Brooklyn Bestiary: An Exhibit

An exhibit of prints by Lisa Studier opens today the Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Branch at Grand Army Plaza. Her subjects are the animals living right here in Brooklyn, which go sadly unnoticed by the great majority of (human) residents. How could I not be interested? The natural world is everywhere, we have only to learn how to look. Lisa has been looking.

I happen to know Lisa, and have purchased one of her prints, so I am not impartial here. She works with woodblocks and uses the atypical reduction printing method, which she describes better than I can.

Brooklyn Bestiary is up until May 30. If you’re in the neighborhood, do visit (and then perhaps go looking in Prospect Park across the street for some of the very animals represented). If you’re not in the ‘hood, check out her site. Like all non-digital art, of course, there’s really no substitution for the thing itself.