postcard: “Lady Liberty is Bush’s Whore”, copyright 2006,
Artists: Lady Pink + Smith
Location: 5Pointz, QUEENS NYC
some more pix from the ‘BRICK LADIES OF NYC – LADY PINK / AIKO’
AD HOC GALLERY afterparty – MARCH 21, 2008
MERES/CEO 5POINTZ, LADY PINK, CHRIS/CYCLE
muralist – SMITH
LADY PINK, mural on canvas
detail, LADY PINK, mural on canvas
detail, LADY PINK, mural on canvas
detail, LADY PINK, mural on canvas
detail, LADY PINK, mural on canvas
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
see: pinksmith.com
~LADY PINK + SMITH |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 24th, 2008, 8:30am
LADY PINK, AIKO/PHOTO BY TING-HSIN WANG/IMAGE COURTESY: AD HOC ART
tomorrow – SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 2008 – is the last!! day to see the ‘BRICK LADIES OF NYC/LADY PINK & AIKO’ at AD HOC ART – 49 BOGART ST – BROOKLYN – the gallery will be open from 1-6PM.
see: AD HOC ART for more info
see: LADY PINK/pix from the opening/artlovers
see: AIKO/pix from the opening/artlovers
. . . at 6PM on Sunday, April 20th, the last day of the show – LADY PINK and AIKO – will be present at the gallery – to give an “intimate” talk about the show.
. . . immediately following the talk, AD HOC ART is pleased to present SPRAYMASTERS, the new graffiti film by MANNY KIRCHHEIMER, starring Lady Pink, Lee Quinones, Futura 2000, and Zephyr. The movie, which features revealing interviews and rare subway art from 1977, sold out its premiere screenings at MoMA (Museum of Modern art) this past February 2008.
AD HOC ART
~SPRAYMASTERS/AD HOC ART/SUNDAY |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 19th, 2008, 4:37pm
DICE and ZIP, outside PEARL PAINT on CANAL ST., Lower Manhattan, NYC, OCT 4, 2003
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
a young(er) DICE – way back in FALL 2003 – makes artlovers on artnet !!
see: artnet/FALL 2003
looking to see if there were any more DICE shots on that roll – think so.
yep. tons more. and others. artnet (meaning Walter Robinson) wouldn’t publish them
at the time !!
It was a book signing for COPE 2 – “TRUE LEGEND” – and featured the debut of 3 new Molotow Premium spray paints: Night “SEEN” blue, Middle Calypso by “COPE 2” & “CES FX” Violet.
just 5 years ago, Saturday October 4th 2003 – it was back in the day in a lot of ways – but not that far back – even then, things had already turned very tightened down – the poster said in bold black letters:
“MUST BE 18 YEARS OR OLDER TO PURCHASE PAINT”.
but it also was titled:
“Pearl Paint invites you to come meet some of the Molotow Premium sponsored artists’ NYC Graffiti legends: SEEN UA, COPE 2 and CES FX” – “In store will include art work, can signings, live demonstrations and a question and answer session” – which I doubt you’d see any time today.
SOME ARCHIVAL PHOTOS FROM THE EVENT, OCT 4, 2003
ALL PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
note: ALL PHOTOS ARE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT & REQUIRE PRIOR WRITTEN PERMISSION FOR ANY OTHER USE. SEE: CONTACT/HOME PAGE/artloversnewyork.com
the poster for: COPE 2 – “TRUE LEGEND”
a page from: COPE 2 – “TRUE LEGEND”
JOSHUA/IVORY was there
DICE was there with his tag book
TIPE
DAZE, at least that’s what he said – must be DAZE 0.2
DAZE had his tag book
SEK6, OCT 4, 2003
SEK6
SEK6
GIGGLES with her tag book
TIPE, SEK6 & DICE
SEEN mural in the PEARL PAINT window
SEEN, OCT 4, 2003
COPE 2, OCT 4, 2003
~DICE & PALS/2003 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 19th, 2008, 2:47pm
Please join us for an intimate conversation with photographers Tobin Yelland and David Perez Shadi as part of our current exhibition – ‘BEING TRUE/Nike’ – moderated by co-curator Emma Reeves.
this Saturday, APRIL 19, 2008 – at 3:00pm
the journal Gallery – 168 NORTH 1ST STREET – BROOKLYN
PHOTO BY DAVID PEREZ SHADI/IMAGE COURTESY: the journal Gallery/DAVID PEREZ SHADI
PHOTO BY TOBIN YELLAND/IMAGE COURTESY: the journal Gallery/TOBIN YELLAND
here’s some pix from the opening, Thursday, March 27th, 2008 – from the gallery website:
ALL PHOTOS BY KATHY LO/COURTESY: the journal Gallery
EMMA REEVES and DAVID PEREZ SHADI
DAVID PEREZ SHADI with his son
DAVID RANSONE, TOBIN YELLAND, AARON ROSE, & CARLO McCORMICK
on the right, LANCE ARMSTRONG makes the opening
DICE
see more pix from the opening: the journal Gallery website
~BEING TRUE/TOBIN YELLAND, DAVID PEREZ SHADI/the journal Gallery |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 19th, 2008, 2:21am
. . . and NATE LOWMAN showed up in a recent STAR MAGAZINE !!, MARCH 17, 2008 – Page 41.
top photo, right hand margin.
the caption reads:
MK Loves Bad Boys!
NATE LOWMAN
“Days after Heath’s Jan 22 death, MK hit the NYC club scene with the artist, 28.
‘He’s a real party guy.’ says a source.”
(yo, MK is Mary Kate Olsen – duh!!)
~NATE LOWMAN/Star Magazine |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 19th, 2008, 1:27am
. . . in fact recently RIRKRIT TIRAVANiJ’S newest project – a – kind of study/work/gathering studio/house/garden in THAILAND was profiled in The New York Times Style Magazine – DESIGN SPRING 2008. Page 128.
“The Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija’s latest project – a house in Chiang Mai – was a group effort with singular results. Alix Browne pays a social call. PHOTOGRAPHY BY Jason Schmidt.”
the article begins: . . . “As an artist, Tiravanija is a catlyst for human interaction; his work revolves playfully around things food, music and, more often than not, architecture. In 1977 he recreated Philip Johnson’s Glass House at half-scale and installed it in the sculpture garden of the Museum of Modern Art as an art studio for children. Two years later, he created a full-scale replica of his own East Village apartment at Gaven brown’s Enterprise on West 15th Street, complete with a bedroom and a working kitchen and bathroom.. The “apartment” was open 24 hours a day to anyone who cared to stop by for a home-cooked meal, a nap or shower.
And when he recently decided to build a house for himself, his wife, the photographer Antoinette Aurell, and Aurell’s two teenage children, this too was an exercise in the value of human interaction – or what the French theorist and curator Nicolas Bourriaud has coined “relational aesthetics”. . . .
and ends with a quote from architect Neil Logan, (who describes his role in the house as “design development”): . . . “It was really about all parties trying to work out a problem together. Maybe that’s the nice thing about relational aesthetics. It’s the opposite of a vision rendered. It’s a collaborative thing that no one person could predict.”
~RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA/New York Times |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 19th, 2008, 1:23am
DAN COLEN & NATE LOWMAN – ‘WET PAIN’ – aka – ‘CLO$ING DOWN $ALE’
MARCH 28 – APRIL 26, 2008
MACCARONE GALLERY in collaboration with PERES PROJECTS Berlin/Los Angeles
MACCARONE GALLERY – 630 GREENWICH ST – WEST VILLAGE – NYC
‘WET PAIN’ = STATIC ELECTRICITY
This is an interesting exhibit in terms of how static it plays out – especially for an exhibit that aspires to be so in flux. Even the title seems to have been changed at some point, the show being called ‘CLO$ING DOWN $ALE’ on the invite/poster & now, ‘WET PAIN’ on the gallery website !!
It was RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA who made the momentarily startling and absolutely correct observation, when happened upon in the show on a recent Saturday – (see previous post) –
that for a ‘slacker’ aspired show of spontaneous & deconstructionist ambiance – actually everything – every element of the show – had a deliberate and controlled placement & final visual effect. even the cardboard boxes supposedly jumbled into the window and the clothes seemingly picked thru and randomly arrayed on the metal clothes racks. This is not a value judgement – nor a critical assessment – its just an interesting and ironic fact. (after all, static can be electric !!) Particularly given the source. though it might have been a critical assessment by Rirkrit – in his mind. It’s compelling to contemplate the paradox: how casual and thrown-together/at-the-moment, in-the-moment, organic – Rirkrit’s installations are – even though they are generally speaking much bigger and more involved productions, such as re-assembling an apartment, or re-creating a Thai Kitchen performance/installation, and actually sheds a more intimate light on Rirkrit’s own work – in that – the element of spontaneous placement & organization – is actually – probably – very much more of a carefully considered (and beautiful element) of the overall design – than one might have formerly realized . . . and, easy to overlook, or under-estimate in the over-all schematic impact.
Its kind of funny to think of the paradox – that Rirkrit’s academic & intellectual or polemic leanings, produce work that seems freely, really – organically – is the best word – evolved structures, rather than deliberately hyper-designed ambiences – and, the seemingly random thrown together casual ‘slacker’ output of ‘WET PAIN’ – especially as defined by the little narrative story, presented as a ‘stage play/theater’ script’ that accompanies the show,
(see: gallery website/PRESS RELEASE/’WET PAIN’)
assembled by DAN COLEN and NATE LOWMAN – has such a careful and static rendering.
In retrospect, that ‘static’ placement constitutes an interesting, invisible torque – to how these 2 artists are trying to make a statement about their particular brand of culture – celebrity tabloids, street smarts, male angst & hard partying – almost in direct opposition to Rirkrit’s ‘cultural’ territory – which tends to be more of a global ‘higher’ ground projection. kind of like The National Enquirer vs. The New York Times !!
‘WET PAIN’S’ static dynamic also helps the exhibit manage a kind of artistic ‘get-over’ – 2 hard partying guys – who just managed by the skin-of-their-teeth to pull off a full fledged exhibit in such a huge & serious exhibition space – while actually interpreting the space in a deviously deliberate, and yet, seemingly raw way. The stark empty spaces between the sparse works is actually very fine tuned. or at least they hoped to hell, you’d think so . . the whole idea being to be ultra stylish and ambitious – while seeming casually at play.
. . . in ‘WET PAIN’ (get it ? – ‘WET PAIN-T’) – DAN COLEN and NATE LOWMAN by playing the creative ‘chaos’ element – low-profile and very contained . . just like dropping that extra ‘T’ – achieve a kind of static ‘electricity’ . . and succeed as this generation’s ULTIMATE ‘POSERS’.
this is an archival RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA installation shot – ‘untitled (Demonstration No. 3)’, 2001
installation, van, diverse utensils, 8 monitors – on the videos there were sequences of the artist’s journey/IMAGE COURTESY:YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE 2001
pix from the current MACCARONE exhibit: DAN COLEN & NATE LOWMAN – ‘WET PAIN’:
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA tours the DAN COLEN/NATE LOWMAN collaboration – ‘WET PAIN’ ….
the boxes could be seen from the street – at the bottom of the big display windows
the view from the street
the show’s over-size posters in the window. what we’re trying to get at – devilishly deliberate detail in the ‘spontaneously’ effected lettering, which becomes ‘static’ design in the repeat !!
the first view of the installation
a traveler’s ‘sunshade’ !!
“dude its about your mama”
“Dude, you got the joke wrong”
“LIFE’S A BEACH”
“PEACE, MAN”
Jaguar, electronics and sound system, Christmas tree
a jumble of home-made video loops on small monitors & assorted electronics filled the interior haphazardly, seemingly held together by packing tape.
one of the small interior monitors spooled a Mexican band – while a Spanish street beat/sound loop played
in another room, in the vast MACCARONE space – “it’s about rape”
detail, bottom previous painting – “damn!”
“STOP & THINK”
“Easy Japanesy”, 2008, Steel I-beam. metal, tire, aluminum rim, drywall, dimensions variable … drywall? guess, therefore it comes with the crashed-in wall !!!
see: recent pix of DAN COLEN & NATE LOWMAN, RYAN McGINLEY OPENING, APRIL 3, 2008
MACCARONE
~DAN COLEN & NATE LOWMAN/WET PAIN |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 17th, 2008, 12:12pm
RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA walking through the DAN COLEN / NATE LOWMAN collaborative show – ‘WET PAIN’ – MACCARONE GALLERY, the West Village, NYC, SAT APRIL 5, 2008
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
‘WET PAIN’ is up until APRIL 26, 2008 – see: MACCARONE
~RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 11th, 2008, 11:49am
RYAN McGINLEY – ‘I KNOW WHERE THE SUMMER GOES’
opened THURS APRIL 3, 2008
the show runs APRIL 3 – MAY 3, 2008
TEAM – 83 GRAND ST – SOHO – NYC
read & see more about this show: TEAM/McGINLEY EXHIBIT
some pix from the opening – APRIL 3, 2008:
from left: A-RON and RYAN McGINLEY
A-RON (the Don) and RYAN McGINLEY, outside on the street, as the McGINLEY opening – ‘I KNOW WHERE SUMMER GOES’ – winds down.
JOHN WATERS scoped out the RYAN McGINLEY show.
NATE LOWMAN drops by.
DAN COLEN, also at the RYAN McGINLEY, ‘I KNOW WHERE SUMMER GOES’ opening.
NATE LOWMAN & DAN COLEN currently have a collaborative show up at MACCARONE – titled: ‘WET PAIN’, it is up until APRIL 26, 2008.
supposedly the opening was hugely packed & yes, one of those OLSEN twins, MARY KATE , did come by for like 2 seconds.
see more on that show: MACCARONE/’WET PAIN’
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
TEAM
~RYAN McGINLEY |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 11th, 2008, 11:07am
‘AFTER THE REALITY 2’ – curated by HOROMI YOSHII
APRIL 5 – MAY 3, 2008
DEITCH PROJECTS – 76 GRAND ST – SOHO
. . . the show opened last Saturday, April 5. the worst show to hit NYC in years. it was embarrassing to watch the opening collapse – as word quickly spread about how bad it was. Jeffrey made a big show of slinking out, in a big (old) limo, way before closing time.
while we are on the subject, apologies to ROSSON CROW, but that other DEITCH show, ‘SUBSTRACTION’, just around the corner, at the Wooster street location, is really bad, too.
too bad, her painting looked really good in that wonderful group show – PERRY RUBENSTEIN showcased her work in – last year. called ‘ACCIDENTAL PAINTING’, it ran from APRIL 4 – 28, 2007, and, it still looks good!!
check it out: ‘ACCIDENTAL PAINTING’, PERRY RUBENSTEIN
DEITCH PROJECTS
~HIROMI YOSHII-After the Reality 2/SUBSTRACTION |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 11th, 2008, 10:17am
