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21/2/2002

Bettina Johae

Modern Culture at Gershwin Hotel, New York

bedford avenue - brooklyn - ny

In "bedford avenue - brooklyn - ny," Bettina Johae explores the full length of Bedford Avenue from Greenpoint to Sheepshead Bay. In this two-channel- video-and-color-photography project that reveals the vividly multi-faceted character of Brooklyn and its many different neighborhoods and communities, Ms. Johae captures the essence of the visual richness of a single street, traversing an entire metropolitan American borough.

Consisting of views from a round-trip bicycle ride taken by Ms. Johae in November 2001, this project also questions the subjective perspectives that individuals may have of a street functioning as a cross-section of a large, vital municipality. Is Bedford Avenue the main drag of hipsters, day-trippers, and evening adventurers? Is it the historical center of the Orthodox Jewish community of Williamsburg? Is it an artery running through Bedford-Stuyvesant? Or, is it merely a street in this German artist's newly adopted neighborhood?

In "bedford avenue - brooklyn - ny," two video monitors simultaneously show Ms. Johae's bicycle ride: one from Bedford Avenue's southern end and the other from its northern end. The accompanying row of color c-print photographs is taken from video stills depicting divergent parts of the avenue (i.e., residential neighborhoods of different classes and ethnic groups; industrial areas; vacant zones; agglomerations of car repair garages, grocery stores, & churches; and other features that are revealed according to the artist's personal perspective).

Ms. Johae, a Berlin-born and Chicago-, Berlin-, & New York-educated artist and architect, is currently a DAAD* scholar based in New York City. Her designs for museums and pavilions have won first prize in juried competitions in Germany and Switzerland.

"bedford avenue - brooklyn - ny" is Ms. Johae's first exhibition at Modern Culture At The Gershwin Hotel. Ms. Johae's photographs will be also be shown in Modern Culture At The Gershwin Hotel's exhibition booth, #9938, at The Armory Show 2002, Pier 90 (12th Avenue & 50th Street), New York, from February 22 - 25, 2002.

"bedford avenue - brooklyn - ny" is co-sponsored by the Germany Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

22 February 2002, 9:00 to 11:00 am, Morning Coffee Reception

Gallery hours for this exhibition will be Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm.

For further information, please call Barry Neuman at 212.213.8289.

Modern Culture At The Gershwin Hotel
3 East 27th Street
New York, New York 10016
(between Fifth and Madison Avenues) in the Madison Square District, on the ground floor.
212.213.8289 tel
212.213.8743 fax
Subway: 6 to 28th Street & Park Avenue South; N & R to 28th Street & Broadway.

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