Resist LED-Deli sign by Luke Murphy lukelab.com

~SAM COCKRELL / ‘ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL’ / BLADE STUDY / LOWER EAST SIDE / NEW YORK, NY / OPENS THURS July 10

6 – 9 PM

SAM COCKRELL – ‘ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL’
JULY 10 – AUGUST 10, 2025
Blade Study, 17 PIKE Street, New York NY 10002
LOWER EAST SIDE
@blade_study / www.bladestudy.net

HRS: THURS – SUNDAY / 11am – 6 pm
or by appointment

Blade Study is a NYC-based contemporary art gallery founded in 2020.


Photo: via Instagram @chicfila69 / SAM COCKRELL

~SAM COCKRELL / ‘ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL’ / BLADE STUDY / LOWER EAST SIDE / NEW YORK, NY / OPENS THURS July 10 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | July 9th, 2025, 11:29am


~THE FAM !! KATE CERIGO, JULES STEINDORF & NICHOLAS STEINDORF

here is my fav family, my art-centric, Lower East Side 80s-raised daughter, all grown up now, KATE CERIGO, her young son, my grandson Jules, and the dad, Brooklyn-based artist, NICHOLAS STEINDORF, of Blinn & Lambert, recently on vacation in Vermont, the weekend just before the big, big ‘THE CAMPUS UPSTATE’ OPENING; HUDSON, NY / SUMMER 2025.

PHOTO BY: my best, long term friend, Vermont basket-maker & quilter, SCOTTIE HARRISON.

(who also grows her own stiff, but reedy willow, for her baskets, behind her gorgeous garden / where flowers abound, amidst profuse, abundant vegetables. /
Scottie has been my best friend & fellow folk art, & all things, including knitting, crafts & folk art enthusiast & maker since our college days back at the now defunct, GODDARD COLLEGE, Vermont, in the early 1970’s. I was & remain, the only exchange student Goddard ever had, mostly because I hailed from the then, so interesting … Montreal, Quebec, CANADA. home to then less-known / also a child of recent European immigrants, LEONARD COHEN. I was granted a full year of free tuition, at that time, a very big deal. Goddard was then, absolutely the most expensive (tuition-wise) school in all of the US of A.
GODDARD was so wonderfully creative & progressive. at that time, it was the first college in all of the USA to have an open, independent study curriculum. if you just wanted to throw pots in the ceramics studio all day, then so be it !! the campus residences rang out with THE WHO, Magic Bus, Neil Young & America the band’s, Ventura Highway !! the early nascent BREAD & PUPPET was also in the same rural area. and from its lush meadows, was where the early hippie ‘summer of love’ Baba Ram Dass colorful ‘caravans’ took off for San Francisco, though to be truthful the (in-bred) mentality locals used to shoot beer cans out of their open car windows, at us, and holler slurs. I’d take that any day, over the nasty DNA-rooted FLQ FREE LIBERATION / QUEBEC discrimination / and, closed-door attitude of that decade’s radical, young French Canadians, for sure. and I never looked back.

~THE FAM !! KATE CERIGO, JULES STEINDORF & NICHOLAS STEINDORF | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 24th, 2025, 5:42pm


~BLINN & LAMBERT / THE CAMPUS / UPSTATE / HUDSON, NY / SAT JUNE 28

THE CAMPUS / IS HOSTING AN **OPENING RECEPTION** – ON SAT JUNE 28, 2025 / UPSTATE !!
& IT RUNS ALL DAY LONG, PRETTY MUCH / 11 AM – 5 PM.

I HEARD LAST YEAR’S – WAS A HUGE BLAST / & A HUGE CRITICAL SUCCESS, AS WELL !!

THIS IS THE UPSTATE CAMPUS / a small group of NYC-BASED Galleries / ORGANISATION’S SECOND ANNUAL EXHIBITION / IT IS ORGANIZED BY THEIR CREATIVE DIRECTOR, HEAD CURATOR TIMO KAPPELLER @teamstery / with help by the curatorial team of: JESSE WILLENBRING @willenbringjesse & SHIRA SCHWARTZ @shira.schwarz

. . . . THIS NEWEST BIG, BIG AWESOME GROUP SHOW RUNS – THRU OCTOBER 26, 2025, AND INCLUDES SEVERAL DYNAMIC EVENTS & INTER-ACTIVE PERFORMANCES AS WELL, SEE INSTAGRAM & THEIR WEBSITE:
@THECAMPUSUPSTATE / www.thecampusupstate.com

THE EXHIBIT STRETCHES OVER 35 ROOMS, AND INCLUDES USE OF THE SURROUNDING GROUNDS AS WELL, of THE FORMER OCKAWAMICK SCHOOL / IN CLAVERACK, HUDSON, UP-STATE N.Y.

THEY WILL HOST, KURE COFFEE ONSITE / IN THE ON-SITE BOOKSTORE, FOR THE duration of the EXHIBIT & I HEARD THERE MAY ALSO BE SOME FOOD TRUCKS !! AND DRINKS, OF SOME KIND, OF COURSE, at the opening reception / PARTY 0N !!!

THE CAMPUS UPSTATE / 341 NY-217, HUDSON, NY 12534


detail, the show’s main poster photo by YAEL EBAN and MATTHEW GAMBER


BLINN & LAMBERT, NEWEST SIGNATURE ON-SITE / DIGITAL PROJECTION INSTALLATION /
AT THE CAMPUS UPSTATE 2025.

PHOTO: COURTESY OF BLINN & LAMBERT


BLINN & LAMBERT, NEW DIGITAL PROJECTION / INSTALLATION – AT THE CAMPUS UPSTATE / SUMMER 2025.
BLINN & LAMBERT IS THE CREATIVE DUO OF BROOKLYNN-BASED ARTISTS / NICHOLAS STEINDORF & KYLE WILLIAMS / THEY WILL BE SHARING AN EXHIBITION ROOM WITH CANADA’S XYLOR JANE.

IT ALSO SEEMS MARTHA’S DAD, RICHARD TUTTLE IS ALSO IN THE SHOW, So heads up !!

PHOTO: COURTESY OF BLINN & LAMBERT

~BLINN & LAMBERT / THE CAMPUS / UPSTATE / HUDSON, NY / SAT JUNE 28 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 24th, 2025, 4:38pm


~LAVENDER COUNTRY DETROIT & JEFFREY TRANCHELL / RALPH HILL& JONNY COMPOLO / ‘HARVEST’ / DETROIT, MI / SUN JUNE 29

2 – 6 PM

LAVENDER COUNTRY ‘HARVEST’ ………..
@lavendercountrydetroit / @jefffreytranchell
SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2025 / 2 – 6 PM
12333 Mackay, / EAST DAVISON VILLLAGE / HAMTRAMCK / DETROIT / MICHIGAN 48212
MUSICAL PERFORMANCES by: @theblackharpist / RALPH HILL & JONNY COMPOLO / @jonnnycompolo
with new artworks !!
by:@_ffty and @douglassape / TD SIDELL

FREE COOK-OUT !! …..&….. $5 U-PICK !!

LAVENDER COUNTRY’S 4TH ANNUAL COMMUNITY F-E-S-T !! / WEAR PURPLE !!


LONDON BLAKELY, ‘ROAD SIGN’ / LAVENDER COUNTRY DETROIT
photo c/o @lavendercountrydetroit

well, to my mind (!!!), that’s a lot better, as in peppier, than say ….. road kill !!!

~LAVENDER COUNTRY DETROIT & JEFFREY TRANCHELL / RALPH HILL& JONNY COMPOLO / ‘HARVEST’ / DETROIT, MI / SUN JUNE 29 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 24th, 2025, 2:57pm


~PRAXIS & SKEWVILLE / 3rd ANNUAL BBBBQ (BEYOND BURGER BARBECUE / BUSHWICK / BROOKLYN, N.Y. / SAT June 28

OPEN TO ALL – STREET (BEYOND BURGER) BBBBQ

SAT JUNE 28, 2025 / 6 – 10 PM !!!!!

also ART SHOW WILL BE OPEN OPEN: SUNDAY JUNE 29, 2025 / 12 – 6 PM

. . . . must be the season of the cat !!!!!

‘CATS’ FROM the HOOD – A BENEFIT for BUSHWICK CATS feat. PRAXIS / solo show
PRESENTED by SKEWVILLLE / @skewville
237 Starr St. Brooklyn, BUSHWICK NY 11237

my friends at SKEWVILLE announcing their current featured artist …. PRAXIS & their 3rd annual BBBBQ (BEYOND BURGER BARBECUE) .. TO RAISE MONEY TO HELP @bushwickcats

Cocktails sponsored by @milagrotequila
Tunes by @roycer700_
Food by @headshop.nyc

~PRAXIS & SKEWVILLE / 3rd ANNUAL BBBBQ (BEYOND BURGER BARBECUE / BUSHWICK / BROOKLYN, N.Y. / SAT June 28 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 24th, 2025, 2:26pm


~GAVIN BROWN / ‘PROOF OF LIFE ‘/ LA PULCE / ROME, ITALY / OPENING SAT JUNE 21, 6 PM

6 PM To-NIGHT !! SAT JUNE 21, 2025

Gavin Brown is presenting a display of his OWN work, apparently fractured, figurative-leaning, woodblock prints !!
if, in ROME it’s a must-see !!

GAVIN BROWN
‘PROOF OF LIFE’, LA PULCE / @vivalapulce_
Via dei Tre Archi 5
00186 Rome

~GAVIN BROWN / ‘PROOF OF LIFE ‘/ LA PULCE / ROME, ITALY / OPENING SAT JUNE 21, 6 PM | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 21st, 2025, 12:13pm


~ABBY LLOYD / ‘ON DISPLAY’ / PTOLEMY / LAST WEEKEND !! up thru SUNDAY JUNE 15th

LAST WEEKEND !!

Abby sent me some pix !!

The show actually turns out to be more prescient scary, than . . . . so so funny / the world has gotten a lot more knotty, if even not, downright gnarly . . . since it opened !!
BRING ON THE . . . CLOWNS !!

ABBY LLOYD – ‘ON DISPLAY’
MAY 22 – SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 2025

PTOLEMY ART GALLERY, 6733 Central Ave, GLENDALE / QUEENS / (RIDGEWOOOD), NY 11385

PTOLEMY. . is a contemporary art gallery, and retail shop
established by PATRICK REYNOLDS in 2024.

HRS: THURS-SUNDAY / 12 NOON – 5 PM

@ptolemy.world / www.ptolemy.world
Abby Lloyd / @sassy_dude

ABBY LLOYD, ‘JACK’, 2025.
Foam, cardboard, acrylic paint, turntable
9.5 x 7 x 6 ft.

detail, ABBY LLOYD, ‘It’s Fun’, 2025.
acrylic paint on canvas
36 x 48 inches

ALL PHOTOS: Courtesy of THE ARTIST & PTOLEMY GALLERY

~ABBY LLOYD / ‘ON DISPLAY’ / PTOLEMY / LAST WEEKEND !! up thru SUNDAY JUNE 15th | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 12th, 2025, 9:50am


~PAT McCARTHY / ‘VESSELS OF EXPERIENCE’ / ZINE LAUNCH / ENTRANCE / LOWER EAST SIDE / NYC / WED JUNE 4 / 5 – 8 PM

‘NY FARMING’ – ZINE LAUNCH / WED JUNE 4, 2025 / 5 – 8 PM

PAT McCARTHY – ‘VESSELS of EXPERIENCE’ / featuring landscape paintings by LOUIS SOMVIELLE

ENTRANCE GALLERY / MAY 8 – JUNE 7, 2025
48 LUDLOW St., RIGHT STOREFRONT / LOWER EAST SIDE / NEW YORK NY 10002
HRS: WED – SAT / 11am – 6 pm / or by appointment

@entrance.nyc: “COME toast the launch of PAT McCARTHY’S new zine / alongside HIS SOLO EXHIBITION “VESSELS OF EXPERIENCE”.
WE’LL BE POURING DRINKS & AND THERE WILL BE ZINES & BOTTLES of artist-made wine.”

FOR – The ZINE LAUNCH …..
PLEASE RSVP: LINK in @ENTRANCE.NYC * BIO * on Instagram


(‘already mad’) MADDY of Nik Nak’s Farm / @niknaksflowers

@entrance.nyc: “PAT McCARTHY always creates an accompanying zine for his projects and this latest one documents the exhibition ‘VESSELS OF EXPERIENCE’, where sculpture, agriculture, vinification and daily chores become one unified practice at (his) Nic Nak’s Farm in the Catskill Mountains (NY). McCarthy sources materials directly from the landscape to craft poetic narratives through objects, speaking to the hyper-personal yet universal.”

“Pat McCarthy’s wines use low intervention, natural methods with hybrid and native American grapes grown in New York’s brutal cold climate. Each bottle is an edition – barely any sulfites are added (only at bottling) and they don’t need pesticides since hybrid grapes naturally resist disease.”

note: all images from @pigeon_pat / aka PAT McCarthy / via @entrance.nyc / Instagram

~PAT McCARTHY / ‘VESSELS OF EXPERIENCE’ / ZINE LAUNCH / ENTRANCE / LOWER EAST SIDE / NYC / WED JUNE 4 / 5 – 8 PM | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 3rd, 2025, 12:58pm


~MARTHA TUTTLE / DIY BOOK made in collaboration with MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE / ‘FOR REAL FOR REAL’ / DAAD GALERIE / BERLIN / GERMANY / thru SUNDAY July 27, 2025


image via Instagram @marthatuttlestudio / Martha Tuttle

@marthatuttlestudio: “I am very proud of this book I made in collaboration with Mei-mei Berssenbrugge for the exhibition ‘FOR REAL FOR REAL’ presented by @theracialimaginary @daad_artists in BERLIN.”


image via Instagram @marthatuttlestudio / Martha Tuttle

@marthatuttlestudio:” ‘For Real For Real’ gathers together artists working to bring us closer to particularities, obsessions, peculiarities, playfulness, obscurity, wonderment of a single one doing life, being alive, loving, seeing, making, breaking, collapsing, doing and doing in the wild wilderness of now.”


image via Instagram @marthatuttlestudio / Martha Tuttle

@marthatuttlestudio: “MAY 16 – JULY 27, 2025 / Tue – Sun 12 – 19:00
daadgalerie / OranienstraBe 161 / BERLIN / free admission”

~MARTHA TUTTLE / DIY BOOK made in collaboration with MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE / ‘FOR REAL FOR REAL’ / DAAD GALERIE / BERLIN / GERMANY / thru SUNDAY July 27, 2025 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 2nd, 2025, 1:22pm


~EKTA_KAUL / REVERSE APPLIQUE WORKSHOP / TATTER BLUE LIBRARY / BROOKLYN / THURS MAY 29, 10 AM

I THINK .. THERE IS STILL TIME TO REGISTER !!
$75 – link in @ekta_kaul bio (Instagram)

SEE: @TATTERBLUELIBRARY / @EKTA_KAUL / INSTAGRAM

THURSDAY MAY 29, 2025 / 10 am – 12:30 pm

via ZOOM / a link will be mailed to participants the day before class


REVERSE APPLIQUE WORKSHOP – HAND SEWN QUILTING SERIES 2


SCREENSHOT / @EKTA_KAUL Instagram

NOTE: TATTER BLUE LIBRARY is a NONPROFIT EXPLORING CLOTH TO TELL HUMAN STORIES & CULTIVATE CROSS-CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING
505 Carroll ST., 2B, BROOKLYN, NY 11225

NOTE: Ekta_Kaul is an ARTIST, AUTHOR, & MENTOR BASED in LONDON, U.K

~EKTA_KAUL / REVERSE APPLIQUE WORKSHOP / TATTER BLUE LIBRARY / BROOKLYN / THURS MAY 29, 10 AM | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 28th, 2025, 5:29pm


~PETER SUTHERLAND / ‘CLOUD PAINTING’ / THE LITTLE HOUSE / DRIES VAN NOTEN / LA, California / thru JUNE 17

PETER SUTHERLAND – ‘CLOUD PAINTING’
THE LITTLE HOUSE / DRIES VAN NOTEN
451 N. LA CIENEGA BLVD.
LA / LOS ANGELES, CA / CALIFORNIA 90048
MAY 20, 2025 thru JUNE 17, 2025


PETER SUTHERLAND – PAINTING
PHOTO C/O DRIES VAN NOTEN


PETER SUTHERLAND – COLLAGE
PHOTO from PETER SUTHERLAND IG STORY @petersutherland / photo by @ghostwhit


PETER SUTHERLAND at the opening
PHOTO from PETER SUTHERLAND IG STORY @petersutherland / photo by @commongenus

~PETER SUTHERLAND / ‘CLOUD PAINTING’ / THE LITTLE HOUSE / DRIES VAN NOTEN / LA, California / thru JUNE 17 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 27th, 2025, 1:39pm


~HENRY CHAPMAN / ‘READING ABOUT WAR’/ RAINRAIIN / LOWER MANHATTAN, NYC / thru SAT/ MAY 24

LAST DAY, TOMORROW – SATURDAY MAY 24TH !!

HENRY CHAPMAN – ‘Reading About War ‘ / NEW LARGE PAINTINGS !!
THRU – SAT MAY 24th

RAINRAIN
110 LAFAYETTE STREET, Suite 201, New York, New York 10013
HRS: WED – SAT / 11am – 6pm
and by appointment

@rainraingallery / rainraingallery.com

RAINRAIN was originally founded by Rain Lu in Chengdu, the capital city of SICHUAN / in SOUTHWEST CHINA, in 2011, with a new chapter beginning in New York in 2023.

~HENRY CHAPMAN / ‘READING ABOUT WAR’/ RAINRAIIN / LOWER MANHATTAN, NYC / thru SAT/ MAY 24 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 23rd, 2025, 2:59pm


~ABBY LLOYD / ‘ON DISPLAY’ / PTOLEMY / GLENDALE, QUEENS / NY / OPENS THURSDAY MAY 22 6 – 8 PM

ABBY LLOYD – ‘ON DISPLAY’
PTOLEMY ART GALLERY,
6733 Central Ave., QUEENS, New York 11385

HRS: Thursday – Sunday / 12 – 5 PM

OPENING TO-NITE !!
THURSDAY MAY 22 / 6 – 8 PM

@ptolemy.world / web: ptolemy.world

Ptolemy is a contemporary art gallery & retail shop located in Glendale, Queens, established in 2024 by PATRICK REYNOLDS.

~ABBY LLOYD / ‘ON DISPLAY’ / PTOLEMY / GLENDALE, QUEENS / NY / OPENS THURSDAY MAY 22 6 – 8 PM | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 22nd, 2025, 11:33am


~DAN ASHER / 1947 – 2010 / A BRIEF MEMORY


DAN ASHER at the opening of his solo show, ‘Bird of Prey’, GBE / GAVIN BROWN’S enterprise at Passerby, NYC
Oct 15, 2005
Archival Photo by NANCY SMITH / artloversnewyork.com

Dan was born in Cleveland Ohio in 1947, he moved to New York City in the late 70’s & died April 23, 2010 after a long struggle with cancer. He was 63.

he could be charming, but was super difficult. He lived on 9th Street in a very run down, messy apt. opposite the Russian baths. when he was broke, sometimes he sold drawings on the stoop.He was always way too out of control for his dad, who it was said, tried to beat him straight & obedient as a child. When he had had enough, he left high school, and took off to follow BOB MARLEY, on tour and, in Jamaica / taking photographs, which he promptly lost track off in the chaotic life he led. Many decades later a girl he used to know, showed up and said, “you left something in my cupboard” – the photos !! which he immediately turned around & sold to the Bob Marley estate for something rumored to be, at least $100,000 – a big, big sum in the 80’s – that kept him high rolling & in 5 star sushi joints for quite a while. the photos were also regarded to be a remarkable legacy of that early Marley time. So There !! no regrets, as they say. Dan had a deep passion for Indie music and made several low-fi indie video documentaries, as well as large oil stick paintings & small pencil minimalistic ‘scribbles’. MY late husband, gallerist, collector, flaneur-to-the-hilt & artist in-his-own-right, though he ultimately partied too hard, Simon Cerigo . . . . met Dan in 1982, at the legendary artist dive bar, the RED BAR in the East Village and they became life long friends. At this point, Dan began working on very gestural expressionistic oil stick on large paper pieces & when he could, on stretched usually raw linen. He had a dynamic solo show at Club 57 in 1982, and a solo show at the Red Bar in 1983. At one point he even shared a studio with Basquiat.

Simon had just started his own short-lived gallery, the ground breaking Simon Cerigo Gallery on Ave A, just below 12th Street & gave Dan one of his earliest gallery shows there in 1986. Dan went on to show extensively in the bigger galleries in New York, LA, Europe and Japan. One of the major galleries he was represented by was Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Koln, Germany. By 1997, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo was showing his work in both Japan & around the globe.

DESPITE their differences, sometime in the early to mid 90’s Dan’s dad died and left him around $300,000 / which as you might imagine he burned through pretty quickly, and not just on 5 star sushi / playing penny stocks – were his big downfall. no matter how we’d try to counsel him, he’d reply “it’s MY money” – good old same old same old Dan. Before he blew it all, ($300,000 felt initially like an endless million bucks, back in the 90’s) he managed to get himself to remote and then untrammelled Antartica to photograph the endangered icebergs, a trip that was quite unheard of and quite fraught back then / that’s when I really intersected with him, when in consideration of my own organizing, archiving and photography skills, he hired me as a ‘studio assistant’ to help produce the resultant big body of iceberg work / comprising of mostly large c prints. and manage their shipment to various shows. Those were some of my favorite days, not to mention all the free, all you can eat, sushi or hi-brow East Village gourmet vegetarian lunches at the coolest venues, that were just then ‘sprouting up’ !!


early DAN ASHER, working artist print / iceberg. ca. 1998.
Collection: Nancy Smith

before there was digital / all galleries produced hard invite cards for their artists’ shows.
this one was about 6-1/2 x 4-1/2 inches, the reverse states:
Dan Asher… Ice(s)
September 9 through October 2nd, 1999
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 9 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
GRANT SELWYWN FINE ART
37 WEST 57 TH STREET
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10019

front: Untitled 19998 C-print 30″ x 40m”

(original card / collection: NANCY SMITH)

i always think of Dan with great fondness on Earth Day, because if he didn’t start it, or coin the expression he was certainly the first to talk about it with me, way before it was a media mainstay, and he pretty much died, on an Earth DAY, April 23, 2010 / so there !!
DAN, REST IN ETERNAL PEACE.
~Nancy


from left:
Simon Cerigo, Dan Asher, Nancy Smith
Tribeca, NYC – ca. 1982

~DAN ASHER / 1947 – 2010 / A BRIEF MEMORY | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 21st, 2025, 3:08pm


~IRA RICHER / ‘THIS IS IRA RICHER’ / SHORT DOCUMENTARY 2024 /

‘THIS IS IRA RICHER’ – DIRECTED & EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY RICK KNIEF

.. is a sweet toned, quirky, honest, fast paced, and precisely edited short, (about 6 minutes), documentary film on 1980’s NY artist IRA RICHER.

it was the winner / BEST SHORT DOC at last year’s (NOV 2024) BOWERY FILM FESTIVAL here in NYC & watch out for it / it’s probably coming through a film festival near you, soon enough.

while we were talking about the old days, Ira told me a brief little story that encapsulates those times perfectly. He was showing with ANNINA NOSEI, at the same time as Basquiat & it seems Annina owed him some money, and wanted to pay Ira with a BASQUIAT or a WARHOL, but Ira insisted on cash – he had bills to pay !!
Talk about FAST FORWARD — REGRETS !!

That’s the way it was, and how fast things . . progresssed.

casual 80’s art scene friends, Ira and I meanwhile bonded on our admiration for, and collecting of.. DAN ASHER’S work. Now we wonder, what the hell happened ?!! 40 years later, fizzle is not the word for it, and we both are mighty disappointed & mystified, as we considered DAN the best of the pack. you just never know. Dan was quite the character, sadly for us his small drawings & iceberg photographs now go for JUST about what it costs to store, and frame them. oh well, he’s still a great artist – just no one has been able to build his market, . . . . yet !!

~IRA RICHER / ‘THIS IS IRA RICHER’ / SHORT DOCUMENTARY 2024 / | Posted in Movie Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 19th, 2025, 7:25pm


~LOUIS SOMVEILLE / LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS / PAT McCARTHY ‘s ‘VESSELS of EXPERIENCE’ / ENTRANCE GALLERY / now extended thru SAT JUNE 7th

IN CELEBRATION OF EARTH / EARTH DAY 2025
PART 2:


LOUIS SOMVEILLE, LARGE LANDSCAPE PAINTING
/ ALSO AT THE ‘PAT McCARTHY ‘VESSELS of EXPERIENCE’ show / at ENTRANCE GALLERY / LOWER EAST SIDE / NYC.
Photo c/o INSTAGRAM / @ENTRANCE.NYC / ENTRANCE GALLERY

@entrance.nyc: “the PAT McCARTHY show also features landscape paintings by LOUIS SOMVIELLE / b. 1994 / Nancy, FRANCE
who is currently living & working in Paris. (A close friend & collaborator of Pat’s..) his summer residency on Pat’s Nik Nak’s FARM captured the vistas that backdrop Pat’s artistic endeavors and the farm life in ANDES, upstate NEW YORK.”

“LOUIS SOMVIELLE produced these paintings during his summer 2024 residency at Pat’s farm.”

ENTRANCE GALLERY – 48 LUDLOW St., NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10002
HRS: WED – SAT / 11am – 6pm

~LOUIS SOMVEILLE / LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS / PAT McCARTHY ‘s ‘VESSELS of EXPERIENCE’ / ENTRANCE GALLERY / now extended thru SAT JUNE 7th | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 16th, 2025, 2:10pm


~PAT McCARTHY / ‘VESSELS OF EXPERIENCE’ / ENTRANCE / LOWER EAST SIDE / MANHATTAN, NYC / now extended until SAT JUNE 7th

IN CELEBRATION of EARTH / EARTH DAY !!
PART I:

A HEAVILY D-I-Y / HANDS-ON-THE-GROUND CELEBRATION of an “ALREADY MAD” AWARENESS of EARTH DAY !!
AND A SEEMINGLY DARN GOOD / FUNCTIONAL / CREATIVE / IMAGINATIVE & HARD-WORKING COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT & PRODUCT /
in a word: A SUPPORTIVE !! BIOLOGICAL / HUMAN / EARTH FARMING / BIO LOVE MATCH / PARTNERSHIP !!

so, can a JUG (JUG HEAD ??) . . . . ever be a HEAD SHOT ?!!

I think so, in this case.

.
PAT McCARTHY, ‘Bouquet Jug’, 2025
Photocopy toner fired onto English porcelain, gold leaf, cork, wax, artist-made wine.
(I’m assuming flower imagery from their farm grown flowers.)
12″h x 9″l x 9″w
Photo c/o INSTAGRAM / @PIGEON_PAT (PAT McCARTHY)

@pigeon_pat:”5 bouquet jugs, made from our farms flowers. Each filled with a different Alpine wine, for the
self-service bar in ‘VESSELS of Experience’, my new show opening (happened Thurs May 8th) at ENTRANCE GALLERY @entrance.nyc . . .


PAT McCARTHY, NIK NAKS FLOWERS (FLOWER FARM) / UPSTATE, N.Y. / ANDES / CATSKILL MOUNTAINS
Photo c/o INSTAGRAM @pigeon_pat /PAT McCARTHY
@pigeon_pat: “New show opening in NYC …. celebrates this past year farming with MADDY … with many wines alongside other drinks & foods from the farm / (@niknaksflowers).”

ENTRANCE GALLERY – 48 LUDLOW St., NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10002

HRS: WED – SAT / 11am – 6PM

~PAT McCARTHY / ‘VESSELS OF EXPERIENCE’ / ENTRANCE / LOWER EAST SIDE / MANHATTAN, NYC / now extended until SAT JUNE 7th | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 16th, 2025, 1:34pm


~KATHY HUANG / ‘WONDER WOMEN’ / BOOK LAUNCH / JEFFREY DEITCH / 76 GRAND ST. / NYC / WED MAY 21 / 6 – 8 PM

. . . STRANGE, another bold head shot !!

‘WONDER WOMEN: ART of the ASIAN DIASPORA’ – by KATHY HUANG
BOOK LAUNCH & SIGNING / FOOD BY NOM WAH / GAMES BY MAHJONG MISTRESS / DRINKS BY KUNG FU TEA
ALL WELCOME – NO RSVP REQUIRED – WED MAY 21 / 6-8 PM
JEFFREY DEITCH, 76 GRAND ST., DOWNTOWN MANHATTAN, NYC 10013

BOOK COVER ILLUSTRATION BY SASHA GORDON

ZOE BLUE M’s solo show ‘HARD BOILED’ WILL BE ON VIEW – AS WELL.

~KATHY HUANG / ‘WONDER WOMEN’ / BOOK LAUNCH / JEFFREY DEITCH / 76 GRAND ST. / NYC / WED MAY 21 / 6 – 8 PM | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 13th, 2025, 1:22pm


~JAKE KLOTZ / ‘BATTER HEAD’ / GARAGE GALLERY / WILLIAMSBURG / BROOKLYN / SAT MAY 10 / 2-7 PM

TO-DAY !!!! SAT MAY 10 !!!! 2-7 PM

BIG PAR-TAY !!!!

JAKE KLOTZ – ‘BATTER HEAD’ /

GARAGE GALLERY – 624 LORIMER / NORTH WILLIAMSBURG / BROOKLYN / NYC

THE GALLERY WILL HOST A RECEPTION WITH MUSIC & REFRESHMENTS FROM 2-7 PM / ALL ARE WELCOME

GARAGE GALLERY IS A SMALL ARTIST-RUN SPACE ON THE FIRST FLOOR OF THE HOME OF EVAN SNYDERMAN & GABRIEL SHELTON.

~JAKE KLOTZ / ‘BATTER HEAD’ / GARAGE GALLERY / WILLIAMSBURG / BROOKLYN / SAT MAY 10 / 2-7 PM | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 10th, 2025, 1:37pm


~LUKE MURPHY / IN ‘LFG’ / GROUP SHOW / THE HOLE / TRIBECA / THRU SAT MAY 24

YOU CAN STILL CATCH . . .

LUKE MURPHY’S / MAP-LIKE, LED ANIMATED ‘DISTRESSED QUILT’/ ‘DISTRESSED EARTH’ AT THE HOLE, TRIBECA.
DISTRESSSED / but still mighty LUMINIOUS !!


LUKE MURPHY, ‘IS IT DONE?’, 2025, LED matrix panels, steel armature, display hardware, power supplies, mini-pc, software code,
61 x 41 x 12 inches.

Photo: c/o KATHY GRAYSON/THE HOLE

~LUKE MURPHY / IN ‘LFG’ / GROUP SHOW / THE HOLE / TRIBECA / THRU SAT MAY 24 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 8th, 2025, 2:40pm


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