~’UNDER THE VOLCANO: SIMON CERIGO, DAN ASHER, NANCY SMITH’ / VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER / ARCHIVE
among the early productions on the Virtual Dream Center archive / 7th up from the bottom
is:
‘UNDER THE VOLCANO’ . . a digital re-creation of an actual indie pop-up of the same name, featuring the 1980s/90s work of SIMON CERIGO (RIP), DAN ASHER (RIP) & myself . . NANCY SMITH, who were all working on the Lower East Side, in its glory days.
Curated by Kate & Theo Cerigo, (Simon & Nancy’s children) the survey exhibit took place in the summer of 2015, running for one huge smash weekend in June, in a large, well-lit storefront in Chinatown, right off Delancey . . on the Bowery. As such it is the first digital re-creation of an actual, archival exhibit on the VDC / Virtual Dream Center platform.
with much thanks to NICHOLAS STEINDORF, who curated & produced the digital version.
(& which is both interactive & free to download / see: VDC homepage)
see: ‘UNDER THE VOLCANO’ – VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER / for more photos & essay clips.
BTW:
the above image is the entry to the actual exhibit . . with Simon’s large ‘Lemon Heads’ t-shirt painting on stretched canvas at left, my spray paint lettering of the title – put directly on the wall the day of, and a typically intense black oil stick ‘portrait/mask’ on treated canvas/paper by Dan.
SIMON CERIGO . . collected, collaged & painted on the pop culture media of the day, including band t-shirts of what was then called ‘new music’ or indie.
SIMON CERIGO . . collages on small stretched canvas. very distressed, even for the day.
NANCY SMITH . . large (blue acrylic paint) drawing / from my early 1980s Tarot card series, and also a self-portrait,
I was pregnant with my daughter, Kate at the time, 1985.
& at right, some large still life, charcoal on paper / all pieces: 38 x 50 in.
DAN ASHER . . oil stick, on large canvas backed paper.
YOU CAN READ: the essay I wrote on the exhibit for VDC / Virtual Dream Center, click here
the invite for the 2015 exhibit – was an archival photo of us back in ca. 1981, in Tribeca.
SIMON CERIGO, DAN ASHER, and myself, NANCY SMITH
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH / via VDC platform.