TAYLOR McKIMENS . . . PAINTED A ‘TANK’ !!!!!
THE TENTH ANNUAL BROOKLYN INVITATIONAL CUSTOM MOTORCYCLE SHOW
SAT SET 8, 2018 / 1 – 11 PM
ROOTS STUDIO – 131 NORTH 14th St – BROOKLYN 11249
@taylormckimens: thrilled to be invited by @artsandcraftsracing to paint a tank for the Brooklyn Invitational Motorcycle Show . . .
image via instagram @taylormckimens
TAYLOR McKIMENS . . BROOKLYN INVITATIONAL MOTORCYCLE SHOW / SAT SEPT 8 / 1 – 11 PM | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 8th, 2018, 12:03pm
‘DAVID BENJAMIN SHERRY – MONUMENTS’
OPENS SAT SEPT 8 / 6 – 8 PM
the show is up thru . . . OCT 20, 2018
MORAN MORAN, 937 N. LaCienega Blvd, L.A. CA 90069
read more: ‘DAVID BENJAMIN SHERRY – MONUMENTS’
~DAVID BENJAMIN SHERRY, ‘MONUMENTS’ . . MORAN MORAN, LA / OPENS SAT SEPT 8 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 8th, 2018, 11:55am
‘WILD WORLD: ASHLEY GARRETT, CATHERINE HOWE & LILY PRINCE’
OPENS SAT SEPT 8 / 5 – 8 PM
the show runs thru . . . SEPT 30, 2018
CROSS CONTEMPORARY ART , 99 PARTITION St, SAUGERTIES NY 12477
HRS: FRI-SAT / 12-5 PM
more: WILD WORLD … CROSS CONTEMPORARY
ASHLEY GARRET, ‘Sossusvlei’, 2018, oil on canvas.
CATHERINE HOWE, ‘Monoytype 3’, 2016.
LILY PRINCE, ‘Lago di Como’, 2017. watercolor & gouache on paper. 64 x 64 in.
all images via CROSS CONTEMPORARY
~’WILD WORLD: ASHLEY GARRETT, CATHERINE HOWE, LILY PRINCE’ . . CROSS CONTEMPORARY ART, SAUGGERTIES / OPENS SAT SEPT 8 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 8th, 2018, 7:30am
INTERSPECIES (!!) ART & RELATIONS (!!)
PAT McCARTHY / PIGEON PAT . . .
speaking tonight FRI SEPT 7, 2018 . . . 7 PM
on . . . “the current state of NYC pigeon flying – including the people, the birds, the many chores, and the ecstasies of studying fight”.
“A contribution to the Institute for Interspecies Art and Relations’ . . .
ENTRANCE GALLERY, 48 Ludlow St, Basement, L.E.S., NYC
FREE zines on the subject.
~PAT McCARTHY . . ‘PIGEON TALK’ / ENTRANCE GALLERY, L.E.S. / FRI SEPT 7 / 7 PM | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 7th, 2018, 12:28pm
‘MEET THE PARENTS’
OPENS FRI SEPT 7 / 6 – 8 PM
the show runs thru . . . OCT 7, 2018
ESSEX FLOWERS, 19 MONROE ST, CHINATOWN, NY
HRS: SAT & SUN 12-6 PM & BY APPOINTMENT
MARIA CALANDRA . . JEAN CALANDRA
SETH COHEN . . NICOLE COHEN
GIANNA COMMITO . . JOHN COMMITO
ERIK den BREEJEN . . KEES den BREEJEN
EMMA ENDERBY . . SUSAN ENDERBY
JESSE HAMMERMAN . . SHEILA HAMMERMAN
WHITNEY HUBBS . . CAROLYN ROE HUBBS
JENNIFER SULLIVAN . . MARIAN MINGOS
RUFUS TUREEN . . SUSAN TUREEN
KEES den BREEJEN
image via Instagram @erik_den_breejen
~’MEET THE PARENTS’ . . ESSEX FLOWERS, CHINATOWN / OPENING FRI SEPT 7 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 7th, 2018, 10:46am
HALEY JOSEPHS, ‘Finger in the Hive’
OPENS FRI SEPT 7, 2018 / 6 – 8 PM
the show runs thru . . . OCT 7, 2018
315 Gallery, 312 Livingston St, Brooklyn NY 11217
HRS: WED-SUN / 12-5 PM & BY APPOINTMENT
Haley’s . . first solo show at 315 Gallery !!
HALEY JOSEPHS, ‘Star Gazin’, Aug 2018, paint on canvas
image via Instagram @haley.josephs
~HALELY JOSEPHS . . ‘Finger In the Hive’ / 315 Gallery, Brooklyn / opening FRI SEPT 7 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 7th, 2018, 10:24am
I also had my exhibit installation photos omitted, or deleted from the Mercer Union archive,
re: ’54/84′ – ‘HOMMAGE A GUIDO MOLINARI’ . . !!
culture wars, alert !!
the visionaries vs the losers.
who’s winning, now.
it was very deliberate, I remember being told by a ‘friendly’ Mercer Union member, a few years later, that my ’54/84′ 1984 archive had been deleted or otherwise . . obliterated.
I had no install photos of my own, I was already 4 years settled into NYC, and couldn’t travel back re: immigration issues, the border between Canada and the US had become increasingly complicated.
I just felt, if a community-driven / artist-run space had online archives . . they should, at the very least be inclusive, and a real historical record ???
NANCY SMITH, ‘PAPER QUILT’, ca 1980. Montreal.
oil pastel on hand cut-out construction paper units, based on Amish ‘Baby Blocks’ quilt pattern / almost wall-size.
image via MERCER UNION archive: ‘NANCY SMITH – PAPER QUILTS’, 1980.
but, I had had an earlier showing, at this artist-run space.
titled ‘PAPER QUILTS’, I exhibited one of my very first (& last actually), large scale, paper quilt ‘construction’ projects, 4 years earlier, in 1980.
exhibited in the small front room, of the old Mercer Union, it was arranged by ANNA-MARIE COBBOLD, a friend from grad school, Concordia University in Montreal, where we had both studied with the famed, color theorist / painter GUIDO MOLINARI.
there’s a black & white archival photo of it, on the Mercer Union archive, (don’t fall off your chair !!),
but I also have some of my own install pix, in color (!!!), because at that time, I was able to attend & actually did install the project.
see: NANCY SMITH, ‘PAPER QUILTS’, June 28 – July 11, 1980 / Mercer Union, Front Room
the exhibit statement reads: “hand-colored paper constructions improvised from traditional Amish designs.”
NANCY SMITH, (moi) with her ‘Paper Quilt’ construction / at MERCER UNION, Toronto / June 28, 1980.
it was pretty much, a very much . . . color theory project, to my mind, at least.
I took ‘Amish’ . . . & turned it, TIBETAN TANTRIC !!!
installation view.
detail.
so, I had hand-cut paper units from standard, heavy-weight construction paper using a template / & leaving about a 1/4 inch border, to fold back (for later attachment) and, then hand-colored them all – with oil pastels. even doing some, in what we now call, fade (!!) & . . then stapled them all together,
in such a way, as that the completed piece retained a somewhat, shallow, but perceptible, 3-D effect.
so, it had some ‘cloth-like’, give & take . . illusion.
making these little color ‘units’ first, helped me to . . envision the final composition.
but, it didn’t really make sense, on a very ‘real’ functional / level !!
it also made me really curious, about just how these wonderful, highly visual, even ‘kinetic’ quilts . . were put together, in the first place.
and so, newly minted M.F.A. in Painting, be damned !!
I put the crafts materials down, the watercolors, and charcoal as well,
and picked up the lowly . . needle & thread.
by then, 1981, I was in NYC, (there was NO quilting tradition in Montreal, the early French settlers had used furs !!) & I started buying second-hand quilts, that were then, readily found in the local Lower East Side thrift shops, deconstructing them, and very quickly moving onto repairing them, some with strict archival intent, but most – in a very creative manner / artist-head space ruled me . . always.
and, most were too ragged to work to archival standards, anyway / esp outside a museum-resourced workshop.
. . . and all by hand-stitch, all self-taught !!
me, who had never picked up a sewing needle before in my life, here I was . . hand-stitching, like crazy.
I probably have over 50 old quilts, well probably even more (!!) lying about, and stashed away – in stacks.
talk about walking into a thrift shop, and turning a $1 buck .. into $10, if not more !!
but more important, the Mercer Union ‘Paper Quilt’ project, definite put me on track, to ‘track’ . . the ‘crafts’ & skills-based artwork of this current generation, & having a deeply rooted / quilting framework, based on practical hands-on knowledge, definite gave me the ‘edge’ – to enable me to cover, the slowly building / quilt craze of today !!
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, unless otherwise noted.
~NANCY SMITH . . ‘PAPER QUILT’, MERCER UNION, TORONTO / SUMMER 1980 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 7th, 2018, 8:33am
she came to us – in 1970s Montreal, from Vancouver by way of Southern California / with the nickname: RENO, and that’s what we always called her.
you can also place her, in that un-wieldly, & very unfriendly file:
‘Culture Against Us’, because she too has none of her work displayed on the Mercer Union archive, though she was most certainly included in the ’54/84′ – ‘HOMMAGE a GUIDO MOLINARI’, group exhibit of 1984, & which was in fact curated,
by her old friend, from B.C. / British Columbia . . artist/curator, & early Mercer Union member: ANNA-MARIE COBBOLD.
that’s some archive . . Mercer Union, lol !!
the ghosts – coming back to bite ya !!!!!!!
Karma – ain’t she a bitch.
IMAGE: archival card, ‘BARBARA REID – WATERCOLORS’, MERCER UNION / JULY 12 -25, 1980
but, as you can see from this delightful archival post from 1980, that does survive on their website, the invite from a one-person show Anna-Marie Cobbold also arranged for her, Reno was as magical, and talented as you get / just born that way.
I mean, who ? was doing seascapes, let alone . . watercolors, in 1970, let alone 1980 ???
she was, & continues to be a great inspiration for me, though she’s pretty much given up on the recognition ‘game’.
art world Canada – your loss, and your shame.
here’s a few images of artwork Reno, sent me a few years back:
RENO / BARBARA REID, metallic & colored pencil on card stock, 4 x 6 in. / Oct 2015.
RENO / BARBARA REID, metallic & colored pencil on card stock, 4 x 6 in. / Oct 2015.
now she mostly sends me, these very intense, color-saturated digital photos, usually of her backyard garden harvest.
she sent me these, this week.
DIGITAL PHOTO BY: RENO / BARBARA REID, ‘Been gathering hazelnuts by the fistful and yes, that’s one yellow spongy ball visiting the herd !! Probably brought in by squirrels.’ / Aug, 2018.
DIGITAL PHOTO BY: RENO / BARBARA REID, ‘Today’s story is all about Italian plums. It’s only 15 lb., (pounds !!), but I have to stew them up and either can or freeze them.’ / Aug 2018
~RENO / BARBARA REID . . MERCER UNION, TORONTO | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 6th, 2018, 8:52pm
MARSHAL, a long time friend of Simon’s, from their 1970s university art school days, in Montreal,
with Guido Molinari as their teacher – was also in the show:
’54/84′ – ‘HOMMAGE a GUIDO MOLINARI’
but, there is no record / no images of his work – on the Mercer Union archive.
the silence is . . sad.
looking back, and forward, I guess you could say, Marshal was also . . a victim of ‘Culture Against . . . US’ (!!)
there’s visionaries, and originals, and then . . there are fakes.
well, at least the show went up.
and let’s leave it at . . that.
IMAGE: MARSHAL HOPKINS artwork via Instagram story @marshal8463
I don’t have any images of the exact paintings Marshal, might have had in the 1984 Mercer Union show,
but, this is a painting he posted today, on his Instagram story – and that’s pretty telling, as to his oeuvre.
if you know anything about 1970s ‘aspirational’ painting, you will know this was completely off the wall, for the time.
besides the small scale, (most his paintings were done on artist board, like 14 x 24 in.), they were very emotional, primitive, and folk art leaning / though of course, Guido (Molinari) saw them for what they really were, way, ahead-of-the-game color theory / 2nd gen compositions.
and duh, they resonate today, with complete magnetism.
~MARSHAL HOPKINS . . MERCER UNION, TORONTO | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 6th, 2018, 8:37pm
of course, Cardi B just named her first baby, a daughter: ‘Kulture’ / b. July 10, 2018.
so, turns out,
Simon . . and baby Kulture also, actually share a zodiac sign: ‘Cancer’.
Simon having being born July 3, 1952 / & died Jan 20, 2013.
/ expect baby Kulture to be deeply intuitive.
image via MERCER UNION ARCHIVE
see: ’54/84′ / ‘HOMMAGE a GUIDO MOLINARI’ / Mercer Union, Toronto / Oct 23, 1984 – Nov 17, 1984
SIMON CERIGO, ‘CULTURE AGAINST U.S.’, early 1980s, Lower East Side, NYC
paint & oil pastel, collage, on found cotton shower curtain.
exhibited in: ‘Under the Volcano: Simon Cerigo, Dan Asher, Nancy Smith’
a one weekend pop-up exhibit – on the Bowery near Delancey, in Chinatown / June 6-7, 2015.
the show was curated by his / & mine . . 2 grown kids: KATE & THEO CERIGO.
it’s quite large.
Photo: Nancy Smith
this is one of Simon’s later 1980s paintings, Lower East Side, NYC,
with the 2 curators, KATE & THEO CERIGO.
Simon often used actual t-shirts / with their pop culture references, in his work.
as well, as other found cultural ‘markings, note the vinyl LP / record, at the top.
Photo: Nancy Smith
~SIMON CERIGO . . MERCER UNION, TORONTO / ‘CULTURE AGAINST U.S.’ | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 6th, 2018, 7:55pm
