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As Co-op Galleries Wane, Local Artists Leave iur ManhattanContinuedremains important even if nothing is sold from the show.ONE GALLERY LEFTAnd what of Henry Hicks Gallery, the only gallery to remain? Dan Goldman, President, says %u201c Of course, we always need more members, but we're still alive and well, and open; at present Thursday through Sunday, and now have a two-person show\him how the upcoming closings would affect them, he answered that of course a group of similar shops arc traditionally reputed to bring each other business, so the more in ore area the better-but there is no way to tell what the future will bring. They will certainly try to stay open. He mentioned the long-term construction next door as a problem which had made it dirricult and unattractive to walk down that particular block. He hopes the Atlantic Antic in October will bring many visitors.Some interesting comments from the collector%u2019s viewpoint came from Bill Humber, who told me he had spent%u201c thousands of dollars in the past few years\the Atlantic Galleries. %u201c There is a market\sorry to see them give up. It%u2019s the galleries themselves-they did not exert themselves enough to work together and present themselves in a new way. I would like to see Gallery 91 remain as a community gallery, with community support. It would be a valuable resource%u201d . He is a native Brooklynite, and feels that Brooklyn is large enough to have a gallery center of its own. \ting experience%u201d he went on. %u201c You think you know what life is about-you think you know reality-- and then you go to the galleries, and you get involved with another world; the world or art\Confirmation of the idea of a market for art existing in Brooklyn was presented by Dick Lethem who, unlike many of the artists, is a mature painter who had already had numerous solo shows when he joined The Sixth Estate. He said that he had sold more work from his two Atlantic Avenue exhibits than from earlier Manhattan shows-\from drawings at $150, up topaintings at $600. It%u2019s true that except for three sales, the buyers had known me before and knew my work, but seeing the shows did crystallize their decision to buy. Atlantic Avenue was certainly a good experience for me.%u201dON VERGE OF NEW PHASE Ironically, if the galleries had been able to continue, they seemed to be on the verge of a new phase, one which could have been exciting for the Brooklyn brownstone community. An ambitious program was drawn up recently by a group of representatives from all the galleries, and put into grant form by Nancy Steinson. It was submitted to the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of New York. As they envisioned it, the galleries would have become a cultural center, with improved flooring making it possible to have dance groups and theatre performances. The Sixth Estate would have become a graphics center, with a press available to community people at nominal fees; seminars and lectures would be held, and workshops in drawings, pring-makiing and children%u2019s art. The galler- Paul Occhiogrosso Photoies would pool their resources and consolidate efforts to upgrade their facilities and schedule exciting exhibits and happenings.What a nitv that this was not all done earlier; in time to make it happen, instead of what appears to be; a reaction to the threats of closing presented by the pressure of rising rents, rising utilities, and pressures againts sales of the inflation-recession spiral.Surely the brownstone belt of Brooklyn deserves some galleries of its own. As I sec it, however, one of the principal problems in looking to Manhattan. Manhattan reviewers and will never come herc--at least, not until we no longer need them. The audience was--and is-Brooklyn. But just when Brooklyn will be ready to support her own art galleries remains to be seen.It should also be rembered that when the co-ops of Manhattan%u2019s * East Tenth Street folded, co-ops later surfaced in SoHo, and the movement i^ stronger than ever. 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