YEARS OF ACCUMULATION Michael Syracuse
2020-09-02 12:50, 589 Myrtle Avenue, Clinton Hill 2021-08-26 07:46, 543 Fulton Street, Downtown Brooklyn 2021-05-20 19:11, 12 Hall Street, Clinton Hill 2021-10-15 18:20, 291 Dekalb Avenue, Clinton Hill 2021-10-29 17:22, 413 Park Avenue, Bedford Stuyvesant 2022-02-05 17:19, 805 Kent Avenue, Bedford Stuyvesant 2021-10-29 17:25, PS 157, 850 Kent Avenue, Clinton Hill 2021-01-31 15:30, PS 18, 101 Maujer Street, Williamsburg 2021-12-27 07:52. PS 03, 50 Jefferson Avenue, Bedford Stuyvesant 2021-12-27 08:06, 1205 Fulton Street, Bedford Stuyvesant 2021-10-30 14:57, 1079 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill 2021-07-29 14:30, 522 Fulton Street, Downtown Brooklyn 2021-11-06 15:15, 269 4th Avenue, Park Slope 2021-03-13 11:21, 260 Gold Street, Downtown Brooklyn 2021-11-06 15:20, 302 2nd Street, Park Slope 2021-02-28 09:12, Circa 1988 Lincoln Town Car, 130 St. Edwards Place, Fort Greene 2021-01-31 13:52, 1992 Cadillac Brougham, 231 Clifton Place, Bedford Stuyvesant 2020-05-09 16:58, 1972 Cadillac Coupe de Ville, 487 Willoughby Avenue, Bedford Stuyvesant 2021-05-16 17:46, Circa 1985 Chevrolet El Camino, 116 Putnam Avenue, Bedford Stuyvesant 2022-03-19 13:36, 1990 Chevolet Caprice, 224 Hall Street, Clinton Hill 2021-01-23 16:32, 1969 Cadillac Eldorado, 364 Gates Avenue, Bedford Stuyvesant 2020-12-14 08:11, Circa 1995 Mercury Grand Marquis, 345 Clinton Avenue, Clinton Hill 2021-01-02 11:07, 1987 Cadillac Coupe de Ville, 174 Nostrand Avenue, Bedford Stuyvesant 2021-08-01 14:15, 1989 Cadillac Brougham, 94 Lexington Avenue, Bedford Stuyvesant 2022-03-01 16:49, 1974 Buick Riviera, 384 Bridge Street, Downtown Brooklyn 2020-12-20 12:47, Circa 1988 Cadillac Brougham, 361 Clifton Place, Bedford Stuyvesant 2022-03-31 08:04, 1978 Cadillac Coupe de Ville, 295 Flatbush Avenue Ext, Downtown Brooklyn
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FORTYONE GENTRIFYING DUMPSTERS
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TWENTYNINE HANDBALL COURTS
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THIRTYTHREE SHIFTED FIRE CALL BOXES
Michael Syracuse: YEARS OF ACCUMULATION FXCollaborative Gallery 1 Willoughby Square Brooklyn, NY 11201 April - June 2022 Patterns, themes, and textures in the seemingly banal and mundane streetscape emerge. I’m drawn to the authentic, not to the outwardly beautiful. The hard to love. The layering over time. It is the making-do and the unintentional, not the planned that interests me. In contrast to the exceedingly intentional and holistically planned New York, I have an appreciation for the city’s evolution — its degradation, damaging, patching, painting, concealing, repairing, and its mending. I try to capture these instances in a factual and unmediated way. I then sort and catalog these commonalities in a compulsive routine until the patterns become clearer. The lockdown spurred my closer inspection and appreciation of my neighborhood, borough, and city. Not of the landmarks, but of the side streets, the in-between space, and the everyday textures that subconsciously define my Brooklyn.
Email: msyracuse@fxcollaborative.com Instagram: @michael_syracuse
Michael Syracuse, 2022 @michael_syracuse Inspired by various small books by Ed Ruscha