@blinn_and_lambert / Brooklyn-based artists: NICHOLAS STEINDORF and KYLE WILLIAMS
just closed their dynamic red & white / incandescent color saturated & yet .. poetic / large, site specific work / a “double slide projection”, aptly entitled ‘Couplet’ / @lower_cavity, Holyoke, Massachusetts
www.lowercavity.space
Blinn and Lambert, ‘Couplet’, 2025 – 2026
Photo via Instagram @blinn_and_lambert / courtesy of the artists.
~BLINN and LAMBERT / ‘COUPLET’ / at lower_cavity / just closed yesterday JAN 11, 2026 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | January 12th, 2026, 1:12pm
OPENING SATURDAY . . . DEC 6 / 4 – 8 PM
BROOKLYN-BASED ARTIST — JAKE KLOTZ …… PRESENTS:
‘TIME BANDITS’ …
LA GALERY, Isidora, Goyenechea 3185, SANTIAGO, CHILE
HRS: 10 – 5 PPM / ‘TIME BANDITS’ will run for about a one month … thru DEC 2025
@sunsunnewsun / @lagalery
image c/o JAKE KLOTZ / @sunsunnewson .. from ‘TIME BANDITS’
~JAKE KLOTZ / ‘TIME BANDITS’ / LA GALERY / SANTIAGO, CHILE / OPENS SAT DEC 6 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | December 6th, 2025, 1:00pm
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
