{"id":34633,"date":"2017-10-06T12:48:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T17:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=34633"},"modified":"2017-10-06T14:52:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T19:52:30","slug":"artloversnewyork-our-booth-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2017\/10\/06\/artloversnewyork-our-booth-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"~ARTLOVERSNEWYORK . . OUR BOOTH \/ Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE CASUAL ART FAIR<\/a>, SEWARD PARK, LOWER EAST SIDE. NYC. Oct 1, 2017<\/p>\n

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\nso like I was saying,
\nANTONE KONST’S drawing on an aqua-resin tablet, was so . . terrifyingly EROTIC !!<\/p>\n

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\nreally beautiful, how it ‘dialoged’ with . . the ALFREDO MARTINEZ \/ phony ‘BASQUIAT’ – behind it.<\/p>\n

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\n“ORES of URANIUM” – one of ALFREDO MARTINEZ’S best “Real Fake” Basquaits, and a gun piece on hand-made paper to the right.
\nThis forger is so good \/ he got caught red-handed, and went to jail.
\nas long as he sells them as outright<\/strong> fakes, he’s ok \/ conceptual artist ?!! <\/p>\n

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\nRIP \/ SIMON CERIGO, ca 1980s.
\nraw & wild paint \/ collage piece on board. love the color chart !! <\/p>\n

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\nit’s interesting to see work outside – of its usual resting place.
\nthis time & place – I picked up on a wild angry yellow ghost man in the background.
\n‘Ulysses Yellow’ was Simon’s nom de plume \/ back in the 80s when it wasn’t<\/strong> cool to both show & make . . your own work !!!
\nas in: to be both gallerist \/ curator . . and painter. <\/p>\n

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\nthe back wall.
\nSIMON CERIGO, NICHOLAS STEINDORF, DAN ASHER.
\nof course !! NICHOLAS was loving . . hanging between these 2 old Lower East Side legends !!
\nnot to mention the real life fauna background, was a real<\/strong> boon for his artwork !!
\nin fact, NICHOLAS made it a point to tell me, the spontaneous raw \/ & casual vibe . . of the fair was really fun for him. <\/p>\n

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\nNICHOLAS STEINDORF . . the prints were color separated, not just color saturated !!
\nand you caught the best bang, when you looked at them . . through 3-D glasses.
\nthough I thought they were pretty rockin’ out – just as is. <\/p>\n

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\nlooking at NICHOLAS STEINDORF’S color separations !!<\/p>\n

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\nwe had plenty of 3-D glasses on board, and they & Nicholas’s work – were a big hit with the Casual Art Fair goers.<\/p>\n

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\nNANCY SMITH – ‘Double Wedding Band’ quilt repair – ‘Dedicated to EMILY DICKINSON’.
\nmy newest quilt project was very subdued, compared to the wild and wacky ‘100 and 1 Dalmatians’ Disney crib quilt repair project \/ I showed at the fair with ESSEX FLOWERS, last year.
\nwhich had been . . a real show stopper.
\nI didn’t care – repairing quilts is always<\/strong> about – change !!
\nand something . . new \/ some things just come on slower, but then – they make a really big BANG.<\/p>\n

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\nanyways, I was hosting <\/strong> this booth, so I was quite content to let my invited guests . . do the flower, bloom & shine !!
\nthis was all about . . being Emily Dickinson !!<\/strong>
\nquiet. gracious, humble. but secretly<\/em> . . intense, concise, to the point, skilled. killer.
\nfull of workmanship & tiny elements \/ poetry. reveling in nature. leaving the ‘humans’ behind.
\nrepairing quilts is . . very much a channeling. a ghost play. a ghost army of one. a ghost army of LOVE.<\/p>\n

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\neven the more so, because this particular quilt is actually . . a vintage, commercial<\/strong> ca 1980s-90s \/ CHINESE ‘REPLICA’ \/ CHEAP ‘REPRODUCTION’ QUILT. <\/p>\n

still ‘hand-sewn’, but by some poor day laborer in a Chinese knock-off factory !!
\nthe word . . counterfeit<\/strong> does come to mind !!
\nthe “Real Fake’ . . quilt ??? <\/p>\n

one of the clues to its ‘faux’ origin is the textile<\/strong> pattern, it’s slightly off for being more Chinese than American, in color and tonality \/ and of course – how it is not<\/strong> cut into piecework. but patterned into ‘faux’ piecework.
\nas well, the lack of precision . . through-out.<\/p>\n

but still, these are<\/strong> really fun to work on, and developing a new context for them, Emily Dickinson lol, . . is all, PART OF THE GAME – FOR ME.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\ntalking about . . small elements, humble. concise and, meaningful.
\nwe showed a rare & early DAN ASHER pencil drawing, a ‘finger print’
\na lot of people were very confused by these, when DAN first put them forward, late 1980s.
\nminimalism – hadn’t quite gone this far . . minimal !! yet !!<\/p>\n

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\nDAN ASHER . . bring on the ghost army !!
\nif you are wondering how I come to have these, I worked as Dan’s studio assistant, in trade for his art work.
\nsmarts – is smarts \/ esp in the art world.<\/p>\n

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\nsmall elements !!
\nI mean look at how Dan’s graphite piece converses<\/strong> so well, with this cutting edge \/ minimalist painting – with just 3 tiny elements of colored light – by JAMES MILLER, 2017.<\/p>\n

I guess if our booth had <\/strong>a theme it was: faux, faux, faux and . . . go !!
\nsmall elements, and counterfeits . . of the soul !!
\ndamn, that’s EROTIC !!<\/p>\n

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\nTHEO CERIGO, the ARTLOVERSNEWYORK booth curator, with . . ELISE McMAHON of Like Minded Objects, and the founder of THE CASUAL ART FAIR & . . the entire HESTER STREET FAIR GROUP.<\/p>\n

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\nNICHOLAS STEINDORF, and ANTONE KONST, at the ARTLOVERSNEWYORK booth . . .
\nTHE CASUAL ART FAIR, 2017.<\/p>\n

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

THE CASUAL ART FAIR, SEWARD PARK, LOWER EAST SIDE. NYC. Oct 1, 2017 so like I was saying, ANTONE KONST’S drawing on an aqua-resin tablet, was so . . terrifyingly EROTIC !! really beautiful, how it ‘dialoged’ with . . the ALFREDO MARTINEZ \/ phony ‘BASQUIAT’ – behind it. “ORES of URANIUM” – one of […]<\/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\/34633"}],"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=34633"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34667,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34633\/revisions\/34667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}