dedicated – to the stab-you-in-your-back / players in the art world,
here & in . . . Paris.
so tired of that greedy. lying, thieving . . old school game, can’t you guys – EVOLVE ?!!!!
the world is def, gonna leave you – behind.
ELTON JOHN, DUA LIPA . . .
“it’s a human sign
when things go wrong . . .
Cold, cold heart
Hardened by you (oh)
Some things lookin’ better, baby
Just passing through . . . ”
watch: ELTON JOHN, DUA LIPA . . ‘Cold Heart’ / Official video
watch out . . . . . !!!!
you.
you . . . cold, cold heart.
‘Pixel-by-Pixel: Interventions by LUKE MURPHY’
OCT 30, 2021 – APRIL 10, 2022
SMoCA – Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
7374 East Second Street, Scottsdale, Arizona 85251
more: LUKE MURPHY – SMoCA
LUKE MURPHY, ‘Monument to the Glitch (Tower 3)’, 2019.
LED light sculpture – with custom computer elements / software & assorted hardware.
image via: SMoCA
“LUKE MURPHY . . . subverts & liberates technology through re-purposing and recontextualizing it – to reveal its . . innate h-u-m-a–n-i-t-y.”
“To him, technology, screens, and code are physical and fragile in the same ways that we are – we break, crack, glitch, and can get repaired.”
“MURPHY . . . works with the LED screens we often see outside advertising the next big thing. He sees LED screens as part of the landscape, and although these light panels are intended to be selling machines, Murphy views them as beautiful, chatty companions, so he uses them as his primary medium, undermining their form and function.
“MURPHY’S . . . interventions (placed) throughout the Museum are interruptions to the norm. His work questions whether our interaction with screens are the real experience and art is simply just the content of the experience. He is interested in exposing the materiality of technology because there is such an effort to hide the material nature of tech to achieve total seamlessness.”
Organized by Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Curated by JULIE GANAS, curator of engagement and digital initiatives.
note: all above quotes – are from, & please read full statement: SMoCA – LUKE MURPHY EXHIBIT
NOTE: the animated, text-based / digital “LED DELI BANNER” – ‘RESIST’,
that runs across the top of this page – is also by LUKE MURPHY.
see: LUKE MURPHY / lukelab.com – ARTIST
PORTFOLIO
see: LUKE MURPHY INSTAGRAM / @lukemurphy49
& watch this, you . . . neon-colored, but cold, cold – heart !!
see: ‘You’ve Been Lonesome, Too’ / WIP – LUKE MURPHY, RECENT VIDEO / IG
color studies – in the key of DREAMS !!
‘ANNA KUNZ: WITH RAYS’
ALEXANDER BERGGRUEN / UP THRU . . . NOV 20, 2021.
read more: ‘ANNA KUNZ: WITH RAYS’ / BERGGRUEN
ANNA KUNZ with . .
‘Unseeing Green’, 2021.
acrylic on canvas
60 x 66 in.
a glimpse of:
ANNA KUNZ, ‘The Tide’, 2021.
acrylic on canvas
66 x 60 in.
ANNA KUNZ, ‘Demo’, 2021.
oil on linen / 13 x 11 in.
PHOTOS: KATE CERIGO
yeah.
fill me up with some of those . . . bright-eyed, thinking-mind / sun, sunny rays,
just before that cold, cold and pretty much /
I’m guessing . . cold-hearted !!
Winter 2021 – rolls in.
‘ANNA KUNZ: WITH RAYS’
OPENS WED OCT 20 / 5 – 9 PM
and runs thru . . NOV 20, 2021
ALEXANDER BERGGRUEN GALLERY, 10118 MADISON AVE, Fl 3. UPTOWM, NYC NY 10075
the gallery states that . . .
“With respect to the JOSEF ALBERS’ . . . 1959 painting, ‘Homage to the Square: With Rays’, (collection of the MET Museum, NY), KUNZ seeks to convey through her compositions . . . optical progressions – as colors ‘ray out’ towards the viewer and, into their vision.
Following Albers in drawing parallels between the relationships of colors, and those of humans, Kunz’s approach to color perception produces an ‘intra-active’ – (term composed by feminist physicist Karen Barad), which postulates that action originates from within relationships’ structures, not from cause and effect between individual entities – viewing experience.”
ANNA KUNZ . . . lives and works in Chicago, Il.
read more: ‘Anna Kunz – WITH RAYS’ / BERGGRUEN
ANNA KUNZ, ‘Birches’, 2021.
acrylic on canvas / 90 x 80 in. / 7 ft. 5 in. x 6 ft. 6 in.
image: courtesy ALEXANDER BERGGRUEN
PRECOG MAGAZINE . . is excited to announce their latest curatorial project for the NARS FOUNDATION / EXHIBITION SPACE
‘BUBBLE ORCHESTRA’ . . is the first physical exhibition based around Issue 5 of Precog Magazine.
“Bubble Orchestra. . . prompts ideas around the concept and materiality of bubbles: as a metaphor for thinking through ideas of individuality & group cohesion; echo chambers and their tenuousness; algorithms; and the fragility of identity.”
~Precog
with:
ALISON KUO, AMIKO LI, ANJULI RATHOD, BEN ROSS DAVIS, BLINN AND LAMBERT, CARLOS FRANCO,
OLOLADE ADENIYI, PATRICIA DOMINGUEZ, UMBER MAJEED, and VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER.
OPENING: FRI OCT 15 / 6 – 8 PM
and running thru . . . NOV 5, 2021
NARS FOUNDATION / MAIN GALLERY: 201 46th St, 4th Fl, Brooklyn, NY 11220.
see: NARS INFO & HRS
see: Precog Magazine
see: NARS Foundation
more info: ‘Bubble Exhibit’ – NARS
a few more images !!
the show is up thru . . NOV 9, 2021
KRISTEN LORELLO
‘Canciones en la Colmena’ / Songs Inside the Beehive
Brooklyn-based Florencia Escudero – was born in Singapore in 1987 / she is also a co-founder, co-publisher & co-editor of Precog Magazine
the sound elements – are by Mexico-based artist and writer Lucia Hinojosa Gaxiola with a “techno-futuristic vibe”.
more info: Florencia Escudero – Kristen Lorello
FLORENCIA ESCUDERO,’Odalisque’, 2021.
Hand-sewn digitally printed satin, hand-dyed and silk-screened ribbed cotton over piping, silk-screened vinyl, crocodile-stamped pleather, cast pewter, handbag chains, foam, and crushed velvet hand-sewn over foam.
28 x 18 x 15 in.
Photo courtesy: Kristen Lorello
FLORENCIA ESCUDERO, ‘Gitana’, 2021.
Hand-sewn digitally printed satin, cast resin, cast resin with speaker, cast resin with cst resin lips, vinyl hand-sewn over piping, foam, speaker, wires, metal, amp, and MP3 player with original sound piece by LUCIA HINOJOSA GAXIOLA: ‘Mass of Branched Decomposition’, MP3 recording from live performance, and field recording made with voice, SK-5 Casio sampling keyboard, rocks, dry lichen, dry leaves, bark, sticks, wood, tin bucket, 12 mins, looped.
26-1/2 x 24-1/2 x 20 in.
Photo courtesy: Kristen Lorello
‘SONGS inside the BEEHIVE’ – how pretty !! complex, strong, gentle, fantastical & . . . poetic !!!!!
FLORENCIA ESCUDERO – ‘Canciones en la Colmena’
open to the public / SAT OCT 8
running thru . . . . NOV 9, 2021
KRISTEN LORELLO, 23 E. 73rd St., Manhattan / 5th Floor, Buzzer 5F
HRS: TUES-SAT / 11- 6 PM
see: KRISTEN LORELLO GALLERY / IG
image via Instagram @floescu
FLORENCIA ESCUDERO / in her studio.
everyone calls her: FLO, and ‘flow forth’ (!!!) – she does !!
FLORENCIA . . . wears many hats, she’s a co-founder / co-publisher & co-curator of Precog Mag /
and, she works in many mediums / mostly . . in the ‘soft’ realm.
it would be very hard – not to say limiting / to try and put a label on her, or her work.
unless you want to say: experimental, hard-worker / with, a huge imagination & a heart of gold.
image via Instagram @floescu
FLORENCIA ESCUDERO – large fabric sculpture
image via Instagram @floescu
FLORENCIA ESCUDERO / I guess that’s – the ‘hive’ !!
a kind of, and kind !! metaphor for community – mindset !!
JACK HENRY, part of: ‘Or a Moon’s Surface the Planet Admires’,
P.A.D. / PROJECT ART DISTRIBUTION / PATRICK MOHUNDRO / SIDEWALK POP-UP / SOHO
this Sat, Oct 9, 2021 / 11am – 8pm
Spring & Mercer !!
see: P.A.D.
see: JACK HENRY @jackbhenry
JACK HENRY / image via Instagram @project_art_distribution
“casting trash into treasure, Jack Henry’s resin objects keep us attuned to the little. overlooked
things in our New York lives.’
~P.A.D.
JACK HENRY, ‘lock’. image via Instagram @project_art_distribution
“come pick up – a small momento of your daily commute !!”
~P.A.D.
looking good !!!
‘HENRY FOOL’ – 11 person group show
opened OCT 5, 2021
runs thru . . . ????
TRIEST, 526 WILSON AVE., BROOKLYN 11207 / BUSHWICK
OPEN BY APP’T
with: JOE SPEIER, DANI ARNICA, JAMIE LYNN KLEIN, JAKE SHORE, ERIC SCHMID, HUNTER HUNT HENDRIX,
WALTER SMITH, JACK LAWLER, DEVON LOWMAN, RYAN FOERSTER, & BROCK BIERLY
see: TRIEST / INSTAGRAM @triest.es
here’s a small sampling:
JOE SPEIER, ‘Millennial Painting 10 (Sunny Day Girl)’,
acrylic medium, acrylic paint, glitter, ballpoint pen, marker on canvas.
48 x 60 in.
image via Instagram / @joe_sleepover
JACK LAWLER, ‘Frustrated’, oil on canvas.
image via Instagram @triest.es
‘HENRY FOOL’ – POSTER
image via Instagram @triest.es
ALL HAIL . . THE ‘REBEL’ VERNACULAR !!
IT’S COMING TO BITE – YOUR TOES !!
ANDREW FRANCIS in . . .
PATRICK MOHUNDRO – PRESENTS P.A.D. / PROJECT ART DISTRIBUTION
in his latest NYC sidewalk pop-up / ‘Head, Shoulders, Feet and Toes’
SAT OCT 2, 2021 / 11AM – 8PM
SPRING & MERCER / SOHO, DOWNTOWN / TRIBECA, NYC
see: ANDREW FRANCIS – INSTAGRAM
see: P.A.D. / PROJECT ART DISTRIBUTION – INSTAGRAM
image via Instagram @andrewmeriwetherfrancis
ANDREW FRANCIS,’KIM & KANYE GO TO THE MUSEUM’ aka ‘KIM & KANYE SPLIT’ (!!!)
DYE-SUBLIMATED IMAGES / VIA A COMMERCIAL PRINTER / MEN’S SOCKS / UNIQUE SET, 2021.
cost: sliding scale $40-$25 / go get . . yours !!!!
Language, cynicism, community, and real ‘care’ – about this world we inhabit,
and, a big big vibe of wicked smart humor – are all a big part of this creative’s – going wild on ‘utilitarian’ / commonplace & functional / body warmth – objects / aka ‘your clothing’ !!
and, very much – a wicked step-cousin to quilt-making – btw.
warmth, communication & visual . . hurrah !!
image via Instagram @andrewmweriwetherfrancis
Andrew posted this photo – of the work-in-progress in home / studio !!
it interests me for the energy, but also as a kind of answer – to those of you who may be thinking / Soho ? Lord !!
what would . . . JACKSON POLLOCK – be thinking ?
well, squint your eyes at the image / ha,ha not – so far off.
image via Instagram @andrewmeriwtherfrancis
Andrew will also be hawking some of his . . . ‘I Love Judy Woodruff’ / custom printed shirts !!
for all of youse – heading back into on-site work spaces and/or offices, and needing to re-fresh your work-from-home Covid attire !!!
Andrew says: “come bask – in her moral rectitude’ . . . &
I say: yeah, for sure: be part of the new / . . . hand-made DIY vernacular !!
and, maybe help change people’s dumbass – mindset / along the way.
can you imagine finding these – in a thrift shop / 20 years down the road ?
and, the world just keeps on – turning !!