~’LOCAL OBJECTS’ . . .

every story – tells a story.

PHOTOS – FROM THE OPENING /
POSTED BY INTERNATIONAL OBJECTS / @internationalobjects – to their story / Instagram March 20, 2023

‘LOCAL OBJECTS’ . . . . BIG GROUP SHOW & AFTER-PARTY / with mostly local artists, NYC
OPENED . . last SAT MARCH 18
& is up thru . . MAY 28, 2023.

INTERNATIONAL OBJECTS, 53 SCOTT AVE., 5th Fl., BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN, NYC 11237
VIEWING HRS: THURS – SAT / 12 – 6 PM


photo: @stephenburksmanmade
artwork: @rattas-naami / Imaan Sattar


photo: @stephenburksmanmade
artwork / design: @isabel_rower / Isabel Rower (possibly shelving)


photo: @stephenburksmanmade
artwork / design: chair (unaccredited)


photo: @bijoumartin
artwork: @michele_gabriele / Michele Gabriele (currently Milan, Italy-based)


photo: @thefutureperfect
artwork / design: cabinet / @chenandkai / Chen Chen & Kai Williams


photo: @ryan_macfarland
artwork: @alfreemanjr / Al Freeman Jr.


photo: @icedkrupa
art: @hows_nick / Nicholas Sullivan


photo: @icedkrupa
art: @chicfila69 / Sam Cockrell


photo:@icedkrupa
congrats to the International Objects crew:
@gotranggo / Trang Tran
@stumpydarkpod / Nate Heiges
@annaka_olsen / Annaka Olsen
@matttaber37 / Matt Taber
@internationalobjects / International Objects

~’LOCAL OBJECTS’ . . . | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 23rd, 2023, 8:32am



~PHILIP HINGE & OTHERS . . ‘LOCAL OBJECTS’ / INTERNATIONAL OBJECTS / OPENS SAT MARCH 18

speaking about: HOUSE, HOME & GARDEN . . !!!
PARTY !! PARTY !! PARTY !!
& . . . ROOF TOP !!!
with a VIEW !!!

New York’s newest, & meanest gallery / as in meanest . . business !!
as in .. going for the cutting edge / at the intersection . . of OBJECT, DESIGN & ART.
as in – steel, glass & concrete . . new construction build-out / with a view
INTERNATIONAL OBJECTS . .
presents as its inaugural exhibition . . ‘LOCAL OBJECTS’ /
a big, local-centric artist group show, themed on: ‘objects’ /
most of which seem to be quite domestic, as a starting point – but then, take-off: most are not exactly . . static, tame, or even functional !!
animate ?
just, maybe so.

‘LOCAL OBJECTS’ . . . . opens SAT MARCH 18, 2023 / 6 – 9 PM / 53 SCOTT AVE., BROOKLYN
AFTER PARTY . . . . will follow 9 PM – LATE / 99 SCOTT AVE., BROOKLYN
RSVP LINK on website: objects.international

‘LOCAL OBJECTS’ . . . will run thru MAY 28, 2023


PHILIP HINGE . . . in ‘LOCAL OBJECTS’ / !!!!

INTERNATIONAL OBJECTS,
53 SCOTT AVE., 5th FLOOR
BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN, NY 11237
VIEWING HRS: THURS – SUNDAY / 12 – 6 PM

read: more about ‘LOCAL OBJECTS’ & . . . . . . > see the list of artists

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~PHILIP HINGE & OTHERS . . ‘LOCAL OBJECTS’ / INTERNATIONAL OBJECTS / OPENS SAT MARCH 18 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 18th, 2023, 10:43am



~JOSEPHINE, MITSUKO, DANI / w a side of EMMY !!

SOME PIX !! – FROM THE OPENING OF:

‘JOSEPHINE HALVORSON: UNFORGOTTEN’ . . . &
‘EVIDENCE of CIRCUMSTANCE’ – a 5 Person ‘Companion’ Show – curated by JOSEPHINE HALVORSON
SIKKEMA JENKINS, CHELSEA, NYC – FRI MARCH 17, 2023

ALL PHOTOS – NANCY SMITH


JOSEPHINE HALVORSON, ‘Army Heater’, 2022
acrylic gouache on panel
31 x 26 in.


JOSEPHINE HALVORSON, ‘Disconnect Box’, 2022
acrylic gouache on panel
32 x 26 in.


JOSEPHINE HALVORSON . . at the opening of her quietly unfolding, detailed, thoughtful . . inward looking – cast outward / show of new paintings: ‘Unforgotten’.
Sikkema Jenkins, NYC. MARCH 17, 2023


JOSEPHINE HALVORSON, ‘New England Blacksmiths’, 2021
acrylic gouache on panel
44 x 31 in.


JOSEPHINE HALVORSON, ‘Last Words’, detail


JOSEPHINE HALVORSON, ‘Last Words’, 2022
acrylic gouache on panel
45 x 45 in.

JOSEPHINE HALVORSON’s . . paintings have a curious, easy-going, all-over surface / a few quotes from the exhibition notes help push that dialog: “Since 2018, Halvorson has been painting with acrylic gouache on absorbent grounds. Inspired by fresco painting’s ability to indelibly hold color & mark, the artist has sought to make a sensitive surfacw that preserves her observations . . ” / “. . (she) works in a verite style, documenting the subtle shifts of shadow and thought. As she says: ‘I want to make a painting that remembers better than I can’.”


DANI LEVINE, ‘Swirl, Swoop, Circle’, 2020
pigments, plastic specks, glass with hide glue on paper pulp ground
72 x 64 in.

if Josephine’s paintings . . catch & hold, the world around her, Dani’s catch the world inside her head & sets it free. if all the world’s a garden . . this would be the flower – of internal emotions that blow – in the wind.

in curating . . ‘Evidence of Circumstance’ – a group show of 5 artists which accompanies her own show, Josephine remarks . . “I have brought together works that share questions I have in my own practice, specifically how circumstance – forces beyond one’s own control – can work in tandem with artistic will. In these works, contingency, coincidence, movement, and environment lend a hand to artistic process, imparting their agency through material transformation.”


DANI LEVINE, behind her, her painting, ‘Sail Composition, No. 1, V2’, 2023

Josephine Halvorson, on Dani’s work: “The direction that a painting takes is not up to the artist alone, but guided by a mixture of .. artistic will and the slipperiness of matter.”


DANI LEVIN . . . at the opening of ‘Evidence of Circumstance’, curated by Josephine Halvorson,
Sikkema Jenkins, NYC. March 17, 2023
but even so, what goes on inside that head, becomes a power-painted ‘conversation’, a focused free fall dialog . . that we can all . . fall, into.


DANI LEVINE, ‘Sail Composition, No. 1, V2’, 2023.
pigments with oil on canvas
72 x 64 in.


MITSUKO BROOKS, at the opening of ‘Evidence of Circumstance’, curated by JOSEPHINE HALVORSON,
Sikkema Jenkins, NYC. March 12, 2023.

if, Josephine commits shifts in reality to memory, and Dani riffs emotionally off her recollection of it, Mitsuko .. . surely makes a travelog of diary notes, ‘Evidence of Circumstance’ has many options and game plans. and we think evidence . . is such a static property / thing.
Not.
you do know what – they teach babies: “row, row your boat – life is but a dream.”
but super nice – to try and pin it down, for sure.


MITSUKO BROOKS, ‘Mail to self postmarked August 17, 2020.’, 2020.
book protector, paper, watercolor, stamps, typewriter ink
9 x 12-1/4 in.

“Miitsuko Brooks sends mail art to friends, strangers, and her future self, releasing personal messages into public circulation.” (!!!)
As a librarian, Brooks collects discarded book covers, onto which she collages diaristic writings, wishes, words of protest and resistance, and archival material. Neighbors and postal workers contribute additional markings, sometimes unintentionally, folding together author and recipent Sometimes, Brooks archives the letters in large paintings, memorializing her expressions and coming to terms with letting go.”
~gallery notes


MITSUKO BROOKS . .
the pieces are double-sided, so it’s interesting how they are hung perpendicular to the wall.
very cinematic. very effective. just like the life, she is trying to notate / always moving on.
pretty much the ‘realist’ thing – in the whole gallery, the movement of life.


MITSUKO BROOKS, ARIGATO (mail to Yoshie Sakai postmarked Septemebr 20, 2020)’, 2020.
a discarded book cover, watercolor, paper, stamps, typewriter ink
7-3/4 x 4-3/4 in.

a discarded book cover !! now, that’s sustainable art, if I ever did see one. out with the old ‘vernacular’ – in with a new life . . of beauty.


then a-long, comes . . Emmy !!!
yep, life is – but . . a dream.
EMMY THELANDER, SIKKEMA JENKINS, NYC. March 17, 2023.

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH

~JOSEPHINE, MITSUKO, DANI / w a side of EMMY !! | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 17th, 2023, 6:17pm



~MITSUKO BROOKS, CORIN HEWITT, DANI LEVINE, HELEN MIRA, CALIXTO RAMIREX . . ‘EVIDENCE of CIRCUMSTANCE’ / SIKKEMA JENKINS / OPENS FRI MARCH 17

it’s kind of like . .
a big . . HOUSE & GARDEN PARTY / DIARY-STYLE / ART SEASON ?!!

‘EVIDENCE of CIRCUMSTANCE’ – 5 PERSON GROUP SHOW
CURATED by JOSEPHINE HALVORSON
with: MITSUKO BROOKS, CORIN HEWITT, DANI LEVINE, HELEN MIRA, CALIXTO RAMIREZ

OPENS FRI MARCH 17 / 6 – 8 PM
and runs thru . . APRIL 12, 2023
SIKKEMA JENKINS, 530 WEST 22nd ST., CHELSEA, NYC 10011


MITSUKO BROOKS, ‘Mail to self postmarked August 17, 2020’, 2020.
book protector, paper, watercolor, stamps, typewriter ink
9 x 12-3/4 in.
image via SIKKEMA JENKINS


DANI LEVINE, ‘Palmettes’, 2019.
pigment & hide glue on pulp paper ground
71 x 64 in.
image via SIKKEMA JENKINS

read: about ‘Evidence of Circumstance’ & see artwork by the other artists !!

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~MITSUKO BROOKS, CORIN HEWITT, DANI LEVINE, HELEN MIRA, CALIXTO RAMIREX . . ‘EVIDENCE of CIRCUMSTANCE’ / SIKKEMA JENKINS / OPENS FRI MARCH 17 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 17th, 2023, 9:23am



~JOSEPHINE HALVORSON . . ‘UNFORGOTTEN’ / SIKKEMA JENKINS / OPENS FRI MARCH 17

it’s spring & it’s been a tough year /
but, we are coming up . . . flowers !!

JOSEPHINE HALVORSON: ‘UNFORGOTTEN’
OPENS FRI MARCH 17 / 6 – 8 PM
& RUNS THRU . . . APRIL 22, 2023
SIKKEMA JENKINS, 530 WEST 22nd St., Chelsea, NYC 10011


JOSEPHINE HALVORSON, ‘Peony’, 2022
acrylic gouache on panels / 65 x 80 in. /
25 panels each 13 x 166 in.
image via SIKKEMA JENKINS

~JOSEPHINE HALVORSON . . ‘UNFORGOTTEN’ / SIKKEMA JENKINS / OPENS FRI MARCH 17 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 17th, 2023, 8:55am



~ANDY DEMCZUK & ROB VENTURA / ‘ GROOVE BOX’ / GOOD NAKED / OPENS THURS MARCH 16 / 6 – 8 PM

WALL FLOWER ?
PERISH THE . . THE THOUGHT !!!
WHEN GROOVY – WAFTS . . THRU THE ROOM !!!

‘GROOVE BOX’ – WALL PAINTINGS . . !!
a 2 PERSON SHOW with . . . ANDY DEMCZUK & ROB VENTURA
OPENS THURSDAY MARCH 16, 2023 / 6 – 8 PM
and runs thru . . APRIL 16, 2023
GOOD NAKED, 72 ALLEN ST., L.E.S. / NYC 10002
HRS: SUN-FRI / 11-5 PM


ROB VENTURA . . “my largest painterly effort to date” . . !!

artlovers: I’m thinking . . flower/power – groovy ?!!! . . hip hip !!


ANDY DEMCZUK . . “Groove Box is TONIGHT” . . !!

artlovers: I’m thinking . . turbulent/exuberant – groovy ?!!! . . hip hip hoo-ray !!
above 2 images via GOOD NAKED


‘GROOVE BOX’ – INSTALL SHOT /
image via Instagram @robventura

~ANDY DEMCZUK & ROB VENTURA / ‘ GROOVE BOX’ / GOOD NAKED / OPENS THURS MARCH 16 / 6 – 8 PM | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 16th, 2023, 3:21pm



~TURN ONZ . . . NADA FLEA, LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC

and I do mean, deep deep – into the historic . . Lower East Side.

JEFFREY TRANCHELL & JONNY CAMPOLO PRESENT:
TURN ONZ / hand-made lamps & lightswitches / lightswitch covers
at the new NADA HQ / SAT & SUN FEB 18 & 19, 2023
NADA / NEW ART DEALERS ALLIANCE / 311 East Broadway, 2nd Fl Exhibition Space, NYC 10002

PIX – FROM . . . the TURN ONZ table – NADA FLEA / SUNDAY FEB 19, 2023
ALL PHOTOS – BY NANCY SMITH / UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED !!


TURN ONZ co-curators, JONNY CAMPOLO & JEFFREY TRANCHELL . . (and, Scraps the pup).
on the table:
a ‘Faux Flower’ lightswitch, with a vintage florist green (!!) painted plastic cover by DAVID KENNEDY CUTLER, & a ‘Brute’ . . DIY LAMP by JEFFREY TRANCHELL


TURN ONZ co-curator JEFFREY TRANCHELL, with artloversnewyork publisher . . NANCY SMITH
& yes, that would indeed be . . me.
Photo: EMMY THELANDER / thanks for the great photo . . Emmy !!

on the table, from left:
3 stained glass lightswitches by JONNY CAMPOLO, a slightly more sober stained glass & lead lightswitch by JOSIE KEEFE, that ‘cinema verite’ ‘faux rose flower’ lightswitch, thorns & all – by DAVIS KENNEDY CUTLER, a ‘new age neutral-toned woven’ ceramic lightswitch by Detroit’s pottery collective HAMTRAMCK, an ‘elegant, slightly brute’ candelabra lightswitch – by T.D. SIDELL !!
top right: 2 DIY lamps, that are turned on !!
and . . friggin glow – neon pink – by JEFFREY TRANCHELL.


another great photo of me & JEFFREY, at the TURN ONZ table !!
by . . the great . . EMMY THELANDER !!

here you can peep, from bottom left:
a rather morose / goth switch – turn on that goth !! / yes.
that might even be . . . a human skull? by AMBER LOCKE.

moving along: a truly deconstructed . . shipping label/slash/cardboard & elastic band lightswitch cover – by ALEX KNEPLEY, that looks like it quite literally . . ‘covers’ the light switch / jokers rejoice !!

and, there’s . . MINE !! bring on . . the clowns !!
art jokers, and jugglers !!
it’s titled: ‘Good Night, Grinch Babies’, and it’s also made from everyday materials, that is, if vintage Dr. Seuss baby crib cotton fabric – lies around you house – like it does . . around mine !!
held together by that lightest of adhesives, the lowly, but colorful . . & shapely !! binder reinforcement sticker / the fact that they are laid out in a repeating pattern, that “leads you through the artwork” / is an ode to my . . many long years / of art ‘practice’.
and, my sense of humor about it all, probably stems from the decades of over-ambitious / art mover & groovers . . who deluge me with their over-sized, over-wrought / wannabe . . artist egos.
but, seriously !! let’s not ruin a fun day, and leave it – at that !!
but, mine . . is 100% functional, totally vernacular – with a just touch of textile history / so, yeah . . very light-hearted / ‘light’ . . being the key word /
in a Turn Onz . . show.


ALEX KNEPLEY – he of the joking, cardboard . . switcheroo !!


these were pretty funny, too / do your – laundry !!
‘dirty socks’ lightswitch by – OSCAR BEDFORD


which is not to say there weren’t some very fiery, very skilled ones !!
Lightswitch – by ORLANDO ESTRADA


or even some . . very quiet, even archaeological ones / minimal – is not the word. maybe poetic, and . . bone fragments ?
lightswitch – by DYLAN SPAYSKY


DYLAN SPAYSKY, I heard he runs a gallery on his backyard porch, in Detroit.
does that explain his lightswitch, maybe.


JEFFREY . . made a great, turned-on !! / sandwich board for the . . FLEA !!
with lightswitches by: HAMTRAMCK CERAMCK, JAIME KEITER, TRAVIS BOYER, MAGGIE SULIVAN, LAUREN CLAY & JONNY CAMPLOLO . . !!


the other side of the electrified poster . .
with lightswitches by: THE PERFECT NOTHING CATALOG, JEFFREY TRANCHELL, GLEN BALDRIDGE, JAX PARTLOW (the mirrored one), R BLAIR SULLIVAN, and the great, gaping mask by HENRY CRISSMAN . . !!


we’ll give HENRY CRISSMAN – . . . the last “HELLO” /
TURN ONZ, NADA FLEA
LET THERE BE FUN / LET THERE BE SKILLS / LET THERE BE . . LIGHT !!!!

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, unless otherwise noted /
portraits of NANCY SMITH & CO., by EMMY THELANDER, thanks !!

~TURN ONZ . . . NADA FLEA, LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 27th, 2023, 3:58pm



~JEFFREY TRANCHELL . . LAMP, TURN ONZ / NADA FLEA / SAT & SUN FEB 18 & 19

LAMPS . . . TURN ON – THE LIGHT !!!


JEFFREY TRANCHELL, FUNCTIONAL LAMP, TURN ONZ series.
image via Jeffrey Tranchell / @jeffreytranchell

JONNY CAMPOLO & JEFFREY TRANCHELL PRESENT: A WHOLE BUNCH of . . . TURN ONZ !!!
NADA FLEA – NADA HQ / 311 EAST BROADWAY, NYC , EXHIBITION SPACE – 2nd Fl
THIS WEEKEND . . . !!!!
SAT & SUN / FEB 18 & 19, 2023 / 11am – 5pm
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

~JEFFREY TRANCHELL . . LAMP, TURN ONZ / NADA FLEA / SAT & SUN FEB 18 & 19 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 18th, 2023, 8:18am



~JONNY CAMPOLO . . LIGHTSWITCH / TURN ONZ / NADA FLEA / SAT & SUN FEB 18 & 19

go on, flick that !!
start your day – off right.


JONNY CAMPOLO, lightswitch / TURN ONZ series,
fancy cut – stained glass.
image via Instagram @jonnycampolo

‘TURN ONZ’ – presented by JONNY CAMPOLO & JEFFREY TRANCHELL
NADA FLEA / NADA HQ / 311 EAST BROADWAY, NYC – EXHIBITION SPACE, 2nd Floor
THIS WEEKEND . . . !!!!
SAT & SUN / FEB 18 & 19, 2023 / 11am-5pm
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

~JONNY CAMPOLO . . LIGHTSWITCH / TURN ONZ / NADA FLEA / SAT & SUN FEB 18 & 19 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 18th, 2023, 8:05am



~NANCY SMITH . . ‘GOOD NIGHT, GRINCH BABIES’ / TURN ONZ / NADA FLEA / FEB 18-19

I have a . . . DIY lightswitch !!
in the . . . ‘TURN ONZ’ PRESENTATION – CURATED BY JONNY CAMPOLO & JEFFREY TRANCHELL
at the big NADA FLEA – this weekend / SAT & SUN FEB 18-19, 2023 / 11am – 5pm
at the new NADA HQ – 311 EAST BROADWAY, NYC – 2nd FL.
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

COME ON EVERYBODY – TURN UP THE MAGIC / WHEN YOU FLIP THAT EVERYDAY, & MUCH . . TAKEN FOR GRANTED !!!!
LIGHTSWITCH . . . !!!!!


NANCY SMITH, ‘Good Night, Grinch Babies’, TURN ONZ series, 2021.
DIY fancy cut patches from vintage Dr. Seuss baby crib cotton sheet,
multi-color binder reinforcement stickers, cardstock, standard plastic lightswitch cover.
Photo: Jeffrey Tranchell


the reverse /
Photo: Jeffrey Tranchell


check out: @artloversnewyork on Instagram

~NANCY SMITH . . ‘GOOD NIGHT, GRINCH BABIES’ / TURN ONZ / NADA FLEA / FEB 18-19 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 17th, 2023, 10:59am


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