Resist LED-Deli sign by Luke Murphy lukelab.com

~BLINN and LAMBERT / GUEST / BROOKLYN / OPENS THURS SEPT 12

6 – 8 PM / BLINN and LAMBERT / NICHOLAS STEINDORF AND KYLE WILLLIAMS

Guest Gallery
1451 DEAN ST., BROOKLYN NY 11213

~BLINN and LAMBERT / GUEST / BROOKLYN / OPENS THURS SEPT 12 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 10th, 2024, 3:20pm


~CONGRATS !! DANI LEVINE . . PROVINCETOWN FINE ARTS WORK CENTER / PROVINCETOWN, MASSACHUSETTTS / 2024-2025 RESIDENCY

DANI .. chosen to attend the upcoming @fineartsworkcenter 2024 – 2025 residency, as Visual Arts Fellow, FAWC / Fine Arts Work Center
24 Pearl St., Provincetown, Massachusetts.


photo c/o FAWC / FINE ARTS WORK CENTER

~CONGRATS !! DANI LEVINE . . PROVINCETOWN FINE ARTS WORK CENTER / PROVINCETOWN, MASSACHUSETTTS / 2024-2025 RESIDENCY | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 10th, 2024, 2:19pm


~LUKE MURPHY / StarQuilt / CANADA GALLERY, BOOTH B6 / FRIEZE SEOUL 2024 / SEPT 4 – 7

SEPT 4 – 7 / COEX Convention & Exhibition Center
@friezeofficial

LUKE MURPHY, ‘StarQuilt’, 2019,
P4 LED Matrix Panela, animation code, mini-PC running Linux,power supplies, aluminum, wire or MDF armature. Technical: Python3 scripts and software, Gigabyte brand i3 mini-PC, running Lubuntu Linux, Linsn receiver card, sender card, 5v 40A 125/220v AC power supplies.
61 x 41 x 3 inches

ps: LUKE MURPHY / @lukemurphy49 designed & installed the LED-Deli animated sign / banner running at the top of this page.

image c/o the artist & CANADA GALLERY, NYC via Instagram @canada.nyc

~LUKE MURPHY / StarQuilt / CANADA GALLERY, BOOTH B6 / FRIEZE SEOUL 2024 / SEPT 4 – 7 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 5th, 2024, 8:29am


~EARL HOWARD / PIONEER WORKS PRESENTS: / ICE PERFORMS: EARL HOWARD’S ‘BOSON1’ / THURS SEPT 5

8 PM . . .


Pioneer Works / False Harmonics #19 . .
and the International Contemporary Ensemble / @intContemporary present: “the world premiere of EARL HOWARD’S ‘Boson1’ a flexible-instrumentation structured improvisation for 10 musicians & a performer of live sound processing. This performance is the outcome of a series of workshops at the composer’s home, where the performers learned to become conversant with Howard’s unique compositional & improvisational languages. As the 19th installment of Pioneer Works ‘False Harmonics’ series – which explores alternative approaches to composition, improvisation, and performance – the evening will also feature contrasting works performed by musicians of International Contemporary Ensemble.”

and, with works by: Fay Victor, Nicole Mitchelll, Isabel Lepanto Gleicher, Ingrid Laubrock & Rick Burkhardt

GREAT FLIER PHOTO by: artist HEIDI HOWARD, of EARL HOWARD, (above) who just happens to be her dad !!

get tix & more info at:

Pioneer Works
Sept 5, 2024 / doors: 7 PM / starts: 8 PM
159 Pioneer St., Brooklyn, NY. 11231.

~EARL HOWARD / PIONEER WORKS PRESENTS: / ICE PERFORMS: EARL HOWARD’S ‘BOSON1’ / THURS SEPT 5 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 4th, 2024, 2:40pm


~’BABA FEST 24′ / BABA YAGA GALLERY / HUDSON , UPSTATE NY / SAT AUG 31 / 2-10 PM

SATURDAY !! 2 – 10 PM !!

‘BABA FEST 24’ – ANNUAL / BIG GROUP SHOW – UPSTATE NY
BABA YAGA GALLERY – 5821 NY STATE ROUTE 9-G / HUDSON, NY 12534
ORGANIZED BY: @tommmmmmyboy / THOMAS ROESCHLEIN
GREAT POSTER: see @BABA_YAGA_GALLERY / Instagram for full list & links

~’BABA FEST 24′ / BABA YAGA GALLERY / HUDSON , UPSTATE NY / SAT AUG 31 / 2-10 PM | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 28th, 2024, 8:26am


~SAM COCKRELL / in group show: ‘VIRGO HARDWARE’ / STARSHIP GALLERY / BROOKLYN / OPENS SAT AUG 31 4-8 PM

OPENING AUG 31, 4-8 PM

and runs thru . . . SEPT 22, 2024 / STARSHIP, 70 JEFFERSON STREET, BROOKLYN NY 11206

STARSHIP GALLERY is the recent offspring of AIRPLANE, an artist-run non-commercial art gallery.
@starship_gallery


‘new Virgo DUCK painting’- image via Instagram @chicfila69 / SAM COCKRELL


BIG GROUP SHOW – ALL !! VIRGO !!

~SAM COCKRELL / in group show: ‘VIRGO HARDWARE’ / STARSHIP GALLERY / BROOKLYN / OPENS SAT AUG 31 4-8 PM | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 28th, 2024, 7:38am


~ANNA KUNZ & CHRIS MARTIN, JUDY PFAFF & PEPE KARMEL / ‘AL HELD: About Space ‘ / TUES SEPT 3

~

THE NEW SEASON of NSE / THE NEW SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT @broooklynrail begins TUESDAY, SEPT 3 2024
1 PM EASTERN / 10 AM PACIFIC

image & info via ANNA KUNZ / note: #alheldfoundation / THE BROOKLYN RAIL

~ANNA KUNZ & CHRIS MARTIN, JUDY PFAFF & PEPE KARMEL / ‘AL HELD: About Space ‘ / TUES SEPT 3 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 28th, 2024, 7:03am


~NICKO RUBIN / ‘TASTING TOURS’ / EAST HILL TREE FARM / PLAINFIELD, VERMONT / SEPT 22 & OCT 26

SUNDAY SEPT 22, 2024 / 1-3 PM
SUNDAY OCT 6, 2024 / 1-3 PM

‘TASTING TOURS’ !!!!
“THE FARM IS BURSTING with fruit and we want to share it with you !!
Join us !!
We’ll walk the farm, see the plants and taste what is ripe !!
We hope to taste: pears, blueberries, blackberries, buffalo berries, grapes, elderberries, sea berry, apples, plums, spikenard, and more . . .
Send us a message if you plan to come, or just show up.”

NICKO RUBIN,
East Hill Tree Farm
NURSERY for FRUIT TREES, NUTS & BERRY PLANTS

East Hill Tree Farm,
3499 East Hill Rd, Plainfield, VT 05667


Photo: Courtesy Nicko Rubin via Instagram @easthilltreeefarm

~NICKO RUBIN / ‘TASTING TOURS’ / EAST HILL TREE FARM / PLAINFIELD, VERMONT / SEPT 22 & OCT 26 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 22nd, 2024, 1:04pm


~IGGY CAPRA, HOP PETERNELL / ‘WHAT’S GOING ON DOWN THERE ?’ / BABA YAGA / UPSTATE N.Y. / CLOSING RECEPTION SUNDAY JUNE 30.

CLOSING PARTY: 5-9 PM
5821 State Route 9-G / HUDSON NY 12534

see: @baba_yaga_gallery / Instagram

~IGGY CAPRA, HOP PETERNELL / ‘WHAT’S GOING ON DOWN THERE ?’ / BABA YAGA / UPSTATE N.Y. / CLOSING RECEPTION SUNDAY JUNE 30. | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 29th, 2024, 1:20pm


~HENRY CHAPMAN OPENS NEW GALLERY / INAUGURAL OPENING / ‘THE GOOD INTENT’ / OPENS WED JUNE 5

GREAT GOING !!!!!

WRITER & PAINTER HENRY CHAPMAN & partner/wife LAURA MacMILLAN are opening what’s sure to be a very cutting edge gallery:
GUEST GALLERY / 1451 DEAN ST, CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN, NY 11213

Witness the inaugural exhibit, ‘THE GOOD INTENT’ / OPENING . . . . THIS WED JUNE 5th / 6 – 8 PM

“curated by American artist RYAN KISH, the show titled ‘The Good Intent’ . . takes its title from a pub he (Kish) frequented while living in London and painting at the Turps Banana Studio Program. Extending the fellowship he found there, the show brings together artists at different stages of their careers and engaged in strikingly individual and expansive approaches to contemporary painting.”
~GUEST GALLERY

‘THE GOOD INTENT’ . . .
with: PHILLIP ALLEN, JOSHUA ARMITAGE, ZOE CARLON, DIDO HALLETT, MARK JACKSON, RYAN KISH, & ANNE RYAN
CURATED by GUEST CURATOR: RYAN KISH
POSTER IMAGE by: ZOE CARLON / ‘Primula II’, oil on aluminum
(image courtesy of the artist and South Parade)

GUEST GALLERY
1451 Dean St., Crown Heights, Brooklyn NY USA
. . . thru AUGUST 11, 2024


PHOTO via Instagram @guest.gallery


PHOTO via Instagram @guest.gallery


PHOTO via INSTAGRAM @ guest.gallery


PHOTO via Instagram @guest.gallery

~HENRY CHAPMAN OPENS NEW GALLERY / INAUGURAL OPENING / ‘THE GOOD INTENT’ / OPENS WED JUNE 5 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 3rd, 2024, 2:59pm


~SONIA RUSCOE / ‘THRILL’ / at / the newly relocated NONCHALANT / CATSKILL, N.Y. / music performance SUNDAY JUNE 2

I missed posting about Sonia’s opening last weekend . . .
due to a heat-related power outage just as I was about to / and, great poster by Sonia !!
great title, too !!

BUT, GOOD NEWS !! the show will be up for a month.
The new Nonchalant location, 393 Main St., Catskill, New York, 12414 / will be open this weekend, (June 1 & 2, 2024),
from 12 to 5pm / with a musical performance on Sun June 2 evening . . .

great poster by OTTO OHLE who also runs Nonchalant.

OTHERWISE,
it’s weekends 12-5pm, or by appointment

~SONIA RUSCOE / ‘THRILL’ / at / the newly relocated NONCHALANT / CATSKILL, N.Y. / music performance SUNDAY JUNE 2 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 31st, 2024, 1:32pm


~BLINN & LAMBERT / in ‘Means of Production’ / LUNCH HOUR

up thru July 31, 2024
more of a creative collective pop-up than an established gallery space /
best to schedule an appointment or attend a scheduled event.
see: LUNCH HOUR

the collaborative duo Blinn & Lambert / aka NICHOLAS STEINDORF & KYLE WILLIAMS
are showing a new projection at: ‘MEANS of PRODUCTION’/ LUNCH HOUR
great setting !!!

PHOTO BY: Anjuli Rathod / (@anjuli.rathod) via Instagram Story @blinn_and_lambert

~BLINN & LAMBERT / in ‘Means of Production’ / LUNCH HOUR | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 31st, 2024, 12:35pm


~BLINN & LAMBERT, MARTHA TUTTLE & many others / ‘MEANS of PRODUCTION’ / LUNCH HOUR / MAY 18 – JULY 31, 2024

BLINN & LAMBERT (NICHOLAS STEINDORF & KYLE WILLIAMS) / MARTHA TUTTLE & Many Others . . . .

‘MEANS OF PRODUCTION’
OPENING: SAT MAY 18, 2024 / 6 – 9 pm
LUNCH HOUR at the Sheerly Touch-Ya and Shishanwu LLC Warehouse
74-12 88th Street, Glendale NY 11385

~BLINN & LAMBERT, MARTHA TUTTLE & many others / ‘MEANS of PRODUCTION’ / LUNCH HOUR / MAY 18 – JULY 31, 2024 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 15th, 2024, 12:14pm


~DASH SNOW & DAN COLEN / FLASHBACK to 2006 !!

DASH SNOW opens ‘Silence of The Only True Friend That Shall Never Betray You’ at now defunct Rivington Arms, LES, NYC.
ARCHIVAL PHOTO by: Nancy Smith, NYC, Sept 7, 2006.

DASH SNOW with DAN COLEN (right)
at the same opening.
ARCHIVAL PHOTO by: Nancy Smith, NYC, Sept 7, 2006.

ALL PHOTOS COPYRIGHT: NANCY SMITH

~DASH SNOW & DAN COLEN / FLASHBACK to 2006 !! | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 15th, 2024, 11:56am


~Joe BRADLEY, LUKE MURPHY & others / ‘EARLY MAN 2’ / THE HOLE TRIBECA / MAY 3 – JUNE 22, 2024

‘EARLY MAN 2’ – group exhibition
THE HOLE TRIBECA – 86 WALKER STREET, NYC, NY 10013
HRS: TUES – SAT / 11AM – 6PM


JOE BRADLEY, ‘Untitled, (Human Form)’, 2010
Silkscreen on canvas, diptych / each 96 x 63 in.


LUKE MURPHY, ‘FirePile 3.0’, 2024
LED Matrix Panels, wood stretcher bars, wire, video hardware, software, code, / 28 x 25 x 24 in.

ALL PHOTOS ABOVE COURTESY: KATHY GRAYSON / THE HOLE GALLERY

~Joe BRADLEY, LUKE MURPHY & others / ‘EARLY MAN 2’ / THE HOLE TRIBECA / MAY 3 – JUNE 22, 2024 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 5th, 2024, 11:19am


~CHRIS RETSINA . . NOW


IMAGE VIA INSTAGRAM @cretsina, CHRIS RETSINA, “Shocked”, April 30, 2024 !PM

~CHRIS RETSINA . . NOW | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 30th, 2024, 1:00pm


~TAYLOR McKIMENS …’Laying it On Thick / Le Mont Art Space / TAIWAN

recently … FEB 24 – March 24, 2024

TAYLOR McKIMENS, ‘The One AND The Only’, 2024.
Oil on Stretched Canvas / 20 in x 16 in.
Photo via Instagram @taylormckimens

TAYLOR McKIMENS / ‘Laying It On Thick’/ Le Mont Art Space, Kaohsiung, TAIWAN

~TAYLOR McKIMENS …’Laying it On Thick / Le Mont Art Space / TAIWAN | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 30th, 2024, 12:42pm


~’LUKE MURPHY: PROMISED LIGHT’ / CANADA GALLERY / MARCH 5 – APRIL 13, 2024

recently at CANADA . .

photo courtesy of the artist

~’LUKE MURPHY: PROMISED LIGHT’ / CANADA GALLERY / MARCH 5 – APRIL 13, 2024 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 30th, 2024, 12:18pm


~JACOB JACKMAUH, DOMINIC PALARCHIO, WILFREDO PRIETO . . ‘YOU DON’T MATTER GIVE UP’ / SUBTITLED NYC / PIX FROM THE OPENING

SUBTITLED NYC . . . . PRESENTS:
‘YOU DON’T MATTER GIVE UP’ /
JACOB JACKMAUH, DOMINIC PALARCHIO, WILFREDO PRIETO
DEC 15 – JAN 21, 2024
113 FRANKLIN ST., 2nd FLOOR / GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN, NYC 11222
HRS: THURS-SUN / 1 – 6 PM & BY APPOINTMENT

PIX FROM THE OPENING – FRI DEC 15 . . . PHOTOS BY NANCY SMITH


JACOB JACKMAUH, at the opening . . .
‘YOU DON’T MATTER GIVE UP’, Subtitled NYC.
Dec 15, 2023.


JACOB JACKMAUH, ‘3137548’, 2023
cast aluminum, varnish, hardware
5-5/8 x 7-3/4 x 2 in.


JACOB JACKMAUH, ‘Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timely’, 2023
rubber hooks, hardware
5-1/8 x 4-3/4 x 2 in.


DOMINIC PALARCHIO, ‘Untitled’, 2023
camera, oil, wick
5 x 8 x 4.75 in.
note: that is a flickering flame, the camera has been modified to become a functional, oil burning lamp.


DOMINIC PALARCHIO, with his modified camera / lamp, as it was presented, on the floor,
at the opening of, ‘YOU DON’T MATTER GIVE UP’/ a 3 person show at Subtitled NYC, Dec 15, 2023.


on the wall:
DOMINIC PALARCHIO, ‘Untitled’, 2020
altered wood, urethane, polyester
5 x 16 x 3 in.
Dominic jumps between . . hot, and cold.


Dominic had a dedicated fan base at the opening, one of whom was very helpful,
bringing up his website, and explaining how the ‘oil lamp’ concept works.
in this case a real work shoe, was modified with an interior plastic bottle that held the oil, that fed the wick, that made . . the light.


WILFREDO PRIETO, ‘Egg and 8 Ball’, 2016
egg, pool ball, also presented . . on the floor.
2.4 x 4.3 x 2.4 in.
“Through this exhibition questions – with no answers or solutions – are explored about contemporary culture’s underlying structures with subtle gestures and open metaphors.”
~from the exhibition mission statement written by: JAMIE STERNS


from left:
ABBY LLOYD, LINA McGINN, and CHRIS RETSINA,
at the ‘YOU DON’T MATTER GIVE UP’ opening, Subtitled NYC,
Dec 15, 2023.
note: Lina McGinn is the current co-director, with JACOB JACKMAUH, of ART LOT BROOKLYN.
Abby Lloyd and Chris Retsina just presented, and organized the wildly successful / performance-heavy,
community-centered, art party: ‘THE A LOT FAIR’, at ART LOT BROOKLYN, this past Oct 15, 2023.


cute animals interacting with humans, this is a show . . . “confronting viewers with paradoxes inherent in understanding our world through materiality, form, and the cyclical miasmic undertow of systems of power and dominance.”
~JAMIE STERNS, exhibition statement

that is some part, or one view . . of the large, actually distressed, but could be / would be cute . .
verging on life-sized, stand-alone sculpture by JACOB JACKMAUH.
JACOB JACKMAUH, ‘Pony’, 2023.
discarded factory mold, moss, lichen, dirt, hardware
15 x 52-1/4 x 57-1/2 in.
“Jacob Jackmauh’s work is rooted in a tactile engagement with the artifacts of mass manufacturing such as factory molds, cheap toys, and disposable merchandise.”
~JAMIE STERNS, exhibition statement


Subtitled NYC, is a project space run by . . JAEJOON JANG.
Photo: Nancy Smith / NYC, Dec 15, 2023.

‘YOU DON’T MATTER GIVE UP’ . . .
is a fully brilliant summation of Year 2023, and our . . fraying world,
the deceivingly simple sculpture / images – give us all, a lot – to think, about.

PHOTOS & TEXT BY: NANCY SMITH

~JACOB JACKMAUH, DOMINIC PALARCHIO, WILFREDO PRIETO . . ‘YOU DON’T MATTER GIVE UP’ / SUBTITLED NYC / PIX FROM THE OPENING | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | December 17th, 2023, 8:59am


~JACOB JACKMAUH, DOMINIC PALARCHIO, WILFREDO PRIETO / ‘YOU DON’T MATTER GIVE UP’ / SUBTITLED / BROOKLYN / OPENS FRI DEC 15′ /

OPENING FRI DEC 15 . . . 6 – 8 PM

‘YOU DON’T MATTER GIVE UP’ /
JACOB JACKMAUH, DOMINIC PALARCHIO, WILFREDO PRIETO
DEC 15 – JAN 21, 2024
SUBTITLED, 113 FRANKLIN ST., GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN, NY 11222

POSTER DESIGN BY: SOYEON KWON

~JACOB JACKMAUH, DOMINIC PALARCHIO, WILFREDO PRIETO / ‘YOU DON’T MATTER GIVE UP’ / SUBTITLED / BROOKLYN / OPENS FRI DEC 15′ / | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | December 13th, 2023, 5:16pm


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