Summer is not over! We're happy to announce an extended season for the Wonder Gallery and the Coney Island History Project. Our free exhibits will be open Saturdays and Sundays from 1-7 PM through October 11th.
View this season's special exhibits curated by Charles Denson and Amanda Deutch in our Wonder Gallery, a collaboration with Parachute Literary Arts. Wonder Gallery tees and signed copies of Charles Denson's Wild Ride: A Coney Island Roller Coaster Family and Amanda Deutch's New York Ironweed are available in our gift shop. Read more about Amanda's book here.
Many thanks to Brooklyn Eagle, BK Reader, and Brooklyn Paper for featuring the debut of the Wonder Gallery.
Hosted by Deno's Wonder Wheel Park, the Wonder Gallery is located inside the Coney Island History Project on West 12th Street at the entrance to Deno's Wonder Wheel, just a few steps off the Boardwalk.
Featured Exhibit: The Coney Island Zine Machine
The Coney Island Mini Zine Machine is curated by Amanda Deutch and features a revolving series of original art designed to fit into a one-inch capsule, creating a “microcosmic gallery” inside of a gumball machine.
The Mini Zine Machine now features limited-edition risograph scrolls created by New York City artists Joana O Leary and meghan forbes. The scroll inside of each capsule contains one line from a poetic story about a fox catching a chicken.
“These little zines were created with the Wonder Gallery’s Mini Zine Machine in mind,” said the artists. "We wrote a text with ten lines, but each capsule contains only one line of the text. Three lucky ‘winners’ will get a bonus capsule with all ten lines in one!”
Photography: Anders Goldfarb's Coney Island
Brooklyn born Anders Goldfarb’s photographs of Coney Island off-season in the late 1970s and early 1980s are moody and revealing portraits of residents and visitors, urban decay, and Boardwalk old-timers hanging on during a transitional period of the neighborhood.
His photographic tools are a Rollieiflex and a Leica and all of his photographs were shot with black and white film. Anders has been creating documentary photography for the past 40 years and has exhibited nationally and internationally. This is the first time Anders' photographs are being shown in Coney Island.
More Exhibits at the Coney Island History Project
Also on view at the Coney Island History Project are historic artifacts, photographs, maps, ephemera and films of Coney Island's colorful past. Visitors are invited to take free souvenir photos with "Cy," the Spook-A-Rama Cyclops, and Coney Island's only original Steeplechase horse from the legendary ride that gave Steeplechase Park its name.
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