Posts Tagged ‘Greenpoint’
The Greenpoint Food Market Says Goodbye For Now
At the Greenpoint Food Market, Joshua Kace launched his jerky business, Ross Hutchinson sold his first jar of bacon marmalade, and Laena McCarthy met a soda-making restaurant chef who wanted to use her jams in his cafe. The market offered a low-cost, low-key environment for home cooks and amateur chefs to share their homemade products, but not [...]
Urban Society Through Abstract Art
Two years ago, Alex White Mazzarella was living in Hong Kong, working as a city planner. Now, he is a Brooklyn-based abstract artist, showing regularly in the city and selling to collectors in Denmark, Norway, France, Italy, and across the States. And he has his former boss to thank. "One day I handed my boss a proposal for a planning project, [...]
Artisan Food Market in Greenpoint
When Josh Kace and his roommates starting making jerky for fun, they never thought their dried meat would turn into a business. But after two years of experimenting, they realized their snack appealed to people outside of their friends and family. They founded SlantShack Jerky, rented a table at the Greenpoint Food Market last December, and sold [...]
Q&A: Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream
After two years of life on wheels, Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream opened its flagship store in Greenpoint on Feb. 27. Peter Van Leeuwen, Ben Van Leeuwen, and wife Laura O’Neill launched their custard yellow ice cream trucks during the spring of 2008. Their all-natural, 18 percent butterfat ice cream was a huge hit. Van Leeuwen currently has five [...]
In the Studio: Amanda Browder
When you think about sculpture, you probably picture marble statues or clay figurines or stone carvings. Plush fabric and bright, pillowy objects are far from your mind. But for Greenpoint artist Amanda Browder, the latter form her sculptures. Browder, 33, turns traditional sculpture on its head by creating vibrantly colored soft pieces that are [...]
Getting creative with cloth
I spent some time with artist Amanda Browder this weekend. I'm working on an audio slideshow about her and her work, so I thought I'd share some pictures from her studio while I work on the piece:
What it means to be a New York artist
While I was chatting with Chris Saunders at GOS, his friend and fellow artist Susan Maddux joined us. Maddux's studio isn't in the pencil factory, but she presented her work in the room next to Saunders's for the event. Like Saunders, she paints about landscape, but in a very different way Maddux's inspiration comes from her childhood in the [...]
Greenpoint artists open their doors
This weekend, I attended the Greenpoint Open Studios. For the event, artists living in Greenpoint opened their doors to the public for two days. I spent my time in the old pencil factory on Greenpoint Ave. and talked to a few really interesting artists. I met Christopher Saunders, a painter who lives and works in Greenpoint. In his artist [...]