{"id":30290,"date":"2016-09-08T09:49:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T14:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=30290"},"modified":"2016-09-08T10:01:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T15:01:11","slug":"nancy-smith-simon-cerigo-back-in-day-concordia-univ-montreal-mfa-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2016\/09\/08\/nancy-smith-simon-cerigo-back-in-day-concordia-univ-montreal-mfa-students\/","title":{"rendered":"~NANCY SMITH, SIMON CERIGO . . back in the day: Concordia Univ, Montreal MFA students"},"content":{"rendered":"

yeah, SIMON CERIGO, RIP and I . . were both<\/strong> students at Concordia Univ in the 1970s – and GUIDO MOLINARI<\/a> was our teacher.
\nsee: GUIDO MOLINARI-images<\/a><\/p>\n

to put it in perspective, we were the ‘next wave’ generation to follow in the footsteps of LEONARD COHEN. except instead of poetry – painting, formalist painting – was the big<\/strong> scene.
\nit was very, very ‘happening’.<\/p>\n

we were ‘maudit’ anglophones, so we couldn’t get too much action re grants & exhibitions – because we weren’t Quebecois ‘frenchies’ in our DNA. at that time, the early 1970s – that was a big<\/strong> big issue, so after graduate school, Concordia University, MFA Studio Program (we were part of the first ever graduating class, lol) . . . while, pretty much everyone else split to Toronto or Vancouver – we split to . . NEW YORK !!
\nOF COURSE !!!!
\nand we never<\/strong>, ever – looked back !!!!<\/p>\n

Simon used to haunt the legendary Lower East Side – Red Bar, and I used to walk the Soho streets with, who else ? Basquiat.
\nyeah, for sure – that’s how we rolled.<\/p>\n

\"simon-cerigo-1970s-montreal\"<\/a>
\nSIMON CERIGO, RIP. in Montreal – in the early 70s.
\nsee: SIMON CERIGO, RIP – OBIT – ArtInfo<\/a><\/p>\n

\"nancy-smith-montreal-1970s\"<\/a>
\nNANCY SMITH, while I was in the MFA Studio Program at Concordia University, in Montreal, in the early 70s.
\nyep, that’s me.
\nof course !!!!!! – I was . . . WILD !!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n

\"nancy-smith-mfa-student-montreal-1970s\"<\/a>
\nNANCY SMITH, trucking my portfolio around, Montreal, in the early 1970s.
\nthey used to call me . . GUIDO BABY – I could be a big ‘FAN’ – even back then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

yeah, SIMON CERIGO, RIP and I . . were both students at Concordia Univ in the 1970s – and GUIDO MOLINARI was our teacher. see: GUIDO MOLINARI-images to put it in perspective, we were the ‘next wave’ generation to follow in the footsteps of LEONARD COHEN. except instead of poetry – painting, formalist painting – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30290"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30303,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30290\/revisions\/30303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}