Art Lab at Gowanus
Gowanus | Brooklyn, NY
About the Artist: Julia Whitney Barnes is a Brooklyn-based mixed media artist. Her site-specific mural, Canal Species (2008), is based on Gowanus Canal wildlife, including a duck, gull, heron, goose, egret, crabs, flounder, shrimp, mussels, killfish, jellyfish, and raccoon. By depicting canal wildlife, she stresses the possibilities for natural habitation of the canal region and a reversal of the canal’s reputation as a former factory dumping zone. She created the mural at her studio located in a large converted factory building along the Gowanus Canal. Julia Whitney Barnes earned her Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from Hunter College and Bachelor…