~MAD VICKY & FRIENDS/NICOLA VASSAL/NYC

Mad Vicky & Nicola

Mad Vicky & Nicola #2

NICOLA VASSELL, a gallery director at DEITCH PROJECTS, and MAD VICKY – at the opening of: BIANCA CASADY – Lil Girl Slim “COSMIC WILLINGNESS”, DEITCH PROJECTS, OCT 6, 2007

NICOLA VASSELL is photo profiled, as ‘THE BROKER’ – gallery director & writer, in the new issue of PAPER MAGAZINE (MARCH 2008). She will be curating an upcoming show at DEITCH PROJECTS – to open at the end of this month. (MARCH 29, 6-9PM). Called ‘SUBSTRACTION’ – it aims to show . . “how today’s abstract painters are updating New York School abstraction with the energy of the streets, and the jam packed frequencies they dispense.”
Included in the show – DAN COLEN, ROSSON CROW and STERLING RUBY.

MAD Vicky - Leif
LEIF RITCHEY – at the Lil Girl Slim “Cosmic Willingness” opening. (Leif was actually the only one other person Bianca asked to help her with mounting this exhibit).

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TOOYA RITCHEY, at right, with Leif’s sister, CHRISTINA, both wearing LEIF & TOOYA handmade dresses, at the – Lil Girl Slim “Cosmic Willingness” opening.

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MAD VICKY’S sister, SIERRA CASADY, (in red) at the Lil Girl Slim “Cosmic Willingness” opening. together they are Coco Rosie. Leif & Tooya made her outfit.

Mad Vicky Sierra
Sierra later performed in this Leif & Tooya costume.

Mad Vicky self portrait
self portrait, MAD VICKY LOPEZ aka Ll Girl Slim aka Red Bone Slim aka Bianca Casady aka . . . . . in – Lil Girl Slim “Cosmic Willingness”.

Mad Vicky self portrait # 2
self portrait, with her sister, BIANCA CASADY, also known as RASTA MAD VICKY LOPEZ . Lil Girl Slim “Cosmic Willingness’, DEITCH PROJECTS, NYC, OCTOBER 2007

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH

more about the show: DEITCH PROJECTS