Fuse Works presents: There Are Many Like It, But This One Is Yours an exhibition of new multiples and editions June 14-July 7 Opening Reception: Fri, June 14th 7-9pm The Front Room Gallery 147 Roebling Street, Brooklyn NY. This can be yours too!
On Wednesday I prepped a plot at the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum for a Three Sister’s garden of Lenape Blue Flour Corn, beans and squash. I’m excited about this year’s garden at this great place in Canarsie. Wyckoff is the oldest historical home in Brooklyn that is still on its original site.
This drawer is inspired by the peace talks that took place after the Battle of Brooklyn. The British leader Admiral Howe had a personal affection for America and was committed to trying to make a deal with the colonies. After the Battle of Brooklyn he set up a conference with General George Washington and other …
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Everything you wanted to know about office plants but were afraid to ask: A Field Guide for Office Plants will be on view at Trestle Gallery as part of the group show Natural Selection. Natural Selection engages the idea of the ‘natural’ from multiple angles: from a purely retinal and aesthetic perspective, from social and cultural …
One day in the 1960s this man, Cleve Backster, a polygraph expert, decided to see what would happen when he hooked up his lie detector machine to the Dracaena in his office. He found activity registered on his machine when the plant was watered. Activity was also registered when he lit a match. That …
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The newest drawer to Conditions on the Ground has been added! After hundreds of years of dredging and filling New York Harbor no longer resembles the place the Lenape lived or the place the first explores or the British fleet encountered. The Atlantic meets the harbor at Sandy Hook. British boats bobbed around that …
The first shots of the Battle of Brooklyn were fired into a watermelon patch outside the Red Lion Inn. Two British soldiers were checking out the patch when they were shot on by the Americans. In doing so the Americans inadvertently revealed their position. A few hours later they were stormed by the British. The …
Conditions on the Ground is part of the Battle Ground exhibit on View at Proteus Gowanus April 13 -June 30th The Wetlands file cabinet drawer for the Conditions on the Ground piece refers to the fierce fighting around the Gowanus Creek. The area was a marshland at the time and the fighting took place at high …
Today I installed a new piece called “Conditions on the Ground” at Proteus Gowanus (opening Saturday). For this group show “Battle Ground” I was invited to create something, inspired by the Battle of Brooklyn (1776) to be placed in this set of drawers/file cabinet from the library of the Brooklyn Museum: I decided to …
Value Added: Artists’ Perspectives on the Meaning of Worth opened on Wednesday. There is some really great work in it, including my piece Pay Dirt: Transforming the Economy. In 2008, troubled by the world-wide economic crisis, I wanted to see what happened if I composted shredded US Currency in my worm bin. After about six …
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The other day this painting stopped me in my tracks. I couldn’t pull myself away from its spell. By Ralph Earl, 18th Century. American