{"id":38937,"date":"2018-12-28T09:24:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T14:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=38937"},"modified":"2018-12-28T11:01:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T16:01:19","slug":"andrew-guenther-new-paintings-soft-opening-brooklyn-opens-fri-dec-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/if-i-had-200\/2018\/12\/28\/andrew-guenther-new-paintings-soft-opening-brooklyn-opens-fri-dec-28\/","title":{"rendered":"~ANDREW GUENTHER . . ‘NEW PAINTINGS’ \/ SOFT OPENING, BROOKLYN \/ OPENS FRI DEC 28"},"content":{"rendered":"

RAINY DAY – PARADE !!!!!!!<\/p>\n

ANDREW GUENTHER WELCOMES . . . ‘SOFT OPENING’.
\nNEW LOCAL BROOKLYN \/ GREENPOINT SPOT for all things . . HAND-MADE & ORGANIC, incl . . ART !!<\/p>\n

ANDREW GUENTHER – ‘NEW PAINTINGS’
\nOPENS TO-NITE FRI DEC 28 \/ 7 – 10 PM
\nSOFT OPENING, 570 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn NY 11222<\/strong><\/p>\n

see: SOFT OPENING PLANT STORE & GALLERY SHOP – PLANTS, CERAMICS, BOTANICALS\/ HOME GOODS & ART \/ FACEBOOK<\/a>
\nIG: @softopeningbk<\/p>\n

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\n@andrewguenther_art: “Pick up some real plants when you get my fake ones.”
\nimage via Instagram @andrewguenther_art<\/p>\n

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\n@andrewgueenther_art:”Okay, okay. I’ve added a few photographs . . This one was taken in
\nBerlin several years ago.”
\nimage via Instagram @andrewguenther_art<\/p>\n

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\ndef, checkout: ANDREW GUENTHER – ARTIST PORTFOLIO WEBSITE <\/a><\/p>\n

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\nwhen he’s not doing ‘art’, Andrew is making jewelry, where his line is known as . . ‘EAT THE LEAF’.
\ndef, checkout: EAT THE LEAF – by ANDREW GUENTHER<\/a><\/p>\n

ps: if you ever<\/strong> wondered where I got that shiny, hand-made \/ golden “ALREADY DEAD” (!!!!) pendant that hangs around my neck, now – you know !!
\nand . . FOR REAL \/ THAT’S HOW I FEEL – in 2 words !!
\nplus obviously I got a GHOST ARMY – many dear, now departed friends . . in that big ole \/ DEAD ARTIST CLUB – UP IN THE SKY.<\/p>\n

FLASHBACK . . . !!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

since, it’s a super<\/strong> rainy day, after a false alarm “Alien Invasion over Manhattan” night . . . it was a utility sub-station explosion, or so they – say.
\n(I’m personally waiting for the big headline . . “ALIENS – HAVE LANDED” !!!!)<\/p>\n

here’s something to divert ya, a little digital<\/strong> trip !!!<\/p>\n

ANDREW & ME <\/strong>– go far back. he was the intern at the now defunct Daniel Silverstein Gallery, on 21st St. in Chelsea, when I was showing there, in late 1990s. <\/p>\n

I have a ton <\/strong>of pix of him, and his WORK !! over the decades.
\nhe’s such a colorful and super talented figure, who wavers like a flame, about to spark – on the fringes of the ever-changing underground.
\nI hope one day, before I am REALLY DEAD \/ that some gallery will finally wake up – and show them ?!!<\/p>\n

here’s one:<\/p>\n

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\nANDREW GUENTHER . . . with his paintings, in his home studio.
\nGREENPOINT OPEN STUDIO WEEEKEND, OCT 5, 2014.
\nPHOTO: NANCY SMITH<\/strong><\/p>\n

I picked that one, because, well !!!!!!! no words needed !!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

but also because,<\/strong> it’s in a nice run of artlovers articles, covering topics & with photos of:<\/p>\n

1. a great, early – “FADE” piece . . by ROB PRUITT<\/strong>.
\n2. PAUL McCARTHY<\/strong> – offends PARIS !!
\n3. MATT LEINES<\/strong> painting . . in an early, big GREENPOINT TERMINAL GALLERY – group show.
\n4. WALTER ROBINSON<\/strong> – his big RETROSPECTIVE – was just setting out – to conquer the art scene.
\n5. archival pix of SIMON CERIGO, R.I.P.<\/strong> & his work . . . truly already dead & representing the splendor of the DEAD ARTIST CLUB \/ still, just short of taking over big time \/ ‘UNDER THE VOLCANO’, and, most def . . a ring leader of my own<\/strong> personal . . GHOST ARMY.
\nSIMON a was the director of the DANIEL SILVERSTEIN Gallery in the late 90s, and as such, was the one to give a young Andrew Guenther, fresh out of some university art school, his first<\/strong> job in NYC.
\n5. and finishes up with . .
\nan extensively documented STUDIO VISIT, with ANDREW GUENTHER<\/strong>, including that photo above \/ GREEN POINT OPEN STUDIO WEEKEND. OCT 5, 2014.<\/p>\n

SURPRISE BONUS . . ?
\nNICHOLAS STEINDORF . . . new wave ‘ringleader’, in his own right \/ shows up !!! <\/strong><\/p>\n

most def:<\/strong> SCROLL DOWN \/ ARTLOVERSNEWYORK – 2014 !!!!<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nSIMON CERIGO,<\/strong> ca. early 1990s.
\ntoy model with custom paint job. if this image doens’t ‘encapsulate’ Simon,
\nI don’t know what – would.
\na huge lover of art, and it’s . . ‘fanciful, yet meaningful’ flight.
\nit’s best, is most often . . it’s most elusive – in a broad-based, dumbed-down mass market.
\ntalk about . . . ‘soft’ openings (!!!)
\nPHOTO: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n

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\nWALTER ROBINSON,<\/strong> ‘REVENGE’, 1982.
\nacrylic on canvas.
\nSIMON was a big, and very early fan . . of both Andrew Gunther, and Walter Robinson.
\nwe owned a stack of early Andrew Guenther 1990s drawings, and ‘Revenge’, was among our first<\/strong> early Walter Robinson purchases.
\nPHOTO: HELENE CERIGO LUPATKIN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAINY DAY – PARADE !!!!!!! ANDREW GUENTHER WELCOMES . . . ‘SOFT OPENING’. NEW LOCAL BROOKLYN \/ GREENPOINT SPOT for all things . . HAND-MADE & ORGANIC, incl . . ART !! ANDREW GUENTHER – ‘NEW PAINTINGS’ OPENS TO-NITE FRI DEC 28 \/ 7 – 10 PM SOFT OPENING, 570 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn NY 11222 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38937"}],"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=38937"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38965,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38937\/revisions\/38965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}