LARS MONRAD VAAGE has just opened a one man show !!
if you are in NORWAY – you can check it out !!
LARS MONRAD VAAGE
APRIL 16 – MAY 10, 2009
GALLERI RIIS – FILIPSTADUEIEN 5 – OSLO, NORWAY
LARS was kind enough to send us some photos !!
Lars writes:
“My family relaxing in the hallway of the gallery. From left, Mama, Grandmother, Lulu, Papa, and AMREI, Lulu’s daughter, playing with a paper-plane my dad made. Some of Stein Ronnings photos in the background.”
‘Trophy’.
“A Viking-ship, returning home from battle, proudly using the Turkish flag they took from a mosque as a sail. I used this image for a Nationalmuseum show, now the painting is more rendered and physical.”
‘Selfmade’.
“This painting has taken forever to finish, but now it finally is, and i think it is one of my best ones.. I have shown it a couple of times unfinished.
In a cave somewhere outside civilization, our hero has built a machine that generates electricity, and is fueled by wood. This is existing technology, widely used in Europe after the Second World War, when gasoline was rationed. A normal combustion engine, can run on fumes form wood. You only have to change the carburetor, and the tank is replaced by an oven, where you first heat coal, and then fill with wood. As the air-supply is limited the wood boils rather than burns, and the released fumes are explosive, and ignite with the help of spark plugs just like gasoline.
In the cave, the machine has a dynamo, so our hero can just go out and chop down a tree, and he’s got electricity.
Its a kind of hippieish idea of being self-sufficient, but unlike the long-haired hemp-wearers, this guy is high-tech, and the showing of back to the government contains no wish of turning back the clock. Maybe all the work with building this contained world, actually saves up free time in the end, he’s got no job, no bills to pay, no bureaucracy to satisfy, and at the same time he can use all the time-saving devices run by electricity. In the painting you see tools from the building of the machine on the workbench, like an old-fashioned hand drill, that he needed before he had electricity. A parafin-lamp that he enters the room with in the morning, before he starts the machine. An electric fan, it gets really hot in there with the oven burning. Some arrow-heads, string, and sticks for making bow and arrow, now that he can work in the evenings under the light-bulbs, making weapons and such, hunting is fun, and meat is good.”
‘Fra Rode Orm’.
“An oar is sticking out of a hole of a ship’s side, inside there is a Viking enslaved by the Kalif.
There are 2 guys working each oar, the guy next to our hero, Rode Orm, is Arabic, and during the years he has learned the language. In hope of emancipation the Viking is making a poem about how water with lemon-juice is better than wine, that he hopes to get to send to the Kalif in one of the harbours. And its raining paint.”
‘Fruit & Futurism’.
“A painting of a sculpture I saw on TV in the background of a shoot-out on CNN, an improvement of an existing sculpture that stands on a square in Bhagdad.”
‘There is joy in repetition.’
“The sculpture made it to Oslo, but collapsed slightly when it felt at home, making it look even better. The thing
is made of leftovers form me painting, corks, paint etc, parts of toys, dolls, pingpong balls, and about 8000 q-tips, dipped in acrylics, and partially spray-painted in black. It started with a silly small piece of wood on my office-desk, and my head being totally empty, just like they tried to in Ghostbusters. Whatever eas lying around was put on top of each other with super-glue, and when my studio was empty of stuff I went across the street and got all the q-tips they had. After lots pf these zombie-sessions, the thing was suddenly big, and I needed a ladder. Even though I enjoy inventing stuff, and work hard to get better at painting, I loved being free from thoughts for weeks at a time.”
GALLERI RIIS, Oslo, NORWAY.
The gallery is located in the harbour in Oslo city-centre.
“During my stay in Norway I also installed my stuff in a group show that opens may 2nd in VESTFOSSEN KUNSTLABERATORIUM outside Oslo. It is a 2000m2 old factory, and has one show a year. This year the show is called ‘Nachspiel/Vorspiel.’
Participating artists are: Inghild Carlsen, Olav Christopher Jenssen, Per Barclay, Bjorn-Sigurd Tufta, Bjarne Melgaard, A K Dolven, Elmgreen & Dragset, Ole Jorgen Naess, Borre Saethre, Book & Heden, Martin Skauen, Lars Monrad Vaage, Josefine Lyche, Mari Slaattelid, Sverre Bjertnes, Kjersti G. Andvig, Ane Mette Hol, Marit Folstad, Bard Ask og Helene Sommer.”
‘Spring & Machines’
crayon on paper. I have been doing a lot of small drawings with crayon, its quick, and very much like painting. I like a lot that I can jump from place to place, and still make it solid, and look mote or less real.”
‘Rode Orm escapes & the Worlds Fastest Train’.
‘Too Cool for School III’
“This is the third version I made of this motif, a police-car is covered with snow, the lights from the siren shines a bit through the snow. The idea is banal, the atmosphere is nice. In Norway the schools are closed when it is less than -25 degrees Celsius, so its a normal thing to dream about for kids. I remember that it was -24 many times, but never -25.”
LULU and LARS.
. . . “after all the work installing the show, Lulu and I relaxed on an island off Oslo, I’m the beauty in the background – eating a hot dog.”
. . . . in the studio, before the show:
Lars Monrad Vaage is currently based in Berlin, Germany, where he has a studio, and where he did the work for the GALLERI RIIS installation.
that’s where he put the finishing touches on the big paintings, which he started almost 2 years ago, and built the 8,000 q-tip sculpture. It involved dipping the q-tips into color and letting them dry.
His girlfriend, Lulu – helped him.
Lars writes:
“The luxury part of painting, signing, making up the titles, and making the backsides pretty.”
ALL PHOTOS COURTESY: LMV/Galleri Riis
to see what else, Lars is up to – check out his: website !! talk about – sweet & brief !!
~LARS MONRAD VAAGE !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 23rd, 2009, 2:09pm
JOHN HODANY, ‘HOLY ROLLERS’, 2009. acrylic on paper inlay, 90 x 180 cm.
but, if you are in BERLIN !! – you can still catch:
JOHN HODANY – ‘HOLY ROLLERS’
MARCH 21 – APRIL 25, 2009
GALERIE LENA BRUNING – ALMSTADTSTRASSE 50 – BERLIN, GERMANY
the gallery has an amazing selection of photos from the show on their website: check here !!
including:
JOHN HODANY, ‘Echoe Location’, 2008, acrylic on paper inlay. 30 x 62 cm.
JOHN HODANY, ‘Yer Last Beaver’, 2008, acrylic on paper inlay. 60 x 136 cm.
JOHN HODANY, ‘Three Weazel Study’, 2008, acrylic on paper inlay. 60 x 136 cm.
it’s interesting to see the echoes & visual evolution onto paper – from the major installation sculpture JOHN HODANY exhibited last year, (FEB 19-MARCH 16, 2008), at ELEVEN RIVINGTON, here in NYC, on the Lower East Side.
its also funny to note that the ELEVEN RIVINGTON show of last year – a large 3-Dimensional piece – (see below) – as compared to this year’s many paper renderings – went from a (working !!) complex arcade-type game – and, which struck one as very non-humanistic and purely ‘machine-like’ – ‘abstract’ and ‘objective’ – to these drawings, which though again – very ‘plastic’, very abstract in their composition – are actual animals and their habitat landscapes – sinister, or deep, mysterious, and ancient – maybe the better words are – animal totems depicted in a civilization twilight ?
JOHN HODANY, (with ANNA CONWAY) at the ELEVEN RIVINGTON opening, Feb 19, 2008.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
see: more pix from that show !!
. . . the current show at GALERIE LENA BRUNING has posted a really interesting PRESS RELEASE/ESSAY on JOHN HOANY’S work.
“The oldest known paintings on earth are thought to be over 30,000 years old. Painted or drawn depictions of horses, hyenas, rhinos, lions, bison, some half-humans and also some extinct ones cover walls in ancient caves like Chauvet and Lascaux in France. No one knows exactly why they exist. Over 600 depictions of animals appear in the Lascaux cave alone.
Strangely, neither the landscape nor any vegetation is portrayed on the walls. Maybe the artists were storytelling, explaining themselves through pictures. Perhaps there were superstitions about animals and creating images of them was thought to bring good luck. Looking through the entire history of art, you have to wonder what it is about the relationship between animals and people that provokes these mysterious works? Are the homages? Are they symbols, or stand-ins of our own bodies and selves, our own mortality or even our spirituality as the Egyptians imply?”
it also goes on to state that: “John Hodany’s body of work contains many animals. Hodany has been preoccupied with depicting the faces and bodies of creatures for over a decade. Some of his paintings, drawings and sculptures represent animals in a manner reminiscent of the Egpytian drawings of animals: there is a bold simplicity of their form that gives them an appearance of a sign or a symbol. Sometimes the animals appear in such uniform abundance that theytake on a quilt, tapestry, or ven computer-like pattern.” . . . .
“‘Holly Roller’ (the title of the show and one of the paintings) is an American term used to describe Pentecostal Christians who it was said would literally roll on the ground when possessed with the spirit of God. Nowadays the term is often used as an expression of astonishment about strange or abnormal behavior in general.”
“There i almost always a quiet, possibly even apocalyptic atmosphere in Hodany’s work that hints at a shift in world order. Where are the humans? Why are the rocks, animals, and objects organizing themselves into patterns, disappearing and reappearing as fragments within the same work? . . . (and,) Using a self-invented method, Hodany cuts into the painted surface, carefully removing pieces of his paintings and attaches them to other ares within the same work on paper. This creates a ghost-like impression in which the trace of the image that has been cut and replaced seems to imprint on the background. The fractal nature of his repeated images echo the concept of ‘cutting and pasting’ computer software style, however never losing a tactile sensibility.”
~JOHN HODANY/HOLY ROLLERS |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 23rd, 2009, 10:17am
STEN ARE SANDBECK wrote us a little while back – about a show he was in, and we STILL !! like the ‘card’ image – so we’re posting the info, now, even though the show has come and gone.
‘SIDESHOW’ – ‘TEN-IN-ONE’
with: KARE M. BERGH & SIMEN LAURITZEN STENSRUD, SVERRE GULLESEN, PAL JOMASS, TORIL JOHANNESSEN, FRODE MARKHUS, MARIUS MARTINUSSEN, LINN PEDERSEN & JAN FREUCHEN, STEN ARE SANDBECK, SVEINUNG R. UNNELAND, ARNE VINNEM.
MARCH 20 – APRIL 5, 2009
GALLERI GATHE BERGEN, NORWAY.
from the gallery website:
“‘TEN-IN-ONE’ offers a program of art from ten artists and artists’ collaborations . . . it is partly a freak show exhibiting “artistic oddities” (including “art freaks” such as painters.) However, for variety’s sake, the acts also include “live art” such as installation and video.”
STEN ARE SANDBECK sent some photos – of his work in the show. and beautiful they are !!
STEN ARE SANDBECK, ‘Magic Theatre (with Lion)’, 2009.
175 cm square stretcher. perforated canvas, acrylic.
the canvas from the back, with view of the ‘Lion’, a framed drawing, on the wall !!
STEN ARE SANDBECK, ‘Lion’, oil pastel on A3 paper.
PHOTOS COURTESY: STEN ARE SANDBECK
~STEN ARE SANDBECK/TEN-IN-ONE |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 23rd, 2009, 9:52am
. . . to-nite – MONDAY – APRIL 20, 2009 – is the last chance to catch – ORLEANS GUNN – before MIKE PARE re-locates to NEW MEXICO !!
sample: ORLEANS GUNN !!
the line-up is: ORLEANS GUNN, LORD DOG BIRD & MICHA BLUE SMALDONE
MATCHLESS – 57 MANHATTAN AVE – CORNER OF DRIGGS / BROOKLYN -/ 9PM – 11:59PM
FREE ADMISSION.
~MIKE PARE & ORLEANS GUNN/last call !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 20th, 2009, 12:51pm
‘FROM RICHIE RICH TO WENDY THE WITCH: THE ART OF HARVEY COMICS’ – HAS BEEN EXTENDED !! THRU – SAT MAY 2, 2009 !!
in relation to the exhibit – THE MUSEUM of COMIC and CARTOON ART – MoCCA – is pleased to present:
FROM SCREEN TO SCREAM! – JERRY BECK on the HISTORY of HARVEY COMICS !!
TO-NITE !! – FRIDAY – APRIL 17, 2009 – 6:30 PM
ADMISSION: $5 – FREE for MoCCA MEMBERS
Animation Historian JERRY BECK (CARTOON BREW) will speak about the connection of HARVEY COMICS to the PARAMOUNT cartoon studio, and the creation of CASPER the FRIENDLY GHOST, BABY HUEY, LITTLE AUDREY, BUZZY CROW and HERMAN & KATNIP. He will show clips from the classic cartoons, and discuss the relationship between the comic book company and the animation studio, which was located in Times Square. Beck will also sign copies of the THE HARVEY COMICS LIBRARY, a series of reprint volumes which he co-curates for DARK HORSE BOOKS.
MUSEUM of COMIC and CARTOON ART – 594 BROADWAY – SUITE 401 – NYC
HRS: TUES-SUN 12-5PM
GENERAL ADMISSION: $5 / CHILDREN 12 + UNDER: FREE
PIX FROM THE OPENING:
‘FROM RICHIE RICH TO WENDY THE WITCH: THE ART OF HARVEY COMICS’ – MUSEUM OF COMIC and CARTOON ART / MoCCA
DEC 18, 2008
MARK D. ARNOLD of FUN IDEAS PRODUCTIONS, based in SARATOGA, California.
‘From Richie Rich to Wendy the Witch: The Art of Harvey Comics’ originated at the Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco, curated by ANDREW FARAGO, with special thanks to MARK ARNOLD.
Mr. Arnold beside: ‘Little Sad Sack No. 11’, mid 1960s. Drawn by FRED RHOADES.
ink on board
the title lettering & spatial composition – seem very contemporary !!
sort of boxy – (almost) just like AD DEVILLE & SKEWVILLE.
the exhibit had concise but very informative & very interesting captions & wall texts.
. .. I found it interesting to contemplate that – FRED RHOADS – was an ex-marine.
artwork by – WARREN KREMER.
‘Devil Kids starring Hot Stuff No. 73’, cover rough, mid 1970s. color pencil on vellum.
WARREN KREMER (1921-2003) drew the majority of Harvey’s covers – from the 1960s onwards.
From the collection of DAVE HOLT.
WARREN KREMER – ‘Little Lotta No. 68’, cover, 1966. ink on board.
JOE CERTA – ‘Joe Paloooka’, cover. late 1940s/early 1950s. ink on board.
From the collection of DAVE HOLT.
ARTIST UNKNOWN (POSSIBLY STEVE MUFFATTI). ‘Casper No. 59’, Comic book, August 1957.
STEVE MUFFATTI (1880-1968) established the “Harvey style”.
detail, ‘Casper No. 59’ – only – 10 cents !!
WARREN KREMER – ‘Little Audrey’ cover, late 1950s, ink on board.
WARREN KREMER, ‘Richie Rich and Jackie Jokers No. 9’, Cover rough. mid 1970s.
color pencil on vellum.
From the collection of DAVE HOLT.
detail, SID COUCHEY. ‘Little Lotta No. 114’, Little Dot Story Pages 1, 3 and 5.
‘A Real Pal!’ (Little Lotta), early 1970s.
ink & white gouache on board.
from the collection of SKEET ROSE.
WARREN KREMER, ‘Little Dot Dotland No.1’. Comic book, July 1962. 12 cents.
from the MoCCA notes: “HARVEY COMICS were approaching the zenith of their popularity in1962 . . .
[this is] one of the many sweet and beguiling covers drawn by the master hand of the late Mr. Kremer . . . ”
ERNIE COLON , ‘Little Lotta Foodland No. 1’, Page 1, 1963. Ink on board.
detail, ERNIE COLON, ‘Little Lotta Foodland No. 1’.
the exhibit also includes several – animated ‘loops’.
as well as display cases – with original comic books, and other HARVEY COMICS memorabilia.
ALFRED HARVEY, FRED RHOADS and GEORGE BAKER in NEW YORK CITY, ca. 1940s.
FRED RHOADS created many HARVEY COMICS pages from 1953 through 1977. he was “an ex-marine brought to work on the strip by its creator (George Baker) in 1953 too help adapt the character to his new, younger comic book audience. Rhoads’ humor was wild enough to amuse adults (enlisted or not), and gentle enough to make many a baby Boomer howl ith laughter as a child.” (MoCCA)
ALFRED HARVEY (1913-1994) was the founder of HARVEY COMICS and creator of Little Dot and Richie Rich.
see: ALFRED HARVEY/wikipedia & hit HARVEY COMICS, while there.
interesting enough, he was also an EAGLE SCOUT !!
a display case – full of HARVEY COMICS treasure !!
b’yall – from Little Lotta.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~RICHIE RICH/JERRY BECK ON HARVEY COMICS !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 17th, 2009, 12:40pm
. . . about time for a musical interlude, say what !!
VOILA !! – COCOROSIE SINGS – WEREWOLF – !! – LIVE – !! – ON FRENCH TV – on YouTube !!
P.S. LEIF RITCHEY helped make those costumes !!
WATCH IT: COCOROSIE/WEREWOLF/YouTube !!
BIANCA RAPS ….
the FRENCH TV – set !!
OMG – the FRENCH commentator is so poised, so beautiful – she’s crossed the line into – scary, as in vampire !!
yes, SIERRA sings like the beautiful ‘otherworldly’ out of – “FIFTH ELEMENT”.
or as hungboys writes: “sierra sings like an angel and bianca is too fucking cool for school.” amen.
~COCOROSIE/LIVE ON FRENCH TV !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 16th, 2009, 6:11pm
all images courtesy/FACTORY FRESH
AD DEVILLE lays out his words, and I think they sell for $20 a pop, or word, & that is !! a most definite steal.
UP-DATE: . . . well maybe not, they aren’t signed.
and, the prices are more like $15 for smallest, then $30 and higher.
‘WORD UP’ – AD DEVILLE – ABOUT 100 CHOICE WORDS !!
silkscreened & then hand lined in a limited edition of about 10 each.
MARCH 28 – APRIL 18, 2009
FACTORY FRESH – 1053 FLUSHING – BUSHWICK – BROOKLYN
HRS: WED-SUN 1-7PM
and, definite check out AD’s website: When Dogs Fly !!
~SKEWVILLE/WORD UP/last call !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 16th, 2009, 5:46pm
IMAGE: KIM BECK, ‘Closed’.Courtesy of the artist.
didn’t mke this show – but the card, I mean digital email invite -sure rings true !!
DATA PANIC – CURATED BY AMANDA CHURCH & FRANKLIN EVANS
with: PEDRO BARBEITO, KIM BECK, JUSTEN LADDA, R FERNANDO MASTRANGELO, and PAUL THEK
MARCH 7 – APRIL 18, 2009
CUCHIFRITOS – inside the south end of THE ESSEX MARKET on the Lower East Side at 120 Essex St., between Rivington & Delancey.
HRS: TUES-SAT 12noon-5:30PM
~DATA PANIC/last call !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 16th, 2009, 5:39pm
LAST WEEK TO CATCH – VIRTUAL INSANITY !!
the card – for VIRTUAL INSANITY – a small group show curated by MAXWELL WILLIAMS – with MICHAEL BELL-SMITH, JOHN MICHAEL BOLING, OLAF BREUNING, KATHY GRAYSON, JAMES HOWARD, LUCKY DRAGONS, JILL MAGID & TIFFANY MALAKKOTI.
the show opened on MARCH 21 and runs – just thru this SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2009.
CINDERS GALLERY – 103 HAVEMEYER – WILLIAMSBURG – BROOKLYN.
HRS: WED-SUN 1-7PM
the show’s card – above – has got to be the best card for the year, so far !! dunno bout the show – it had a strange all-over feeling – maybe that was the point !! – but the card is a poppin’ classic !!
the show has scored 2 reviews.
check out: VIRTUAL INSANITY on FLAVORPILL !!
and, check out: VIRTUAL INSANITY on FADER !!
. . . we were !! at the OPENING – & – here’s the OPENING PIX !!
well, this was a strange enough show. it wasn’t like it was the most poppin’ show I’d ever seen, esp at Cinders. but maybe that was the counterintuitive point !!: virtual insanity is not dramatic – like a hand-made woodcut by CANNONBALL PRESS (aka MIKE HOUSTON & MARTIN MAZORRA) – or even the crazy screenprint world of BRIAN CHIPPENDALE – but more like – digital – blanket invasive. as in – too many emails !! hold the info. and please next time – pass on the OLAF BREUNING – he’s way too over-exposed !!
MICHAEL BELL-SMITH contributed a beautiful little loop projection, ‘Return to Forever’, 2009
Courtesy the artist and FOXY PRODUCTION.
MICHAEL BELL-SMITH, ‘Return to Forever;, 2009
HD video loop (edition of 3), Dimensions variable.
well, it was projected small – but dimensions are variable – so imagine it big. on the wall facing your bed !! forever.
would you ever need to go outside, again. well that’s a thought – that makes a beautiful digital thing: turn and go wrong.
of course that’s insane. or might make you insane. but if you weren’t captive on a spaceship – or almost as bad – an inner city housing complex with no patch of sky in sight – and could walk out a door anytime in the real world, and hopefully every now and then be witness to a real sunset – on water well, then it’s not so scary. but what can you really see from your window ?
and, when’s the last time you saw a sunset on water ?
KATHY GRAYSON, ‘Lava Life’, 2009. oil and acrylic on panel. 16 x 20 in.
Courtesy the artist and KIM LIGHT/LIGHTBOX, Los Angeles.
Kathy calls these . . . “self portraits of bad photo booth green screening” !!
WHAT !! green screening / gone wrong ? LOL. too many digital options !!
KATHY GRAYSON, ‘Lost’, 2009. oil and acrylic on panel. 16 x 20 in.
Courtesy the artist and KIM LIGHT/LIGHTBOX, Los Angeles.
KATHY GRAYSON, ‘Ray Man’, 2009. oil and acrylic on panel. 16 x 20 in.
Courtesy the artist and KIM LIGHT/LIGHTBOX, Los Angeles.
TIFFANY MALAKOOTI, Gmail (Self Portrait)’ 1 & 2.
most curious – to come around the virtual curve – simulated – digital – drawings.
TIFFANY MALAKOOTI, ‘Gmail (Self Portrait) 1’, 2009
Graphite on paper, 11 x 8.5 in.
Courtesy the collection of M. Ernest Williams
TIFFANY MALAKOOTI, ‘Gmail (Self Portrait) 2’, 2009
Graphite on paper, 11 x 8.5 in.
Courtesy the collection of M. Ernest Williams
JAMES HOWARD, ‘Neurotransmitter Warehouse (Yukiko Version)’, 2009
Print on paper (Edition of 3), 59.1 x 39.4 in.
Courtesy the artist
. . . seamless digital manipulation.
JAMES HOWARD, ‘Large Victory Game’, 2009
Print on paper (Edition of 3), 59.1 x 39.4 in.
Courtesy the artist
detail, James Howard, ‘Large Victory Game’.
LUCKY DRAGONS, ‘Peace on earth’, 2009
Customized electronics, software, Dimensions variable.
Courtesy the artist.
JOHN MICHAEL BOLING, ‘Twenty Years Ago Today’, 2007
Quicktime screen capture of website (Edition of 4)
Infinite loop, Courtesy the artist.
on the right, MAXWELL WILLIAMS – the show’s curator.
KATHY GRAYSON (right), with PATRICK GRIFFIN.
PATRICK GRIFFIN was wearing a g-r-e-a-t button.
center, snappin snaps – NICK KUSZYK !!
on the left, STO, and at the right, the curator of ‘VIRTUAL INSANITY’, MAXWELL WILLIAMS>
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~VIRTUAL INSANITY/last call !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 16th, 2009, 12:56pm
NATE LOWMAN & LEO FITZPATRICK, COLLECTIVE HARDWARE, LOWER EAST SIDE. MARCH 8, 2009
. . . we scored that photo of NATE & LEO, at COLLECTIVE HARDWARE – at a ‘little’ party ERIK FOSS threw to close SCOPE during ART FAIR WEEK. COLLECTIVE HARDWARE – 169 Broadway – is kind of a multi-service building – that aims to serve up art, music and film events. It’s kind of like a newborn deer trying to get up on its feet, some of it works, some of it’s wobbly, and some of its completely unknown – and … let’s see what happens !!
LEO FITZPATRICK – a West Orange, New Jersey native.
best known for his role as Telly, the main character in KIDS, but also – he was in the WIRE !!
see: LEO FITZATRICK/WIKIPEDIA
see: LARRY CLARK/ KIDS/Wikipedia
LEO FITZPATRICK – he is also a DJ and a good one, of which there is no doubt.
there is a funny Q&A with him on: aNYthing/HOCUS POCUS FOKUS/LEO FITZPATRICK
COLLECTIVE HARDWARE – the best spot in the house.
COLLECTIVE HARDWARE – artwork by PORK
COLLECTIVE HARDWARE – artwork by PORK
COLLECTIVE HARDWARE – aartwork by PORK
COLLECTIVE HARDWARE – wall mural by NECKFACE
STUART BRAUNSTEIN – the man behind COLLECTIVE HARDWARE.
for background, see: STUART BRAUNSTEIN/BLACKBOOK
photographer RONY RIVELLINI.
TATE STEINSIEK – special effects, monster builder – has a studio space/production shop at COLLECTIVE HARDWARE.
a shelf in the TATE STEINSIEK monster shop at COLLECTIVE HARDWARE.
HIROE works on a monster face.
MIRA BILLOTTE of WHITE MAGIC !! they were to perform a little later.
DOUG SHAW of WHITE MAGIC – checking equipment.
MIRA BILLOTTE of WHITE MAGIC – has star magic !! no doubt about it.
y-e-s !!, check out: WHITE MAGIC/on MySpace !!
MIRA BILLOTTE of WHITE MAGIC.
WHITE MAGIC’S – DOUG SHAW is a pretty talented guy, too.
yes, that is BiCYCLE FILM FESTIVAL FOUNDER/DIRECTOR – BRENDT BARBUR !!
this year BFF hits NYC – JUNE 17-21, 2009 !! WATCH OUT !!
for the latest, see: BICYCLE FILM FESTIVAL !!
also at the COLLECTIVE HARDWARE – SCOPE CLOSING PARTY – LANCE E LOS REYES.
Lance had work in the recent ‘BETTER HISTORY’ group show at THE AMERICAN STANDARD GALLERY, that just ‘popped’ up on 10th Ave. in Chelsea.
artist ERIK FOSS, of LIT & FUSE – produced the party for COLLECTIVE HARDWARE.
with him – BRIAN DeGRAW, artist and musician (GANG GANG DANCE).
ERIK FOSS has a small painting studio – on the top floor of the COLLECTIVE HARDWARE.
new work, still in progress by ERIK FOSS.
ERIK collects, by buying them !! – cards from the homeless.
His recent work at SCOPE – was a huge American flag – fashioned from just such placards.
a sign of the times. if I ever did see one.
y-e-s, check it out: ERIK FOSS at SCOPE 2009 !!
ok. it was such a great piece – we are posting it again – ERIK FOSS – ‘HOMELESS AMERIKA’ !!
exhibited at SHOOTING GALLERY,SCOPE ART FAIR, MARCH 2009
PHOTO/COURTESY: ERIK FOSS
just as we leave – we catch ALEX ARCADIA – our fellow veteran of the late 90’s JOSH HARRIS/PSEUDO crew – he made the awesome ‘Meditation’ temple featured in the film – ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ – the ONDI TIMONER/Interloper Films bio on JOSH HARRIS – dot-com visionary and art party thrower non pareil – that had its NYC premiere at MOMA last weekend.
‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ won the Grand Jury award for Documentary at this year’s (2009) SUNDANCE.
JOSH HARRIS’ million dollar+ MILLENNIUM PARTY – the legendary ‘QUIET’ !! – (also in a 5 story warehouse downtown – with many widely ranging & diverse ‘underground’ artist/participants) was the ‘grandfather’ to this nascent ‘COLLECTIVE HARDWARE’ model – except for one really important detail, now missing, – and that was the man himself – JOSH HARRIS – his eye for raw talent – and his willingness to throw his dot-com mega bucks – and big-time – to fuel it !! well, in the face of the new Depression, in stark contrast to the dot-com circus days – you gotta hope COLLECTIVE HARDWARE – can help keep the faith !!
just down the street – MBW aka MR. BRAINWASH !!
NEVR LIE DOWN !!
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~COLLECTIVE HARDWARE |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 16th, 2009, 10:58am
