A BIG GROUP SHOW – AT A SPECTACULAR . . . NEW GALLERY, INTERNATIONAL OBJECTS / UP TILL . . MAY 28, 2023
here it is coming up on Memorial Day & summer /
and we are still talking about . . House, HOME & GARDEN . . !!
way to go, NYC !!!!
GIVE US – SOME RESPITE / IN THIS TOO FAST, CRAZY, WORLD.
we started with the utilitarian basics: DIY, ‘TURN ONZ’ lightswitches & lamps, presented by Jeffrey Tranchell & crew / in the historic Lower East Side. Took a turn, and did a slow-paced rambling through garden Diaries and Memory-making with Josephine Halvorson & her crew in Chelsea; then took a sharp jump over the East River, to land in nature’s ‘disappearing garden’, with Sam Cockrell & his butterflies, at International Waters, and thus from lightswitches & postcards, began an imagined Sci-Fi Time Travel / a leap of the imagination inspired by the contrast between International Waters in old school Bushwick . . and its new sister gallery – the palatial, sci-fi palatial !!
INTERNATIONAL OBJECTS, and believe me when I say, not being one to dwell often on architecture, give me a pop-up any day / this a trip !! this is a . . time travel to the future.
this is a flight from homey gardens, to the big wide unknown. Sky top, concrete terraces – of space ships.
‘LOCAL OBJECTS’ / A BIG GROUP SHOW of mostly LOCAL, NYC artists
opened March 18th, & runs thru . . . SUN MAY 28, 2023
INTERNATIONAL OBJECTS, 53 SCOTT AVE., FIFTH FL, EAST WILLIAMSBURG – BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN 11237
VIEWING HRS . . .
THURS: 12 – 10 PM
FRI-SUN: 12 – 6 PM
ALL PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
THOMAS BERGER, ‘Greasy Hole Pulpit Chair, 1 & 2’, 2023
Paper pulp, wooden frame, polyurethane, and paint
108 x 16-1/2 x 18 in.
you could say the sci-fi vibe starts with the concrete brute, wide wide spaces, wide, wide & high windows, that open onto endless terraces, that look out over miles and miles of Bushwick Industrial wasteland. only 5 stories high, but the highest building for miles, you could start a fire, and send ‘smoke signals’ – to the Manhattan mainland, unimpeded.
but I say: the sci-fi vibe – starts with that huge wide entry staircase.
which is so curious, just in that itself / that a huge, wide & minimal, but grandly proportioned, concrete staircase would evoke a future-world worthy of Moebius, and, with no elevator in sight.
is it the new rule ?
that the more complicated and futuristic we go, the basic DIY skills, come charging back in at us / like walking up stairs, with an increasing sense of wonder, and entering a space in complete awe, out of time & body, even.
SHANIA TABAK,
top, on the wall: ‘Folding Table No. 1’, 2021.
sapele, poplar, walnut.
bottom, open as a table: ‘Folding Table No. 2’, 2021.
sapele, poplar, walnut.
NICK SULLIVAN, ‘Brown Trust Stove’, 2023.
steel, magazine, pigment, charcoal / 19 x 6-1/2 x 13-1/2 in.
right background:
MAX LAMB, ‘Delaware Bluestone Chair’, 2009.
Bluestone / 19 x 13 x 19 in.
om the wall:
SAM COCKRELL, ‘Self-Portrait’, acrylic on shaped canvas
41 x 132 in.
I mean just imagine . . .
if this was a future world, skeleton ‘QR CODE’.
the cabinet beneath it:
TAYLOR BALDWIN, ‘Hunger Stone’;, 2022.
Mixed media / 31 x 57 x 18 in.
these 2 pieces really worked well together, & kept the sci-fi narrative – on high alert /
Hunger Games, anybody.
again, primitive DIY seems to go hand-in-glove – with future world scenarios, it’s always the samo, same old same old !!
survivor vs predator. name your century. name your book of thrones.
CAIT PORTER, ‘Light Bulbs’, 2023.
oil on linen / 64 x 48 in.
MEREDITH JAMES, ‘Planter’, 2023.
Planter, wood, acrylic paint, faux paint, LED lights, and pedestal.
74 x 58 x 58 in.
MEREDITH JAMES, detail
Meredith James, detail
YIKES . . . !!!
SERRA VICTORIA BOTHWELL FELS, ‘Venting’, 2020.
cast & powdered aluminum
UP NEXT: HIGHLIGHTS FROM ‘LOCAL OBJECTS’ at INTERNATIONAL OBJECTS . . .
PART 2: FOOD FOR THOUGHT . . . !!
PART 3: UP ON THE (MIGHTY) ROOF . . . !!
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~HIGHLIGHTS . . . from: ‘LOCAL OBJECTS’ / INTERNATIONAL OBJECTS / BROOKLYN / PART 1 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 19th, 2023, 10:41am
SAM COCKRELL – ‘MORPHO’ at INTERNATIONAL WATERS / BROOKLYN
HAS BEEN EXTENDED . . . THRU APRIL 23rd
VIEWING HRS: SAT & SUN / 2 – 4 PM
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SAM COCKRELL – A MAN OF TWO WORLDS
‘MORPHO’ – & – ‘LOCAL OBJECTS’
SAM COCKRELL . . . . finds himself with work /
in 2 very different galleries this weekend, and although the 2 galleries seem to be associated / the shows, the first a solo show, and the second a big group show / and the galleries themselves are in many respects, as different as day is from night.
the most important difference for you at this particular moment / is that one show, ‘Morpho’, is closing this weekend, and you don’t want to miss it /
so, let’s begin there:
‘SAM COCKRELL: MORPHO’ . . . LAST WEEKEND !!!!
‘MORPHO’ OPENED JAN 27 & is . . . .
still open: ONLY FOR THIS WEEKEND: SAT & SUN / MARCH 25 & 26, 2023.
INTERNATIONAL WATERS, 262 Meserole St., Brooklyn / East Williamsburg / Bushwick, NYC
behind Newton Radio /
HRS: SAT & SUN / 2 – 4 PM
see: the well written exhibition statement & gorgeous installation photos
so, what can I say ?
GET READY TO RE-SET YOUR ‘HUMAN-TO-EARTH’ / BRAIN, and put your SCI-FI ears on.
“FOR COCKRELL . . an obsession with butterflies & moths has emerged through a daily painting practice. Using an airbrush, Cockrell’s paintings double as an archive of relations between the artist & various forms of animalia.”
“By using an airbrush, his gesture is a soft one that is careful to never make contact with his surface. In a field blur, Cockrell’s creatures fall into their environment… Each work recalls a photographic instant; the paintings capture static objects that would otherwise seemingly be in motion. For Cockrell, butterflies & moths possess a history of human iconography & also represent a planetary history.”
~GALLERY NOTES
“the writer VLADIMIR NABOKOV, also a well known Lepidopterist, was obsessed with butterflies & moths as image-producing insects. Characterizing their wings as exploits (!!!!), Nabokov likens the butterfly to a deceiver with artistic impetus.”
~GALLERY NOTES
artlovers: what I find most entrancing in these works, along with the bold color range, and even a sense of embroidery (!!), is just that: the very non-auto, slightly diffused focus / which is used here as a deliberate visual device, a signifier / of time, movement & which gesture is a very human, a very painterly, contrarian effect / auto-focus being all we see these days. our smart cameras are all about sharp focus . . marking these slightly out of focus paintings, which began with scientific observation / as uniquely man-made.
made by a painter – with a stubborn ego !!
Man of Two Worlds !! science vs art.
it’s a deliberate pictorial stand vs. the advanced technology of today.
though its surface – is painted with an air brush / which is new technology, in the history of painting
Man of Two Worlds.
and yet, for all our tech advances, instant auto-focus which even a child can employ is pretty amazing / yet, now we have a global survival problem – the super threatening decline / of the ecology of this planet, or as we knew it.
some trade-off.
Man of Two Worlds. auto-focus for everyone on the one hand / loss of nature, our animals & habitat on the other.
and, oh. yeah. the . . backgrounds. that spray paint – is just crazy – hellbent !!
and, animal / seduction . . . by pattern ? / works every time.
SAM COCKRELL, ‘Eastern Tiger Swallow, Yellow Morph’, 2022.
acrylic on canvas /
93 x 67 in.
SAM COCKRELL, ‘Eastern Tiger Swallow, Black Morph’, 2022.
acrylic on canvas /
36 x 36 in.
SAM COCKRELL, ‘MORPHO’ – INSTALLATION SHOT
note: ALL 3 IMAGES ABOVE COURTESY: INTERNATIONAL WATERS
INTERNATIONAL WATERS, 262 MESEROLE ST., BROOKLYN, NYC
behind these worn, but mighty old doors / behind Newton Radio, lies . . International Waters.
the building is as grimmy, and grit – as old school NYC used to be, for sure.
tough & rough / the artists and buildings . . alike.
in sci-fi . . this grungy underground ‘garage’ from the deep past, would be where the rebels would hang out, and scheme. that wide arched doorway, in all reality the entrance to a 19th C. carriage house, where the horses brought in their wagons.
in sci-fi . . this would be the shady workshop, where those grubby, die-heard, outlaw heroes stealthily cobbled scrap . . into small vehicles / the better to take down – the whole mass-future, whether it be Human? Ai? Mutated? Alien?
Man of Two Worlds, it’s funny how this old horse & buggy doorway, now put to modern pedestrian use / screams sci fi . . . and, to think there’s air brush butterflies within, flitting about / that’s history meets science & goes . . ballistic.
seriously, the whole show is so subversive, and it’s just . . butterflies ?
must be – the spray paint.
yep. the sign says: 1875 !!
so great when they used to time-stamp – all those historic buildings.
note: all 3 photos above, of Meserole St., BROOKLYN: NANCY SMITH
ps: INTERNATIONAL WATERS is run by: MATT TABER & TRANG TRAN / as per the website.
SAM COCKRELL, ‘Self Portrait’,
acrylic on canvas / 41 x 132 in.
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
and, if that ‘shaped’ painting isn’t / HUMAN-centric, and sci-fi scary . . Man of Two Worlds,
I don’t know, what is.
you can get a real sense of how frail a human is vs. how potent, and vibrant / the inner soul of an artist is.
and then: going forward, gallery-wise
SAM has . . .
this great . . . great, eerie / sharp, deep red & green, super-wired / but, deathly static . . . self portrait !!
dead to the bone, on a surf board ?
in ‘LOCAL OBJECTS’, a big, futuristic-leaning . . group show that just opened, in the new / new construction, elegant brute . . INTERNATIONAL OBJECTS gallery, a few blocks away.
if that building, all big, bold open space, concrete & glass . . doesn’t signal / elite palace from an alien future, what does ?
ps: International Waters is also run by MATT TABER and TRANG TRAN, except now with the addition of partners . . NATE HEIGES and ANNAKA OLSEN.
all concrete, steel & glass / the gallery is on the top floor, and has use of the penthouse roof/terraces – to great effect, with expansive views of the Manhattan skyline, in the distance.
INTERNATIONAL OBJECTS, 53 SCOTT AVE., EAST WILLIAMSBURG, BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN, NY 11237
HRS: THURS – SUN / 12 – 6 PM
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
‘LOCAL OBJECTS’ – is on view thru . . . MAY 28, 2023
see:
‘Man of Two Worlds’, by Sir Maui Pomare. 1953
‘Man of Two Worlds’, by Raymond F. Jones. 1963
‘Man of Two Worlds’, by Walter Raleigh. 1964
‘Man of Two Worlds’, by Frank Herbert & Brian Herbert. 1986
~SAM COCKRELL . . MAN OF TWO WORLDS / INTERNATIONAL WATERS !! & INTERNATIONAL OBJECTS !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 24th, 2023, 1:34pm
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
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
. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
~PHILIP HINGE & OTHERS . . ‘LOCAL OBJECTS’ / INTERNATIONAL OBJECTS / OPENS SAT MARCH 18 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 18th, 2023, 10:43am
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
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 !!
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
~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
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
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
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
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
