NORTH SALEM, N.Y. – Lift Trucks Project in Croton Falls is unveiling an exhibit of abstract paintings by French surrealist Christian Lemesle this weekend. The opening will take place from 3 to 6 p.m. at the gallery and artist space, which is located at 3 East Cross Road in the North Salem hamlet. Born on July…

VR Art Reduces Need For Opioids in NY Hospital In Spring 2017, Olivia Davis, Assistant Curator for the Montefiore Medical Center Fine Art Program and Collection, approached renowned artist Tom Christopher to create the first virtual reality experience specifically for pediatric cancer patients in the Bronx, NY. The hospital wanted to create a painting that patients “walk…

https://www.facebook.com/100064132745606/posts/799187155562369

https://westchester.news12.com/take-a-sip-of-history-with-a-side-of-inspiration-in-croton-falls

WESTCHESTERMAGAZINE.COM OCTOBER 4, 2017 http://www.westchestermagazine.com/Westchester-Magazine/October-2017/A-Different-Kind-of-Drive-By/  

NYCGO.COM FEBRUARY 17, 2017   http://www.nycgo.com/articles/tattooed-new-york-nyc-tattooing-history

TIME.COM MARCH 1, 2017   http://time.com/4645964/tattoo-history/    

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

The New Yorker   http://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/tattooed-new-york

FORBES.COM JANUARY 31, 2017

NEW YORK POST FEBRUARY 23, 2017 https://nypost.com/2017/02/23/love-tattoos-this-exhibit-has-300-years-of-ink/

Lift Trucks Project contributes to the “Tattooed New York” exhibit at the New York Historical Society.

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…

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

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….

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…

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…

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…

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…

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….

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…