John Gordon Gauld work, and receive a commission art studio, more than two years, has been his family and work area, the water began to penetrate under the front door.
This is the night Sandy's arrival, two hours before high tide, flooded his neighbor, Red Hook, Brooklyn. Aged 35, Gauld presented his work in a corner of his studio, located in a van Brent Street storefront block coastline. Then, he turned off the breaker and left behind his paintings.
Unclear in the end how much affected by the storm swept through the former industrial neighborhood along the Brooklyn waterfront, including the green dot, Gowanus and Red Hook, is now home to many artists' studios. More than 200 have sought relief art support group, with more than a dozen have joined together to raise funds by showing their storm damaged works.
Mr. Gauld once soaked works will be on display in Red Hook Saturday night in the flooded Art Party, exhibitions and fund-raising activities, for artists by Sandy. Watch the performances is free, the proceeds of the sale of Red Hook Initiative, the initiative has resulted in the return to work near the artist and donations.
Storm difficult in her studio at 133 Imlay Street, has been burned, the 27-year-old artist Ž Beijing Enterprises Holdings, the organizers will hold an exhibition of unusual.
"This seems to be a way to get everyone a moment, and then move on, let's go," she said.
Her own work, including flood washed a series of underwater photos, holding Ms. noticed how damaged in the Performing Arts seems creepy way.
The not burnt clay bust by sculptor Antonio Bilotta circling flood mingle. The full-color mold spores dotted with fantastic canvas by Rachel Bullock, looks like a small amount of paint. The Gauld's Stained painting the ship taken an unexpected postdiluvian bitterness.
Ms. Beijing Enterprises Holdings, said: "It really feels like a flood artistic hand. "At the very least, you have to believe what happened, in a way it was more acceptable, because at least there are beautiful things out."
In addition to Red Hook, programs, and organizations to mobilize resources on behalf of artists.
Michael Royce, executive director of the New York Foundation for the Arts, said that his organization announced last week that the artists of the emergency relief fund of more than 200 applications have been received. He expected that this figure will increase in the coming weeks "ten times".
"We really do not know to this degree, until three or four months on the road, said Mr. Rolls-Royce." Artist's survival mode now they are trying to find a new place to live, they are on the phone with their insurance company, they mourn the loss of their work. "
His research team is planning to own monthly show Sandy damaged works, as well as new creative turmoil.
Some of the hardest-hit artists have found a return to the way they work.
Ray Smith, a sculptor to participate in Saturday's exhibition, suffered severe damage to his studio in a 19th-century ice house near the Gowanus Canal. He lost more than 200 sculptures, including a series of plywood trees have been ready for the upcoming show.
Detection lose in a telephone interview from Texas, where he continued to work, Mr. Smith said he hopes the program on Saturday, because it demonstrated ingenuity and creativity in New York City arts organizations to participate.
Weeks after the storm, he carefully read the wreckage with his assistant, to try to save them.
"It's like a real-time streaming then you combat mold, dry place," Mr. Smith explained. "No one wants to here is a victim, but after a certain period of time, you kind of crashes, you're screwed."
However, he said, flooded the exhibition, artists resources, never a positive. "
Mr. Gauld, submerged painter, was busy looking for a new place to live and work. But he also agreed that, in the long run, he will find, "The difficulty is inspiration."
When he can wade the morning after the storm, he found furniture and electrical subversion floating in the muck, books, paintings, and achieve spreading related. More like the earthquake floods ratio, "he recalls.
Mr. Gauld recent spared lucky timing: Some people just being sold, the safety of others in the Chelsea gallery. However, he counted a number of missing pieces, as well as thousands of dollars in computer equipment, materials and tools used in his paintings.
Mr. Smith, he has begun to work, and focus on a new still life, combined with relics from his abuse studio. Theme, he also raised the peeling walls, including corrosion of seawater and a loss for both the 1848 book about wildflowers tools. This book, which is a part of his grandmother, has come to separate binding and mildew growth.
"Its flowers are real," Mr. Gauld said, "and survived the storm."
