Dumbo First Thursday Gallery Walk 07Aug2008

The DUMBO 1st Thursday Gallery Walk tonight. DUMBO 1st Thursday features area galleries and artists’ studios, open from 5:30 to 8:30, on the first Thursday of each month. There is no admission fee – participating galleries are open to the public. Gallery receptions, neighborhood dining and bars, and live music add to the evening’s festivities:

August 7, 2008 First Thursday Participants include, but are not limited to the following list. Please check with each gallery to confirm that they will be open late on Thursday.

5+5 Gallery, 111 Front St., Suite 210
Aswoon Gallery, 14 Jay St.
Brooklyn Arts Council, 111 Front St., Suite 218
Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation, 111 Front St.
DUMBO Arts Center, 30 Washington St.
GalleryQB, 163 Plymouth St.
Gloria Kennedy Gallery, 111 Front St., Suite 222
Henry Gregg Gallery, 111 Front St., Suite 226
Klompching Gallery, 111 Front St.
Melville House, 145 Plymouth St.
Nelson Hancock Gallery, 111 Front St., Suite 204
Pochron Studios, 20 Jay St.
Powerhouse Books & Powerhouse Arena, 37 Main St.
Rabbithole Studio, 33 Washington St.
Robert Wilson/rw Work Ltd, 111 Front St.
Safe-T Gallery, 111 Front St., Suite 214
Smack Mellon, 93 Plymouth St. @ Washington Street
Spring, 126a Front St.
Tivoli Home, 111 Front St., 1st floor
Umbrage Gallery, 111 Front St.
VII DUMBO, 28 Jay St.
Wessel + O-Connor Fine Art, 111 Front St., Suite 200

Some highlights include:

Rabbitholestudio
Variation on a Theme (Pat Berran, Pete Corrie, Brian Hubble, Catherine Vo)
Opening reception: Thursday, August 7, 5 – 9pm
August 3rd – September 1st
Wed-Fri 6-8pm and by appointment through August 31
Four artist’s work presented in a true mixed media form, they speak of destructive beauty, wastefulness, chicanery, and wistfulness with a keen sense of hope and an undeniable hint of self-defined sarcasm. Curated by Brian Hubble.
33 Washington Street, DUMBO Brooklyn, 718-852-1500
www.rabbitholestudio.com
Pochron Studios
DRAW-A-THON
August 7, 2008 6 – 11pm
The Drawathon Troupe is a collective of art models, artists, musicians, performers and poets who collaborate through, open ended narrative, hand crafted props and live music components intended for the public to interpret through drawing, painting, writing and other creative processes.
20 Jay Street, 11th Floor Ste. 1100, DUMBO Brooklyn, 718-237-1332 x 305
www.pochronstudios.com
BAC Gallery
BAC Gallery presents: “Mending,”a collaborative performance piece
in conjunction with the group exhibition
August 7, 2008, 6 – 8pm
The Line That Connects You to Me runs from June 5 – August 28, 2008
As part of BAC Gallery’s group exhibition The Line That Connects You To Me, and in conjunction with DUMBO First Thursday, artist and seer Annette Tacconelli presents the performance piece “Mending.”
Visitors to the gallery are encouraged to contribute to this work by bringing something for her to mend, spiritually or physically. The artist will be mending into the night, one stitch after another, intimately and slowly, stitching holes by hand and by sight.
Image credit: Annette Tacconelli, Mending, 2007, Performance Art
111 Front Street, Suite 218, DUMBO Brooklyn, 718-625-0080
www.brooklynartscouncil.org


RICE
(81 Washington Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn)

Low Bar, The cocktail lounge below RICE
Two for One Cocktails on First Thursday until 10pm
(81 Washington Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn)

Superfine
Live Music, Fine Art, & Fine Dining at Superfine
(126 Front St., Dumbo, Brooklyn)

26 Comment

  • All you yuppies planning to pick up a little blow on your way to the galleries tonight better run around the corner to do your deal with smokey. Otherwise, smile for the camera. That’s right, documenting from the window in 84 front St, we are keeping records of all the little handshakes and deals. My beautiful little Nikon zoom lens picks up your folded twenties in your hand, and all that aluminum foil wrapped yey–yos. Paranoid? Wait ’till the photos get posted soon. It’s a small neighborhood, we all know each other.

    Hey Gordon Gecko wanna-be from 1 main st. Picking up some marching powder for his weekend blowout at Pink Elephant in East Hampton today? Better call it in for delivery from now on.

    Or the hipster PowerHouse kid, thinks he’s all slick with the backslap. Oh, you were “just giving him a couple of bucks so they could get home on the subway.” B.S. I got it in high-res digital on iphoto now, dude.

    How ’bout a new coffee table book for powerHouse? “The Dumbo Deal” featuring Cracky, Smokey and all you suckers. Look for it coming this fall…

  • All you yuppies planning to pick up a little blow on your way to the galleries tonight better run around the corner to do your deal with smokey. Otherwise, smile for the camera. That’s right, documenting from the window in 84 front St, we are keeping records of all the little handshakes and deals. My beautiful little Nikon zoom lens picks up your folded twenties in your hand, and all that aluminum foil wrapped yey–yos. Paranoid? Wait ’till the photos get posted soon. It’s a small neighborhood, we all know each other.

    Hey Gordon Gecko wanna-be from 1 main st. Picking up some marching powder for his weekend blowout at Pink Elephant in East Hampton today? Better call it in for delivery from now on.

    Or the hipster PowerHouse kid, thinks he’s all slick with the backslap. Oh, you were “just giving him a couple of bucks so they could get home on the subway.” B.S. I got it in high-res digital on iphoto now, dude.

    How ’bout a new coffee table book for powerHouse? “The Dumbo Deal” featuring Cracky, Smokey and all you suckers. Look for it coming this fall…

  • I’m at 65 Wash. Maybe I should do the same with my super zoom camcorder. I have a direct view of the two dealing everyday.

  • I’m at 65 Wash. Maybe I should do the same with my super zoom camcorder. I have a direct view of the two dealing everyday.

  • Thank you both!

  • Thank you both!

  • Seriously. It’s about time. Tell me again whey the police ignore this?

  • Seriously. It’s about time. Tell me again whey the police ignore this?

  • I really hope you guys do document the dealing that goes down on Washington Street all day long. Can’t see how those jokers could get much more brazen than selling in plain sight across the street from the cop owned pizza place.

  • I really hope you guys do document the dealing that goes down on Washington Street all day long. Can’t see how those jokers could get much more brazen than selling in plain sight across the street from the cop owned pizza place.

  • cant wait to see those pic’s. Hope you really have them.

  • cant wait to see those pic’s. Hope you really have them.

  • Be sure to snap some shots of what they put in those newspaper machines. Every time I walk by, they are putting something in or taking something out…they have stuff stashed all over P&Ps! I think a lucky person gets a ‘special package’ with a flower bouquet…

  • Be sure to snap some shots of what they put in those newspaper machines. Every time I walk by, they are putting something in or taking something out…they have stuff stashed all over P&Ps! I think a lucky person gets a ‘special package’ with a flower bouquet…

  • Just saw both of them up by York F train stop, going through several backpacks in front of a waiting black towncar. Getting their stash ready? or just packing for their weekend on the Jersey shore?

    I wasn’t so sure about the drug-dealing theory, but now, yeah, it makes sense. I’ll think twice now and look up 🙂 before I give them spare change.

  • Just saw both of them up by York F train stop, going through several backpacks in front of a waiting black towncar. Getting their stash ready? or just packing for their weekend on the Jersey shore?

    I wasn’t so sure about the drug-dealing theory, but now, yeah, it makes sense. I’ll think twice now and look up 🙂 before I give them spare change.

  • Hmmm . . . intersting comments. If you were covertly taking photos, why would you then (1)publicly announce that you were taking stated photos and (2) annouce from where you are taking those photos, so that those that may take issue would be able to identify you?

    Is it more likely that you are just trying to create some rumors to add the legend of those known as Smokey and Cracky?

  • Hmmm . . . intersting comments. If you were covertly taking photos, why would you then (1)publicly announce that you were taking stated photos and (2) annouce from where you are taking those photos, so that those that may take issue would be able to identify you?

    Is it more likely that you are just trying to create some rumors to add the legend of those known as Smokey and Cracky?

  • Good points, Anon. What I find ever more interesting is the anonymous comments littered around this thread, and “Signs of Dumbo Gentrification”. And, of course the Curbed thread mentioned above. The Curbed “Drug Supply” post almost feels as if a user is self-referencing himself, referring to another curbed post, that then refers back to dumbonyc.

    Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I am beginning to get the distinct impression that a person, or a small group of people, is trying to whip up this drug controversy to further bolster neighborhood sentiment against the Dynamic Duo.

    Don’t get me wrong; I despise drugs and drug dealers. If that’s what Smokey and Cracky are doing in this neighborhood, it’s my opinion that we can’t be rid of them soon enough.

    But at the same time, I try to maintain a little respect for that whole concept we know as “innocent until proven guilty.” Circumstantial evidence and hearsay regarding dark livery cars, backpacks, and handshakes is hardly enough to convict these people. Hardly more so is the shaky logic suggesting that they must be dealing drugs, since panhandling isn’t nearly profitable enough to justify their being here. If there are photos, I’m with Anon. Show us the photos, or stop the bluster.

    I’m hardly a supporter of Smokey & Cracky. I’ve given them money, but it’s amounted to less than one dollar in the entire time I’ve lived here. I would estimate that I stopped giving them money about six months ago, and not once since then have they scowled at me or yelled at me when I walk by.

  • Good points, Anon. What I find ever more interesting is the anonymous comments littered around this thread, and “Signs of Dumbo Gentrification”. And, of course the Curbed thread mentioned above. The Curbed “Drug Supply” post almost feels as if a user is self-referencing himself, referring to another curbed post, that then refers back to dumbonyc.

    Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I am beginning to get the distinct impression that a person, or a small group of people, is trying to whip up this drug controversy to further bolster neighborhood sentiment against the Dynamic Duo.

    Don’t get me wrong; I despise drugs and drug dealers. If that’s what Smokey and Cracky are doing in this neighborhood, it’s my opinion that we can’t be rid of them soon enough.

    But at the same time, I try to maintain a little respect for that whole concept we know as “innocent until proven guilty.” Circumstantial evidence and hearsay regarding dark livery cars, backpacks, and handshakes is hardly enough to convict these people. Hardly more so is the shaky logic suggesting that they must be dealing drugs, since panhandling isn’t nearly profitable enough to justify their being here. If there are photos, I’m with Anon. Show us the photos, or stop the bluster.

    I’m hardly a supporter of Smokey & Cracky. I’ve given them money, but it’s amounted to less than one dollar in the entire time I’ve lived here. I would estimate that I stopped giving them money about six months ago, and not once since then have they scowled at me or yelled at me when I walk by.

  • It’s cool to be a skeptic, but after hearing others confirm what I saw, which was clearly a transfer of something, not just a how ya doin handshake, the whole Peas and Pickles panhandler scene is starting to make a lot more sense. Now I know why the dude thinks it’s so hilarious when he wears that shirt that says drug dealer on it in big black letters. Not so cool.

    What I want to know is why did it take everyone so long to start talking about this scene? The usual Crackey and Smokey comments are pretty pointless, sometimes even bordering on hysteria. This drug thing is actually something to talk about.

  • It’s cool to be a skeptic, but after hearing others confirm what I saw, which was clearly a transfer of something, not just a how ya doin handshake, the whole Peas and Pickles panhandler scene is starting to make a lot more sense. Now I know why the dude thinks it’s so hilarious when he wears that shirt that says drug dealer on it in big black letters. Not so cool.

    What I want to know is why did it take everyone so long to start talking about this scene? The usual Crackey and Smokey comments are pretty pointless, sometimes even bordering on hysteria. This drug thing is actually something to talk about.