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Tammy Pittman, director of Proteus Gowanus, inside gallery/museum. Photos by Nicholas Fevelo
A ‘disgusting and
beautiful’ exhibit
hung beneath the Union Street Bridge to
BROOKLYN’S grimiest waterway may not weather with the canal’s rising and falling
be everyone’s idea of beautiful, but some tides.
“It’s disgusting. I wear a Tyvek suit
creative Brooklynites are turning it into a
when I do this,” said artist David Eustace,
work of art.
A Union St. gallery has opened an exhi- 39, of Gowanus, who added he’s sure to
bition hall dedicated to art and artifacts scrub his canvases clean of gunk before
they’re displayed.
from the polluted Gowanus Canal.
Gowanus artist Karla Roberts, 47, has a
“For artists, it’s a place that is mysterious, neglected [and] semi-empty, and so set of black-and-white photographs pair[there’s] the kind of fascination of a place ing shots of the Gowanus with the famous canals of Venice, where
that has been for a long time
she lived for seven months.
in decline,” said Tamara Pitt“It’s very tongue in cheek,”
man, director of Proteus
she said — but then again,
Gowanus, which opened its
they might have more in
Hall of the Gowanus — a
common than you think. “The
combination gallery and muVenetian canals aren’t really
seum dedicated to the funky
clean, either,” Roberts said. “I
waterway — last Sunday.
wouldn’t swim in those.”
There are drawings, photoArchitectural
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graphs, maps — even a large
Michael Koehler, 53, sketched
jar of canal water and muck
fanciful designs for the land
Pittman collected from the
around the waterway, with
canal herself.
greenways and a baseball di“Oh my God — it’s growing
Water — and plenty else
amond.
things,” she said as she
— from Gowanus Canal.
“This is an area that’s defishowed it off.
nitely going to be evolving
Kevin Allen, 37, of Fort
Greene, spent more than a year making and changing into something more,” he
sound recordings with an underwater mi- said. “The idea is for it not to be a
crophone. Visitors listen to the sounds of wasteland.”
There are pressed flowers plucked from
water splashing, motor boats passing and
a distant saxophone player while viewing the banks of the canal, colorful maps and
aerial photos with the gallery’s location
Allen’s 3-D photos of the canal.
marked with a bright green pin, a scroll“It’s really kind of disgusting and beauing time line of the canal’s history since
tiful at the same time,” Allen said. “One
the 17th century, and a small collection of
of the benefits of the nastiness of the caarticles and books about the canal that
nal is a lot of the 19th century character Proteus hopes to expand with donations
has been left.”
from community members.
His work incorporates several of the
Pittman said that with the current batfive senses, but he knows something is tle over whether to make the Gowanus a
missing to capture the full experience. Superfund site, interest in the waterway
“The one thing I couldn’t include . . . was is surging.
smell,” he said. “It’s pretty wretched.”
“There’s no space dedicated to the
There are canvases painted with astro- Gowanus anywhere,” she said. “The
nomical symbols in metal dust — then neighborhood needed it.”
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