Art students learn how to create ‘Flower Power’
“Flower Power,” a 1960s expression popularized by hippies and all but forgotten over the years, is making a comeback, at least in the Brooklyn art world. Dozens of young students, inspired by Georgia O’Keefe, painted their own versions of the legendary artist’s study of a flower for an exhibition mounted by the owners of The Art Room, a school-gallery in Bay Ridge.
Called “Flower Power,” the exhibition took place on April 27 at The Art Room, at 8710 Third Ave., attracting a steady stream of visitors throughout the day. The young artists, who take classes after school in The Art Room, ranged in age from nursery school students to 12-year-old junior high kids.
Leigh Holliday Brannan, owner and head teacher, and her mother-in-law, Mary Immaculata Brannan, a teacher, lovingly displayed their students’ work to best advantage, framing and hanging the paintings as if they were being featured in an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “We’re very proud of them,” Holliday Brannan told the Brooklyn daily Eagle.