn Made store in Sugamo.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWhile I was invited to that initial meeting, I was not chosen for the initial trip over,\u201d Suerte said. \u201cThe university liked my style and subsequently hired me to design the university\u2019s 100th anniversary t-shirts. It\u2019s been great to establish a rapport and work with the university team to create these shirts.\u201d<\/p>\n Gaia DiLoreto, executive director of both Brooklyn Made stores, said after being on the ground in Tokyo and experiencing the opening of Brooklyn Made Sugamo, it became clear that fans of the store were drawn in by its street culture and art.<\/p>\n \u201cAdam Suerte was selected not just because of his collaboration with Taisho University, but because of his broad selection of merchandise that we believe would appeal to the Japanese audience, including apparel, accessories, home goods and graphic novels,\u201d she said. \u201cAdam also has experience showing his artistic process live, as a tattoo artist and a fine artist.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAdam\u2019s residency is the kind of moment we built this pop-up for \u2014 a Brooklyn artist creating live, in real time, in conversation with a Tokyo community,\u201d said Randy Peers, CEO of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. \u201cIt\u2019s also a chance for Taisho University students to engage directly with a working Brooklyn artist.\u201d<\/p>\n Suerte said he is honored that he was chosen in large part due to his artistry.<\/p>\n \u201cI am excited to meet the team I have been working with remotely on the university t-shirt, the staff at the store and, of course, the students,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAlso, since most of my art is centered on cityscape work \u2014 particularly Brooklyn cityscapes \u2014 I am extremely excited to roam around, take photos and be inspired by Japan\u2019s skyline, likely gathering reference material for some new artwork documenting my travels down the line.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a>Suerte\u2019s art is heavily influenced by Brooklyn cityscapes. Photo: Adam Suerte<\/p>\n<\/a>Suerte\u2019s tattoo work. Photo: Adam Suerte<\/p>\n<\/a>Artist Adam Suerte will be going to Tokyo for a four-day live art residency later this month. Photo: Adam Suerte<\/p>\n