Portrait of George Sandstrom - CHiPS Guest and Painter Dancer lined by lampposts and new

lined by lampposts and new trees

Michael James Freedman is a Gowanus-based artist whose expressive

and she is somehow able to move in a way that just doesn't seem possible

Anant’s kinda tall for the chair he sits in and there are just too many musicians for the stage

making her own way

Portrait of George Sandstrom - CHiPS Guest and Painter Dancer lined by lampposts and newI met George on the line at CHiPS. He is a former house painter who is now working to get his life together. He lived on the streets for a few years, but now has a room in an apartment. At one point, he said to me "If I could tell you one thing about being homeless is Don't give up. Only because There's Always Fate." This piece is part of my upcoming exhibition The Faces of CHiPs What if God lived in Gowanus? a series of studies and portraits of the