{"id":438536,"date":"2025-12-10T20:35:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/438536\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T20:35:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:35:24","slug":"giant-painted-nyc-storefronts-star-in-this-new-tribeca-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/438536\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Painted NYC Storefronts Star in This New Tribeca Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Yorkers rush past bodegas, take-out joints and dry cleaners a hundred times a week without really seeing them. But at “Pedestrian<\/a>,” the new exhibition by Brooklyn artist Charis Ammon at Sargent\u2019s Daughters<\/a> in Tribeca, those everyday facades get the kind of attention usually reserved for landmarks. A few of the paintings stretch nearly eight-by-twelve feet\u2014almost the size of the storefronts themselves\u2014so there\u2019s no chance of treating them like background noise.<\/p>\n

Ammon, who lives in Bushwick, has spent years thinking about what you notice when you move through a city on foot. Her first solo show was all about Houston\u2019s sidewalks and underpasses, imparting a sensibility that stayed with her. <\/p>\n

\u201cI was thinking a lot about the rhythm of your footsteps and this sort of meditative nature of going on a walk,\u201d Ammon told Time Out. \u201cEven though you\u2019re in a public space, there\u2019s the private mind.\u201d <\/p>\n

That mix of public and private and inner and outer inspires the scenes she returns to again and again.<\/p>\n

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\nPhotograph: Drake Wolf <\/p>\n

She often photographs a storefront for months, sometimes years, waiting for the right moment. A thrift store near her apartment became a long-term muse. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve walked by that place for over two years, taking pictures,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

Then, one partly cloudy afternoon, the window caught \u201ca little pizza slice of sky,\u201d framed by houseplants inside and the elevated J line behind it.\u00a0Suddenly, the scene felt different, as the plants, the sky and the train all folded into one moment.<\/p>\n

Other works lean into what Ammon calls \u201cdisruption,\u201d like Bodega Melt, the Bushwick shop with the flickering LED watermelon sign. \u201cDisruption in a window or on a surface speaks to story,\u201d she said. To her, those breaks, in the form of a shadow, a reflection or a smear of light, mirror the moments that interrupt our own routines and the ones that make us pay attention.<\/p>\n

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\nPhotograph: Courtesy of Charis Ammon and Sargent’s Daughters <\/p>\n

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The show\u2019s title isn\u2019t just about walking but about sharing the same ground-level view of the city. \u201cEveryone is a body that has to get from one place to the next,\u201d she said. \u201cI like that as an egalitarian way of thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her hope is simple: that seeing these massive paintings will nudge\u00a0people into noticing the real storefronts they pass every day. \u201cIf someone gets two to five minutes of present-mindedness, that\u2019s beautiful,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

“Pedestrian” runs December 12\u2013January 24 at Sargent\u2019s Daughters in Tribeca.<\/p>\n

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