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<\/a>\nALFREDO MARTINEZ, assembling DIY guns from various found & commercial parts.
\nEXIT ART, NYC \/ MARCH 25, 1999
\nPHOTO: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n
someone said, I said ‘Guns’ about 100 times, ok maybe 30 . . during my Precog interview. Lord. for me personally, being a quilter, who did mostly hand-stitched textile \/ fabric repair with both new & vintage material . . it was totally<\/strong> fascinating to see someone, and especially<\/strong> someone who came from a very different background than my own – piece together gun hardware from various parts. a resourceful \/ creative scavenger – basically just like me. except with very opposite materials, with very very opposite functions. a DIY craft \/ skills person just like me, when craft & skills were words to be looked down upon – in the art wold. ps:<\/strong> ALFREDO . . will be curating \/ presenting a big <\/strong>huge hardcore group show, ‘FOLO’ next month \/ April 15 . . on 23rd St. between 10th & 11th Avenues.<\/p>\n I will be exhibiting a big, brand new . . paper<\/strong> quilt, a ‘tribute’ quilt to Alfredo, Industrial, back then . . 1990s ALFREDO MARTINEZ, assembling DIY guns from various found & commercial parts. EXIT ART, NYC \/ MARCH 25, 1999 PHOTO: NANCY SMITH someone said, I said ‘Guns’ about 100 times, ok maybe 30 . . during my Precog interview. Lord. 20 years ago – was such a different time. Alfredo […]<\/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\/42858"}],"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=42858"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42870,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42858\/revisions\/42870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n20 years ago – was <\/em>such a different time.
\nAlfredo traveling around to his various exhibits, with a small metal suitcase assembling his guns from a mix of found,
\n& commercial gun parts was as close to skills, craft, DIY & industrial – as it got \/ back then.<\/p>\n
\nbut, still about . . guarding the homefront, esp way way back then \/ all the way to colonial \/ Revolutionary times. <\/p>\n
\nand Industrial art – what was that ? <\/p>\n
\non the occasion of his most Aires Birthday !!
\ncomprised of archival photographs, & some of his old \/ archival exhibition card invites.
\nsee you – there !! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"