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Pratt Students Transform Myrtle Avenue Storefronts Into Gallery

By Janet Upadhye | September 30, 2014 2:13pm
 “Drawings Along Myrtle” is a month-long event that features artwork by Pratt students displayed in businesses along Myrtle Avenue in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.  
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FORT GREENE — More than 20 Pratt Institute students, alumni and local artists are set to display their artwork in storefronts along Myrtle Avenue for the first-ever "Drawings Along Myrtle" event next month.

The exhibition will feature sketches, sculptures and installations located in restaurants and shops — including Gnarly Vines, Splitty, Peck’s, Pillow Café and Corkscrew Brooklyn — from Classon to Clermont avenues.

At Splitty, a bar modeled after the split windshield Volkswagen bus of the 1960s, Pratt student Dakota Sica will show off several mirrors that reflect the shape of a window on a camping trailer.

The piece serves as a comment "on the intersection between public and private space," according to the artist.

Along with the installation, Sica will also display a "collection of objects and images that evoke the tenor of the public interiors that we have come to call our second homes," she said.

Other works, such as John Lucas Fuller's portrait made of acrylic paint and permanent marker on paper at Gnarly Vines and Sica's second exhibit, spray paint on particle board on display at Pillow Café, seek to challenge the traditional definition of "drawing" by using mediums beyond the traditional pencil and pen.

A self-guided art walk will kick off the event from 5 to 7 p.m. on Oct. 4, giving visitors the chance to meet the artists and exhibition curators. There will also be a reception immediately following the walk at 7 p.m. at Splitty.

This is the inaugural year for "Drawings Along Myrtle," a collaboration between Pratt’s Fine Arts and Foundation Departments and Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership.

For more information and gallery locations check the Pratt Institute website.