{"id":33183,"date":"2017-05-19T10:36:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T15:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=33183"},"modified":"2017-05-19T11:45:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T16:45:47","slug":"wow-that-was-such-a-girls-only-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2017\/05\/19\/wow-that-was-such-a-girls-only-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"~wow, that was such a . . ‘girls’ !! only trip !! illustration by RUTH MARTEN \/ UNDERDONK"},"content":{"rendered":"

finding stepping stones \/ in the art world . . . brook \/
\nNYC, Spring 2017.<\/p>\n

loving nothing better, then when the path I take through the various shows I see – takes on a subtext <\/strong>of it’s own !!<\/p>\n

this past month – it was really quite the WILD ride !!
\nand it was all about . . GIRLS !!!!!!<\/p>\n

EMBRACE – THAT !!!!!!<\/p>\n

\"RUTH-MARTEN---UNDERDONK\"<\/a>
\nRUTH MARTEN, ‘Possession’, 2012.
\nPOSTCARD . . OBTAINED FROM UNDERDONK, on a visit last weekend \/ May 14, 2017.<\/p>\n

yeah, that was so F . . is for femme, femme, femme tripppppy !!!<\/p>\n

it seems to have started, most unknowingly . . with the ‘SURREALIST DINNER ‘ at the woman-artist run SELENA<\/strong> \/ OLIVIA SWIDER<\/strong>, and ANJULI RATHOD<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

that, got me to – thinking: Surrealist, Symbolist.
\nwomen \/ artists.<\/p>\n

then, about a week later I walk into ‘Like Oxygen’ at MOUNTAIN \/ expecting a very tech-oriented \/ cutting-edge underground experience, only to be awe-struck by . . the shaman-centered ‘Crystal Flowers Radio’ 2017, install by ALLISON WADE<\/strong> !!<\/p>\n

where the artist, ALLISON WADE . .
\nwas presenting recorded seances, she had set up in the former apt\/home of . . FLORINE STETTHEIMER<\/strong> !!
\nif, this wasn’t pushing ‘Surreal’ & ‘Symbolist’ . . right off the map \/ it was definitely raising the spirits.<\/p>\n

because . .
\nnot more than 4 days later, on Tuesday May 2nd, I found myself at the JEWISH MUSEUM for the press preview of one of the most wonderful exhibits you will ever happen upon, ‘Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry’<\/strong> !!
\n& up thru Sept 24, 2017 – don’t miss it.<\/p>\n

now, not only was this . . a ghost come to life \/ but a woman artist, who is long over-due a revival of interest & recognition !!
\nhere we not only a have a . . . a ‘SYMBOLIST’ – !!
\nbut, a magic realist \/ visionary.
\nresplendent with the most passionate paintings, and imagine that: passionate & whimsical in one sentence !!
\nincluding the most surreal<\/strong> theatrical costumes, fortune telling cards & . . garden scenes. imagine that: surreal and domestic in the same sentence ??\/!!
\nyou go, FLORINE !!!!<\/p>\n

then somehow, while chasing the Old World treasures . . of Count Carl Gustaf Tessin (1695-1770) \/ which morphed into the ‘Treasures from the Nationalmuseum of Sweden’ at the Morgan Library, me & my friend . . took a stroll into another exhibit running concurrently: ‘I’m Nobody! Who are you?’<\/strong> – a sweet, new take on EMILY DICKINSON<\/strong>, which had me totally enthralled, so much so, that I even hit up the movie: ‘A Quiet Passion’<\/strong> – a new re-telling of her story.<\/p>\n

so, it was all in all, all, all \/ it was: all-women . . stepping stones !!
\nthough, what was even more surprising . .
\nwas how the tour, took a most strange, and winding<\/strong>, and unexpected<\/strong>, but . . p-a-s-s-i-n-a-t-e turn !!<\/p>\n

flowing from surrealism, and seances \/ thru symbolism . . . onto the fanciful \/ magic realism !! of GILDED AGE . . FLORINE STETTHEIMER,
\nto the . . classic Victorian parlor . . of EMILY DICKINSON !!
\nvia herbarium \/ scientific nature collections, black paper profile cut-outs, Daguerrotypes \/ shaped poetry & the hand-bound \/ hand-stitched fascicle booklets of Emily DICKINSON !!<\/p>\n

so how strange, is the meandering art world I prowl . . . ?<\/p>\n

that last weekend . . .
\nI find myself at . . ‘NIGHTJAR’ \/ at UNDERDONK<\/a> !!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

finding stepping stones \/ in the art world . . . brook \/ NYC, Spring 2017. loving nothing better, then when the path I take through the various shows I see – takes on a subtext of it’s own !! this past month – it was really quite the WILD ride !! and it was […]<\/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\/33183"}],"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=33183"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33200,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33183\/revisions\/33200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}