OPENS SAT NOV 22 / 2 – 5:30 PM
BLINN & LAMBERT / NICHOLAS STEINDORF & KYLE WILLAMS / 2 BROOKLYN, NYC based artists
show new work at lower_cavity, an artist-run invitational residency / project space located in western MA / MASSACHUSETTS / USA. This tough indie, curatorial-driven, edgy creative mostly site-specific space is run by artist Anthony Discenza @yourthinkingofabrickwall / anthonydiscenza.info
www.lowercavity.space
@lower_cavity / yes !! def, check out their IG page !!
lower_cavity,
416 Dwight Street, Holyoke, MA / MASSACHUSETTS 01040
collaborative duo BLINN & LAMBERT (aka NICHOLAS STEINDORF & KYLE WILLIAMS), will present the latest project in l_c’s ongoing ‘CHAMBER’ series, a suite of film-and slide-based works. “Drawn together by their shared backgrounds in painting, which led them to their current work in moving-image, installation, and projected light, their collaboration is shaped by a sensibility for deadpan humor and pacing, and by a process that centers on experimentation, invention, and material exploration. Their work explores questions rooted in their history with painting: How does an image hold time ?
What is the tension between material and presence ?” / lower-cavity
PLEASE NOTE: Following the opening on the 22nd, the project will be viewable through …
SAT, JAN 4, 2026 by appointment only.
BLINN & LAMBERT / new work
photo c/o Instagram @lower_cavity
~BLINN & LAMBERT / ‘COUPLETS’ / LOWER CAVITY / HOLYOKE, MA / OPENS SAT NOV 22 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | November 21st, 2025, 11:35am
A SMALL GROUP SHOW CURATED BY: DAVID SHAW
Photo c/o Instagram @fieldofplaygallery
MIKE BALLLOU . . . at the opening of ‘BEAMSPLITTER’, at FIELD OF PLAY, on NOV 12, 2025,
with his ‘Chair’ and Luke Murphy’s ‘FIRE RING’ LED animation on the wall behind him.
MIKE BALLOU is best known for being one of the ‘guiding lights’ of ‘Four Walls’ / hosted in his garage studio in the 1990’s, which was a combination clubhouse/laboratory for the exchange of new art and ideas.
FIELD OF PLAY
56 2nd Ave., Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY 11215
www.fieldofplaybk.com / @fieldofplaygallery
~MIKE BALLOU / in ‘BEAMSPLITTER’ / FIELD OF PLAY / BROOKLYN / up thru JAN 4, 2026 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | November 18th, 2025, 1:12pm
OPENS . . . WED NOV 12 / 6 – 8 PM
‘BEAMSPLITTER’ – A SMALL GROUP SHOW AT THIS NON-PROFIT GALLERY
with: KALINA WINTERS, GAVIN WILSON, LAUREN HUSSEY, LUKE MURPHY / MIKE BALLOU -&- SCOTT GRODESKY
curated by: DAVID SHAW / @inuverse
runs Nov 12 – January 4, 2025
FIELD OF PLAY GALLERY,
56 2nd Ave., Suite 21 Gowanus, South Slope, Brooklyn, NY 11215
HRS: SAT & SUN / 6-8 PM
www.fieldofplaybk.com / @fieldofplaygallery
LUKE MURPHY designed & built the animated LED ‘RING FIRE’ on the wall / MIKE BALLOU did the ‘Chair’, with a power bar, from which the LEDS are powered.
note: above installation photo courtesy of LUKE MURPHY / @lukemurphy49
~LUKE MURPHY / in ‘BEAMSPLITTER’ / FIELD OF PLAY / BROOKLYN / OPENS WED NOV 12 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | November 10th, 2025, 1:06pm
OPENS: 4:30 – 7 PM / SAT OCT 18, 2025
A SOLO OUTDOOR INSTALLATION by STEPH GONZALEZ-TURNER
see: @artlotbrooklyn for a great bio/C.V. background & very pertinent contextual details
THE OPEN AIR INSTALLATION …. runs OCT 18, 2025 – JAN 31, 2026.
206 COLUMBIA ST., BROOKLYN, NY 11231
ALL IMAGES c/o ARTLOT / Instagram @artlotbrooklyn
~STEPH GONZALEZ-TURNER / ‘HOT BAR’ / ARTLOT BROOKLYN / OPENS SAT OCT 18 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 18th, 2025, 3:13pm
EMILY JANOWICK, ‘OBSESSION’, 2025
PARTIAL VIEW OF ‘OBSESSION’ – GALLERY INSTALLATION
55 (orange Home Depot) Buckets of corn, soil, manure, compost, plywood, 2 fans
PHOTO via Instagram @pleather_mommy / Emily Janowick
PHOTO by: @olyshannon / Olympia Shannon Studio
the installation was on view at KATE WERBLE GALLERY, opening on SAT SEPT 6 and running thru FRI OCT 10, 2025.
you can find some great photos of the rather eccentric installation on Emily’s Instagram @pleather_mommy or the gallery’s IG @kate_werble_gallery.
~EMILY JANOWICK / ‘OBSESSION’ / KATE WERBLE GALLERY, NYC / SEPT 6 – OCT 10, 2025 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 17th, 2025, 12:39am
SAM COCKRELL – ‘ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL’
JULY 10 – AUGUST 10, 2025
BLADE STUDY, 17 Pike St., New York NY 10002
LOWER EAST SIDE
@blade_study / www.bladestudy.net
@chicfila69
HRS: THURS – SUN / 11 am – 6 pm
or by appointment
some pix from the exhibit:
SAM COCKRELL, ‘Rock Dove, Myrtle Ave, 2024’
acrylic on canvas
67 x 90 inches
Photo courtesy: Blade Study
SAM COCKRELL, ‘Rock Dove, Woodhaven Home Depot, 2024’
acrylic on canvas
48 x 60 inches
Photo Courtesy: Blade Study
~SAM COCKRELL / ‘ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL’ / BLADE STUDY / a few install PIX |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | July 16th, 2025, 11:47am
…. sometimes, it is a small world !!
SAM COCKRELL -‘ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL’
JULY 10 – AUGUST 10, 2025
BLADE STUDY, 17 PIKE St., New York, NY 10002
LOWER EAST SIDE
@blade_study / www. bladestudy.net
@chicfila69 / @nchlsstndrf
SAM COCKRELL, ‘2/6/25’, 2025
acrylic on canvas / artist’s frame
9 x 10.75 inches
PHOTO by: NICHOLAS STEINDORF
~SAM COCKRELL / ‘ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL’ / BLADE STUDY / PHOTO BY NICHOLAS STEINDORF |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | July 16th, 2025, 11:28am
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
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
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
