High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Gowanus Memorial Artyard was a non-profit, artist-organized group that organized massive outdoor and indoor art exhibitions in Gowanus, Brooklyn in the early 1980s. Founded by artists and curators Michael Keene, Frank Shifreen, and George Moore, the shows featured monumental sculpture parks next to the Gowanus Canal. The two major shows attracted thousands of visitors during their brief runs in 1981 and 1982. The participants artists such as Carl Andre, Andy Warhol-sponsored Keith Haring,Christo, Linda and Terry Jamison, Vito Acconci, Nancy Holt, the controversial Chris Burden, sculptor James Nickel, and Fred Wilson.