~TAL R & JONATHAN MEESE/Bortolami Dayan

Tal R & Jonathan Meese/Mother

the card for: TAL R & JONATHAN MEESE, ‘MOTHER’, OPENING DECEMBER 1, 2006,
BORTOLAMI DAYAN.

the show is now down. it was a huge crazy all-over installation.

photos from the opening

BORTOLAMI DAYAN

~TAL R & JONATHAN MEESE/Bortolami Dayan | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 1st, 2007, 12:05pm



~TONY MATELLI/LEO KOENIG

Tony Matelli-ape

TONY MATELLI just opened an amazing show, not so much for the APES, but
the .. ‘successful weed’, .. the dying prayer plants, and .. the burning $100 bills,
of the hi-tech: ‘Fuck it, Free Yourself”.

… its the unusual combination of casualness and high tech production, not to mention virtuosity, that really give the show its kick.

TONY MATELLI, ‘New Works’, January 12 – February 17, 2007
LEO KOENIG INC

PHOTO: COURTESY LEO KOENIG GALLERY

photos from the opening

~TONY MATELLI/LEO KOENIG | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 1st, 2007, 11:45am



~OLIVER HALSMAN ROSENBERG/Little Cakes

Oliver Halsman Rosenberg

OLIVER HALSMAN ROSENBERG .. riding his grandmother’s exercise bicycle
in his compact, and low-fi, but equally brilliant installation at Little Cakes.

‘REFUGE FIELD – DADA FOR GRANDMA’ ran from JAN 5 – Jan 28, 2007,
and was featured on the artlovers homepage at the time.

more photos of the installation

PHOTO COURTESY: LITTLE CAKES

LITTLE CAKES

~OLIVER HALSMAN ROSENBERG/Little Cakes | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 1st, 2007, 11:36am



~PADMA LAKSHMI/CLEMENTE OPENING/2003

Padma # 1

Padma # 2

PADMA LAKSHMI is making it big as the host of the hit BRAVO reality cook-off,
“TOP CHEF”.

above: PADMA LAKSHMI and SALMAN RUSHDIE at the FRANCESCO CLEMENTE
opening, GAGOSIAN GALLERY, CHELSEA, NYC. MAY 9, 2003
Photos by Nancy Smith.
first posted in: artnet/SPRING 2003

~PADMA LAKSHMI/CLEMENTE OPENING/2003 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 1st, 2007, 11:28am



~JACK PIERSON/DESIRE/DESPAIR/LAURA OWENS

Jack Pierson-DESIRE/DESPAIR

.. the card for the book signing of ‘DESIRE/DESPAIR’ by JACK PIERSON, at PRINTED MATTER.
The reception took place just before Christmas, December 21, 2006.
The book is published by RIZZOLI.

at the time, we weren’t sure if this point of view at Christmastime, represented the spirit
of the season, … for the majority, though it surely happened to resonnate on a personal level for artlovers.

You can now see the book featured in BARNES and NOBLES bookstore windows.
… and it’s turns out … we’re not the only ones to dig ‘DESIRE/DESPAIR’. Jack’s got a another big fan
in LAURA OWENS.

LAURA OWENSsee her take on word play: FAITH/FAILURE

~JACK PIERSON/DESIRE/DESPAIR/LAURA OWENS | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 1st, 2007, 11:06am



~Insider/out

Nancy's quilt sampler

… can an “insider” be an “outsider artist” ?

NANCY SMITH, embroidery sampler, “Christmas 2005”, 10 x 10 ins. finished Dec 2005

~Insider/out | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 1st, 2007, 10:56am



~CAT MAZZA/TOM MOODY

Cat Mazza

cat mazza # 1

… in the news, CAT MAZZA … is highlighted in a recent article by MARTHA SCHWENDENER,
(The New York Times, THE ARTS section, PAGE B9, SATURDAY, January 27, 2007)
as one of the more dynamic artists included in the new ‘Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting’ exhibit
at the Museum of Arts & Design. to quote:
” … The works most in keeping with the show’s politically charged title are more interactive
and collective, or more related to performance. For example Cat Mazza’s collectively
crocheted “Nike Blanket Petition”, a campaign against sweatshop practices represented
here in a series of photographs, will be sent to Nike’s corporate headquarters.”

Museum of Arts & Design is the new name for what was formerly called the
American Craft Museum. The show was organized by David Revere McFadden, the
museum’s chief curator. The New York Times article wasn’t exactly enamored of the
scope of the show vis a vis the potential or promise of its title … “So many more artists
might have been included whose work explores the social aspects of knitting and lace
or who more radically recast these forms: Simon Perotin, of the punk-doily creations;
the artisans in the Church of Craft; Ms. Zittel; Ms. Auerbach; Mr. Drain; and so on.”

above, CAT MAZZA, with a sample of her work, (of corporate logos),
(handmade on a KNITPRO machine), in the ‘ART&*@WORK’ group exhibit of SPRING 2005.
‘ART*/^@WORK’ (aka ‘ART over WORK’) was curated by TALI HINKIS of LoVid and co-produced with ELANA LANGER.
Photos: Nancy Smith, NYC, May 31, 2005

more photos of Cat Mazza’s work (and the other artists!) in the ‘ART^#!WORK’ show

TOM MOODY was also featured in the show.

TOM MOODY’s WEBLOG

‘Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting’ runs from Jan 25 – June 17, 2007
Museum of Arts & Design

~CAT MAZZA/TOM MOODY | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | January 30th, 2007, 1:18pm



~MEGAN WHITMARSH/Barcelona

future elf

IF YOU happen to be in SPAIN this weekend, you can catch the last few days of:
FUTURE ELF by MEGAN WHITMARSH.

The show runs from Dec 15 – Jan 31, 2007 and showcases this Los Angeles based artist’s
hand-embroidered canvases, drawings and paintings.

MERCADO, Calle Rec 37-39 08003 Barcelona

~MEGAN WHITMARSH/Barcelona | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | January 25th, 2007, 11:21pm



~PETER ELEEY/Walker Art Center

Peter eeley

… coming & going: PETER ELEEY leaves CREATIVE TIME and NYC to become the
Visual Arts Curator at the WALKER ART CENTER, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Peter Eleey joined CREATIVE TIME as a Project Director in 2002, and has led their program planning since 2004,
organizing a diverse range of artworks, performances and events, including:
Cai Guo-Qiang’s Light Cycle (2003), a pyrotechnics display for Central Park,
Jenny Holzer’s first xenon projections in the United States, For New York City (2004),
and among the many others, even a project with Zhang Huan.

In addition, he curated multi-artist projects and exhibitions such as:
The Plain of Heaven (2005), Strange Powers (2006), co-curated with Laura Hoptman, and most recently organized Doug Aitken’s sleepwalkers , a joint commission of Creative Time and the Museum of Modern Art, which he co-curated with Klaus Biesenbach, and which just opened Jan 16, 2007.
One big favorite, which had a wide influence on the art scene in NYC – was the Peter Eleey curated DREAMLAND ARTIST CLUB (2004) – with STEVE POWERS and 2 dozen other artists, who designed & hand painted ‘old school’ carnival signs at CONEY ISLAND.

here he is in front of the STEVE POWERS -“DREAMLAND ARTIST CLUBHOUSE”
part of the 2nd (and last) DREAMLAND ARTIST CLUB (2005), which was curated by Alexa Coyne.
Coney Island, NYC, June 18, 2005
(Photo: Nancy Smith)

more photos of the ‘DREAMLAND ARTIST CLUB 2005’
which includes signs from the PETER ELEEY curated ‘DREAMLAND ARTIST CLUB 2004’, as well.

WALKER ART CENTER

CREATIVE TIME

~PETER ELEEY/Walker Art Center | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | January 25th, 2007, 10:33pm



~SCOTT REEDER & FRIENDS

Tyson Reeder/

SCOTT REEDER with his wife, ELYSIA BOROWY-REEDER, Director of Marketing and Communications,
MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM at the opening of a show of his new work,
mostly very quirky, very against-the-grain, and very unusual, small paintings.
kind of the “anti-luminous” show – in a good way – Scott’s paintings are hard to put into words – they come at you from a depth that’s hard to verbalize … they’re opaque color field paintings with subjects, that are also extremely abstracted. the more you look at them, the more “luminous” they get, in an ironic way, … maybe the better word is they are “anti-translucent”?
The show’s up until this SATURDAY, JAN 27 – at DANIEL REICH.

scott's paintingg # 1
SCOTT REEDER, ‘Still Life w/ Grenades’, 2006, oil on linen, 16 x 22 ins

Scott painting # 2
SCOTT REEDER, ‘Eye vs. Brain’, 2006, oil on linen, 22 x 26 ins

SCOT REEDER 1

Scott’s brother, TYSON REEDER, was also at the opening, pictured here with ELYSIA.
Tyson is relocating to NYC – from Milwaukee, sometime very soon.

photos from Tyson’s recent show, also at DANIEL REICH, (scroll down – they’re at the bottom of that report) ..

John Riepenhoff

also, at the Scott Reeder opening, JOHN RIEPENHOFF. Tyson Reeder & John Riepenhoff,
along with NICHOLAS FRANK, were the creative minds & founders of the 1st MILWAUKEE INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR.

more photos from the SCOTT REEDER opening

2 more photos: ‘DYNAMITE VASE’ (scroll down that report to bottom)

DANIEL REICH GALLERY

~SCOTT REEDER & FRIENDS | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | January 24th, 2007, 12:41am


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