KEITH HARING – THE TEN COMMANDMENTS – OPENING – TO-DAY !! – SAT, NOV 8, 6-9 PM
the show runs: NOV 8 – DEC 21, 2008
DEITCH STUDIOS / 4-40 44TH DRIVE (ON THE EAST RIVER) – LONG ISLAND CITY – QUEENS
HOURS: THURS-SAT/ 2-8PM
DIRECTIONS: MAP
UP-DATE: MONDAY NOVEMBER 17, 2008
DEITCH PROJECTS JUST RELEASED THIS (2008-DEITCH PROJECTS) INSTALLATION PHOTO of:
KEITH HARING – THE TEN COMMANDMENTS – on view thru DEC 21, 2008 at DEITCH STUDIOS/LONG ISLAND CITY
* sometimes – you just have to give credit – where credit is due !! *
the image was featured on the artlovers homepage the week of NOV 17, 2008
read more: about the work !!
see: more installations shots !!
~KEITH HARING/THE TEN COMMANDMENTS/DEITCH STUDIOS/LIC |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | November 8th, 2008, 12:11pm
. . . . there is xerox on the insides of your eyelids
EXHIBITION OF SKATER ZINES FROM THE 1980s / NOV 8 – NOV 22, 2008
OPENING RECEPTION – TODAY !! – SATURDAY, NOV 8 – 5-7 PM
PRINTED MATTER – 195 TENTH AVE – CHELSEA – NYC
PRINTED MATTER is pleased to announce ‘there is xerox on the insides of your eyelids’, an exhibition
surveying American underground skate culture zines form the 1980s, curated by RICH JACOBS.
. . . “Touching on youthful self-publishing and the do-it-yourself-because-no-one-else-will enthusiasm of punk rock, the exhibition explores the raw, cut-and-paste style of the medium while documenting a vibrant youth culture that thrived through word of mouth and conventional (i.e. pre-digital) distribution networks.
The communities showcased in the exhibit were small – typically ,circles of friends traded these much sought-after and very limited (often in editions of less than 30) journals and magazines hand to hand or through the post.
Over a hundred titles will be included … by such artists as: JAMES ALDER, ROB BEN, BRIAN BRANNON, RANDY BURKE and RAY STEVENS, RODGER BRIDGES, J. GRANT BRITTAIN, BUCKET, STEVE CABELERRO, RON CAMERON, THOMAS CAMPBELL, MARK CANOHAN, PHREAD CONRAD, BILL DANIEL ,GARRY DAVIS, WES DEAN, JOHN DETTMAN-LYTLE, PETE DIANTONI, DAN ESTABROOK, PHIL FRANKLIN, JOHN FREEBORN, MARK GONZALES, WES HALL, GARIELLE HOLLEY, RICH JACOBS, ANDREW JEFFREY WRIGHT, ANDY JENKINS, CHRIS JOHANSON, TIM KERR, AND MORE … including ED TEMPLETON, ADAM WALLCAVAGE, JOCKO WEYLAND & TOBIN YELLAND.”
RICH JACOBS (b. 1972) is an artist/independent curator – this exhibit is drawn largely from his own collection.
He has curated several of his ‘move’ series here in New York City, most recently at CINDERS in Brooklyn.
He recently left New York, to move back to the west coast, he now lives and works in San Francisco.
A book with the same title is forthcoming and a special limited edition zine will made available for this exhibit.
see: a great selection from/RICH JACOBS/”DON’T PAINT YOUR TEETH”/CINDERS/MAY-JUNE 2008
ALSO: ERIK FOSS of FUSE GALLERY put on a great one man show of RICH JACOB’S own work, back in the summer of 2006 !!
CHECK IT OUT: RICH JACOBS/IT NEEDS TO BE REPAIRED (IN REGARDS TO EVERYTHING)/FUSE !!
archival photo: RICH JACOBS at the opening of his one man show: ‘IT NEEDS TO BE REPAIRED (IN REGARDS TO EVERYTHING)’,
FUSE GALLERY, NYC. JULY 29, 2006
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
archival photo: ERIK FOSS, of FUSE GALLERY & LIT BAR, and RICH JACOBS, at the opening of the RICH JACOBS one man show, ‘it needs to be repaired (in regards to everything)”.
FUSE GALLERY, EAST VILLAGE, NYC. JULY 29, 2006
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
check out: FUSE GALLERY !!
~SKATER ZINES/CURATED BY RICH JACOBS/PRINTED MATTER |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | November 8th, 2008, 11:01am
JIMMY BAKER – CIVIL DUST / OCT 17 – NOV 15, 2008
FOXY PRODUCTION – 623 WEST 27th St – CHELSEA – NYC
MICHAEL GILLESPIE and JOHN THOMSON of FOXY PRODUCTION CELEBRATE their new (larger !!) space – a couple of doors over on 27th St – or just a little more west – on Chelsea’s frontier street !! – their 2nd solo show o work by JIMMY BAKER – called – CIVIL DUST, an exhibit of highly charged oil paintings encased in a heavy shiny translucent resin coating.
from the gallery press release:
“In CIVIL DUSK – the period after the sun has edged below the horizon and objects are still distinguishable – Baker uses cloaks of fog, smoke, or dust, and disorienting inversions and combinations to make the known feel uncanny. Baker explores American landscape painting’s myths of expansion and freedom, and its conjuring of sentiment and the sublime.
He relates its strategies to those of the contemporary media, refracting scenes gleaned from television and the Internet through the lens of Romanticism. His new paintings, (and some manipulated/collaged digital prints), exhibit a dramatic high gloss sheen that is at once seductive and distancing; they act as both screens and mirrors.”
for more info, individual works & installation shots, see: JIMMY BAKER/FOXY PRODUCTION WEBSITE
PHOTOS FROM THE OPENING RECEPTION, FRIDAY OCT 17, 2008
the new and larger, FOXY PRODUCTION GALLERY, a couple of doors west, at 623 West 27th Street.
JIMMY BAKER and MICHAEL GILLESPIE
JIMMY BAKER and his wife, JIL BAKER, an architect at Cincinnati, Ohio firm – MICHAEL SCHUSTER ASSOCIATES.
(one of their specialties is designing state of the art fire stations.)
on the left: JIMMY BAKER, ‘AID’ 2008, and at right, JIMMY BAKER, ‘AZADI’, 2008
a closer look: JIMMY BAKER – ‘AID’ and ‘AZADI’.
both pieces are archival digital prints on white lucite, 24 x 18 in. Edition of 4 + 1 AP
detail, JIMMY BAKER, ‘AID’.
detail, JIMMY BAKER, ‘AZADI’.
who’s – the girl in the vintage poncho – in front of the JIMMY BAKER work ?
none other than MELISSA SCHERRER, the tarot card reader from the recent ‘HOW TO PREDICT THE FUTURE’
presentation at LISA COOLEY !!
oh oh the pieces are beginning to fit together – MIKE PARE and MELISSA SCHERRER,
wandering over from the ATM celebration, next door !!!
they were standing in front of this stunning painting – JIMMY BAKER, ‘5TH OF NOVEMBER’, 2008
done in oil, and with a heavy coat of epoxy resin on canvas over panel, 38 x 30 in.
FOXY PRODUCTION CO-DIRECTOR, JOHN THOMSON chats with a guest.
behind them, JIMMY BAKER’S painting, ‘VIEW FROM CCTV’, 2008
JIMMY BAKER, ‘VIEW FROM CCTV’, 2008, oi and resin on canvas over panel.
60 x 45 in.
detail, JIMMY BAKER, ‘VIEW FROM CCTV’.
gallerist JOHN CONNELLY strolls over, from next door.
on the wall, JIMMY BAKER painting, ‘SEVENTH SISTER’, 2008.
JIMMY BAKER, ‘ENRICHED’, 2008, archival digital print on white lucite.
18 x 24 in, Edition of 4 + 1 AP
artist SCOTT CALHOUN, (and husband of gallerist LISA COOLEY) examines JIMMY BAKER’S,
‘FOLDING BORDER’, 2008, an archival digital print.
an inverted landscape !! the borders of PAKISTAN and AFGHANISTAN !!
JIMMY BAKER, ‘FOLDING BORDER’, 208, archival digital print on white lucite,
24 x 18 in. Edition of 4 + 1 AP
detail, top – JIMMY BAKER, ‘FOLDING LANDSCAPE’.
detail, bottom – JIMMY BAKER, ‘FOLDING LANDSCAPE’.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
here’s an early archival photo of JIMMY BAKER, from his 1st showing at FOXY PRODUCTION, a group show:
JIMMY BAKER, in an early group exhibit at FOXY PRODUCTION, FALL 2004 !!
this photo first was published on artnet, see: artnet/YOUTH RULES IN THE BIG APPLE-FALL 2004
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
~JIMMY BAKER/CIVIL DUSK/FOXY PRODUCTION’S NEW SPACE !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | November 7th, 2008, 8:36pm
EAST MOVES WEST / OCT 17-NOV 15, 2007
ATM GALLERY – 621 WEST 27th St – CHELSEA – NYC
BILL BRADY and ATM GALLERY CELEBRATE their new (large !!) space – a couple of doors over, or to the west of the former 27th St. location, hence the title !! – with a big survey show of new works by the gallery’s artists.
ATM GALLERY first opened in a storefront on AVE B in the East Village, in 2001.
BILL is also proud to be able to say that: ATM “facilitated the first debut New York solo shows
for most of these artists, including TOMOO GOKITA, HUMA BHABHA, MIN KIM, YAYOI DEKI, MIKE PARE and SAEKO TAKAGI, among others.” !!
see: installations shots/gallery website !!
see: ATM
PHOTOS FROM THE OPENING RECEPTION, FRIDAY, OCT 17, 2008
HUMA BHABHA !! outside the gallery’s new storefront location.
HUMA BHABHA look sat new ATM logo.
the new space effectively more than doubles the gallery’s former exhibition space, and gives Bill a front office !! as well as private storage space in the back.
the new ATM location – 621 West 27th St.
BILL BRADY at the the new ATM GALLERY inaugural show !!
a new series of large TOMOO GOKITA black and white drawings – greets guests, in the new front office !!
TOMOO GOKITA
TOMOO GOKITA
(note: the ambient light fixtures etc, are reflections in the glass frames)
TOMOO GOKITA
TOMOO GOKITA
TOMOO GOKITA also had a new !! very striking, huge black and white paint on canvas, painting
in the show.
TOMOO GOKITA, ‘Slash and Thrust’, 2008, acrylic gouache on linen, 102 x 78 in. ($40,000)
(we’re informed – the painting got snapped up, pretty much right away !!)
TOMOO GOKITA – as well as small cast sculpture, something we’ve never seen before from him.
TOMOO GOKITA. it was quite whimsical and funny, expertly balanced.
TOMOO GOKITA, ‘Supermodel’, 2008, Fibeglass, 28 h x 12w x 13 in, ($8,500)
another very striking black, white and gray piece – very different, but equally striking – a large Navajo
blanket/cosmos inspired drawing by – MIKE PARE !!
MIKE PARE, ‘Navajo Space’, 2008, Graphite on paper, 50 x 38 in. ($4,500)
detail, MIKE PARE Navajo blanket inspired drawing.
MIKE PARE.
(on the wall beside him, at right – a GORDON TERRY acrylic on acrylic panel/piece !!)
another star in the ATM stable – MIN KIM !! with her new work, her first series of oil paintings, on board.
she previously worked almost exclusively in drawings and collage, on (large) paper mounted on board.
MIN KIM, ‘Untitled’, oil on board with rope, 2008. ($6,500)
MIN KIM – another oil painting !!
detail, MIN KIM painting.
MIKE PARE, MIN KIM and BILL BRADY.
a video by ANNE EASTMAN – ‘You are not just a Meaningless Fragment’ , 2008
on the left, a wall based 3-D construction by NOAM RAPPAPORT. at the right, the ANNE EASTMAN video.
NOAM RAPPAPORT, ‘Untitled’, 2008
another 3-D wall based construction, this one by the Portuguese artist, MIGUEL ANGELO ROCHA,
‘Eighteen days, Eleven hours, and Nineteen minutes’, 2008
at the opening painter MICHAEL LAZARUS, with ATM artist GORDON TERRY, at right.
one archival, and one new piece by GORDON TERRY !!
at left – ‘Study for a Tentative Space Somewhere Between the World and the Mind’, 2006,
acrylic on acrylic panel, 12 x 12 in. ($3,600), and at right, ‘Study Messages at Milk Hill’, 2008,
acrylic on acrylic panel. ($3,600)
GORDON TERRY’S beautifully colored, spatial, rhythmic and abstract, reflective, plastic-evoking piece,
has a 3 dimensional aspect.
very 3-Dimensional !! a primal head by HUMA BHABHA !!
HUMA BHABHA, ‘Danglars’, 2008. clay, wood, wire, styrofoam. ($35,000)
HUMA BHABHA, ‘Danglars’.
in the pink shirt, TAKA KAWACHII, independent curator and screen print entrepreneur.
His first print edition is by TOMOO GOKITA.
HUMA BHABHA’s ‘Danglars’ – very different – seen from the back !!
a new large painting, oil on canvas, by ERIC SALL, titled ‘Sweet Return’.
ERIC SALL, ‘Sweet Return’, 2008, oil on canvas, 72 x 96 in. ($12,000)
in the small back room – SAEKO TAKAGI – ‘Untitled/Zert Tree’, 2007, acrylic on canvas,
30 x 30 in. ($4,000)
SAEKO TAKAGI, ‘Untitled/Zert Tree’.
a glimpse of YAYOI DEKI – ‘Faces’ !!
YAYOI DEKI, ‘Faces’, 206, acrylic on kent board, 12 x 12 in. ($4,000)
TAMAMI KOBUTA, ‘Untitled’, oil on canvas, 30 x 30 in. ($4,000)
in front of the TOMOO GOKITA painting – Bill Brady’s wife – YOUNG MEE.
at the after party: BELLA FOSTER, ANNE EASTMAN, and NOAM RAPPAPORT.
also at the after party, STEPHEN LIPUMA, and former ATM GALLERy associate SARAH MATTES.
Sarah now works at COHAN, LESLIE GALLERY.
WE know STEPHEN LIPUMA from that crazy great wild Sixtyseven Gallery show – ‘SASQUATCH SOCIETY’,
Summer of 2005 – see: ‘SASQUATCH SOCIETY’/artlovers photo report
STEPHEN LIPUMA contributed 2 great (skateboard) decks, ‘Wander and Ponder’ & ‘Who follows Who’ !!
see: STEPHEN LIPUMA/decks
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
ATM GALLERY
~EAST MOVES WEST/ATM’S NEW SPACE !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | November 7th, 2008, 12:09pm
last 3 days to catch !! – ‘I Know Why the Bird Cage Sings ‘ – a show of objects curated by CHRISTIAN HOLSTAD
LIMITED ENGAGEMENT: OCT 21 – NOV 8, 2008
DANIEL REICH GALLERY – 537 WEST 23 ST – TRIBECA, NYC
see: a statement on the show/gallery website
it’s a beautiful little show – if I ever did see one & nothing is for sale !!
Christian said it was years in the making, and you can see the selection was carefully put together.
SOME PHOTOS FROM THE OPENING NIGHT – WED OCT 22, 2008
CHRISTIAN HOLSTAD.
Mexican leather boots, 1950’s, black leather, Amazonas, size 10-1/2
guests: MAYA HARDINGE and MICKEY.
Postcards by Louis Wain (1860-1939), English artist and Illustrator
Published by Raphael Tuck
postcards by Louis Wain
Postcards by Louis Wain
A. ‘Pretty Kettle of Fish’, 1904. & B. ‘The Shell Mascot’, 1915
Greet Card. ‘I worship the ground … that awaits you.’, 1977
Manufactured by Occasional Quips
Hand forged Hunting Dog Collar, turn of the century, German
made to protect dogs form wolves/bears
Dice. Maker Unknown. Wooden, handmade prison dice
inscribed with “Fuck Off”
Bird Chandelier, 1920s wood, Maker Unknown, Belgium
detail, Bird Chandelier
Severed Head of Goliath
Painted papier-mache, horse hair and beard, Pennsylvania
Part of the Order of the Odd fellows ceremony
Lightbulbs, 1950s, manufactured by Aerolux as nightlights
detail, lightbulbs.
Popist Military Jacket, USA Cotton, late 1960s/early 1970s
Gentleman’s feather corsages, 1930’s/40’s
feathers, wire, thread, and buttons
The Cramps Video, ‘Live at Napa Valley Mental Hospital’, 1978
DANIEL REICH
CHRISTIAN HOLSTAD with guest, Zhuru
RYAN SCHAEFER.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
DANIEL REICH GALLERY
~CHRISTIAN HOLSTAD/last 3 days !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | November 6th, 2008, 11:11am
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
Memorial for RASHA SHAMOON
corner of DELANCEY & ALLEN, LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC. SUNDAY, NOV 2, 2008
while in the ‘hood for the ‘HOW TO PREDICT THE FUTURE’ presentation at LISA COOLEY,
we stumbled upon these remaining traces of the TIME’S UP NEW YORK – DAY OF THE DEAD – BIKE RIDE !!
BARBARA ROSS of TIME’S UP – was nice enough to fill us in on the details.
“Cyclists, zombified with white and black face paint and dressed in bright, festive colors, took to downtown
Manhattan for a 2 hr ride on Sunday, Nov 2nd. They rose the dead with loud cheers, “viva bicicletas” (live on bicycles), and “celebramos los muertos” (celebrate the dead), in addition to visiting sites of cyclists hit and killed
by cars and holding mock funerals.
Village environmental group, TIME’S UP! organized the Day of the Dead bike ride in order to promote safer streets and to remember and celebrate the cyclists BRANDIE BAILEY, RASHA SHAMOON, and BRAD WIILL and their community.
A garbage truck hit Bailey on Houston St at Ave A in 2005. Cyclists stopped first at her white ‘ghost’ bike memorial …. After a moving speech that ended with “let’s celebrate the dead and fight like hell for the living”,
cyclists cheered and danced to the Mexican music performed by former Blood, sweat and Tears trumpet player
LEW SOLOFF.
Next cyclists rode to where Shamoon was struck by a SUV at Delancey and the Bowery, this past summer, August 11, 2008. They held a ‘mock’ funeral in the divider of the intersection. Then they theatrically ‘died’ and were ‘buried’ under the wheels of a taxi parked in the Allen St. bike lane demonstrating the danger caused by motorists parked in the bike lanes.
The final celebration for the dead occurred at a community garden, where Will dedicated much of his activist effort when he wasn’t promoting bike riding. Cyclists ended their ride at St. Marks Church – where they made a public appeal to Mayor Bloomberg to join them in the quest for safer streets for all New Yorkers, who are often eager to get on their bikes, but are discouraged by unprotected, un-enforced bike lanes. They called for the city to honor its commitment to making the roads bike friendly and green.”
see: more DAY OF THE DEAD photos/FLICKR
see: more coverage/DAILY NEWS
check out: TIME’S UP!
~DAY OF THE DEAD/TIME’S UP! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | November 6th, 2008, 10:27am
MELISSA BROWN, MELISSA SCHERRER, REVEREND LUKE MURPHY & CARLA EDWARDS:
invite you to a PERFORMANCE of – ‘HOW TO PREDICT THE FUTURE’ !! – TO-NITE !!
SUNDAY – NOVEMBER 2, 2008 – at 7 PM !!
LISA COOLEY FINE ART – 34 ORCHARD ST – BTWN HESTER + CANAL – LOWER EAST SIDE, NY
for more info, & artist statements, see: LISA COOLEY FINE ARTS/EVENTS
FOUR ARTISTS GIVE CONCISE PRESENTATIONS ON DISPARATE METHODS FOR PREDICTING THE FUTURE !!
well, it was an intriguing nite. give me mysticism over technology, or is it the other way, around ? any ole time.
in fact, what these 4 artists, tried to show, with their ‘visual aids’, i.e. projected self-made graphs, and extensive research, was that mysticism is just a small element, if that – in the science of their particular field of expertise . . .
we also got to see some of the ANDY COOLQUITT – ‘LIGHT’ – exhibit – currently up, at LISA COOLEY – until NOV 16. the show obviously being arranged to make room for the nite’s seating,
these sometimes eerie, often whimsical, but mostly light-handed and light-hearted !! alternative electric ‘lamps’ made for an especially inspired setting – for these off-the-radar ‘science of predicting the future’ mini-lectures !!
ANDY COOLQUITT ‘LIGHT’ IMAGE/COURTESY: LISA COOLEY FINE ART
ANDY COOLQUITT – ‘wink wink’, 2008, metal, wire, epoxy, lightbulbs. 74 x 77 x 5 in.
see: more pix of the work/LISA COOLEY/COOLQUITT-light
LISA COOLEY FINE ART
UP-DATE: WED NOV 5, 2008
PIX FROM THE PERFORMANCE & GLIMPSES OF ANDY COOLQUITT – ‘LIGHT’ !!
approaching LISA COOLEY FINE ART – an unmarked storefront on ORCHARD ST. between Hester and Canal – on the Lower East Side.
the Andy Coolquitt electric ‘light’ exhibit was re-arranged around the room – to make room for the nite’s
seating.
DAVID RAYMOND, film producer, collector, and board member of PERFORMA – just as the performance was about to begin – with LISA COOLEY.
DAVID RAYMOND is notably involved with the TONY STONE Indie feature – ‘SEVERED WAYS’ – ‘The Norse Discovery of America’, as Executive Producer. the film is set to be distributed by Magnolia.
see: ‘SEVERED WAYS’/official website
REVEREND LUKE MURPHY gave the first brief presentation.
His power point projection – based on graphs of his design – described “terms for the mathematical relation of anxiety to anxiety (past, present and future !!), the means to predict and anticipate anxiety and the conditions
for the reconciliation of anxiety with anxiety.” it was actually very humorous. . . as in, to wit – “it was the anxiety about anxiety in the future that first created anxiety in the past …”
note: the ANDY COOLQUITT ‘light’ in the background, and throughout – the following photos.
LUKE MURPHY on ‘predicting the future’ – through reflections on anxiety: past, presentand future..
MELISSA SCHERRER and THE ART OF THE TAROT – was up next.
everybody got a random card – artlovers’ was – THE HANGED MAN !! – how apt !!
and, so we were specifically told – to put all decisions on hold for 9 days. meaning NOV 11th.
how auspicious, so – look out for big changes on artlovers, NOV 11th. already under consideration.
(now my web master, and you know who you are, Reverend !! has a little breathing room.)
well. he is really supposed to be hanging upside down like this. but upright – you can see he really does have sunny radiant aspects, it’s not really a death card – its more of an hanging man, than a hanged man !!
and he is tied to the blooming tree, see the green leaves ? (of knowledge ? of life ? ) by a sturdy strip of leather, not just by a string – so we like that – !! – though, sometimes it feels awfully much like we are hanging by a string.
and maybe the upside down part, therefore then reads: as going against the grain – as in i-n-d-i-e.
sturdy independence.
we also see some positive in the fact that his hands are bound behind him. we see that he faces – what are the fruits of others’ labor – the art of others’ hands – not his own, and two, that whatever is making him hang upside down, instead of upright – is beyond his control. his hands are tied. fate. or society. being hampered by outside ignorance. He himself looks pretty poised and strong, yet about to leap into dance. and with light and warmth from the sun – behind his head !! his crazy thick curls morphed into the fire of the wood and the light of sun behind him – we’ll take it !!
FUTURE PREDICTION c/o MELISSA SHERRER – an auspicious – staying in the game – not, hanged man – out !! hanged man – in !! yo, aries !!
I guess this is what they call ‘relational art’ – in the more academic circles of fine art criticism !!
one of MELISSA SCHERRER’S charts !!
MELISSA SCHERRER
next up – MELISSA BROWN gave a very well researched lecture on coming up with the best numbers
to win the lottery !!
Melissa Brown’s research was very diverse and extensive. and her charts – charming !!
the ‘BROWN WHEEL’ of LOTTERY PREDICTION !!!
included among her research – this character – who prayed to the WICCAN gods to help him win, and if he did – he would open a store dedicated to all things Wiccan !! and, he did win, big time !! – and here he is, in the store !! His name is BUNKY BARTLETT, and he won the 4th largest payout in megamillions history.
MELISSA BROWN – well, combining all elements of her research for picking the hottest & luckiest and most randomly pure numbers – Melissa came up with a series of numbers for tonight’s (NOV 5, 2008) lottery drawing on Channel 7 at 11:21 PM, and offered members of the audience a chance to buy in – for $1 !! – did we join in – you bet !! so good luck – MELISSA BROWN & all her $1 Pool Drawing ticket holders – for to-night !!
well that was pretty entertaining. what’s up next & last.
CARLA EDWARDS scientific take on the meaning of the lines in your hands, that’s what – and she had everybody squinting at their palms in the dark !!
palm reader specialist – CARLA EDWARDS !!
the rapt ‘relational’ audience !!
gallerist LISA COOLEY with – ANDY COOLQUITT’S – ‘Old Spice’, 2008, metal, plastic, paper, 54 x 4 x 4 in.
LISA COOLEY enjoyed the nite’s presentations, as well.
as did, writer DILLON de GIVE !!
MELISSA SCHERRER also related – that through her tarot readings she had divined that this current year,
2008 – was all about ups and downs and emotions – whereas, the upcoming year, 2009 – will be
all about justice, as in pay-back !! the card for 2009 – is the WHEEL OF JUSTICE. if you did good and worked towards a goal – you will reap, if you did not – you will, cry !!
MELISSA SCHERRER, finally, or finally beginning – to be revealed . . .
an ANDY COOLQUITT light sculpture/lamp among the audience.
ANDY COOLQUITT – ‘wink wink’, 2008, metal, epoxy, lightbulbs, 74 x 66 x 5 in.
got to say – the lights are beautiful, very original – and extremely well crafted – but, the work isn’t exactly recession priced, or entry level stuff. who knows, maybe – you can cut a better deal ?
(it might even be cheap, in the world of high-end one-of-a-kind designer lamps ???)
for example – this one is priced at $5,600.
ANDY COOLQUITT, ‘hold on to me’, 2008, metal, epoxy, wire, lightbulbs. ($3,600)
ANDY COOLQUITT, ’21st century aggressive carpet growth’, 2008,
wood, carpet, metal, wire, lightbulbs, glass, 106 x 6 x 6 in.
ANDY COOLQUITT, ‘vipsx’, 2008, wood, metal, plastic, 115 x 5 x 5 in.
detail, the top of ‘vipsx’ by ANDY COOLQUITT
detail, the bottom of ‘vipsx’ by ANDY COOLQUITT !!
p.s. about ANDY COOLQUITT !!
here he is at the DARK FAIR, March 28, 2008, – with a rather typically partied-out, JOE GRILLO,
of DEARRAINDROP !! we first crossed paths with Mr. Coolquitt at the big DEARRAINDROP,
‘RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX’, Summer 2004 show – at DEITCH PROJECTS – where he gained an underground rep for being a (big !!) part of the artist crew – that helped DEARRAINDROP mount this major installation.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
LISA COOLEY FINE ART
~HOW TO PREDICT THE FUTURE/NYC !! & ANDY COOLQUITT !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | November 2nd, 2008, 4:53pm
TWIST aka BARRY McGEE aka ROBERT PIMPLE is in town – tag sighting in UNION SQUARE,
OCT 19, 2008
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
~TWIST/SAN FRANCISCO/NYC |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | November 2nd, 2008, 4:44pm
A-Ron, aka …. the downtown don.
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH, OCT 24, 2008
. . . taking ANDREW SMITH on a little walking tour of the NYC art scene – we ran into A-Ron the downtown don – tooling around – on his BMX bike in the Lower East Side.
check out: NEW YORK GLOB !!
check out: A-Ron/myspace
also, if you are curious, watch: A-RON/OFF BOWERY/YouTube !!
A-Ron just came back from curating a big big ‘NY-centric’ show, ‘OFF, OFF BOWERY’ at COLETTE in Paris.
supertouch ran a great post on the show’s opening,
see: SUPERTOUCH/ARCHIVE/A-RON in PARIS !!
see: COLETTE/PARIS, FRANCE !!
~A-RON/PARIS/NYC |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | November 2nd, 2008, 4:06pm
. . . speaking of starships and outer space – ANDREW SMITH, the American born, British author of: ‘MOONDUST: IN SEARCH OF THE MEN WHO FELL TO EARTH’ (2005) – a lively account of lunar landing legend and reality – based on interviews with the last 9 remaining (of 12) American astronauts to actually set foot on the moon – touched base in New York City last week – to interview the remaining crew – a few are no longer around !! – who touched base with dot.com legend JOSH HARRIS – when his JUPITER & PSEUDO megabucks – were funding a rockin’ and rollin’ maverick art party scene, here in NY F*CKING CITY – in the mid 80’s !! – culminating in that great granddaddy of dot.com megabuck art parties – QUIET – the 2 week MILLENNIUM live-in – 90 artist – 24/7 – bash – that took over downtown Broadway – and only stopped, when it was shut down by FEMA, the FIRE DEPT & the POLICE DEPT – all arriving – at the same time.
. . . speaking of moondust – that’s CAL’S death dust – also known as – cremated ashes – smeared on the door.
600 BROADWAY at PRINCE STREET – aka the gateway to SOHO, NYC – was the headquarters of PSEUDO, back in the day. And, there you could find Cal, big, and bigger attitude, as camo-punk encased, as a renegade US flag, an in-your-face punk with a bleached buzz cut – who did some of early alternative PSEUDO programming, and more importantly, acted as a 24/7 attached-to-the-hip entourage body-guard-of-hipsterdom – for Josh, himself. They were basically inseparable. where Josh went – there went Cal. As uncool and preppy as Josh was, and he was !! – esp in the beginning – Cal was the king of rebel street cred. his m.o. was: silence. Josh was the man, the visionary, the business whiz kid – the brains & bucks, as in mega bucks !! and Cal – was the cool, well he had the attitude, I guess better put: he had the street style – in fact, Josh obviously was, hands down x 1,000 – the cooler of the two – in all ways. but Cal made an indelible impression as part of the hipster entourage that surrounded Josh, and feed his legend – back in the day.
p.s. Josh wrote to say Cal did a Pseudo show called: ‘high weirdness’.
. . . don’t have the full details, on when or how he died – though it was something like a self-inflicted drug O.D. – not a car accident !! and it happened recently – but, it’s Andrew Smith’s scoop – he knows the down and dirty details – so, guess you’ll to just have to wait till his book comes out – on the best of the dot.com biggies – including to a great part – our JOSH HARRIS.
Those were the days, making $10,000 a week in the employ of Josh – to run a party – was not unheard of – in fact, it was the norm. But, back to CAL. Cal was a vampire. At night – he put on those porcelain fang tooth overlays and partied down hard. One could go to secret parties – the Vampires even had the first big blow-out New Year’s Eve 2000 pre-Party at QUIET – and see all kinds of NYC night life denizens, who during the daylight hours – you would see unloading party supplies, read: beer, and alcohol – or tending the Pseudo party bars – just like all the other ‘ordinary’ work-a-day NYC artist people – but, then they’d come out in their secret night life – dressed as hard core, as hard core gets – and all, men and women, vampires – with fangs in their mouth.
It was rumored that Cal was the leader of the pack. It was these vampire friends who must have smeared his ashes on the Pseudo door, and drew those magic symbols. Like a lot of us, Cal was crushed when the Pseudo days ground to a halt. He went up to stay with Josh a couple of times at the FARM – but it didn’t go too well. legend is they had a big blow-out, read fist fight – and Cal never returned. The necklace Josh had given to Cal, a grain of sand with his name inscribed in it – on a leather cord – which he had worn 24/7 from the beginning – was found discarded on the farmhouse floor.
. . . while touching base with the NYC art scene later that day – ANDREW SMITH was able to get in a few hardcore shows. He made the CONTAINER SHOW opening at new Lower East Side Gallery – ANONYMOUS. . . where he loved the work of ANTHONY LISTER, and . .
and GREG LAMARCHE !! – Andrew said he had been around the London art scene quite a bit – even having interviewed DAMIEN HIRST a while back – and seen some shows lately, but definitely – he had to admit – the NYC scene – had the edge !! He even got to meet live wire – MOMO !! whose tag & site specific work intrigued him greatly. if there ever was a earth walker – with a lunar mission mind-set – that would be MOMO.
ANDREW SMITH particularly was enthralled by: MOMO TAGS THE WIDTH of MANHATTAN !!
and, see: ANONYMOUS/CONTAINER SHOW !!
. . . then seriously switching gears – the same night – he was able to hit the last hour of the 3rd Annual
NY ART BOOK FAIR BENEFIT OPENING PARTY – where he encountered another live wire !! –
PHIL COTE – of Philly’s BOBO !!!
. . . and mission accomplished – scored a great souvenir gift to bring back home to his girlfriend – from his lightning quick foray into the wilds of the NYC – BIG APPLE art scene – a limited edition MELLISA BROWN ‘TABLOID’ deck ($30) – a great gift for the even more tabloid consumed BRITS than we are – but in particular for his girlfriend – who he firmly declared – would love it. more fun, MELISSA BROWN was on hand to play – a ‘TABLOID’ round – with him in person.
you have to make a tabloid headline out of the cards you are dealt – and his included a caricature of ROBERT DOWNEY’S GRANDMOTHER !! which practically knocked his Brit socks off – with delight !!
and, she signed the deck for him, too. she signs the joker !! how great. how do you beat that. you don’t.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, NEW YORK CITY, OCT 24, 2008
ANDREW SMITH – ‘MOONDUST: IN SEARCH OF THE MEN WHO FELL TO EARTH’ (2005)
is out in a few different editions.
an early review by ROBIN McKIE in the OBSERVER, APRIL 24, 2005 is one of the best to touch base with.
it begins: “Nine astronauts who walked on the moon are still alive, but their clouds of glory have gone dark”
. . . and goes on to highlight this telling episode from Andrew’s book:
re: BUZZ ALDRIN – “he resents more not being the first man on the moon than he appreciates being the second (!!),
as a fellow astronaut (unnamed !!) observes – hence the absence of lunar pictures of ARMSTRONG – even when he was specifically requested, he refused to take a single snap of his commander, because he was ‘too busy.’ “!!
(remind anybody else, of Pseudo or QUIET … and, I thought it was just Josh setting us all up against one another – now it just turns out to be the nature of the competitive human beast.)
see: OBSERVER REVIEW/MOONDUST
this review is pretty good too, see: BUSINESS WEEK, AUG 22.2005 – After The Moon — What ?
and about the real story on moondust.
see: NASA CHRONICLES/MOON DUST & SPACE SHIPS
~ANDREW SMITH/MOONDUST/NYC |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | November 2nd, 2008, 2:04pm
