Go! Brooklyn Art

As we began to decide on which exhibits to visit out of the thousands listed in the Brooklyn Go! Art Extravaganza, we decided to start local. We visited the two artists located on the 6^th floor of Boylan Hall, in Brooklyn College. Mitch Patrick and Cecilia Whitaker-Doe were both there, and had two very different types of art. Mitch’s art was fascinating, with multimedia typeface and fonts being used as art and being presented in a truly fascinating way. See image 1. Below. Mitch also had a really interesting worldview on the state of privacy in the Internet, and how everything appears in tableau form to him. He presents it in a very cool way, with computer programming acting as art. A truly new innovation. Cecelia-Whitaker Doe’s art was also really interesting; her work can be seen in image 2 below.

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I visited a total of 13 studios, in the neighborhoods of Ditmas Park, Flatbush, and Prospect-Leffert Gardens. I saw some truly amazing things, from Silvia Maier’s work of giant, 6’ x 8’ detailed portraits of inspiration figures in her life, including her currency series, in which she imposed images of notable black people over coins and monetary items. But the one artist that stands out to me the most, and the one that’s receiving my #1 vote, is Nina Talbot. She makes huge works of art as well, on massive pieces of canvas, but her art tells a story of the Brooklyn she calls home. Having work featured all over the place, from the official Art Gallery of the G.E. building in Connecticut, to private homes and art galleries around the city, she truly bleeds Brooklyn. Born and bred in Brooklyn, she paints in different series to truly capture life. Her series’ are very fluid too; she presents one series of the Vendors of Newkirk Plaza, which are vendors living in her neighborhood that fight against the influx of big box stores. One of her subjects in this series was a Korean War veteran, and that smoothly led her into her next series of 15 works, one on the Veterans of Brooklyn. Her work truly is amazing, from the heart, and full of feeling, and I believe she deserves to win.

Overall, it was a great weekend out in the art-filled streets of Brooklyn. Brooklyn is full of life and character, and I can’t wait to visit more galleries and art as my academic career continues.

Any of the artists we saw would be thrilled and completely deserving of a show in the Brooklyn Museum, and we made sure to wish them all the best of luck on our way out.

Included below are a few other miscellaneous photos taken during the weekend of Brooklyn Go! Art. I have about 120, but couldn’t possibly include them all.