Multiple (Brooklyn) Fudgasms at Bond Street Gallery Thursday Night!

Join us at the inaugural opening of sister art spaces, the Bond Street Gallery and the Bond Street Annex at 297 Bond Street, between Union and Sackett this Thursday (March 27^th) from 6pm – 9pm! The galleries will serve up delicious, diverse imagery dripping in local color with their exhibits “Coney Island of the Heart” and the “James White Photographs”; while Brooklyn Fudge serves up the chocolate version of the same.

“Coney Island of the Heart” features the work of Harold Feinstein, Bruce Davidson, Bruce Gilden, Sid Grossman, Harold Roth, and Henri Silberman. “It celebrates the history of Coney Island as the playground of the working-class melting pot through exuberant and singular images of the Jews, Italians, African-Americans, Russians, Puerto Ricans, and others who have played there.”

Ironically enough, Brooklyn Fudge happens to be made in a working-class melting pot as well, and was actually transformed from the original Virginia recipe, to one of Brooklyn origin, steps away from Bond Street Gallery, while I was living on Douglass between Bond and Hoyt. The people who played at Coney Island sound a lot like some of the early Brooklyn Fudge Tasters and Makers who made Brooklyn Fudge the fusion it is now: the Jews (Rebecca Berlant, Brian Taylor, Susan Taylor, Michael Silverman), Italians (Peg Simone), African-Americans (Priscilla Maddox, Claudia Jemmott), Russians (Igor and Andrei from my old Bond Street storage cube), Puerto Ricans (Juan Vasquez, Josh Diaz, Letty Colonio), and let’s not forget my favorite Hoosier, Barbara Richard, Silicon Valley Girl, Gretta Perlmutter, Cubano Jovani Remior, medio-Cubana y Mexicana Mary Abramson, all 900 of the roommates and people I’ve crashed with in the past two years, and last, but certainly not least, my Africano Cien Percent, Berber Cien Percent, Musulmano Cien Percent, Amrane Boussaid from Algiers, Algeria.

I’m so proud we’ve made an un-inbred product, one truly born of fusion! I’m proud to serve it in a setting that couldn’t be more celebratory of Brooklyn, and what it is, which the work in this exhibit so masterfully depict.

AND, AND, if this is not enough yumminess….did I mention the James White photographs feature eight Victoria Secret’s Models? How can you miss this?