Roberta's is Expanding in Bushwick

Check out this exhibit about Bushwick before it was hipster heaven.

December 7 - 31, 2011Here I Am: Bushwick in the 1980s by Meryl Meisler, guest artist

Opening Reception: Thursday, December 8, 6-8 PMGallery Talk: Wednesday, December 14, 7-8 PMGallery Hours: Wednesdays - Sundays, 1-6 PM

Soho Photo: 15 White Street, NY, NY 10013 Soho Photo is located 3 block south of Canal St. between 6th Avenue and West BroadwayContact: Wayne Parsons, info@sohophoto.com or 212.662.5532Soho Photo Gallery is pleased to announce that Meryl Meisler is December’s guest exhibitor. Her show is entitled, Here I Am: Bushwick in the 1980s. When Meisler began teaching art in Bushwick in December 1981, she wondered, “Was the other art teacher killed?” Meisler explains, “Bushwick resembled a ghost town war zone. Scorched and seemingly forgotten since the ’77 blackout, Bushwick hit the skids. To me, Bushwick’s natural light was beautiful; kids were kids, vacant buildings whispered: Here I am, take my picture before I collapse. Using a plastic point and shoot and color slide film, I photographed walking from subway to school, through classroom windows and back again. The images, many forgotten in boxes for nearly 30 years, are a wink, quick sketches of the neighborhood’s people and places during a disparate decade. Revisiting to photograph Bushwick today, I feel like Jimmy Stewart’s character George Bailey coming home to Pottersville in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life.’ There’s been a paradigm shift. Burnt out Bushwick has become fertile ground for community activism and the arts.” See Meisler’s interview with Gabe Pressman on NBC:Bushwick: Brooklyn's Newest FrontierA special report by Senior Correspondent Gabe PressmanView the: http://tinyurl.com/497dypt