some selections from – MOCA LOS ANGELES BENEFIT AUCTION – 6PM
MAY 15 2008 / NEW YORK / PHILLIPS de PURY & COMPANY:
LOT 12
RINEKE DIJKSTRA
Isabel, June 26, 2003, 2003
C-print. 46 3/4 x 39 3/4 in. Signed and dated “Rineke Dijkstra May 21, 2006” and numbered of 10 on a label adhered to the reverse. This work is from an edition of 10.
ESTIMATE: $25,000-35,000
SOLD FOR: $30,000
LOT 29
STERLING RUBY
SP28, 2008
Spraypaint on canvas. 96 x 84 in.
ESTIMATE: $35,000-45,000
SOLD FOR: $260,000
PHILLIPS de PURY & COMPANY
~PHILLIPS/MOCA LOS ANGELES BENEFIT/MAY 15/6PM |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 14th, 2008, 12:11pm
. . . if you are in New York City – you got a few tough choices to make – 4 very interesting shows – all opening within the same time frame !!
first up:
. . . URS FISCHER is opening some kind of major installation at TONY SHAFRAZI to-nite.
early buzz has it pegged as a “waterfall coming down the large entry staircase”.
there’s sure to be some real star power attending – though Urs is notorious for not attending his own openings ! maybe as a gesture of respect to Tony – he will show to-nite. the event is billed as . . .
‘Who’s Afraid of Jasper Johns’
A show conceived by Urs Fischer & Gavin Brown
opening FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2008 – the show runs: MAY 9 – JULY 12, 2008
TONY SHAFRAZI GALLERY – 544 W. 26TH ST – CHELSEA
. . . URS FISCHER, in front of his large painting, ‘A Novel and Its Novelist’, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, FEB 19, 2005
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
. . . meanwhile on the other side of town …. JEFFREY DEITCH is a wasting no time showcasing his new ‘acquisition’ – former CLEMENTINE artist, TAYLOR McKIMENS !!
the show just came together and is being billed as:
‘TAYLOR McKIMENS – SOFT SERVE’
opening FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2008 6-9 PM in the storefront/gallery/annex on Grand St.
the show will run: MAY 9 – JUNE 14, 2008
DEITCH PROJECTS – STOREFRONT GALLERY – 76 GRAND ST – SOHO
according to the press release the show features a new large portrait, four works on paper and “sculptural interventions” … “TAYLOR McKIMENS was born in 1976 in Seattle, Washington, and raised in Winterhaven, California, a small desert town on the Mexican border. he currently lives and works in Canada” – where is hanging out with the COMMUNITY OUTREACH crew. Taylor is in town, he’s been hanging the show, personally, all week – and he will be at the opening.
Taylor has recently exhibited at the WATARI MUSEUM of CONTEMPORARY ART in TOKYO, among other venues, and his work was included in ‘Panic Room: Selections from the DAKIS JOANNOU Works on Paper Collection’ in Athens, Greece, 2007.
TAYLOR McKIMENS/IMAGE COURTESY:DEITCH PROJECTS
. . . and, in the same neighborhood – a pal of Taylor’s – PETE PEZZIMENTI – will have some all black wall/works up in a show of 4 young artists at TOBEY FINE ARTS.
Pete plans to be there early and then head over to Taylor’s show at DEITCH.
‘No Thing Impossible’
featuring: SHINSUKE ASO, KEIKO NARAHASHI, JIM NOLAN & PETE PEZZIMENTI
opening: FRIDAY MAY 9, 2008 – 6-8 PM
the show runs: MAY 9 – JULY 3, 2008
TOBEY FINE ARTS – 580 BROADWAY – SUITE 902 – SOHO
amongst true insiders of the scene – there’s considerable excitement swirling around the super talented PETE PEZZIMENTI – who is now a free agent – who’s gonna be the gallery that finally succeeds in snagging this guy? stay tuned !!
PETE PEZZIMENTI in his PROSPECT PARK studio/apt – MAY 8, 2008
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
. . . and last, but CERTAINLY, not least !! a big party at CINDERS to-nite, over in BROOKLYN – a huge RICH JACOBS curated free-for-all – as only RICH JACOBS knows how to pull it off !!
as Sto writes:
. . “a big awesome group drawing show is coming your way this FRIDAY – so, come on out and enjoy this spring weather .. {oops its raining today !! maybe it will stop by to-nite – irregardless it will be a great party – inside or out/artlovers}
.. see some rad drawings, some good friends, maybe make some new ones too, you never know? crazy, so are these drawings.”
MOVE #16:
‘DON’T PAINT YOUR TEETH’ – curated by RICH JACOBS
‘a show that likes to draw’ – with pencil, ballpoint pen & sharpie …
OPENING FRIDAY MAY 9, from 7 to 10pm or so …
the show will run: MAY 9 – JUNE 8, 2008
CINDERS GALLERY – 103 HAVEMAYER ST – WILLIAMSBURG – BROOKLYN
some of the many many featured drawers, this is NYC !!!: BRIAN CHIPPENDALE, CHRIS MENDOZA, ERIC WHITE, ERIK FOSS, NECKFACE, MATT LEINES, OLIVER HALSMAN ROSENBERG, TAYLOR McKIMENS, KELIE BOWMAN, STO, MAYA HAYUK, JOHN ORTH, TRAVIS MILLARD, ALLYSON MELLBERG, KEVIN HOOYMAN, HISHAM BHAROOCHA & more .. !!
IMAGE/COURTESY: CINDERS GALLERY
~oh, no/NYC/FRI MAY 9 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 9th, 2008, 7:55am
. . . if you’re in PARIS !! you can also check out the premiere screening of the new COCO ROSIE video: ‘God has a voice, She speaks through me’ !!
FRIDAY MAY 9, 2008 – at 6PM.
MAD VICKY’S TEA GALLERY – 3 rue Nicolet, PARIS 18eme
see: Mad Vicky’s Tea Gallery
~Coco Rosie/Paris |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 9th, 2008, 7:35am
CHARWEI TSAI is presenting a new project, ‘MUSHROOM MANTRA’ at the CENTRE POMPIDOU, PARIS, FRANCE !!
it opens today, WED MAY 7, 2008 and runs until AUGUST 11, 2008
so, if you’re in Paris, (or, will be this summer) – you’re lucky, you can check it out !
. . . the show seems to be called: ‘TRACES DU SACRE’ – and Charwei seems to have a project called ‘Mushroom Mantra’ in it ? the poster is beautiful, isn’t it.
So, actually this is a pretty big group show, multi-media in scope, with more than 350 works by over 200 internationally known artists. It aims to be a major survey of the dialog between art and spirituality in the 20th C., starting with work from the 19th C and going right up on to – today – that would be Charwei, among others. !!!
(” ..’Traces du Sacre’ est concu comme une encyclopedia des rapports entre l’art et la spiritualite au XXe Siecle.”)
It also appears to be initiating a major new ‘audience interactive’ system at the Centre Pompidou, with gallery goers encouraged to enter their comments and engage in digital ‘discussion boards’.
see: CENTRE POMPIDOU/’TRACES DU SACRE’
PHOTO/COURTESY: CHARWEI TSAI
CHARWEI TSAI, at the ‘LOVELY DAZE’ Issue #1 magazine launch, PRINTED MATTER, OCT 22, 2005
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
. . . we first met CHARWEI TSAI at PRINTED MATTER, on the occasion of the very first magazine launch for her self-published ‘LOVELY DAZE’ – a limited edition quarterly publication, which highlighted “artist writings and artwork”. Looking back it was quite a sweet and low-fi publication – it had the aspect & style of an actual kind of ‘sketchbook’ with different artist pages. mostly young and, usually well-beyond, the mainstream radar – it felt much more like an artwork – itself – than a publication.
you can see archival artlovers coverage: here !!!/OCT 2005
. . . that’s kind of an interesting report – OCT 2005 – it starts with pix of the – now super hot !! – trio: SCOTT, ELYSIA & TYSON REEDER – at their ‘EARLY SHOW’ !! – a show of artists and their early artwork, (incl. RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA !! JIM DRAIN !! & BRIAN BELOTT !!) which they curated for WHITE COLUMNS . . . and, then still on the top row – we get a photo of SPENCER TUNNICK !!- who figured in the recent ‘Guest of Cindy Sherman’ – he was the video/cameraman for the early GALLERYBEAT, and the film also included brief snippets of one of his epic city nudescapes, as well.
. . . then the photos move over to MICHAEL MAHALCHICK and his ‘UNNATURAL DESIRES’ at CANADA, and then, in big turnaround – we get the very goth – one person S/HE GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE show at the old PARTICIPANT on Rivington St, and last, a big bunch of photos on the CHARWEI TSAI ‘LOVELY DAZE’ event !! incl. CORY ARCANGEL, and many other of the young contributors and their art. there’s a good feel for the magazine itself. looking back now, it seems even more ‘gentle’ in its vision and touch, very intimate – as opposed to, say, the journal or ANP QUARTERLY, just as examples – of 2 other published magazine/collections of artist writings & work, with unique/signature styles of their own.
. . . the report ends with a big bang !! photos from – the ‘LOVELY DAZE’ Issue #1 after-party – a night not easily forgotten !! – JAPANTHER – played at a tiny dive bar, the ICU BAR on the fringes of the meatpacking district before the street got taken over by gentrification. OCT 22, 2005 !! MATT REILLY even had work in the ‘LOVELY DAZE’ inaugural issue.
see: the ‘LOVELY DAZE’ website/its quite beautiful – with issue archives !!
~CHARWEI TSAI/POMPIDOU |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 7th, 2008, 4:03pm
. . . while at atm – we spied some new TOMOO GOKITA ink drawings, on the back wall !!
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
atm Gallery
~TOMOO GOKITA |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 7th, 2008, 3:57pm
atm’s BILL BRADY with photographer DAVID ADAMS, originally from Australia, now living in Rotterdam. in the ERIC SALL exhibition currently up at atm Gallery thru Saturday, May 10, 2008 (ERIC SALL, ‘Thick Freakness’, in the background)
check out: DAVID ADAMS/website
the photos are quite beautiful. very documentary style.
FRANK JULIUS TAAL, curator of contemporary art projects, at DE AANSCHOUW and DE KUNSTSUPER, both in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. also drops by the ERIC SALL exhibit at atm Gallery. (beside him, ERIC SALL’S ‘Joy Rebellion’).
De Aanschouw is a kind of ‘vitrine’ or glass window display case/exhibition space.
(it seems to be kind of like: Mauritizio Cattelan’s old ‘Wrong Door’ Gallery – that used to be in a faux glass door display case next to the former 20th St./Chelsea location of the Andrew Kreps Gallery, before it moved to its current larger space, on 22nd St.)
De KunstSuper is a larger more conventional gallery.
check out: de Aanschouw/80b
also a pretty interesting website !! and ….
check out: De KunstSuper
which also looks to be a very cutting edge exhibition space.
FRANK JULIUS TAAL showed us some images via computer from a recent project at De Aanschouw – in which successive artists painted over the same surface. De Aanschouw is located in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
ALL PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, (incl. last 3 of computer/photo images)
atm Gallery, Chelsea, NYC,
Saturday, APRIL 26, 2008
Frank Julius Tall also showed us some postcards from previous de Aanschhouw exhibits !! here are 2.
PHOTOGRAPHY: BAS WEIJKAMP
PHOTOGRAPHY: BAS WEIJKAMP
and here is a sample image from the DAVID ADAMS ‘fotografie’ website:
PHOTOGRAPHY: DAVID ADAMS
atm Gallery
~Rotterdam visitors at atm |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 6th, 2008, 9:45am
card for the show/ERIC SALL, ‘Joy Rebellion’, 2008, oil on canvas, 65 x 51 ins.
ERIC SALL – ‘SOLID LIQUID – up thru this SAT MAY 10, 2008
APRIL 4 – MAY 10, 2008
atm Gallery – 621 W 27TH ST – CHELSEA
ERIC SALL with ‘Thick Freakness’, oil on canvas, behind him.
Eric Sall has a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. He was awarded the prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation grant in 2004. He has work in the SAATCHI COLLECTION and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.
Eric’s wife, multi-media artist, RACHEL HAYES. She is from Virginia, Eric hails from Kansas City, guess they met while he was in graduate school in Virginia. They moved to Brooklyn, last June 2007.
ERIC SALL, ‘Chemical Reaction’, 36 x 40 ins.
ERIC SALL, ‘Chemical Reaction’, 2008, oil on canvas, 36 x 40 ins.
ERIC SALL, ‘Icy Hot’, 2008, oil on canvas, 30 x 22 ins.
ERIC SALL, ‘Icy Hot’, above the gallery desk, to the right, atm assistant director, SARAH MATTES.
ERIC SALL, ‘Joy Rebellion’, 2008, oil on canvas, 65 x 51 ins.
ERIC SALL, ‘Gutted’, 2008, oil on canvas, 65 x 51 ins.
detail, ERIC SALL, ‘Gutted’, 2008
ERIC SALL, ‘Never Enough’, 2008, oil on canvas, 65 x 51 ins.
detail, ERIC SALL, ‘Never Enough’, 2008
detail, ERIC SALL, ‘Never Enough’, 2008
detail, ERIC SALL, ‘Never Enough’, 2008
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
atm Gallery
~ERIC SALL/atm/last week !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 6th, 2008, 7:59am
all images from the YouTube clip: Cindy Sherman Filmed in 1986/State of the Art/ILLUMINATIONS TV/CO/UK
see: the clip on YouTube !!
~CINDY SHERMAN/1986 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 5th, 2008, 10:53am
PAUL H-O & CINDY SHERMAN in ‘Guest of Cindy Sherman’/PHOTO COURTESY/’Guest of Cindy Sherman’
PAUL H-O . . . and
. . TOM DONAHUE, co-directors of ‘Guest of Cindy Sherman’
at the afterparty, THE CUTTING ROOM, NYC, TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL,
APRIL 27, 2008
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
IMAGE COURTESY/’Guest of Cindy Sherman’
‘Guest of Cindy Sherman’ had its premiere in the last week’s TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL – APRIL 2008
JAN ALBERT – loved the movie !! – read: her review
check out: ‘Guest of Cindy Sherman’/official website
(don’t miss the YouTube links !!)
ORIGINAL ARTLOVERS HOME PAGE/POSTED/APRIL 24, 2008:
** YO!! listen up !! **
there’s a great little art world film – premiering in the TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL THIS WEEK !!!
FUNNY, SWIFT, COMPELLING, WITH SWEET HIGHS & LOWS
this is a REAL insider’s look behind the photos !!
and the art world careers.
PAUL H-O who churned out GalleryBeat on Public Access TV – in the early 90s – with WALTER ROBINSON !! – (that’s what you did when you wanted to rock the artworld before there was the web) – & – TOM DONAHUE of ‘WASHINGTON HEIGHTS’ acclaim – have put together a really intimate & witty reflective documentary – that you don’t often get to see – I wonder, why! …. that it includes footage of some of our favorite people in the art world, and what a diff 5 years can make – is the icing on the cake. this IS the one to go see….
just saw it, last nite .. and I’m still fascinated by it . .
* it’s got black & white surfer titles just like that only other really great art movie – ‘BASQIUAT’ – in fact, it even has vintage Julian Schnabel footage – (classic Julian throwing a fit) – and, even, CHARLIE FINCH gets a star turn – with a cameo appearance !! *
* but unlike ‘BASQUIAT’ – it’s got the REAL characters – playing themselves – what could be better !! !! *
* ‘GUEST OF CINDY SHERMAN’ – a FILMLIKE PRODUCTION – !! – has its premiere this SUNDAY, APRIL 27th at 9PM !! *
UP-DATE: MON MAY 12, 2008
happier days – PAUL H-O (HASEWAGA-OVERACKER) and CINDY SHERMAN, at the FALL 2004 opening of CINDY SHERMAN’S ‘CLOWN’ photographs, METRO PICTURES, MAY 7, 2004
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
see: the original post
~Guest of Cindy Sherman |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 5th, 2008, 9:55am
. . . all I could get out of them – was: they’re bringing instruments !!!
SCOTT REEDER & TYSON REEDER – EGG FUGUE – To-NITE – FRI MAY 2, 2008
FROM 7:45 – TO COINCIDE WITH SUNSET
DANIEL REICH GALLERY – 537 W 23Rd STREET – CHELSEA
and, YO !! YO !! – their show of mostly small, magical, yin/yang bro. paintings – is still up !! check it out !!
(finally – a little competition for JOE BRADLEY’S BIG-BEIGE !!)
SCOTT REEDER – ‘Bread and Butter (Night)’
TYSON REEDER – ‘Woman with Vase’
TYSON REEDER -‘Woman with Keyboard’
SCOTT REEDER – ‘Rectangles Relaxing’
the large painting on the left, SCOTT REEDER – ‘Paper at Night’, and on the floor, at left, SCOTT REEDER – ‘Untitled’ – ceramic sculpture
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
DANIEL REICH
~SCOTT REEDER & TYSON REEDER/EGG FUGUE/TO-NITE !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 2nd, 2008, 2:56pm
