46-23 Crane St., LIC New York
(7 train to 45Rd.)
Studio artists on five floors from all over New York City & the world
Classical practices to the most cutting edge expressions
Painting, sculpture, mixed media, multimedia, installation, textile arts, fine jewelry, prints and much more
Building exteriors and stairwells by the aerosol artists of 5Pointz
... My friends in the Arts (Dad in the first place) would have loved this place.
Amazing how in a city that seems to resemble more and more a crochet of solitudes - a matrix with holes - places like this can thrive. Crane studios are a big commune, only apparently a beehive of isolated units this is in fact a place where artists create in a continuum, exchanging ideas, biorythyms (two female artists on the top floor are friends and expecting at the same time: they both have morning sickness and therefore rearranged their schedule in order to work in the afternoon only) and free time (Marissa, 3 floor, got everybody together for a Met game).
Five minutes in one of the 5th floor studios, where 3 friends from Art school regrouped to create, years after graduating (and you can tell, there's more than a similarity in their works) and already I had been invited to a dinner-party in BK by a couple, wife and husband (his craft is cuisine, he tells me, strictly Italian). Wife is German, she's a late addition to the trio of friends from Art school; her style is completely different: at first the three didn't get it, eventually they came to find it oddly inspiring...
I don't want to sound naive: I'm sure there is competition and not everybody dances in circles holding hands but let's keep it romantic and let's assume the majority does, ok?
Art inside out: the walls and stairwells are triumph of graffiti. A group of kids were scraping a huge mural to make space for new work.
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