5th annual Brooklyn Bridge Anniversary Group Art Show May 23rd

This May 23rd will be the opening of Urban Folk Art® Gallery's 5th annual Brooklyn Bridge Anniversary art show. over 30 awesome artists of varying mediums and backgrounds will converge to honor the 131st anniversary of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge to the public (may 24th 1883). Invite and press release below. Come check it!

MAY 7TH^th, 2014

URBAN FOLK ART® GALLERY PRESENTS IT’S 5th ANNUAL GROUP ART SHOW IN HONOR OF THE 131st ANNIVERSARY OF THE OPENING OF THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE

For the 5^th year in a row, Urban Folk Art® Gallery will be honoring the anniversary of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge with it’s annual group art show.

Brooklyn Native, Curator, and resident artist Adam Suerte remembered how the centennial of the Brooklyn Bridge was such a huge deal to Brooklyn and N.Y. when he was a teenager in the 80’s. There was some fanfare for the 125^th anniversary , but 5 years ago he wondered “why not celebrate the bridge’s birthday every year”? Since then, every May (the bridge was opened to the public on May 24^th 1883) he’s been gathering dozens of artists from a variety of backgrounds and mediums to create their homages to one of the most enduring landmarks of Brooklyn, a landmark that is recognized all over the world. This year over 30 artists will be showing work, from Painters, illustrators, photographers, tattooers, printmakers, designers, animators, and legendary Graffiti artists

   Last year Suerte bought a bunch of surplus paint made for the Brooklyn Bridge over a decade ago at an online auction. Not only did he have every artist in the show use the paint, he redesigned and repackaged it and sold the surplus of the surplus at the gallery. This year only a few artists are using the paint, but the rest of the limited edition surplus will be for sale, as well as the art on the walls, and some limited edition prints  by the artists in the show.

The show is up from May 23^rd to June 17^th at

 Urban Folk Art® Gallery

101 Smith Street

South Brooklyn, N.Y.

www.urbanfolkart.com

718 643 1610

Info@urbanfolkart.com

Contact Adam@adamsuerte.com

Links about Brooklyn Bridge Paint

Article about the Bridge Paint Auction

Article about the Paint repackaged and last years show

Brooklyn Bridge show/tattoo day were awesome

We had a great time at the Brooklyn Bridge 129th anniversary group art show opening, and then had a blast the sunday after where a good 30-40 people came out to get their $29 Brooklyn Bridge Tattoos.
The work in the art show was an amazing mixture of backgrounds and mediums. For a full rundown of the work, prices for whats still available, and more shots of the opening, check here. The show will be up until the last week of June, so come down and check it out!

Limited edition event poster by Adam Suerte

 Jen Fergusun

Myke Maldonado

 Edgartista

 Michael Dulle

 Woodz

 Jason Mitchell

Sara Antoinette Martin

 Jonathan Blum

 John Bartolo

 Rachel Gibbs

Adam Suerte

Sunday, Brooklyn Bridge $29 tattoo day

3rd annual Brooklyn Bridge Birthday celebration

Brooklyn Tattoo® and Urban Folk Art® Gallery present a 2 event celebration commemorating the Bridg'es 129th birthday (which is actually on May 24th). 

Fri May 25th, 7pm-11pm- Urban Folk Art© Gallery will host an group art show opening of over 30 local artists honoring the Brooklyn Bridge. Painters, comic makers, illustrators, graffiti artists, animators, printmakers, tattooers, photographers, and more will coverge in creativity with the bridge as their muse.

Sponsored by the good friends at Bar Great Harry

Sunday May 27th, 1pm-7pm- Brooklyn Tattoo® will host their annual Brooklyn Bridge tattoo special. For $29, you can choose from over 20 predesigned Brooklyn Bridge images.

A few of the designs that will be offered.

More will be posted the week of the event

Call the shop/gallery for more information!

718 643 1610

Here's some press we've been getting for the show next week.

The Brooklyn Bugle

Gothamist

NY Post

We'll be putting out samples of the designs we're offering later this week, early next.

Our next show, Brooklyn Bridge's 128th birthday!

So while basking in the success of the last "It's Alive" Old schooler graffiti show, we are getting ready for our next one. In late May, the Brooklyn Bridge wil turn 128 years old. Last year the tattoo shop did  $27 Brooklyn Bridge tattoos in honor of the 127th birthday. It was a huge fun success, and now with the gallery, we will be having an accompanying art show. Mixed media, with several different artists. Another limited edition tshirt., and tons of affordable prints and original art from local artists. We will keep you posted but here's some highlights from last year, and a huge piece Adam Suerte has been working on thats been revving us up.