June 21 - July 27, 2025

Opening Reception: June 28, 7-9pm

Gallery Hours: Thurs + Fri: 4-6pm, Sat + Sun: 2-6pm

Open Source Gallery is pleased to present The Grand Prospect Hallway Express, a project by sTo Len.

What if the Prospect Expressway morphed with the razed Grand Prospect Hall and replaced its high speed traffic with a relaxing site for community inside of a thriving Rococo-inspired Park Slope pocket park? The Grand Prospect Hallway Express is a conceptual splicing of the DNA from demolished spaces in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn with the Prospect Expressway that runs right through it. Lingering ghostsof the Grand Prospect Hall’s storied history live among the spirits of the thousands of households displaced during the making of the highway. Gone is the noise pollution of yesterday, replaced with the soothing sounds of nature reclaiming outdated infrastructure and a radio station that plays songs from the Prospect Hall’s musical history. Visitors can preserve the past while deciding what lies ahead for this roadway by participating in an oral history and future dreaming booth that will get incorporated into the exhibition over time through drawings, prints, sound and video works.

Just back from an art residency at the Grand Canyon, multi-disciplinary artist sTo Len will bring his nomadic research project, Office of In Visibility, to Open Source and focus on a very different kind of canyon: the Prospect Expressway. Taking inspiration from the way we experience awe in nature while using junkyard materials from Koko Lot, Len will explore how we can reimagine a grey urban landscape into a place of wonder that similarly incites care and celebrates a neighborhood’s history.

sTo Len is an interdisciplinary artist whose recent work has centered on collaborations with abused landscapes and municipal agencies. The cross-disciplinary nature of Len’s work has included printmaking with polluted waterways, 3D scanning Fresh Kills landfill, recycling waste into art materials, and hosting performances at Superfund sites. He has been the Public Artist in Residence at the Department of Sanitation in NY ad the first artist in residence at AlexRenew Wastewater Treatment Facility in Virginia. Len is based in Queens, NY with familial roots in Vietnam and Virginia, and his work incorporates these bonds by connecting issues of their history, environment, traditions and politics.

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