Summer and Fall Events – 2010

After a lot of work during the summer, we are excited to announce our upcoming summer and fall events!

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.

Support the Red Cross – Taking Donations at our Reception

Hello everyone,

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

Jakop’s Photos from the Opening Reception – 12/11/09

The photos that Jakop took during the opening are finally up!  I’m still going through and titling all of them, so I’ll keep updating the page.  Enjoy!

Urban>Nature’s Closing Reception – Jan. 15th from 6:30 PM until Midnight

I hope everyone had a great holiday!  We are getting ready to close up the Urban>Nature exhibit at Loading Dock in Brooklyn.  As our end date draws near, we wanted to invite everyone to our closing reception on Friday, Jan. 15th from 6:30 PM to Midnight.  Loading Dock is located at 170 Tillary St. in Brooklyn and will be open for dinner until 10:00 PM on the night of the reception.  Join us for their great food and our free wine!

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

Dec. 19th – Opening late due to weather

Due to the weather, we will be opening at 6:00 on Saturday, Dec. 19th.  The gallery will still be open during Loading Dock business hours and we will hold additional evening hours in January.

Friday, Dec. 11th – Recap on Opening Reception

Thank you to everyone who made it to the opening of Urban>Nature on Friday despite the bitter cold!  Over 100 people showed up for art and tacos at the Loading Dock, which was the perfect place for Crosby Street Gallery’s debut. The exhibit is open through January 21st during Loading Dock’s business hours:

• 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

Art and good company make for a perfect evening.

A close up of the Baited series of resin and mixed media sculptures, by Fotini Vurgaropulou.

Co-founder Julie Chan and Joe Chan, President of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership (no relation).

Members of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership and Brooklyn Borough Hall enjoy the reception.

People wait in line to have their photo taken by one of the featured artists, Jakop Nazaretyan.

Gallery Hours – Closed this Sunday

We will not be open this Sunday, but will be back in the space next week.  You can visit during Loading Dock business hours:

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.

Crosby Street Gallery’s First Popup Show is Up!

Late on Monday night, Jakop and I finished hanging the last photos in our first show for the Tuesday morning opening of Loading Dock.  In took three days – Julie and I did the layout on Saturday, I hung two walls and set up all the prints with the help of the guys on Sunday, and Jakop and I tackled the concrete wall and finished the initial stage of the show on Monday.  So far, we’ve got great comments on the show (and Loading Dock has received great reviews of their food).

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