LOOKING AHEAD:
TIM WILSON . . .
will be showing some new dreamy ‘interior’ paintings, with NATHALIE KARG,
at the ADAA / Art Dealers Association of America . . The Art Show / NOV 2 – 6, 2022
Park Avenue Armory, NYC.
this is the 60th Anniversary of the ADAA /
all art fair admission proceeds – go to support the Henry Street Settlement.
Photo of Tim Wilson & new work: via Instagram @tim_wilson
~TIM WILSON . . NATHALIE KARG / ADAA . . NOV | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 25th, 2022, 8:36am
Anton also has a one man show at Each Modern . . .
ANTON KONST. . . ‘SIRENS’
OCT 22 – NOV 26, 2022
EACH MODERN, 38 Lane 79, Sec. 2 Xinyi Rd.,Taipei, Taiwan
ANTONE KONST . . ‘SIRENS’
image via Instagram @eachmodern
what I like about Anton’s work, is that it’s not too loopy, too cute, or even poetic.
there’s a real depth of soul, and research / that informs the authenticity of the works’ plasticity, – which really walks that painterly hard-edge line, with . . fresh vision.
it’s tough painting, that unfurls with a narrated . . resonance, often a fictional mystery or magic (such as a flowerpot with a scowl), or gives delicate, swirling flight to a figure of myth, but it’s never heavy on the stormy side, it’s still – all about painting.
he’s also an inspired, (mostly line) draftsman, & bold colorist.
ANTON KONST, to the right /
in a brilliant tie-dye hoodie – made in a small shop back home in Brooklyn.
image via @annntone Instagram Story via @wu_meichi
ANTONE KONST . . having a blast – in Taiwan !!
image via Instagram Story @annntone via @eachmodern
ANTON KONST, ‘Dogwood’, 2022.
oil on linen / 78 x 60 in.
in ‘SIRENS’ – Each Modern, Taipei.
image via Instagram @annntone
~ANTON KONST . . ‘SIRENS’ / EACH MODERN, TAIPEI | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 22nd, 2022, 9:46am
meanwhile, across the globe / ART TAIPEI 2022 . . .
thanks to EACH MODERN, TAIPEI . . .
is presenting one of NYC’s newest & best, our young friend – ANTONE KONST . . !!
EACH MODERN, TAIPEI . . . . presents 2 large paintings by Brooklyn artist ANTONE KONST
ART TAIPEI / BOOTH F17
21 – 24 OCT, 2022
ANTONE KONST, 2 large paintings on the back wall,
EACH MODERN booth F17, ART TAIPEI 2022, TAIWAN
image via Instagram @eachmodern
ANTONE KONST, ‘June Flowers’, 2022
oil on linen / 78 x 60 in.
image via Instagram @anntone
ANTONE KONST, ‘Piero’ (Sad Girl)’, 2022
oil on linen / 78 x 60 in.
image via Instagram @anntone
~ANTONE KONST . . EACH MODERN GALLERY, ART TAIPEI 2022 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 21st, 2022, 9:08am
a look back to the 2000s /
a look back – the . . . FUTURE !!!!!!!
a super quick – DIY . . . LOOK BACK !!
to their ‘collective’ influence – on the art scene of today /
esp re DYI, re-thinking of standard gallery exhibition concepts,
and, of course their own take on: art-infused . . utilitarian,
common – everyday objects. and, not to minimize – the shock of their cheerful breaking of the rules of what defined ‘serious’ art.
most notably:
ROB PRUITT, in 2008:
shook everybody up with his on-site, DIY WATERFALL !!!
except Roberta Smith, who called it “sophomoric” in her NYT review.
I think mostly because, it had supposedly “1,000 crushed Viagra capsules in the raging water that ran down the gallery steps”, and, of course !!
Rob called the piece, ‘VIAGRA FALLS’ . . !!!
I guess these guys, also broke the rule of – you can’t be funny ?
everybody else was blown-away – to see the mad rushing cascade of water, roaring down the upscale gallery entryway, Viagra pills or not / as DIY as you could ever hope to be, and had never ever seen anything as – audacious before.
the water flowing through . . extreme DIY plastic bags, and then re-cycled back up – by a hidden pump.
ROB PRUITT, ‘Viagra Falls’, in the exhibit:
‘Whose Afraid of Jasper Johns’, conceived by Urs Fischer & Gavin Brown,
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, NYC.
May 9 – July 12, 2008
all Photos: NANCY SMITH
see: the original 2008 artloversnewyork report
then . . .
there was the time, Rob Pruitt nonchalantly parked . . . a glorious / DIY waterfall !!!!
that danced about the back-end, of a standard 4 x 4 pickup truck, how Americana /
how DIY – can you get ?!!!
on the street, outside his opening for ‘Multiple Personalities’, GBE /
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, when it was downtown / 620 Greenwich St. on the West Side, NYC.
Sept 13, 2014.
Photo: NANCY SMITH
then,
there was the time . . . in 2005 !!!!
when DIY legend-to-be, URS FISCHER . . . built a life-size house,
constructed from bread (alone) !! – in Gavin’s now legendary, downtown gallery, on Greenwich Street. which was in itself, a most glorious exhibition site, with great spatial volume, and natural light that emanated from the huge glass walls / & sited on the most ideal corner lot, ever.
URS FISCHER, ‘BREADHOUSE’, GBE / Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Downtown, West Side NYC
FEB 18, 2005
Photo: NANCY SMITH
URS FISHER at the opening of:
‘Fig, Nut and Pear’, still one of my most fav – exhibition titles,
a knock-out show, in which the crusty, ‘Breadhouse’ was also first presented /
Urs is standing in front of his large painting, ‘A Novel and a Novelist’, and you
just knew – he was destined for super stardom.
Feb 18, 2005
Photo: NANCY SMITH
and, don’t even get me started,
on that time URS FISCHER dug a hole, into the floor of Gavin’s gorgeous gallery.
URS FISCHER, ‘You’, 2007 – a seriously excavated hole / in the gallery.
pictured in ‘the hole’, on opening night, from left:
Tony Shafrazi, Peter Brant, and Gavin Brown.
GBE / Gavin Brown’s enterprise, 620 Greenwich St, West Side, Downtown NYC
Nov 24, 2007
Photo: NANCY SMITH
~ROB PRUITT & URS FISCHER . . a look back to the 2000s | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 20th, 2022, 1:55pm
ROB PRUITT x URS FISCHER / ‘SWAP MEET’ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SUNDAY OCT 16 / 12 – 5 PM / PDT . . . FREE TO ATTEND !!!!!
MARCIANO ART FOUNDATION, LOS ANGELES
4357 WILSHIRE BLVD, LA, CA
IF, you be on the West Coast ?!!!!
RUN, RUN, RUN / BOTH ARTISTS – WILL BE THERE . . . !!!!
‘SWAP MEET’ DRAWING by ROB PRUITT / via Gagosian IG @gagosian
~ROB PRUITT & URS FISCHER . . SWAP MEET / L.A. / SUN OCT 16 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 16th, 2022, 11:18am
installation shot /
ORLANDO ESTRADA, ‘THE MODERN WORLD’, JEFF’S DETROIT, DETROIT
NOW . . OPEN by appointment
IMAGE via Instagram @_orlando_estrada_
JEFF’S DETROIT . .
is a very, very Indie gallery space – run by artist-curator, JEFFREY TRANCHELL,
a current renovation project of his, the previously residential building, is located in the North-end Detroit neighborhood of Highland Park.
the place was really, really – in a shambles, so it’s really really looking – good !!
in fact, it’s looking . . . gorgeous !!
the gallery is on the ground floor, while Jeff lives above it – for now !!
~ORLANDO ESTRADA . . ‘THE MODERN WORLD’ / JEFF’S DETROIT / INSTALLATION SHOT | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 12th, 2022, 10:30am
btw: on a FULL MOON – heavenly . . . !!!!!!
ORLANDO ESTRADA, ‘THE MODERN WORLD’,
OPENS SUN OCT 9, 2022 – A FULL MOON / 4-6 PM
JEFF’S GALLERY, 333 WOODLAND ST., DETROIT, MICHIGAN 48202
HRS: by appointment only / after the opening
more info: @jeffsgallerydetroit / Instagram
ORLANDO ESTRADA, ‘Miasma #1 (This Body is a Prison)’, 2022.
Sumi ink, lithographic crayon, graphite, acrylc, wax on canvas.64 x 58 in.
image via Instagram @_orlando_estrada_
ORLANDO ESTRADA, ‘The Expulsion (After Masacchio)’, 2022.
Sumi ink, lithographic crayon, graphite, wax, acrylic on canvas.65 x 61 in.
image via Instagram @_orlando_estrada_
~ORLANDO ESTRADA . . ‘THE MODERN WORLD’ / JEFF’S GALLERY, DETROIT / OPENS SUN OCT 9 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 9th, 2022, 12:00pm
ONLY FOR . . . .
ART & SCIENCE FANS . .
WHO LIKE THEIR EXPERIMENTAL CUTTING EDGE PHYSICS – WITH A DASH of CUTTING EDGE / CONTEMPORARY ART !!!
& WHO LIKEWISE, ENJOY THE RANDOM BOUNTY of “THINKING ASSOCIATIVELY in PICTURES” / QUOTE: TEMPLE GRANDIN . . . !!!!
without further ado,
I GIVE YOU . . . the future of QUANTUM PHYSICS – visualized – care of:
‘BLISS’, BABA YAGA GALLERY, HUDSON N.Y. v ‘QIAN SHI’, BAIDU INC., CHINA !!!
though I can’t resist, noting one other ‘random’ beauty . . of an association:
‘QIAN SHI’, the name of Baidu’s experimental Quantum computer . . .
translates as: “heaven is the origin of everything” . . . !!!!!!
to be heavenly – is . . . to have bliss, no ?
though it’s ironic, that if you delete that ‘ly’ from heavenly, bringing us to ‘heaven’ !!
that’s a bit more . . problematic in context / heaven – can be stormy !!
if not outright stormy weather, the Greek gods could be fighting, planets could be colliding, moons could be eclipsing, and meteors shooting / etc etc. etc etc.
‘BLISS’ / GROUP SHOW POSTER / BABA YAGA GALLERY, HUDSON, NY. OCT 2022
‘QIAN SHI’, BAIDU INC, CHINA – EXPERIMENTAL, ULTRA HIGH SPEED / QUANTUM COMPUTER
image via WALL STREET JOURNAL, OCT, 7, 2022
‘CHINA LEAPS into QUANTUM COMPUTING RACE’, by KAREN HAO, WALL STREET JOURNAL,OCT 7, 2022.
a few quick notes from: from the WSJ article:
~”BAIDU INC. . . . a Chinese internet pioneer known for its Google-like search engine, said (in late August 2022),
that it had built its own version of a quantum computer an experimental device that exploits the quirks of quantum physics to perform calculations at speeds far beyond those of conventional computers.”
~”BAIDU said its new computer – an assemblage of metal plates and wires that looks a bit like an oversize chandelier – is accessible free of charge via a website & mobile app to researchers, engineers and even schoolchildren.” (!!!!)
~artlovers: so, here’s to the next Baby Einstein, maybe grade 2 ? – making the next big computing / physics break-though / way to go . . BAIDU !!!
~artlovers: BUT, watch out – what you wish for: “fully realized quantum computers would be able to solve in seconds – certain problems that would take even (today’s) fastest supercomputers .. thousands or millions of years.”
and you thought, online enhanced cheating in Chess – was a problem, yikes.
~’BLISS’ . . BABA YAGA GALLERY, HUDSON VALLEY NY v. ‘QIAN SHI’ . . QUANTUM COMPUTER , BAIDU INC., CHINA | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 9th, 2022, 11:16am
so, tell me . .
is ‘BLISS’ open to . . . interpretation ?
‘BLISS’ – curated by MARIE SEGOLENE
featuring works by: CLEO SJOLANDER, JULIEN PARANT-MARQUIS, ELI DEL, and
ALEX PATRICK DYKE
OPENS SAT OCT 8, 2022 / 3 – 9 PM
BABA YAGA, 5821 State Route NY-9G, COLUMBIA COUNTY, NY 12534
~’BLISS’ . . BABA YAGA GALLERY / HUDSON, NY / OPENS SAT OCT 8 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 7th, 2022, 8:19am
meanwhile, over in PHILLY . . .
EMMY THELANDER, MIRA PUTNAM: ‘BUMPERS’
a 2 person show of painting & sculpture
curated by Fjord member: LINDSAY DEIFIK
up thru . . . OCT 30, 2022
FJORD GALLERY, 1750 N. 5th St., Philadelphia, Penn 19122
HRS: Sat / 2-4 PM
‘BUMPERS’ . . . “are devices that hold us in place: schedules, budgets, physical
limitations, the finitude of human life.”
~FJORD
about the gallery: FJORD . . “is an artist-run collective that elevates the visibility of both
emerging & established artists within Philadelphia & beyond by facilitating exhibitions, curatorial
projects, collaborations & public programming that highlight diverse media & artistic concerns.”
~FJORD
more info: on the artists & the exhibit – Fjord home page
EMMY THELANDER, ”Seeing art, Seeking truth, Sexuality, Being Liked’, 2021..
Cast resin, & yarn on knit fabric on wood.
38 x 38 in.
image courtesy of the artist / Emmy Thelander
MIRA PUTNAM, ‘Cathedral Mound 4 (Hilde)’, 2022.
Stoneware, watercolor, gouache, fabric, cyanotype, pencil, perlite, copper.
38 x 20 x 20 in.
image via Instagram @.P3APOD / Mira Putnam
~EMMY THELANDER & MIRA PUTNAM . . ‘BUMPERS’ / FJORD / PHILLY | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 5th, 2022, 9:43am
