JENS REGLER TTT aka regleverk . . .
street artist – based in Malmo, SWEDEN.
@regelverk: “I want to believe.”
image via Instagram – @regelverk
I want to believe, too.
I want to believe . . . in the beauty of the world.
~regelverk . . I want to believe. | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 12th, 2016, 12:40pm
“PHRIENDS PHOREVER” . . . . !!!!!
ABE LINCOLN JR. X PHETUS – LIVE PAINTING COLLABORATION
TODAY – SAT JUNE 11, 2016
WELLING COURT MURAL PROJECT, QUEENS, NYC.
~ABE LINCOLN Jr . . . & PHETUS: LIVE PAINTING TODAY, WELLING COURT, QUEENS | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 11th, 2016, 11:12am
SEAN VEGEZZI, OLMO SCHNABEL, and PARIS VENTURE . . .
at the JIM JOE opening, at THE HOLE, NYC. April 28, 2016.
MERCER TULLIS, ANDREW KASS, and SPENCER TULLIS . . .
JIM JOE opning, THE HOLE, NYC. April 28, 2016.
MERCER TULLIS . . did the awesome, ghostly-realistic pencil line drawing on my copy of the ’34 JOEY’ BOOKLET. Put out last DEC 2015, along with the crew’s short film: WWW.34JOEY.COM – the ad hoc booklet, was a hand-published, DIY limited edition of 40, with each cover a unique drawing by different members of the crew & their friends/collaborators – at the time. it’s kind of a fluid, floating scene. hooray.
very . . born & breed downtown local, Tribeca NYC scene.
tight knit, but fluid. always, right on the – mark.
34JOEY BOOKLETS on display, just outside the 34 Street – Hudson Yards Subway Station, West Side, NYC.
Photo: Dec 12. 2015
ANDREW KASS and SPENCER TULLIS, with the pop-up display of 34JOEY BOOKLETS.
note . . the new building construction – going up behind them !!
Photo: Dec 12, 2015
which meant . . real time / real life – ‘Joeys’ – as construction workers are fondly known as in NYC – were watching the action, but without knowing . . they were indeed – the focus of attention.
Photo: Dec 12, 2015
see: WWW.34JOEY.COM
ALL PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~SEAN VEGEZZI, OLMO SCHNABEL, PARIS VENTURE, MERCER TULLIS, ANDREW KASS & SPENCER TULLIS & even some 34JOEY !! | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 10th, 2016, 12:51pm
up-date: SUN, JUNE 12, 2016 – biggest, mass killing in the USA – homophobic/terrorist.
“The whole narrative of ‘Snow Cab’ is to comment on the commercialization / monetization / ownership at work around us – specifically to do with terror attacks, pain, anxierty, etc.” ~ SEAN VEGEZZI, via email.June 10, 2016.
end – update.
also – last, ok a few . . weekends ago:
NYC-based SEAN VEGEZZI . . launched a new indie book, ‘SNOW CAB’ . .
with LOOSE JOINTS, a cutting edge publishing house and design studio in London, UK.
the launch took place last Thursday, May 27, 2016 – in a suitably vacant, retro-commercial space.
you can just file it under: industrial & raw, urban exploration art !!
this was the flyer for the launch . . .
“SEAN VEGEZZI . . . selected One Crown Court as the location to for his book launch, due to its versatility, clean lines, excellent natural light and interesting floor plate.”
do they mean . . floor plan ?
knowing Sean well, I would also add, that he was most likely attracted as well – to the ‘outsize’ retail dimensions, the now vacant barrenness, and the outmoded interior look – which is actually quite ‘sweet’ meaning slick and scary !! – looking back, with newborn industrial post-modern eyes.
“Classic Sean Vegezzi being a flirt at our Studio with the wet proof of Snow Cab book available next week @offprint.projects.”
image & text via LOOSE JOINTS – @jointsloose
yes, see: OFF PRINT LIBRARY – LONDON 2016
which happens to be . . an ‘avant garde’ art publishing fair – featuring books & items on art, photo, design, music, architecture @PalazzoClerci, Milano & Tate, London.
this is the 2nd edition – and it looks totally happening.
GO, SEAN !!
the book is also available online at LOOSE JOINTS . . .
LOOSE JOINTS is . . . LEWIS CHAPLIN . . & SARAH P-ESPENON.
(with a most minimal style approach, btw)
love their home page !!
super classic.
the SEAN VEGEZZI book . . is currently the 2nd box in from the left – on the top line.
here’s the specific link to the book: SEAN VEGEZZI – SNOW CAB
~SEAN VEGEZZI – LAUNCHES NEW BOOK, SNOW CAB . . LOOSE JOINTS, LONDON ………… UP-DATE: JUNE 12, 2016/2:03 PM | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 9th, 2016, 9:53am
NYC-based DREW MILLER . .
was in a pop-up group show last weekend in SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.
ok, so the show is down. damn, blinked and missed it, but the poster is GREAT !!
and looks like the show – was too.
so . . here it is:
see: Common AREA Maintenance – fb
~DREW MILLER, ESSENTIAL SKIMMING . . SEATTLE | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 9th, 2016, 9:32am
ps: that’s SAMMY, on the right.
CHESTER BROWN and SAMMY HARKHAM – IN CONVERSATION
(ART, GOD, MOTHERS, TOM DEVLIN)
AT CAKE, SUNDAY, JUNE 12th at 11:30am
– COFFEE & DONUTS A POSSIBILITY TOO –
CAKECHICAGO.COM
from the artlovers archive:
SAMMY HARKHAM . .
at the ‘KRAMERS ERGOT 7’ book release party, Desert Island, Brooklyn, NY.
DEC 8, 2008.
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
the cover of ‘KRAMERS ERGOT – 7’
image: artlovers archive.
lol:
the book listed for $125 – when it first came out in 2008, and there was a lot of bitching back then – about the ‘high’ price . . . even though it was a huge 16 x 21 in. coffee table sized hardcover, a very high quality / full color production . . and an amazingly hard-core, cutting edge, curated anthology – with many, very talented contributors.
it now lists, used . . for $268.99 on amazon.
I believe SAMMY HARKHAM did the cover art.
~CHESTER BROWN & SAMMY HARKHAM, CAKE . . CHICAGO | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 8th, 2016, 11:12am
ANYA DAVIDSON . . . ‘PLANET GLOOM’
“FRONT COVER for a new 14 page riso zine about street harassment, misanthropy & robotics engineering I’m working on for CAKE – printed by MATT DAVIS of PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE PRESS”.
see: ANYA DAVIDSON – tumblr
http://anyaisdead.tumblr.com/
(lol, Anya .. is dead !!)
CAKE – CHICAGO ALTERNATIVE COMICS / is this weekend / JUNE 11 & 12, 2016 / 11am – 6pm
cakechicago.com
from the artlovers archive:
ANYA DAVIDSON . . .
at the (now defunct) BROOKLYN COMICS and GRAPHICS FESTIVAL, Brooklyn, NY.
DEC 3, 2011.
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
~ANYA DAVIDSON, CAKE . . CHICAGO | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 8th, 2016, 10:23am
Summer in the city . . . can’t take the heat ?
Finger by . . Abe.
Abe Lincoln Jr, ‘city intervention’ – photo image by @BKLenny / @BKLENNY – via Instagram
#streetart #nyc #streetartnyc
nice light bouncing off the hot steel, or what.
black & white: rules. urban hieroglphs. code for civilized/non-civilized . . behavior ?
industrial chic – too. not too shabby, either.
& file under: epiphany
It suddenly struck me that Abe Lincoln Jr is the great anti-Schulz. Charles M. Schulz; the Peanuts, Snoopy, Charlie Brown, even Peppermint Patty and all – of street art & this generation’s answer . . to the demise of comics in the dailies / newspapers.
and, the M stands for Monroe.
Monroe, Lincoln, get it ?
arrgh . . can’t take the heat.
I’m melting, melting, melting – I tell ya.
sticker art by ABE LINCOLN JR – via Instagram @abelincolnjr
@abelincolnjr: ‘#finalmeltdown”.
sticker art by ABE LINCOLN JR via Instagram @abelincolnjr
“Put this up by a bougie outdoor cafe at Lincoln Jr Center”.
haha. your mom’s Charlie Brown, not.
~ABE LINCOLN Jr. . . NYC / Charlie Brown ? not. | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 7th, 2016, 2:56pm
INFINITY PACKAGE !!
meaning . . . ?
it’s a . . . TIE !!
A ‘TIE’ . . . TO DIE FOR.
PIX FROM THE OPENING OF:
‘JIM JOE – LOOK MEANS MEMORIZE’, APRIL 28 – MAY 22, 2016
THE HOLE, 312 BOWERY. DOWNTOWN, NYC
JIM JOE, ‘ALWAYS RETURN TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME’, 2016
INK ON CANVAS*, 20 x 16 INCHES
($3,000)
*mostly poorly stretched canvases – part of the charm, no doubt.
don’t laugh, if you have any of JOE BRADLEY’S . . early, cheaply made, & most definite poorly stretched human ‘geo’ ‘segment’ canvases, you are laughing all the way to the bank.
at any rate as you can see, I’m pretty much very bored with what’s out there, right now. and, it’s most definite turning into a summer of . . returning to the ‘scene of the crime’.
(just like the presidential race, don’t get me started.)
oh oh, I SPY a . . TAYLOR McKIMENS PAINTING !!
the money . . shot !!
did that narrative go by – too fast ?
ok, here’s the long version:
I believe that should read, ‘PICTURES ARE WORTH MORE THAN WORDS’- and, IF you do not believe that, then;
‘VISIT THE IMPRISONED’ . . . of, their own imagination.
pretty straightforward.
I, myself wear a gold charm that says: ALREADY DEAD.
@eattheleaf aka ANDREW GUENTHER made it.
doggie days of summer.
and of course, my . . #puppylove ZORA.
oh, yeah.
TAYLOR McKIMEN’S (desolate) bar narrative – up for sale, in the back office.
detail.
#mood
lol, how did that run of pix work . . for ya ?
no joke, though about Taylor’s paintings becoming . . “increasingly un-affordable”, after his blockbuster show of . . ‘heads’, also at THE HOLE – this past FALL 2015, titled:
‘STOIC YOUTH’, running SEPT – OCT 2015.
see: TAYLOR McKIMENS – ‘STOIC YOUTH’ / THE HOLE
TAYLOR McKIMENS. ‘Sundown Somewhere’, 2012
acrylic on canvas, 60 x 84 in.
($17,500).
I first saw, and was absolutely STUNNED BY . . this TAYLOR McKIMENS beaut – at the intense but brief snowflake of a pop-up, PAUL BRIGHT . . did for Taylor back in the winter of 2015.
‘TAYLOR McKIMENS COMMISSIONS BY BRIGHT LYONS, 2008 – 2015’ / OPENING FEB 17, 2015
POP-UP – WEST 19th St, CHELSEA, NYC / FEB 3 – 17, 2015.
that’s only about a year and a half ago. if you had half a brain, (or if I had half your dough) somebody else, would be laughing very very heartily all the way to the bank. as it is, it seems to have remained in Paul’s . . bright, and prescient hands, and it is now up for sale.
the price is SO way up there, nobody wants to divulge it. haha.
yep that high. I’d guess easily over $60, $80,000. maybe even more.
and deservedly, so.
TAYLOR McKIMENS . . with one of his paintings behind him.
‘TAYLOR McKIMENS COMMISSIONS BY BRIGHT LYONS, 2008-2015’ . . OPENING, CHELSEA POP-UP, NYC.
FEB 3, 2015
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
if you want to see more pix from that opening,
check out: ARTLOVERS: TAYLOR McKIMENS . . PIX FROM THE OPENING: ‘COMMISSIONS BY BRIGHT LYONS’, FEB 3, 2015
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~JIM JOE VS . . TAYLOR McKIMENS ?? / no brainer: WIN WIN | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 3rd, 2016, 11:30am
somebody . . caught me at the JIM JOE VS LEWY, ‘PIECE OF DIRT’ opening, NYC. April 1, 2016.
haha, April Fools !!
the hipster on the right, in orange plaid – be . . me.
NANCY SMITH . . at the JIM JOE VS LEWY, ‘PIECE OF DIRT’ OPENING, CHINATOWN POP-UP, NYC.
APRIL 1, 2016.
image via Instagram . . @rossnzkiwi
ps: have No idea who he is, except he’s prob from New Zealand, but love the beauty & randomness of . . the photo. nice photo, dude.
~busted . . NANCY SMITH at JIM JOE VS LEWY | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 31st, 2016, 9:30am
