Closing Bell: Friends of Otto Neals Group Show at Tugboat Tea Company

Tugboat Tea Company will host a group show of artists who are friends with the Brooklyn-based artist Otto Neals or associated with Dorsey’s Gallery. The show, put on by community group PLG Arts, is timed to take place alongside a month-long retrospective of Neals’ work featuring over 200 of his paintings, sculptures, drawings and collages now under way at six galleries in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Neals, a largely self-taught artist, rose to became the head illustrator at the Brooklyn General Post Office. And, of course, he has had a prolific career creating works for himself. He has created several commissioned public works, including plaques for Harlem’s Walk of Fame, a mural in Kings County Hospital and a sculpture in Prospect Park’s Imagination Playground. He is associated with Prospect Lefferts Gardens’ Dorsey’s Gallery, the oldest continuously run black-owned gallery in the city.

Neals’ works will be shown at the Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba House and the Rush Arts Gallery in Manhattan and the following Brooklyn locations: the Skylight Gallery, Tabla Rasa Gallery, Dorsey’s Gallery and Medgar Evers College.

The opening reception at Tugboat Tea takes place Thursday, June 11, from 6 to 9 pm. Click here for for details. More information about Otto Neals and the month-long retrospective can be found here.

Photo by PLG Arts