If you happen to find yourself at Nevins Street between Douglass and Degraw Streets in Gowanus, Brooklyn, amid all the new construction is a family history. That history is displayed through photos.
It’s the work of Brooklyn-based artist Demarcus McGaughey, who took old black and white photos of his family and transformed them into colorful artworks.
“Some of them are digitally colored, some are colored with a high fluid acrylic paint, and then some pieces have actually fabrics from my grandmother’s quilt collection,” McGaughey said.
McGaughey’s work, called “Kindred,” is part of a mural maze of sorts through the streets of Gowanus, where residential development is coinciding with
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