Pin-Up Divas Survive the Decades
07/20/2005

Outpost, a new coffee shop and art gallery in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, announces the opening of its latest art exhibition, “The Women of the Paint Factory,” featuring photographs and mixed media works by Robert Lach. The show, at 1014 Fulton St. in Brooklyn, opens with a reception at 6 p.m. on July 22 and continues though August 31.

The photographs, printed in color from negative film, feature 1960’s pin-up posters of female models found hanging on the walls of an abandoned paint factory. Although the posters are clearly faded, tattered, and torn, the photographs capture their peculiar sense of innocence and strength. Still hanging on the walls where the factory workers once fantasized about them, they seem immortalized – as if they have transcended the industrial decay that surrounds them and been given a new life by the camera.

Outpost, opened in April, is the newest addition to the arts scene of the Clinton Hill/Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. Primarily a coffee shop, Outpost also features revolving exhibitions of the work of young up-and-coming local artists.

For more, call 718-636-1260.

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