JASON GRUNWALD & EASTERN DISTRICT – are throwing a big closing bash for his dyno-mite show – to-nite – THURS APRIL 29 – from 7-11 PM – !! featuring a s-l-i-c-k . . . “sick lineup of bands including the Brooklyn noise duo Sisters, underground Iranian rockers The Yellow Dogs, and the electro-garage rock band Electric People !!!”
FREE SHOW + FREE DRINKS
the actual show – JASON GRUNWALD: ‘Was It All A Dream’ actually runs thru this SUN MAY 2, 2010.
the show is a multi-medium mini-retrospective for this artist – who is mostly known for his illustrative music world posters, for bands such as the COACH WHIPS, SONIC YOUTH & DEVENDRA BANHART. There are large oil paintings on canvas – esp one that seems to be a complicated and detailed rendition of his studio at home – full of the art – now seen on the walls, here !! also included are some charcoal and pencil drawings and studies as well as some free-standing sculptural assemblages. personally I like his 2-D stuff, best. both the paintings and drawings, as well as the more formal band posters.
you can see a nice, brief range of his artwork here – on his website.
see: jasongrunwald.com
EASTERN DISTRICT – 43 BOGART ST – BUSHWICK/L TRAIN to MORGAN
POSTED BY NANCY SMITH – THURS APRIL 29, 2010 – 1:47 PM
here’s a few more pix from the OPENING NITE – FRI APRIL 16, 2010
JASON GRUNWALD at the show’s opening reception.
‘Was it all just a dream’ – EASTERN DISTRICT / BROOKLYN / APRIL 16 – MAY 2, 2010
there was a huge array of (diverse) work in the relatively small space – it almost had an ‘outsider’ feel.
a poster for DEVENDRA BANHART & his sidekicks – HAIRY FAIRY.
it was like a collage, but of real art, not as in: found images – and had a nice rough-style, ‘let’s rumble’ edge.
the calligraphy was cool, too.
“in the future no one will be famous”.
LOL for sure. POSTER BOY kept his niche on the wall !!
and, what about BROOKLYN POSTER BOY – will he be – famous ?
got great great super great pix of that immediately previous show – but artlovers had just admin PHP busted – aka blown apart – so when the site gets back to 100% – will be sure to post them . . . pronto.
including lyrical assemblage tag work by NohJColey, photos of green shaped trees by LUCAS McGOWEN, that I totally loved, some terrific large scale photo wall murals by JIM KIERNAN, a big painting by JUAN DOE and this small green mo-hawked portrait – painted right on the wall by a certain BROOKLYN POSTER BOY – who it seems, can also – paint !! as well as he can cut, tear & re-arrange !! with new message, and usually pretty scary, too. dude.
JASON GRUNWALD – no looking back !!
ALL PHOTOS COPYRIGHT – NANCY SMITH
JASON GRUNWALD, ‘Was it all just a dream?’, EASTERN DISTRICT, BROOKLYN, NYC
FRI APRIL 16, 2010
POSTED BY NANCY SMITH – THURS APRIL 29, 2010 – 3:17 PM
~JASON GRUNWALD CLOSING PARTY – TO-NITE !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 29th, 2010, 12:32pm
BEN FURGAL wrote to tell me – our friend DAN ASHER – passed on to another realm – early early am – this past Saturday, April 24, 2010. Born in Cleveland, Ohio on DEC 31st, 1947 – that would make him 62. He seems to have posted quite a few videos, esp his music videos – to YouTube – his web tag: alienrib777.
yeah, Dan died on Earth Day. just by the skin of his teeth.
GBE posted a really nice one on their website !!
check it out, it’s scanned off YouTube: – YouTube !!/DAN ASHER/PHOSPHORESCENT !!
it’s a music video for: Phosphorescent – ‘Pictures of Our Torn Up Praise’ – recorded live @ BELL HOUSE, Gowanus, BROOKLYN, Feb 2009 – and posted to YouTube – May 11, 1009.
the footage was shot mostly in Brooklyn, in places like Coney Island, Red Hook, and Gowanus, but there is also a GIRAFFE sequence (that seems to come by way of Gavin Turk) that hails from – Antwerp, Belgium.
(yeah, watch it.)
PHOSPHORESCENT – ‘PICTURES OF OUR TORN UP PRAISE’ – AT BELL HOUSE, GOWANUS, BROOKLYN.
LIVE SOLO VERSION – VIDEO BY DAN ASHER, EDIT BY BYRON KARL, WITH THANKS TO ATOM CIANFRANI and GAVIN TURK. . SHOT FEB 2009. POSTED TO: YouTube MAY 11, 2009.
POSTED BY NANCY SMITH – TUES APRIL 27, 2010 – 1:47 PM
~DAN ASHER, R.I.P. |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 27th, 2010, 12:32pm
FILE UNDER: RABBIT TAUGHT EAGLE – WENT FOR PARE, AND ALSO CAUGHT – WOLFY !!
. . . when you are out and about on the LOWER EAST SIDE on SATURDAY or even SUNDAY !! – you can catch a SECRET GOLDEN FLOWER !! of a show at the new PARTICIPANT location – also on East HOUSTON, 253 EAST HOUSTON, just east of Essex.
HRS: WED-SUN/noon-7 PM
‘That’s When the Rabbit Taught the Eagle a Lesson With a Smith & Wesson’
an installation based on a new limited edition artist book – curated and installed by JASPER SEBASTIAN STURUP.
the book features the work of 5 artists – each of whom got 25 pages:
MIKE PARE – BARRY McGEE – JASPER SEBASTIAN STURUP – KRISTOFER HULTENBERG – D-L ALVAREZ
the show runs thru MAY 2, 2010.
wow. they put some kind of large-scale gold foil paper – over what looks to be raw brick walls !!
the installation reminded me of the ROBERT CRUMB show in that all the pages of the book – were on display – in a beautiful room !! – but here – they were all arrayed in the display case – tables – and the gold foil reflected off the glass surface most magically – while enwrapping the whole room – in a soft warm coppery glow.
between the beautiful array of artist pages, the book format itself, and the golden wall – it was like the Golden Secret Flower had come to life and re-incarnated in newly trantic – NYC !!
or else – it was like being in one hell – of a big gold foil origami flower !!
this is JASPER SEBASTIAN STURUP – the artist behind the book and the installation.
he is also one the 5 artists whose work is ‘sampled’ – in the book.
it was – MIKE PARE who invited me to the opening. He came in from NEW MEXICO – where he and MELISSA SCHERRER, have recently re-located from Brooklyn. I am mad crazy for his work – and this opening reminded me of a Studio Visit – I did with him last year – when he was in a residency on Long Island.
I promise – I swear on my life – if my site ever gets back up and running – that will be the next – STUDIO VISIT – to go live !!
remember these decks – from Mike Pare’s show a few years back at BILL BRADY’S ATM ? they were so ahead of their time – they flew right over some people’s ‘critical’ heads !! but they land just right again, like a cat – in a newly Tantric NYC !! well. they always landed just right for me.
like-wise for all his charcoal, or is that pencil drawings !! it might be graphite. the nudes as well as the …
as the Navajo blanket inspired drawings – speak many tongues. so much so, they are almost golden secret mandalas – themselves, if you wanna push it, and I do.
this is, I guess Mike’s portrait of Melissa Scherrer. Mike told me they have also had their first child, a little girl named Maeve Winona !! ” . . . she was born October 16, 2009 in Albuquerque. She’s a total Libra an loves pedal steel guitar music and the Beatles White Album. She’s a new New Mexican.” !! an artist as well, Mellisa Scherrer has a certain rep in NYC among many – as – the Tarot card reader supreme.
WOLFY and friend – musician ANDREW DEUTSCH – actually this is where I met Wolfy and he told me about his EUCHARIST ZOMBIE SCREENING !! this upcoming Sunday in Brooklyn – at MONSTER ISLAND in Williamsburg.
WOLFY & KAYROCK – made a great silk screen poster for the event.
“JESUS SAID THAT/HE DID”.
ALL PHOTOS COPYRIGHT – NANCY SMITH
THE OPENING RECEPTION OF ‘THAT’S WHEN THE RABBIT TAUGHT THE EAGLE A LESSON WITH A SMITH & WESSON’.
PARTICIPANT, NYC. APRIL 18, 2010.
POSTED BY NANCY SMITH – FRI APRIL 23, 2010 – 4:02 PM
~RABBIT TAUGHT EAGLE !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 23rd, 2010, 1:54pm
FILE THIS UNDER: . . . well you win some, you lose some.
so if you’re still walkin’ around kicking the ground, instead of going 6 ft. under – you might wanna catch some big EARTH DAY action – NYC style.
if you are lucky, and walking around downtown – you might still be able to catch SHEPARD FAIREY and his crew installing a huge mural – on the DEITCH PROJECTS – sponsored mural wall – at the corner of HOUSTON and the BOWERY.
SHEPARD says its about: “Climate change.”
they were just putting on the final details, the spray painted stencil designs – in hardly registerable, finely low-contrast colors – when I passed by yesterday afternoon, Thurs April 22.
the larger segments are ‘wallpaper’ pieces brought in already printed format – from his studio base in Florida.
SHEPARD FAIREY HOUSTON MURAL PHOTOS, NYC – COPYRIGHT NANCY SMITH
go a little further east on Sat April 24, and find BORIS RASIN, KENNY KOMER and SCOTT GOODMAN displaying new artwork in an EARTH DAY CELEBRATION POP-UP !! PARTY !! at SOLAR ONE !! – 24-20 FDR DRIVE SERVICE ROAD EAST (on 23rd St).
Boris Rasin writes: MOTHER EARTH turned 4 billion years old this Earth Day and you are invited to come to her BIRTHDAY PARTY !! Come down and tell her she looks good for her age.”
FREE FOOD – FREE MUSIC – FREE ART – with DJ ANDREW W.K. – performances by Cold cave, Oberhofer and North Highlands, plus a secret !! guest !!
HAPP BEARTHDAY !!
plus – this is a nice way to – party-on for DAN !! – he’d love it !!
ON SUNDAY – APRIL 25th – late in the day – make a sharp left-hand & head into SECRET !! ROBOT !! territory on the furthermost East River coastline of WILLIAMSURG – just in time to catch a big street party and sundown film screening – with WOLFY & his pals !!
SECRET ROBOT – corner of RIVER & METROPOLITAN/ONE BLOCK BELOW KENT.
(watch out for their website – it’s a screen dominator. not totally evil, but still dominating. . . )
THIS TIME IT’S ABOUT THE EUCHARIST / UNLESS YOU EAT MY FLESH AND DRINK MY BLOOD … YOU WILL HAVE NO LIFE IN YOU
IN CELEBRATION OF THE CRISTIAN SAVIOR’S RETURN FROM THE DEAD ON SUNDAY APRIL TWENTY FIFTH / BEHIND MONSTER ISLAND ON THE OLD ABANDONED TANKS WHEN THE DARKNESS RISES SO SHALL ZOMBI MOVIES!
limited edition silkscreen poster by KAYROCK SCREENPRINTING/WOLFY & KAYROCK !!
you can get more info, of a sorts, here: blogspot.wolfypartii !!
POSTED BY NANCY SMITH – FRI APRIL 23, 2010 – 2:45 PM
~EARTH DAY/WEEKEND NYC !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 23rd, 2010, 12:47pm
UP-DATE: DAN ASHER left this planet – hopefully for further adventures – this past Sat April April 24, 2010 – in the very early morning hrs. bye Dan – will definitely miss you.
SIMON CERIGO reports that artist and photographer DAN ASHER is on his death bed. CHRIS from OTHER MUSIC told him. apparently Dan was alive last night – just barely and heavily medicated. Chris went to visit him in the hospital – last night – but nobody’s sure about to-night. It’s just down to days. maybe hours. Simon says: he might be dead by tomorrow. Dan is finally losing a long slow battle with lymphatic cancer – which he had had for many years, but which just sped up and snowballed on him recently. He was a real live wire, but no more. His body is still just just hanging in there . . . just long enough it seems for friends to go say good bye.
though as of Thursday afternoon, April 22, it is said that he is no longer lucid.
GAVIN BROWN gave DAN a special 2 week fund-raiser exhibit of his 1970’s BOB MARLEY photos – just last month.
see: DAN ASHER BENEFIT/GBE !!
DAN ASHER & DR. MONGUSH KENIN-LOBSAN, shaman, ethnographer & writer.
from HEYOKA MAG – with a few Q&A’s with JOHN LeKAY – DAN ASHER trip to Tuva, Southern Siberia/Mongolia. Summer 2002 – and includes a nice array of Dan’s 35 mm photos.
see: DAN ASHER/SIBERIA PHOTO ESSAY/HEYOKA !!
DAN is also known for his small squiggly minimalist pencil line drawings, his pre-sentient late 90’s photos of icebergs in the Antarctic, his photo portraits of extreme wrestling in rural America, and his ‘quirky’ character.
a younger DAN ASHER – in NOVEMBER 1985 – at the inaugural opening, a group show which he was in, along with myself, Walter Robinson and Michael McClard – at Simon’s short-lived venture – SIMON CERIGO GALLERY, 202 AVE A, back in the day when the Lower East Side – really was, that.
(that is in fact, my painting beside him).
ARCHIVAL PHOTO BY NANCY SMITH. NOV 15, 1985, NYC.
COPYRIGHT NANCY SMITH – ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
p.s. don’t take my ‘flipness’ to mean – I’m not sad. I am. I’ve known Dan since I first arrived in New York in 1982. I even worked as an assistant to him – for a couple of years – when he went to & returned from the Antarctic with many many rolls of pix. He was hardwired very tight and was difficult to deal with. short temper. big chip on his shoulder. but very very talented and deserved way more success then he ever got. I’ve always been a huge supporter of his work – and I was really happy to hear Gavin had given him a show last month. they had crossed paths before, but Dan was very high maintenance. contrarian and temperamental. very self-absorbed, as they say. in a way he had to be, like we all do – to survive as full time artists, in this hard-edged town. but it was particularly hard for him tame his passions and relentless energy – but look what great quests he set himself out upon. Gavin put on a wonderful show for Dan at Passerby, a few years back. I covered it on artlovers – but alas the archives are (temporarily) broke. my only feeling now, is that he will find some rest in the next world, and if there is reincarnation – you can bet he is coming back . . . (!!?) I know he knew the value of his work – it’s the rest of you guys – that caused him such great frustration. what a tantric month – this is turning out to be. esp for NYC.
POSTED BY NANCY SMITH – WED APRIL 21, 2010 – 9:33 PM
DAN ASHER came by my show at OTHER MUSIC last year – just about this time !! he brought me the most beautiful flowers – just a few – but very exotic ones. that’s KANA TOGASHI, my daughter Kate’s friend on the right. I think Kate took the photo. Dan and I had grown distant over the recent months – well, it’s a tough game, NYC. life is fragile. friendship is fragile. even websites are fragile. Dan leaves behind a wonderful legacy – a beautiful poetic spiritual body of work – bottomline: that’s something to celebrate, in my opinion.
NANCY SMITH, DAN ASHER, and KANA TOGASHI, OTHER MUSIC, NYC. MAY 21, 2009.
PHOTO COPYRIGHT – KATE CERIGO
POSTED BY NANCY SMITH – THURS APRIL 22, 2010 – 1:53 PM
~ OH OH – SAD NEWS FLASH !! DAN ASHER ABOUT – TO GET HIS WINGS. |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 21st, 2010, 8:23pm
I did catch: JOSH HARRIS/THE ENGER BROS/JASON GRUNWALD/and/THE VIENNAGRAM last weekend – as the lights went down on artlovers’ PHP.
JOSH HARRIS . . . back in town, looking for the GPS on the LITTLE ITALY POKER GAMES.
GOMPERTZ is in THAILAND.
this is GALINSKY – one of the early pioneers at PSEUDO – he ran the talk show.
GALINSKY also had a brief re-surgence of fame – he was the guy behind the CRAZY FAN ATTACKS/that rocked YouTube – when WE LIVE IN PUBLIC – had its NYC MOMA PREMIER last April 2009.
he says Josh was in on the joke – but not Ondi. I’m not so sure just how much Josh was in on that – joke, either !!
judge for yourself.
see: CRAZED FAN ATTACKS PSEUDO.COM FOUNDER JOSH HARRIS !!
see: CRAZED FAN ATTACKS JOSH HARRIS AT MOMA SCREENING – TAKE 2 !!
DAVID LESLIE and MARK ENGER.
DAVID LESLIE – also an early PSEUDO employee – he ran the the big parties – mostly he oversaw the production side of things. It was David Leslie who first hired me to work on the production crew at QUIET. I was already working for Josh !! consulting on his quilt collecting – but his empire was so big – I didn’t even know this was one of his party sites – I just happened to walk by and went in looking for some extra work – I started off painting the wall trim. the rest is history. DAVID LESLIE went on to run the infamous FIGHT CLUB/CELEBRITY ARTIST BOXING MATCHES – that sprung up from the ashes of QUIET.
MATT & MARK – THE ENGER BROS aka EXPLODING SKY WORLDWIDE.
MARK put the silk screen ‘TARGET’ insignias on the QUIET uniforms. MATT & MARK later taught Josh how to shoot up on the farm. This is the opening reception of their new work at MINDY WYATT GALLERY, 814 Broadway, 2nd FL.
the show runs thru MAY 7, 2010.
they are selling a limited selection of their custom silk screened one-of-a kind work jackets.
some of which you might want to think twice about wearing on the streets of NYC – esp if you are going to be drunk or stoned. or even in a MacDonalds !! some dumb ass – is sure to pick a fight with ya.
MARK ENGER – DID THE ALL SILKSCREEN DRAWINGS & PRODUCED ALL THE JACKETS – including THE LOGOS.
DAVID SALLE seems to be having a cultural come back !! after kind of being mothballed. RIGHT ON !!
which is no slight on the ENGER BROS – they know what they do. run the most unrecognized silk screen shop – since ANDY WARHOL hogged all the action. the jackets are going for $100 a pop. the best pop for your art $$ out there right now. no doubt about it.
that’s the LUVVY insignia – on the right – anybody who caught Josh on any fraction of his global media tour for WE LIVE IN PUBLIC – recognizes this one !!
though, you might want to think twice bout truckin’ around in this particular one !!
Josh’s original one had a blank/politically correct back. I think.
porn in comics books is (pretty much) ok.
you don’t always want to wear it upfront & big – on your sleeve !!
MATTHEW ENGER, ‘End of the Trail’, 16 x 20 in. cast acrylic resin on canvas, 2010.
MATT ENGER, drawing. india ink on arches paper, 22 x 31 in.
MATT ENGER, india ink drawing.
this one is for that crazy pierced prescription-druggie-in-major-denial – 18 yr. old chick who drove over some nice old lady retired doctor gardening in her front lawn – yesterday – while driving her BF’s roofsiding van – metal ladders and all on top – yesterday on Long Island.
one of MARK ENGER’s unique silk screen paintings.
can you make out – what’s coming up ?
MARK ENGER.
yo, The Last Supper.
ALL PHOTOS – COPYRIGHT NANCY SMITH
POSTED BY NANCY SMITH – WED APRIL 21, 2010 – 11:35 PM
then at about 9 PM, took a sharp turn left – and headed over to BUSHWICK to catch the opening at EASTERN DISTRICT – 43 BOGART ST – MORGAN STOP – L TRAIN.
JASON GRUNWALD OPENS – his multi-media/mini-retropsective – ‘Was it all just a dream?’
Mr. Grunwald is best known for his music posters, this one is for SONIC YOUTH
SONIC YOUTH / BIG A, little a.
FAST FOURIER/THE COACHWHIPS/400 BLOWS/VAZ/X27/LANGHORNE SLIM/PARTS AND LABOR/YELLOW SWANS/GRIZZLY BEAR/NARNACK RECORDS/VELVET SPADE/MARCH 19, 2005
no surprise here. as befits someone who is so involved in the music world – JASON GRUNWALD presented an amazing fab fab band – as his performance guests at his opening – THE VIENNAGRAM !!
(their early early posts on YouTube – don’t do them justice)
A FEW MORE PIX OF THE VIENNAGRAM – COMING UP SHORTLY.
ALL PHOTOS – COPYRIGHT NANCY SMITH
POSTED BY NANCY SMITH – THURS APRIL 22, 2010 – 12:06 AM
~SECRET WEEKEND/WLIP/EXPL SKY & EASTERN DISTRICT/FRI APRIL 14th !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 21st, 2010, 7:16pm
TALK ABOUT A BUZZ KILL, DUDE !!
artlovers is in a huge tech melt-down.
the site was taken over by aliens. just joking.
the site was taken on a server up-grade and did not make the leap.
short story – only the WORDPRESS section sort-of works – and only in this limited format. the BOMB is almost bombproof – but the home page is frozen.
all the custom photo pages are busted – cannot up-date. even here on the BOMB, the left-hand side ARCHIVES – are gone. no comment. bummer.
movie and music reviews – in a complete state of wipe-out.
so heads up – all you hard-core artlovers junkies – artlovers is in SECRET MODE, now !!
with the HOME PAGE busted – will try to work on this page.
TO-NITE – TUES APRIL 20, 2010 – 7 PM: FRANK SANTORO AND DASH SHAW at McNALLY JACKSON BOOKS – 52 PRINCE ST bet LAFAYETTE & MULBERRY. NOHO.
so first, hit the ‘APRIL 20’ link – and read the smart in-house review of DASH SHAW’S – ‘BodyWorld’ – on the McNALLY JACKSON site !!
POSTED BY NANCY SMITH – TUES APRIL 20, 2010 – 2 PM
apart from the obvious visual richness and originality of the book – this reviewer makes nice mention of Dash’s . . . “love for mystery. There were many codes, or strange elements in ‘Bottomless BellyButton’ (this reviewer’s ‘favorite graphic novel of 2008’), that went little-remarked-upon and never solved . . . all of this strangeness and panting humanity comes to light in ‘BodyWorld'” . . .
‘Bodyworld’ – originally began as comic series on Dash Shaw’s own website.
check out: DASH SHAW – ‘BodyWorld’ !!
Conversing with DASH – will be FRANK SANTORO – fellow cartoonist and downtown fave – the artist behind the “revered” ‘Storeyville’ and a “gorgeous new” series – ‘Cold Heat’.
see: FRANK SANTORO – ‘Cold Heat’ !!
~DASH SHAW/FRANK SANTORO/BOOKSIGNING |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 20th, 2010, 12:15pm
DASH SHAW, left, was introduced and interviewed briefly – by CHIP KIDD, the graphic design artist – who is also the editor-in-chief of PANTHEON BOOKS – which just published Mr. Shaw’s new hard cover book – ‘BodyWorld’.
the book signing took place at the STRAND BOOKSTORE – last night, Tuesday, April 14, 2010.
see: RANDOM HOUSE/PANTHEON/DASH SHAW – ‘BodyWorld’
Dash spoke entertainingly of his early experiences, in and out of school – but esp about being in school briefly in Japan, and working as a nude model for university art school drawing classes in Richmond, Virginia – to his more recent comings and goings through the SVA program here in NYC. On the technical side of things – he touched on how he generates his work, his stories have close connections to his real life world, and how he works, for immediacy, feedback and animation on the web – to his strongly expressed feeling that: hard copy books – will only become more and more beautiful – unique objects – to handle and behold – as opposed to becoming irrelevant & phased-out.
case at hand: his book !! – ‘BodyWorld’ is actually – top bound . . . like some sketch books,
– so it opens up – and works pretty much – as a kind of vertical hard cover flip book.
for a comic or graphic novel – it includes a large degree of art world visual ‘content’ cross-over – and, in fact – apart from naming GARY PANTER and DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI as two of his biggest comic world influences – he also made a strong point of referencing painter DAVID SALLE – whose image layering, and wide graphic nuancing, as well as abstract fields – can be easily picked out – esp once mentioned.
the graphics per se, text fonts and lay-out – were very high-tech, futuristic and – pretty much – far out.
the color palette was also very striking – from the reflective chrome-like detailing on the cover, the bright ‘label’ orange digital lettering on the page sides – to the actual story board narrations.
the drawing of the characters, and the page compositions – easily straddled both the comic, and the art worlds.
he spoke about ‘evolving’ comic style – as in, how he had come to appreciate most – those contemporary comic book artists who have ‘evolving’ graphic style. there was a funny, brief exchange between himself and moderator Chip Kidd – when pressed to elaborate a little further . . . Mr. Kidd seemed at first stunned, when Dash Shaw pulled GARY PANTER’S name seemingly out of the air in this context. but as everyone took 2 mins to internalize and contemplate the issue – you could almost see the mental light bulbs going off – across the room – as in, exactly so. get it.
art meets illustration . . .
of course CHIP KIDD himself, is a truly ‘seminal’ figure in the worlds of graphic design and comic book culture – or as they often call ’em now = graphic novels, and two of his books were on hand as well.
CHIP KIDD, ‘The Learners’ – ‘THE BOOK AFTER THE CHEESE MONKEYS’.
CHIP KIDD, ‘The CHEESE MONKEYS’ – ‘A NOVEL IN TWO SEMESTERS’.
after the introductory – Dash moved on to project, narrate, and explain some of the background – behind a chapter of the book.
like he said: his school experience in Japan – and his time in Richmond – as a drawing class nude model – seemed to have laid the seeds for much of the action !!
then, in what became immediately apparent – as a huge one-time treat – he projected a brief animated project.
it was made very simply – just some colored sharpies on plain white 8 x 10 copy paper . . .
that started off pretty simple and then went – far out !!
the animation – was the simplest you can generate by computer, just basically numbering the pages – essentially to screen – in a rapid order. that’s how they moved – they were ‘animated’ – in the truest sense of the word – by the visual logic of the sharpie drawing.
DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI’S ‘HAIR NUDE’. ha ha came to mind !!
but whereas DAVID MAZZUCCELLI is so dark and twisted. socially and emotionally powerful. even scarring. think the Joker – DASH SHAW’S work is more compelling in a future shock highly mentally projected far out – alternative story-telling universe – new world kind of way.
still part of the brief, but b-r-i-l-l-i-a-n-t !! kind of thrilling really – animation – DASH SHAW: ‘The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D.’ The story seems to bounce off his nude drawing model days and goes off into deep end contemplation of humans losing their individuality as they evolve into entities that “intoxicate” each others thoughts with a rampant dominant form of social telepathy !!
truly, for me – the drawing line – was just as fascinating as the story line . . .
after the projection – Dash Shaw was animated himself !! he had scored with the small but very happy audience. everyone there knew – you had caught a very special moment.
CHIP KIDD was wonderfully laid back, too. just watching the roll and flow. of his not easily defined young author/artist.
and then, let the book signing – begin !!
he had brought along – a nice array of colored markers.
BOOK SIGNING – DASH SHAW and CHIP KIDD
STRAND BOOKSTORE, NYC – APRIL 13, 2010
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~DASH SHAW/CHIP KIDD/STRAND BOOKSIGNING !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 14th, 2010, 6:29pm
the young comic artist – DASH SHAW designed this year’s MoCCA ART FEST 2010 poster. the MoCCA Festival, a benefit for the museum took place last weekend, APRIL 10 & 11 at the 69th REGIMENT ARMORY/68 LEXINGTON.
DASH SHAW spoke on a panel with FRANK SANTORO and BILL KARTALOPOULOS on Sat, from 12:45 – 1:30pm.
interesting note: the 2010 ‘KLEIN AWARD’ was presented to DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI by CHIP KIDD !!
DASH SHAW is the creator of ‘BodyWorld’, ‘Bottomless Belly Button, and ‘The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D.’.
Born in Los Angeles, (Hollywood !!), California (April 6, 1983), he grew up in Richmond Virginia. He graduated with a BFA in Cartooning/Illustration from SVA/School of Visual Arts, NYC, in 2005 – and is currently Brooklyn-based.
for more info – see: WIKIPEDIA/DASH SHAW !!
DASH SHAW has a concurrent show up now at MoCCA/MUSEUM of COMIC and CARTOON ART – titled:
‘DASH SHAW MAKING THE ABYSS’ – running thru MAY 30, 2010. it is a survey – comprised of drawings from ‘BodyWorld’, ‘Bottomless Belly Button’, ‘The Uncanny Reproduction’ and ‘The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century’, as well as presenting a selection of animations, and some comic short stories.
DASH SHAW will be giving an ARTIST TALK at the museum – TUES MAY 25, 2010 – at 7 PM.
MoCCA/ MUSEUM OF COMIC and CARTOON ART – 594 BROADWAY/SUITE 401 – BETW HOUSTON & PRINCE
HOURS: TUES-SUN 12pm-5pm
GENERAL ADMISSION: $5 / Children under 12 – FREE
~DASH SHAW/MoCCA ART FEST POSTER 2010 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 14th, 2010, 6:05pm
NEEDLES & PINS, SAN FRANCISCO – PRESENTS:
‘Don’t Take Vaccines’ – a solo art exhibit by – NICK MANN aka “Doodles”.
opening to-nite FRI APRIL 9, 2010 / 6-9 PM
the show runs thru MAY 9, 2010
NEEDLES & PENS – 3523 16th ST – SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
NICK MANN aka Doodles – is “a San Francisco-based street artist … whose creations are a combination of delicately wheat-pasted pieces of paper, gritty spray paint, and eerie neon Nordic creatures . . . in a nutshell Nick is the anonymous person that pasted up that beautiful character that you admire everyday as you ride the bus to work.” – NEEDLES & PENS
~NICK MANN/NEEDLES & PENS/SAN FRANCISCO |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 9th, 2010, 11:52am
