UNGLOVED BROOKLYN: Photographs by Alexander Feinstein
UNGLOVED BROOKLYN: Photographs by Alexander Feinstein will be on display in the Woodbury Public Library’s Gallery Space.
UNGLOVED BROOKLYN is a project started by Woodbury resident Alex Feinstein soon after the COVID-19 lockdown in New York City. On daily walks with his wife around the Brooklyn neighborhood where they lived at the time, Feinstein noticed scores of discarded latex gloves littering the sidewalks and streets, and throughout Prospect Park. These gloves were nothing less than rubbish destined for landfills and, sadly, our oceans. But upon closer look, he saw something more, as objects of strange beauty in all their varied forms and colors, and took to photographing them just as he had found them, without ever touching, manipulating, arranging, or rearranging a single glove. The project evolved into hundreds of pictures share on an Instagram account, @unglovedBKLYN, not only as a form of artistic expression but also to document that especially grim time. UNGLOVED BROOKLYN is on display during Library open hours.
Born and raised on Long Island, Alex Feinstein graduated with a degree in English from SUNY Purchase and moved to Brooklyn, NY long before it became a hipster mecca. At the height of the pandemic, he and his wife Cara happily moved to Woodbury, CT. Alex has enjoyed a long career as a private investigator, serving as vice president of an agency in New York. Having studied with the renowned editor Gordon Lish, he is also the author of many short works of fiction that have appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, among other magazines and literary journals. Photography is another passion. No stranger to focusing his lens on scenic vistas in his worldwide travels, Alex’s eye focused instead on discarded latex gloves and their juxtaposition to the urban environment at a time when travel was curtailed. UNGLOVED BROOKLYN is his first exhibition.