List will link boro artists

A PAIR of Bronx-loving artists have created a web directory to help boost the borough’s burgeoning art scene.

The Bronx 200 — bx200.com — will serve as a database to connect Bronx-based artists to curators, collectors, gallerists and businesses, said Laura James (pictured), a co-founder who moved to West Farms from Brooklyn a decade ago.

“I realized that there were a lot of artists in the borough,” James said. “They’re really spread out, but they’re here.”

The 43-year-old painter partnered with urban landscape painter Valeri Larko on the project.

“We wanted it to be as simple as possible,” James said of the site, which features contact information and a short biography forf each artist.

The Bronx 200 focuses on visual artists, but the site also features a list of galleries, museums andan art-focused organizations.

“I hope that it encourages people to come to the Bronx to experien ence the changing environment,” sa said Walter Puryear of the MidBr Bronx Senior Citizens Council, wh which owns the historic Andrew Fr Freedman Home. “It will make it ea easier to access artists from the Br Bronx.”

The directory features several ce celebrated graffiti artists who got th their start in the northernmost bo borough, including John (C (CRASH) Matos and Fernando (C (Cope) Carlo.

Among the featured artists on theth site is Benjamin Petit, a photojournalistjou who has worked internationallyna for a number of publications,tio and is part of the team behindhin the Bronx Documentary Center.Ce