EMILY JANOWICK, ‘OBSESSION’, 2025
PARTIAL VIEW OF ‘OBSESSION’ – GALLERY INSTALLATION
55 (orange Home Depot) Buckets of corn, soil, manure, compost, plywood, 2 fans
PHOTO via Instagram @pleather_mommy / Emily Janowick
PHOTO by: @olyshannon / Olympia Shannon Studio
the installation was on view at KATE WERBLE GALLERY, opening on SAT SEPT 6 and running thru FRI OCT 10, 2025.
you can find some great photos of the rather eccentric installation on Emily’s Instagram @pleather_mommy or the gallery’s IG @kate_werble_gallery.
~EMILY JANOWICK / ‘OBSESSION’ / KATE WERBLE GALLERY, NYC / SEPT 6 – OCT 10, 2025 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 17th, 2025, 12:39am
SAM COCKRELL – ‘ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL’
JULY 10 – AUGUST 10, 2025
BLADE STUDY, 17 Pike St., New York NY 10002
LOWER EAST SIDE
@blade_study / www.bladestudy.net
@chicfila69
HRS: THURS – SUN / 11 am – 6 pm
or by appointment
some pix from the exhibit:
SAM COCKRELL, ‘Rock Dove, Myrtle Ave, 2024’
acrylic on canvas
67 x 90 inches
Photo courtesy: Blade Study
SAM COCKRELL, ‘Rock Dove, Woodhaven Home Depot, 2024’
acrylic on canvas
48 x 60 inches
Photo Courtesy: Blade Study
~SAM COCKRELL / ‘ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL’ / BLADE STUDY / a few install PIX |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | July 16th, 2025, 11:47am
…. sometimes, it is a small world !!
SAM COCKRELL -‘ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL’
JULY 10 – AUGUST 10, 2025
BLADE STUDY, 17 PIKE St., New York, NY 10002
LOWER EAST SIDE
@blade_study / www. bladestudy.net
@chicfila69 / @nchlsstndrf
SAM COCKRELL, ‘2/6/25’, 2025
acrylic on canvas / artist’s frame
9 x 10.75 inches
PHOTO by: NICHOLAS STEINDORF
~SAM COCKRELL / ‘ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL’ / BLADE STUDY / PHOTO BY NICHOLAS STEINDORF |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | July 16th, 2025, 11:28am
6 – 9 PM
SAM COCKRELL – ‘ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL’
JULY 10 – AUGUST 10, 2025
Blade Study, 17 PIKE Street, New York NY 10002
LOWER EAST SIDE
@blade_study / www.bladestudy.net
HRS: THURS – SUNDAY / 11am – 6 pm
or by appointment
Blade Study is a NYC-based contemporary art gallery founded in 2020.
Photo: via Instagram @chicfila69 / SAM COCKRELL
~SAM COCKRELL / ‘ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL’ / BLADE STUDY / LOWER EAST SIDE / NEW YORK, NY / OPENS THURS July 10 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | July 9th, 2025, 11:29am
here is my fav family, my art-centric, Lower East Side 80s-raised daughter, all grown up now, KATE CERIGO, her young son, my grandson Jules, and the dad, Brooklyn-based artist, NICHOLAS STEINDORF, of Blinn & Lambert, recently on vacation in Vermont, the weekend just before the big, big ‘THE CAMPUS UPSTATE’ OPENING; HUDSON, NY / SUMMER 2025.
PHOTO BY: my best, long term friend, Vermont basket-maker & quilter, SCOTTIE HARRISON.
(who also grows her own stiff, but reedy willow, for her baskets, behind her gorgeous garden / where flowers abound, amidst profuse, abundant vegetables. /
Scottie has been my best friend & fellow folk art, & all things, including knitting, crafts & folk art enthusiast & maker since our college days back at the now defunct, GODDARD COLLEGE, Vermont, in the early 1970’s. I was & remain, the only exchange student Goddard ever had, mostly because I hailed from the then, so interesting … Montreal, Quebec, CANADA. home to then less-known / also a child of recent European immigrants, LEONARD COHEN. I was granted a full year of free tuition, at that time, a very big deal. Goddard was then, absolutely the most expensive (tuition-wise) school in all of the US of A.
GODDARD was so wonderfully creative & progressive. at that time, it was the first college in all of the USA to have an open, independent study curriculum. if you just wanted to throw pots in the ceramics studio all day, then so be it !! the campus residences rang out with THE WHO, Magic Bus, Neil Young & America the band’s, Ventura Highway !! the early nascent BREAD & PUPPET was also in the same rural area. and from its lush meadows, was where the early hippie ‘summer of love’ Baba Ram Dass colorful ‘caravans’ took off for San Francisco, though to be truthful the (in-bred) mentality locals used to shoot beer cans out of their open car windows, at us, and holler slurs. I’d take that any day, over the nasty DNA-rooted FLQ FREE LIBERATION / QUEBEC discrimination / and, closed-door attitude of that decade’s radical, young French Canadians, for sure. and I never looked back.
~THE FAM !! KATE CERIGO, JULES STEINDORF & NICHOLAS STEINDORF |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 24th, 2025, 5:42pm
THE CAMPUS / IS HOSTING AN **OPENING RECEPTION** – ON SAT JUNE 28, 2025 / UPSTATE !!
& IT RUNS ALL DAY LONG, PRETTY MUCH / 11 AM – 5 PM.
I HEARD LAST YEAR’S – WAS A HUGE BLAST / & A HUGE CRITICAL SUCCESS, AS WELL !!
THIS IS THE UPSTATE CAMPUS / a small group of NYC-BASED Galleries / ORGANISATION’S SECOND ANNUAL EXHIBITION / IT IS ORGANIZED BY THEIR CREATIVE DIRECTOR, HEAD CURATOR TIMO KAPPELLER @teamstery / with help by the curatorial team of: JESSE WILLENBRING @willenbringjesse & SHIRA SCHWARTZ @shira.schwarz
. . . . THIS NEWEST BIG, BIG AWESOME GROUP SHOW RUNS – THRU OCTOBER 26, 2025, AND INCLUDES SEVERAL DYNAMIC EVENTS & INTER-ACTIVE PERFORMANCES AS WELL, SEE INSTAGRAM & THEIR WEBSITE:
@THECAMPUSUPSTATE / www.thecampusupstate.com
THE EXHIBIT STRETCHES OVER 35 ROOMS, AND INCLUDES USE OF THE SURROUNDING GROUNDS AS WELL, of THE FORMER OCKAWAMICK SCHOOL / IN CLAVERACK, HUDSON, UP-STATE N.Y.
THEY WILL HOST, KURE COFFEE ONSITE / IN THE ON-SITE BOOKSTORE, FOR THE duration of the EXHIBIT & I HEARD THERE MAY ALSO BE SOME FOOD TRUCKS !! AND DRINKS, OF SOME KIND, OF COURSE, at the opening reception / PARTY 0N !!!
THE CAMPUS UPSTATE / 341 NY-217, HUDSON, NY 12534
detail, the show’s main poster photo by YAEL EBAN and MATTHEW GAMBER
BLINN & LAMBERT, NEWEST SIGNATURE ON-SITE / DIGITAL PROJECTION INSTALLATION /
AT THE CAMPUS UPSTATE 2025.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF BLINN & LAMBERT
BLINN & LAMBERT, NEW DIGITAL PROJECTION / INSTALLATION – AT THE CAMPUS UPSTATE / SUMMER 2025.
BLINN & LAMBERT IS THE CREATIVE DUO OF BROOKLYNN-BASED ARTISTS / NICHOLAS STEINDORF & KYLE WILLIAMS / THEY WILL BE SHARING AN EXHIBITION ROOM WITH CANADA’S XYLOR JANE.
IT ALSO SEEMS MARTHA’S DAD, RICHARD TUTTLE IS ALSO IN THE SHOW, So heads up !!
PHOTO: COURTESY OF BLINN & LAMBERT
~BLINN & LAMBERT / THE CAMPUS / UPSTATE / HUDSON, NY / SAT JUNE 28 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 24th, 2025, 4:38pm
2 – 6 PM
LAVENDER COUNTRY ‘HARVEST’ ………..
@lavendercountrydetroit / @jefffreytranchell
SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2025 / 2 – 6 PM
12333 Mackay, / EAST DAVISON VILLLAGE / HAMTRAMCK / DETROIT / MICHIGAN 48212
MUSICAL PERFORMANCES by: @theblackharpist / RALPH HILL & JONNY COMPOLO / @jonnnycompolo
with new artworks !!
by:@_ffty and @douglassape / TD SIDELL
FREE COOK-OUT !! …..&….. $5 U-PICK !!
LAVENDER COUNTRY’S 4TH ANNUAL COMMUNITY F-E-S-T !! / WEAR PURPLE !!
LONDON BLAKELY, ‘ROAD SIGN’ / LAVENDER COUNTRY DETROIT
photo c/o @lavendercountrydetroit
well, to my mind (!!!), that’s a lot better, as in peppier, than say ….. road kill !!!
~LAVENDER COUNTRY DETROIT & JEFFREY TRANCHELL / RALPH HILL& JONNY COMPOLO / ‘HARVEST’ / DETROIT, MI / SUN JUNE 29 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 24th, 2025, 2:57pm
OPEN TO ALL – STREET (BEYOND BURGER) BBBBQ
SAT JUNE 28, 2025 / 6 – 10 PM !!!!!
also ART SHOW WILL BE OPEN OPEN: SUNDAY JUNE 29, 2025 / 12 – 6 PM
. . . . must be the season of the cat !!!!!
‘CATS’ FROM the HOOD – A BENEFIT for BUSHWICK CATS feat. PRAXIS / solo show
PRESENTED by SKEWVILLLE / @skewville
237 Starr St. Brooklyn, BUSHWICK NY 11237
my friends at SKEWVILLE announcing their current featured artist …. PRAXIS & their 3rd annual BBBBQ (BEYOND BURGER BARBECUE) .. TO RAISE MONEY TO HELP @bushwickcats
Cocktails sponsored by @milagrotequila
Tunes by @roycer700_
Food by @headshop.nyc
~PRAXIS & SKEWVILLE / 3rd ANNUAL BBBBQ (BEYOND BURGER BARBECUE / BUSHWICK / BROOKLYN, N.Y. / SAT June 28 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 24th, 2025, 2:26pm
6 PM To-NIGHT !! SAT JUNE 21, 2025
Gavin Brown is presenting a display of his OWN work, apparently fractured, figurative-leaning, woodblock prints !!
if, in ROME it’s a must-see !!
GAVIN BROWN
‘PROOF OF LIFE’, LA PULCE / @vivalapulce_
Via dei Tre Archi 5
00186 Rome
~GAVIN BROWN / ‘PROOF OF LIFE ‘/ LA PULCE / ROME, ITALY / OPENING SAT JUNE 21, 6 PM |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 21st, 2025, 12:13pm
LAST WEEKEND !!
Abby sent me some pix !!
The show actually turns out to be more prescient scary, than . . . . so so funny / the world has gotten a lot more knotty, if even not, downright gnarly . . . since it opened !!
BRING ON THE . . . CLOWNS !!
ABBY LLOYD – ‘ON DISPLAY’
MAY 22 – SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 2025
PTOLEMY ART GALLERY, 6733 Central Ave, GLENDALE / QUEENS / (RIDGEWOOOD), NY 11385
PTOLEMY. . is a contemporary art gallery, and retail shop
established by PATRICK REYNOLDS in 2024.
HRS: THURS-SUNDAY / 12 NOON – 5 PM
@ptolemy.world / www.ptolemy.world
Abby Lloyd / @sassy_dude
ABBY LLOYD, ‘JACK’, 2025.
Foam, cardboard, acrylic paint, turntable
9.5 x 7 x 6 ft.
detail, ABBY LLOYD, ‘It’s Fun’, 2025.
acrylic paint on canvas
36 x 48 inches
ALL PHOTOS: Courtesy of THE ARTIST & PTOLEMY GALLERY
~ABBY LLOYD / ‘ON DISPLAY’ / PTOLEMY / LAST WEEKEND !! up thru SUNDAY JUNE 15th |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 12th, 2025, 9:50am
