{"id":30688,"date":"2016-10-21T13:57:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T18:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=30688"},"modified":"2016-10-25T15:34:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T20:34:16","slug":"casual-art-fair-orgy-park-an-anarchy-of-like-minded-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2016\/10\/21\/casual-art-fair-orgy-park-an-anarchy-of-like-minded-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"~CASUAL ART FAIR: ORGY PARK . . an anarchy of like-minded friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANARCHY: AN ARMY – OF LIKE-MINDED, REBEL FRIENDS.<\/p>\n

ORGY PARK: is as good a ‘metaphor’ as any . . for the current times.
\nas a riotous, determined crowd of new<\/strong> underground players: indie artists & the new crop of start-up indie galleries that show them . . struggle to ‘break’ into – the art scene proper headlights.
\nyeah, crash that crusty – ole party. <\/p>\n

otherwise, it’s pretty much a closed-circuit scene.
\nit’s very very hard to break in, the only way is to gather your friends, and start your own . . damn scene.
\nand all of a sudden, pop-ups included, there’s so many of them – it’s like friggin jumping beans, out there.
\nwhile in the meantime, last gen’s Chelsea – is completely dead.<\/p>\n

in Brooklyn – it’s Bushwick that’s rockin hard right now. I guess one of the newest, rawest examples of a single<\/strong> artist\/person . . going extreme indie ‘ballastic’ \/ i.e. getting so pissed off by the lack of opportunity for themselves & their friends . . that they put a fly-by-night gallery right smack in the middle of their living room, of a very small ground floor apt . .
\nwould be . . MICHAEL FLEMING and his MOUNTAIN GALLERY \/ @mountain.bushwick.<\/p>\n

another ‘solo’ indie gallerist, ‘hoping to bust-out’ . . would be STEVE MYKIETN, of ORGY PARK \/ @orgypark.
\nwho I had just met at the Casual Art Fair, and who told me, proudly, in true indie rebel outlaw fashion, that, his gallery was . . “in the basement of my apt building in Bushwick.” !!
\ngame . . on.
\ntake back the – streets.<\/p>\n

ESSEX FLOWERS in the Lower East Side. . .
\nis indicative of a even more growing number of alternative spaces . . composed like-minded friends \/ plural, who band together to organize & chip in re: finances . . the more free-fall, and diverse . . ‘group-run’ indie spaces that seem to be everywhere. freed from the pressure of a sales-driven agenda – because the group is large enough to carry the overhead, the resultant curatorial projects are diverse enough to keep things . . all ‘shook up’. <\/p>\n

in the 90s, everybody wanted to be the new MARY BOONE. that status quo is so, so … over.
\nfinally. <\/p>\n

now, the new gritty \/ ditty is totally<\/strong> alternative indie, and . . it goes<\/strong> like this:<\/p>\n

UNDERGROUND ART WORLD \/ NYC 2016 – ‘INDIE ORGY’<\/p>\n

hey you, soldier-boy solo \/ gallerist,
\nwho will be . . . the new BILL BRADY \/ breakin’ the ATM ?
\nhey you, band of friends,
\nif orange<\/strong> is the new black, who gonna be . . . the new CANADA ?<\/p>\n

\"orgy-park-business-card\"<\/a>
\nORGY PARK – business card.
\nORGY PARK – 237 JEFFERSON ST, BROOKLYN – STEVE MYKIETYN.
\norgypark.com <\/a><\/p>\n

\"steve-mykietn-owner-founder-direcor-of-orgy-gallry\"<\/a>
\nSTEVE MYKIETYN . . owner, founder\/director of ORGY PARK, in Bushwick.<\/p>\n

\"orgy-park-at-casual-art-fair\"<\/a>
\nORGY PARK . . at this year’s CASUAL ART FAIR, Oct 2, 2016, under the umbrella of the HESTER STREET FAIR, was a low-fi, kind of ‘geo-desic’ \/ ‘de-constructed’ big, free-wheeling, encircling . . wind, of raw energy.<\/p>\n

\"orgy-park-at-casual-art-fair\"<\/a>
\nit was pretty crazy: a swirling of metal fence mesh, circular motion, roughly hanging art, a stack of white painted tires – as a ‘display’ case ?
\nI will attempt a 2 word definition . . ‘deconstruction: serious’. <\/p>\n

\"orgy-park-swing\"<\/a>
\na swing.
\nyeah, merry pranksters, for sure. <\/p>\n

\"diy-kachina-dolls-by-dylan-languell\"<\/a>
\nDIY . . new world, KACHINA dolls – by DYLAN LANGUELL.<\/p>\n

\"dylan-languell-at-orgy-park\"<\/a>
\nDYLAN LANGUELL, ‘Kachina dolls’ made of shiny re-cycled food, snack & candy wrappers, wrapped around a mold & fused together in a microwave, something like that.
\nthey were priced at $800. or was it $900. \/ each. <\/p>\n

\"orgy-park-figure-reading-book\"<\/a>
\nfrom the small diy kachina, to the large . . diy child-size monster – ‘reading’ a book . .
\nwas it a . . gender\/bender kind of conversation – thing ?
\nreading monster by . . SIEBREN VERSTEEG.<\/p>\n

\"monster-manual-at-orgy-park-casual-art-fair\"<\/a>
\nno. it was more of an OGRE type . . thing.
\nthough it looked really .. ‘knitted’. definite a ‘hand-made’.<\/p>\n

\"craig-monteith-of-orgy-park\"<\/a>
\non the right, CRAIG MONTEITH co-curated this ORGY PARK offering.
\nwith him, his friend . . Carla.
\nCRAIG MONTEITH is also a member of the REGINA REX Gallery collective.<\/p>\n

\"orgy-park-card\"<\/a>
\nloved how the ORGY PARK card – matched his knitted sweater.<\/p>\n

\"nurse-painting-orgy-park\"<\/a>
\nnew take on the ole ‘Nurse painting’ – by NANCY DREW CAREY GALLERY
\nRichard Prince, and WALTER ROBINSON . . roll over.<\/p>\n

\"stained-glass-at-orgy-park\"<\/a>
\nwalking that thin line – between art & craft – a bonafide merry prankster does . . stained glass – wind chimes ?
\nglass and lead art work by IREN HANDSCHUH.<\/p>\n

\"merry-prankster-at-orgy-park\"<\/a>
\nrebel, rebel. ALFRED E. NEUMAN ? by NANCY DREW CAREY GALLERY,
\nJOE BRADLEY – watch out !!<\/p>\n

\"seer-painting-orgy-park\"<\/a>
\nSEER ?
\nWREN ?
\nNEVR ?
\nSTATIC ?<\/p>\n

I think, so !!!!!!!!<\/p>\n

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

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