artist LINDSAY BRANT is the 34 yr. old daughter of art collector PETER BRANT and former wife,
SANDY BRANT, the ART IN AMERICA publisher.
Lindsay was part of the (now defunct) HASWELLEDIGER GALLERY line-up.
She exhibited a pretty funny piece in last year’s ‘RIDYKEULOUS’ exhibit at PARTICIPANT.
Left, LINDSAY BRANT with DAPHNE FITZPATRICK, at the ‘RIDYKEULOUS’ opening,
PARTICIPANT, March 10, 2006
LINDSAY BRANT, ‘Bush Wackers’, 2004, (Trader Joe’s bags, papier mache, egg shells, foam,
wire, plastic, glass eyes), ‘RIDYKEULOUS’, March 10, 2006
Photos: Nancy Smith
‘RIDYKEULOUS’ was curated by A.L. STEINER and NICOLE EISENMAN.
more photos from the ‘RIDYKEULOUS’ opening
PARTICIPANT
~LINDSAY BRANT |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 15th, 2007, 4:06pm
KATHERINE BERNHARDT, ‘Banana Split’, 2001, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 ins.,
.. arriving at the gallery. you can just make out the 2 mirroring faces at this angle.
‘Banana Split’ will be included in the 2nd show at the new JASON RULNICK space,
547 W. 27th St, 3rd Floor.
Titled: ‘SMALL GROUP SHOW’ – the exhibit will include a few other KATHERINE BERNHARDT
paintings, as well as works by BEN BEAUDOIN and LAWRENCE SEWARD.
The show opens this THURS, FEB 15, 2007 (6-9PM)
JASON RULNICK
photos from the JASON RULNICK inaugural opening (starts: 7th row)
KATHERINE BERNHARDT photographed at the (final) STEVEN PARRINO ‘plan 9’
opening, TEAM GALLERY, Chelsea, October 7, 2004
Above Photos: Nancy Smith
more photographs from the STEVEN PARRINO, ‘plan 9’ opening (3rd row down)
first posted on artnet – WINTER 2004
and include what was to be his last press photo.
… following the success of his show, he went out and bought a brand new HARLEY,
which he fatally crashed New Year’s Day 2005.
Also posted were photographs of fellow TEAM artists: TAM OCHIAI and GARDAR EIDE EINARSSON; and guest
LAUREN CORNELL, who was to become Executive Director of RHIZOME, MAY 2005.
JASON RULNICK
~KATHERINE BERNHARDT/JASON RULNICK |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 13th, 2007, 4:31pm
WHITNEY curators: SHAMIM M. MOMIN and HENRIETTE HULDISCH will head the WHITNEY
BIENNAL 2008 team …
Whitney curator SHAMIM M. MOMIN photographed at the SLATER BRADLEY,
‘STONED & DETHRONED’ opening, Feb 21, 2004, TEAM GALLERY, Chelsea
(a Slater Bradley photograph – Ben Brock as Kurt Cobain – behind her)
more photos from the SLATER BRADLEY opening, (row 7)
… (BEN BROCK as KURT COBAIN; London dealer MAX WIGRAM;
and British artist RICHARD WATHEN, first posted on artnet – APRIL 2004)
Whitney curator HENRIETTE HULDISCH, left, photographed here with DEBRA SINGER, Executive
Director/Chief Curator, THE KITCHEN. at the opening of ‘ALTER EGO – An Evening of
Short Film & Video Works’, which Henriette co-curated with LAUREN CORNELL, at
The Kitchen, Chelsea, April 19, 2005
(there was a big bucks HOLLYWOOD production being filmed on location, right outside The Kitchen that night, hence the ‘location’ vans on the street.)
more photos from the ‘ALTER EGO’ opening (starts at row 3)
Photos: Nancy Smith
Whitney Museum of American Art
~SHAMIM MOMIN & HENRIETTE HULDISCH/BIENNIAL 2008 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 13th, 2007, 3:05pm
… quite possibly our favorite ARTFORUM ad, ever.
scanned from the ARTFORUM FEBUARY 2007 issue
the caption texts read: “R. CRUMB and his li’l pal PRUFROCK PIGGY”
“SO, PRUFROCK, SO LIKE WHATTA YOU REALLY HONESTLY THINK OF ME ?!
Y’KNOW YER, LIKE, TRUE FEELINGS !”
“WELL, GEE, I DUNNO… TEE HEE ..”
“SCHMUCK”
DAVID ZWIRNER
~R. CRUMB/DAVID ZWIRNER |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 13th, 2007, 12:51pm
Little Cakes presents the 4th INTERNATIONAL FLIPBOOK FESITIVAL at SECRET PROJECT ROBOT, 210 Kent Ave, WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN.
The show went up Jan 19th, but runs until SUNDAY, Feb 11th, 2007 – in fact there’s
going to be a VALENTINE’S DAY CLOSING PARTY on SUNDAY Feb 11th (7-10pm),
with 2 bands playing: KOCHO BI SEXUAL and MUDBOY – since both bands use
organs, i.e. keyboards I guess, its being billed as the: THE DOUBLE ORGAN EXTRAVAGANZA !
(get it? .. Valentine’s Day .. organs …!! )
The exhibit itself is small but mighty ingenious. You can pick up the books and handle them, up close and in person. In fact there are over 100 flipbooks on display. Most of them are small, palm sized. All of them are fun to handle, most are very original & special.
“Devised four years ago by artist ANDREW JEFFREY WRIGHT, as a film festival
without film, each of the flipbooks have been submitted into one of 4 categories
Live Action, Animation, Experimental and Documentary. A prize (of $1.00) goes to
the winner of each category” – (press release)
photos from the opening, including the winning entries, to post shortly
for more info, a few more photos and directions – click here!
secret project robot
~FLIPBOOK FESTIVAL/Secret Project Robot |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 6th, 2007, 9:35pm
. . . here are 2 new!! photos of KAYROCK & WOLFY … who were spotted recently at the opening party for: the 4th INTERNATIONAL FLIPBOOK PARTY,
presented by Little Cakes, at SECRET PROJECT ROBOT, in Brooklyn,
Jan 18, 2007.
KAYROCK, JAN 18, 2007
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
WOLFY, JAN 18, 2007
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
(note: they didn’t have work in the show, their silkscreen shop is above Secret Project Robot & they just happened to drop in & check things out at the FLIPBOOK OPENING.)
KAYROCK aka KARL LAROCCA – & – WOLFY aka JEF SCHARF, are KAYROCK SCREENPRINTING.
the card for: ‘KAYROCK & WOLFY – ONE SIX PACK SHORT OF A DEATH HIPPIE CULT’
PHOTO BY: EMILY WILSON
DRAWING BY: KAYROCK & WOLFY
Their show, ‘ONE SIX PACK SHORT OF A DEATH HIPPIE CULT’ was a retrospective essentially, of some of their favorite commissions and exhibition posters.
The show opened at JESSICA MURRAY PROJECTS, on 10th AVE at 26th St, (now defunct)
on JULY 13, 2005 & was covered in artlovers.
to see more photos
Among many other things, they are also known for their graphic design contribution
to the JEFFREY DEITCH/KATHY GRAYSON downtown art scene survey book:
‘LIVE THROUGH THIS: NEW YORK 2005‘
KAYROCK SCREENPRINTING
~KAYROCK/WOLFY/FLIPBOOK PARTY/One Sixpack Short.. |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 6th, 2007, 5:40pm
the card for: ‘ONE HUNDRED ARTISTS – ONE HUNDRED T SHIRTS’
curated by ANDREW GUENTHER and DANIEL SILVERSTEIN, DANIEL SILVERSTEIN GALLERY (now defunct)
520 West 21st St – just below 10th Ave
JULY 16 – AUGUST 18, 2003
‘ONE HUNDRED ARTISTS – ONE HUNDRED T SHIRTS’
~100 T-SHIRTS/summer 2003 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 6th, 2007, 5:08pm
an archival business card for: KAYROCK SCREENPRINTING – ca. summer 2003
KAYROCK SCREENPRINTING and EXPLODING SKY have a few thing in common.
1. they are both talented silkscreen shops run by 2 partners who know each other from very early on. Kayrock and Wolfy are friends from very early teen days.
Mark & Matt Enger are twin brothers.
2. they both have the dubious claim ‘to fame’ of being the only 2 rejects from the DANIEL SILVERSTEIN ‘ONE HUNDRED ARTISTS – ONE HUNDRED T SHIRTS’ of Summer 2003.
The KAYROCK SCREENPRINT submission was banned from the show on the grounds that it was: … get this !!! .. “too political” !!! – that’s a direct quote (Danny Silverstein).
KAYROCK were good sports, they (and their) friends came to the opening in the banned T-shirts, anyways.
The photo of their friend EMILY, in their ‘FUCK BUSH’ t-shirt, below, was published in
in artnet, at the time, and then was picked up by BLACK BOOK.
When we recently caught up with them at the FLIP BOOK PARTY , they said there was a new resurgence of interest in the t-shirt lately.
top photo:
KAYROCK (center) and WOLFY (right) in their banned t-shirts, outside the opening,
‘ONE HUNDRED ARTISTS – ONE HUNDRED T SHIRTS’ – DANIEL SILVERSTEIN GALLERY,
(now defunct), 520 West 21st Street, CHELSEA, July 16, 2003
(Photo: Nancy Smith)
2nd photo:
KAYROCK SILKSCREEN friend, EMILY, sports their ‘banned t-shirt’,
outside the DANIEL SILVERSTEIN, ‘ONE HUNDRED ARTISTS – ONE HUNDRED T SHIRTS’ opening, 520 West 21st St, CHELSEA, July 16, 2003
(first posted in: artnet 8-29-03)
(Photo: Nancy Smith)
‘100 ARTISTS – ONE HUNDRED T SHIRTS’
~KAYROCK/WOLFY/100 T-SHIRTS |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 6th, 2007, 4:45pm
top photo:
bottom row, at right – that’s MARK ENGER’S t-shirt. you can see the EXPLODING
SKY WORLDWIDE LOGO on the sleeves.
installation photo, ‘ONE HUNDRED ARTISTS – ONE HUNDRED T SHIRTS’,
DANIEL SILVERSTEIN GALLERY, July 16 – August 18, 2003
middle photo:
that’s MATT ENGER’S t-shirt. this was the only other t-shirt that DANIEL SILVERSTEIN
refused to include in the show, besides the KAYROCK submission. (see above)
At the time, it was thrown about that Danny Silverstein did this was because it was …
quote unquote: “too EastVillage-y”!!!
.. obviously it was just too good and went way over Silverstein’s head – take heed all ye young artists who are left out of big group shows, when you know in your heart, your work is ten times better… you’re probably RIGHT !!!
it was later added to the show due to popular protest.
last photo:
MATT ENGER (left) and MARK ENGER, aka EXPLODING SKY WORLDWIDE, at the
‘100 HUNDRED ARTISTS – ONE HUNDRED T SHIRTS’ opening, on the street
outside DANIEL SILVERSTEIN GALLERY, 21st St, below 10th Ave, CHELSEA,
July 16, 2003
Mark’s wearing another EXPLODING SKY design.
EXPLODING SKY is also known for having produced the custom embellished
work/uniforms for ‘QUIET 200o’ – the JOSH HARRIS one million $ blow out millennium blast.
ANDREW HARMON, now with his own label, did the initial work/uniform designs.
(Photos: Nancy Smith)
‘ONE HUNDRED ARTISTS – ONE HUNDRED T SHIRTS’
~EXPLODING SKY/100 T-SHIRTS |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 6th, 2007, 4:36pm
EXPLODING SKY WORLDWIDE is a silkscreen shop run by MARK ENGER, often
with input, in various increments, over the years, from his equally talented twin brother, MATT ENGER.
… the “believe-or-not” story behind these recent photos, is that they both, that is each, sold one painting to a
longtime lost friend, for $10,000 a piece and immediately went out and blew it all on matching HARLEYS.
top photo: MARK ENGER
middle photo: MATT ENGER
bottom photo: MARK ENGER in his self-designed EXPLODING SKY jacket
Pphotographed on W 23rd St, Chelsea, NYC, November 11, 2006
Photos: Nancy Smith
there is photo essay on MARK ENGER & the EXPLODING SKY workshop in
artlovers STUDIO VISITS (June 6, 2006)
see: EXPLODING SKY on YOUTUBE
EXPLODING SKY WORLDWIDE
~EXPLODING SKY/ENGER BROS. |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 6th, 2007, 4:30pm
