CROWN HEIGHTS — Bright handmade clocks, floral-painted skateboards and more are on the way to a Crown Heights pop-up shop this weekend.
Artist Mike Perry, who lives in the neighborhood, will offer his quirky artwork for sale at Park Delicatessen, the florist and skate shop on Classon Avenue between Park and Prospect places.
Perry, whose whimsical, colorful animations open the Comedy Central show "Broad City," has been making art in the area for years, often using the neighborhood as his canvas — like when he painted a bright yellow and blue “Crown Heights” mural this summer around the corner from his Bergen Street studio.
The pop-up at Park Delicatessen, he said, is another opportunity to keep his artwork local.
“We’re always making new things and it just seemed like an opportunity to do something in the neighborhood,” he said.
On Thursday, Perry and the proprietors of Park Delicatessen, Valentine Leung and Michael Sclafani, set up the shop to prepare for the weekend’s sale. Handmade clocks, T-shirts, hats, sculptures, pins and even toothbrushes came out of boxes to be laid on shelves, hung from the ceiling and tacked to walls.
Most of the smaller items are priced below $50, like the toothbrushes, which cost $6. But other, more artistic items are more expensive, like a series of moving sculptures cut to look like the silhouette of a face and priced at $500.
Several items, including a ceramic vase ($1,300) and turquoise skate decks ($58), sport floral designs, a common theme with Perry.
“I’m really into flowers as an aesthetic,” he said. “So, to do [the pop-up] in a flower shop is kind of spot-on for me.”
The collaboration between Perry and Park Delicatessen is the first of its kind, though Perry has known the shop’s owners since 2012, when they made a “crazy flower chandelier” for a fundraiser he threw after Hurricane Sandy.
He hopes the event is “neighborhood-centric,” drawing friends and residents from all over Crown Heights. To encourage participation, he purposely did not put the pop-up shop items online, or even post photos of them, when his friends asked if he would.
“I was like, no, we’re not doing this online. You have to come. This is not about the Internet. This is about community,” he said.
The pop-up shop at Park Delicatessen will be open at 722 Classon Ave. on Oct. 4 from noon to 7 p.m. and Oct. 5 from noon to 5 p.m.
