{"id":31259,"date":"2016-11-18T14:44:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T19:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=31259"},"modified":"2016-11-21T15:25:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T20:25:02","slug":"pat-mccarthy-bringing-it-all-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2016\/11\/18\/pat-mccarthy-bringing-it-all-home\/","title":{"rendered":"~PAT McCARTHY . . bringing it all, home"},"content":{"rendered":"

SYLVAIN COUZINET-JACQUES: ‘EDEN’
\nwith additional works by FRED CAVE, THOMAS HAUSER, JESSE HOYLE, AMELIA RINA, PAT McCARTHY, and UGO SCHIAVI
\nNOV 16 – JAN 19, 2016
\nAPERTURE FOUNDATION GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n

PIX FROM THE OPENING – WED NOV 16, 2016<\/p>\n

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\nPAT McCARTHY at the opening, with his ceramic . . ‘mini mini mini me’ tiny little ‘replica’ school house, sitting on a stack of low-fi zines, which he had also made – for the project.
\nand they are wonderful.
\nthough you couldn’t get to them obviously – or even divine what they were, in this stodgy and misguided presentation.
\n‘BORN TO KILL’ – ISSUE 90 – ‘BUILDING A FIRE’
\n‘IN EDEN’ – !!
\nluckily Pat laid a copy on me.<\/p>\n

get ready for a rant – KANYE more over !!<\/p>\n

because then, as you will see, burn baby burn, then it’s all downhill, from there.<\/p>\n

ps: in the background, higher up, . . that is a ‘composite’ photographic \/ historical piece \/ collage by JESSE HOYLE.
\nnice. I most definite wanted to step in closer to see it, but no<\/strong> could do. there was a serious glass wall in front of this constructed wall box – display ???<\/p>\n

sometimes . .
\nno matter how<\/strong> much you to look forward to the actual ‘hard copy’, esp when, as was the case here, the online <\/strong>images are so exceptional – and, the accompanying concept just jumps double time – it just doesn’t pan out, and unfortunately this evening was one of those ‘things gone – south’ quickly . . kinda nights.
\nI got completely undone – by the exhibit’s ‘construct’. so frustrating.
\nput me in such a bad mood.<\/p>\n

the problem was with the display production & the exhibit design<\/strong> more specifically. it was hung badly. the worst. if there is a word for poetic – then what’s the word, for . . NOT ?
\nthe room, the displays were too dark, to the point of no visibility. the pieces staggered against their backdrop and could realize no<\/strong> conversation with their neighbors. <\/p>\n

this display ‘wall-box’ was how the show began, and it was totally un-accessible, both visually and physically. the gallery itself, was a huge space, so why<\/strong> was crowded up against wall ? and barricaded behind<\/strong> a floor-to-ceiling . . shallow, airless box of a viewing ‘window’ ? here you see Patrick is standing in front of the glass wall. the wooden beams support it. you couldn’t walk into the actual display space.
\nit was a construct that made no sense, and took away – even more.<\/p>\n

and, if trying to view the show was frustrating, forget<\/strong> trying to photograph it.
\nand this from a venue that specializes in photography shows, and has done so, for decades.<\/p>\n

yep that bad.
\nthe works might<\/strong> have been good, they sure looked good online – and I know for sure Pat’s is, and JESSE HOYLE’s piece was also so so intriguing, but it was just like looking at the road – through a downpour, there was – no<\/strong> seeing it.<\/p>\n

it was possibly the most<\/strong> appalling and frustrating show ‘design’ – that I have ever stumbled upon, and since I’m not one to endure poor quality workmanship \/ vision . . after saying hello to Pat, I abruptly left. and I didn’t see the rest of it, and if it got better, that’s good, but . . you lost me at the first wall, <\/p>\n

if you think these words be cruel, this is<\/strong> a tough town, and people have<\/strong> to work very very hard, and be very very sharp to stay <\/strong>in the game, be at the top of their game & make their money.
\nthere’s no free lunch in this town.
\nif you can’t take the heat, this is<\/strong> one kitchen you should stay out of, altogether.<\/p>\n

put it this way:
\nI see indie, shoe-box venues with poverty line budgets – muster better showings, ALL THE TIME !!
\nand by that I mean visually dynamic, accessible and damn it . . ‘inspired’ presentations, that run the gamut from straight-up classic . . to free fall deconstructed, all of which make you shiver when you<\/em> walk in, all the time.
\nname two recent ones ?
\nstill up: ‘Aethelred Eldridge’ at ESSEX FLOWERS, & the ‘SHROOM SHOW’ at HELPERS.<\/p>\n

so if you think this is harsh, you are walking the wrong streets, with your head – on the wrong setting.
\nsorry to crash your party, but . . you break the vase, you buy it.<\/p>\n

who dropped the ball, here ?<\/p>\n

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\nPAT McCARTHY, ‘Eden Schoolhouse’ 2016. stoneware, steel, paper, epoxy resin.
\napprox 12 x 12 x 16 in.<\/p>\n

well, I don’t know what the hell was happening on the left, could anything be more dim, more black and more un-view-able ?
\nit’s only because I know Pat’s work so<\/strong> well, that I know how much they bungled this.
\nthis is a painstakingly & lovingly hand-built, piece that needs to stand, or sit . . . on a pedestal at eye-level, so you can really<\/strong> gaze at length, and with clarity – at all the glorious \/ poetic \/ industrial detail. <\/p>\n

it needs to be perched on a pedestal or table,
\nso you can walk around it<\/strong> and get the ‘big picture of the little wonder’ . . from all<\/em> angles.
\nthis was the only view. this is <\/strong>a 3D piece, a miniature replica of a 3D building.
\nthis is . . NOT A PHOTOGRAPH.
\n. . . you need to WALK AROUND IT.<\/p>\n

and even that STATIC view – was un-accessible, lying as it was, despite the stacking of the zines, too<\/strong> low to the ground.<\/p>\n

like they say:
\nwhat I was supposed to do, twist my head off my body . . and lay it down on the floor – the better to see ?<\/p>\n

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\nnot to mention the lighting is horrible.
\nthe floor and walls couldn’t be more boring if they tried, where’s Yayoi Kusama when you need her.
\njust joking. desperate.
\na classic standard ‘gallery’ setting – would have been quite fine.
\nlike how they did up that decade old . . WIILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY retrospective. (google it)
\nanybody out there – catch that ?<\/p>\n

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\nJESSE HOYLE, ‘(re)Write Yesterday’, 2016.
\ncyanotype on glass, paint, vintage photograph on loan from the Eden Historical Society, 28 x 12 in.
\nI mean, I guess this was meant<\/strong> to be ghostly, but I don’t think, quite as ghostly \/ as in absolutely un-viewable . . ghostly – !!<\/p>\n

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\nwhich is too<\/strong> bad, because it was . . really intriguing.
\nand I do so love . . photographs, all things vintage. history, rarely seen documents, and esp . . black American ‘story-telling.’<\/p>\n

ps: they have a nice post card of that great, romantic \/ fizzy red SYLVAIN COUZINET-JACQUES ‘schoolhouse’ . . . at the front desk.<\/p>\n

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

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