(video by Dallas Athent)

Deborah Brown is known in Bushwick for many reasons. Not only she is an accomplished artist, a Community Board 4 member, and a huge supporter of many community causes, she has co-founded one of (and later ran on her own) Bushwick’s premier art spaces, Storefront Bushwick. Recently she expanded Storefront Bushwick from the original space on 16 Wilson Ave to an epic, vast gallery spot on 324 Ten Eyck street, naming it Storefront Ten Eyck. Brown’s own industrial-inspired paintings comfortably complement the surrounding warehouses in a way that’s almost too good to be true. You gotta hand it to this woman – she’s done a lot. You go, girl!