and, then there’s HALEY JOSEPHS . . and her dark, brooding vision.
on view for 2 more weekends, don’t miss it.
HALEY JOSEPHS . . ‘When Men Are Fairy Tales in Books Written by Rabbits’
MARCH 30 thru MAY 6, 2018
DELI GALLERY, 10-16 46th Ave, Long Island City, Queens, NYC 11101
HRS: SAT & SUN / 12-5 PM – or by appointment
HALEY JOSEPHS, b. 1987 originally hails from Seattle. now Brooklyn-based artist, she has an MFA in Painting from Yale.
this is her second solo with Deli.
read more: HALEY JOSEPHS – DELI
read:‘HALEY JOSEPHS TALKS to AUSTIN LEE about her paintings’ – TWO COATS OF PAINT
PIX FROM THE OPENING – SAT MARCH 30, 2018:
HALEY JOSEPHS. ‘Mehetabel’, 2018
oil on canvas. 72 x 60 in.
($6,400.)
BTW . . that is painter DEVAN SHIMOYAMA, at center.
he appears as the subject in many of the dreamy new DANNY FERRELL paintings, which have been making waves, lately.
HALEY JOSEPHS’ paintings are not without their own, in-your-face . . ‘controversy’.
and yet, share a current common love for anything . . ‘barn’ imagery related / esp in the fashion world.
the big question is:
putting the fire out ?
or adding fuel – to the flames ?
and what’s with the very curious, but striking . . pioneer garb ?
metaphors abound.
the color palette is h-o-t, and passionate.
paintings for . . painters.
HALEY JOSEPHS on left, with her mom . . at the opening.
MAX MARSHALL, founder-director of DELI GALLERY.
HALEY JOSEPHS, ‘Levitating Phoenix’, 2017
oil on canvas. 96 x 72 in.
($8,000.)
HALEY JOSEPHS, ‘My Freedom to be Sick is my Teacher’, 2018
oil on canvas, 40 x 30 in.
($3,60)
HALEY JOSEPHS and CHRISTINA BOLT
JAMES MILLER and NICHOLAS STEINDORF
AARON FOWLER.
Aaron Fowler b. 1988, St Louis, Missouri . . “will present a new installation of his work in the window of the New Museum’s 231 Bowery building. This project is part of a new series of window installations, which relaunches the program.” (New Museum)
it will run MAY 2 – AUG 19, 2018
more info: ‘Aaron Fowler: Bigger Than Me’ – NEW MUSEUM
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~HALEY JOSEPHS . . ‘WHEN MEN ARE FAIRY TALES IN BOOKS WRITTEN by RABBITS’ / DELI |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 25th, 2018, 8:10am
@shona_mcandrew: #sculpture #papermache
thank you @mei_being_mei (real doggie !!) for posing with Caroline.
@pilotprojectspilotprojects
#effyourbeautystandards
IMAGE VIA INSTAGRAM @shona_mcandrew
READ: ‘Shona McAndrew gets Body Positive at PILOT PROJECTS, (PHILADELPHIA) by LEAH GALLANT / artblog / April 17, 2018
*with a great Q&A with the artist
see: SHONA McANDREW – PORTFOLIO WEBSITE
~SHONA McANDREW . . talkin’ feisty, girl !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 21st, 2018, 10:39am
4-20.
apparently . . it’s closing in on Halloween as a great day . . to celebrate.
& somebody’s got . . hot pot !!
REBECCA MORGAN, CLAY (GREEN STONEWARE) POT, 2018.
IMAGE VIA INSTAGRAM @rebeccamorgan10
her ‘Gorgeously Goofy Face Jugs’ . .
made the New York Times, this week / Wed April 18, 2018 . . in this week’s ‘What to See in New York Art Galleries’ column, written by JILLIAN STEINHAUER . .
on the big, maybe radical, group show: ‘CLAY TODAY’ . . at THE HOLE.
the show is up thru . . MAY 6.
see: ‘What to See in New York’ / scroll down . . to JILLIAN STEINHAUER
see: THE HOLE – CLAY TODAY
@rebeccamorgan10: “The obligatory trotting out of this painting, ‘The Smoker’ on this day.”
‘The Smoker’, 2012, Graphite and oil on panel. 26 x 22 in.
IMAGE VIA INSTAGRAM @rebeccamorgan
as many people know, Ms. Morgan is also . . a far-out painter !!
and this is a tame one, in terms of technique.
it’s restraint, color palette, and hazy, sunshine lit / realism reminded of those great, maybe more a touch more ‘romantic’ . . paintings by DANNY FERRELL, that I saw at GALERIE PACT / this past NADA.
they also blew up BIG, guess a new breeze of realism is blowing into town ?
see: DANNY FERREL / GALERIE PACT / NADA NYC MARCH 8-11, 2018
but, back to Ms. Morgan: LISA YUSKAVAGE . . watch out !!
@__mrs.__: ‘Rebecca Morgan for ‘Dutch Masters’, opening [today] with regular gallery hours / 11 – 5 PM
Opening reception, Friday, 4/20, 6- 9 PM
IMAGE VIA INSTAGRAM @__mrs.__
PHOTO: REBECCA MORGAN, ‘Stereotypical Hippie Girl’, 2015
ink and watercolor on paper (plus frame)
8.25 x 5 in.
(Courtesy of ASYA GEISBURG GALLERY)
MRS. – ‘DUTCH MASTERS’
A GROUP SHOW
OPENING TODAY – FRI APRIL 20, 2018 / 6 – 9 PM
the show runs thru JUNE 2, 2018
MRS. GALLERY, 60-40 56th DRIVE, MASPETH, QUEENS, NEW YORK
see: MRS. GALLERY – ‘DUTCH MASTERS PAGE’ / for full artist list & press release
see: REBECCA MORGAN – ASYA GEISBERG GALLERY
see: REBECCA MORGAN – ARTIST PORTFOLIO WEBSITE
~REBECCA MORGAN . . . this week’s – le smokin’ hottie!! / ‘Dutch Masters’ @ MRS. / OPENS FRI APRIL 20 / 6-9 PM |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 20th, 2018, 11:27am
the 3 Rs: ROUGH, RAW & RELEVANT
‘KEITH HARING – FDR 1984’
OPENED WED APRIL 11, 2018
ON VIEW / THRU . . MON APRIL 30, 2018
99 CENTS FINE ART, 167 CANAL ST., CHINATOWN NYC 10013
HRS: SAT & SUN / 12-6 PM or by appointment
note: the original FDR MURAL / section is VISIBLE 24/7 . . via the storefront & a long, side street window / on ELIZABETH St.
PIX FROM THE OPENING / WED APRIL 11, 2018
CHINATOWN TAKE-OVER / rough & raw & reverent / totally in the street art spirit of the 80s.
an old gritty storefront . . works its magic.
NYC street art art history pop-up / at its best.
though a ‘digital’ screen looping in the window . . was a great touch / running through great archival images,
that helped bring the history alive / and nail all the right – references.
the 3 Rs: ROUGH, RAW & RELEVANT
inside, the rawness of the venue – added to the impact of the historic work.
there’s nothing that beats seeing the original, even if just a section.
2 original panels, (from a heavy metal fence – that ran around the FDR Drive).
KEITH HARING, ‘Untitled (FDR NY) #3 & #4’, spray enamel paint on metal, 48 x 204 x 3-1/4 in.
can’t help but also note: how those ‘KEITH HARING-FDR 1984’ colors / are so in fashion. right now.
red, black. white.
this was the 80s. there was no social media. there were no cellphones.
this was how you communicated, if you really felt compelled to say . . something.
though you might call Keith Haring the godfather of . . the modern emoji.
his images were bold, simple. animated even though standing still / graphic.
but they touched a common nerve.
they really set the city . . on fire.
seeing the rawness of the big steel fence that ran along the FDR, was stunning.
stunning, like a bee sting.
the images just rolled off his tongue onto the gritty belly of the inner city. via spray paint.
it also made you think about the concrete ‘bruteness’ of communication, & the collective / ‘illegal’ street art scene back then, as opposed to the clean-cut / non-stop millennial digital stream that flows incessantly online.
now.
the pop-up exhibit: it def, stopped people in their tracks, for whatever reason.
meaning: for many reasons.
it was an experience / not just a ‘4 white walls’ viewing.
it was immediate.
just around the corner, where the side wall meets the end of the room, was a small array of never-before-seen archival photos by ERIC KROLL.
rare black & white photos of HARING & ‘FDR – 1984’ . . .
bringing spiritual depth to the pop-up exhibit, in the best of ways.
then down the other side was a counter with books, that you could flip through / the neon nightlights & bustle of Chinatown, coming through.
in the early 80s, we used to go knife off these chalk pieces and sell them to collectors, who showed up at the openings. we got pretty good money, too.
you could almost pay a whole year’s rent, with one.
the way the Lower East Side was back then, before the real estate got crazy.
though things started getting dicey, too.
but that’s how it was.
one of his most iconic images. A true grand-pappy of the emoji.
at his later openings, he had stickers of this image, about 3 x 4 ins. / printed on huge rolls, and he used to hand them out.
someone else – can write the paper on what the seemingly simple image – means.
I just want to say: SWIZZ BEATZ too bad, you missed out, on some real juice.
no words.
you can see the mural through the side window on Elizabeth / 24/7.
pretty much just how you walked or drove by the work, integrated into the city, back in the day – when it was done.
EBONY HAYES, the Martos Gallery director, at center.
JOSE MARTOS, his wife, artist SERVANE MARY, and filmmaker/writer VERONICA GONZALEZ PENIA.
Martos was the guy with the vision, who put up this pop-up / with all 3 Rs intact. ROUGH, RAW, REVERENT.
to which you can add an A+ . . for archival, informative, and moving.
his main gallery is just around the corner on Elizabeth.
it’s also a beautiful space, with another profound / historic show up now, too.
the also dead & departed, but still haunting, still powerful: DAN ASHER. don’t miss it.
thru April 22.
but the art lives on.
DANNY CASTENDA, who runs workshops for ‘kids of color’, through an artist collective called, MINORITY REPORT, located at the Canal St. Market, just down the street.
with him, with actress ALINA CARSON.
see: https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/qvw7qm/the-nyc-collective-providing-free-art-workshops-to-kids-of-colorMINORITY REPORT NYC
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~’KEITH HARING – FDR 1984′ / CHINATOWN TAKE-OVER |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 17th, 2018, 9:38am
‘KEITH HARING – FDR 1984’
OPENING WED APRIL 11, 2018 / 4 – 8 PM
the show runs thru APRIL 30, 2018
99 CENTS FINE ART, 167 CANAL ST, CHINATOWN NYC 10013
HRS: SAT & SUN / 12-6 PM / or by appointment
99 CENTS FINE ART . .
is pleased to announce the installation of a significant section from the KEITH HARING mural, ‘Untitled (FDR NY)’, at their temporary location at 167 Canal St.
read more: KEITH HARING FDR MURAL / 99 CENTS FINE ART
& where you can also find some truly awesome, early, archival photos of the project, from which set – the photo posted below belongs.
“Created in situ on a preexisting fence, the work is part of a monumental frieze that ran along nearly 300 feet of the New York City highway and was visible for most of a year. Haring, who worked frequently in public, placing his work in the world, once said: ‘If I only made paintings in a gallery, I would probably be frustrated.'”
~99 Cents Fine Art website
IMAGE COURTESY: 99 CENTS FINE ART
~’KEITH HARING – FDR 1984′ / 99 CENTS FINE ART/ OPENS WED APRIL 11 / 4-8 PM |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 10th, 2018, 8:31pm
Off-White Columns . . . !!
getting back to . . . alternative spaces / micro-brewed !!
sometimes, all it takes is a little wit, a good eye, and . . Instagram !!
@offwhitecolumns: @offwhitecolumns is extra pleased to present @ryanrusso19 (RYAN RUSSO / BROOKLYN) in ‘Big Trouble in Little China II’.
VHS tape transfer and acrylic on canvas.
20 x 25 in.
2017
here’s a guy . . who runs a ‘viewing’ gallery, hung on the standard-issue, NYC office building white column, opposite his day-job work desk, (at Phillips Auction house, btw) !!
and it’s only happening . . on Instagram.
@offwhitecolumns: @jryan (JACK RYAN) on the column in ‘off-white science’ until April 9th. Hyped and excited!
Untitled
oil on canvas
24 x 20 in.
2017
artist-gallerist-curator, JASON OSBOURNE . . aka @offwhitecolumns,
only started publishing the ‘gallery’ a few months ago / Jan 2, 2018 was the inaugural exhibit.
what sets him apart** . . is his dry humor / great clean, cold, poetry-in-motion ‘eyeball’, & his cutting-edge dip into the new pool of new wave, new gen artists coming to the city, like they alway do every year. wave upon wave. being an artist himself, and also just naturally mingling in the art community, also helps give him an edge, but his edge is . . well curated.
no doubt about it.
so, he’s also ‘generous’, as in, taking of his time & ingenuity . . to platform & make a case for other talented artists, for other voices, and in so doing, just by virtue of his all-around-smarts & IG . . to be able to grab some fiercely-held critical, & attention-savvy territory for his ‘friends’.
he’s also making . . a new scene.
tell me about it !!!
new gen !!!
go-go.
**apart from the fact that the name, is a great riff, on that old school new artists platform, big old clunky white box, White Columns. (no diss-respect).
@offwhitecolumns: @jyryan Jack Ryan’s paintings have a comforting bleakness.They remind us we are awarded the experience of witnessing what we are losing (happy Friday). It’s been a pleasure to hang out with this work. They remind me of the writing of W. G. Sebald. On the column through the weekend!
Thanks Jack!
I can also relate to this fellow, dedicated art viewer, in that even a shift measured by mere millimeters, makes a big difference, photography-wise / makes a whole new way of seeing things, open up.
and, to his writing, too.
sometimes all you really need, to know it’s good art – is how it opens up a hole in your head, and the poetry . . just spills out.
blood, guts, gore & gush.
see: JASON OSBOURNE – ARTIST WEBSITE
Jack, I’m wondering if you will give yourself / a shout-out one day, too ?
though I am struck by your poem . . ‘HOW TO QUIT PAINTING’ !!
& the cornbread recipe, looks good too.
all images via Instagram @offwhitecolumns
except the last little one – is from JASON OSBOURNE WEBSITE
~JASON OSBOURNE . . aka @offwhite columns / Instagram |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 7th, 2018, 11:20am
DAN ASHER, STILL FROM: ‘SALARY MAN’, 1997. 1 min VHS-to-digital
THE VIDEOS of DAN ASHER – ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
32 SECOND AVE, NYC / LOWER EAST SIDE
TUES APRIL 3, 2018 / 7:30 PM
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: ca. 75 min.
read more: DAN ASHER SCREENING – ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVE
This program of videos is presented on the occasion of a solo show of large paintings, smaller drawings & small table-top clay sculptures . . .
‘DAN ASHER – AN ANTHROPOLOGIST ON MARS’ . . now up at MARTOS GALLERY, 41 Elizabeth St, Chinatown . . thru APRIL 22.
DAN ASHER, ‘Untitled (self-portrait)’, color photo print, 11 x 14 in.
signed & dated on the back: 1998 / Dan was always in search of . . shamans. literally.
Collection: NANCY SMITH
I was Dan’s studio assistant when he was printing up a series of photos, mostly based on his travels to Antarctica.
I got paid in cash (and well !!), sushi . . & art work !!
Dan was rolling in cash then, mid-1990s. he had just inherited something like $200,000, or was it $400,000 . . when his mom died. needless to say, it was all gone by the end of the decade.
Simon (Cerigo) actually put $100,000 of it into Apple stock in 1996, but Dan quickly converted it into penny stocks and lost it all.
Dan would have been . . a millionaire, many many times over, if he had just left it alone, but no matter how much both of us screamed at him, trying to get through his stubborn, obstinate ways . . . he would just respond: ‘It’s my money, I’ll do what I want.’
end story; he was desperately broke, and became very sick at the end.
DAN ASHER, b. 1947, Cleveland, Ohio. d. 2010 New York City.
but, I’d rather leave this following story of his stubbornness, as part of his colorful legacy.
Dan left high school, in what must have been the late 1960s, to follow & photograph . . . Bob Marley.
much against his parents wishes, of course.
the box of black & white photos, which he brought with him to New York, got lost at a party early into the 1980s. flash forward more than 25 years later, sometime in early 2000, he was at another party – when a girl he used to know, comes up to him and says . . “I just found your Bob Marley photos in my closet.”
he promptly sold the bunch to the Marley estate for $100,000 on the spot.
that was Dan.
a little bit of magic and a lot of stubborn / sometimes it set fires, and sometimes it . . flamed out.
DAN ASHER, ‘Iceberg’ color photo print.
16 x 20 in. // signed & dated 2000 on the back.
Collection: NANCY SMITH
~THE VIDEOS of DAN ASHER . . ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES / TUES APRIL 3 / 7:30 PM |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 2nd, 2018, 4:02pm
HALEY JOSEPHS . . ‘WHEN MEN ARE FAIRY TALES in BOOKS WRITTEN BY RABBITS”
OPENS FRI MARCH 30, 2018 / 7 – 10 PM
the show runs thru MAY 6, 2018
DELI GALLERY, 10-16 46th Avenue
Long Island City, Queens 11101
HRS: SAT & SUN / 12 – 5 PM
or by appointment
HALEY JOSEPHS (b. 1987, Seattle, Washington) is a Brooklyn-based painter.
This is her second solo show with Deli Gallery.
“When I was alive, I believed – as you do – that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said ‘one o’clock’ as though I could see it, and ‘Monday’ as though I could find it on the map; and I let myself be hurried along from minute to minute, day to day, year to year, as thoguhI were actually moving from one place to another. Like everyone else, I lived in a house bricked up with seconds and minutes, weekends and New Year’s Days, and I never went outside until I died, because there was no other door.
Now I know that I could have walked through the walls.
You can strike your own time, and start the count anywhere.When you understand that – then any time at all will be the right time for you.”
~The skull from ‘The Last Unicorn’, written by Peter S. Beagle.
~HALEY JOSEPHS . . ‘WHEN MEN ARE FAIRY TALES ..’ / DELI / OPENS FRI MARCH 30 / 7 – 10 PM |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 29th, 2018, 2:54pm
ahhh, moving into . . . AIRES !!!!!
cosmos – on FIRE !!!!!
guess who’s an . . AIRES on steroids ?!!!
‘How to Build a Fire: Sow/Reap’ – FRI MARCH 30, 2018 / 8 PM
OPEN SOURCE, 306 17th St., South Slope, Brooklyn
If you look into a fire, you’ll never see the same flame twice. Fire Flickers. It dances. it sways. It moves. It is constantly changing and going with the flow. Our 2 dynamic co-hosts ALENA SINGLETON & EMILY RAY REESE, are here to guide us through evenings of stories from a diverse array of voices, including old favorites & newcomers alike.
~OPEN SOURCE
WITH STORYTELLERS:
WAQIA ABDUL-KAREEM
BRIDGET KENNEDY
DEANNA L. MARTIN
CRYSTAL VELASQUES
what ?????
FIRE . . as a working / definition of: INFINITY ?????
I guess so !!!!!
~’HOW TO BUILD A FIRE: Sow/Reap’ . . OPEN SOURCE / FRI MARCH 30 / 8 PM |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 29th, 2018, 10:50am
SELDON YUAN – ‘NO PHOTOS’
OPENS SAT MARCH 31, 2018 / 7 – 10 PM
show runs thru APRIL 29, 2018
SELENA GALLERY, 37 TROUTMAN ST., #3, BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN
SELDON YUAN, ’20 HUF in my pocket, 5300 HUF short (Budapest Strip club), 50 x 38 in., 2008.
IMAGE VIA SELENA GALLERY
SELENA is pleased to present ‘NO PHOTOS’, a solo exhibition of drawings by New York based artist Sheldon Yuan. Yuan’s multi-faceted practice explores poetry, memory, and the width of language.
~press release
~SELDON YUAN . . ‘NO PHOTOS’ / SELENA GALLERY / OPENS SAT MARCH 31 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 29th, 2018, 9:57am
