EXHIBITION DIARY

Technically, Vincent & Edgar’s window below doesn’t fit into anyone’s idea of what an exhibition is, or is meant to be, but this window is one of the most beautiful in NYC.  Vincent and Edgar is a custom shoe maker, and one wonders whether its ‘bleached and stained” look isn’t a ruse to get you in and sample custom shoes for $1,200.00 a pop.  972 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10021-5027 (212) 753-3461

 

I’ve got exhibitions on my mind.  I saw a beautiful one the other day at the Museum of Art and Design in Manhattan.  The exhibition is called Slash:Paper Under the Knife, and it runs through April 4.  MAD, as it’s known is at  2 Columbus Circle  in Manhattan.

 

StudioEIS’ own exhibition, Abraham Lincoln, One Man,  Two Views, now at 111 Front Street in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, runs through April 3.

VINCENT & EDGAR

 

This exhibition, that began at Montgomery College in Maryland, will travel next to the National Military Park at Gettysburg, opening Memorial Day and running through Labor Day.

 

 

This show is about StudioEIS and the art of visual storytelling.  There is a 20 page catalog that documents the process we used to create two new sculptures of Abraham Lincoln during last year’s bicentennial celebration.  The sculptures were dedicated at President Lincoln’s Cottage and the National Military Park at Gettysburg in 2009.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN DUMBO

 

 

Pop Up Space:  Next to the Brooklyn Bridge, there’s a lovely space without a roof that looks a little bit like a Roman ruin too. This building sits on NY State parkland, and next to the old Tobacco warehouse just off the River in Dumbo.

 

Follow your nose around the shore line and after you pass the Tobacco Warehouse and Jacque Torres Chocolate – that’s right it’s no longer an end of the world spot, as they get harder to find these days, you’ll come to Barge Music, a wonderful and long running concert hall situated in an old barge run by Olga Bloom. I listened to the most elegiac missive of a concert here on the first anniversary of 9-11/ it’s a great place.

 

 

Just past the barge for the nautically minded, you’ll come to the entrance of the new Brooklyn Bridge Park.  A magnificent place that will run, when finished for nearly a mile along the water’s edge.  This photo was shot the other day right at the end of the park, and I want to tell you the view is spectacular, even for an old NY hand like me.