This season’s work is part of the outdoor sculpture show FIGMENT on Governors Island and is featured in Pallet City by Katherine Gressel and Jeremy Reed. “Looking Glass,” a collection of unique photographic perspectives framed in salvaged paned windows, runs from August 8, 2010 to September 18, 2010. Governors Island is open Fridays-Sundays so take a trip out there with your family and friends to check out our newest installation. We will hold an opening reception on Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 2pm at our exhibit so see you there!

Crosby Street Gallery will also participate in the annual Governors Island Arts Fair that runs during the weekends in September 2010. We will have a small gallery space with prints available for purchase! Stop by in September for some new and affordable art for your walls.

Future exhibitions include a three-month presentation of visual and performing arts in New Haven, CT as part of the Project Storefronts economic development effort, as well as a summer arts festival on a busy traffic island in New York City scheduled for 2011. Crosby Street Gallery’s inaugural show was held in December 2009 in a converted loading dock in Downtown Brooklyn as part of the Your Art Here initiative to enliven formerly unused spaces.

If you are attending the gallery reception, we have an important message for you.  In the wake of the recent earthquake in Haiti, donations are urgently needed for support organizations.  We will be accepting donations for Red Cross at our event and will be sending one large donation in the name of our company.  Additionally, we will donate 5% of the proceeds of any art sold at the show directly to the Red Cross.

If you are not able to make it to the reception, please support the disaster relief efforts through online websites such as:

• Red Cross
• Oxfam
• Save the Children

Please join us as we help those who have suffered through this great tragedy.

Sincerely,

Rob Sanchez, Jeff Badillo, and Julie Chan
Crosby Street Gallery, LLC

The photos from the Opening Reception by Jakop Nazaretyan are almost ready and will be posted on Monday of this week.  Thank you to everyone who agreed to model for the photo shoot.  When you come to the Closing Reception, remember to fill out a comment card and leave us your email address.  We’ll be drawing a winner for a free print from the show.

In other news, Loading Dock and our show keep getting mentioned on the web.  Here are a few new sites that have pictures of the gallery and restaurant:

• Cultivated
• Naver (couldn’t translate the site, but they have good pictures – if you can, let us know what they are saying)

We will be taking down the gallery show on Jan. 17th, so this will be your last chance to see it in person.  All of the art will be available for purchase (except the pieces that have already been sold).  We look forward to seeing you there!

-Rob

• Monday – Friday:  8:00 AM to 3:00 PM*

• Saturday – Sunday:  10:00 AM to 4:00 PM*

• Artists will also hold evening hours on Friday, Dec. 18th, 6:00-9:00 PM and Saturday, Dec. 19th from 5:00-7:00 PM.

*Business hours subject to change, as Loading Dock will be starting dinner service in January 2010.

Special thanks to the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership for putting us in touch with Loading Dock, and for Luis Gutierrez for photographing the event!

Here are a few photos to help you remember the night. We’d love to hear from you about how you liked the opening.  Leave a comment and don’t forget to sign up for the newsletter!

-Rob

Monday – Friday:  8:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Saturday – Sunday:  10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

We will also have evening hours on the upcoming weekends.  Friday through Sunday from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM.

People enjoying tacos and art at the Crosby Street Gallery opening reception.

Here are a few shots taken around 11:00 PM on Monday:

Owen takes a look around the gallery as we finish up.

Viewing the show from the fireplace, which we had just moved to free up the final wall.

Jakop took this shot of the entryway after we completed hanging the art and added the Loading Dock skull to the wall.

The exhibit finishes with natural landscapes on the final wall. The Lures resin sculpture will go into the framework of the pipe in time for our public opening on Friday, Dec. 11.

I'm starting the cleanup of the space so that Owen can get some sleep before his cafe opens on Tuesday morning.

We were too busy during most of the day to take any pictures, so these are all from the end of the setup.  We’ll post pictures from our openings and events as December and January progress.  Remember – Opening Reception – Friday, Dec. 11th, 2009 at 7:00 PM!  Loading Dock will be providing refreshments.  Come, mingle, and enjoy the art.

-Rob