~CHRISTIAN SCHWARZWALD/DEREK ELLER

bird in the hand

the card for: CHRISTIAN SCHWARZWALD – ‘A BIRD IN THE HAND’

DEREK ELLER GALLERY – 615 West 27th STREET

MAY 31 – JULY 13, 2007

photos from the opening

DEREK ELLER GALLERY

~CHRISTIAN SCHWARZWALD/DEREK ELLER | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 26th, 2007, 9:37pm



~TOM MEACHAM/OLIVER KAMM

Tom Meacham

the card for:

TOM MEACHAM – ‘the greater good’ – OLIVER KAMM / 5BE GALLERY

621 W. 27th STREET

MAY 31 – JULY 13, 2007

photos from the opening

OLIVER KAMM / 5BE GALLERY

~TOM MEACHAM/OLIVER KAMM | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 26th, 2007, 8:52pm



~JOE BRADLEY/SARAH BRAMAN/DICKSMITH/LONDON

Dicksmith
PHOTO: COURTESY CANADA

JOE BRADLEY, (the sailboat on the wall), and SARAH BRAMAN (the free standing floor sculpture – which looks r-a-d-i-a-n-t) had a really successful sojourn to LONDON, this spring, when DICKSMITH GALLERY exhibited several works by both artists, in a 2 person show, simply titled; ‘Joe Bradley/Sarah Braman’.

the show ran from May 10 – June 17, 2007

you can see more images on the DICKSMITH GALLERY website:
www.dicksmithgallery.co.uk/

CANADA

~JOE BRADLEY/SARAH BRAMAN/DICKSMITH/LONDON | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 26th, 2007, 8:27pm



~BRIAN BELOTT/Wipe That Clock Off Your Face/ DVD

book # 1

book # 2

book # 3

DON’T MISS OUT!! THE DVD, so cleverly attached to the inside back cover of
‘Wipe That Clock Off Your Face’ is an original CD/DVD that offers BRIAN BELOTT’S
“accclaimed Found Images, a digital slide show of over 2,000 found
photos, with an exclusive full-length soundtrack of FOUND sound collages.”

‘Wipe That Clock Off Your Face’, by BRIAN BELOTT, copyright 2007
Published by PictureBox Inc
Distributed by D.A.P.
Distributed Art Publishers, New York
www.artbook.com
ISBN: 0-9789722-1-X

DVD PRODUCTION BY: ANNIE PEARLMAN

DVD ASSISTANCE: CHRISTOPHER FRAGA

ABOVE PHOTO IMAGES: Nancy Smith

PictureBox, Inc

~BRIAN BELOTT/Wipe That Clock Off Your Face/ DVD | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 26th, 2007, 8:03pm



~BRIAN CHIPPENDALE/New Mutants

Brian Chipppendale & dan nadel

Brian Chippendale # 2

BRIAN CHIPPENDALE at the ‘New Mutants’ after party, CANADA, Chinatown,
top, with DAN NADEL (at left)
June 22, 2007
PHOTO: Nancy Smith

we’ve being hearing alot about BRIAN CHIPPENDALE from many of the RHODE ISLAND crew, esp those who came to stay in New York. His band, LIGHTING BOLT, for which he is the apparently totally dynamic drummer, has cult status among the knowing.

you can catch his painting talent at CANADA in the ‘New Mutants’ show curated by DAN NADEL,
running JUNE 22 – JULY 22, 2007
at CANADA – 55 CHRYSTIE – LOWER EAST SIDE/CHINATOWN

more pix

CANADA

~BRIAN CHIPPENDALE/New Mutants | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 26th, 2007, 5:51pm



~FRANK SANTORO/New Mutants/Wipe That Clock Off Your Face

Frank Santoro # 2
FRANK SANTORO at the ‘New Mutants’ after party, CANADA, Chinatown,
June 22, 2007
PHOTO: Nancy Smith

FRANK SANTORO finally comes in from the shadows with this show.
he has some beautiful, light handed ink drawings on display.

Frank # 1

Frank # 2

Frank # 3

PHOTOS: Nancy Smith, FRANK SANTORO ink drawings on paper,
‘New Mutants’, curated by DAN NADEL, CANADA
June 22, 2007

more pix from the opening & after party

we also found it interesting to note that FRANK SANTORO is given a ‘WISDOM’ credit on the back page/credits of ‘Wipe That Clock Off Your Face’, by BRIAN BELOTT,
PictureBox,Inc publishers.

CANADA

PictureBox, Inc

~FRANK SANTORO/New Mutants/Wipe That Clock Off Your Face | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 26th, 2007, 5:28pm



~NEW MUTANTS/CANADA/opening to-nite/FRI/up-date

mutants web
card image by MICHAEL WILLIAMS, COURTESY CANADA

NEW MUTANTS opens to-nite – FRIDAY JUNE 22, 2007 – 7-9pm
the show runs form JUNE 22 – JULY 22, 2007
CANADA – 55 CHRYSTIE STREET – LOWER EAST SIDE

curated by DAN NADEL

Melissa Brown
Brian Chippendale
Julie Doucet
C.F.
Trenton Doyle Hancock
Ben Jones
Amy Lockhart
Sakura Maku
Frank Santoro
Patrick Smith
Michael Williams

DAN NADEL is the founder of PictureBox, Inc

CANADA

UP-DATE: TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 2007

‘New Mutants’ is a brilliant little show, and Dan Nadel shows he is really getting into top form. ‘Wipe That Clock Off Your Face’, by BRIAN BELOTT, which his PictureBox, Inc published – was the first indication of a big step-up in the Dan Nadel game.

Dan Nadel-new mutants
publisher and curator DAN NADEL, of PictureBox, Inc in a characteristic mode, at the ‘New Mutants’ after party,
Chinatown, June 22, 2007
PHOTO: Nancy Smith

some of the art work in ‘New Mutants’:

new mutants # 1
PATRICK SMITH, oil on canvas, 48 x 40-1/8 ins.

MICHAEL WILLIAMS, 'Fur Tree', oil on canvas, 58 x 76 ins.
MICHAEL WILLIAMS, ‘Fur Tree’, oil on canvas, 58 x 76 ins.

Melissa brown
MELISSA BROWN, ‘Untitled’, silkscreen on aluminum, 48 x 96 ins.

Frank santoro
FRANK SANTORO, ink drawing on paper

PHOTOS: Nancy Smith, ‘New Mutants’, curated by DAN NADEL, CANADA, NYC,
opening night, June 22, 2007

more pix of the work in the show at the opening

CANADA

~NEW MUTANTS/CANADA/opening to-nite/FRI/up-date | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 22nd, 2007, 8:43am



~IT’S OK TO MAKE MISTAKES/RIVIERA/opens SAT/up-date

Riviera- hektor

‘IT’S OK To MAKE MISTAKES’

OPENS To-NITE – SAT JUNE 16, 2007 – 6-10PM

THE SHOW RUNS FROM: SAT JUNE 16 – SAT JULY 1, 2007
RIVIERA GALLERY – 103 METROPOLITAN AVE – WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN

GALLERY HOURS:
Thursday and Friday: 2 – 8PM
Saturday and Sunday: 12noon – 6PM
(or by private appointment 1-718-599-5589)

‘IT’S OK TO MAKE MISTAKES’
JUERG LEHNI AND LAURENZ BRUNNER PRESENT:
– HEKTOR – A PORTABLE SPRAY-PAINT OUTPUT DEVICE !!!

“HEKTOR is a portable Spray-paint Output Device for laptop computers. It was created in close collaboration with engineer Uli Franke for Jurg Lehni’s diploma project at ecal (ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne) in 2002.

Hektor’s light and fragile installation consists of only two motors, toothed belts and a can holder that handles regular spray cans. The can is moved along drawing paths just as the human hand or old plotters would. During operation, the mechanism sometimes trembles and wobbles, and the paint often drips. The contrasts between these low-tech aspects and the high-tech touch of the construction hold ambiguous and poetic qualities and make Hektor enjoyable to watch in action. . .”

websites of interest:
www.hektor.ch/
www.scratchdisk.com
www.lineto.com
www.scriptographer.com
www.vectorama.org
www.laurenzbrunner.com

RIVIERA GALLERY
DIRECTIONS: 103 Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg, BROOKLY.
Take the L train to BEDFORD AVENUE stop.
Walk south 5 blocks and take right on to METROPOLITAN AVENUE.
Walk 2 blocks to corner of WYTHE and METROPOLITAN.

UP-DATE: TUES JUNE 19, 2007

HEKTOR crew

from left: JUERG LEHNI, HEKTOR’S creator, CHLOE DERDERIAN, RIVIERA’S new Managing Director, LAURENZ BRUNNER, guest collaborator – graphics/content, and MATT OWEN, one of the founding Directors, RIVIERA GALLERY, at the opening.
‘IT’S OK TO MAKE MISTAKES’ – JUERG LEHNI and LAURENZ BRUNNER PRESENT:
HEKTOR – A PORTABLE SPRAY-PAINT OUTPUT DEVICE,
RIVIERA GALLERY, Williamsburg, BROOKLYN, June 16, 2007
PHOTO: Nancy Smith

YEP, HEKTOR was a “light and fragile” low-fi production, and it was fascinating to watch the little machine that could, decorate the gallery walls. the designs were text driven,
but the choice of fonts, tone, (graphics & message), and the spray paint hue made for a very visual and poetic experience. The designs were pre-programmed into a laptop computer, and sent to HEKTOR, which just seemed to be jerry rigged on 2 lines, actually 2 “toothed belts”, connected to 2 pulleys at the top of the wall. it was fascinating to watch the designs evolve.

HEKTOR had to re-claim its “balance” by making a little circle after each complete letter or design glyph, and as the design moved down the wall, and the tether lines became longer, the control of the spray can became more fragile and tenuous – but never really, losing it, all together, for a moment. it basically wobbled and wavered, as the press release rightly stated, and the line became less focused, but it was very much a fun thing. it was like HEKTOR became animate and human, given a little “more rope”. the contrast between the hi-tech, as in the pre-programmed computer directions, and the low-tech messenger, was indeed fun to watch. it was definitely an out-put device that was poetic, as compared to a hi-end printer that spits out clean computer designs, to the dot, and yes, HEKTOR – therefore “conveys the abstract geometries contained in these graphics in a different way than normal printers do.”

JUERG LEHNI, who is a graphic design artist himself, created HEKTOR and apparently invites other artists to collaborate with him, to create exhibitions featuring HEKTOR’S spray paint possibilities . . In this New York HEKTOR debut, he has invited the graphic design artist, LAURENZ BRUNNER to in-put visual “content”. Both artists are Swiss Germans, who are currently in NYC living in the downtown Manhattan area, on a temporary residency grant (GRAPHIC DESIGN) funded by the
CULTURAL DEPARTMENT of ZURICH.

the show is up for 2 weeks, don’t believe there will be any more live demonstrations, but HEKTOR will be there, and the designs in themselves, as finished product are
fascinating enough to stand on their own, though just why they are so compelling in their simplicity – is hard to put into words. must be that special HEKTOR touch, not to mention the a-head of the curve sensibilites of JUERG LEHNI and LAURENZ BRUNNER.

more photos from the opening

VIEW HEKTOR In ACTION
there’s a link to live action clips of HEKTOR here:
RIVIERA GALLERY – HEKTOR: http://seeyouattheriviera.com/hektor

RIVIERA GALLERY – http://seeyouattheriviera.com

~IT’S OK TO MAKE MISTAKES/RIVIERA/opens SAT/up-date | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 16th, 2007, 9:07am



~TED McGRATH/CHRIS SILAS NEAL

TED McGRATH and CHRIS SILAS NEAL – exhibited new works on paper last month at
RIVIERA GALLERY, in Williamsburg, BROOKLYN.

the show was titled: TED McGRATH AND CHRIS SILAS NEAL
and ran: MAY 10 – JUNE 3, 2007
.. . “two of New York’s hardest working illustrators, Ted and Chris channel pop, folk, fine art and doodles into works that have the power to be both hilariously charming and subversively dark.” –
RIVERIA GALLERY

both have really interesting, really different websites.

the CHRIS SILAS NEAL site opens with a blog account of his projects. the latest entry, as of this post, 6/5/07 – relates his recent time with NICKELODEON, don’t miss the QUICKTIME player of the FINAL TV SPOT !

Christopher Silas Neal
IMAGE: COURTESY CHRISTOPHER SILAS NEAL

check out the CHRISTOPHER SILAS NEAL site: http://redsilas.com

………………………………………………………………

the TED McGRATH site is presented in more of a portfolio format…

Ted McGrath
IMAGE: COURTESY TED McGRATH

check out the TED McGRATH site: http://www.tedmcgrath.com

the show is archived under EXHIBITIONS>2007
RIVERIA GALLERY – http://seeyouattheriviera.com

~TED McGRATH/CHRIS SILAS NEAL | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 16th, 2007, 8:29am



~JEAN PROUVE/CHRISTIE’S/ANDRE BALAZS

. . . . the most astute blue chip buy of the season:

NOTE: the actual Maison Tropicale bought at CHRISTIE’S was a slightly different house,
but follows along these guidelines.

Jean prouve

JEAN PROUVE, ‘A TROPICAL HOUSE’, exhibited in the HAMMER MUSEUM courtyard,
OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2005.
PHOTO: COURTESY HAMMER MUSEUM

archival notes from the HAMMER MUSEUM (OCT 4, 2005):

. . . “A prefabricated metal house constructed by French designer JEAN PROUVE, known as the Tropical House, will be installed in the Hammer Museum courtyard
during October and November 2005. Installation of Jean Prouve: A Tropical House will begin October 4, and deinstallation will begin in January 2006.
The installation and deinstallation periods will last for approximately two weeks and are integral aspects of the display, allowing the public to observe, first-hand, Prouve’s notions of prefabricated architecture in practice.

Prouve designed the Tropical house in 1949 as a prototype for inexpensive, readily
assembled housing that could be easily transported to France’s African colonies. Fabricated in Prouve’s French workshops, the components for the house were completed in 1951 and were flown disassembled to Africa in the cargo hold of an airplane. The house was erected in the town of Brazzaville, Congo, where it remained for nearly 50 years. In 1999 the Tropical House was disassembled and shipped back to France for restoration…”

an excellent essay by ROBERT RUBIN, About Jean Prouve’s Tropical House, as well as a striking series of installation photographs can be found on the HAMMER MUSEUM website: www.hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/95/index.htm

THE NEW YORK TIMES, JUNE 6, 2007 – Metro Briefing, Page B8
MANHATTAN: HOTIELIER BUYS 1951 HOUSE
“The hotelier ANDRE BALAZS bought Maison Tropicale, a small 1951 aluminum-paneled house by the French designer JEAN PROUVE, for $4.97 million yesterday, Christie’s auction house said. Christie’s had estimated that the house would go for $4 million to $6 million. (The final price ncluded Christie’s commission: 20 percent of the first $500,000 and 12 percent of the rest.) The house had been on view since mid May in Long Island City. Prouve designed it as a prototype for prefabricated homes for French colonial officials stationed in Africa.
The seller, Eric Touchaleaume, a French antiques dealer, as said he plans to use the proceeds to finance a Prouve museum that will travel in another Maison Tropicale.”

CHRISTIE’S, NEW YORK – AUCTION DATE: JUNE 5, 2007

illustration not available

LOT 0311

JEAN PROUVE (1901-1984)
THE PROTOTYPE LARGE MAISON TROPICALE FOR BRAZZAVILLE, 1950-51

ESTIMATE: $4,000,000-6,000,000

SOLD FOR: $4,968,000

note: the property offered for sale as LOT 0311 consists solely of the prototype Maison Tropicale created by Jean Prouve. Photographic illustrations (not available on-line) may include the base, which includes the iroko decking and the tall pillars from which the prototype is raised on short, adjustable, telescopic pillars was not designed by Jean Prouve. The iroko base and the tall pillars, designed and manufactured by the present owner to provide an optional platform for the prototype Maison Tropicale, are not being offered for sale in this auction but will be made available for purchase by the successful bidder via a private sale.
note: the base was bought privately.

CHRISTIE’S

from the artlovers archives:

Prouve daughter
CATHRINE PROUVE, JEAN PROUVE’S DAUGHTER .. and

Prouve's grandson
SERGE PROUVE, JEAN PROUVE’S GRANDSON, (said to resemble his grandfather),
sitting at one of his grandpa’s original work desks …

Prouve folding chair
a folding chair by JEAN PROUVE,

at the opening of: ‘Furniture and Architecture by JEAN PROUVE’,
curated by PATRICK SEQUIN,
SONNABEND GALLERY, FEB 22, 2003

Photos: Nancy Smith
these photos first posted in artnet, MARCH 17, 2003

~JEAN PROUVE/CHRISTIE’S/ANDRE BALAZS | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 15th, 2007, 12:56pm


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