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<\/a><\/p>\nso, it’s a bit of a moveable feast, being cash & carry & also offerings shift around \/ make sure to ask: what’s up with DETROIT !!<\/p>\n the gallery’s 1st ‘HOME EDITION’ exhibit, running thru this Sun March 11, 2018 btw & which is a pretty major & very innovative multi-layered group show \/ located in their storefront, 19 Monroe St. deep in Chinatown \/ has bubbled up, in mini-format, & transformed into a . . ‘typical’ NYC brownstone stoop sale. bubbled up, on the other<\/em> side of lower downtown, at the Skylight Clarkson North, ground floor \/ warehouse-like . . 550 Washington St. in West Soho. it also veers the vibe, from what could have been heavily ‘wacky’, towards almost . . chapel-like. reverent. when I first turned the corner, and came upon this 3-D build-out, and, I guess also because of the stained glass chapel-like ‘gate’ above, all my first impression was: candleholders & shiny glazed vessels, . . I mean, somethings were candle holders, and somethings were . . not.
\n‘ESSEX FLOWERS – HOME EDITION’<\/a> . . has a secondary, pop-up home !!
\nat this weekend’s . . NADA ART FAIR.<\/p>\n
\nwith . . some pretty special ‘home goods’ on display \/ y’all.<\/p>\n
\nin the NADA 2018 Projects Space<\/a> – Booth 4.23 <\/p>\n<\/a>
\nJEFFREY TRANCHELL, of the ESSEX FLOWERS Gallery collective, curated the show, and built-up the ‘stoop’.
\nstrictly speaking, it’s not quite<\/em> a stairway to heaven, because it’s concentrated focus is on home ‘objects’ – that ‘function’, but that being said, everything is hand-made, one-of-a-kind, often fanciful, and often very wild !!
\nI mean: ‘little pink houses’ . . or what \/ ?!! <\/p>\n<\/a>
\ncase in point, the KATIE STOUT – papier-mache, 3-legged chair Jeffrey is sitting on.
\nequal parts: home ‘decor’ & home ‘function’ \/ 100% . . wild.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nDENISE KUPFERSCHMIDT, cute kitchen kitty (?) retro wall ‘kitsch’, was looking like clay . . but was actually FAUX. paint on cardboard and hardware.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nthe one painting, by . . MAX MASLANSKY, likewise appears to be both very decorative and functional, framed & sturdy, with a ‘pegboard’ motif, but . . gaze upon it just one moment longer, & watch it jump totally off the grid. what is, put so poker-faced before you, is quite the wild side, e-r-o-t-i-c.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\n‘ESSEX FLOWERS – HOME EDITION’ – NADA.
\nis quite the . . contrary corner.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nan ‘ornamental’ gate by MICHAEL WETZEL, is seemingly totally functional, and yet dreamy \/ minimalist.
\nyet also, British arts & crafts Romantic, meets American light-hearted . . gothic ?
\nyet that also might be illusion, turns out. because,it’s more mural, than metal gate \/ being crafted of pink foam & aqua resin !!
\nthe colored ‘glass’ inserts are plastic.
\nstill, a pretty picture – and could be a real nice room divider, for real !!<\/p>\n
\na very reflective, architectural melody . . amidst a huge chaotic art fair, which has all but fallen away. <\/p>\n<\/a>
\nbut, the main focus of the ‘stoop sale’ . . is its array of ceramics.
\nexcept of course, for that weirdo, rolled-up . .
\nslightly craft-beaded,’Tweety-Bird’ blanket – more on that<\/em>, later.<\/p>\n
\nI thought, wow: how fun. this booth looks just like a gift shop in the Jewish Museum, or the Met \/ thinking that was totally . . cool.
\nbut, apparently, the Essex Flowers crew ain’t nothing, if not . . contextually, conceptually, many-layered !!<\/p>\n
\nand now, I don’t even think there were any candle holders, at all.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nI mean, nothing was . . candlesticks !!
\nthese were long-necked vases !! but maybe, they could . . hold candles ?
\nmany of the ceramic art works Jeffrey was showing were a real treat, not just for their forms, & glazes, but because they are not<\/em> local, but artisan-artists from the burgeoning new Detroit art scene. a fluid ceramics collective who go by the name of their small ‘rural’ town, which Detroit has grown to encircle – HAMTRAMCK, HAMTRAMCK CERAMCK .. !!
\ndef, see: HAMTRAMCK CERAMCK\/about<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nthis was a faux cactus, growing in a pot – by JESSE HAMERMAN.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nthis was a pretty nice bowl, to eat your morning porridge in.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nit was fashioned by . . BB \/ BRADEN BAER, of the HAMTRAMCK collective.
\nsometimes their pottery is just branded, ‘Hamtramck’ & sometimes it is signed by the individual artist. <\/p>\n<\/a>
\nthis was actually, a working ‘Statue of Liberty’ lamp – by JORY RABINOVITZ !!<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nand this was an ‘ET’ . . fill-in-the-blank-yourself !! by . . MAGGIE SULLIVAN !!
\nwhether it works or not, is prob best left – up to your own imagination.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\n‘DRAKE’ mug, by BENNY SAGINAW, one of the HAMTRAMCK founders.
\nas in, the Real, Fake . . ‘McCoy’ !!
\na popular American . . commercial pottery, from the past. <\/p>\n<\/a>
\ncould this gorgeous thing, be a candle holder ?
\nactually I think it’s a vase for some very lucky, long stemmed flowers.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nit was made by PATRICK QUINN, of HAMTRAMCK !!<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nthis piece was made by AMBER LOCKE, also of HAMTRAMCK CERAMCK.
\nit’s a . . toothbrush holder.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nreverse magic \/ AMBER LOCKE, ‘toothbrush holder’. HAMTRAMCK CERAMCK. <\/p>\n<\/a>
\nalso hanging on the faux brick wall, a small clay mosaic by JONATHAN HARTSHORN.
\nthere are several, ask Jeffrey to show you them.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\ncoming back down to the earthy, earth earth – a few offerings by TD \/ THEODORE SIDEL.<\/p>\n