April 24th, 2013
URBAN FOLK ART® GALLERY PRESENTS IT’S 4th ANNUAL GROUP ART SHOW
IN HONOR OF THE 130TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE
Urban
Folk Art® Gallery will be honoring the 130th anniversary of the
opening of the Brooklyn Bridge with a group show of over 30 local artists of
varying mediums. In their fourth show of this type, artists will be showing
their homages to the bridge with one common element. In February 2013, curator
and contributing artist Adam Suerte acquired five 5 gallon buckets of surplus
paint from the NY Department of Transit that was used to do touch ups on the
Brooklyn Bridge (http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/surplus-paint-from-the-brooklyn-bridge-now-could-be-yours/). Each artist in the group show will
be using the
“Chocolate
Brown Enamel” in some way within their piece. Painters, comic artists, graphic
designers, photographers, screen printers, tattooers, graffiti artists, toy
designers and artists of other mediums will be contributing. Suerte, as one of
his pieces has repackaged some of this paint in a limited edition quart size
cans that will be for sale at the show. If you ever wanted to own a piece of
the bridge, this could be considered pretty close.
The
show opens May 24th from 7-10 and will remain up until the end of
June.
Brooklyn Tattoo® has been operating in South Brooklyn for over 10 years,
and the Urban Folk Art© collective was founded in 1991 and has
been curating artshows for as long. The gallery was opened in January 2011,
they exhibit various genres of work from contemporary painting, drawing,
illustration, printmaking and photography, legendary graffiti artists to comic
art. The gallery shows a range of undiscovered, emerging, and established
artists. The collective’s belief is that the cross marketing of each other and
the gallery as a whole as a mutually supportive resource is a valuable way for
emerging artists to gain a wider audience for it’s members, the group, and the
artists the gallery supports.
