In the summer of 2023, we installed a community notice box on the side of the North Brooklyn Community Fridge at N15th and Berry St which is a plaza called Bankers Anchor and started showing art in it.
Erica Baum’s new work in the Box at Banker’s Anchor is a sequence of photographs from her "City" series called “Shapes for Plumes”.
"Vernal" by Erica Baum [in the form of an inkjet print]
“National Grid Greenpoint Geese” by Erica Baum [in the form of an inkjet print]
“Partial Eclipse” by Erica Baum [in the form of an inkjet print]
“Filigree” by Erica Baum [in the form of an inkjet print]
“Redbook” by Erica Baum [in the form of an inkjet print]
“Display” by Erica Baum [in the form of an inkjet print]
Hunter Urban, Photography
" Over the past few weeks, I have been changing the drawing at Banker’s Anchor once a week.
I began to take apart the image of the Venus Figure in a series of ceramic planters that I made a couple years ago. I took the top of the form off and the plant completes the shape. For the closing of this series of drawings, a few of these planters will be installed at Banker’s Anchor." -- Becky Kinder
Becky Kinder, Drawings and Ceramics
Ryan Dziedziech, Selection from the series “Merfolk”
Christina Barrera “I’m Not Looking For Work, But I Wanna Talk To You!” Riso print on paper, (2025)
Corinne Spencer:Splendor is an immersive multimedia project which uses photo, video, and sound to explore the restorative connection between Black women and the natural world, re-envisioning the historically violent relationship between Black bodies and the American landscape as one steeped in romance, sensuality, and the spiritual introspection of solitude. The project began during the height of the Black Lives Matter protests as a critical counterpoint to the onslaught of images of Black death and trauma that flood our cultural consciousness. Imbued with a sense of magic and mysticism, Splendor beacons the viewer beyond narratives of suffering and into a world where healing, self-recovery, and reunion with life is possible.
Marie Lorenz, Floating World #7/8 (2024), Ink on Kozo paper, 24" x 30"
Bankers Anchor Cabbage Night Animation Screening includes
Anna Tsouhlarakis, UNFORTUNATELY, YOU CAN'T SMUDGE OFF THE STENCH OF COLONIZATION, Inkjet print, 2024
Curtis Talwst Santiago, The Part Can’t Be Done, 2021, Print, 24” x 18”
Ali Fitzgerald, Edgar on the Beach, comic
April Childers, Soft Spot, 2024, Epoxy clay, acrylic paint, napkins
April Childers, “Fuck Me, I Can’t Take a Joke” 2024, Canvas print from the Artist’s original painting 25.5 x 17.5”
Original Painting “Mountain Taffy” acrylic on canvas, 48’x36”, 2020
April Childers, Sea Sick Duck, Version #3, 2024, Canvas print from artist’s painting, raw and coffee-dyed canvas on cork board, 22.72” x 22”
Becky Kinder, Untitled Venus Figure, 2023, Pencil on Paper, 16.5” x 20.5”
“In early January, I had that dream in which, I am lying in a stream, caught between two currents, with long tapering plants floating beneath me. My loins are white; I have the impression that they are also my mother’s it’s the same body.”
Annie Ernaux “I Remain in Darkness” 1997, translated from the French by Tanya Leslie, 1999
Becky Kinder, Untitled Venus Figure, 2024, Pencil on Paper, 19" x 24.5"
“Sister-/Show me Eternity, and/I will show/you Memory-/Both in one package lain/And lifted/back again-/Be Sue, while/I am Emily-/Be next, what/you have ever/been, Infinity”
Emily Dickinson, letter to her sister-in-law Susan Huntington Dickinson, 1880s
Becky Kinder, Untitled Venus Figure, 2023, Pencil on Paper, 16.5” x 20.5”, Lambsquarters drawn from life in a Bushwick Tree Bed
“105B /like the hyacinth in the mountains that shepherd men with their feet trample down and on the ground the purple flower/147/someone will remember us I say even in another time”
Two fragments from Sappho c 630BC, Translated from the Greek by Anne Carson, 2002
Becky Kinder, Untitled Venus Figure, 2024, Pencil on Paper, 18.5” x 22.5”
“My eyes are shut. I am pure unconsciousness. They already cut the umbilical cord. I am unattached to the universe. I don’t think, but I feel it. With my eyes blindly seek the breast: I want thick mill. No one taught me to want. But I already want. I am lying with my eyes open looking at the ceiling. Inside is the darkness. And I that pulses already forms. There are sunflowers. The is tall wheat/is.”
Clarice Lispector, Agua Viva, 1973 Translated by Stefan Tobler, 2012
Becky Kinder, Untitled Venus Figure, 2024, Pencil on Paper, 18.5” x 22.5”
“A child said “What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands/ How could I answer the child?/ I do not know what it is any more than he./And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut/hair of graves.”
Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, 1855
Becky Kinder, Untitled Venus Figure with Greek Vessels, 2024, Pencil on Cut Paper
“They give birth astride a grave.”
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, 1952
In 2024, we re-named North 15th Street to Bankers Anchor, a plaza we created and maintained through the Covid Pandemic and beyond. Community members and elected officials NY Assembly Member Emily Gallagher, City Council Member Lincoln Restler, NY State Senator Kristen Gonzalez unveiled the new sign.
Allison Evans, Blow-Up, 2024, Water Color Pastel and Oil Stick
Allison Evans, Untitled, 2024, Water Color Crayon and Oil Stick
Carlos Rigau, The Secret History of Comic Sans, 2024, A Collage, an Image and a Ritual
Melissa Brown, 2023, Setting Goals with the Quarter Phases of the Moon, with a screen printed moon phases calendar print
Catalina Tuca, Untitled, 2023, Chewing gum, paper, dates, pins
Nikki Henderson, Tropicsueño, 2023, Photo weavings
Karina Cunningham, Deluge of Movement, 2023, 36”x36” plaster, water color pastel, ink, collage