JOSH HARRIS surfaced in NYC – MARCH 2006 – just before he split for SPAIN.
MATT ENGER, of EXPLODING SKY, caught the moment.
JOSH HARRIS, that’s actually one of his own ‘trademark’ drawings.
JOSH HARRIS and MARK ENGER, of EXPLODING SKY WORLDWIDE, in the rikshaw, ALFREDO MARTINEZ hits the pedals.
ALFREDO MARTINEZ mans one of his big guns, MARK ENGER and JOSH HARRIS , watch. ‘artsquat’, Greene St, Soho.
ALFREDO MARTINEZ, outside ‘artsquat’, Greene St, Soho.
ALFREDO MARTINEZ, with one of his trademark gun drawings, outside ‘artsquat’, Greene St, Soho.
Alfredo’s got Josh’s cellphone# on his hand, outside ‘artsquat’, Greene St., Soho
All Photos by: MATT ENGER, NYC, MARCH 2006
more photos of the crew, at a Chinatown dinner, post soon.
~JOSH HARRIS/ALFREDO MARTINEZ/Photos by MATT ENGER |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 31st, 2006, 5:44pm
The word is that JOSH is in Spain, setting up a Euro verison of QUIET. He’s got MARK ENGER of EXPLODING SKY working on the uniforms, here. too bad he didn’t set up shop there before the subway terror attack, like he did here, that way maybe some real forward thinking FEMA guy could actually pinpoint Josh Harris as a terror frontman !!!!
YO! Josh, why don’t you set up QUIET in ‘ABU’ DUBAI ? forget Spain, that would really get you hot … maybe you could get GELATIN to sneak in and take out a high floor window in that sailboat hotel and put a little balconey up there ? you’d probably start WWW III. hey, you only got one life time = go for it. Instead of getting to live and write a book about it, like you do here, in the good ole US of A, you and your whole crew – would probably go to jail for 400 years! Mark Enger could make special little ‘ABU’ DUBAI uniforms with exploding airplanes going into high buildings that look like sailboats, on the patches … YO! why should we be spending millions of dollars on security … when we could be blowing all our extra tourist cash on 10 feet high fish aquariums, too! DAMIEN HIRST move over.
EXPLODING SKY WORLWIDE, (Mark Enger) is back in business and has recently re-located the silkscreen shop to Newark – the new artist city, if you want loft space at decent prices. They say its just 15 mins into Manhattan, on the PATH TRAIN.
Mark Enger/EXPLODING SKY/Studio Visit
from left, JEFF GOMPERTZ, MATT ENGER, JOSH HARRIS and MARK ENGER, Chinatown, March 24, 2006, just before Josh leaves for Spain.
MATT & MARK ENGER, aka THE ENGER BROS. they say they got the bling around their necks from Josh, in return for a ‘Brokeback’ ‘twin’ sandwich up on ‘the Farm’ – that’s an ‘insider’ joke.
Chinatown, March 24, 2006
Photos: Nancy Smith
~JOSH HARRIS/QUIET/Internet Roadkill/Exploding Sky/THE ENGER BROS |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 26th, 2006, 5:57pm
THEO CERIGO, the youngest member of the 100+ QUIET crew, in his pod, DEC 23, 1999. Theo is 11 at the time. He is wearing the standard issue QUIET uniform, orange pants and a grey work shirt. This helped identify the in-house crew from the huge throng of visitors, as QUIET was an open party 24/7. The shirts were soon, a day after this photo, silk screened with QUIET trademarks by MARK ENGER of EXPLODING SKY. JOSH HARRIS – of Pseudo and Jupiter.com fame, threw the 1 million dollar Millennium Party, held at 2 downtown loft buildings on Lower Broadway the week before and, a few days after JANUARY 1, 2000. It’s still the biggest, and edgiest, artist blow-out this town has ever seen.
Photo: Nancy Smith
The whole place was wired with 24 hour camera surveillance, as you might deduct from careful inspection of the above photo. In effect, the first ‘reality’ show, JOSH hired a film crew led by ONDI TIMONER to film the event (24/7). Theo was the go-fer for the main film crew. Ondi is currently shaping a final cut of the party, called ‘THE BUBBLE’ which will place QUIET within the framework of the huge rise and bust of the most flamboyant and visionary dot.com millionaire to hit the fan, JOSH HARRIS. At his peak, the time of QUIET, he was worth 36 million, not bad for a guy from California who came to NYC with a used car that he sold and turned into Jupiter.com – the first internet ‘trend & tracking’ site. Some say Josh got too caught up by his immersion in the art world, and forgot to keep his eye on the bottomline. He had a definite eye for the edgiest talent in town, and now he’s just sitting back, waiting for his art collection to bring in his next wave of moolah..
An interesting aside .. JOSH HARRIS is the guy who financed the WORLD TRADE CENTER caper by GELATIN and paid for the helicopter & film crew that filmed it. GELATIN actually infiltrated the World Trade Center and built a little alcove balconey on which one could stand, out of a high WTC office window. talk about ‘gansta’ street art in forbidden places. The book about it, is sold out … but its out there. (I think JAMES WAGNER, an early GELATIN fan, has a copy).
see some recent pix of ONDI TIMONER, and some of the QUIET crew.
Ondi went on to score a BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD at SUNDANCE for her acclaimed, 7 year in the filming, rock portrait of THE DANDY WARHOLS and THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE – “DIG!”
QUIET was eventually shut down by a c0mbined force of FEMA, the NYPD & the NYFD, (the NYC Police dept, the NYC Fire dept) for various reasons, not the least being FEMA’s belief that it was a ‘suicide’ cult ! .. not to mention the firing range, run by ALFREDO MARTINEZ, in the basement of the main building, … AND the toxic room, run by AIDAS BAREIKIS and AARON BREWER, right next to the pod hotel, designed and built by JEFF GOMPERTZ, that housed 100 artists !
JOSH HARRIS, who surfaced recently in Manhatttan before departing for SPAIN, is quick to point out now, that the next big call for FEMA and the NYPD and NYFD – was the World Trade Center disaster, …. think on that.
photos of the recent JOSH HARRIS sighting in Manhattan
~JOSH HARRIS/QUIET/Theo Cerigo |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 25th, 2006, 10:28am
our first and favorite sponsor, TEKSERVE, the fabled ‘Mac’ Store on 23rd Street, made art & tech history with their first ever 15 second ipod ‘loop’ (to call it an ‘ad’ would be a grave injustice, but that’s what it was). An inspired bit of live action, involving hundreds of iPods, filmed at the store, and produced by real TEKSERVE employees, who more often, than not, are talented artists, musicians, writers, and cameramen, as well as tech wizs, on their day job, – it was on the ‘net’ – almost the minute they hit the finished button.
you can still see it on: gizmodo
The brainchild of TEKSERVE’S DICK DEMENUS, over 60,000 dollars worth of iPods were lined up and fall domino style in the store, in a path leading up to the iPod sales counter. The rapid click click click as they hit the ground is one of the best parts. The seamless, 15 second, loop, feels like an animation, but is totally live action. It will be (literally) huge when it is screened on the 15 x 30 foot giant LED screens at MADISON SQUARE GARDEN:
MAY 1 – JULY 30, 2006 – so there’s still time to catch it, large scale, if you are in the area.
tekserve
~TEKSERVE/15 sec iPod tumble |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 24th, 2006, 4:03pm
JORDAN SEILER, ‘REMOVAL SATISFIES THE CONDITION’, an installation of absconded street objects, such as light boxes, advertising signs (and large ones, at that), telephone booths, and other assorted objects, that were then transformed into the most beautiful and somber minimalist art. seeing is believing, photos from the opening and subsequent installation visits, post soon. The show also included grainy low-fi footage of the ‘hijackings’. The show ran from April 14 – May 5, 2006, at THE CANAL CHAPTER aka 1134NYC.
photos from the opening
THE CANAL CHAPTER
~JORDAN SEILER/The Canal Chapter |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 24th, 2006, 3:26pm
MIN KIM opened ‘hour of the siege’ an exhibition of her new works, at atm gallery, on March 23, 2006. The show took over both atm spaces, and ran until April 22, 2006. Above, MIN KIM, and ‘Inevitability of unpredictable outcomes’, 2006.
Min Kim was born in Seoul, KOREA, in 1975, and is now based in NYC. She attended the New World School of the Arts, in Miami, FL in 1993. In 1996 she studied at the Student Art Center International, in Florence ITALY. In 1997 she received an MD B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute, Colllege of Art, Baltimore.
MIN KIM with ‘Behind the trees, in the snow, I want to bury everything’, 2006.
Photos: Nancy Smith, atm gallery, April 1, 2006
more photos from the opening
atm
~MIN KIM/atm |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 24th, 2006, 3:13pm
Abe Lincoln, Jr. – ‘EMPLOYEES OF THE MONTH’ – at the opening of the Abe Lincoln, Jr.
performance and art show, Dec 1, 2005, at Orchard St Gallery, on the Lower East Side, NYC. The show ran from Dec 1 – Jan 6, 2006.
Photo: Nancy Smith
more photos from the opening
more photos of Abe Lincoln, Jr.’s work, from the March 25, 2006, closing party, the ENDLESS LOVE CREW (ELC) open jam painting session at the Chashama Center Gallery.
~Abe Lincoln, Jr./TAQUERIA PENDEJO |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 24th, 2006, 3:03pm
Photo: Nancy Smith, NYC, Nov 19, 2005
NOAH LYON and ANDREW JEFFREY WRIGHT at the opening of: ‘ART IS A SMILE THAT GIVES YOU A HUG’, a collection of work in various mediums by Mr. Wright. The show ran from Nov 19 – Dec 21, 2005, at Giant Robot New York, on 9th Street, in the East Village.
Noah Lyon is the creative dynamo behind the Art Lovers Photo Report hotlinked ad/logo site: ‘retard riot’.
to see ‘retard riot’ (the third ad/logo on the 2nd row) and photos of the opening:
‘ART IS A SMILE THAT GIVES YOU A HUG’
~NOAH LYON/ANDREW JEFFREY WRIGHT |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 24th, 2006, 2:52pm
Photo: ASHLEY REID, ‘Stuffed’, 2004, large format camera, photograph mounted on aluminium.
from the show: ‘Ridykeulous’, curated by A.L. Steiner and Nicole Eisenman, PARTICIPANT, March 10 – April 2, 2006
(image scanned from the catalog)
ASHLEY REID, recently graduated from SVA with a B.F.A., major in photography, and until recently, has been the gallery manager at DANIEL REICH GALLERY. She’s now set her sights on pursuing a full time career. She just had her first one man show, ‘ASHLEY REID – DEVESTATINGLY GOOD TIMES’ , an exhibit of her large scale, staged, & very fictional, narrative self-portraits, at NOWHERE GALLERY, in Milan, ITALY.
photos from the PARTICIPANT, ‘Ridykeulous’ opening
first photos of ASHLEY
~ASHLEY REID/Ridykeulous |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 24th, 2006, 2:27pm
Photo: K8 HARDY, ‘Fashionfashion Kitchen Look’, 2006, large scale, c-print, self-portrait.
scanned from the catalog, ‘Ridykeulous’, ‘Annual Kids Issue!’, ‘Memo from GOD! Evolution is Finally Over!’ – “THIS PUBLICATION CREATED ENTIRELY BY THE POWER OF INTELLIGENT DESIGN AND LEO KOENIG GALLERY”.
‘Ridykeulous’ catalog cover, artwork: ‘Choo-Choo’ by SUZANNE WRIGHT
‘Ridykeulous’ curated by A.L. Steiner and Nicole Eisenman, at PARTICIPANT, ran from MARCH 10 – APRIL 2, 2006.
artlovers wrote this about the show on the MARCH – APRIL 2006 home page:
… ‘there’s a huge in-your-face, full frontal, show up at PARTICIPANT. ‘Ridykeulous’ is fresh, dynamic and full of hard charging art energy. The show transcends sexual politics with a visual and often witty, celebration of radical gender attitudes that cascades towards the funny, the happy, and the flat-out defiant. Curated with huge energy, by A.L. Steiner and Nicole Eisenman, the show is full of many different kinds of work, in too many media to list, but 2 more photographs, apart from k8 Hardy’s striking self- portrait above, which defines the mood of the show in split second, A.L. STEINER has a photo of Ponyboy, that makes one stop in their tracks, and ASHLEY REID has a pretty amazing staged self-portrait of herself in an Afro, naked on a rug ! with a Dolly Parton look alike – included for good measure. The show runs wild at PARTICIPANT, MARCH 10 – APRIL 2, 2006′.
PARTICIPANT
photos from the opening
~K8 HARDY/SUZANNE WRIGHT/Ridykeulous |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 24th, 2006, 2:04pm
