FILE UNDER: more, RED & BLACK.
FILE UNDER: more, SOVIET PROPAGANDA INSPIRED POSTER – ART.
Soviet propaganda poster art: seems to say something about . . . winning.
wanting to win. having won. go for it. fight.
the piece below by HUBERT DOBLER seems to say, all that, everything all at once.
very clean lines. red and black.
no words. you get a sense of .. ‘versus’. strength in the face of stubborn not-knowing.
us against .. them.
the singular, the ‘one’ vs the many.
the desire to win.
winning. and, also: there’s no winning, i.e. it’s head-on dysfunctional.
damn, talk about / communication.
WIN / WIN.
(reminds me of JACK GOLDSTEIN, too. the KNIFE VIDEO, scroll down.)
HUBERT DOBLER, ‘HANDLEBAR#1’, 15 x 1-1/2 x 1-1/2 in. flathead scewdrivers.
signed: Hubert Dobler 2013
featured in the . . . SUMMER 2013
CREST HARDWARE ART SHOW – OPENING SAT JUNE 8, 2013 / 1PM – 8 PM
the show runs thru AUGUST 17, 2013
CREST HARDWARE – 558 METROPOLITAN AVE, BROOKLYN
see: CREST HARDWARE ART SHOW
YES, we are talking about . . SOVIET PROPAGANDA INSPIRED POSTER ART, this summer, or what.
they’ve even got another POP-UP ‘take’ – on their website, in case you missed it.
of course it was, SHEPARD FAIREY . . who pretty much single-handedly brought SOVIET PROPAGANDA STYLE ART to LIFE again. in the past decade. in the beginning of the new millennium . . . just saying.
what, something about life, as an artist .. in the USA .. ?
struggle, is it ?!!
or is it just, SUPERB communication … in a world of mass communication ?
SHEPARD FAIREY, the front of the invite/card for his show, ‘HARMONY & DISCORD’, MAY 5 – JUNE 16, 2012.
6-1/2 x 9 in. hard card stock.
PACE PRINTS, 521 WEST 26th STREET, NEW YORK.
funny – just about a year ago.
~HUBERT DOBLER / CREST ART SHOW / SHEPARD FAIREY |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 4th, 2013, 3:19pm
RUSSIAN TUESDAYS at ENTWINE
‘CREATIVE DIASPORA: Generation One and a Half’ – CURATED by YT/YT
starting . . . TUES JUNE 4, 2013 – 6 PM
Entwine – 765 WASHINGTON ST – WEST SIDE
‘Creative Diaspora: Generation One and A Half’ . . “is a series of conversations between New York based artists and writers whose parents came from the former Soviet Union, giving their children a new life in the United States. Their Russian identity continues to inform or inspire their artistic production. Their visual and literary art reflect the tension inherent in this double identity, a tension simultaneously challenging and productive, bewildering and enlightening.
“They are part of a large Russophone community, which has taken its place as part of America’s rich immigrant tradition. In recent years these artists have begun to play a significant role in New York’s cultural whirl. They enjoy , and are further confirmation of, New York’s reputation as the place to be for aspiring artists.
“At the same time they have a support system of art spaces, curators and networks dedicated to artists of the Russian and east European diaspora. Their American MFA’s make them simultaneously insiders, and outsiders — as outsider they are able to critique the contemporary art scene in its own language; as insiders they seek their place in the art historical narrative and endeavor to become part of the next phase in the post-modern canon.
“The purpose of these evenings is to expose these artists to new audiences and to create new connections between them. We think it is important to renew the once close ties between the visual and literary arts in NYC. We will transcend artistic categories, and converse about freedom, ;ove and home.” ~ Yulia Topchiy
YT/YT is a cultural initiative of YULIA TIKHONOVA (Brooklyn House of Kulture) and YULIA TOPCHIY (CoWorker Projects).
see: CoWorker Projects
see: Brooklyn House of Kulture
~RUSSIAN TUESDAYS@ENTWINE |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 3rd, 2013, 9:55am
CINDERS PROJECTS & FLA GALLERY
PRESENT A BIG MUSIC PARTY – SAT JUNE 1, 2013 / 7PM
in CONJUNCTION WITH THEIR TRAVELING PRINT ART SHOW: DIRTY FINGERS
“OVER 50 ARTISTS – MORE THAN 130 PRINTS”
26-19 JACKSON AVE – LONG ISLAND CITY / 1 BLOCK FROM P.S. 1 / FACEBOOK INVITE
featuring: RAFT, JEREMY SMOKING, and MICHAEL COLLINS of PRINCE RAMA
note: NO, this is NOT the exact order of the performance line-up – !!!!!
RAFT – PAT NOECKER / formerly of LIARS, THESE ARE POWERS and nOthings.
experimenting in his solo project persona, RAFT since 2002 – count on “conceptual compositions that can involve hybrid guitars, cell phones & crowd sourced content”.
IMAGE: RAFT IS PAT NOECKER via CINDERS
YES !! CHECK OUT HIS TUMBLR PAGE: RAFT is PAT NOECKER
IMAGE: RAFT IS PAT NOECKER/TUMBLR
YES !! CHECK OUT: unARTigNYC PRESENTS: ASSEMBLE X – KNOCKDOWN CENTER
RAFT’S – ASSEMBLE X – PERFORMS LIVE at KNOCKDOWN CENTER, Maspeth, Queens, NYC – MAY 11, 2013
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
JEREMY SMOKING / JUSTIN FRY, the man behind Brooklyn scuzzy punkers PC WORSHIP, will play a set under the name: JEREMY SMOKING.
YES !! check out: PC WORSHIP
haha, yes !!, check out: JEREMY SMOKING at Le WALLET – (only) 11 VIEWS – when we caught it !!
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
MICHAEL COLLINS of PRINCE RAMA / will also be performing solo . . .
“croons over a sonic landscape of psychedelic sequencers and synths . . DISCO GOTH !!”
most eerie, check out: Radhika-Stava by MICHAEL COLLINS
~BLOW-OUT ART + MUSIC PAR-TAY . . SAT JUNE 1 |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 31st, 2013, 1:35pm
JOE BRADLEY – LOTUS BEATERS
MAY 17 – JUNE 29, 2013
GAVIN BROWN’S ENTERPRISE
JOE BRADLEY and URS FISCHER ..
when the world’s . .
real-lay got you down, and b-o-r-e-d . .
trust these two – to turn it up !!
JOE had a low-fi, looked to be hand-cranked, ‘coloring book’ on the looks to be ‘semi-permanent’ URS FISCHER display table – at the opening.
wicked.
every page was the same !!
KARMA !!
pop-up KARMA.
just to the left, oh, the glorious left !! of boring . .
e-n-n-u-i . .
spells: me.
am I a lotus eater, or what ?
on the back of the book:
JOE BRADLEY 2013 KARMA EDITION OF 500
I even like . . how JOE gets ‘KARMA’ to rhyme with LOTUS EATER, no small feet.
o.k. . . ‘feat’.
a deranged ‘plucked’ chicken in a circle .. vs. a beautiful, but druggy lily flower.
repeat after me: KARMA.
and, yeah: that is JONAH HILL, tipping right on the URS FISCHER table.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~JOE BRADLEY . . KARMA |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 28th, 2013, 11:46am
of . . . BENNIE & THE JETS !!!!!!!!!!!
catch . . C.F. / DAILY LIFE .. doing a MOST glorious cover of .. BENNIE and the JETS !!
hahaha the alternative universe – rules !!
HIT: DAILY LIFE@DIRT PALACE 31 JUL 10
PLAY IT LOUD.
C.F. – YOU rule !!
~C.F. / DAILY LIFE . . . a cover !! |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 22nd, 2013, 2:53pm
before we get into the JOE BRADLEY show, thought we’d bring your attention to a great way to launch the Memorial Day weekend.
C.F. will debut his newest book, MERE – with a booksigning – this FRI MAY 24, 2013 / 7-9 PM
DESERT ISLAND – 540 METROPOLITAN AVE – JUST OFF LORIMER – WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN. N.Y.
p.s. when you are at DESERT ISLAND, don’t forget to pick up a copy of SMOKE SIGNAL, above is the latest issue #10 – they are FREE.
but . . . BACK to MERE !!
MERE . . is a PICTUREBOX PROJECT, 5 x 8 ins, 180 pgs, in color. $19.95
PICTUREBOX says this about . . MERE:
In 2012 C.F. began to produce a series of more than a dozen mini-comics, which he distributed via Twitter. Each mini-comic offered a take on, and expansion upon, a classic comic strip genre – from crime and sci-fi to punk and sex – all of them infused throughout by C.F.’s absurdist humor and loose improvisatory drawing. Those comics, along with unpublished art and photos, are collected here.
the cover of – MERE by C.F. – a PICTUREBOX BOOK.
of course, mere translates as: Mother in french.
of course, Talk about . . . Abstract art.
black & white mini-comic . . in MERE.
image from: C.F. – MERE, you know the mother web, the honey comb, the honey trap, and ultimately the battle for – Singularity.
C.F. . . at last year’s BROOKLYN COMICS & GRAPHICS FESTIVAL, NOV 10, 2012.
WILLIAMBURG, BROOKLYN.
C.F. / CHRISTOPHER FORGUES (b. 1979) works out of PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND . . he is also an ‘experimental’ musician, and you can find his music under: DAILY LIFE, KITES/Load records, and MARK LORD, trust me – you’ll know the real MARK LORD, when you see him.
C.F. – booksigning . . .
C.F. – 21 CRIME … “So-Daft” !!
C.F. – the back cover … “Paranoia”
C.F. – inside . . . 21 CRIME
a snippet of a C.F. POWR MASTR (#2) cover – brilliant (!!)
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH – C.F. & books . . BROOKLYN COMICS & GRAPHICS FESTIVAL, NOV 10, 2012.
~C.F. — MERE . . |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 22nd, 2013, 1:56pm
FILE UNDER: SINGULARITY.
looks like JOSH ‘LUVVY’ HARRIS, of WE LIVE IN PUBLIC fame .. was right, in the mass info digital age, singularity .. rules.
RAY MANZAREK, 74. died yesterday, MAY 20, 2013 – the legendary keyboardist/founding member of THE DOORS.
catch: THE DOORS – RIDERS ON THE STORM, the intro being his most famous riff.
” . . into this house we are born.
. . into this world we are thrown.”
the classic American icon / ‘still’: the singular car . . on the singular, and lonely highway.
IMAGE: THE DOORS – RIDERS ON THE STORM
in other SINGULARITY NEWS:
DAVID KARP, the NYC kid who just sold Tumblr to Yahoo for $1.1 Billion . . used to work at TEKSERVE !!
see: ‘DAVID KARP – Tumbling on success’ . . from 2012.
DAVID KARP . . IMAGE: FINANCIAL POST – MAY 20, 2013
DAVID KARP, ILLUSTRATION: JOAO MAIO PINTO – ADWEEK, JUNE 6, 2011
EESHA KARE . . IMAGE: DAILY TECH
EESHA KARE, 18 – a high school student out of SARATOGA, FLORIDA – won the recent / 2013 / $50,000 INTEL FOUNDATION YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD – for a flexible, and super fast .. battery charger !!
note: artlovers made the tech leap .. we are juiced !!
next up . .
JOE BRADLEY – LOTUS BEATERS . . PIX FROM THE OPENING – POSTING: WED MAY 22, 2013.
~KILLERS ON THE STORM . . |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 21st, 2013, 8:08am
OPENING TO-NITE: FRI MAY 17, 2013 / 6-8 PM
JOE BRADLEY – LOTUS BEATERS !!
MAY 18 – JUNE 29, 2013
Gavin Brown’s enterprise – 620 GREENWICH ST, WEST VILLAGE – NYC
when young artists ask me about JOE BRADLEY, and what he was like in his early days, in the very happening, beginning decade of this millennium, when he was trying to break onto the scene .. the first thing that comes to mind was how extra-ordinarily respectful and appreciative he was to anybody who ‘got’ who he was, and what he ‘did’. you’d thunk that was art school 101 – but funny, it is not !!
maybe it was because he was so hard to get ? that ‘recognition’ was like clear flowing water to him, and anybody who offered up a sip – was a huge solace ?
that said – for sure, he sailed over a lot of peoples’ heads at first. he did ‘abstrac’t art, when people were doing psychedelic collage parties. comic art. organic musings. also he was very very wild, in that .. quelle horreur, he was an active musician. a frontman for a crazy ‘art’ band called Cheeseburger. he used to show up, revved up, resplendent in girl’s tights, and rainbow suspenders. ha. o.k. sometimes he just wore white jeans. no, I don’t have any pix of him in the tights. sometimes having fun, trumps pulling out the camera.
but I did catch a photo of him way back, playing with Cheeseburger, and in fact – I was the first to post his image – mainstream – on artnet.
JOE BRADLEY, on the left, with his Cheeseburger bandmates. downtown NYC. JULY 24, 2003.
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
see: GOOD-BYE TO SUMMER 2004 – artnet
but forget the music, it was hard-core & spirited, but not really memorable . . . inside that head ticked a very lethal .. brain. the humor so dry, it could bust a desert . . equivalate a drug trip, cross-up the thought ‘zones’.
I see from the title of this show, he is still . . in fine form.
the ‘Greek’ reference reminds me of the ‘SWOLLEN FOOT’ video/music project of NICHOLAS STEINDORF and DARREN WILL – presented at ENTWINE, just a few months back. it also reminds me of SIMON CERIGO the recently departed art maven. who was very proud of his .. ancient Greek heritage.
he wasn’t exactly ‘lazy’, but he was kind of ADD/no patience .. and prob, sometimes too high, to get down to brass tacks, always being on the fast track to pleasure. or really the most direct, as in direct, do not pass Go. do not pick up $200 – road to pleasure. the road induced by the narcotic .. lotus flower.
the road to .. art. in its truest meaning. exhilaration.
yep, Simon was a Greek, a true Lotus-eater, if I ever did see one.
I bet there are quite a few collectors, I’m not naming names . . who miss Simon’s free-flowing but, acutely correct .. advice on where to art/park their millions, this auction season. hey, no wonder the samurai class disappeared, pay your people. they are NO damn good to you – dead. yeah, one was a really big Japanese ‘pretender’. almost rhymes with ‘tushi’.
the other interesting thing that comes to mind, obviously – is the work. which is really the kernel of the deal.
Joe’s work was so ‘banal’ and ‘abstract’ . . yet, so in your-in-face and challenging. as to be shop-stopping, at least – to me. no dead dogs here. the first piece I saw of his was a ‘found’ brown rug hung on the wall. at that music party above, actually.
ha. and he was serious.
catch me if you can !!
that was in the ………. SUMMER 2003.
the next work I saw of his – was his first one man show at CANADA, ‘Kurgan Waves’ – which opened in JAN of 2006. so take heart young dudes, it was a long slow road for Joe.
well, all things being relative. his friends were shooting by him, like shooting stars, since well before 2003. you could see the frustration – written all over his face, at every intersection.
sometimes, the slow turtle wins the race. esp if he is BRAINY. and, against the grain.
titled, ‘Kurgan Waves’, pipe-bomb brains title, or what .. JOE didn’t have much dough, as in $, so the paintings were made from shallow, flimsy store-bought stretchers, painted in primary solid colors, and strung together in a fragile way – to compose large abstract pieces that – stood like, men. equivilated: men. the human form.
though there were no eyes, or mouths, or any human features, just the ‘proportions’ of the pieces .. animated the whole. made the metaphoric .. leap.
so I’m thinking, it’s kind of the exact compositional opposite mental-state ‘startle’ you get, as opposed to say, the recently discussed Jack Goldstein work. where the hyper-realist photo image becomes totally flat and abstracted . .
in Joe Bradley’s work, no matter how minimal, or abstract the elements are – his work . . . always adds up to, takes on a ‘humanist’ stance. it’s very mind-blowing, if you think about it. the kinetic property of the work is in . . . the ‘cross-over’.
even in the black & white invite image, above – the grid looks to be more of a ‘window’ – than anything else.
JOE BRADLEY, ‘KURGAN WAVES’, 2006. IMAGE: CANADA
the piece on the left, reminds me of Joe in his ‘performing’ tights !! damn, I wish I had a photo.
the other 2 pieces . . the ‘rug’.
JOE BRADLEY, ‘KURGAN WAVES’, 2006. IMAGE: CANADA
see what I mean, about minimal elements adding up to a ‘humanist’ posture …
a featureless one, at that. no face. but I guess the head ‘proportion’ is there – as the tipping point.
and funny enough, typical Joe Schmoe, his next solo show – was pretty much all about – features !! details.
as in features on a face. a smile, a grin. a superman logo on a chest. as opposed to abstracted bodies.
Mr. Magoo. Mr. Shmagoo . . . the show: ‘Shmagoo Paintings’ opened Oct 2008.
some people felt confused. they could ‘get’ the ‘Kurgan Waves’ figures, but not the close-ups !!
I’m just shaking my head – in disbelief, and ok, laughter, here.
I remember at the opening, one innane socialite-type collector telling me, she had bought a piece from the Kurgan show, but CANADA took it away – and sold it to a bigger better fish, and had offered her one of the new Schmagoo paintings instead, and she had turned it down.
no words to relate what idiots collectors can ‘be’. she wasn’t about to pay for my advice – and we already had one person in the family giving it away for free, the afore-mentioned Simon – so I just kept my mouth shut.
about the only time – I do. ah, life in the fast lane.
JOE BRADLEY, ‘SHMAGOO PAINTINGS’ OCT 2008. IMAGE: CANADA
watch: IT’S MR MAGOO !!/ Thin-skinned, haha. short-sighted / art collectors – way yes !!
Mr. Magoo originated . . in 1949.
ps: yeah, I got . . scored is more like it, an early piece of Joe Bradley’s. it’s just a drawing on paper, but it’s big. 2 ft x 3 ft.
for sure, whatd’ya think ?
NOTE:
next up – pix from: the JOE BRADLEY OPENING TO-NITE.
then: BACK TO YALE !!
~JOE BRADLEY . . |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 17th, 2013, 8:44am
THOMAS SPOERNDLE – NEW WORK
OPENS SUN MAY 19, 2013 / 7PM
the show runs thru JUNE 16, 2013
NOVELLA – 164 ORCHARD ST – LOWER EAST SIDE – NYC
HRS: WED-SUN 12-6
more info: on the show
~THOMAS SPOERNDLE . . |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 15th, 2013, 9:17am
BELIEVER – DANIEL REICH / 1972-2012
A Gathering for Daniel – TUES MAY 14, 2013 / 4PM
All Welcome . . .
HENRY ST. SETTLEMENT, ABRONS ART CENTER – 466 GRAND ST. – NYC / Lower East Side
if planted, this card will grow wildflowers – so, no you can’t do that yet by digital transmission – but here’s to the day – you can !!
in memory of a visionary – Daniel Reich.
DANIEL REICH, WINTER 2004 . . . PHOTO BY NANCY SMITH
editor WALTER ROBINSON published it in artnet, the caption read:
“Daniel Reich opens ‘Milwaukee’ paintings by TYSON REEDER, in his new space on 23rd St.”
the report was titled: ‘Out in New York – Winter 2004’
Art Lovers New York – Photos by Nancy Smith
see: the full report – artnet/Out in New York – Winter 2004
~DANIEL REICH . . MEMORIAL |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 13th, 2013, 4:53pm
