New York Times – A Curator Goes with Her Gut
In selecting the work that appears in “Cause and Affection,” the current show at Lift Trucks Project, Kara Lenkeit, an independent curator, visited about two dozen artists’ studios and galleries throughout the Hudson River Valley and New York City. The resulting exhibition fills the 2,500-square-foot converted factory space here with more than 60 works by…
The New York Times – A Quirky Marriage of Art and Text
By BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO Right by the train station in Croton Falls is an old factory______ that once serviced forklifts and trucks. Today it houses artists’ studios and an exhibition space — not so much a gallery as a place where artists and independent curators can put up temporary exhibits. It is called Lift Trucks Project….
Gary Lichtenstein: Master Screen Printer at Lift Trucks Project
Silk Screen Prints Reopen a Heavy-Equipment Factory, By SUSAN HODARA, New York times Visitors to the exhibition” From a Factory Floor: Screen Print Collaborations by Master Printermaker Gary Linchtenstein” the inaugural show at the new Lift Trucks Project, might be hard-pressed to imagine the place filled with 8,000-pound forklifts. Comprising three artists’ studios and a large exhibition…
See Art on the Go at This Drive-By Gallery
WESTCHESTERMAGAZINE.COM OCTOBER 4, 2017 http://www.westchestermagazine.com/Westchester-Magazine/October-2017/A-Different-Kind-of-Drive-By/
The Huffington Post
Lift Trucks Project contributes to the “Tattooed New York” exhibit at the New York Historical Society. ARTS & CULTURE Weird That Thomas Edison Kind Of Invented The Tattoo Gun, No? So much cooler than the electric light bulb. 12/26/2016 01:54 pm ET | Updated Dec 26, 2016 Thomas Edison is often billed as America’s greatest…
Tattoo You: A History of Tattooing in New York City
NYCGO.COM FEBRUARY 17, 2017 http://www.nycgo.com/articles/tattooed-new-york-nyc-tattooing-history
Goings Out About Town – Tattooed New York
The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/tattooed-new-york
Tattooing was Illegal in New York City Until 1997
Smithsonian.com February 28, 2017 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/tattoos-were-illegal-new-york-city-exhibition-180962232/ Tattooed New York On View at the New-York Historical Society until April 30th. 170 Central Park West, NY, NY 10024
See Rare Images From the Early History of Tattoos in America
TIME.COM MARCH 1, 2017 http://time.com/4645964/tattoo-history/
Indie Star Review
A century of ink: Tattoo exhibit in North Salem Michelle Falkenstein, For The Journal News A review “Of Pirates, Mermaids and True Love: 100 Years of Tattoo Art” (Sept. 21-Nov. 12)” at the Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden
New Museum Exhibit Will Explore 300 Years Of Tattooing In New York City
FORBES.COM JANUARY 31, 2017 https://bit.ly/3j1hYPi
Art in America
David Ebony, Managing Editor at Art in America Magazine visits Lift Trucks Project exhibit, The Unknowning Hand.
300 years of New York tattoos: From Native Americans to beauty queens
BBC.COM FEBRUARY 10, 2017 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38926595
The Magazine Antiques
Lift Trucks Project contributes to the “Tattooed New York” exhibit at the New York Historical Society.
Lift Trucks Curator Awarded NEA Grant
A conversation with Pam Hart.
Chronogram Magazine
Mike Cockrill Bio, 2015 Classically trained at the most traditional of art schools, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Mike Cockrill launched one shocking assault after another on the art world with his early work in the 1980s. From the psychosexual mayhem of his 1982 graphic novel The White Papers, to his brash cartoon…
New York Observer: “Body Electric” Showcases Tattoo Art
Getting your current squeeze’s name needled into your butt when you’ve had a few too margaritas has become a rite of passage for a whole new generation, but it’s also become a well-recognized, even revered, art form, as the variety and quality of the work currently on view at the Ricco/Maresca Gallery in Chelsea shows….
Love Tattoos? This exhibit has 300 years of ink.
NEW YORK POST FEBRUARY 23, 2017 https://nypost.com/2017/02/23/love-tattoos-this-exhibit-has-300-years-of-ink/
Bedford Record/Pound Ridge Review
The Town newspaper covered the opening of “Pirates, Mermaids and True Love: 100 Years of Tattoo Art”
The Daily Voice Previews the Show
Pirates, Mermaids and True Love: 100 Years of Tattoo Art, an upcoming exhibit at Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden.
Inked Magazine: Body Electric-An Artistic History of Tattoos
How often do you pass someone on the street with tattoos and stop to think Wow, tattoos have come a long way in the last 100 years? Well, if you don’t, now is the time to start. Margot Mifflin, author of Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo and curator of the…
The Brill Building Project
NEW YORK (AP) – Two painters are temporarily working out of an empty storefront at the landmark Brill Building, allowing thousands of passing pedestrians to watch them create scenes of Times Square. Andy Hammerstein and Tom Christopher are painting each weekday until July 17. The artists, who are known for their New York cityscapes, have…
North Salem Daily: Lift Trucks Project Lifts Spirits With Tattoo Art
By Katherine Pacchiana 10/06/11 NORTH SALEM, N.Y. – Tattoo flash art was a 20th century technique, popular at carnivals and amusement parks. Think of “Mom” in a heart or Popeye the Sailor Man. Describing the current exhibit at the Lift Trucks Project, gallery owner Tom Christopher explains that flash art was classical and highly traditional. Favorites…
Wonders of Westchester
The Photography Exhibit: “Wonders of Westchester” was an incredible success with a great turnout of photographers and photo fans. See photos below. Click on the image below to advance the slideshow. For more info call Bobbe Stultz at Westchester Land Trust 914.241.6346 x22. See photos of opening.