{"id":24681,"date":"2015-04-02T08:59:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T13:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=24681"},"modified":"2015-04-02T12:39:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T17:39:39","slug":"bazaar-teens-john-gordon-gauld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2015\/04\/02\/bazaar-teens-john-gordon-gauld\/","title":{"rendered":"~BAZAAR TEENS . . JOHN GORDON GAULD & MIA BERG"},"content":{"rendered":"

it’s a . . bunny, not<\/strong> a . . piggy !!!!
\nimagine a bunny and a piggy having . . sex.
\nyuk. or, is that yuck. so much for art criticism, NYC 101.<\/p>\n

o.k. – not ready for that ?
\ntake two:
\nfollow me . . down the mighty distressed garden path by which we discover MR. PIGGY – is really MR. BUNNY – !! <\/p>\n

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\nJOHN GORDON GAULD . . at the BAZAAR TEENS ‘TREE TECH’ OFFICES & SHOWROOM – SPRING BREAK 2015, curated by DUSTIN YELLIN.
\njust as YELLIN screams ART BOSS of RED HOOK, and perhaps even the decade, GAULD spells . . G-o-l-d.
\ndoesn’t matter – how you cut it, or . . cast it.
\nsolid gold. plaster, wax, or paint.
\nwhether set on fire, bathed in neon blue light, or hang on a wall.
\npiggy, bunny, or naked damsel in . . distress.<\/p>\n

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\nthis BAZAAR TEENS money machine, atm ? tucked away in a small janitor closet behind their entryway, had caught my notice, at the last minute – at the Spring Break opening.
\nwell, it was . . a bonafide nano-moment, of half attention, on my part.
\nwhen I returned 2 d days later, it was at the top of my list – to look at again.
\njust what was that – that had sneaked by me, like a thief in the night.<\/p>\n

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\nloved the ‘piggy’ banks, I assumed<\/strong>, lined up on the shelf above the money machine.
\nthat ‘pink’ shading of the light – also spoke ‘piggy’ to me.<\/p>\n

my impulse was: I wanted to grab one, and run.
\njust how some people want to grab the money, (fortune and fame), and run, too.
\np.s., in the tiny closet – nano-exhibit, dot dot … dot.
\nin the ‘closet’ – in general, dot. dot – dot.<\/p>\n

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\nart thou, art product – piggy banks ?
\nor, put forth art critic-wise . . ‘art product’ that I liked way better than all that pasted and shredded . . . (great p.r.) m-o-n-e-y. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nthe neon blue lit entryway to the ‘TREE-TECH’ operation, was even more fab than I had remembered.
\nhow many times does that . . happen.
\nso, things were looking good.<\/p>\n

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\nyep, it was a total<\/strong> full-on FAB NANO-MOMENT – !!
\nI was thinking piggies, and here was MIA BERG, the BAZAAR TEENS ‘TREE-TECH’ crew member of the random<\/strong> moment, and she was thinking . . piggies, too.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nin fact, she was drawing one, that she had just placed on the ‘showroom’ . . info desk.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nthis was her drawing, and so I came to see – that it wasn’t<\/em> a piggy after all, all money assumptions be gone out the window, just like all the rest of the money assumptions in my life. <\/p>\n

yep, Mr. Piggy was a Mr. Bunny !! it was a . . BUNNY on top of the cash machine, all along.
\nnow how about that, for a distressed, transformational . . garden fable.
\nin fact, the drawing seemed to be a love letter, to MR. BUNNY, from . . BUNNY (femme) !!
\nso, back to the fable: it’s gone from a piggy bank to a rabbit. a magic rabbit, dig the hat. the story has taken a wild turn, from . . saving dough, it’s jumped to saving the species, i.e. in more coarse terminology . . ‘breeding’.
\nso, there’s hope in the garden ?
\na little bio-magic, some spring-time romance ? even in the (mighty) distressed garden of the dirty plastic ‘TREE-TECH’ future ?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nthis JOHN GORDON GAULD bunny, also played into the current artisan-all-the-rage ceramics – wave crashing over us – like a monster tsunami . . out of Brooklyn.
\nit was low-fi version, plaster. but still !! and . . no matter.
\nand, even<\/em> better, it was . . signed on the bottom by the artist !!
\nit could have had a slit at the top for coins, and a hole at the bottom, for coin retrieval, then I guess it would have been<\/em> a . . bunny-bank ?
\nmaybe, next time.
\nfor now, it was more about saving the human race, i.e. the world, than saving . . money.
\nand, for ‘TREE-TECH’ it was not a moment too soon.
\nall seemed to be well, if not a roaring-ly fantastic utopia, with the teen bio future, living as they do, in an increasingly . . bio-hazard challenged world.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nin fact there were even . . ‘home decor’ candle format Mr. Bunnies, for $100 a pop.
\nbut no signature, and well, a disappearing act . . if put into action.
\nanother ‘TRANSACTION’, a truly nano-to-dot moment – art product ?<\/p>\n

so, where were you<\/strong> . . Mr. LARRY WARSH, man of the BROOKLYN MUSEUM hour\/nano-moment, famed, and justifiably so \/ self-styled collector of artistic, translate: ‘BASQUIAT’ . . . ‘ephemera’ ?<\/p>\n

does . . art ever move on, to the NEXT BIG MOMENT, as it . . happens ?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nbesides, what a difference<\/strong> a candle ‘camera’ angle makes, for some reason, I’m not sure of, I think it was<\/em> important to note, that this was a male Mr. Bunny, and not a ‘femme’.
\nas in . . PULL THE MAGIC RABBIT out of the HAT ?
\nand even further, as opposed to . . follow that, more organic ? Mr. Rabbit . . down the rabbit hole ?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nMr. BUNNY, on fire – !!
\nreally dig that ‘shabby chic’ industrial setting – !!
\ncrate and barrel, not. though it’s getting there.
\n‘TREE-TECH’, yes.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nbye the way, the chalky bunny ‘bank’ opaque plaster surface, as well as the soft waxy surface of the bunny candle, and its warm glow when lit . . went well with the shiny industrial BAZAAR TEENS theme – in general.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nso, I thought that was the end of the garden path story, and asked Ms. Berg to kindly stand up and show me her ‘TREE-TECH’ decal . . all the better, to see you, my dear.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nBAZAAR TEENS, blue light and all, great graphics, props, set and design, concept and message – in a nutshell.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nJOHN GORDON GAULT, ‘Blue Ghost’, 2013. oil on linen, 42 x 60 in.<\/p>\n

and then, my lucky day, or what. JOHN GORDON GAULD himself . . entered the picture.
\nand told me, that it was he – who had in fact painted that show-stopping hyper-realist ‘nude’ in one of sub-text ‘TREE-TECH’ . . ‘satellite’ exhibit rooms.<\/p>\n

all radar, no money. like I said.
\nthat’s myself I’m talking about, guess you really<\/em> can’t have it all.
\ndamn.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nyes, it was . . a Damsel in Distress.
\nher hands were going cold white and powdery – with death.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nand, just like that, THE TALE OF BENJAMIN BUNNY, and the happy ending that went with it, went up in – smoke.
\njust like a candle.
\nthe survival garden fable – got all twisted up, right at the very end.
\nlike a final parting shot . . Tarot card, ‘To Mr. Bunny, with love . . from Ms. Bunny’, got shut down. the whole thing ended, on a most ominous note . . . PARADISE LOST<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

if the shabby chic industrial futuristic distress scenario, that was the ‘TREE-TECH’ office installation, with its glossy, pitch perfect gibberish-full color brochure, and its muddy stale day-old bread, and day old, more like weeks old coffee-spewing DIY fountain, including a generous piling on of out-of-place dirt lining the bare walls, everywhere, at every nook and cranny of their uber-fabricated ‘TREE-TECH’ offices – didn’t nail<\/strong> the future for ya, the crew of BAZAAR TEENS socked it to ya, with Mr. GAULD’S endgame painting. <\/p>\n

‘BAZAAR’ becoming less a metaphor for ‘cash’ transaction – and, more a case for . . genetic mutation, i.e. that’s, ‘BIZARRE’ . . in case you can’t make the deconstructionist . . leap.<\/p>\n

yep, leave it to the hyper-realist painting, to set you straight. <\/p>\n

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

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