ARTIST STATEMENT
Canadian artist David Eustace exhibits his canal-dipped paintings at the Brooklyn Artists Gym Gallery. Concurrent with the exhibition, Eustace offers free boat tours of the Gowanus Canal, where the work was made, and where visitors can experience the tidal canal for themselves.

The exhibition revolves around four large paintings that were hung in the canal at three-month intervals. Each canvas was primed beforehand with compositions made from symbols, notations, & references used to account for and keep track of time. Raw iron filings were used in each work, to help develop the central image.

After the canvas was removed to the studio, each canvas was marked again. The time and date of each high and low tide (120 in all) was written at more or less at the height the respective tide occurred.

These works document rhythms that underwrite our existence - tides, the spinning of the earth; the exhibition focuses the viewer's attention on these rhythms, and asks them to consider their relationship. Visit the artist's website at www.projectforcanal.com .

This event is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC).

Self-Guided Canoe Trips with the Gowanus Dredgers: 1-5pm, Saturday and Sunday May 17-18. No reservations needed. Free.

Boat Tours with Ludger Balan and the Urban Divers: 6pm and 7:30pm Saturday, May 17. Limited seats; first come, first serve by RSVP to projectforcanal@gmail.com, or visit projectforcanal.com. Free.

ARTIST STATEMENT
"Hey, I got advanced brain cancer - my system kicks me in the butt and screams: Be your authentic self or you are going to die sooner not later. Any questions?"

The With My Wild Heart show features new paintings and sculptures that incorporate light. My style is a unique kind of visual storytelling.

I orientate myself between the styles of Mark Rothko and Jean-Michel Basquiat, but there is also Miro and Kandinsky.

My work as an artist is to supply language that is unpretentious and allow stories to be told without using tried-out recipes. Once the visuals are created, I become a viewer just like anybody else and surrender to the unique response that each visual solicits.

The Rockers & Posers show features contemporary artists focusing their talent on portraits. Media represented in this group show include video, photography, illustration, painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking and alternative media.