ALFREDO MARTINEZ: NYC HOMEBOY HITS BEIJING -or- OUR MAN in CHINA…
isn’t the internet wonderful – the world is getting so small – ALFREDO MARTINEZ reports that:
he has been invited. . “to curate a show at 1artbase a 30,000 square foot space (see BELOW)
in a complex big enough to hold an art fair in. It’s all under construction but they work so fast here that you can go for coffee and come back and the doorways breaked (sic) over and a new doorway is installed twenty feeet along the wall. It’s so large we can basically drop a tank in there, and it looks like a toy. So I need to find at least 50 more artists (chinese or western, I don’t care, but obviously leaning toward chinese).
They’re giving me office/live-work space, and getting an assistant for me. So I am pretty sure I found my Chinese patrons if I play my cards right, and I am only coming back to NYC at gun point.”
PHOTO: COURTESY ALFREDO MARTINEZ, BEIJING, May 16, 2007
artlovers last post on: ALFREDO MARTINEZ with PIX, 2007-04-05 (scroll down a couple of rows)
~ALFREDO MARTINEZ LANDS in BEIJING or/ HOMEBOY IN CHINA |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 29th, 2007, 7:31pm
BICYCLE PAINTING by TALIAH LEMPERT
Photo: Courtesy Taliah Lempert Studio
Thursday May 24, 2007, 6:30PM
Ride: BROOKLYN BRIDGE BIRTHDAY BIKE RIDE
Meet at: The City Reliquary Museum
370 Metroploitan Ave at Havemeyer
Williamsburg, BROOKLYN
What: Leisurely ride to the Brooklyn Bridge for birthday cake and champagne
on the Brooklyn anchorage in celebration of the bridge’s 124th birthday.
Cost: FREE
Saturday May 26, 2007, 12-6PM
Event: BICYCLE FETISH DAY 2007
At: Havemeyer and Grand Sts. in Williamsburg, BROOKLYN
What: A street fair for your bicycle! Contests for all types of bikes, music,
raffle prizes, food, & fun. “Come show off your style to the masses..”
Cost: FREE
Saturday May 26, 2007, 7-11PM
Event: BICYCLE FETISH DAY 2007 AFTERPARTY!!
At: The City Reliquary Museum
370 Metropoloitan Ave at Havemeyer in Williamsburg, BROOKLYN
What: Come hang out in our new, incredible Museum gardens!
This event is sponsored by Brooklyn Brewery with live DJ ‘Stache-Master on
the turntables. CHEAP beer, great music, backyard livin’ and an amazing
community-museum spirit.
Cost: FREE admission, CHEAP beer
Sunday May 27, 2007, 2-5PM
Ride: BIKE BROOKLYN BEER BLITZ
Meet at: The City Reliquary Museum
370 Metropolitan Ave at Havemeyer in Williamsburg, BROOKLYN
What: Brooklyn – once the beer brewing capitol of the world!!
A three hour bicycle tour, guided by tourguide MATT LEVY.
The tour will visit sites in the former brewing neighborhoods of
East Williamsburg and Bushwick, including Evergreen Cemetary,
Brewers’ Row, and Bushwick Aveneue.
The ride ends with a free tasting of Brooklyn Beers in The
City Reliquary Museum Gardens.
Cost: $25.00
www.cityreliquary.org
~CIVIC RIDERS BICYCLE EVENTS/CITY RELIQUARY |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 24th, 2007, 9:58am
TALIAH LEMPERT installs her show of BICYCLE PAINTINGS with the help of BILL SCANGA, Vice President of Collections, The City Reliquary Museum & Civic Organization, May 4, 2007
Photo: Nancy Smith
The assorted ‘BICYCLE PAINTINGS of TALIAH LEMPERT’ is now on view at
The City Reliquary Museum & Civic Organization,
370 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg, BROOKLYN
HOURS: Saturday & Sunday, 12 noon – 6PM
the show runs from MAY 5 – JUNE 10, 2007
some more of TALIAH LEMPERT’S BICYCLE PAINTINGS,
The City Reliquary Museum, BROOKLYN, May 4, 2007
Photos: Nancy Smith
www.cityreliquary.org
www.bicyclepaintings.com
~TALIAH LEMPERT BIKE PAINTINGS/CITY RELIQUARY |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 24th, 2007, 9:33am
YAN PEI-MING (right) with BELLA HUBERT. DAVID ZWIRNER, May 14, 2007
Photo: Nancy Smith
YAN-PEI-MING, a Chinese artist who divides his time between China and France,
has his first exhibit in nEW YORK at DAVID ZWIRNER . . . and it seems to be apylt
titled: ‘You maintain a sense of balance in the midst of great success’ . !!
MS. HUBERT, who is a Partner/Director at DAVID ZWIRNER, and who also happens
to speak fluent French, was translating for MR. PEI-MING, who speaks French and
Chinese, at a very charming and funny Q & A just before the show’s opening, last
Monday may 14, 2007.
They are standing in front of MR. PEI-MING’S series of large scale watercolors:
‘American Dollars 2007’. YAN PEI-MING said, .. when he first worked on them,
he didn’t know the meaning of the denominations – but that he DOES NOW !!!
Apparently, it’s his first trip to New York City and MS. HUBERT says … “He’s loving it !!”
the large black & white watercolors and 2 big monchrome self-portraits are up thru JUNE 16, 2007.
DAVID ZWIRNER
~BELLA HUBERT & YAN PEI-MING/ZWIRNER |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 22nd, 2007, 1:54pm
VOLCOMICS
An international Drawing Show Series and Comic Book Launch with:
Michael Sieben, Travis Millard, Mel Kadel, Ozzie Wright, Mike Aho,
Kill Pixie, Jamie Lynn, Todd Bratrud, Haculla and Mark Appleyard
OPENS TO-NITE, SAT MAY 19, 8 – 11PM
FUSE GALLERY – 93 2nd Avenue (bet 5th & 6th Streets) – EAST VILLAGE
FUSE GALLERY is adjacent to Lit Lounge
regular gallery hours are: Wednesday through Saturday, 3 to 8 pm.
check out this website: volcom.com
photos from the opening
FUSE GALLERY
~VOLCOMICS/FUSE/opens to-nite |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 19th, 2007, 8:42am
DEVIN LEONARDI – CONCORDIA
OPENS SAT MAY 19, 2007 – 6-8PM
GUILD & GREYSHKUL – 28 Wooster St – SOHO
the show runs MAY 19 – JUNE 23, 2007
see: photos from the opening
GUILD & GREYSHKUL
~DEVIN LEONARDI/GUILD&GREYSHKUL/opens to-nite |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 19th, 2007, 8:34am
LOT 103
JUSTIN FAUNCE b. 1980
Go Team, 2004
Acrylic and glitter on canvas. 75-1/2 x 75-1/2 ins.
Signed, titled and dated twice “Justin Faunce 01/04 ‘Go Team'” on the reverse.
ESTIMATE $20,000 – 30,000
SOLD FOR: $156,000
PART II
CONTEMPORARY ART
MAY 18, 2007 NEW YORK
PHILLIPS de PURY & COMPANY
PHILLIPS de PURY & COMPANY
~JUSTIN FAUNCE/PHILLIPS/MAY 18 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 18th, 2007, 6:29pm
LOT 393
ANDREW GUENTHER b. 1976
Dreamcatcher, 2004
Oil on canvas, 78 x 59-3/4 ins.
ESTIMATE $8,000 – 12,000
did not sell
PART II
CONTEMPORARY ART
MAY 18, 2007 NEW YORK
PHILLIPS de PURY & COMPANY
PHILLIPS de PURY & COMPANY
~ANDREW GUENTHER/PHILLIPS/MAY 18 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 18th, 2007, 6:24pm
LOT 394
ANDREW GUENTHER b. 1976
On Enlightenment, 2004
Oil on canvas. 78 x 59-3/4 ins.
ESTIMATE $8,000 – 12, 000
SOLD FOR: $7,800
PART II
CONTEMPORARY ART
MAY 18, 2007 NEW YORK
PHILLIPS de PURY & COMPANY
PHILLIPS de PURY & COMPANY
~ANDREW GUENTHER/PHILLIPS/MAY 18 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 18th, 2007, 6:19pm
LOT 352
RYAN McGINLEY b. 1977
BMX, New York 2000
C-print mounted on aluminum. 30 x 40 ins.
Signed “Ryan McGinley” on a gallery label adhered to the reverse.
This work is from an edition of six.
ESTIMATE $4,000 – 5,000
SOLD FOR: $22,800
PART II
CONTEMPORARY ART
MAY 18, 2007 NEW YORK
PHILLIPS de PURY & COMPANY
PHILLIPS de PURY & COMPANY
~RYAN McGINLEY/PHILLIPS/MAY 18 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 18th, 2007, 6:13pm
