{"id":32809,"date":"2017-04-19T12:36:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T17:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=32809"},"modified":"2017-04-19T14:03:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T19:03:22","slug":"under-the-volcano-my-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2017\/04\/19\/under-the-volcano-my-work\/","title":{"rendered":"~’UNDER THE VOLCANO’ . . my work !!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Under-the-volcano---nicholas-steindorf\"<\/a>
\nthat’s my work to the left, and those are Simon’s small minimalist \/ punk canvases, the 3 pieces on the right.
\nscreen grab, see:<\/strong> ‘UNDER THE VOLCANO: SIMON CERIGO, DAN ASHER, NANCY SMITH’<\/strong>
\nNICHOLAS STEINDORF: WALK-THROUGH CLIP – on YouTube<\/strong><\/a>
\nthe first ‘historic’ rendition . . of a pop-up show on 80s art – now recreated on . .
\nhit:<\/strong> VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"Nancy-Smith---charcoal-drawing\"<\/a>
\nNANCY SMITH, ‘Self Portrait’, 1985. Tarot card series. charcoal drawing, 38 x 30 in.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t figure out the impulse behind these drawings, until much later . .
\nit wasn’t so<\/em> much about telling the future – how will your<\/em> life unfold ?
\nbut more, it was a sense<\/em> of some powerful inner ‘radar’ . . .
\nof being able to divine, not<\/em> the future of people’s lives, but more, in the realm of pure art \/ being able to ‘scout’ out talent, from its earliest manifestations, as it rose up, in the swirling unknown – of the hard-core . . ‘underground’.
\n& therefore: under the volcano \/ off the grid \/ not on the map.<\/p>\n

\"Nancy-Smith,-mirror-drawing\"<\/a>
\nNANCY SMITH, ‘Mirror, Mirror’, 1985. Tarot card series. charcoal drawing, 38 x 50 in.<\/p>\n

it was a very inward, magical process. my drawing wasn’t<\/em> a narrative . . about what was going on around me, but more: wtf was I doing here, in NYC ?
\nI didn’t fit in, I was kind of a outcast. I had no voice, no presence, no power – except this invisible nascent power of ‘radar’ – that I felt within, and which mystified – the hell out of me.
\nat the time, Medieval Italian Tarot decks, and 18th C. Edo period Japan – were a big solace & source of inspiration.<\/p>\n

\"nancy-Smith,-charcoal,-drawing-detail\"<\/a>
\nit was both a charmed & demonic \/ confusing time.
\nmy inner life refused to submit to the standard art world . . forces.<\/p>\n

\"Nancy-Smith,-drawing-angel-w-mirror\"<\/a>
\nbut, somehow in the depths of it all, my drawings always spoke back to me . . with laughter. and mirth. so . . I kept on going !!<\/p>\n

\"Nancy-Smith---watercolor\"<\/a>
\nNANCY SMITH, ‘Seer’s Vase’ watercolor on paper, 18 x 24 in. ca. early 1990’s.<\/p>\n

the show’s curators, KATE & THEO CERIGO, also included a few of my framed watercolors in the show. god knows – they totally got<\/strong> them \/ having lived with them, all their sweet, young lives . . .
\nsame story, what was going on . . . o-u-t there ??
\nhow . . did I fit in ?
\nhow to explain the visions, the vibes, the creativity ?
\nif you think about, what you know about – art in the Lower East Side from that period, you can see what a strange character – I was. it was the season of the Pictures generation, photographs, & realism . . abounded.
\nand I was trying to express in paint and charcoal . . what I was not<\/strong> even sure of . . myself !! trying to uncover some magic stone within me.
\ntrying to divine<\/em> a path for myself \/ & find a voice . . to follow.<\/p>\n

let’s raise a glass to . . mystical realism !!
\nwe are heading deep into the looking glass \/ of Magical . . . thinking !!<\/p>\n

right under – the volcano \/ it’s not any other standard variety \/ museum-certifed 80s artist – that I see \/ brought to life on – this most cutting edge of artists’ web sites: VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER !!<\/p>\n

never recognized by the mainstream – in the mad swirl of the Lower East Side 80s \/ a key player in WE LIVE IN PUBLIC, in the tail end of the first web tech digital frontier 90s, but still (!!) not recognized \/ as an artist in my own right.
\nexploited for my<\/em> radar on artnet (2002-04) & STILL not<\/strong> recognized as an artist in my own right . . . ?!!!!<\/p>\n

it seems it took almost<\/strong> a lifetime, to find my art – recognized & preserved in . . what else ? the vision of the future !!
\naka . . VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER<\/a>, out of Paris \/
\nthank you, JEAN-BAPTISTE LENGLET.
\n& NICHOLAS STEINDORF, here . . in NYC who put it – to form \/ himself part of the new wave of young artists invigorating the underground scene this decade, & which somehow, finally gets that my radar & my art – are one and the same.
\nof course, it would the newest<\/strong> wave, coming to rescue me from the sorry neglect – of my so-called peers. <\/p>\n

just goes to show:
\nwhat comes around, goes around ?
\nlol, Nicholas Steindorf who walked into my life, because Kate was looking for a roommate – in Brooklyn, and shook that mundane glass ball, called Craig’s List.
\nand so the world, my world . . . turned upright – finally.<\/p>\n

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

that’s my work to the left, and those are Simon’s small minimalist \/ punk canvases, the 3 pieces on the right. screen grab, see: ‘UNDER THE VOLCANO: SIMON CERIGO, DAN ASHER, NANCY SMITH’ NICHOLAS STEINDORF: WALK-THROUGH CLIP – on YouTube the first ‘historic’ rendition . . of a pop-up show on 80s art – now […]<\/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\/32809"}],"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=32809"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32827,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32809\/revisions\/32827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}