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dumbo sunday

As I did a year ago, I spent an October afternoon in Dumbo. This past weekend the event was the 9th Annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival. A lot of artists' studios in that part of Brooklyn were open and since the F train goes right there, it's a tough event to miss. As my legs tired and my brain filled with too many images, I wished I'd visited on Saturday as well as Sunday - if only to provide myself with some rest inbetween the overwhelmingness of everything.

A few of the things I liked:

The Cowboy Images by Brent Spaulding.
In the elevator up to the open studio that featured the images I saw a postcard or flyer. I had no idea some of the images would be so huge. Only a few of the images were 10 feet high, but they were the ones I really loved. Film influenced cowboy culture never looked so good.

The Bird/Clouds/Math Images by Miranda Maher.
I don't think her website is up and running yet, but when it is, check for the series she's working on that features birds in the sky with printed images of geometry on them. Really fun and light and the kind of thing I really want up in my house.

The Animals and Lonely Images by George Boorujy.
Go look at his website. A lot of his work is posted there. I really liked his work which features great animal illustrations. But there's a lot more to it. I bought a print of a roller coaster on the edge of cliff, with lots of white space around it.

It's been a long time since I've written about art, so please forgive my awkward sentences. I had a great afternoon, though. It was really inspiring and I feel like I saw a lot more art I liked this year than last.