����������������������
�� HOME
IMPROVEMENTS
THE GENERAC
PWRCELL, A SOLAR
PLUS BATTERY
STORAGE SYSTEM.
SAVE money, reduce your
reliance on the grid, prepare
for power outages and power
your home. Full installation
services available. $0 Down
Financing Option. Request
a FREE, no obligation, quote
today. Call 1-888-871-0194
�� HEALTH & FITNESS
VIAGRA & CIALIS!
60 pills for $99. 100 pills for
$150. FREE shipping. Money
back guaranteed! 1-855-579-
8907
�� HOUSES FOR SALE
GOOGLE
ADDRESS
Gateway
Adirondack Park-
-Easy Drive 111
West Main Street
Canajoharie NY -
Brick Townhouse
with Parking 48
South Main Street
Gloversville NY
12078 3 Story
Loft Building NEW
LOWER PRICES
Text/Call Perry
9177478580
�� APARTMENTS
FOR RENT
PUBLISHER'S
NOTICE
All real estate advertised
herein is subject to the
Federal Fair Housing Act,
which makes it illegal to
advertise "any preference,
limitation or discrimination
because of race, color,
religion, sex, handicap,
familial status, sexual
orientation or national origin,
or intention to make any
such preference, limitation
or discrimination." We will
not knowingly accept any
advertising for real estate
which is in violation of the
law. All persons are hereby
informed that all dwellings
advertised are available on
an equal opportunity basis.
We have all
the Boros
covered,
call 718-260-2555
to advertise
with us
�� COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE FOR RENT
NOHO DISTRICT
Manufacturing Space for Lease
Ideal for service, industrial.
No retail or office uses.
Only uses permitted under
zoning district M1-5B
636 Broadway 7972 SF,
cellar only
$239,160 annual basis ($30/sqft)
Call: V. Trager 212-254-7701
������������������������������������������������������
������������
�������������� ����������������
����������������������������������
Soho street artists
exhibiting and
continuing to make art
BY TEQUILA MINSKY
Soho’s commercial establishments,
closed in March last
year when New York City went
on Pause, became the target of opportunistic
damage—shattered store
windows and ransacked shops—during
one destructive June evening.
Soon after, artists sought the wood
Artists included in the exhibition are Keiji Drysdale, Manuel Alejandro Pulla, Amir Diop, Graham Macindoe,
Konstance Patton, Trevor Croop, and Sule.
barricades that quickly covered the
smashed plate glass storefronts, the
plywood becoming their canvases.
The vicinity of Soho’s Mercer,
Greene, Wooster, W. Broadway and
cross streets evolved into a hub of artist
creativity. And, for the briefest period
of time, in a kind of back to the future,
Soho took on a semblance of a long-ago
former self.
Flash forward six months, the pandemic
still in full swing and the exhibition
schedule of the National Arts Club
(NAC) in Gramercy Park experiencing
the postponement of many planned
shows.
A Board member and friends of
NAC gave the Club and curator Robert
Yahner a heads-up about the incredible
public artwork produced in Soho during
those post-looting and lockdown
days. Yahner explored this burst of
artistic expression, realizing that in
addition to individuals who created art
on the plywood, by design or shared
vision, affi nity groups of artists had
formed.
Additionally, while Soho began to
return to its former commercial self,
the art born out of the exploding calls
for social justice at the time continued
to appear on the plywood barricades
during the summer in Soho’s lower
Mercer Street and Broadway, Grand
and Howard.
The individual and collaborative relationships
formed during those months
are now the Soho Renaissance Factory
(SRF). Yahner visited the studio where
much of the group’s art on plywood,
once taken down, was saved.
From these works, the National Arts
Club’s current exhibit—Voices of the
Soho Renaissance—is drawn. The
show is a sampling of the work that
reclaimed the neighborhood, returning
it to, as Ben Hartley, Executive Director
of NAC observes, “The creative haven
it once was, echoing and amplifying issues
of artistic freedom, social justice
and hope.”
The National Arts Club writes, “In
the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter
protests, Soho emerged as a source of
spontaneous creativity not seen in the
city for decades.” It was transformative.
“The blank plywood barricades put in
place by neighborhood businesses as
protection became positive and elaborate
art pieces.”
Trevor Croop aka Light Noise, a
leader of SRF and exhibiting artist
comments, “Our artwork conveys
the effect and response to the events
PHOTO BY BOB KRASNER
of 2020 while we continue to heal as
a community of artists and citizens.”
Croop recognizes that the exhibition
offers the opportunity for an audience
to witness a moment becoming a movement
in real time.
Soho Renaissance Factory artists
exhibiting include Konstance Patton,
Trevor Croop, Amir Diop, Sule, Brendan
T. McNally, Keiji Drysdale, and
Manuel Alejandro Pulla.
The exhibition opened with a socially
distanced, mask-wearing, limited gathering
in early December and is available
for public viewing on weekdays until
Jan. 27, RSVP required.
Also on view are more than twodozen
black and white documentary
photographs by photographer Graham
Macindoe capturing the events, which
took place in the streets of New York
City during the summer.
Schneps Media January 7, 2021 15