Category Archives: Red Hook
Minting Coins in the basement; forging links upstairs: studio visit, Red Hook, part 2
OK, so Cherry and I had to hit Fairway for lunch, right? I bet you wondered what happened to us. Sandwiches. A chocolate-drizzled cruller. Mineral Water. Done.
Second Stop/Vasca 2: Studio of Beriah Wall. [X] Street
Location: First floor and basement level; same amazing sunlight, though less of a harbor feel. First floor is homey and sunlit. [...]
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Studio Tour 1, on the way to magic markers, graphic novels, were-people
Let the tour begin. We’ve got the coffee.
La Passegiata: Red Hook, “Vasca 1″
April 29, 2010. A breezy day; hot sun, but cold for Spring. Start: Meet artist, Eric Cherry, at Baked on Van Brunt Street.
First leg of walk: around the corner and down Richards St. (?)
First stop: Studio on Dwight Street
Location 1: Very [...]
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A Pleasant Walk, a Pleasant Talk, along the Briny Beach; or Rather, the Red Hook Pier.
This studio visit was a double whammy, beginning as things often do, at local biscuit and croissant heaven, Baked, and ending up…well, you’ll see. But first, a word of introduction:
What ensues is a studio visit diary, written from the perspective of a critic and curator (Yours Truly), and interspersed with visual documentation (also Mine). As [...]
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Studio Visit Heaven; Studio Visit Hell. When I look into your drawers there’s so much I can tell.
My exegesis of that most dreaded of artist-writer encounters: The Studio Visit. Well, I often dread them, to be quite honest. That said, they’re also loads of fun. Why? Are you curious to know how your studio looks from the other side of the door? Would you like to know the mental baggage a writer [...]
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Entrepreneurship: It’s creative, right?
…though it’s kind of fishy to most of us “I’m-too-high-minded-to-make-any-money” artsy types.
That said:
Ralph, the woodworker we mentioned a few weeks ago, starts selling $13 lobster rolls from his storefront store on Columbia St. in Red Hook next week. This photo from Lost City, who seem to be addicted to buying such treats at the Brooklyn [...]
This Just In: Not all Red Hook, Brooklyn artists are 26 years old
You may not believe this, but: there are creative types living in Brooklyn WHO ARE OLDER THAN YOUR DAD. I’ve met a bearded guy who, not content with the usual urban sidewalk in Red Hook, made this nifty mini-garden (my term) outside what I assume are his digs.
The neighb has a post-Industrial feel and, though [...]
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La Passegiata/Studio Visit 3: Designing Serendipity/Andrew Coates