KEVIN HOOYMAN at the opening of ‘EARLY WORM GETS THE BIRD’, CINDERS GALLERY, Nov 16, 2007. (that’s one of his finely detailed colored pencil drawings – on the upper left hand side of the wall.)
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
KEVIN HOOYMAN recently showed his work, in a 3 Person Show – at CINDERS – in Brooklyn. The show was titled: ‘EARLY WORM GETS THE BIRD’ and the other 2 artists in the show were – BRIAN CHIPPENDALE and JUNGIL HONG. (good company !! ).
The show ran Nov 16 – Dec 30, 2007.
here’s: the first post with the card !!
check out: photos from the opening !!
here are some more of KEVIN HOOYMAN’s work from that show:
detail, KEVIN HOOYMAN, colored pencil drawing, in ‘EARLY WORM GETS THE BIRD’, CINDERS
KEVIN HOOYMAN, pencil drawing, in ‘EARLY WORM GETS THE BIRD’, CINDERS
KEVIN HOOYMAN, detail above drawing
KEVIN HOOYMAN, detail above drawing
KEVIN HOOYMAN, detail above drawing
KEVIN HOOYMAN, detail above drawing
KEVIN HOOYMAN, colored pencil drawing, in ‘EARLY WORM GETS THE BIRD’, CINDERS
KEVIN HOOYMAN, colored pencil drawing in ‘EARLY WORM GETS THE BIRD’, CINDERS
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
you can see more of the show on the CINDERS website – under ‘PAST SHOWS’
at: CINDERS GALLERY
check out: KEVIN HOOYMAN’S website !!
~KEVIN HOOYMAN/remember? |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 16th, 2008, 1:41pm
IMAGE: SPACE 1026. ‘Locally Localized Gravity’ (installation view, Insititute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania). 2007.
PHOTO: ADAM WALLACAVAGE/COURTESY: SPACE 1026
POPRALLY PRESENTS
AN EVENING WITH CANNONBALL PRESS & SPACE 1026
THURSDAY – FEBRUARY 14, 2008 – 7-10PM
MoMA – THE LEWIS B. AND DOROTHY CULLMAN EDUCATION & RESEARCH BUILDING
4 WEST 54TH ST – MIDTOWN – NYC
TICKETS: $5 – available at the Museum Information & Film desks
NOTE: YOU MUST BE at least 21 or older !! – to attend (cocktail reception !!)
JOIN PopRally for a special night with MARTIN MAZORRA & MIKE HOUSTON, printmakers and founders of CANNONBALL PRESS, along with artists from SPACE 1026, a unique creative community located in downtown PHILADELPHIA.
CANNONBALL PRESS is a BROOKLYN-BASED organization that produces affordable black and white prints by a number of artists (including SEAN STAR WARS, DAVID REES, DAVID ELLIS, MAYA HAYUK and SWOON). In addition to their own art, Mazorra and Houston also work together to create large format woodcut prints.
SPACE 1026 was founded over a decade ago by a handful of artists and tricksters who organize rowdy public events and outrageous installations at their building and at other institutions. At the heart of SPACE 1026 is a communal screenprinting workshop where the madness comes to life. – PRESS RELEASE
FOLLOWING presentations by the artists, GRETCHEN WAGNER, Curatorial Assistant in MoMA’s Department of Prints & Illustrated Books, moderates a discussion about the artists’ work. A cocktail reception follows the event.
more info: MoMA
check out: SPACE 1026, PHILADELPHIA
definitely check out: CANNONBALL PRESS
IMAGE COURTESY/CANNONBALL PRESS, BROOKLYN
~SPACE 1026 & CANNONBALL PRESS/at MoMA/to-nite/FEB 14 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 14th, 2008, 4:34pm
artwork by KEVIN HOOYMAN/IMAGE COURTESY: kevinhooyman.com
LIBBY ROSOF is 100% RIGHT ON – !! – WHEN SHE SUGGESTS, in the article highlighted below – on WHITE NOISE! at SPACE 1026 – TO CHECK OUT KEVIN HOOYMAN’S ‘fun’ website – it’s more than fun – it’s: a-m-a-z-i-n-g !!
and takes a while to traverse all its twists & turns and some, surprises.
gotta love the line drawing !! and the animation !!
check it out: KEVIN HOOYMAN – website !!
~KEVIN HOOYMAN/website !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 14th, 2008, 4:22pm
WHITE NOISE! – A SHOW ABOUT MODERN MYSTICISM
runs thru FEBRUARY 2008
SPACE 1026 – 1026 ARCH STREET – 2ND FLOOR – PHILADELPHIA
FEATURING WORK BY: DREW BECKMEYER, MICHELLE BLADE, THERMI CANIAGIM, C.F., KEVIN HOOYMAN, PAULINA MAKELA, KYLE MOCK, JAY NELSON, ERIKA SOMOGYI, MIKE SWANEY, JESSE ROSE VALA, JUSTIN B. WILLIAMS & ISSAC LIN.
JUSTIN B. WILLIAMS is also the show’s curator.
the WHITE NOISE! card/IMAGE COURTESY: SPACE 1026
artwork by ISAAC LIN/IMAGE COURTESY: SPACE 1026
ISSAC LIN’S tiny TIGER SKIN T-SHIRT, gouache on (cut) paper, 5 x 6 ins./IMAGE COURTESY: ROBERTA FALLON and LIBBY ROSOF’S artblog
LIBBY ROSOF covered this show for her artblog
. . . here’s the the beginnings of her thoughts . . .
the post is titled: WHITE NOISE MYSTICS AT SPACE 1026
“At a moment when the so-called adults of the world are failing to find solutions to the big problems that face us on Planet Earth, a desperate new generation is turning to mysticism for a way out of the mess we are making.
Their thinking is not so far from the thinking of the 60s, with its search for transcendance through sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll.
White Noise! at SPACE 1026 this month is a group show about modern mysticism, spirituality, new psychedelia and the environment. It draws artists from coast to coast and includes one from Finland. (Paulina Makela)”.
see the rest of the article: ROBERTA FALLON AND LIBBY ROSOF’S artblog
definitely check out: SPACE 1026
~WHITE NOISE/SPACE 1026/PHILLY |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 14th, 2008, 4:05pm
ONLY UP FOR 10 DAYS !!
BREVITY’S RAINBOW – A GALAXY OF TINY ARTWORKS
CURATED BY MAXWELL WILLIAMS
THE SHOW RUNS FEB 8 – thru – FEB 17, 2008
CINDERS – 103 HAVEMEYER ST – BTWN HOPE & GRAND – WILLIAMSBURG – BKLYN – NY
HOURS: WED-FRI 2-8PM / SAT+SUN 12-7PM
A GREAT LITTLE SHOW OF OVER 200 VERY SMALL ARTWORKS BY A DIVERSE RANGE OF ARTISTS – INCLUDING – PFFR, ERIKA SOMOYGI, NOAH LYON, KEEGAN McHARGUE, ANDREW JEFFREY WRIGHT, ANDREW GUENTHER, MIKE PARE, WES LANG, ASSUME VIVID ASTRO FOCUS, MISAKO INAOKA, ELIZABETH HUEY, MAYA HAYUK, ROYAL ART LODGE, KELIE BOWMAN & STO.
MOST OF THE WORK FALLS WITHIN THE $50 – $150 range. for example the ANDREW JEFFREY WRIGHT PIECES – ARE A STEAL – at $50/a piece. KELIE BOWMAN’S PIECE is $125. YOU CAN PICK UP A SMALL ANDREW GUENTHER PAINTING FOR $250 – INCLUDING A VERY FUNNY (WORKING) CLOCK – also $250 !
the top-tier prices are:
KEEGAN McHARGUE’s untitled piece is $3,000; the WES LANG piece, ‘Since I laid my burden down’ goes for $4,000; and small line drawings by ASSUME VIVID ASTRO FOCUS are priced at $5,000/a piece.
our favorite pieces were the tiny figurines by MISAKO INAOKA – just because we’ve never seen anything like that before – imaginary animal/beasts crafted like mass produced STAR WARS figurines – they were beyond perfectly detailed – and emitted strange bleating – motion sensitive sounds !! Her ‘3 EGG EVOLUTION’ is priced at $1,500. – and her ‘TREE OF EVOLUTION’ – taps out at $5,000.
at the opening, of ‘BREVITY’S RAINBOW’, NOAH LYON, (with work in the show), and his wife, of about a year, MARIA LYON.
NOAH LYON, ‘Many moods of dudes’, ($200 ea.)
top, NOAH LYON, ‘Many moods of dudes’, below, STO, ‘asspirin’
STO, ‘asspirin’, ($80)
JESSICA VITKUS, ‘I hate you 752’, ($100)
ERIKA SOMOGYI, untitled, ($50-$150 ea.)
ERIKA SOMOGYI, ‘untitled’, ($50), in ‘Brevity’s Rainbow’
ERIKA SOMOGYI, ‘untitled’, in ‘Brevity’s Rainbow’
left: BOYD SHROPSHIRE, ‘4 small paintings’ ($150), and, right: JESSE BROWN ‘5 Inch Cube Drawing’ ($125)
ANDREW JEFFREY WRIGHT, ‘GRIMMACE BONG’ & ‘Who Blurbered’, ($50 ea.)
ANDREW JEFFREY WRIGHT is a member of Philadelphia’s SPACE 1026
ANDREW GUENTHER, ‘untitled (clock)’, ($250)
MIKE PARE, ‘DID YOU MISS ME’, (sold)
ANN REGAN, ‘El PASO, TEXAS (HIGHWAY 61)’, ($50)
ANN REGAN, ‘EL PASO, TEXAS (BOB DYLAN)’, ($50)
KATLYN HERSHMAN, ‘I give up’, ($125)
the tiny flag turned on electric power, KATLYN HERSHMAN, ‘I give up’
MATT HANSEL, ‘Cloud connected’, ($480)
detail, MISAKO INAOKA, ‘Tree of Evolution’, ($5,000) (5 individual ‘toy’ animal/beasts on a tiny shelf – the figurines are motion sensitive and produce sounds)
detail, MISAKO INAOKA, ‘Tree of Evolution’
detail, MISAKO INAOKA, ‘Tree of Evolution’
DYLAN MARTORELL, ‘untitled’, pencil on paper, 4.5 x 4.5 ins. ($150 ea.)
another great deal !!!
MOLLY McINTYRE, ‘Sean’, ($50)
MOLLY McINTYRE is a member of Philadelphia’s SPACE 1026
MAXWELL WILLIAMS, the curator of ‘Brevity’s Rainbow’, at the opening, outside on the street in front of CINDERS, FEB 8, 2008
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, FEB 8, 2008
see: more pix from the show/CINDERS website
~BREVITY’S RAINBOW/CINDERS |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 7th, 2008, 4:40am
PETER STALEY – AT THE ARM – OPENING RECEPTION – FRI FEB 8 – STARTS AT 7PM
THE SHOW RUNS FOR 10 DAYS ONLY : FEB 8 – FEB 18, 2008
LIVE PERFORMANCE BY WINTER SUN (MATT REILLY – aka 1/2 JAPANTHER)
WITH DJ BOB DYLAN THE ROBOT VERSION 1.1
THE ARM – 281 NORTH 7TH ST – BTWN HAVEMEYER & MEEKER – WILLIAMSBURG – BROOKLYN – NY
GALLERY HOURS: FRI, SAT, SUN, MON: NOON – 6PM
THE ARM
~PETER STALEY/THE ARM/OPENS FRI |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 7th, 2008, 4:22am
PHOTO CREDIT: LORI BAKER & DAVID E. BROWN
76 KISSES – OPENING RECEPTION – FRI – FEB 8 – 7-9PM
SELECTED PHOTOS FROM LORI BAKER & DAVID E. BROWN’S COLLECTION OF
VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHS.
THE SHOW RUNS: FEB 1 thru MARCH 30, 2008
THE CITY RELIQUARY STOREFRONT MUSEUM & CIVIC ORGANIZATION
370 METROPOLITAN AVENUE – AT HAVEMEYER – WILLIAMSBURG – BROOKLYN – NY
HOURS: SAT + SUN; 12-6PM & BY APPOINTMENT
The photos span a full century, from a risque and intimate smooch in a Victorian parlor to a 1990s Polaroid of a New York couple at a dance . . .
The core of the collection are snapshots from the 1930s through the 1960s, widely considered the Golden Age of the American snapshot.
The photographs in 76 KISSES come from Lori Baker and David E. Brown’s collection of more than 200 vintage snapshots of kisses. They have been culled from flea markets, junk shops, photo albums, yard sales, eBay, and chance finds. Baker and Brown estimate that they have looked at approximately 800,000 photographs in search of these pictures.
– PRESS RELEASE
THE CITY RELIQUARY
~76 KISSES/CITY RELIQUARY/RECEPTION/FRI |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 7th, 2008, 4:00am
RUTH ROOT – OPENS THURS – FEB 7 – 6-8PM
THE SHOW RUNS: FEBRUARY 7 – MARCH 16, 2008
ANDREW KREPS GALLERY – 525 WEST 22ND STREET – CHELSEA – NY
ANDREW KREPS GALLERY
~RUTH ROOT/OPENS THURS |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 7th, 2008, 3:46am
from left: MASSIMO VIGNELLI, his wife LELLA, and BOB GILL – at the STEFAN SAGMEISTER – ‘THINGS I HAVE LEARNED IN MY LIFE SO FAR’ – OPENING, DEITCH PROJECTS, NYC, JAN 31, 2008
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
BOB GILL MADE HIS NAME IN LONDON DURING THE SIXTIES – WHEN LONDON – WAS THE HOTTEST PLACE ON The PLANET. IMAGINE THAT – FOR A MOMENT. APPARENTLY – HE IS ONE OF THE, (IF NOT THE), FATHERS OF THE CONCEPT OF ‘THE BIG IDEA’ – OR HOW HE TERMED IT – “PROBLEM SOLVING”. THAT EVERY DESIGN PROJECT CALLS FOR AN INDIVIDUAL and UNIQUE DEFINING IDEA – BEFORE THE START OF THE GRAPHIC DESIGN ELEMENT – “EACH NEW PROBLEM SUGGESTS A NEW SOLUTION.”
one of his most famous images – would be the movie poster for “The Go-Between” with Julie Christie and Allan Bates, on the right:
image courtesy: THE ART DIRECTOR’S CLUB/1991 HALL OF FAME ARCHIVE
in fact – this essay, from which the images were taken – in the ART DIRECTOR’S CLUB – 1991 HALL OF FAME ARCHIVE – is a really interesting read –
check it out: BOB GILL/ART DIRECTOR’S CLUB !!
if you can get into it – the GRAPHIC DESIGN AD WORLD – follow the essay’s hotlinks to ALEXY BRODOVITCH and PAUL RAND, the real old guard, the generation before Bob Gill.
the essay: on PAUL RAND !! – in particular – is most interesting.
PAUL RAND was responsible for these design icons – need we say more.
IMAGES COURTESY/PAUL RAND 1972 HALL OF FAME ARCHIVE/ART DIRECTOR’S CLUB
ABOUT MR. VIGNELLI – HOW’S THIS FOR A BEGINNING INTRODUCTION – HE DESIGNED THE FAMOUS 1972 NYC SUBWAY MAP !!
watch a really interesting clip on: MASSIMO VIGNELLI & THE 1972 NYC SUBWAY MAP, here !!
where there is also a link to: MICHAEL BIERUT’S essay: MR. ViGNELLI’S MAP !!
MASSIMO VIGNELLI’S 1972 NYC SUBWAY MAP/COURTESY: DESIGN OBSERVER
the VIGNELLI 1972 NYC SUBWAY CLIP above, is actually from ‘HELVETICA’ (2007) – the full length documentary by GARY HUSTWIT, which examines the “proliferation of one typeface, Helvetica – which celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007”.
for more, see: ‘HELVETICA’ !!
(STEFAN SAGMEISTER is also interviewed in the film.)
There is a comprehensive essay on MASSIMO VIGNELLI on WIKIPEDIA.
it begins:
“MASSIMO VIGNELLI (born 1931) is a designer who has done work in a number of areas ranging from package design to furniture design to public signage to showroom design through Vignelli Associates, which he co-founded with his wife Lella. He has said, ‘If you can design one thing, you can design everything.’ and this is reflected in the broad range of his work.”
for more see: WIKIPEDIA/MASSIMO VIGNELLI !!
DEITCH PROJECTS
~BOB GILL, MASSIMO VIGNELLI/DESIGN GIANTS/SAGMEISTER OPENING |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 7th, 2008, 12:51am
STEFAN SAGMEISTER/1999 AIGA POSTER/COURTESY: COMPOGRAFO
STEFAN SAGMEISTER . . designer ? artist ? what about . . DEMON CHILD !!
here’s a guy who says in interviews he was never interested in being a Fine Artist. talk about major denial. his “inner artist” had to literally – cut himself out. that AIGA poster is the real thing – it’s not photo shopped – nor sharpie penned – he actually had his assistant carve into his body with an X-acto blade.
That entire controversy over: graphic designer vs. fine artist – is so over, so boring, and so played out. get with the program already. tangible production+skills = art. do we really have to look to the kids in the streets of New York to get to the bottom of this – they get it: “it all comes down to skills – it’s all, about the skills, man.” and this does not in any way exclude creative expressions or objects that are informed by thought. skills does not mean – without thought. You can’t have even the most basic down-to-earth skills – without a focused mind-set, and a certain amount of study and experimentation. when you get whatever you are doing – be it design, object fabrication or conceptual project, folk art, street art – whatever – going in such a way that it attracts other people’s attention – believe it, its art.
STEFAN SAGMEISTER has an interesting narrative – obliquely addressing the (indistinct) line between artisan and creative/conceptualist artist, with regards to his personal experience growing up in a household where one set of skills – did not preclude the other; though the label society deployed – to his grandfather, a professional sign painter – probably did.
. . . it’s in a section of his website – that is dedicated to:
STUDENTS/CHAPTER #6 Type and Typography
it goes:
“My grandfather was educated in sign painting and i grew up with many of his pieces of wisdom around the house, traditional calligraphy carefully applied in gold leaf on painstakingly carved wooden panels. One of his panels, still hanging in our hallway in Austria, reads:
This house is mine, and it isn’t mine
the second guy won’t own it either
They will carry out the third one too,
So tell me, my friend, whose house is it.”
yep, a smart sensitive kid growing up in a house like that might just evolve into the kind of artisan/designer/thinker/artist whose “most enjoyable” project might be trying to figure out life’s lessons – who does ‘own’ the house ? – and, title the whole project, in the most straightforward way – ‘THINGS I HAVE LEARNED IN MY LIFE SO FAR’.
yes, of course !! – SAGMEISTER has an interesting website, as much as for it’s ‘tone’ as its mechanical ‘animation’.
check it out here: SAGMEISTER INC., NEW YORK
one of his projects that might be most familiar to artworld denizens – though they might not know he was behind its design – would be the MARIKO MORI ‘WAVE UFO BOOK’.
STEFAN SAGMEISTER DESIGN PROJECT/MARIKO MORI ‘WAVE UFO ‘ BOOK /PHOTO COURTESY: SAGMEISTER INC., NEW YORK
a good place to start a research of his game plans and accomplishments would be, and definitely
check it out: DESIGN MUSEUM ESSAY/STEFAN SAGMEISTER – GRAPHIC DESIGNER b. 1962
BACK TO THE AIGA POSTER: . . guess the BIG IDEA – really is everything . . . in the design world. the artworld hasn’t historically been behind these kinds of self-expression. you’ll note – it isn’t mentioned in the DEITCH press release. though according to the DESIGN MUSEUM essay – it’s considered “a graphic icon of the 1990s”.
STEFAN SAGMEISTER signs copies of his new book, at the opening of ‘THINGS I HAVE LEARNED IN MY LIFE SO FAR’, (also the name of the book), DEITCH PROJECTS, Jan 31, 2008
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
DEITCH PROJECTS
STEFAN SAGMEISTER/artist/designer/what about demon child ? |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 6th, 2008, 2:33pm
