By SARAH GARLAND

The New York Times
August 19, 2006 Saturday
A Home for a Group of Artists in Search of a Family
BYLINE: By SARAH GARLAND
SECTION: Section B; Column 3; Metropolitan Desk; Pg. 2

A Home For a Group of Artists

At first glance, it could have been any art opening in any converted warehouse in any hip neighborhood in the city. Dressed in ragged T-shirts, homemade jewelry and horn-rimmed glasses, the crowd at a nonprofit art gallery in Queens called Local Project sipped Coronas while contemplating a sculpture made of Band-Aids and a video installation of a Muslim artist shoving bacon into his mouth.
But a closer look at the people gathered at Local Project in Long Island City one recent Saturday night revealed a different crowd than the sort usually assembled at art galleries in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, or the Lower East Side.