{"id":2071,"date":"2010-10-05T14:58:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T19:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2010-10-22T08:23:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T13:23:02","slug":"crack-meets-the-bros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2010\/10\/05\/crack-meets-the-bros\/","title":{"rendered":"~Bro Bro Bromirski . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

pix from the one night pop-up show of: MARTIN BROMIRSKI – & – I MEET HIS BEST BUDDIES – or –
\nFILE UNDER: Crack meets the BROS OF BRO BRO BROMIRSKI !!<\/p>\n

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\nfellow art blogger and artist, therefore Bro – MARTIN BROMIRSKI – put up a one-night stand show of his small paintings at a friend’s loft in Buswick, this past Fri Oct 1, 2010 . . . .
\nMartin Bromirski is know for posting – anaba\/social sculpture<\/a> – and is even more infamous for posting a site whose name cannot be mentioned – though even his friends agree – it’s the worst kept secret in the art world !!<\/p>\n

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\nthe evening took place at his friend JAMISON BROSSEAU’S loft – a nice big empty room with spare walls. in Bushwick. on a strangely serenely stylized gentrifying street, with obviously forward thinking aims – to incorporate & glorify the rust . . . as opposed the more plastic and juvenile development – that took hold in Williamsburg. in a raw studio floor that was once clearly – an old hardcore warehouse – in the midst of the newer storefronts, including a way forward – hostel and even, an upscale gym across the street.<\/p>\n

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\nthe paintings were small, I’d say scale was an issue – and today it is. unless you have a huge gallery like GoGo – (Gagosian) fronting you major dough. but the sharp rectangular shape – helped them take on a life beyond the canvas, and the dimensions. instead of being surrounded<\/em> by the abstract expression – it was like you were looking through a narrow mail-slot slit – out of reality<\/em> – and into the fantasy world of Mr. Bromirski’s making. you know, almost like the dialog between box-size TV’s and the newer letter-format wafer thin screens.<\/p>\n

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\nlooking at the paintings – it was funny to contemplate that Mr. Bromirski paints, blogs, photographs and apparently is 24\/7 hungry for anything art world – and, works a day job – on a farm upstate. <\/p>\n

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\nthe crowd he drew – was pretty entertaining, full of vim, vigor & wit. <\/p>\n

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\nMICHAEL SMITH, a long time friend of Bromirski’s, from his Virginia Community University (sculpture dept ?) days – regaled me with tales of when he first moved to NYC – and worked for an artist handler trucking firm and among his very first runs – he found himself face-to-face with Julian Schnabel – in both his West Village abode and in Montauk., ca. 2002. He was apparently pretty spooked and that in turn spooked Julian – who preferred the casual unknowingness – of the Mexican workers !! who he bonded with over pizza. while his assistant told Michael – “you gotta relax man, you’re making Julian nervous”.<\/p>\n

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\nalso friends of the Bro – since the Virginia days – sculptors SAM HAYES, left, and the playful, maybe<\/em> . . . KAI VIERSTRA on the right. it’s at KAI VIERSTRA and MERIDITH PINGREE’S place that Martin crashes, when he hits the island. <\/p>\n

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\nartist MERIDITH PINGREE.
\np.s. thanks to Meridith for pointing out that artlovers doesn’t know left from, right !!
\nand, most def: check out Meridith’s work – here !!<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nalso on hand, independent curator JON LUTZ who ‘writes’ the Daily Operation<\/a> . . .<\/p>\n

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\nthe evening’s host – painter JAMISON BROSSEAU – who opens up his large empty living room – as a one-night exhibition space to selected friends and guests – on a regular Friday night basis. <\/p>\n

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\ndown a narrow hallway – is the door to Mr. Jamison’s own studio – his ‘carved-out’ 3D painted shapes on the door – signifying something serious, is afoot with the evening’s host – too . . .<\/p>\n

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\nyikes, I love it. all.
\nthe small rectangular canvas at the top – is Martin’s. <\/p>\n

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\ngraphic spiders – that look just like the only-from-a-sky-high orbiting digital camera – in the mountain tops of South America – that fascinate me and History channel – to no end.
\nand squarish ‘cubist’ paintings – arrayed in quilt format – no less – that speak to code and pictograms, and early creative impulse. eerie color palette. count me – in !!<\/em> . . . <\/p>\n

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\nand amidst this creative jungle of sophisticated primitive telling – an intensely animated cabal – that looked to be – at first guess – writers . . or poets. <\/p>\n

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\nand yes. right on. apparently they are the core group of another one night-stand loft space, also in Bushwick – but, dedicated to the people of the letters. and the word. a place, event ? called the Writer’s Workshop – was as far as I got this night. but most def want to follow-up . . . <\/p>\n

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\nif my way too brief conversation with BEN GOCKER, left, and CODY PETTERSON, right – is an indication – this is most def – not !! – your seedy NYC Bowery poetry group !! <\/p>\n

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\nthey were way smart . . . <\/p>\n

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\nand way funny – I would even venture to say Cody Petterson – from the first impression – is way wicked sharp right-on cutting edge funny smart – he immediately sized-up this very blogger quilt lover – asso<\/em> going against the grain of her Ashkenazi roots – he cracked me up !! and then, when the two of them, Ben Gocker, extremely charming and quick, too – and Cody Petterson told me – they represented the IOWA contingent of the Martin Bromirski – brotherhood of serious art world lovin’ bros – and started to regal me with tales – of the huge ole farmstead auctions they had grown-up around – with their never-ending store of secondhand quilts – I just couldn’t take it anymore – my mind short-circuited – oh to get there to Iowa, and 10 years ago at least – and I had to say good bye – with a promise staked in my heart – to look them up – again !!
\nall around, nice night, bro Bromirski !! <\/p>\n

PHOTOS COPYRIGHT: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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