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<\/a>\nNANCY SMITH, and DANIEL GIORDANO, just outside Newburgh \/ Bloominghill Farms, New York. Aug 10, 2019.
\nPhoto: Kate Cerigo<\/p>\n
took the tribe \/ Kate, Theo & big poochie Zora . . upstate to visit – Daniel Giordano !! titled: ‘Love of the Common Man’<\/strong>, which was already intriguing, I super liked the advance p.r. graphics, concept & images – but it being my <\/strong>birthday (!!) and a big sushi dinner in the works, we got there too early, and then couldn’t return in time to make the actual opening \/ but I’ve been following them all on IG, & have been hooked<\/strong> ever since.<\/p>\n that’s also how I knew about Babayaga’s<\/strong> . . huge<\/strong> great, fearless, fresh & fiery, often ‘industrial’, punk & goth \/ raw energy blow-out . . Memorial Day summer fest art show – that took place in an ole Chinese buffet diner, up there – in Hudson Valley \/ Daniel and Sam were in the show !! def, see: BABA YAGA, Hudson<\/a> but, back to NEWBURGH !!<\/strong> Both Daniel’s studio, on an entire upper floor, and VICKI, an almost triangular space on the ground floor, with a storefront window . . are located in a big ole<\/strong>, once heavy humming with sewing machines & other manufacturing industry, that had been pretty much ‘abandoned’, and is now teeming<\/strong> with enough energy, to make Brooklyn jealous. it reminded me so <\/strong>much, of where I raised my young family, back in the early 80s, on the now legendary Lower East Side, in an abandoned, run-down storefront, on Rivington and the Bowery. old run-down spaces are<\/strong> the greatest places to make art. just an old, long empty storefront, just barely functional . . a remnant of a once teeming tenement, immigrant world \/ where, new art was now taking life \/ as tough & scratchy, as the start-up weeds – in the cracked concrete sidewalks outside. and, we also<\/strong> got upstate . . just in time, to catch the last weekend of a really great, knock-out group show, titled ‘Soft Temple’, and aptly so . . . that Daniel was in, at super contemporary & plenty ambitious . . Mother Gallery<\/strong>, in Beacon. NEW YORK WRITERS – ON THE MOVE !! NANCY SMITH, and DANIEL GIORDANO, just outside Newburgh \/ Bloominghill Farms, New York. Aug 10, 2019. Photo: Kate Cerigo took the tribe \/ Kate, Theo & big poochie Zora . . upstate to visit – Daniel Giordano !! a few weekends back. now, that’s some – visit […]<\/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\/40688"}],"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=40688"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40714,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40688\/revisions\/40714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\na few weekends back.
\nnow, that’s some<\/strong> – visit !!
\nit was the first<\/strong> time me & Daniel got to meet – in person.
\nI have been following his work \/ ever since I first got invited to a small \/ 3 person group show \/ the inaugural show, in fact: for Daniel’s friend Samuel Boehm’s<\/strong> . . ‘roving’ curatorial pop-up: ‘Gazebo’<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\ngo, Hudson !!
\ndef,<\/strong> see: BABA YAGA, big group show \/ Memorial Day Weekend 2019 \/ Grand Buffet & Pulvers Glass<\/a><\/p>\n
\ndef, see: GAZEBO.SPACE<\/a>
\ndef,<\/strong> see: ‘Love of the Common Man’ \/ archival photos & text – Gazebo<\/a>
\n(the eerie golden mask hanging on the wall at right, and the free-standing sculpture ‘column’ are Daniel’s.)
\ndef, see: DANIEL GIORDANO – ARTIST WEBSITE<\/a>
\ndef, see: SAMUEL BOEHM – ARTIST WEBSITE \/ with a one-person show coming up, in NYC in SEPT <\/a><\/p>\n
\nwe checked out some large on-site sculptures of Daniel’s, which were scattered about Newburgh, an old industrial hub, situated on the water \/ Hudson River, and now on ‘fast forward’ to gentrification; spent a great<\/strong> time exploring his huge studio, where we saw many finished works, and varied works-in-progress. Located on the ground floor of the same, huge old building, we also<\/strong> got to see where super indie, cutting-edge VICKI, which Daniel and Sam founded \/ & which they run intermittently, throws it’s . . hit-the-wall art shows & block parties !!<\/p>\n
\nA big red brick industrial era factory \/ warehouse . . it sits there, square & squat \/ come back to life, re-purposed as an artist & artisan workshop hub !!
\nand, which just shouted: History !! American history !! <\/p>\n
\njust the same first<\/strong> impression: so, ole time-y turn-of-the-century New York.
\nindustrial. raw. but full of history, slowly going . . under.
\nladies & gents, step into the future . . in the arms of the – past.
\ndef,<\/strong> see: VICKI<\/a><\/p>\n
\ndef,<\/strong> see: MOTHER GALLERY, BEACON<\/a>
\ngreat opening coming up !!
\ndef,<\/strong> see: ‘SOFT TEMPLE’, MOTHER GALLERY \/ June 22-Aug 11, 2019 – gallery archive<\/a>
\nps: the big raw, severely distressed motorcycle – & yet, way raised up . . to the uber goth & ‘fantastical’ !! . . is Daniel’s, of course.<\/p>\n
\nmore pix, soon.
\nhappy Labor Day Weekend, y’all !!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"