I missed posting about Sonia’s opening last weekend . . .
due to a heat-related power outage just as I was about to / and, great poster by Sonia !!
great title, too !!
BUT, GOOD NEWS !! the show will be up for a month.
The new Nonchalant location, 393 Main St., Catskill, New York, 12414 / will be open this weekend, (June 1 & 2, 2024),
from 12 to 5pm / with a musical performance on Sun June 2 evening . . .
great poster by OTTO OHLE who also runs Nonchalant.
OTHERWISE,
it’s weekends 12-5pm, or by appointment
~SONIA RUSCOE / ‘THRILL’ / at / the newly relocated NONCHALANT / CATSKILL, N.Y. / music performance SUNDAY JUNE 2 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 31st, 2024, 1:32pm
up thru July 31, 2024
more of a creative collective pop-up than an established gallery space /
best to schedule an appointment or attend a scheduled event.
see: LUNCH HOUR
the collaborative duo Blinn & Lambert / aka NICHOLAS STEINDORF & KYLE WILLIAMS
are showing a new projection at: ‘MEANS of PRODUCTION’/ LUNCH HOUR
great setting !!!
PHOTO BY: Anjuli Rathod / (@anjuli.rathod) via Instagram Story @blinn_and_lambert
~BLINN & LAMBERT / in ‘Means of Production’ / LUNCH HOUR |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 31st, 2024, 12:35pm
DASH SNOW opens ‘Silence of The Only True Friend That Shall Never Betray You’ at now defunct Rivington Arms, LES, NYC.
ARCHIVAL PHOTO by: Nancy Smith, NYC, Sept 7, 2006.
DASH SNOW with DAN COLEN (right)
at the same opening.
ARCHIVAL PHOTO by: Nancy Smith, NYC, Sept 7, 2006.
ALL PHOTOS COPYRIGHT: NANCY SMITH
~DASH SNOW & DAN COLEN / FLASHBACK to 2006 !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 15th, 2024, 11:56am
‘EARLY MAN 2’ – group exhibition
THE HOLE TRIBECA – 86 WALKER STREET, NYC, NY 10013
HRS: TUES – SAT / 11AM – 6PM
JOE BRADLEY, ‘Untitled, (Human Form)’, 2010
Silkscreen on canvas, diptych / each 96 x 63 in.
LUKE MURPHY, ‘FirePile 3.0’, 2024
LED Matrix Panels, wood stretcher bars, wire, video hardware, software, code, / 28 x 25 x 24 in.
ALL PHOTOS ABOVE COURTESY: KATHY GRAYSON / THE HOLE GALLERY
~Joe BRADLEY, LUKE MURPHY & others / ‘EARLY MAN 2’ / THE HOLE TRIBECA / MAY 3 – JUNE 22, 2024 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 5th, 2024, 11:19am
SUBTITLED NYC . . . . PRESENTS:
‘YOU DON’T MATTER GIVE UP’ /
JACOB JACKMAUH, DOMINIC PALARCHIO, WILFREDO PRIETO
DEC 15 – JAN 21, 2024
113 FRANKLIN ST., 2nd FLOOR / GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN, NYC 11222
HRS: THURS-SUN / 1 – 6 PM & BY APPOINTMENT
PIX FROM THE OPENING – FRI DEC 15 . . . PHOTOS BY NANCY SMITH
JACOB JACKMAUH, at the opening . . .
‘YOU DON’T MATTER GIVE UP’, Subtitled NYC.
Dec 15, 2023.
JACOB JACKMAUH, ‘3137548’, 2023
cast aluminum, varnish, hardware
5-5/8 x 7-3/4 x 2 in.
JACOB JACKMAUH, ‘Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timely’, 2023
rubber hooks, hardware
5-1/8 x 4-3/4 x 2 in.
DOMINIC PALARCHIO, ‘Untitled’, 2023
camera, oil, wick
5 x 8 x 4.75 in.
note: that is a flickering flame, the camera has been modified to become a functional, oil burning lamp.
DOMINIC PALARCHIO, with his modified camera / lamp, as it was presented, on the floor,
at the opening of, ‘YOU DON’T MATTER GIVE UP’/ a 3 person show at Subtitled NYC, Dec 15, 2023.
on the wall:
DOMINIC PALARCHIO, ‘Untitled’, 2020
altered wood, urethane, polyester
5 x 16 x 3 in.
Dominic jumps between . . hot, and cold.
Dominic had a dedicated fan base at the opening, one of whom was very helpful,
bringing up his website, and explaining how the ‘oil lamp’ concept works.
in this case a real work shoe, was modified with an interior plastic bottle that held the oil, that fed the wick, that made . . the light.
WILFREDO PRIETO, ‘Egg and 8 Ball’, 2016
egg, pool ball, also presented . . on the floor.
2.4 x 4.3 x 2.4 in.
“Through this exhibition questions – with no answers or solutions – are explored about contemporary culture’s underlying structures with subtle gestures and open metaphors.”
~from the exhibition mission statement written by: JAMIE STERNS
from left:
ABBY LLOYD, LINA McGINN, and CHRIS RETSINA,
at the ‘YOU DON’T MATTER GIVE UP’ opening, Subtitled NYC,
Dec 15, 2023.
note: Lina McGinn is the current co-director, with JACOB JACKMAUH, of ART LOT BROOKLYN.
Abby Lloyd and Chris Retsina just presented, and organized the wildly successful / performance-heavy,
community-centered, art party: ‘THE A LOT FAIR’, at ART LOT BROOKLYN, this past Oct 15, 2023.
cute animals interacting with humans, this is a show . . . “confronting viewers with paradoxes inherent in understanding our world through materiality, form, and the cyclical miasmic undertow of systems of power and dominance.”
~JAMIE STERNS, exhibition statement
that is some part, or one view . . of the large, actually distressed, but could be / would be cute . .
verging on life-sized, stand-alone sculpture by JACOB JACKMAUH.
JACOB JACKMAUH, ‘Pony’, 2023.
discarded factory mold, moss, lichen, dirt, hardware
15 x 52-1/4 x 57-1/2 in.
“Jacob Jackmauh’s work is rooted in a tactile engagement with the artifacts of mass manufacturing such as factory molds, cheap toys, and disposable merchandise.”
~JAMIE STERNS, exhibition statement
Subtitled NYC, is a project space run by . . JAEJOON JANG.
Photo: Nancy Smith / NYC, Dec 15, 2023.
‘YOU DON’T MATTER GIVE UP’ . . .
is a fully brilliant summation of Year 2023, and our . . fraying world,
the deceivingly simple sculpture / images – give us all, a lot – to think, about.
PHOTOS & TEXT BY: NANCY SMITH
~JACOB JACKMAUH, DOMINIC PALARCHIO, WILFREDO PRIETO . . ‘YOU DON’T MATTER GIVE UP’ / SUBTITLED NYC / PIX FROM THE OPENING |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | December 17th, 2023, 8:59am
