MARK BORTHWICK opens 'IS MY NATURE MY ONLY WAY' with a performance, at the new alternative East Village storefront gallery, The Journal Gallery, June 15, 2006 - thejrnl.com

artist & musician DAVID ARON plays percussion, MARK BORTHWICK opens, 'IS MY NATURE MY ONLY WAY',
The Journal Gallery,
June 15, 2006

MARK BORTHWICK gave a brief reading, first. opening performance, of his 'IS MY NATURE MY ONLY WAY',
The Journal Gallery,
June 15, 2006

a young guest percussionist, MARK BORTHWICK opening performance, 'IS MY NATURE MY ONLY WAY',
The Journal Gallery,
June 15, 2006

large photograph, MARK BORTHWICK, 'IS MY NATURE MY ONLY WAY', The Journal Gallery, June 15, 2006

the card for: MARK BORTHWICK - 'IS MY NATURE MY ONLY WAY', June 15-July 15, 2006, The Journal Gallery, East Village.

The Essential Selection: An Anthology of Posters from the Psychedelic Era in San Francisco 1966-71 from the Collection of Jack Hanley - was the summer show at GBE (Gavin Brown's enterprise), July 19, 2006 - Jack Hanley runs a gallery under his own name, Jack Hanley Gallery, with locations in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. ( ... its rumored he is considering a run for New York City in the near future)

.. SANTANA & the YOUNGBLOODS, Jack Hanley Psychedelic Poster Collection, GBE, July 19, 2006 - there was no poster or card for this show - how ironic - but the press release - a personal statement - by Jack Hanley - that ran 2 typed pages - was the most amazing text ever to come out on a press release that anyone can remember.

.. BUDDY MILES EXPRESS, Jack Hanley Psychedelic Poster Collection, GBE, July 19, 2006 - .. "I personally discovered Rock Posters around 1967. A surfer friend of mine had a postcard of a show in SF and we all sat around and goggled at it. Before that the most impressive graphics I had seen were mostly EC comics, Crypt Keeper etc. (In 1965 you could order 1000 peyote buttons from the back of EC for $15 - it was still legal)." Jack Hanley, 2006 - from the press release

.. BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND - ROLAND KIRK QUARTET, Jack Hanley Psychedelic Poster Collection, GBE, July 19, 2006 - .. "I grew up in Washington Heights/Sugar Hill,[NYC], but fell in with a drummer neighbor that happened to also surf. We would cruise around the Village in the city and go to folk clubs, cafes w/music - anywhere that allowed minors and had live music. The Electric Circus too. In a way it was a welcome relief from the neighborhood and all the guys all disappearing, getting sent mostly on a one way trip to Vietnam. We went to anti-war rallies and politics seemed to merge a bit with the music." Jack Hanley, 2006

.. ALBERT KING, Jack Hanley Psychedelic Poster Collection, GBE, July 19, 2006 - .. "During the breaks from school on LI in those days, I would drive down to Sebastian Inlet and Cocoa Beach in Florida and surf with him and other buddies, usually after gathering mushrooms in certain cow fields in N. Florida on the way." Jack Hanley, 2006

.. THE GRATEFUL DEAD, Jack Hanley Psychedelic Poster Collection, GBE, July 19, 2006 - .. "At night we would usually smoke weed and play music. I had played in bands for a year or two by then, and most shows were advertised with crudely hand drawn flyers, sometimes mimicking early 60's surf posters or comics or boxing posters so this first SF poster/card was mind-blowing." Jack Hanley, 2006

.. BIG BROTHER AND HOLDING COMPANY - CANNED HEAT, Jack Hanley Psychedelic Poster Collection, GBE, July 19, 2006 - .. "I think the first time I did LSD was at the Fillmore East in NYC for a Jefferson Airplane show. Everything changed after that. I was totally impressed by the low-tech liquid light show pulsing in time with the band and the intense colors seeming to melt the musicians. I tie-dyed my amp grill cloth and painted my guitar day-glo pink." Jack Hanley, 2006

.. COUNTRY JOE - THE ELECTRIC BOOGIE, Jack Hanley Psychedelic Poster Collection, GBE, July 19, 2006 - .. "As great as these shows were there, the theater seating, aisles and so forth were restrictive. Fillmore East had been a theater with seats. I heard the ballroom dance halls that were used in SF for the concert/dance parties were totally open spaces. The same could be said for the totally psychedelic posters that advertised the shows at Avalon Ballroom, Fillmore and Matrix compared to the Fillmore East and Electric Circus posters." Jack Hanley, 2006

.. BILL GRAHAM PRESENTS LOVE EVERPRESENT - FULLNESS, Jack Hanley Psychedelic Posters, GBE, July 19, 2006 - .. "I hitchhiked to SF and was amazed at the number of bands and shows each week and started to save posters, handbills, etc. I went back to go to college in NY and started to book bands for shows like the Grateful Dead, Beach Boys, Zappa, Hot Tuna etc. drawing up posters for these and making contacts that would help me later work with these bands or other bands when I moved to SF. Years later I still make posters for each show I have in my gallery now, almost 40 years later." Jack Hanley, 2006

.. the MINDBENDERS, Jack Hanley Psychedelic Poster Collection, GBE, July 19, 2006 - .. "In 1965 or 66 there had been a show of Jugenstil posters in Berkeley at the university museum that really was an influence on the poster artists in the Bay area. The lettering of Viennese artists such as Andrei and Forstner, made to fit into a square or other shape, melding together and being hard to read, seems to have been really mixed with the Southern California "hotrod culture". Artists that had been getting mostly work doing pinstripes and flaming on chopped cars and motorcycles started to move towards music posters." Jack Hanley, 2006

.. THE JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, Jack Hanley Psychedelic Poster Collection, GBE, July 19, 2006 - .. "Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse were already getting a lot of work on cars before the bands started asking them to do posters for shows. They would go down to the SF library and copy stuff from reference books on Art Nouveau and whatever and mix it up with weird lettering and complementary colors." Jack Hanley, 2006

.. IRON BUTTERFLY, Jack Hanley Psychedelic Poster Collection, GBE, July 19, 2006 - .. "The influence of LSD on the whole scene, the music and these posters was enormous. Kelley was one of the first members of the Family Dog, a loose collective of friends that produced some shows with friends' bands (the Mothers, Airplane, Lovin Spoonful, Dead, etc) at the Longshoreman's Hall and California Hall. This communal house paid very little attention to making money. The bands Big Brother and the Holding Co. (with JANIS JOPLIN), the Grateful Dead and The Jefferson Airplane played there all the time." Jack Hanley, 2006

.. IRON BUTTERFLY (detail), Jack Hanley Psychedelic Poster Collection, GBE, July 19, 2006 - .. " .. The Dead had been the house band for Ken Kesey's Acid Tests and basically the original idea was for the band to take acid and play without any set plan for an audience that was in a way guiding or playing the band. The chaotic, participatory, multi-media aspect of the Acid Tests came with the bands to the Avalon. The posters reflected this psychedelic experience." Jack Hanley, 2006

.. GRATEFUL DEAD, Jack Hanley Psychedelic Poster Collection, GBE, July 19, 2006 - .. "Perhaps LSD had made its way to the Bay Area because of the studies being conducted at Stanford University. Ken Kesey (as a student) and Jerry Garcia and others were paid to take LSD, which was still legal. The prevalence of LSD in SF during this period really altered the concept of social and other borders, between band and audience, friend and stranger, possible and impossible." Jack Hanley, 2006

.. GRATEFUL DEAD (detail), Jack Hanley Psychedelic Poster Collection, GBE, July 19, 2006 - .. "Anyway, the hallucinatory colors and melting collages of these posters evoked the experience of the shows and their audiences.... The artists were paid $35-$100. for the poster designs and were happy for the steady paid gigs." Jack Hanley, 2006

.. JEFFERSON AIRPLANE - THE JAY WALKERS, Jack Hanley Psychedelic Poster Collection, GBE, July 19, 2006 - .. "T. Lautrec printed a lot of the most amazing posters on a stone slab in the old traditional way. Levon Mosgofian, the cool guy that owned it had been working for another printer and set up his own shop that related more to these hippie artist types that came to work on their posters, and showed them technical possibilities that were a great addition to the other influences in making these really awesome ." Jack Hanley, 2006

.. KING KONG MEMORIAL DANCE - THE GREAT SOCIETY - THE GRASS ROOTS - BIG BROTHER & HOLDING CO. - QUICK SILVER MESSENGER SERVICE, Jack Hanley Psychedelic Poster Collection, GBE, July 19, 2006 - .. "Since the shows happened each week, there was a short turn around time and most shows made a short run of these posters to put up around town, store windows, etc. and another short run right to give out or sell during or right after the show .. They were popular right from the start." Jack Hanley, 2006

.. THE TERRY HAHN BROTHERHOOD, Jack Hanley Psychedelic Poster Collection, GBE, July 19, 2006 - .. "The Family Dog quickly evolved into being run by Chet Helms at the Avalon Ballroom and also mixed up the 2 or 3 shows weekly lineup. Quite a bargain for $3. even then. You could go every week and often get a helper job to work for a ticket if you needed to get in." Jack Hanley, 2006

.. THE TERRY HAHN BROTHERHOOD (detail), Jack Hanley Psychedelic Poster Collection, GBE, July 19, 2006 - .. "Along with Kelley and Mouse, Ric Griffin (of surfer fame) and Wes Wilson and Victor Moscoso are generally considered the SF Five - most important poster artists of the period, but David Singer, Bob Fried and others also made great posters." Jack Hanley, 2006

.. JAMES COTTON BLUES BAND - AVALON BALLROOM, Jack Hanley Psychedelic Poster Collection, GEB, July 19, 2006 - .. "The Avalon lasted really only about 3 years, the whole intense period lasted probably from 1966-71. Short time." Jack Hanley, 2006

.. THE JAMES COTTON BLUES BAND - AVALON BALROOM (detail), Jack Hanley Psychedelic Poster Collection, GBE, July 19, 2006 - .. "I have collected posters since 1967 or so and have generally picked the shows I either went to, worked for the band or was friends with someone involved in it, or just love the artwork - a kind of personal take on it. The hand drawn, old-timey look to most of them is obviously predigital and wonderful. I got most of them from Chet or other friends and odd circumstances I guess." Jack Hanley, 2006

A Gentil Carioca is an artist-run gallery - whose name translates as: "Gentle People of Rio". It is located in the historical center of downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - more specifically in Saara, an area known for its outdoor market - the largest in South Amercia. A Gentil Carioca .. "is a spot and a vibration" - "its a meeting point, a gallery, a political tool." DANIEL REICH GALLERY, July 7 - August 16, 2006

THIAGO ROCHA PITTA had his debut exhibit at A Gentil Carioca in 2004 - he did the waterfall video in this exhibit. A Gentil Carioca, DANIEL REICH GALLERY, July 7, 2006

artist LAURA LIMA, one of the 3 co-directors of A Gentil Carioca. the other directors are: MARCIO BOTNER and ERNESTO NETO. visiting with her is ELI SUDBRACK aka ASSUME VIVID ASTRO FOCUS. The bicycle, 'Ciclovia aerea' is by JARBAS LOPES, and features woven rubber details, A Gentil Carioca, DANIEL REICH GALLERY,
July 7, 2006

artist MARCIO BOTNER is one of the 3 A Gentil Carioca directors. He is wearing a 'plastic costume' by LAURA LIMA on his head. A Gentil Carioca, DANIEL REICH GALLERY, July 7, 2006

LAURA LIMA tries on one of her 'plastic costumes' - there was a mirror included in her installation to encourage viewers to take the delicate plastic costume/masks off the wall and play with them. participation, interaction, play being a mission of the collective's goal .."a desire to let artists play, and art 'happen', reflecting the fertile environment of Rio." A Gentil Carioca, DANIEL REICH GALLERY, July 7, 2006 - A Gentil Carioca is "also seen as a social hub, allowing artists and guests from various backgrounds to gather and create a global cultural movement aiming far beyond marketing considerations and local political debates."

LAURA LIMA, 'Installation of 14 works', each a plastic costume, with hand drawn black (ink?) detail - they hung on the wall from wooden pegs, A Gentil Carioca, DANIEL REICH GALLERY, July 7, 2006 - In 2004 Laurra Lima organized a ball at the Mercosul Biennal, based on an oil painting from the 17th Century, casting 55 artists as the characters that composed the picture.

Tyson Reeder plays with one of LAURA LIMA's plastic costumes. A Gentil Carioca, DANIEL REICH GALLERY,
July 7, 2006

TYSON REEDER also got into this interactive installation by ALEXANDRE VOGLER e GUGA FERRAZ, called 'Super O/Tijolo', it was a minature race car track, composed on top of concrete. A Gentil Carioca, DANIEL REICH GALLERY,
July 7, 2006

another interactive piece, 'Estudo para Telembau' by PAULO NENFLIDO, bamboo, mouse, percussion instrument, metal hardware, wiring. A Gentil Carioca, DANIEL REICH GALLERY, July 7, 2006

MARINHO, 'Untitled', acrylic on canvas, sewn fabric. his drawings "can be seen all over the city of Rio de Janeiro where his graffiti seems to melt with the urban's traces." A Gentil Carioca, DANIEL REICH GALLERY, July 7, 2006

PEDRO VARELA, 'Untitled', pen and ink, drawn with metal needles on rice paper, 25.5 x 85", A Gentil Carioca, DANIEL REICH GALLERY,
July 7, 2006

close-up detail, PEDRO VARELA, 'Untitled', pen and ink drawn with metal needles on rice paper, A Gentil Carioca, DANIEL REICH GALLERY, July 7, 2006

JOAO MODE, 'Untitled' photograph - "a curious viewer can slide the glass lid and realize a second photograph lies beneath the visible one", A Gentil Carioca, DANIEL REICH GALLERY, July 7, 2006

frame from 'Fonte dupla' a 13 minute DVD by THIAGO ROCHA PITTA - the scenery loops endlessly and the viewer can remain entranced endlessly - simply by the landscape. His work "always manifests a close tie to natural elements, and a desire to reconfigure common conception of time passage and human presence with an untouched and natural environment", A Gentil Carioca, DANIEL REICH GALLERY, July 7, 2006

MARIA NEPOMUCENO, her braided and hand woven sculptures are made from sissal, nylon and string, traditional materials used in the making of ropes and hammocks, A Gentil Carioca, DANIEL REICH GALLERY, July 7, 2006

MARIA NEPOMUCENO free form sculptures made from traditional materials, and ancient craft skills. A Gentil Carioca, DANIEL REICH GALLERY, July 7, 2006

MARSSARES, 'Micro System Twincam' sound system. "in building a dual sound system that plays two CDs at once, Marssares reprograms the actual function of a music player and introduces flexible dialogues between the two ready-made tunes. The wood used to create the structure is that used in the construction of houses in the slums of Rio (favellas). Massares invites the viewer to reflect on the relationship between necessary and recreational activities and crystallizes the very thin line that exists between extreme poverty and luxury in a city such Rio de Janeiro", A Gentil Carioca, DANIEL REICH GALLERY,
July 7, 2006

a handmade 'drawing/notebook' hardbound by CARLOS CONTENTE, 'An interview with line'. on the back wall, at the left, plays, 'RGB' a DVD, by BOTNER e PEDRO - a collaborative duo that produces films with a "unique photographic technique that incoporates performances and objects such as framed photos and posters"- in this video, the subject, Botner himself, wakes up to "hallucinatory visions, and undergoes mood changes as the color of his body changes from red to green to blue". A Gentil Carioca, DANIEL REICH GALLERY, July 7, 2006

detail from, CARLO CONTENTE, 'An interview with the line', drawing, notebook, A Gentil Carioca, DANIEL REICH GALLERY, July 7, 2006

JARBAS LOPES, 'Movidos pela racao', made from cut plastic ( dog food bag), A Gentil Carioca, DANIEL REICH GALLERY, July 7, 2006 - born in Nova Iguacu, Rio de Janeiro in 1964, Mr. Jarbas Lopes, who also made the bike with the woven rubber details - is a folk artist crossing over to fine artist - a facet of A Gentil Carioca that is globally resonant. Jarbas Lopes was recently awarded a fellowship from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation at MIAMI ART CENTRAL DEBUTS FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM, 2005.

.. detail, t-shirt, A Carioca Gentil, DANIEL REICH GALLERY, July 7, 2006

NADA Art Fair Director, HEATHER HUBBS dropped by the opening in an unusual t-shirt of her own .. A Gentil Carioca, DANIEL REICH GALLERY, July 7, 2006