JIM DRAIN b. 1975
i.w.2.b.yrdog, 2004
Stuffed faux fur and checkered print fabric, yellow and green pom poms, street light
globe, cardboard and milk crate. 77 x 34 x 33 ins.
Estimate: $6,000-8,000
sold for: $4,800 (includes buyer’s premium)
image scanned from:
PART II – CONTEMPORARY ART – AUCTION CATALOGUE
NOVEMBER 17, 2006 – NEW YORK
PHILLIPS de PURY & COMPANY
interesting to note that a very big room size installation by MIKE KELLEY, also with
stuffed animals, fabric and “pom poms”, is being offered in the night sale at
PHILLIPS, on the 16th of NOVEMBER, with an estimate of: $3,000,000-4,000,000.
(detail)
MIKE KELLEY b. 1954
Deodorized Central Mass with Satellites, 1991-1999
Mixed Media Installation.
Estimate: $3,000,000-4,000,000
sold for: $2,700,000
image scanned from:
PART I – CONTEMPORARY ART – AUCTION CATALOGUE
NOVEMBER 16, 2006 – NEW YORK
PHILLIPS de PURY & COMPANY
~more: AUCTION news/JIM DRAIN/MIKE KELLEY |
Posted in The Bomb | By Simon Cerigo | November 7th, 2006, 2:03pm
above: abbreviated scan from the ANP QUARTERLY NO. 5 cover:
JD Samson & Emily Roysdon, PHOTO BY EMILY ROSDON, 2006
The FIFTH issue of ANP QUARTERLY has arrived in NYC.
The cover story is an arresting report, with tons of photos, on artists/musicians/writers/performers:
(left) JD SAMSON and EMILY ROYSDON.
or as ANP states: … “they are both major creators, and instigational/organizational
rabble-rousers in the contemporary queer/genderqueer/transgender/and everything-
in-between art underground that exists globally in 2006.”
most of the pix were taken by EMILY ROYSDON, here are a few more of our favs:
and, below: from right: JAMES TSANG, GINGER BROOKS TAKAHASHI, PONY & XYLOR JANE,
sell boot-leg versions of LTTR and t-shirts a few doors down from PRINTED MATTER
during the 23rd St. block party for the release of LTTR issue 4.
the over-size, and FREE !! issue No. 5 also includes an interview by ANP co-editor,
BRENDAN FOWLER with .. “super multi-talented artist, designer, all around creative
uber-warrior GEOFF McFETRIDGE, on the occasion of his recent solo show in Los Angeles”,
a selection of photos by “legendary skate/music photographer” – “O”, and, among a few more
features, a comic on the inside back cover by ANDREW JEFFREY WRIGHT.
ANP QUARTERLY is published by: PAT TENORE
“MASTER CLUSTER”:
BRENDAN FOWLER, ED TEMPLETON & AARON ROSE
… “please join our mailing list @: www.RVCAANP.COM to be notified of the release of
each issue and locations where it can be found.”
RVCA – Artist Network Program – ANP – coming at you out of the WEST COAST,
919 Sunset Drive, Costa Mesa, CALIFORNIA 92627
note: the tip-off to the recent NYC ‘drop’ of ISSUE NO. 5 – a sighting of
AARON ROSE in SOHO last week – artlovers got its copy at: OTHER MUSIC.
~ANP QUARTERLY NO.5/JD Samson & Emily Roysdon |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 31st, 2006, 3:11pm
the card for the first Milwaukee International Art Fair – organized by TYSON REEDER, SCOTT TYSON, JOHN RIEPENHOFF, and NICHOLAS FRANK.
The fair ran the weekend of October 20 & 21, 2006, and was located at the Polish Falcons Beer Hall, a “genuine, old-school Milwaukee institution”, (with the country’s fourth oldest functioning bowling alley in the basement !).
The fair was open to the public – admission was free. Various events were
organized around the event, such as guided bus tours of the city, a performance night,
a DJ dance-a-thon, a collage party and a panel discussion.
the buzz: it was really fun, and since it only cost $150 for a booth – everyone was really
happy, and in fact, some big collectors did come down from Chicago – so it wasn’t just a cool
and super hip party – it was a working weekend. word is circulating that Canada sold
2 of MICHAEL WILLIAMS’ small paintings. to see: images of the paintings
Canada has posted some really cool pix from the fair on their website:
The fair, staged at the POLISH FALCON, a kind of funky ‘insider’ venue, was located at
803 East Clarke Street, Milwaukee, WISCONSIN. some of the galleries participating:
Angstrom, Anonymous Gallery, Bas Fisher Invitational, Canada, Galeria Commercial,
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, General Store, Ghosts are Everywhere, the Green Gallery,
Hermetic, Hotcakes, Jacob Fabricius, Judy Monroe, Karma International, Little Cakes,
Locust Projects, Morgan Lehman, Ooga Booga, Other Gallery, Polvo, The Suburban,
Western Exhibitions, White Columns, Willy Wonka, ZieherSmith, & more ..
~MILWAUKEE INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 31st, 2006, 2:10pm
KAREN KILIMNIK at her SEPT 16, 2006 opening at 303. more photos
FIRST POSTED ON THE HOME PAGE: SEPT 27, 2006:
SIMON CERIGO’S got the first buzz on the upcoming FALL 2006 AUCTIONS …
… he reports that there’s early excitement over word that a KAREN KILIMNIK PORTRAIT
is coming up at auction, at one of the NYC auction houses – this FALL … with a
guaranteed seller’s tag of : $500,000 !! – that’s half a million bucks & a record for her.
Supposedly her portraits go for higher prices than the still-life paintings …
MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW …
UP-DATE – OCT 25, 2006:
Simon reports that the auction house involved is PHILLIPS de PURY & CO.
The piece is said to be “terrifically beautiful”, but the guaranteed seller’s tag
(which seems NOT to be of public domain) is not quite that high, .. though its
…”definitely up there.”
artlovers will post more auction info and a scan of the KILIMNIK piece when the auction catalog becomes available.
above: KAREN KILIMNIK, ‘Home of the Dewdrop Fairy’, oil on canvas from 1998,
in the * LONDON * CHRISTIE’S ‘POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART’ AUCTION –
which took place on SEPT 17, 2006. (image scanned from the catalog)
estimate: US$58,000-76,000
sold for: approx US$76,000 (including buyer’s premium)
~AUCTION BUZZ/Fall 2006: Karen Kilimnik |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 31st, 2006, 1:21pm
R CRUMB & BART SIMPSON, roll over – a new wave of comic artists is coming in strong.
here’s a recent sampling:
the card for: TAYLOR McKIMENS, ‘The Drips’, September 7 – October 14, 2006,
CLEMENTINE GALLERY, Chelsea, with a comic book published by PICTUREBOX INC.
photos from the opening
the card for: MICHAEL SIEBEN & TRAVIS MILLARD, ‘REALMS OF PASSION’,
September 28 – October 15, 2006, RIVIERA, Williamsburg, Bklyn,
with a limited edition collaborative ‘drawing’ book, ‘HITten SWITCHES’
published by VOLCOM INC.
more photos of the installation
.. would it be too much of a stretch to include: KELIE BOWMAN ..
the card for: KELIE BOWMAN, ‘In preparation for your departure’,
THE SHOW IS STILL UP !!: running Oct 13 – Nov 12, 2006, Cinders Gallery,
Williamsburg, Bklyn. Kelie produced a low-fi limited edition book for the show.
photos from the opening
.. and then there’s …. NOAH LYON
NOAH LYON – ‘The Living Installation: Part Duexxx Tracyng Eminem’,
… “For 14 days the artist will be living in the gallery creating an
evolutionary installation. PAPER ROD will be in full E.F.F.E.C.T.
Come and have a grand ol’ time.” – IT’S STILL GOING STRONG !! … Oct 10 – Oct 24, 2006 –
visiting hours: noon to 11pm – with a !! CLOSING PARTY !! – SAT OCT 21, 7-11pm,
33 Bond Street Gallery between Lafayette & Bowery, Noho, NYC
more photos from the installation, featuring ADRIAN AUSTIN
retardriot.com
~the new comix: TAYLOR McKIMENS, MICHAEL SIEBEN & TRAVIS MILLARD, KELIE BOWMAN, and NOAH LYON |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 18th, 2006, 12:50pm
the card for: J PENRY – a one man exhibit – at FUSE GALLERY .
Located at 93 2nd Ave (bet 5th & 6th Sts), the gallery is open:
Wed – Sat: 3-8PM.
The show runs from SEPT 16 – OCT 21, 2006.
photos from the opening
FUSE GALLERY
~J PENRY/Fuse |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 3rd, 2006, 3:18pm
MEGAN WHITMARSH – ‘YETI BUILDS CRYSTAL’, 6 x 6″
embroidery thread on polished cotton – on wood stretcher.
Fall Season 2006 – greetings from L. A. based artist – Megan Whitmarsh.
Megan Whitmarsh
~MEGAN WHITMARSH/greetings |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 26th, 2006, 3:10pm
above image: ‘Kudzu Devouring Building, near Greensboro, Alabama, 2004’
Photo by WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY – & – the front image on …
.. the card for the exhibit: ‘WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY – Photographs 1961- 2005’
‘A poetic documentation of the American South’, the summer exhibit at:
APERTURE GALLERY, JULY 7 – AUGUST 17, 2006
above image scanned from the aperture SPRING 2006 BOOK catalog – front cover
Photo: WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY, ‘Palmist Building (Summer),
Havana Junction, Alabama, 1980’ – from the publication William Christenberry
WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY (center, in white suit) at the opening of his
summer 2006 exhibit, ‘WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY – Photographs 1961-2005’
at the Aperture Foundation Gallery, Chelsea, NYC, July 6, 2006
Photo: Nancy Smith
William Christenberry was born in 1936. That makes him 70 and he’s
totally sharp, right on and super relevant. He has been a professor at
the Corcoran College of Art and Design since 1968.
One of the more interesting technical aspects of the show, were
the archival ‘snapshot’ KODAK BROWNIE camera prints.
Back in the day, ca 1940-50, first in black and white, and apparently in
color on thru the 60’s, young kids, teens and famillies, used the
‘amateur’ BROWNIE cameras, to take ‘snapshots’ – the way cell phone
and digital cameras are in use today. Mr. Christenberry went on to
use 35mm and 8-by-10 cameras. It’s super interesting to see the
different final photo productions from the varying photo equipment
and film processing.
note: PHILIP GEFTER wrote a very compelling and informative article for this
exhibit in THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, JULY 2, 2006 – if you missed it –
here’s how it began:
“Mr. Christenberry was born in 1936 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, not 20 miles
away from the migrant farmers (Walker) Evans photographed that same year
and later published in “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men” with text
by James Agee.
“The sharecroppers in Evans’s photographs lived in a house across the
cotton fields from the farm owned by Mr. Christenberry’s grandparents.
By the time Mr. Christenberry discovered the book, in 1960, he was a
young artist. When he moved to New York the next year, it took him
months to work up the courage to call Evans, then picture editor at Fortune …”
.. anybody out there relate to this !! Apparently it was a good experience.
Evans encouraged Mr. Christenberry, even to the extent that he told him to leave
New York and return to the South and continue his work. Mr Christenberry,
for his part, was smart enough to heed really good advice when he got it,
and by 1962 he was back South in Memphis.
more photos from the opening
Aperture
~ WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY/aperture |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 15th, 2006, 12:21pm
TIM BARBER and his tinyvices project took a big
step forward in the Spring 2006 season, with a big show at Spencer Brownstone and
a wall installation at 25 Bold Moves. of interest to street cult ‘hardcopy’ magazine fans,
and photo aficionados – Tim Barber recently left a 2 year stint as photo editor
of Vice magazine.
more photos of TIM BARBER & the 25 Bold Moves, May 4, 2006 installation
the above photo is a photo of a photo that was part of the tinyvices
installation at 25 Bold Moves, May 4, 2006
Photo: Nancy Smith
~TIM BARBER/tinyvices |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 15th, 2006, 12:13pm
this is a scan of the decal JASON RHOADES produced for his ‘MECCATUNA’ exhibit,
which ran from September 12 thru October 25, 2003, at the DAVID ZWIRNER Gallery,
in Chelsea, NYC. The original is 8 x 8″. It was also the image for the show’s card,
and was identified as: “Neon transformer label, altered and translated, 2003”
UP-DATE: TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2006:
In CALIFORNIA – the Code of Civil Procedure denies public access to autopsy reports.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2006:
The official cause of death is: heart attack. Everybody is waiting for the autopsy
results, though it is rumored that they won’t be released to the public. not sure of
the finer legal journalistic workings here, but supposedly Walter Robinson over at artnet
has a buddy in L.A. who’s going to get them to him, as soon as they surface.
guess we have to start reading artnet again.
Despite the DAVID ZWIRNER Gallery’s notification that the ‘BLACK PUSSY’
soirees had wrapped over a month ago – reporters are interested in the
autopsy because they feel a need to be vindicated for relating the facts of
the matter as that the death occured at a nightclub performance of a ‘Black Pussy’
event. Being told that the misinformation hurt the family’s feelings was a little
much – since it was the artist himself who put forward the shocking and
controversial title in the first place. At any rate, no disrespect here, Jason was
rumored to be a very intense and party hard kind of guy – in other words: –
when it came to ‘in-your-face’ – he was all there .. and it obviously
took its toll – just specifically how – is what everyone is interested in – especially all
the more the gallery tries to whitewash the whole story – which is the general
feeling that is buzzing from the street up. For example: although it doesn’t
make the facts any less sad or less of a loss for those close to him, his family
unit was not as ‘typical’ as the gallery had made it out to be – reportedly Jason and
his wife were seriously estranged for over a year now.
Reports were also surfacing that Jason’s last two event/performances, including
the recent, now notorious, ‘Black Pussy’ soirees, did really well and he was
rolling in dough. even buying real estate interests ! It was not an
exaggeration to say he was on the brink of (mainstream) success.
In fact, the 2003 ‘MECCATUNA’ exhibit in NYC, did really well too.
although street lore has it that Zwirner was initially
reluctant to put up the initial (high) production costs.
… for those of you who are as clueless as this writer, ‘MECCATUNA’ was
a stand-in for ‘MECCAPU**Y’ – the story being that Jason (or his gallery)
didn’t think you could say ‘MECCAPU**Y’ and live.
As one art wag, recently opined, maybe you can’t get away with saying ‘BLACK PUSSY’
in south central L.A. either ! – who knows what took him down – ? Quentin Tarantino
could have a field day, in fact here’s a vote for MICHAEL MANN to helm the movie bio..
the NY TIMES Obit came with a super photo of Jason leaning back in a chair, in his
studio, very reminiscent of that famous last late photo of Jean Michel Basquiat,
except Jason’s suit was Miami Vice – white, not NYC black…
and WE ALL KNOW what happens to artists who are lucky enough to go out
in a ‘party down’ mode – JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT move over – there is going
to be new competiton at the art auctions.
~JASON RHOADES/update/&/MECCATUNA DECAL |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 10th, 2006, 1:22pm
