OLGA CHERNYSHEVA – last week !!
SEPT 9 – OCT 10, 2008
FOXY PRODUCTION – 617 WEST 27th ST. – CHELSEA – NYC
last week to catch this rather enigmatic show – a documentary take – that has the feel of an artwork. It’s also interesting because it’s the rare Moscow-based artist – female – at that, that scores face time on 27th ST. – land of the (most) cutting edge !!
OLGA CHERNYSHEVA, ‘ALLEY OF COSMONAUTS’, 2008, Silver-gelatin fiber prints.
Edition of 5 + 2AP. The silver gelatin process brings a soulful dimension to this scene – already strange in its natural state of deterioration – Moscow’s “famous avenue of statues dedicated to the heroes of Soviet space travel.” It’s really, at its most basic – photography ‘of the street’, in that it is just plain and simple, but deeply felt – photographic capture – of what is ironically just there – a very charged scene – in the right hands – for the taking !!
the protectively covered cosmonaut statues flicker between aspects of dignified Buddhas, mysterious ancient totems, zombies, mummies, or even, upright & about to walk – living dead – body bags about to come to life – just in time for Halloween.
on the opposite wall – a completely different series. ‘FROM THE DEPUTY’, 2008, Duraclear prints.
Edition of 5 + 2AP.
at first take – these seem to be actual black ‘sharpie’ & spray paint drawings on clear mylar. street art – inspired spontaneous gestures with bits of realist street underpinnings. but, no !! these are also photographs – large, beautifully ‘transparent’ in the most way-out definition – of actual, street murals made by local artists – in Russian bus shelters !! street-art photographs with a completely different feel.
. . . “FROM THE DEPUTY is a series of black and white transparencies of a municipal public art project in various stages of decay and erasure. Forlorn and vandalized murals have been overlaid with a stenciled statement from the city chief, announcing his benevolence in commissioning the project. Presenting tensions between social policy and artistic practice, the series memorializes the work of the original
artist while questioning whether autonomy is possible.” – press release.
MICHAEL GILLESPIE paces the galley – it’s also – your last look at this space – FOXY PRODUCTION moves on up – to a bigger space – the old Clementine Gallery – a few doors over – on FRIDAY, the 17th of this month, OCT 2008 – the inaugural exhibit to feature new work by the young JIM BAKER.
but let’s give the last word, to the artist at hand. on a 3rd wall – there is a loop screening of a brief street video that feels so unlike our own – as to cause a sensation of foreign time travel !!
OLGA CHERNSYHEVA’S video: ‘Untitled’ portrays a low-profile (friend of hers) pedestrian trying to peddle (?) a very young child’s version of etch-a-sketch doodles – that vanish into spatial infinity.
iMAGE/OLGA CHERNYSHEVA VIDEO CLIP/COURTESY: MoMA
note: there will be a screening of a series of MS. CHERNYSHEVA’S videos in the new MODERN MONDAYS series at MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) – on MONDAY OCT 20th, 2008 at 7pm. Although Ms. Chernysheva was not able to be present at the FOXY PRODUCTION opening – she will be present at this screening !!
for more info, see: MoMA/OLGA CHERNYSHEVA !!
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH/unless otherwise noted
FOXY PRODUCTION
~OLGA CHERNYSHEVA/last week !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 7th, 2008, 10:24am
AUREL SCHMIDT – ‘MAN EATER’ – OPENS TO-NITE – SAT OCT 4 – 6-9PM
the show runs: OCT 4 – NOV 1, 2008
DEITCH PROJECTS – 76 GRAND ST – SOHO – NYC
DEITCH PROJECTS
~AUREL SCHMIDT/MAN EATER/opening to-nite !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 4th, 2008, 8:32am
LECTURE – COLONIAL REVIVAL QUILTS – NOON – SAT – OCT 4, 2008
The American Folk Art Museum – BRANCH LOCATION at 2 LINCOLN SQUARE
Columbus Avenue at 66th Street
FREE
as part of a QUILT WEEKEND (OCT 3-4, 2008)
SPEAKER: SHARON L. EISENSTAT, co-author, ‘Glorious American Quilts’ (1996)
“While popular interest in America’s past was sparked by the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial exposition and promoted by the spread of the arts and crafts movement in the late 19th century, it was the colonial revival of the early 20th century that truly inspired women to search their attics and basements for antique quilts and, failing that, to sew their own interpretations of the old-time bedcovers using natural, unadorned materials in simple designs. Museum exhibitions, magazine articles, and even advertisements for household products encouraged Americans to decorate in what was becoming the unofficial national style, and cotton patchwork quilt were viewed as the appropriate accessories for the new decorating mode that drew its inspiration from a romanticized American past.” – press release
. . . afterwards, from 1:30 to 4:30, at the same location:
DEMONSTRATIONS – METROPOLITAN-AREA QUILT GUILDS – CONTEMPORARY QUILTS
SHARON L. EISENSTAT, co-author, ‘Glorious American Quilts’ (1996)
a beautiful pattern of light and dark contrasts – a variation on a traditional log cabin pattern.
Designed by PATRICIA LOQUET and LESLIE FORREST of the NORTHERN STAR QUILTERS’
GUILD of Somers, NY. – it is their 2009 RAFFLE QUILT. ( tickets: $1 ea./$5 for book of 6)
see: NORTHER STAR QUILTERS’ GUILD/RAFFLE QUILT
AUDREY PHILLIPS and THADINE WORMLEY-HERNDON of the Quilt-n-Queens Guild,
of Jamaica, New York.
a Quilt-n-Queens album quilt – made up of squares contributed by individual members.
EDWARD BOSTICK, who teaches at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, with his quilts. believe
he said the one on the table – was a ‘rain or shine’ pattern.
EDWARD BOSTICK is a member of the Quilters of Color Network of New York, Inc.
which was established in 1996. Mr. Bostwick has an interesting statement on their website,
see: QCNNY, then hit: ‘Guild Members’ on left index.
RHONA TRIGGS, also a member of QCNNY – Quilters of Color Network of New York.
RHONA TRIGGS is working on an (archival) photo transfer square of her mother’s high school
in New Rochelle.
WINNIFRED SANDLER, also a member of Quilters of Color Network of New York.
WINNIFRED SANDLER shows us her, ‘TUMBLER’.
some more of WINNIFRED SANDLER’S quilt work
WINNIFRED SANDLER also makes the dolls, that are sometimes found stitched
onto her quilt pieces.
LINDA BOKUNIEWICC and MARIAN SHIPLEY of the HUNTINGTON,
LONG ISLAND GUILD. Established in 1981 – it has about 100 members.
JUDY KNORR, who with LINDA BOKUNIEWICC, made the ‘Winter Bouquet’ quilt
hanging behind them. Claudia Chapman did the quilting. The quilt was featured in McCall’s
Quilting Magazine – and is their December 2008 – ‘Raffle’ Quilt (raffle tickets $1 !!) .
LISA KENHRLE and KAREN GRISKA of the EMPIRE QUILTERS GUILD. Behind them is their guild’s
2009 Raffle Quilt – ‘Broadway Jane’. EMPIRE QUILTERS holds its meetings at FIT,
Fashion Institute of Technology. check out: EMPIRE QUILTERS
the EMPIRE QUILTERS 2009 RAFFLE QUILT – ‘BROADWAY JANE’.
PHOTO: HAMLIN ROSE DIGITAL/COURTESY: EMPIRE QUILTERS
on the website, you can even opt to see the individual squares up close: EMPIRE QUILTERS,
as well as purchase raffle tickets !!
KAREN GRISKA’S crazy quilt was on the table in front of them.
detail – KAREN GRISKA’S crazy quilt – with all its many & various elements, including
yo-yos, crochet designs, beadwork, tiny metal charms, buttons, and intricate, colored stitches.
including a spider web – which Ms. GRISKA said was a Victorian crazy quilt – tradition.
KAREN GRISKA has also just published a very interesting book on SELVAGE quilting !!
see more here: KAREN GRISKA/SELVAGE EDGE !!
the blog on the site is most fun: KAREN GRISKA/SELVAGE BLOG !!
LEE EBS, also of EMPIRE QUILTERS, works on a baby quilt – why do we get the feeling,
that this baby is being aptly blessed – with a VERY !! contemporary ‘protection’.
QUICK !! – SOMEBODY MAKE – ME !! – A BIG ONE LIKE, that !!
LEE EBS’ baby quilt – being made for a friend of hers.
detail, LEE EBS – baby quilt.
LEE EBS – baby quilt, detail reverse backing field.
JENNIFER HORAN of the QUILT GUILD of BROOKLYN !!
see: QUILTERS’ GUILD OF BROOKLYN
MERRIE HANDFINGER, also of the QUILT GUILD of BROOKLYN, located in Park Slope.
her baby quilt is one of many, her guild makes and donates, to comfort NYC babies – born to disadvantaged/troubled beginnings.
ELLEN O’DWYER of the LONG ISLAND QUILTERS’ SOCIETY.
on the left, LEE KOGAN, curator of Public Programs and Special Exhibitions,
American Folk Art Museum – who organized this event.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM
~COLONIAL REVIVAL QUILTS/CONTEMPORARY QUILTS/The American Folk Art Museum/today !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 4th, 2008, 7:51am
THE BROOKLYN ART COLLECTIVE in collaboration with ART SPACE NYC, NY@War,
& SHOWPAPER – PRESENT:
a group exhibition featuring 30 of New York’s finest up and coming artists.
Work includes painting, photography, sculpture, and projections.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 3rd, 2008 – 7pm – 4am !! – PAR-TAY !!
ALPHABETA – 70 GREENPOINT AVE & FRANKLIN / GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN
(take G-train to Greenpoint Ave stop)
FREE before 9pm – $7 ENTRANCE After
Free wine & well drinks before 9
Bands hosted by SHOWPAPER: Abigail Warchild, Runtime Error, Boogie Boarder, & Dinowalrus
DJs: TADT (The American Dream Team) & Teenwolf (Ninjasonik)
Bands begin at 9 / DJs begin at 12
see: BROOKLYN ART COLLECTIVE
see: SHOWPAPER/MYSPACE
sample: ABIGAIL WARCHILD
sample: RUNTIME ERROR
sample: BOOGIE BOARDER
sample: DINOWALRUS
FRAME FROM: BOOGIE BOARDER/MYSPACE !! – YES, CHECK IT OUT !!
and, regarding the ART part of the nite – the show will include PHOTOGRAPHY from:
check it out !! – THE CULTURE OF ME * !! *!! * !! * !! *
artwork/FRAME FROM: Video by MAX JUSTUS – “CTRL-ALT-Dance”/COURTESY: MAX JUSTUS/CULTURE OF ME
~PERFECT STRANGERS/ALPHABETA |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 3rd, 2008, 11:24am
ARCHIVAL PHOTO/DAN ASHER OPENS ‘BIRD Of PREY’, GBE@Passerby, OCT 14, 2005
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
PHOTO: DAN ASHER, in ‘BIRD OF PREY’.
when DAN ASHER exhibited his first shot at gaining some attention in a long time, in the FALL of 2005 at Passerby – nobody noticed.
artlovers wrote at the time: “Dan Asher’s show ‘BIRD OF PREY’ was one of the best shows of FALL 2005, which, for no good reason, slipped by under the mainstream radar. ‘BIRD OF PREY’ was a one man compilation of photographs that ranged from stupendous iceberg and aurora borealis landscapes to extreme and violent illegal ‘backyard’ wrestling events that flourish in the mid-west – with a few Middle America portraits thrown in for good measure.”
see: the original post
see: PIX FROM THE 2005 OPENING & PHOTOS OF THE WORK !!
but, now he has work up at WHITE COLUMNS – and somebody, very mainstream – took note !!
in a review of their current offerings – no less a critic than ROBERTA SMITH, wrote in today’s NEW YORK TIMES ART In REVIEW SECTION (FRIDAY, OCT 3, 2008) . . .
” . . . but the general reticence (of the main exhibit a curatorial presentation by B. WURTZ) is disrupted by two other shows: the raucous quilt paintings of VIOLETTE ALBY and a 25-year survey of the alternately Minimalist and Expressionist paintings and drawings of the talented DAN ASHER.
But Mr. Asher brings everything to a gentle fade-out with a recent irresistibly musical video titled ‘Moonscape’, in which a succession of blurry photographs of a moonlit ocean finds its ideal accompaniment in LIZ DURRETT singing ‘The Sea a Dream’. It is amazing what can be accomplished with a cellphone in motion”.
– ROBERTA SMITH
P.S. DAN was so nice to write us a little note correcting Roberta’s review: he didn’t use a cellphone. let alone one in motion !! – (she must have ROB PRUITT’S show – ‘iPhotos’ – now up at GBE – stuck on the brain !!).
Dan says: …”bye the way, the video wasn’t shot with a cellphone camera, it was shot at the Jersey Shore last summer on TOM JARMUSCH’S not-so-vintage canon camcorder with a slow shutter speed” and, goes on in his indomitable way… “when next I see the esteemed R. SMITH, I’ll tell her, half in jest, that my cellphone actually doesn’t have camera/nor a video component which in the eyes of the judiciously meticulous reviewer of the ‘paper of record’ would make its (the video’s) existence – all the more indigenously amazing (double grin !!).”
see: installation shots/DAN ASHER/WHITE COLUMNS
DAN ASHER – WHITE ROOM and PROJECT
SEPT 10 – OCT 25, 2008
WHITE COLUMNS – 320 West 13th St (entrance on Horatio St) – WEST VILLAGE
WHITE COLUMNS
~DAN ASHER/WHITE COLUMNS |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 3rd, 2008, 10:38am
. . . also really like this image, that is currently featured on the CASEY KAPLAN home page:
LIAM GILLICK, ‘THE FUTURE ALWAYS ACTS DIFFERENTLY’, German Pavilion,
Venice Biennale, 2009
PHOTO COURTESY: CASEY KAPLAN
here’s LIAM GILLICK in 2005, at the opening of “LOS ANGELES” – a knock-out fantastic film by SARAH MORRIS, his wife, for which he contributed the very dynamic sound track.
FREDRICH PETZEL GALLERY, FEB 19, 2005
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
see: the original post – FEB 2005 ALL-STAR CATCH-UP !!
CASEY KAPLAN
~LIAM GILLICK |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 3rd, 2008, 1:45am
NATHAN CARTER, ‘UNDERGROUND RADIO GIBRALTAR’, 2008
ceramic, steel, acrylic paint, Fiberglas, plinth
PHOTO COURTESY: CASEY KAPLAN
NATHAN CARTER – ‘RADIO TRANSMISSIONS CONTRAPTIONS’
SEPT 4 – OCT 4, 2008
CASEY KAPLAN – 525 WEST 21st St – CHELSEA – NYC
left, NATHAN CARTER, right, MATTHEW RONAY.
The Final Run-ins play at TAXTER & SPENGEMANN, MAY 31, 2007
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
. . . we first ran into NATHAN CARTER at the opening of a brilliantly creative collaborative show he did with the FINAL RUN INS, himself, MATTHEW RONAY and BEN BRANTLEY – a re-creation – actually more a paper re-imaging of a HONG KONG RESTAURANT !!
see: PIX from the opening/YIN YANG SUMMER of 2007
It’s easy to see from this current show – how important he was to that free wheeling and light handed installation !! The show also received a very positive review by Roberta Smith in that now, infamous SEPT 26, 2008 – NEW YORK TIMES – FRIDAY WEEKEND ARTS – Section. Here’s a view of the installation from the CASEY KAPLAN GALLERY website:
see more images: NATHAN CARTER, ‘RADIO TRANSMISSION CONTRAPTIONS’ !!
CASEY KAPLAN
~NATHAN CARTER/last 2 days !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 3rd, 2008, 1:07am
ARTWORK BY ALFREDO MARTINEZ/COURTESY: VICE
ALFREDO MARTINEZ/PHOTO COURTESY: VICE
. . . look who just surfaced on VICE !! ALFREDO MARTINEZ !! – he’s been in CHINA so long, he’s beginning to look Chinese !! and in fact, even though his email lists a BEJING cell phone number – -there have been numerous sightings – placing him back in NYC, for the past few months !!
who knows with Alfredo.
the article by JOCKO WEYLAND is worth a read – it’s the usual charming mix of reality and fantasy – and sometimes the truth – is the stranger part !!
and, don’t miss cruising through the reader commentary that follows the post – it’s priceless … example:
“This guy is crassly bullshitting about all the military tech stuff ” – !!
what else is .. new !! – though don’t get the tech b.s. wrong. Alfredo can certainly !! build a gun – that can shoot a bullet – and, out of re-cycled parts !!
see: ALFREDO MARTINEZ INTERVIEWED BY JOCKO WEYLAND – on VICE !!
it’s titled: ‘RAW CHINA – PART 1 – A DAY WITH ALFREDO MARTINEZ AT THE MILITARY MUSEUM’ !!
~ALFREDO MARTINEZ/on VICE !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 2nd, 2008, 8:30pm
‘Guest of Cindy Sherman’ just scored a sweet little post on BUST !!
it begins:
. . . “Guest of Cindy Sherman is a compelling documentary about a guy who falls in love with the most influential female art star of our time, Cindy Sherman and gets lost in the relationship. It’s about art fame and the seeming inadequacy of being the ‘plus 1’. Paul H-O has made both a touching boyfriend movie, and a scathing portrayal of the art world, with great footage from the 90’s art scene…”
read the rest: Guest of Cindy Sherman on BUST !!
~Guest of Cindy Sherman/on BUST !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 2nd, 2008, 7:21pm
. . . just in case you don’t read the NEW YORK POST from cover to cover – real estate buzz maven – BRADEN KEIL – whose stuff is always 100% – cause he has his ear low to the right kind of ground – says – it’s all over between NATALIE PORTMAN & DEVENDRA BANHART. “Nat’s all folks” !!!
‘I dated an art star’ – TAKE: 3 !!
it was only last Spring, April 2008 – to be exact – that they first surfaced as a couple.
see: THE BOMB/APRIL 10, 2008
~NATALIE/DEVENDRA/kaput !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 2nd, 2008, 5:25pm
