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Mini memorial: Rachel Grobstein created this five-inch-long ghost bike based on a shrine in Bushwick.
Remains to be seen
Group art exhibit examines death and grieving
By Kevin Duggan
Brooklyn Paper
This show is to die for!
A new group art exhibit digs deep
into the way that women deal with
the grave topics of death and grieving.
“Death Becomes Her,” opening at Bric
House on Feb. 19, features work by 10
female artists, each exploring the end of
life in her own way. One artist will showcase
tiny versions of the street shrines
she encountered while living in Bushwick,
which both commemorate bikers
and pedestrians killed by cars, and provide
a warning about street safety.
“These memorials and shines are increasingly
being used as calls to action,”
said Rachel Grobstein, who now lives
in Philadelphia. “The ghost bike is a really
important sign for people to slow
down — especially in New York City,
where you have all these bike deaths.”
Among Grobstein’s creations is a
5-inch-long ghost bike, based on an actual
white-painted bicycle near her former
Bushwick studio that honors 23-yearold
cyclist Timothy “TJ” Campbell, who
was fatally struck by a garbage truck
there in 2010.
The artist has made almost 30 miniature
shrines, basing each on photographs
Photo courtesy of Rachel Grobstein
she took of their real-life counterparts.
She used materials like gouache paint,
polymer clay, wire, and cloth to make
tiny beer cans, toys, clothes, flowers,
cards, and other objects left at the memorials
by the victims’ loved ones.
Memorials like these have become
all too common around the borough,
said Grobstein, but she says that shrinking
the shrines down into works of art
Photo by Rachel Grobstein
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brings them renewed attention.
“Once I started paying attention
they’re everywhere, which is kind of
sad,” she said. “I think a miniature is a
good way of drawing attention to something
that often gets overlooked.”
The artist will show six of her pieces
at the Bric show, which will turn its
usually cheery open-air gallery into
a tomb-like environment, with atmospheric
lighting and a more intimate
enclosure.
The Downtown arts organization
has partnered with Green-Wood Cemetery
to produce the exhibit, and several
death-themed events will take place in
the graveyard over the next few months.
For example, the immersive performance
“Only Remains Remain” by Freya Powell,
on April 11, will draw on the Greek
tragedy “Antigone” to create an elegy for
the hundreds of unidentified migrants
buried in mass graves in Texas.
Big ideas: Grobstein will showcase
six of her tiny memorials.
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“Death Becomes Her” at Bric House
647 Fulton St., at Rockwell Place in
Fort Greene, (718) 855–7882, bricartsmedia.
org. Opening reception
on Feb. 19, 7–9 pm. On display
through April 19. Free.
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