{"id":21032,"date":"2014-03-24T16:10:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T21:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=21032"},"modified":"2014-03-26T08:41:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T13:41:37","slug":"the-brucennial-opening-pix-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2014\/03\/24\/the-brucennial-opening-pix-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"~THE BRUCENNIAL – OPENING PIX – PART III"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE LAST BRUCENNIAL<\/a> – ‘GIRLS ONLY’
\nMARCH 7 – APRIL 4, 2014
\n847 WASHINGTON ST, MEATPACKING DISTRICT, NYC – HRS: WED-SUN \/ 12-6 PM<\/p>\n

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\nBEST HYPER-REALIST PIECE, WATERCOLOR or colored PENCIL ? . . AUREL SCHMIDT
\nbut, what . . snake goes for WHOLE WHEAT ?
\naren’t they . . gluten-free ?!!<\/p>\n

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\nBEST ‘HYPER-GRAPHIC’ PHOTO . . MORIAH SEE.
\nreminding me of RICHARD PRINCE, JEFF KOONS and .. STEFAN SAGMEISTER.
\nbut what seals the deal for me – here, is how her calves are so . . ‘chunky’, and not airbrushed, it’s a curious tension, over all. <\/p>\n

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\nBEST REALIST, DOCUMENTARY \/ NAKED PHOTO, GOES TO . . MARGARITA JIMENO
\nso FRESH. so HAPPY. so SELFIE !!
\nso far past, so over the heads of all those other in-your-face explicit ole school porn dawgs.
\nwe get it, ALREADY !!
\nget HAPPY !! <\/p>\n

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\nBEST NAKED \/ ‘INFORMATION GRAPHICS’ \/ ‘STREET ART STYLE’ PAINTING . . MORGAN ST. EVEREST<\/p>\n

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\nBEST CROWD SHOT, mostly because . . competing for my heart along with that ‘rough’ and ‘ready’ MORGAN ST. EVEREST painting above, that<\/strong> is MY OTHER FAVORITE, ‘INFORMATION GRAPHICS’ & ‘STREET STYLE’ PAINTING . . just, just visible on the right.<\/p>\n

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\ndetail, PAINTING BY . . CHRISTINE TIEN WANG.<\/p>\n

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\ndetail, PAINTING BY . . CHRISTINE TIEN WANG.
\nincluding, BEST ‘MANHOOD’ PAINTING . . IN THE SHOW.<\/p>\n

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\ndetail, PAINTING BY . . CHRISTINE TIEN WANG.
\nN is for . . NANCY.
\nNO !!!!!!<\/p>\n

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\ndetail, PAINTING BY . . CHRISTINE TIEN WANG.
\nwow, third reference to JESUS, in as many months, gotta be an art world record.<\/p>\n

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\nin front of CHRISTINE TIEN WANG’S painting,
\nBEST BOY ARTIST, IN HAT HAND-KNIT BY MOM !! – RAPHAEL GRISWOLD.<\/p>\n

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\nAARON KUHN, currently at COOPER UNION.
\nRUNNER-UP BEST BOY ARTIST – CROWD ‘CRASHER’. <\/p>\n

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\nINTERLOPER ‘BOY’ ART . . by AARON KUHN.
\nha, so cute, what a man cave !!
\nnote the dirty sneakers at right. love it. cracked iPhone screen and all.
\nand I mean is that Phallic, or what.
\njust staying on topic, ‘GIRLS ONLY’ !!<\/p>\n

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\nand, the winner is: CROSBY – !!
\nBEST BOY ARTIST – THE LAST BRUCENNIAL – ‘GIRLS ONLY’ . . CROWD CRASHER !!<\/p>\n

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\n‘POST YORK’<\/a> – a multi-media project – a comic book illustrated by his dad . . JAMES ROMBERGER, inspired in part by Crosby, which comes with a musical flexidisc, music by CROSBY . . just garnered a very prestigious WILL EISNER AWARD – NOMINATION 2013 for BEST SINGLE ISSUE (One-Shot).
\ncongrats, James and Crosby. seriously !!
\nand see, growing up in a storefront with artist parents on the Lower East Side, back in day when the 80s, and the L.E.S. (!!) were the real deal – doesn’t seem to be such a bad way to bring up a kid, after all.
\n(just ask Kate & Theo !! 5 Rivington St \/ East Storefront)<\/p>\n

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\nCROSBY – PERFORMS: ‘POST YORK’ image via The Rumpus<\/a><\/p>\n

most definite, check out: CROSBY, JAMES ROMBERGER, ‘POST YORK’<\/a> . . THE RUMPUS – THE NEW YORK COMICS SYMPOSIUM – !!
\nwith many great illustrations & good background info.<\/p>\n

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\nIMAGE via SLATE<\/a><\/p>\n

CROSBY’S parents . . JAMES ROMBERGER and MARGUERITE VAN COOK have been in the news as well, big time.
\nfor another project.<\/p>\n

they worked with the late DAVID WOJNAROWICZ on his critically acclaimed autobiography, a graphic novel – ‘7 MILES A SECOND’ – which was just re-released<\/strong> 2013 in a deluxe edition by Fantagraphics, and which received a ton of fab fab press, and a place on the NEW TIMES best seller list.
\nCrosby’s dad JAMES ROMBERGER penned the drawings, while his mom, MARGUERITE VAN COOK did the inking\/coloring, via . . very vivid watercolor.<\/p>\n

see: ‘7 MILES A SECOND’ – Fantagraphics.<\/a><\/p>\n

and, definite, catch: a great review in . . SLATE !!<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nwatch<\/strong>: CROSBY, ‘Are You Listed ?’ . . on YouTube<\/a>, AUG 2007 – DEITCH PROJECTS.<\/p>\n

of course, one of young CROSBY’S . . most amusing 15 mins of fame, to date !!
\nwould have to be this clip of him, doing manual labor, and boring !! – with a few other (also bored) downtown denizens, in support of the very last DASH SNOW exhibit: ‘NEST’ – at DEITCH PROJECTS !!
\nwell, who do you thunk, ripped up all that paper !!
\nps: if you listen closely, you can catch taskmaster KATHY GRAYSON admonishing Crosby to get back – to it !!
\nyeah . . way to go Kathy.
\ntake a kid who does graphics for SWIZZ BEATZ !! and have him rip up phone books, for Dash Snow.
\npriceless. <\/p>\n

good crashing – CROSBY, or what !! <\/p>\n

MORE PIX – TO FOLLOW.<\/p>\n

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, unless otherwise noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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