BOO-HOORAY PRESENTS: ‘PAT’S PIGEON BRUNCH’ – SUNDAY AUG 13, 2017.
SERVING: PIGEON EGG LOBSTER ROLLS & FREE RUM !!
FROM NOON – ONWARDS, PAR-TAY ON !!
THE ACCOMPANYING ART EXHIBIT . . OPENED WED AUG 9 & RUNS THRU WED, AUG 16, 2017
BOO-HOORAY SUMMER RENTAL, 805 MONTAUK HIGHWAY, MONTAUK, NY 11954 / 212-641-0692
‘SUMMER RENTAL’ . . IS OPEN EVERYDAY 12 NOON – 7 PM
YES !! DEFINITE !! CHECK OUT: BOO-HOORAY SUMMER RENTAL / MONTAUK
IMAGE: BOO-HOORAY SUMMER RENTAL
PAT McCARTHY – UNIQUE PORCELAIN / TRANSFER . . ‘ZINE’ TABLET
IMAGE COURTESY: BOO-HOORAY SUMMER RENTAL
PAT McCARTHY of ‘SATAN CERAMICS’ . .
will be presenting a rhapsodic journey out east complete with ceramics, zines .. and pigeons.
~BOO-HOORAY
PAT McCARTHY . . . TRANSPORTS PIGEONS / VIA SELF-IMPROVISED ‘RICKSHAW’ – OUT EAST !!
TRANSLATES: . . to MONTAUK !!!!
BOO-HOORAY !!!!!!!!!!
PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
PS: PAT . . IS NOW ON INSTAGRAM !!
CHECK HIM OUT . . @Pigeon_Pat
!!!!!! – !!!!! – !!!!!!
~PAT McCARTHY. . ‘PIGEON’ BRUNCH, BOO-HOORAY, SUMMER RENTAL, MONTAUK / SUN AUG 13 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 12th, 2017, 12:01pm
TRICIA KEIGHTLEY has a noteworthy piece in . . .
ILLUSIONIST ?
PHOTO-REALIST . . ABSTRACT ?????!!!!
‘DYSTOPIA FILTER IV’ – A POP-UP CURATED BY STEPHEN HOLDING
OPENS TO-NITE: SAT, AUG 12, 2017 / 7 pm – 10 pm / AFTER-PARTY at FRIENDS & LOVERS
the show runs thru SEPT 8, 2017
HOLDING STUDIOS, 470 VANDERBILT AVE & ATLANTIC AVE / ENTRANCE ON ATLANTIC
@holdingstudio: The typography of JACK KOHLER BYERS / @jackbyers . . will be on display.
image via Instagram @holdingstudio
TRICIA KEIGHTLEY . . . ‘20.22.16’, 2016.
acrylic on canvas, 20 x 22 in.
IMAGE COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
LOOKING GOOD – TRICIA !!!!!!!
CHECK OUT: TRICIA KEIGHTLEY / ARTIST PORTFOLIO – WEBSITE
!!!!!! – !!!!! – !!!!!!
~TRICIA KEIGHTLEY, JACK KOHLER BYERS . . in ‘DYSTOPIA FILTER IV’ / BROOKLYN POP-UP / opening to-nite SAT AUG 12 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 12th, 2017, 11:45am
EMMANUEL LIMON . . WORK ALERT !!!!!
aka @awkwardchopper !!!!!
the man of leather, & heavy metal / sin coyote . . soul.
see: EMMANUEL LIMON – ARTIST PORTFOLIO WEBSITE
‘YELLOW WORMHOLE’ – GROUP SHOW / CLOSING PARTY – TO-NITE / FRI AUG 11 / 6 – 10 PM
HEAD TOO HEAVY GALLERY, 383 BUSHWICK AVE, BROOKLYN
with: VILAYKORN SAYAPHET, RUSSELL MURPHY, GILES THOMPSON, ISABEL LASALA, ANDREW OHANESIAN, DROID 907, EMMANUEL LIMON,
ARIEL CHURNIN, JASON ALEXANDER BYERS, UFO, DANIEL LEON, JEN HITCHINGS, DARKCLOUDS, MATTHEW BIXBY, EKG, NICK McMANUS,
SPY 33 YR 907, MATT SIREN, AUSTION PINON, PETE WEISMAN, DAVID NORDINE, FISH GLUE, SAXON
check out their website: HEAD TOO HEAVY GALLERY / esp. THEIR PHOTO GALLERY !!!!
IMAGE / HEAD TOO HEAVY GALLERY – PHOTO GALLERY / HEAD TOO HEAVY
lol, HEAD TOO HEAVY – LOGO !!
~’YELLOW WORMHOLE’ . . HEAD TOO HEAVY GALLERY, BUSHWICK / CLOSING PARTY TO-NITE FRI AUG 11 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 11th, 2017, 2:26pm
‘THRESHELD’ – CURATED BY CODIFY ART
OPENS FRI, AUG 11, 2017 / 7-9 PM
the show runs thru SEPT 10, 2017
UNDERDONK, 1329 WILLOUGHBY AVE, #211, BROOKLYN
HRS: SAT & SUN / 1-6 PM & BY APPOINTMENT
L to JEFFERSON
with: JANAYE BROWN, ORLANDO ESTRADA, JES FAN, ILANA HARRIS-BABOU, INHYE LEE, PASTICHE LUMUMBA & ADRIENNE ELISE TARVAR
“THRESHELD . . . explores the intimacy of routine, home as a constructed space, and ritual as a sanctified mundane.”
read more: ‘THESHELD – UNDERDONK’
see: CODIFY ART – A BROOKLYN-BASED ARTIST COLLECTIVE
UNDERDONK . . . is an artist-run space in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
lol, #puppylove !!
PHOTO: courtesy of UNDERDONK, Summer 2017
~’THRESHELD’ . . curated by CODIFY ART / UNDERDONK, OPENS TO-NITE, FRI AUG 11 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 11th, 2017, 8:14am
SEA SALTZ !!
‘ALONG A RIVER OF SAPPHIRE POOLS’ – MOUNTAIN, BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN
a selection of limited edition / dye sublimation printed / artist-designed beach towels.
curated by MICHAEL FLEMING of MOUNTAIN, and OLIVIA SWIDER of SELENA.
all of the towels – limited edition of 10 / $130 ea. – can be seen & purchased here:
SAPPHIRE POOLS, MOUNTAIN – SHOPIFY
this one, is a bit of an . . . in-joke !!!
it is also very much . . PHOTO-BASED !!!!
NICHOLAS CUEVA, ‘SALTZ’, 2017
limited edition of 10, beach towel.
($130)
photo via Sapphire Pools/MOUNTAIN
apart from the beauty of the fabulous distressed look . .
there’s something awesomely beautiful about an art ‘critic’ whose main pedantic theme is: naked, and in-your-face-private-parts – gone big !!
ad nauseam . . . !!
to now, be able to have many private parts, and bare bottoms – rubbed all over his face.
~NICHOLAS CUEVA . . ‘JERRY SALTZ’/ LIMITED EDITION BEACH TOWEL, ‘SAPPHIRE POOLS’ / MOUNTAIN |
Posted in If I had $200, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 10th, 2017, 3:17pm
‘ALONG A RIVER OF SAPPHIRE POOLS’ – MOUNTAIN, BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN
A selection of limited edition beach towels – curated by MICHAEL FLEMING & OLIVIA SWIDER
all the artist-designed beach towels, can be seen & purchased here: SAPPHIRE POOLS – SHOPIFY
BILLY BUCK, ‘Rockaway’, 2017. limited edition of 10, beach towel.
($130)
photo via Sapphire Pools/MOUNTAIN
obviously, PHOTO-BASED – PHOTO-REALISM.
so cool . . as to be very very HOT !!!!
the strange part, is the sunglasses – must be tinted / mirrored lenses.
a surrealist up-date on PUNK, or what !!!
~BILLY BUCK . . ‘SAPPHIRE POOLS’ / LIMITED EDITION ARTIST BEACH TOWELS / MOUNTAIN |
Posted in If I had $200, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 9th, 2017, 8:46am
‘ALONG A RIVER OF SAPPHIRE POOLS’ – MOUNTAIN, BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN
A selection of limited edition beach towels – curated by MICHAEL FLEMING & OLIVIA SWIDER
all the artist-designed beach towels, can be seen & purchased here: SAPPHIRE POOLS – SHOPIFY
NICHOLAS STEINDORF, ‘Doe, a Dear’, 2017. limited edition of 10, beach towel.
($130)
installation photo via MOUNTAIN
NICHOLAS STEINDORF’S beach towel . . looks to be feverish and intense, and maybe also . . about passionate love ?
as much as heat, sand, rip tides, and the hot hot sun.
but it’s also at the far extreme of . . PHOTO-REALISM !!
expressionistic ?!!! photo-realism ???!!!
though not necessarily ‘3-D’, I did inquire about the red / blue separation.
NICHOLAS:
“I made it red blue. For instance the tongue is by itself in the red and the forest/rock is by itself in the blue. It isn’t necessarily ‘3D’. It’s anaglyph . . which separates the colors – this can cross your eyes. What I did was separate the red and the blue so you see two different images if you close either your left or right eye (red or blue)”.
~NICHOLAS STEINDORF . . ‘SAPPHIRE POOLS’ / LIMITED EDITION ARTIST BEACH TOWELS / MOUNTAIN |
Posted in If I had $200, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 8th, 2017, 9:01am
‘ALONG a RIVER of SAPPHIRE POOLS’ – BEACH TOWEL EXHIBIT !!
OPENS TODAY: SAT AUG 5, 2017 / 3 – 8 PM
MOUNTAIN, 284 SEIGEL ST, 1B, BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN, NY 11206
A selection of limited edition BEACH TOWELS curated by MICAHEL FLEMING & OLIVIA SWIDER, with:
MORGAN BLAIR, BILLY BUCK, NICHOLAS CUEVA, AMIE CUNAT, MICHAEL FLEMING, JACOB HAUPT, LIZ NIELSON, NICHOLAS STEINDORF, OLIVIA SWIDER, PANAYIOTIS TERZIS.
“Along a River of Sapphire Pools takes its title from John Cheever’s 1964 short story ‘The Swimmer’. This suburban story takes place in one afternoon following Neddy Merrill who swims all of his neighbor’s pools forming his own eight-mile river which he names after his wife.”
~Press release
All beach towels are now available for purchase online at: sapphirepools.myshopify.com
speaking of being on point . . .
this is a another case of an indie artist-run gallerist, including his/her own work in a group show at the gallery. I personally think it’s really special. intimate, informative, dynamic and exciting when you get to see the inner life, & hands-on thinking of the artist/gallerist !!
which is: their work !!
MICHAEL FLEMING . . founded his Brooklyn-based gallery MOUNTAIN in the winter of 2016 – he is a gallerist/curator/visual & performative artist.
and, he takes damns good video !!
usually posted on his Instagram: @mountain.bushwick
OLIVIA SWIDER . . is an artist, curator and writer from Chicago who is now based in Brooklyn, NY. Currently she co-runs the artist-run gallery SELENA in Bushwick.
both galleries are ‘living room’ venues with limited hrs – but always open by appointment.
the best time to hit their shows – are the opening nights.
both MOUNTAIN and SELENA / MICHAEL FLEMING and OLIVA SWIDER . . have been covered extensively on artloversnewyork / both for their exhibits, and for their own individual art projects.
INTERESTINGLY, as well . . .
both of their beach towel projects involve . . . PHOTO-BASED / PHOTO-REALISM !!!!!!
MICHAEL FLEMING, ‘Black Hole’, 2017
commercially printed beach towel, limited edition of 10
($130)
though I get the powerful imagery & metaphor of the ‘black hole’, and seriously . . . how much more photo-realist can you get !!!!
a big part of me would have liked to have seen it – just all sand !!
and, then photographed on a sandy beach !! or even a rocky one, for that matter.
look for this concept to appear in Walmart, in 2 years time / if not IKEA next summer – that’s a really catchy !! tune !!
it also makes for a great hipster/surfer ‘flag’.
as in the Japanese flag, with the ‘rising sun’ – smack dab in the middle.
they should fly it over . . Rockaway !!
look out for random shots of it on Instagram, I’m sure !!
OLIVIA SWIDER, ‘His Shoulders’, 2017.
commercially printed beach towel, limited edition of 10
($130)
OLIVIA’s towel is also photo-based, though less in your face !!
but still, that’s a roaring & real !! sunset.
and the computer ‘font’ – is also very PHOTO-REALIST in . . spirit.
it looks more like a cinema / movie ticket – than a poem !!
but the poetry . . does work, and feels realist in it’s nature / & narrative, too.
~’SAPPHIRE POOLS’ . . LIMITED EDITION ARTIST BEACH TOWELS / MICHAEL FLEMING / OLIVIA SWIDER, MOUNTAIN / OPENING TODAY, SAT AUG 5 / 3-8 PM |
Posted in If I had $200, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 5th, 2017, 10:47am
RUBULAD PRESENTS: ‘HEAT WAVE HOPSCOTCH’ – incl: BOBO !!
TO-NITE !! PAR-TAY ON !!
SAT AUG 5, 2017 / 8:30 PM – 3:30 PM
RSVP to rubulad@outlook.com for address.
check out: BOBO
check out: RUBULAD on FB
Instagram: @rub_lad / @bobo_newyorkcity
~BOBO PLAYS . . RUBULAD, BROOKLYN . . TO-NITE / BIG PARTY, SAT AUG 5 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 5th, 2017, 8:05am
‘HOT MUD FEST’ – PRODUCED BY BOBO & JAG
JULY 23, 2017 / art work on view thru AUG 13, 2017.
SPOOK ROCK FARM, 81 SPOOK ROCK ROAD, HUDSON, NY 12534
more info, artists & open to the public / viewing hrs:JAG PROJECTS
JAG PROJECTS . .
is sculptor JESSE GREENBERG’S artist-run, open-project venture, with ‘Hot Mud Fest’ being it’s very first & very promising production.
and . . in this case, summertime fun, ‘en plein air’ – to boot.
like his previous indie gallery, ‘247365’, these are visionary venue/platforms, which function for the most part . . as showcases for other people’s work. initiated by a big dream, driven by even bigger inner creative forces, & maybe egos, and most def run on inversely, very innovative, as in ‘creative’ / but very much shoe-string (!!) budgets, Jesse’s off-the-mainstream ‘fierce’ & indie effort, like the many other indie underground ventures, this ‘blog’ chronicles / the end result is serendipity.
a very diverse, open-ended / and absolutely cutting edge art experience . .
& one which has almost totally disappeared from the mainstream / big budget / all business gallery system, esp here in NYC.
the scene here, would be dead without . . this underground vibe.
poking its head up against all the odds, esp financial, in high budget NYC.
there is no doubt about it.
the mainstream art world in NYC, except for the periodic bursts of museum-driven historical gems . . . right now, is stultifying. moribund. and gawd, what a bunch of posers & losers. don’t get me started.
JESSE GREENBERG’s projects in particular, stand out . .
not only for the cutting-edge curatorial vision, but for the projects are presented overall, with such great visual flair, top level graphic design & . . wide ranging artist collaboration.
It’s pretty clear by now, that his ‘curatorial’ serial / indie ‘outbursts’ / whether stationary viewing, or now a ‘flexive’ program, are driven by a lot of very raw inspiration, and plain ole . . hard work.
LONG LIVE – INDIE ARTIST CURATORS !!
it’s so easy to forget, when an artist takes on the seriously hassled & self-proclaimed role . . of ‘running’ an indie gallery, producing a blink-or-miss it ‘pop-up’, throwing up a ‘screening’, or even hitting out a ‘blog’ such as this one . .
that there is one very determined artist before you / who, besides expressing his cup-runneth-over comprehension of the art dialog in the moment . . is basically ‘taking a bullet’ for his ‘dreams’ and ‘friends’, to do this.
because more often than not – his own status as a working artist gets lost in the mix.
and, yeah artlovers . . is most certainly an artist-run lol, and . . cutthroat indie !!
no reporter here. no critic here.
damn it. labels, of any kind – are bad.
but for sure, we should never forget these are ‘working’ artists themselves, who are driving the scene right now, and we are given an extra / bonus ‘narrative’ – anytime they include their own work.
not only are they are shining a light on . . the collective ‘dialog’ they got ‘running’ with the other artists in this teeming with ‘creatives’ city / but, we get to see, up close and personal, the ‘heart and soul’ – of what makes these indie start-up adventurists ‘tick’/ & what keeps them . . so real, and so good.
so, FYI
besides the colorful & luminous, contemporary ‘totem’ stake Jesse ‘planted’ on the grounds, already documented on this site, he also had 2 very intense pieces in the . . farmhouse.
JESSE GREENBERG, 2 fabricated / photo-realist ‘objects’ . . on a vintage & classic Americana farmhouse table.
now, if that old farm table display, backed by an authentic old timer rural window . . isn’t awesome. and most CURIOUS, and a great ‘twin’ to dialog with the nearby table of CHRISTINA BOLT’s equally CURIOUS ceramic free-form vases, than I don’t know – what is.
as much as Christina’s vases are free-form, these ‘relics’ aspire to .. realism.
JESSE GREENBERG.
looks to be over-size salmon sushi . . !! in a strange bento-box ?
it’s so weird. but it’s also so photo-realist, and nature / bio-connected.
I can’t be the only one ??
picking up on a new ‘thread’ of photo-realism / that’s running it’s mad hatter way . . wily nily through the underground, at the moment.
in fact, you could even go so far as to say, the entire ‘set’ of ‘Hot Mud Fest’, was on e big realist . . par-tay.
JESSE GREENBERG.
crystal / or slice of typography ???????
whatever . . works for me.
it’s kind of like, the imagination is a train running full speed ahead / into realism.
the specifics, don’t really matter – it’s the ride / that’s the . . r-u-s-h !!
that’s the JESSE GREENBERG display on the left, on the right a glimpse of the CHRISTINA BOLT offering.
that’s most likely the original dining room, of the old farmhouse.
history vs fiction in a . . BOBO / JAG momento.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~’HOT MUD FEST’ . . JESSE GREENBERG, in the farmhouse |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 4th, 2017, 9:28am
