Jamie Courville & Chris Reynolds have been making companion pieces to compliment Gowanus Current for several years. Here are some examples.

Grotto

South Brooklyn Casket Company bricks, video and sound, branch from paulownia tree, dried moss. On display for Gowanus Open Studios 2024.

Drift

Drift was an exhibition of multimedia artworks centered around the transformation of the Gowanus neighborhood. It was a celebration and a goodbye, an acknowledgement of the end of an era. On view at the Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse in September, 2022.

Bricks, candles, seed pods, audio recording

Bricks from the now-demolished South Brooklyn Casket Company on Union Street and candles from long-time Gowanus manufacturer Crusader Candle on Nevins Street form a shrine to an era in the neighborhood that has come to an end. Visitors were invited to leave their own voice messages which were added to a recording that played periodically from the shrine.

Four-channel video installation, 7:39 minutes

Multi-channel video installation examining the physical transformation of Gowanus, Brooklyn. Marking the moment in time before a major rezoning was finalized, it compares the past and present landscapes of Gowanus, inviting the audience to consider what is valuable in a neighborhood, and who gets to decide.

Color slides, slide projector, screen, furniture

Images viewed with a vintage slide projector and screen show a Gowanus that no longer exists. The photographs are in fact only a few years old, highlighting how the neighborhood has seen decades’ worth of change in a very short time.

Gowanus Reflection

Gowanus Reflection was a series of photographs taken from video still frames captured during the making of Gowanus Current on display throughout the neighborhood at the same locations they were originally recorded. The self-guided, site specific exhibition was up from October 29th - November 15th, 2020.