Brooklyn: An Art Community, DUMBO
Brooklyn: An Art Community
A community is said to be a group that supports its members through compassion, aide and generosity. Brooklyn by itself is the 4th largest city in the United States, yet is composed of multiple smaller communities. These communities when in the moment feel permanent and territorial, though in actuality are constantly changing and evolving. Brooklyn also known for being a major artist hub has multiple communities that support the Arts in various ways. Though it is often the Arts themselves that start the gentrification of a community, making it evolve into something different than it once was. Sometimes the community embraces this change, and continues to support all it’s members, and at other times, it makes the original members feel displaced.
Brooklyn: An Art Community, Downtown
Brooklyn: An Art Community uses cuttings of painted canvas and paper woven into new paintings mounted on paper. The original painted surfaces range from taupe to dark brown, and woven in such a manner that their overall tone would resemble the basic ethnic make-up of various artistic neighborhoods throughout Brooklyn. Though true to the ethnic make-up of Brooklyn, no “neighborhood” is made of entirely of one canvas.
Realtors have often exploited the Arts as a way to sell a neighborhood. Ironically, this seems to ultimately drive the Arts out of the neighborhood eventually as the galleries, performance spaces and studios are converted into expensive luxury condos. So what may be deemed an “artists community” today will likely not be tomorrow, as the boundaries continue to change.
Brooklyn: An Art Community, Park Slope
Selected works featured on http://artinbrooklyn.com/ by Michael Sorgatz, 2010.
Brooklyn: An Art Community, Prospect Heights
You can purchase a “Community Share” (a smaller version of the Brooklyn: An Art Community series) on http://www.etsy.com/shop/cmasseyart?section_id=6683777
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