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An area
code signifies one's location. In the New York City region, 718 indicates
one's residence as across the water from Manhattan. In the past, a person
did not necessarily want to reveal a status of a bridge-and-tunneler,
but recently the greater Brooklyn area has begun to receive its much
overdue notice as a vibrant arts community and not simply a location
for the fiscally challenged. New York, with Brooklyn as the nucleus,
continues to be a magnet for Cranbrook Academy of Art alumni to start
their post-graduate art careers. (718) A Bridge to Brooklyn showcases
eleven graduates from the painting and sculpture departments-Jessica
Dickinson, Marc Grubstein, Michael LaForte, Jesse Lopez, Todd Ludlam,
Tiffany Matula, MTAA (Michael Sarff, CAA alumnus with Tim Whidden),
Dan Seiple, Megan Sullivan, Laura Vinchesi, Suzanne Walters-from the
last ten years who live and/or work within this area. |
 (718): A Bridge to Brooklyn CRANBROOK ART MUSEUM September 14, 2002 - January 5, 2003 |
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While the 718 area code forms the initial scope to the exhibition, the term bridge is its focal point encompassing various themes. Not only will it reintroduce the Cranbrook community to these artists and their current work, it also connects and reconnects the various alumni to each other. The exhibition articulates the desire of these artists to communicate their own versions of reality. They are either expressing an accepted sense of reality, like Marc Grubstein's photographs documenting scenes that both repulse and fascinate, or their own altered notion like Jesse Lopez's lyrical surrealist drawings. The commonality of a Cranbrook Academy of Art experience and a current residence in the 718 area code define them as people and shape their own daily reality. How they bridge the concreteness of these factors to the reality projected in their work defines them as artists. |
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Todd Ludlum
in his Brooklyn Studio, 2002
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| The catalogue of the exhibition, (718): A Bridge To Brooklyn, is available at The Store on the lower level. | |||||
