Closing Bell: Painting Gentrification

Chances are most of us won't make it down to North Carolina to see this exhibit before it shuts down on September 12th, but we can see some of it in person. Greg Lindquist hails from North Carolina but has spent the last two years painting "the rapid gentrification and restructuring of Brooklyn's shore." Captured in oil paint: the Gowanus Canal and the destruction of the Revere Sugar Factory. Most interesting to him is when sections or flourishes of industrial spaces are left behind as shells for retail or residential purposes. "[The site] is preserved in a way that is unnatural ... in a way that goes against the way [the cranes] were used," he tells Indyweek. "They are functionless, they are a pure aesthetic, and it is kind of a fetishizing of these icons."
Brooklyn's Decaying Industrial Spaces to N.C. State [Indyweek]
Above: "Industry of Decay, Decay of Industry."