FREDDY . . is a curatorial project by New York based artist, JOSHUA ABELOW.
this t shirt was produced to celebrate 5 years of programming / 2014-2019.
please visit: FREDDY / for more info
Artwork by: TED GAHL
Layout Design by: JONNY CAMPOLO
Silkscreen & production: ANDY MISTER aka HELEN SAID THIS
6 oz. 100% ring spun cotton tee
free shipping in the USA
from . . . $34
to order: FFREDDY’S DEAD – HELEN SAID THIS
the back is like a band tour T . . . it lists all the FREDDY shows & projects.
ALL IMAGES via: FREDDY’S DEAD – HELEN SAID THIS
~FREDDY’S DEAD . . . GET THE T- SHIRT !! |
Posted in If I had $200, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 8th, 2020, 1:00pm
BABA YAGA has just posted . . some great install shots !!
see: installation photos & some very good editorial commentary . . ‘ENTERTAINMENT & HISTORY’ – BABA YAGA GALLERY !!
note: CHARLES WASHINGTON & CHARLIE SMITH, are both artists living & working in Hudson, NY.
here are a few of my personal favs:
CHARLES WASHINGTON, NEWBURGH – BEACON BRIDGE
CHARLES WASHINGTON, GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE
CHARLES WASHINGTON, TAPPANZEE BRIDGE
CHARLIE SMITH, ‘LOOPER’, sculpture
CHARLIE SMITH, ‘LOOPER’ / from angle
CHARLIE SMITH, ‘Big Sculpture’
installation shot – for scale.
ALL PHOTOS VIA: BABA YAGA GALLERY WEBSITE
~CHARLES WASHINGTON, CHARLIE SMITH / ‘ENTERTAINMENT & HISTORY’ / BABA YAGA / UP-DATE |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 7th, 2020, 2:59pm
6 – 9 PM
WEAR MASKS
JOHN-ELIO REITMAN & SCOTT KEIGHTLEY . . . ‘INTERLUDE’
are showing some work, tonight . . THURS SEPT 3, 2020
CHARLES WASHINGTON & CHARLIE SMITH, ‘ENTERTAINMENT AND HISTORY’ . . is still up, too.
BABA YAGA , 5821 NY-G Hudson, NY
JOHN-ELIO REITMAN / PHOTO VIA INSTAGRAM @babayagagallery
I don’t know if you could call these guys, ‘matchey matchey’ to their face and live,
but . . great color palette.
if it weren’t a 2-1/2 hr. drive for me / one way . . . I’d def be there.
~JOHN-ELIO REITMAN & SCOTT KEIGHTLEY / BABA YAGA / HUDSON, NY / THURS SEPT 3 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 3rd, 2020, 12:14pm
from the Hudson hills to the Manhattan streets . . .
TED GAHL, at the opening of ‘ZEN PAINTINGS’, curated by Daniel Giordano & Samuel Boehm
VICKI, Newburgh, NY
OCT 12, 2019
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
TED GAHL, ‘ZEN’ painting
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
see: TED GAHL, ‘ZEN PAINTINGS’ at the VICKI.FUN SPACE / SUPER HARDCORE – INDIE !!
~TED GAHL . . FLASHBACK: OCT 12, 2019 / VICKI |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 2nd, 2020, 8:40am
meanwhile, back in NYC . . .
a very much, resonant show . . !!
and, yes !!
bring on that big, bad & bold & beautiful painting / imagery, for sure.
I mean come on, who . . didn’t get hit ?!!
(on the head with a hammer).
and, is that a little rat, scurrying by on the bottom ?
don’t get me started / David & Goliath.
TED GAHL, ‘PAINTINGS’ . . ALEXANDER BERGGRUEN
1018 Madison Ave, Fl 3, New York, NY 10075
SEPT 1 – OCT 14, 2010
OPEN BY APPT ONLY – DUE TO COVID
~TED GAHL . . ‘PAINTINGS’ / ALEXANDER BERGGRUEN / NYC |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 1st, 2020, 7:59am
‘Eau-Cactus’ / ‘Water-Cactus’ . . . Baptiste Caccia & Jean-Baptiste Lenglet
Galerie Edouard Escougnou, 7 Rue saint Claude, 75003 Paris, France
up thru . . Sept 21, 2020 / looks to be an additional ‘vernisage’ this Thurs & Fri / Sept 3 & 4 ??
Instagram: @galerie_edouard_escougnou
looks to be . . an amazing show !!
great title . . !!
here’s 2 photos from the gallery’s recent Instagram story !!
left: JEAN-BAPTISTE, painting on glass
right: JEAN-BAPTISTE LENGLET / BAPTISTE CACCIA / COLLABORATIVE imagery
silkscreen printed by Baptiste Caccia
le gang !!!!
EDOUARD ESCOUGNOU, BAPTISTE CACCIA & JEAN-BAPTISTE LENGLET
ABOVE PHOTOS . . via Instagram Story @galerie_edouard_escougnou
~JEAN-BAPTISTE LENGLET / BAPTISTE CACCIA . . ‘EAU-CACTUS’ / GALERIE EDOUARD ESCOUGNOU / PARIS / UP-DATE |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 1st, 2020, 7:29am
among the early productions on the Virtual Dream Center archive / 7th up from the bottom
is:
‘UNDER THE VOLCANO’ . . a digital re-creation of an actual indie pop-up of the same name, featuring the 1980s/90s work of SIMON CERIGO (RIP), DAN ASHER (RIP) & myself . . NANCY SMITH, who were all working on the Lower East Side, in its glory days.
Curated by Kate & Theo Cerigo, (Simon & Nancy’s children) the survey exhibit took place in the summer of 2015, running for one huge smash weekend in June, in a large, well-lit storefront in Chinatown, right off Delancey . . on the Bowery. As such it is the first digital re-creation of an actual, archival exhibit on the VDC / Virtual Dream Center platform.
with much thanks to NICHOLAS STEINDORF, who curated & produced the digital version.
(& which is both interactive & free to download / see: VDC homepage)
see: ‘UNDER THE VOLCANO’ – VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER / for more photos & essay clips.
BTW:
the above image is the entry to the actual exhibit . . with Simon’s large ‘Lemon Heads’ t-shirt painting on stretched canvas at left, my spray paint lettering of the title – put directly on the wall the day of, and a typically intense black oil stick ‘portrait/mask’ on treated canvas/paper by Dan.
SIMON CERIGO . . collected, collaged & painted on the pop culture media of the day, including band t-shirts of what was then called ‘new music’ or indie.
SIMON CERIGO . . collages on small stretched canvas. very distressed, even for the day.
NANCY SMITH . . large (blue acrylic paint) drawing / from my early 1980s Tarot card series, and also a self-portrait,
I was pregnant with my daughter, Kate at the time, 1985.
& at right, some large still life, charcoal on paper / all pieces: 38 x 50 in.
DAN ASHER . . oil stick, on large canvas backed paper.
YOU CAN READ: the essay I wrote on the exhibit for VDC / Virtual Dream Center, click here
the invite for the 2015 exhibit – was an archival photo of us back in ca. 1981, in Tribeca.
SIMON CERIGO, DAN ASHER, and myself, NANCY SMITH
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH / via VDC platform.
~’UNDER THE VOLCANO: SIMON CERIGO, DAN ASHER, NANCY SMITH’ / VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER / ARCHIVE |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 29th, 2020, 9:26am
we know JEAN-BAPTISTE LENGLET . . .
thru his incredible virtual reality / digital platform for artists . . .
see: VDC / Virtual Dream Center . . !!
don’t miss: the ‘Exhibitions archive’ link . . !!
you may just see – some familiar names . . !!
he is showing some of his own work, in collaboration with BAPTISTE CACCIA,
in a show titled: ‘Eau-cactus’.
opening Sat Aug 29 / and running thru Sept 13, 2020.
Galerie Edouard Escougnou, 7 rue saint Claude, 75003 Paris France
~JEAN-BAPTISTE LENGLET . . with BAPTISTE CACCIA / ‘EAU-CACTUS’ / GALERIE EDOUARD ESCOUGNOU / PARIS / OPENS SAT AUG 29 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 28th, 2020, 3:34pm
WEAR MASKS !!!
CHARLES WASHINGTON & CHARLIE SMITH / ‘ENTERTAINMENT & HISTORY’
BABA YAGA GALLERY, 5821 NY-9G, HUDSON, NY
OPENS FRI AUG 21, 2020 / 6 – 9 PM
SCOTT KEIGHTLEY, artist / founder-director of BABA YAGA, upstate, writes:
“CHARLIE and CHARLES are two friends of mine who live in Hudson and make art.
Charles makes drawings, usually in a series within broader themes, & Charlie makes sculptures utilizing self-designed open systems.”
~CHARLES WASHINGTON & CHARLIE SMITH / ‘ENTERTAINMENT AND HISTORY’ / BABA YAGA / HUDSON, NY / OPENING FRI AUG 21 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 19th, 2020, 2:21pm
BLINN & LAMBERT / aka NICHOLAS STEINDORF & KYLE WILLIAMS
adjusting to life . . in the Pandemic / is a W.I.P. / Work in Progress !!!
and yeah, W.I.P. rhymes with . . . R.I.P.
we ALL took hits.
loved ones, lost opportunities, loser economy. lingering isolation, closed schools, etc. etc.
even, the wake-up calls (BLM / POLICE BRUTALITY) hit – hard.
BLINN & LAMBERT, W.I.P. JULY 22, 2020
image via Instagram @blinn_and_lambert
see: BLINN & LAMBERT / artist website
~BLINN & LAMBERT / W.I. P. |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 18th, 2020, 1:38pm
