up thru July 31, 2024
more of a creative collective pop-up than an established gallery space /
best to schedule an appointment or attend a scheduled event.
see: LUNCH HOUR
the collaborative duo Blinn & Lambert / aka NICHOLAS STEINDORF & KYLE WILLIAMS
are showing a new projection at: ‘MEANS of PRODUCTION’/ LUNCH HOUR
great setting !!!

PHOTO BY: Anjuli Rathod / (@anjuli.rathod) via Instagram Story @blinn_and_lambert
~BLINN & LAMBERT / in ‘Means of Production’ / LUNCH HOUR |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 31st, 2024, 12:35pm
BLINN & LAMBERT (NICHOLAS STEINDORF & KYLE WILLIAMS) / MARTHA TUTTLE & Many Others . . . .
‘MEANS OF PRODUCTION’
OPENING: SAT MAY 18, 2024 / 6 – 9 pm
LUNCH HOUR at the Sheerly Touch-Ya and Shishanwu LLC Warehouse
74-12 88th Street, Glendale NY 11385




~BLINN & LAMBERT, MARTHA TUTTLE & many others / ‘MEANS of PRODUCTION’ / LUNCH HOUR / MAY 18 – JULY 31, 2024 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 15th, 2024, 12:14pm
DASH SNOW opens ‘Silence of The Only True Friend That Shall Never Betray You’ at now defunct Rivington Arms, LES, NYC.
ARCHIVAL PHOTO by: Nancy Smith, NYC, Sept 7, 2006.

DASH SNOW with DAN COLEN (right)
at the same opening.
ARCHIVAL PHOTO by: Nancy Smith, NYC, Sept 7, 2006.
ALL PHOTOS COPYRIGHT: NANCY SMITH
~DASH SNOW & DAN COLEN / FLASHBACK to 2006 !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 15th, 2024, 11:56am
‘EARLY MAN 2’ – group exhibition
THE HOLE TRIBECA – 86 WALKER STREET, NYC, NY 10013
HRS: TUES – SAT / 11AM – 6PM

JOE BRADLEY, ‘Untitled, (Human Form)’, 2010
Silkscreen on canvas, diptych / each 96 x 63 in.

LUKE MURPHY, ‘FirePile 3.0’, 2024
LED Matrix Panels, wood stretcher bars, wire, video hardware, software, code, / 28 x 25 x 24 in.
ALL PHOTOS ABOVE COURTESY: KATHY GRAYSON / THE HOLE GALLERY
~Joe BRADLEY, LUKE MURPHY & others / ‘EARLY MAN 2’ / THE HOLE TRIBECA / MAY 3 – JUNE 22, 2024 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 5th, 2024, 11:19am

IMAGE VIA INSTAGRAM @cretsina, CHRIS RETSINA, “Shocked”, April 30, 2024 !PM
~CHRIS RETSINA . . NOW |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 30th, 2024, 1:00pm
recently … FEB 24 – March 24, 2024

TAYLOR McKIMENS, ‘The One AND The Only’, 2024.
Oil on Stretched Canvas / 20 in x 16 in.
Photo via Instagram @taylormckimens
TAYLOR McKIMENS / ‘Laying It On Thick’/ Le Mont Art Space, Kaohsiung, TAIWAN
~TAYLOR McKIMENS …’Laying it On Thick / Le Mont Art Space / TAIWAN |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 30th, 2024, 12:42pm
recently at CANADA . .

photo courtesy of the artist
~’LUKE MURPHY: PROMISED LIGHT’ / CANADA GALLERY / MARCH 5 – APRIL 13, 2024 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 30th, 2024, 12:18pm
SUBTITLED NYC . . . . PRESENTS:
‘YOU DON’T MATTER GIVE UP’ /
JACOB JACKMAUH, DOMINIC PALARCHIO, WILFREDO PRIETO
DEC 15 – JAN 21, 2024
113 FRANKLIN ST., 2nd FLOOR / GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN, NYC 11222
HRS: THURS-SUN / 1 – 6 PM & BY APPOINTMENT
PIX FROM THE OPENING – FRI DEC 15 . . . PHOTOS BY NANCY SMITH

JACOB JACKMAUH, at the opening . . .
‘YOU DON’T MATTER GIVE UP’, Subtitled NYC.
Dec 15, 2023.

JACOB JACKMAUH, ‘3137548’, 2023
cast aluminum, varnish, hardware
5-5/8 x 7-3/4 x 2 in.

JACOB JACKMAUH, ‘Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timely’, 2023
rubber hooks, hardware
5-1/8 x 4-3/4 x 2 in.

DOMINIC PALARCHIO, ‘Untitled’, 2023
camera, oil, wick
5 x 8 x 4.75 in.
note: that is a flickering flame, the camera has been modified to become a functional, oil burning lamp.

DOMINIC PALARCHIO, with his modified camera / lamp, as it was presented, on the floor,
at the opening of, ‘YOU DON’T MATTER GIVE UP’/ a 3 person show at Subtitled NYC, Dec 15, 2023.

on the wall:
DOMINIC PALARCHIO, ‘Untitled’, 2020
altered wood, urethane, polyester
5 x 16 x 3 in.
Dominic jumps between . . hot, and cold.

Dominic had a dedicated fan base at the opening, one of whom was very helpful,
bringing up his website, and explaining how the ‘oil lamp’ concept works.
in this case a real work shoe, was modified with an interior plastic bottle that held the oil, that fed the wick, that made . . the light.

WILFREDO PRIETO, ‘Egg and 8 Ball’, 2016
egg, pool ball, also presented . . on the floor.
2.4 x 4.3 x 2.4 in.
“Through this exhibition questions – with no answers or solutions – are explored about contemporary culture’s underlying structures with subtle gestures and open metaphors.”
~from the exhibition mission statement written by: JAMIE STERNS

from left:
ABBY LLOYD, LINA McGINN, and CHRIS RETSINA,
at the ‘YOU DON’T MATTER GIVE UP’ opening, Subtitled NYC,
Dec 15, 2023.
note: Lina McGinn is the current co-director, with JACOB JACKMAUH, of ART LOT BROOKLYN.
Abby Lloyd and Chris Retsina just presented, and organized the wildly successful / performance-heavy,
community-centered, art party: ‘THE A LOT FAIR’, at ART LOT BROOKLYN, this past Oct 15, 2023.

cute animals interacting with humans, this is a show . . . “confronting viewers with paradoxes inherent in understanding our world through materiality, form, and the cyclical miasmic undertow of systems of power and dominance.”
~JAMIE STERNS, exhibition statement
that is some part, or one view . . of the large, actually distressed, but could be / would be cute . .
verging on life-sized, stand-alone sculpture by JACOB JACKMAUH.
JACOB JACKMAUH, ‘Pony’, 2023.
discarded factory mold, moss, lichen, dirt, hardware
15 x 52-1/4 x 57-1/2 in.
“Jacob Jackmauh’s work is rooted in a tactile engagement with the artifacts of mass manufacturing such as factory molds, cheap toys, and disposable merchandise.”
~JAMIE STERNS, exhibition statement

Subtitled NYC, is a project space run by . . JAEJOON JANG.
Photo: Nancy Smith / NYC, Dec 15, 2023.
‘YOU DON’T MATTER GIVE UP’ . . .
is a fully brilliant summation of Year 2023, and our . . fraying world,
the deceivingly simple sculpture / images – give us all, a lot – to think, about.
PHOTOS & TEXT BY: NANCY SMITH
~JACOB JACKMAUH, DOMINIC PALARCHIO, WILFREDO PRIETO . . ‘YOU DON’T MATTER GIVE UP’ / SUBTITLED NYC / PIX FROM THE OPENING |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | December 17th, 2023, 8:59am
OPENING FRI DEC 15 . . . 6 – 8 PM
‘YOU DON’T MATTER GIVE UP’ /
JACOB JACKMAUH, DOMINIC PALARCHIO, WILFREDO PRIETO
DEC 15 – JAN 21, 2024
SUBTITLED, 113 FRANKLIN ST., GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN, NY 11222

POSTER DESIGN BY: SOYEON KWON
~JACOB JACKMAUH, DOMINIC PALARCHIO, WILFREDO PRIETO / ‘YOU DON’T MATTER GIVE UP’ / SUBTITLED / BROOKLYN / OPENS FRI DEC 15′ / |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | December 13th, 2023, 5:16pm
THE LIVE BIDDING STARTS at: 2 PM, and runs thru .. 4 PM
SAT DEC 9, 2023
‘CIRCLES of FRIENDSHIP’ . . .
a Fund Raiser for – The Pine Hill Community Center, Upstate NY
“one-of-a-kind wreaths, made for year round display, handcrafted by – some of the finest artists in the Catskills” . . . there are 40 wreaths on display / Bidding starts at $35.
Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main Street, Pine Hill, NY 12465

WREATH BY: PAT ROSA, ‘IT TAKES A VILLAGE’, 2023
one-of-a-kind, hand-made wreath, multi-media /
“check out all the perfect, tiny buildings – replicas of buildings to be found in Pine Hill now, including our historic library.”
note: Photos courtesy of JAN ALBERT via IG / @ophelia1

detail
and, oh: that gray building in the center, veering off towards the right / with the teeny tiny festive wreath of its own, is a recreation of – the aforementioned historic . . Pine Hill Public Library !!
Pine Hill, NY is a pretty small town itself, properly termed a ‘hamlet’, with a total population of 275 !!
it is in the western part of the town of Shandaken, in Ulster County, Upstate New York.

detail
this sweet little building, is a miniature replica of the actual Pine Hill Community Center, in Pine Hill, Upstate NY.

the actual, Pine Hill Community Center, upstate NY . . !!
check it out: PINE HILL COMMUNITY CENTER, UPSTATE NY
you’ll be surprised by the all the wonderful programs . . !!
from a ceramics studio, to reclaimed stitching projects, even a bagel baking class / local farmers market days, various music, and exercise sessions, including Gentle Yoga to Pilates, and of course plenty of fab programs for kids, from crafts thru air hockey, pool, and ping pong.
photo courtesy JAN ALBERT, via IG / @janophelia1
~DIY HOLIDAY WREATH by PAT ROSA / ‘CIRCLES of FRIENDSHIP’ / PINE HILL COMMUNITY CENTER / UPSTATE NY / LIVE AUCTION SAT DEC 9 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | December 8th, 2023, 4:40pm