I was walking up President St. just above 5th Avenue a few weeks ago when what to my wondering eyes did appear but an apparent storefront Army bunker complete with stacked camouflaged sandbags and gun turret window. The New York Times had been intrigued too.
In a nutshell, the new Prophecies Gallery is the labor of love child of Lenny Goodstein, a Vietnam veteran turned antique dealer and now art dealer recently returned to his native Brooklyn after a dozen years in Puerto Rico. Lenny erected the bunker to bring attention to his inaugural show featuring artwork by American war veterans. In particular, I dug a menacing black helicopter overhead made out of a trashed office chair.
Lenny intends for his gallery to feature, and better still, to move, the work of Brooklyn artists. At his invitation I came back several days later with my portfolio and a recent shadow box construction. To my delight, he took FIVE collages, including my more-timely-than-ever 2007 cut paper collage, It's For You, pictured above, and the shadow box (alas no photo) featuring the front of a Sixties-era transistor radio mimicking a Sunoco gas pump. I set the gas price to WMCA for those of you aged sufficiently to know what I'm talking about..
Other pieces in the group show are two collaged image transfers posted elsewhere on this blog: Flutter, Bell (last season's holiday greeting), plus the gorgeous Home Invasion, also alas no photo (sudden camera death last week).
You'll just have to stop by and see, perhaps buy. Prices at Prophecies are rational and the artist's cut well above average. Support the art troops!
Prophecies Gallery is at 665 President St, just uphill from 5th Avenue. Check the vintage Coney Island sideshow canvases in the window........
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