Safe-T-Gallery
jumps into summer with a spirited group show “Free Beer with Purchase” --
featuring work by 4 artists and a collaborative --
all originating from the steaming graphical
jungles that are the streets of New York. The show opens
on June 22nd and runs through July 22nd in our blissfully
air-conditioned
gallery
in the heart of Dumbo.
Daniel Blochwitz is a young German photographer
who has been living in New York for several years, recording life on the streets,
and
producing complex, visually sophisticated street-grids of photos --
two dimensional commentaries on supra-consumerism and modern life.
Susan Bowen takes in the cityscape using a
plastic camera and a willingness to expose and re-expose her film again and
again. The resulting in-camera
photo collages (generally made from an the entire roll
of film) capture at once the excitement, chance beauty and banalities of the
city, while
demonstrating a lyrical, understated and intelligent
approach to understanding these visual riches.
Roger Bruhn lives
outside the city but visits often, bringing a fresh
eye to the vastly distorted sense of space that New
Yorkers live with everyday. His series of large-scale,
color
photographs show how normal-sized Gothamites
deal with their oversized sidewalk fantasies.
Every four-letter word seen on Broadway over the course
of a month was photographed by the small Brooklyn-based collaborative Burst387 --
and all 509 word photographs are included in a large,
alphabetically arranged
mosaic entitled BWAY WORD SLAW.
Finally,
Marty Greenbaum, the only painter in the bunch,
presents 44 photo-based, xerographically
enlarged,
mixed media paintings
based on the signs and
doorways that New Yorker’s encounter daily -- each
an excavation into our collective past.
