Friday April 25, 5:00 to 9:00 PM
Saturday, April 26, 1:00 to 6:00 PM
Sunday, April 27, 1:00 to 6:00 PM
Monday, April 28, 1:00 to 6:00 PM
What’s Mine Is Yours 17″x 17″ © William Donovan
Intrinsically Disordered 8.5″x 11″ © William Donovan
Baptism 40 x 40 © William Donovan
Studio
515 Greenwich St. # 420
New York, New York 10013
917.623.6844
Email
DUKEDONOVAN@EARTHLINK.NET
My work is driven by personal experiences. Experiences such as Loss, Lust and Spirituality, are utilized to create drawings, paintings, and sculptures. Materials such as rubber, flocking, reflective glass, and polyurethane, conspire with intuition to create a strong graphic visual as well as shape and unveil content. – William Donovan
The TriBeCa Open Artist Studio Tour is a free, self-guided tour of approximately 100 artists’ studios throughout TriBeCa. Bringing artists and the public together, it provides an opportunity for visitors to interact with the artists and see their artwork at the source, the artist’s own studio. An artist-run organization, TOAST has led a true metropolitan “grass roots” path. It began as an ad-hoc group of artists who wanted to revive a neighborhood art walk. Now a not-for-profit organization, it is still a grass roots effort, run by the participating artists. Neighborhood businesses and supporters supplement most of the needed funds not covered by the artists’ entry fees.
Categories: Art · William Donovan
© Frank H. Jump
Happy Earth Day!
Vincenzo (my partner in life and love) has the tendency to uncover interesting ephemera while doing demolition on the apartments he renovates. Here are two bits dating back to the early 1960’s- Rubin’s Delicatessen with the GRamercy-3 telephone exchange (Gramercy Park got its name from a corruption of the Dutch “krom mesje” or crooked little knife) and the Schaefer Beer Can, which brings back fond memories of the 1969 World Series and my father watching television. I remember watching the men landing on the Moon and wondering how they had already gotten there to set up cameras.
My first Earth Day – which was THE FIRST EARTH DAY – was in April 1970. I had done a report in fifth grade about the Food of the Future: Soy. I predicted that soy burgers would one day become popular with the American public. I also predicted that the United States would be slow to convert to metric – which was supposed to occur that year. If only my prescience could have extended to future Lotto Numbers…
Read more about Campbell’s Soup’s attempt to be green.
“For here am I floating ’round my tin-can
Far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there’s nothing I can do”
David Bowie – Space Oddity
Categories: Earth Day · Ephemera · Flotsam & Jetsam · Gay Contractors · Photography · Propaganda · Science Education
Where are the moments from here to there?
Deer – Cervidae
Categories: Deer · Quantum Wobble
© Frank H. Jump
As I was driving home for lunch on Friday, I arrived at the end of the block just as the firetrucks had arrived on the corner of Glenwood Road and East 32nd Street. There was a distressed raccoon on the roof of the house trying to find a way off. I ran home and got my camera and ran back down to the corner. Deborah Brathwait, a resident of the building was visibly shaken, but fortunately managed to get out safely. Brathwait informed me that all other residents managed to evacuate unharmed. By now the raccoon was in the tree, which also was at risk of going in flames. A local organization, Silver Lining Outreach – that apparently helps local fire victims and the homeless, gave me their card. I’m not familiar with this org but will do some research.
Arnold Duncan, another local photographer was at the scene and we started to chat a bit. [Duncan forwarded me his link to his pics. I posted two down below with links.] According to Duncan – a longtime College Glen resident – the corner house that had burned had once belonged to the adjacent church – The Vanderveer Park United Methodist Church – which has been trying to get the former parsonage back.
Fire on Glenwood Road and East 32nd Street, Flatbush Junction
© Frank H. Jump
Some shots from another neighborhood photographer, Arnold Duncan.
© Arnold Duncan
Click here for a slideshow of Duncan’s pics of the fire.
Kudos to Ladder 147, The Pride of Flatbush! For their impeccable response time and professionalism- and for putting up with questions like “Did you see where the raccoon went?”
Categories: Brooklyn · Flatbush Junction · Photography
