JUAN DOE – ‘MADE IN BROOKLYN’ – OPENS TO-NITE – FRI – FEB 27 /7-10 PM !!
the show runs FEB 27 – MARCH 22, 2009
EASTERN DISTRICT – 43 BOGART ST – BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN – NYC
JOHN DOE is an endangered painter. The last of a dying breed,he personifies pure art. With unheralded hand skills and hellacious wit, Juan Doe redefines the parameters of bizarre genius and secular thug. Born and raised in New York City, Juan Doe has been evolving the language of interdisciplinary art and design since the late 1970’s.
He is an artist who strains the boundary between painting, propaganda, polemics, and philosophical discourse in art. He encapsulated a new age aesthetic through his command of the graphic process but with the masterful execution of a painter. His images are non-negotiable, they cannot be interpreted or postponed; they exist now, for the oxygen of the viewers’ eyes.
(press release)
EASTERN DISTRICT – a new addition to the BUSHWICK gallery scene is a project of MICHAEL ‘TIDO’ CABRERA, JORDAN SEILER and JESSE LEE DENNING.
MICHAEL CABRERA co-ordinated PAUL ROWLAND’S PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT – at ART BASEL MIAMI ’08
as a satellite show for EASTERN DISTRICT & in fact, thanks to our friend KATHY LO of THE JOURNAL,
this show did hit the artlovers’ radar at the time !!
called ‘TRANSFORMATIONS’ – it was curated by JORDAN SEILER.
see: PAUL ROWLAND/TRANSFORMATIONS
JORDAN SEILER – is an artist who actually produced one of our very fave shows, e-v-e-r !!
called – ‘REMOVAL SATISFIES THE CONDITION’ it was a highlite of the early glory days of the CANAL CHAPTER.
The show ran APRIL 14 – MAY 5, 2006. seeing was believing.
see: JORDAN SEILER/REMOVAL SATISFIES THE CONDITION/intro
see: JORDAN SEILER/REMOVAL SATISIFIES THE CONDITION/OPENING & INSTALLATION PIX !!
~JUAN DOE/EASTERN DISTRICT |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 27th, 2009, 2:05pm
OPENING TO-NITE – FRIDAY – FEB 27 / 7-10 PM
MORNING bREATH and CYCLE
the show runs: FEB 27 – MARCH 22, 2009
AD HOC ART – 49 BOGART ST – BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN – NYC
CYCLE was born in 1971. He grew up writing graffiti and skateboarding. CYCLE received his BFA from George Washington University in Washington, DC, and then his Masters from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He makes his living producing Fine Art, Illustration and Graphic design. When not producing Fine art, Illustration and Graphic Design, CYCLE enjoys graffiti and skateboarding.
Morning Breath, Inc is a creative studio focusing on visualization, illustration, and design. DOUG CUNNINGHAM and JASON NOTO’S works break through the clutter by delivering fresh and innovative creative solutions targeted to the youth culture. Their collective history and experiences in graffiti art, music packaging, and skateboard design is the driving creative force of Morning Breath. In all of their creative works, Mornign Breath continually strives for the balance of art, design, and advertising.
(press release)
also in the AD HOC – ALCOVE: BONNIE DURHAM’S – ‘ACT NATURAL’.
Bonnie Durham’s work is about tuning in to her surroundings and never wasting time. Painting with gouache, acrylic, ink and watercolor and using calligraphy brushes, she slowly thins out the color in the backgrounds of her work before creating the surface ‘spraypainted’ effects (without the use of spraypaint) which have become a trademark in Durham’s paintings. Recently, collage elements from used books containing old illustrations have found their way into her works. Her surfaces range from the traditional canvas, wood and panel, to the quite non-traditional cutting boards, clipboards, dresser drawers and wooden trays, which she finds at flea markets, second hand stores and discarded on the street.
(press release)
~MORNING BREATH & CYCLE/AD HOC |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 27th, 2009, 1:41pm
P-A-R-T-Y !! – T0-NITE !! – FRIDAY – FEB 27, 2009 !!
BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE SOME RENT ?
A Modern Day Depression-Era Fundraiser !!
FRIDAY – FEB 27, 2009 / 7-11 PM
CITY RELIQUARY – 370 METROPOLITAN AVE – WILLIAMSBURG – NYC
TIMES are tough all around – roller coaster stock markets, job losses by the hundreds of thousands …
it’s even tougher for 501 (c) (3) non-profit Community Museums.
“BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE SOME RENT? – is a modern day Depression-era Fundraiser held in our backroom and backyard. For a minimum $10 tax-deductible donation at the door, you can come and participate in scores of historical diversions and entertainments circa 1935.” !!
All entertainments and diversions will be priced at the Depression-friendly rates of $2-5 a pop. All proceeds go to help the City Reliquary pay (last month’s, and this one’s) rent.
DON’T MISS – GAIL MITCHELL’S – VINTAGE PULLEY COLLECTION – IN THE MUSEUM’S STOREFRONT WINDOW !!
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE SOME RENT ? & PULLEY COLLECTION OF GAIL MITCHELL |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 27th, 2009, 12:57pm
if you are in SAN FRANCISCO – you can catch ‘TAKING MY HISTORY TOO SERIOUSLY’ – !!
a ‘GROUP SHOW OF SELVES … SAN FRANCISCO’ – by NYC-based REMY AMEZCUSA.
the show opened last night,
and runs: FEB 25 – MARCH 14, 2009
PROJECT ONE – 251 RHODE ISLAND ST – SAN FRANCISCO – CALIFORNIA
see: MAP
~REMY AMEZCUA/PROJECT ONE/SAN FRANCISCO |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 27th, 2009, 12:28pm
SIMON CERIGO wants to thank NATE CHINEN – for turning him onto SIN FANG BOUS – in his recent PLAYLIST.
(MUSIC/THE NEW YORK TIMES/SUNDAY FEB 22, 2009.)
that’s SINDRI MAR SIGFUSSON aka SIN FANG BOUS – in the photo at left. (PHOTO CREDIT: SIGFUS MAR PETURSSON).
in his brief item, Mr. Chinen states: “To the extent that SINDRI MAR SIGFUSSON is known to American audiences, he’s know as the engine behind Seabear, an indie-folk band from Reykjavik (Iceland). Clangour (Morr is the record label) is his new solo effort, released under the name Sing Fang Bous, and it reflects an enduring fondness for fanciful but meticulous detail. There’s actually nothing clangorous about the album, which shimmers with gentle flourishes both acoustic and electronic.” SING
(SING FANG BOUS – being an error on the part of the NEW YORK TIMES – it’s SIN FANG BOUS !!)
the art’s not bad, either !!
sample:
check out: MORR MUSIC/MySpace !!
check out: MORR MUSIC !!
~SIN FANG BOUS/Say it in video !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 27th, 2009, 10:05am
LUTZ BACHER, ‘Gap 1’, 2003, Offset litho, 30 x 46 x 1 in./IMAGE COURTESY: P.S.1/TAXTER & SPENGEMANN
LUTZ BACHER – RETROSPECTIVE – ‘MY SECRET LIFE’ – at P.S.1 !!
OPENING TO-DAY !! – SUNDAY FEB 22 / 12 noon – 6 PM !!
the show runs: FEBRUARY 12 – SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
P.S.1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER – 22-25 JACKSON AVE at 46th AVE INTERSECTION – LONG ISLAND CITY – QUEENS – NYC.
TAXTER & SPENGEMANN is proud to announce the opening of ‘MY SECRET LIFE’ – LUTZ BACHER’S first museum survey show. The show spans several decades of the artist’s wide-ranging conceptual practice.
Lutz Bacher has lived and worked in Berkeley, California since the 1970s.
LUTZ BACHER, ‘MY SECRET LIFE’ is organized by P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Curatorial Advisor LIA GANGITANO.
read more about the show: LUTZ BACHER/P.S.1
LUTZ BACHER – photographed at the recent GUILD & GREYSHKUL CLOSING PARTY. FEB 8, 2009.
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
see: the original post/GUILD & GREYSHKUL FLAMES OUT !!
~LUTZ BACHER/OPENING at PS1/today |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 22nd, 2009, 2:59pm
OPENING TODAY !! – SUNDAY FEB 22 – 7-9 PM !!
PATTERSON BECKWITH !!
with DANIEL McDONALD in the PROJECT ROOM
& OPENING NITE PERFORMANCE BY: DOUGLAS ARMOUR at 8:30 PM
the show runs: FEBRUARY 21 – MARCH 21, 2009
MESLER & HUG – 510 BERNARD ST – LOS ANGELES – CALIFORNIA
some images of Patterson’s new work from the gallery website:
and, also on the website – Patterson’s iconic image of COLIN DeLAND:
see: more images/PATTERSON BECKWITH/MESLER & HUG
~PATTERSON BECKWITH/LA !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 22nd, 2009, 2:45pm
. . . while we’re waiting for Megan to send in – some new pix from LA and year 2009, we thought it might be fun to take a little trip down the MEGAN WHITMARSH memory lane – on artlovers !!
MEGAN WHITMARSH, opens ‘FOREST LOGIC’ at the now closed Sixytseven, NYC. April 2, 2005
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
see more pix: from the ‘Forest Logic’ opening !!
one, of our fave MEGAN WHITMARSH posts has got to be: ‘Snowmonkeys in Japan’ !!
a bilingual tour of Japan and American from each other’s point of view !! it posted in JUNE 2006.
another fave: the ‘Yeti Builds Crystal’ post of Sept 2006
also see: MEGAN WHITMARSH – the card for: ‘PINK TRASH’ !!
another flash from the past. Megan’s super super pink and blue offerings at the CINDERS PORCH SHOW of JULY 2005 !!
see: the original post – LITTLE SHOPS !! – 2006-10-24 !!
and, a last look back:
MEGAN WHITMARSH – drawings on the wall, near the reception desk, Sixtyseven, NYC. Nov. 22, 2005
see: the original post – ‘FUN TIMES’ – 2006-04-04
~MEGAN WHITMARSH/a trip down memory lane !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 21st, 2009, 12:50pm
OPENING TODAY – SAT – FEB 21 – in LA !! – 7-10 PM !!
MEGAN WHITMARSH – ‘THE FUCKING CRAP OF LIFE ‘ – also: C.F. and MATT FURIE
WITH OPENING NIGHT PERFORMANCE BY DOLPHIN FORCE
the show runs: FEB 21 – MARCH 21, 2009
NEW IMAGE ART – 7908 SANTA MONICA BLVD – LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
HRS: WED-SAT 1-6 PM OR BY APPT.
ARTWORK BY MEGAN WHITMARSH/COURTESY: NEW IMAGE ART
MEGAN’S ARTIST’S STATEMENT – FOR THE SHOW – ‘THE FUCKING CRAP OF LIFE’ – IS WORTH READING !!
“I am a child of the 70s whose sense of futurism is informed by Star Wars [fucked-up dusty robots] instead of Tomorrow Land. A future with entropy and drug use and weeds growing in the cracks between the scratched plexiglas windows of the geodesic domes. Bits of yarn and dusty houseplants. If this sounds bleak, I don’t mean for it to. perhaps the healthiest land of futurism is one that admits entropy and flux. Perfection is suspicious, worn and dusty can mean well-loved too. Who loves the Stepford Wife?
“The visual noise of my youth wasn’t only Reagan and the Day After; it also contained optimism and complexity: Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Mork & Mindy, The Muppets, and punk rock.
“When I make a giant mountain of handmade trash I am lost in the fun of making, and feel like a kid building a fort. In the end I must resign myself to the fact that I have just added more crap to the world, but this seems an inevitable art of being an artist and a human. I try to remain optimistic. I like art that is generous in spirit and amateurish, art that inspires rather than intimidates.
“I consider art a practice of transformation. We cannot expect to make new energy; instead we must reinvent, recycle, and transform what exists already. Making art is my attempt to synthesize my optimistic vision of the future with my pragmatic appraisal of the world I inhabit.”
MEGAN WHITMARSH received her MFA from the University of New Orleans.
check out her newly designed website: MEGAN WHITMARSH !!
LUCKILY, MEGAN RECENTLY SENT US SOME JPEGS OF SOME OF HER NEW WORK !! – TO BE INCLUDED IN – THE NEW IMAGE ART – MEGAN WHITMARSH – ‘THE FUCKING CRAP OF LIFE’ – SHOW !!
MEGAN WHITMARSH – ‘GIANT LUMP’ – 65 x 55 in. embroidery and fabric
MEGAN WHITMARSH – ‘TRASH MOUNTAIN’ – 40 x 30 in. on paper.
detail, MEGAN WHITMARSH – ‘TRASH MOUNTAIN’.
MEGAN WHITMARSH – ‘COLORWORK’ – 40 x 30 in. also on paper
detail, MEGAN WHITMARSH – ‘COLOR WORK’.
also with work in the show:
CF aka CHRISTOPHER FORGUES !!
“Born in 1979 in Fitchburg MA, and currently living in Providence, Rhode Island, Chris is also known as CF – a comic book maker, musician and artist. He performs his music under the name Kites, and has numerous self-released tapes, as well as recordings on Load Records.
He plays hand made electronics, originally simple oscillators that have now advanced with his skill as an instrument builder into more complicated synthesizers. Both his visual and aural art has been influential among a growing underground of contemporary American art and music that could and maybe should be called “noise”. he helped to release the free comic Paper Rodeo, and has just published the first book of a trilogy titled: ‘Power Masters’ with PICTURE BOX, INC.
CF received his MFA at Massachusetts College of Art.” (gallery website)
check out: LOAD RECORDS !!
and, MATT FURIE has work in the show, too.
MATT FURIE: “was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1979. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio. He currently lives in San Francisco. Matt Furie’s drawings come form a mix of child-like enchantment and momentary adult situations. His self-proclaimed “…children’s book illustrations for adults’ combines traditional and modern mark-making for his ripe, cartoon-inspired characters. last year he was awarded best Visual Artist by the SF Guardian in the 20th annual Goldie awards. … His art has appeared in numerous magazines including juxtapoz, vice, the believer, the oxford american journal, and swindle.” (gallery website)
and, DOLPHIN FORCE will perform at the opening.
check out: DOLPHIN FORCE/MySpace
wow – so MEGAN has promised to send us – some more pix !! STAY TUNED !!
UP-DATE: SUNDAY MARCH 1, 2009 – MEGAN SENT US SOME PIX !! FROM THE SHOW !!
MEGAN WHITMARSH – WITH HER ‘TRASH MOUNTAIN’ PILE – ‘FUCKING CRAP OF LIFE’, RIGHT ON !!
MEGAN WHITMARSH – ‘TRASH MOUNTAIN’.
a large wall piece by MATT FURIE !!
COL. SAUNDERS – eat your heart out !!
installation shot: MEGAN WHITMARSH – ‘THE FUCKING CRAP OF LIFE’ with CF and MATT FURIE.
ALL PHOTOS COURTESY: MEGAN WHITMARSH
~MEGAN WHITMARSH/the fucking crap of life |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 21st, 2009, 9:34am
image on the card – painting by Pete Pezzimenti.
OPENING TODAY – SAT – FEB 21 – in LA !! – 6-8 PM !!
‘KEEPING TIME’ with BRIAN BELOTT, PETE PEZZIMENTI & STOSH TOKARSKI
curated by REBECCA DAVIS
the show runs: FEB 21 – MARCH 28, 2009
JK GALLERY – 2632 S. La Cienega Blvd – Los Angeles – California
HRS: TUES-SAT 111am-5pm
PETE PEZZIMENTI
PETE PEZZIMENTI
STOSH TOKARSKI
BRIAN BELOTT
ALL IMAGES COURTESY/JK GALLERY
see more pix from the show: KEEPING TIME !!
~PETE PEZZIMENTI/Keeping Time |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 21st, 2009, 8:54am
