Monday, August 10, 2009

Freight Street Gallery

I've been hoping for years that someone would put an art space in one of the many old factory buildings in Waterbury. It's been done in other cities with great success--The Nest in Bridgeport, for example.

One of the great things about using old factories for art spaces is that the roughness of the space allows artists and musicians to be relaxed. You don't have to worry about being too loud or messing up the woodwork.

Waterbury now has the Freight Street Gallery, on Freight Street which is shaping up to be a real hot spot for the city, thanks to Sin City across the street.

I checked out the gallery at the closing of the Steve Soklin/Larry Livolsi exhibit. I'd been seeing flyers and other mentions of the space for months, starting way back when it was being called Brass Monkey. Tracey O'Shaughnessy's article in the Republican-American got me finally motivated enough to actually visit the gallery.

There were more events at the gallery this weekend--the Fighting Cocks played there on Friday night, and a new exhibit opened on Saturday. My apologies for not having more info on either of those events; I wasn't able to go either night for a variety of reasons. However, here are some photos from closing of the Soklin/Livolsi exhibit:









2 comments:

Unknown said...

These are the beautiful pictures, i love it.
Thanks for posting....

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Jhon
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Anonymous said...

hello this is jason one of the owners of the gallery i just wanted to let you know i love the blog exept for one thing sin city has no affiliation with us in fact that club owes the city so much money its not even funny and acctualy ther would be less problems if the club did not exist i just want all to know sin city has done nothing and still does nothing to create and expand the art and music community in waterbury thank you so much and i remember steve soklin and larry livolsi show like it was yesterday great art pieces !!