NEW AGE SLIME meets ANCIENT ART of KINTSUGI . . . .
PATRICK MOHUNDRO, ‘Glazed Brick Glued Back Together with Kintsugi (Urushi with Gold Powder),
and Rubber made from Speedstick Deodorant, Gelatin, and Glycerin’, 2018.
Patrick Carlin Mohundro . . is currently an MFA Candidate / Hunter College, NYC
image via Instagram @mo_hun_dro
~PATRICK MOHUNDRO . . ‘GREEN BURRITO’ / ‘SPEED DATING’ / PETE’S CANDY STORE | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 10th, 2018, 12:37pm
SHOUT OUT TO: PATRICK MOHUNDRO !!!!
ONE NIGHT ONLY !! – TUES OCT 9, 2018 / 6 – 10 PM
‘SPEED DATING ‘ . . . !!!!!
16 ARTISTS . . . !!!!!
PETE’S CANDY STORE – 709 LORIMER ST., WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN
MUSIC BY ELIZABETH MOEN
BIG GROUP SCULPTURE SHOW / IN THE GARDEN – CURATED BY: BOMBPOP!UP -&- CALLI MOORE
PANEL OF LOVE JURY DELIBERATIONS -&- PEOPLE’S CHOICE BALLOT COUNT: 9:15 PM
“SPEED DATING . . . is an interactive sculpture show curated from a month-long open call process by BombPop!Up, and Calli Moore, of See You Next Thursday Art Auction.
The show encapsulates the absurdity, newness, and excitement of speed dating in relation to digital experiences of sharing and curating artworks through the format of the open call. As in a speed (or online date), the works (and the audience) will meet at the same time and place for the first time during the exhibition, creating a live-action sense of aesthetic chemistry. ‘Speed Dating’ addresses these themes with a sense of humor, while underscoring the extent to which digital processes have come to affect our materialrealities in art, as in life.”
~mission statement by the curators / BOMBPOP!UP & CALLIE MOORE
PETE’S CANDY STORE – WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN
see: PETE’S CANDY STORE HISTORY
~’SPEED DATING’ . . PETE’S CANDY STORE, WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN / TUES OCT 9 / 6-10 PM | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 9th, 2018, 5:30pm
ANTONE KONST . . ‘FREE PEDDLER’ / in the big group show:
‘THE SOCRATES ANNUAL EXHIBIT/2018’
OPENS SUN OCT 7 / 3 – 6 PM
the show is outdoors & runs thru . . MARCH 10, 2019
SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK, 32-01 VERNON BLVD, ASTORIA, QUEENS, NY
The exhibition features 15 new public artworks by the Park’s 2018 Artist Fellows.
more info: SOCRATES ANNUAL EXHIBIT/2018
“FREE PEDDLER . . takes the trope of the peddler and repurposes her back-pack as a shelf,
which visitors to the park can add things to, or take things from, as they please.
I plan to stock the shelf with some goodies like tampons, books, condoms, ramen, doggie bags, etc,
but I also will be encouraging donations of more esoteric bric-a-brac.”
~ANTONE KONST
ANTONE KONST, ‘FREE PEDDLER’, 2018 / monumental / free-standing i.e. bigger than life size !!
actually: 9 x 9 x 5 ft.
image courtesy of the artist
~ANTONE KONST . . ‘FREE PEDDLER’ / SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK / OPENS SUN OCT 6 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 4th, 2018, 7:19am
MATT LEINES . . ‘THE GREEN ROOM’
OPENS FRI OCT 5 / 6 – 8 PM
MUDDGUTS, 427 GRAHAM AVE, BROOKLYN
HRS: WED-FRI 4-8PM / SAT-SUN 12-8PM
MATT LEINES . . .
IMAGE via Instagram @mattleines
~MATT LEINES . . ‘THE GREEN ROOM’ / MUDDGUTS / BROOKLYN / OPENS FRI OCT 5 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 4th, 2018, 7:08am
Y2K GROUP PRESENTS:
LUCY LORD CAMPANA, ANGELA HEISCH, CLINTON KING, JAMES MILLER, BRIDDGET MULLEN
OPENING FRI OCT 5 / 6 – 9 PM
show runs . . OCT 9 – NOV 4, 2018
Y2K GROUP, 373 BROADWAY, #E18, TRIBECA, NYC
HRS: BY APPOINTMENT
JAMES MILLER, acrylic on canvas, 2018. 36 x 32 in.
image via Instagram @skinlizard
~JAMES MILLER . . Y2K GROUP / TRIBECA / OPENS FRI OCT 5 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 4th, 2018, 6:58am
if in LONDON,
CHECK OUT THESE KNOCKOUT JAMES MILLER PAINTINGS / at MEYOHAS GALLERY, Booth 21 !!
SUNDAY ART FAIR – OPENING TODAY, THURS OCT 4, 2018
SARAH MEYOHAS . . in front of the JAMES MILLER / MEYOHAS GALLERY installation / PHOTO: @h.i.l.l.t.o.p.
SUNDAY ART FAIR 2018
image via Instagram @sarahmeyohas
~JAMES MILLER . . MEYOHAS / SUNDAY ART FAIR / LONDON / OCT 4-7 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 4th, 2018, 4:02am
P.S. HALEY JOSEPHS show, ‘FINGER in the HIVE’,
315 Gallery
312 Livingston St, Brooklyn, NY
has been extended thru . . . OCT 21, 2018 !!
see: HALEY JOSEPHS, ‘FINGER in the HIVE’
GREAT !! HALEY JOSEPHS PAINTINGS !!
315 GALLERY / BROOKLYN, NYC . . . SUNDAY ART FAIR, LONDON
OPENS TODAY !!
HALEY JOSEPHS, 2018 . . . 36 x 48 in.
image via Instagram @315_gallery
~HALEY JOSEPHS . . 315 GALLERY / SUNDAY ART FAIR / LONDON / OCT 4-7 / ‘FINGER In the HIVE’ extended !! | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 4th, 2018, 3:23am
SHOW ME THE . . . MONEY !!!!
did I call it right, or what ?!!
no matter . . the legal ‘controversy’ over his Chelsea / 24th St. & 6th Ave digs,
and he’s back in there, albeit with a full-time lawyer on retainer !!
as soon as I saw – he was ordering big gun parts, I knew !!
he had to have some $$$$$ up his . . little ole ‘real fake’ sleeve.
ALFREDO MARTINEZ, in the money,
and holding court . . at the Malibu Diner !!
he’s been selling his work, hand-over-fist, so fast . . there’s a waiting list.
he just sold the last piece he had left, this one – the night before / $10,000.
cold, hard cash.
he’s mostly selling to Japanese collectors, and apparently they like to pay . . all cash !!
so much so, that he had to go out, and buy a heavy-duty safe for his Chelsea H.Q. – the kind that bolts to the floor from inside !!
ALFREDO MARTINEZ, ‘Broomhandle Mouser’, 2016.
industrial oil paint on cardboard, 6 ft. x 9 ft. 3 in.
the latest ALFREDO MARTINEZ fan club, circa summer 2018.
from left . . KANAKO SAKAI, Alfredo, and Alfredo’s new assistant . . YURIKA SHIROYAMA.
(Eureka ?!!!!)
YURIKA, who is an artist, writer and curator in her own right – currently works at Plus 81 Gallery on Elizabeth St. in Chinatown / she really helped propel ‘hometeam Alfie’, when Alfredo hired her to write-up in Japanese, his background / bios and & CV etc for the Japanese collectors, which has in turn lead to some big shows coming up in Japan, in fact . . TOKYO !!
JESSE SHARER aka Tokyowashere.com / a big American / contemporary art curator, with a killer website, btw !!
is now located over there, and is looking for a space for a big, one person show . .
Alfredo also has a 2 person show / lined up & locked in – in Tokyo, with other contacts / for FEB 2018.
side note: ALFREDO met Yurika Shiroyama through JIM JARMUSCH.
SPEAKING OF . . JIM JARMUSCH,
ALFREDO has so much dough . .
that he just last week hired TOM JARMUSCH, the almost-famous bro of JIM JARMUSCH, an independent short film & documentary filmmaker, based in the East Village for decades / along with Tom’s newest collaborator . . MEGHAN MILLER,
to create a short film custom-made for Alfredo, which they will all on work on together, and which will utilize Alfredo’s gun props . . . as the backbone of the story / the narrative of which, will most probably skew . . . ‘dystopian’.
and, which will star . . a beautiful, kick-ass chick, of course !!
above: TOM JARMUSCH, MEGHAN MILLER watch as Alfredo clues them in on . . . ‘real/fake’ prop guns.
side note:
TOM JARMUSCH did make an earlier short film, called ‘Alfredo’, a while back – that gained some traction, and a few prizes . . but you might know him better for the video collaborations, he made with DAN ASHER.
some of Alfredo’s newly ordered, customized or other-wise assembled, gun ‘props’.
and, whose in-coming UPS packages freaked out his 24th St. neighbors (!!).
JULIA MORRISON, aka JELLY, JELLY MORRISON is going to be . . the star.
aka the ‘gun-toting’ kick-ass chick /
he’s already got her signed up . . for professional ‘combat’ training (!!).
money, guns, food, and chicks . . . something like that.
Jelly’s career is just starting, but she’s already been in several films, “big parts in small films / small parts in big films”.
her fave so far, a short film called, ‘The Painted Lady’, and she’s got a ‘hacker’ role in the upcoming, ‘American Thief’ . . .
she’s also excited about a short film she recently completed with SEBASTIAN SOMMER (Guggenhiem, Tribeca) . . “that stars up n coming trans actress/model . . RICHIE SHAZAM.”
ALFREDO . . with a prop gun.
don’t ever under-estimate – the hometown crew !!!
the saga of the man known as the ‘Real Fake Basquiat’, continues / this time . . L-O-A-D-E-D !!
side note: actually Chapter 2 re: fully loaded.
he was fully loaded to the hilt $$$$ / when he and Josh Harris got together in the late 1990s.
and, from whence collaboration sprang, ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’, the 2009 Sundance winning doc.
and, he’s still insisting, over non-stop brunch at the Malibu, and later 4 star Thai for early dinner,
. . that, yes !!
BENICIO DEL TORO, is def pegged to portray him in the upcoming, (and with breath held, eagerly awaited) . . . ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ – the Hollywood movie.
(& I still can’t believe on that, not just the Del Toro bit, but the whole damn scenario.)
and, what’s wrong with me – anyways / how could I not believe him ?
and here, here’s $5K to get your Keith Haring out of hock, and the Uber is . . on me.
IMAGE VIA TOKYOWASHERE.COM / a “total PRODUCTION / ARTIST MANAGEMENT COMPANY” . . (!!)
see: ALFREDO MARTINEZ . . . TOKYOWASHERE.COM
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH / CHELSEA, NYC SEPT 24, 2018
~ALFREDO MARTINEZ . . rollin’ in dough & making a short movie !! | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 3rd, 2018, 10:33am
‘EASY LOVER’ . . . OPENS SAT SEPT 29 / 7 – 10 PM
the 8 artist show runs thru . . NOV 3, 2018
SELENAS MOUNTAIN, 63 WOODWARD AVE., #6321, RIDGEWOOD, NY 11385
HRS: SAT 1-5 PM / or by appointment
*except next Sat Oct 6th
with:
ANDY CAHILL, PASTICHE LUMUMBA, HEIDI NORTON, MARIANA GARIBAY RAEKE,
ANJULI RATHOD, JOSH REAMES, SAIGE ROWE, JULIO CESAR WILLIAMS
ANDY CAHILL, ‘For heaven’s sake, can’t you do anything right?’, 2014
acrylic and crayon on linen, 44 x 53 in.
SELEANAS MOUNTAIN . . . is an artist-run space co-founded by OLIVIA SWIDER & MICHAEL FLEMING.
the gallery is a hybrid of their previous galleries, Selena (2016-2018) & MOUNTAIN (2016-2018)
~’EASY LOVER’, incl ANDY CAHILL . . SELENAS MOUNTAN / RIDGEWOOD / OPENS SAT SEPT 29 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 29th, 2018, 9:07am
re: PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE BUILDING / THIS IS:
PEOPLE PEOPLE EXHIBIT / VIRTUAL ARCHIVE / BUILDING.
JEAN-BAPTISTE LENGLET . . of VDC / VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER, PARIS . .
presented, what looks to be a 4-story high screening, of ‘Virtual Dream Center 1.1’ . .
which is . . a virtual / re-construction of the pop-up exhibit,
‘UNDER THE VOLCANO: SIMON CERIGO, DAN ASHER, NANCY SMITH’,
A one weekend pop-up painting show / which looked back at the truly hardcore Lower East 80s NYC art scene, as seen through the work of these 3 artists, who were very active in that art scene, but have not been recognized in the general, more mainstream ‘take’ . . of what is usually regarded as the ‘canon’ of the times.
but, their work and personal dynamic, cannot seem be restrained from slowly bursting through that crusted-over misconception & hence the title . . ‘Under the Volcano’.
or, the real fire / under the top layer of what was . . the almighty Lower East Side / 80s art scene.
this historic, archival, break-out exhibit, completely comprised of original works by all 3 artists,
was staged at 169 Bowery St, in an empty & large storefront, in NYC’s Chinatown.
running June 6-8, 2015 / the exhibit was curated by KATE & THEO CERIGO, with art works selected,
from their own family collection.
Kate and Theo, who grew up in a storefront on Rivington St., just off the Bowery, when it was raw and explosive with the likes of Basquiat and Haring, were immersed in this wildly creative milieu / being the now 20-something (in 2015), children of Simon and Nancy, and Dan . . was like their wild crazy sushi-loving uncle.
NICHOLAS STEINDORF, a digital artist & friend of Kate’s, who actually helped with the behind-the-scenes staging of the show, and who had already produced some digital projects for VDC / VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER . . brought the exhibit to the attention of Paris-based JEAN-BAPTISTE, who received the show with great interest, and together / they re-created an ‘interactive’ digital version of the show, based on photographs taken at the time.
as well, Nicholas re-created the street ambience, sound, & architecture of the Bowery and the exhibit, which brought it very much to life, & Jean-Baptiste interjected some surreal ‘urban’ collage / visual animation / ‘parkour’.
this is . . EP7, the bar / restaurant & a (very) modernist building – located at 133 avenue de France, Paris . .
where the VDC / ‘UNDER THE VOLCANO’ screening, was held . .
as part of a 2 week video presentation, curated by CARLOS SANCHEZ-BAUTISTA / all projects, screening 4 stories high, on the (very) modernist front exterior.
here you can see the start of the ‘Under the Volcano’ screening / with a digital rendering of The Bowery, as it was back in the summer of 2015, digitially re-created, and animated by NICHOLAS STEINDORF.
I remember having many conversations with him, about just how many garbage bags, to place along the street / the signage & the shut, metal storefront security ‘gates’ . . are also ‘authentic’ / see detail, lower right.
this is . . The BOWERY, in NYC.
the exhibit took place on the right-hand side of the street, in a storefront – within that group of old buildings.
in a few minutes, the animation will take you inside the door, and into the exhibit.
it’s an interesting feature of real-life Parisian architecture, to see the carefully constructed animation, presented in a very ‘deconstructed’ manner . . on the ‘brute’ exterior.
there we are, SIMON, DAN, and me . . in an image captured, and made large, from an archival photo from 1981 / which was used as the ‘Under the Volcano’s . . . invite / card.
SIMON and me, from the same photo. the screening took place Sept 14, 2018.
it took me about 2 weeks to get my head around the fact, that my head had been projected 4 stories high – on a big, Paris St. !!!!
a charcoal drawing by DAN ASHER . . peeps out / on Paris !!
a painting, of KEITH HARING . . by SIMON CERIGO.
JEAN-BAPTISTE LENGLET & VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER present: ‘VDC / VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER 1.1’
‘UNDER THE VOLCANO: SIMON CERIGO, DAN ASHER, NANCY SMITH’ . .
“sur la facade monumental de l’EP7, Paris.”
the original exhibit card: ‘UNDER THE VOLCANO: SIMON CERIGO, DAN ASHER,NANCY SMITH’JUNE 5-7, 2015
from an archival photo of the 3 us, taken in 1981 in NYC / we were just about 30 yrs old, Dan was a few years older. Simon had drawn around the edges, with blue oil stick.
image courtesy: KATE & THEO CERIGO
you can access ‘VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER 1.1’ / ‘UNDER THE VOLCANO’… on the VDC platform
for a . . FREE DOWNLOAD / hit here !!
artwork – by NANCY SMITH
for more background info, incl the show’s original press release & installation photos . . .
hit . . ‘UNDER THE VOLCANO – VDC’
watch: VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER, ‘Under the Volcano’ . . at EP7 on YOUTUBE / Sept 15, 2018
watch: a brief walk-though of the animated ‘UNDER THE VOLCANO’ / posted to Youtube by NICHOLAS STEINDORF
ALL PHOTOS OF THE PARIS SCREENING: COURTESY JEAN-BAPTISTE LEGLET / VDC
~’UNDER THE VOLCANO’ . . VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER / SCREENED ON EP7, PARIS / SEPT 14 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 27th, 2018, 9:24pm
