JIM JOE VS LEWY: ‘PIECE OF DIRT’
\nCHINATOWN POP-UP \/ 48 BOWERY, NYC
\nAPRIL 2 – 12, 2016<\/p>\n
MORE PIX – FROM THE OPENING – APRIL 1, 2016<\/p>\n
yep, that’s . . my shadow.<\/p>\n JIM JOE VS LEWY, ‘DOG VS RAT’ !!!!!! X !!!!!! ‘PUNISHMENT’ – !!<\/p>\n !!!!!!! X !!!!!! ‘GREED’ – !!<\/p>\n I GUESS THIS<\/strong> IS AS CLOSE AS I CAN GET – TO A ‘MUSEUM’, MY ‘MUSEUM\/foundation’, for . . now.<\/p>\n and, hell yah. JIM JOE, ‘VANITY VS SANITY’ what: you be calling my name . . boy ?![\"JIM-JOE-VS-LEWY---LEFT-VS-RIGHT-#1\"](\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/JIM-JOE-VS-LEWY-LEFT-VS-RIGHT-1.jpg\")
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\nJIM JOE VS LEWY, ‘LEFT VS RIGHT’
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\nnot that I want to cast any shade, lol.
\nbut, I’ll say it again: VIRGINIA DWAN VS ELI BROAD ?
\nVIRGINIA DWAN . . wins.
\nhands down. <\/p>\n<\/a>
\nI really related to this drawing – it’s kind of a mirror, and a . . metaphor for my mood, my life, whatever.
\nit’s been hard knock – fer sure.
\nif<\/strong> I had had<\/strong> the dough, or leverage <\/strong>to buy the work I loved the most, and in some cases I did (JOE BRADLEY) . . I’d be a millionaire, prob even a billionaire, by now.
\nmaybe even many times over.
\nwell, right after JJEAN-MICHEL, who was my friend, in passing in the hood on the Bowery, I learnt my lesson.
\nif you can’t<\/strong> grab the work LONG STORY, but he signed posters for me, grab the pix.
\nbecause talk is cheap. get that marker<\/strong> – that says: YES – you were there.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nhard knock, but passionate.
\npass-ion=ate.
\nyou know, I didn’t<\/strong> call myself: artlovers !!
\nthat’s just the name I picked up – and, WALTER ROBINSON made it formal: and made it stick. like gum.
\npersonally I liked my other<\/strong> nickname better: CRACKULA, lol.
\nwhat me – throw: shade ?<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nthere were a lot of dog<\/strong> drawings in the show, which I found endlessly fascinating – as I just got a dog !!
\nmy first ever – and she’s gonna be huge. literally, not <\/strong>auction-wise.
\nshe’s an American Akita. she’s 4 mos. old and she’s already<\/strong> well over 38 pounds, and counting.
\nprob gonna go . . past 100, 120 ?
\nher name is: ZORA. and I love her, . . and she totally, totally loves me.
\nF the art world.
\nand yes, I named her after my hero: ZORA NEALE HURSTON, take that whitey haters. and, shove it.
\nlol. cultural appropriation. I mean, what’s in my<\/strong> blood – only Bob Marley knows for sure.
\ntalk about crazy Rastafarian locks. talking to the dead, (and the . . don’t know<\/strong> they are dead, lol, too) <\/p>\n
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\noh gawd, don’t you love that: DOG VS RAT<\/strong>
\nand, RAT spells ART – BACKWARDS, of course. was gonna make a joke, but thought better of it.
\nwell, dog days of summer – anyways.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nJIM JOE VS LEWY, ‘CRIME VS PUNISHMENT’
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\nJIM JOE VS LEWY, ‘GREED VS BREED’
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\nTAROT DRAWING – DOGGY, DOG ?
\nGYPSY PALM READER ? DOGGY, DOG ?
\nSHAMAN DECK OF CARDS – DOGGY, DOG ?
\nGAME OF THRONES, DOGGY DOG ?
\nCHUBBY DOGGY . . HAS A GHOST ARMY ?
\nAND THEY ARE STILL,
\nS-T-I-L-L . . THE LIVING DEAD.
\nWAITING FOR THEIR <\/strong>DAY IN THE SUN: MARK ENGER, DAN ASHER, & SIMON CERIGO.
\nLOS DEAD ONES.<\/p>\n
\nforget . ‘contemporary’, I’m going call it straight: MUSEUM OF THE DEAD, but not forgotten.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nthis one makes me what to say: THE LADY WAS A TRAMP ?
\na Disney doggy animation – prob way before your time. or maybe not, if you are a collector.<\/p>\n
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\nVANITY – lol VS<\/strong> SANITY – lol<\/p>\n