Brian Belott’s collaged artist books ! books ! books!
Michael Mahalchick – scavenged, stitched, woven and whatever ! sculpture !
Photos: courtesy Atelier Cardenas Bellanger, Paris
JUST IN FROM PARIS !! .. for its summer exhibit the Atelier Cardenas Bellanger is pleased to announce a 2 person show of the New York based artists: BRIAN BELOTT and MICHAEL MAHALCHICK.
… “both artists employ a certain obsessive-compulsive sensibility for accumulating traces of their creative gestures; and yet this explosive gestural expression is contained in tight, compact forms. It is this sensibility that creates an almost child-like play between retention and expulsion. Both artists also share, albeit in different ways, a certain debt to the ready-made, with both creating their work based on objects and graphics with a pre-determined history, lending their work a certain hint of nostalgia.” – from the press release – … the French way of saying things, is so interesting, you can see an immediate cultural shading, so different from our own.
Its worth checking out the Atelier Cardenas Bellanger, PARIS website. They’ve put on some really interesting shows, several, looks like at least 3, involving downtown’s favorite artist & musician, DEVENDRA BANHART. “Yo mire un garza mora dandole combate a un rio” a group show, that ran from Oct 8-Nov 12, 2005, was curated by Devendra and included work by MATTEAH BAIM, VASHTI BUNYAN, WILL LEMON & RED BONE SLIM (Bianca Cassady).
(can you remember the summer CANADA first showed Devendra’s works & they were going for $200 a piece – Art Lovers can: check out: artnet archives 2003) & scroll down to the JUNE 14, 2003 CANADA show – “You Are My Sunshine, You Is My Sunshine”)
There also appears to be a show in the works at Atelier Cardenas Bellanger, for the DANIEL REICH artist, L. A. based, HENRY TAYLOR – coming up DEC 2006 – JAN 2007
Atelier Cardenas Bellanger
43, rue Quincampoix, 75004 Paris, France
www.ateliercardenasbellanger.com
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BRIAN BELOTT & MICHAEL MAHALCHICK are represented by CANADA
~BRIAN BELOTT/MICHAEL MAHALCHICK/Atelier Cardenas Bellanger/PARIS |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 28th, 2006, 6:20pm
MEGAN WHITMARSH produced a small soft cover book, ‘Snowmonkeys in Japan’, in 2003. It is a bilingual journey. some American ‘tourists’ visit Japan & some Japanese ‘tourists’ come to America. The top image is the front cover, the 2nd image down is the back cover, the 3rd image is the 1st page of the first story, told in English, and the 4th image is the 1st page of the 2nd narrative, all in Japanese. the 2 ‘logos’ appear on each side of the middle page – which separates the book into two ‘halves’.
photos of Megan Whitmarsh & her work – ‘FOREST LOGIC’, Sixtyseven, NYC, April 2, 2005
more photos, ‘PORCH SHOW’ – Cinders, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC, July 11, 2005
Megan Whitmarsh
~MEGAN WHITMARSH/Snowmonkeys in Japan |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 24th, 2006, 10:36am
the card for: MEGAN WHITMARSH – ‘PINK TRASH’
ELAINE LEVY PROJECT
Rue Fourmois, 9
B-1050 BRUXELLES
www.elainelevyproject.com
~MEGAN WHITMARSH/Elaine Levy Project/Bruxelles |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 22nd, 2006, 12:03pm
image: Megan Whitmarsh, ‘Modern Sculpture’, 2006
the card for: BRANCH GALLERY, DURHAM, North Carolina PRESENTS
19 MAY – 1 JULY, 2006
IN GALLERY ONE: Megan Whitmarsh – ‘Shangri-La’
IN GALERY TWO: Jennifer Muskopf – ‘Points of Contact’
image: Jennifer Muskopf, ‘Acacia Tree’, 2005
www.branchgallery.com
~MEGAN WHITMARSH/Branch Gallery/Durham NC |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 22nd, 2006, 11:45am
The card for ‘BANNED FROM TELEVISON 7’ – [CLIQUE HERE FOR DETAILS] – a group show of 7 pretty famous street artists: DAZE, CYCLE, WON, RON ENGLISH, SACHA JENKINS SHR, RYAN MICHAEL KELLY & RAMMELZEE – curated by DAZE & SACHA JENKINS SHR. The card was designed by: dsgn/swagger.
The show opened at the The Canal Chapter, 343 Canal St, 4th Floor, on MAY 31st, 2006 – which leaves 2 weeks – NOW 1 WEEK !! – to get there and see it – the show’s last day is: FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 2006.
RAMMELLZEE, with his work, in the exhibit, ‘BANNED FROM TELEVISION 7 ‘, The Canal Chapter, NYC
SACHA JENKINS SHR, with his work, in the exhibit, ‘BANNED FROM TELEVISION 7’, The Canal Chapter, NYC. Sacha Jenkins SHR is the Editorial Director of MASS APPEAL.
DAZE, aka CHRIS ELLIS, with his work, in the exhibit, ‘BANNED FROM TELEVISION 7’, The Canal Chapter, NYC
RON ENGLISH, ‘Clownboy in Car’, 24 x 20″, ink & watercolor on paper, in the exhibit, ‘BANNED FROM TELEVISION 7’, The Canal Chapter, NYC
CYCLE, photographed at the exhibit, ‘BANNED FROM TELEVISION 7’, The Canal Chapter, NYC
CYCLE, ’99 Cents Per minute’, 36 x 36″, spraypaint on canvas, in the exhibit, ‘BANNED FROM TELEVISION 7’, The Canal Chapter, NYC
RYAN MICHAEL KELLY, in front of his work, in the exhibit, ‘BANNED FROM TELEVISION 7’, The Canal Chapter, NYC
RYAN MICHAEL KELLY, polaroids, in the exhibit, ‘BANNED FROM TELEVISION 7’, The Canal Chapter, NYC
German artist, WON aka WONABC, in town to exhibit 2 of his large paintings, in the exhibit, ‘BANNED FROM TELEVISION 7’, The Canal Chapter, NYC
WON, aka WONABC, a large painting, 55 x 78′, spraypaint on canvas, in the exhibit, ‘BANNED FROM TELEVISION 7’, The Canal Chapter, NYC
WON, aka WONABC, center, with NOSM & HOW of NYC legends: TATS CRU. A large painting by WONABC, behind them, at the exhibit, ‘BANNED FROM TELEVISION 7’, The Canal Chapter, NYC
Photos: Nancy Smith, The Canal Chapter, NYC, June 3, 2006
more photos – from the show: ‘BANNED FROM TELEVISION 7’
photos of : tats cru on the street, on the Lower East Side, installing a mural, ‘You Are Here’, April 7, 2005
~BANNED FROM TELEVISION 7/The Canal Chapter |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 12th, 2006, 10:42am
JASON WALL, artist & co-founder/director of The Canal Chapter & 1134NYC, with one of his own paintings, photographed at the ALFREDO MARTINEZ exhibit, ‘ARSENAL FOR DEMOCRACY – WAR CORPORATISM’, which ran from January 27 – February 24, 2006 at The Canal Chapter.
MIKHAIL SOKOVIKOV, artist & co-founder/director of The Canal Chapter & 1134NYC, in front of an ALFREDO MARTINEZ gun drawing on hand made collaged paper, also from The Canal Chapter exhibit, ALFREDO MARTINEZ, ‘ARSENAL FOR DEMOCRACY – WAR CORPORATISM’.
Photos: Nancy Smith, The Canal Chapter, NYC Feb 11, 2006
The Canal Chapter is located at 343 Canal St, (between Greene & Wooster), 4th Floor.
1134NYC
ALFREDO MARTINEZ, ‘ARSENAL FOR DEMOCRACY – WAR CORPORATISM’
mirf, THUNDERDOG 2006 Toy Label Preview, FUSE
~JASON WALL/MIKHAIL SOKOVIKOV/The Canal Chapter |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 12th, 2006, 10:23am
SEAN – native born son out of TRIBECA – clocking in at 15 years old, SEAN gets the best ‘kid’ artist of the year award – for his site: NYCEXPOSED.com where he posts his photos of NYC underground tunnels & infrastructures, including subways.
Photo: SEAN in front of a painting by DAZE, in the exhibit, ‘BANNED FROM TELEVISION 7’, at the THE CANAL CHAPTER, running from May 31 – JUNE 23, 2006.
Photo: Nancy Smith, June 3, 2006
another photo – in front of: ‘Trials of Julia’ – by Chris CYCLE
~SEAN/NYC-EXPOSED/The Canal Chapter |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 12th, 2006, 9:51am
The almost completed Frank Gehry building on 11th Avenue, between 18th and 19th Streets is a glorious sign of the arrival of that ‘beautiful people’ power couple, Barry Diller and Diane Von Furstenberg to the Chelsea art world.
The translucent building, which will be the headquarters for Barry Diller’s IAC/Interactive Corp, will be joined by the Diane Von Furstenberg boutique building rising on the corner of 14th and Washington. When the two buildings are up and running, they will become ‘must see’ destinations for the International art and fashion crowd.
This brilliant move by Barry Diller and Diane Von Furstenberg will not only enhance their own projects, it will confirm Chelsea as the center of the art world for the next 20 years. David Zwirner, whose ‘hot’ gallery on 19th St. is just across the road from the Frank Gehry building, has recently acquired the building on the west side of his gallery – and has arranged to rent the building on the other side, so he can expand, an obvious vote of confidence in the future.
The fact that ‘art Kingpin’ Larry Gagosian is also developeing a new space on 21st St., underlines the idea that development in Chelsea has entered a new dynamic phase.
Photos: Nancy Smith, Chelsea, NYC, May 10, 2006
~FRANK GEHRY/Barry Diller |
Posted in The Bomb | By Simon Cerigo | June 10th, 2006, 7:26am
DEVENDRA BANHART gives a small in-store concert LIVE !! at OTHER MUSIC, NYC, April 25, 2004
Photos: Nancy Smith
artlovers welcomes OTHER MUSIC – the biggest & best !! Indie music store in NYC – who have just come on board with a banner on the Indie Music Reviews – written by SIMON CERIGO.
~OTHER MUSIC/Devendra Banhart |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 7th, 2006, 5:31pm
The release of Beirut’s Gulag Orkestar on the Ba Da Bing! label
(home to that great noise band, The Spiney Ant Eaters) is important because it heralds
the arrival of a real musical talent, in the person of lyricist, vocalist, and
ukulele player, Zach Condon.
This debut is also very important because it points towards and adds to the loose
alternative music collection of bands known as the Elephant 6 Collective.
The main 90’s Elephant 6 Bands (Apples in Stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel,
Olivia Tremor Control, Gerbils, Minders, Of Montreal, etc.) have provided
us ‘authentic music nuts’ with music documents (i.e. CDs) of unparalleled beauty,
honesty and musical experimentation.
I highly recommend any of the Elephant 6 CDs. It is former Neutral Milk Hotel
bandmember Jeremy Barnes, who helped Zach Condon put the
Gulag Orkestar CD together and he also plays on several tracks.
This is why the CD might be mistaken for the new Neutral Milk Hotel release
we’ve all been waiting for.
Not to worry, Gulag Orkestar delivers on all of the goals of
musicality, authenticity and search for new sounds that has been the
target of the Elephant 6 family for the last 10 years. Other bands that are
in some way part of the Elephant 6 family are Beulah, Essex Green, Elf Power,
Marshmellow Coast, and Music Tapes.
Beirut, Gulag Orkestar, Ba Da Bing!
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side
scanned from the CD:
Cover photo (top photo) ” … found in a library in Leipzig torn out of a book.
If anybody knows the photographer, please get in touch.”
other photos by: Ben Goldberg
OTHER MUSIC, JUNE 12, 2006
Zach Condon, aka Beirut, (foreground) in black shirt, plays at an in-store concert
at OTHER MUSIC, on June 12, 2006.
with him Beirut tour band musician, Paul Collins.
Photo: Nancy Smith
more photos
~Beirut |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews | By Simon Cerigo | June 7th, 2006, 2:12pm
