Rowan Abass is no. 31 of 200 free oil-painted portraits from life of Southern Brooklyn residents, with in-the-moment recorded oral histories in 2023.  4.5 hours, oil on canvas-paper, 18x24".

To learn more and to support this community and crowd-funded effort, visit: www.freeportraitproject.org

Housing and Cabbage with rice in Sheepshead Bay - no.31 Rowan Abass

Kelly Carroll, of Bay Ridge, and Executive Director of the Atlantic Ave BID, is no. 32 of 200 free oil-painted portraits from life of Southern Brooklyn residents, with in-the-moment recorded oral histories in 2023.  4.5 hours, oil on canvas-paper, 18x24".

To learn more and to support this community and crowd-funded effort, visit: www.freeportraitproject.org

It all started with Lighthouses - No. 32, Kelly Carroll

Roxanne Warrick is no. 35 of 200 free oil-painted portraits from life of Southern Brooklyn residents, with in-the-moment recorded oral histories in 2023.  4.5 hours, oil on canvas-paper, 18x24".

To learn more and to support this community and crowd-funded effort, visit: www.freeportraitproject.org

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Bay Ridge Rocks - Roxanne Warrick, no. 35

200 portraits in one year of a place through its People.  

Oil-painted portraits from life with in-the-moment recorded oral histories, given for free to quietly upend a tradition of portraiture and recorded history by giving these to people from all walks of life. #WeAreSouthBrooklyn To learn more and support this work, visit: www.freeportraitproject.org

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