An 820-foot stretch of a Brooklyn street will soon become a canvas for 10 artists, as a way to ease the effects of a multiyear construction project.
In an initiative sponsored by Greenland Forest City Partners, the developer behind Pacific Park Brooklyn – formerly known as Atlantic Yards – Dean Street between Vanderbilt Avenue and Carlton Avenue in Prospect Heights will feature 10, 10-by-40-foot murals, to be painted on one day, Aug. 15, during a street fair.
“We wanted to do something visual, that gives a little visual reprieve to the neighborhood, that turns this giant ugly wall into something special,” said Mike Perry, the Brooklyn artist who, as the “artist in residence,” is curator of the project.
“It’s really about big, bold graphic kind of statements,” Mr. Perry, 34, added of the work he chose, from the artists Morgan Blair, Eddie Perrote, Josh Cochran, Archie Lee Coates IV, Hisham Akira Bharoocha, Thomas Colligan, Jennifer Maravillas, Naomi Reis and Edward Ubiera. “It’s massive; it’s almost daunting to look at,” he said of the wall, which covers the partial construction of a 22-acre site, and will be up for at least three years.
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