![]() “It’s a display of what the community is all about and the wonderful art that takes place here,” Thornton said. GOWANUS, Brooklyn (WABC) - There is a push to save a movie studio in Brooklyn, and hundreds of jobs. However, Gavin eventually befriends Angel and asks out Mercedes, Angel’s sister, but their date doesn’t go well. “The art community is just the very center and the beating heart of what Gowanus has always been, and we want it to always be part of Gowanus going forward,” Nicholas Silvers, founding partner of Tavros, said.Īs Thornton says, it’s about keeping the neighborhood identity, making sure artists are right up front where everyone can see. In 2001, in Brooklyn, Gavin, a 29-year-old housepainter, accuses Angel of stealing his fishing rod and is later attacked by George, Angel’s cousin. Under the neighborhood rezoning that made way for the development boom, 11 different sites will feature affordable artist studios, about 30,000 square feet of subsidized studio space. ![]() “I don’t like the aesthetic of green walls, and with some many wonderful creatives in the neighborhood, we need to make this cool, so that’s what we did,” Johnny Thornton, executive director of Arts Gowanus, said. Around 200 are featured on the walls of Nevins and Union streets. “The fact that we have a chance to work with some of the local artists and do something that was a little bit special, a little bit curated, a little bit more thoughtful, I think was a really great opportunity just to be a part of,” said Iman Johnson, senior project manager for Charney Companies who is also an architect and an artist.Īmong the works to be spotted around the neighborhood: a spotlight on the artists who call Gowanus home. McGaughey’s work, called "Kindred," is part of a mural maze of sorts through the streets of Gowanus, where residential development is coinciding with a cleanup of the historically polluted Gowanus Canal.ĭevelopers like Tavros and Charney Companies, who are developing four new rental buildings in the neighborhood, teamed with Arts Gowanus to find work to cover those unsightly construction walls and sidewalk sheds associated with these projects. “Some of them are digitally colored, some are colored with a high fluid acrylic paint, and then some pieces have actually fabrics from my grandmother’s quilt collection,” McGaughey said.
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