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Pearl Beads of Andrea Bergart

By Katarina Hybenova

Pearl Beads of Andrea Bergart

Pearl Beads of Andrea Bergart

By Katarina Hybenova

Pearl Beads of Andrea Bergart

By Katarina Hybenova

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“Brooklyn is so brown when compared to Manhattan,” says Andrea Bergart when leaning on the fence at a pier. Manhattan looks like a toy city; you could just reach and touch the plastic buildings. Brooklyn, on the other hand, looks like its humble brother. The wind is fierce; our hair is flying around; the seagulls shriek as they are flying around. There are strange places in New York, and the Brooklyn Army Terminal is certainly one of them.

Andrea lives in Ridgewood, but as an artist in residency at Chashama uses a subsidized studio in an enormous fortress of Brooklyn Army Terminal at Sunset…

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