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<\/a><\/p>\n‘THE BIG SHORT’ – CURATED BY EMILY JANOWICK & PATRICK MOHUNDRO<\/p>\n FEATURING . . . 9 INDIE \/ ALTERNATIVE CURATORIAL PROJECTS: ‘THE BIG SHORT’ . . WILL BE OPEN THIS \/ SAT FEB 3, 2018 \/ 12 – 6 PM \/ FOR ITS VIEWING.<\/p>\n THE ARTISTS INSTITUTE BASEMENT – IN THE DIRECTORS ‘CLOSET’ OFFICE \/ 132 E.65th Street at Lexington<\/strong><\/p>\n “No one can see a bubble. That’s what makes it a bubble.” -MARK BAUM, THE BIG SHORT<\/em>, (2015) “PAY FAUXN is an obsolete pay phone on the grounds of a defunct nursing home at a bus stop in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.” ESSEX FLOWERS . . put on a tiny show called ‘Please Mister Postman’, last April 2017 . . with tiny reproduction paintings by 5 contemporary artists, displayed in the gallery hallway mailbox, curated by NICHOLAS MOENICH. the Essex Flowers display even has a title: ‘Watch Out For the Water’.
\n75 CELL, CATBOX CONTEMPORARY, CUSTOM PROGRAM, ESSEX FLOWERS, PAY FAUXN, PLUG DUMPSTER, TETE-A-TETE, WATER MCBEER, & HELPER<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n~gallery press release<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nthe show’s artist curator producers . . . EMILY JANOWICK (@cyclone_bomb) & PATRICK MOHUNDRO (@mo_hun_dro),
\nare 2nd year MFA grad students at Hunter. I guess they could be anywhere, from this angle.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nbut here they are, in a small, tiny closet of an academic’s office, in the low-ceiling basement, of a grand old brownstone-type building. their show’s entire area looks to be 200 sq. ft. , if that.
\nincluding a tiny bathroom to the right, & a small couch to the right of that.
\nand a desk or two. a back wall lined with bookcases.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nbehind them is a found piece by . . . PAY FAUXN.
\nPay Fauxn couldn’t exactly drag in their actual venue, which is an abandoned pay phone box, so in came the next best thing: a ‘distressed’ urban cardboard sign, which was then enshrined in a vacuum seal baggie.
\nvery raw, Pay Fauxn is the project of . . MARY KOSUT.<\/p>\n
\nthe best way to follow them, besides just walking by, would be by IG \/ @payfauxn
\nor via the website: www.payfauxn.com\/<\/a>.
\nyes, definite<\/strong> hit – that link.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nJULIE MALEN . . . soft sculpture, looking very bloody, bad meaty !!
\nin the small bathroom’s exhibit curated by ESSEX FLOWERS.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nJULIE MALEN.
\nscale is a whole other ‘bag’ of body parts, in the digital age.
\nwhat can be big can be made small, and what is small . . can seem large.
\nlook at that, ‘Alice in Wonderland’ . . still relevant.<\/p>\n
\nreferenced to, in passing conversation by ‘THE BIG SHORT’ curators, it seems to have set the bar \/ for mini shows, in very small & off-the-grid . . places.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nstill in the ESSEX FLOWERS bathroom, the back wall:
\npainting by . . JASON STOPA.
\nthe black vase with the strange green plant, is also by . . JULIE MALEN.
\nNICKOLAUS TYPLALDOS made . . the surreal BANANA.
\nthe set of very real looking potatoes are by . . MARGARET LEE.
\ncuriously, they are made of plaster. strange, how compelling they were.<\/p>\n
\nit’s about . . “the etymology of 2 terms: gare a l’eau and trompe l’oeil”.
\nit also serves:
\n“as an exercise in provisional<\/strong> curating as it was organized from idea to installation in 72 hours.”<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nJULIE MALEN . . black vase and flowering cactus.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nMARGARET LEE . . 2 potatoes, plaster.
\nI found these such compelling objects, just something about them.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nCATBOX CONTEMPORARY<\/a> is a gallery space run by PHILIP HINGE, “in his cat’s cat-tree in Ridgewood, N.Y.”.
\n‘Catbox Catellite’ – is their ‘visiting’, off-site platform.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nthe low fi light provided by this flood lamp, casts a dramatic spell on the tiny totemic sculptures & paintings.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nminiature offerings by . . MIKE LINSKIE.
\nthe tiny ‘Untitled (Starmen)’ drawings are 3 x 3 in., pen on paper, 2018.
\nthe little sculptures sitting on the floor, are ‘Hermit-Man Remains’. 4 x 4 x 3 in., hand-painted hermit crab shells, plaster and sand. 2014. <\/p>\n<\/a>
\na tiny mural.
\nMIKE LINSKIE, ‘Palm Grove’, 11 x 14 in., watercolor on paper, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nthe WATER McBEER <\/a>install, on the couch.
\n“Water McBeer presents a selection from his private collection.”
\nthe 2 framed pieces: CHRIS MARKER in ‘Nanomuseum’ <\/strong>curated by HANS ULRICH OBRIST; the electric naked woman painting is by JAMIAN JULIANO-VILLANI. the strange concrete circle on the floor is by IGNACIO GATICA, and the even weirder 3 prong piece is by BRENDAN LYNCH.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nalso, in the tiny Water McBeer gallery:
\na wonderful, teeny tiny bronze-looking book of matches, by ELIZABETH FERRY !!
\nor, is that a real book of matches, painted to look bronzed – I asked myself later.
\nand, check out the detail on that miniature wood floor.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nCUSTOM PROGRAM<\/a>, an alternative gallery space in Brooklyn . . presented ‘The Active Denial System’ by MEGAN SNOWE.
\n“The Active Denial System (ADS) is a less-than-lethal, millimeter-wave direct-energy weapon developed by the US military for the purposes of perimeter security and crowd control …”<\/p>\n<\/a>
\ntucked in a bookshelf a tiny, but radical . . <\/p>\n<\/a>
\nRasta tableau by . . HELPER<\/a> !!
\nless scary tech !!
\nmore Rasta magic !!<\/p>\n<\/a>
\n57 CELL . . an alternative publishing \/ curatorial project, had a retrospective of all 4 booklets to date, offered up for browsing. interestingly, 57 cell publications are only<\/strong> offered as hard copy, there is no online digital archive available.
\n57 CELL is a GREGORY KALLICHE PROJECT, see: 57 CELL<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\neach ‘booklet’ presents the work of one artist, this is a page from:
\n‘ALEE PEOPLES \/ DOWN THE DEEP’. you would want to flip through all four.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nwhile TETE-A-TETE had its many digital projects playing . . on multiple laptops, around the room.
\nsee: tete-ahh-tete.net<\/a><\/p>\n