. . . A LOOK AT THE STEVE POWERS – DREAMLAND ARTIST CLUBHOUSE – on CONEY ISLAND – in its final days – 11
. . . will POST !! – as the NEXT !! – STUDIO VISIT !! !!
. . . A GREAT WAY TO RING IN THE NEW YEAR – & – REMEMBER A SMALL CORNER OF NYC’S – 2007’s – BEST !!
JUST POSTED: THURS JAN 3, 2008 – 6:46 PM !!! – SEE: STUDIO VISITS
STEVE POWERS, at work, in the final days of the DREAMLAND ARTIST CLUBHOUSE,
a studio and sign shop, he ran, on CONEY ISLAND – for the past 3 years.
STEVE POWERS – “PROVENANCE IS EVERYTHING !!” – ‘EARL IS TODAY’S VICTIM’, final days,
DREAMLAND ARTIST CLUBHOUSE, CONEY ISLAND, N.Y.
STEVE POWERS – “ASS, GAS, OR CASH / NO ONE RIDES FOR FREE” – on a T SHIRT, final days
DREAMLAND ARTIST CLUBHOUSE, CONEY ISLAND, N.Y.
SUNSET ON CONEY ISLAND, LAST DAY, STEVE POWERS, DREAMLAND ARTIST CLUBHOUSE, CONEY ISLAND,N>Y>
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, OCT 13, 2007, CONEY ISLAND, BROOKLYN, NY
see the: STEVE POWERS/DREAMLAND ARTIST CLUBHOUSE/FINAL DAYS/STUDIO VISIT !!
POSTED: DEC 31, 2007
~STEVE POWERS/DREAMLAND ARTIST CLUBHOUSE/LAST DAYS !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | December 28th, 2007, 7:15pm
STEVE POWERS, ‘ROAMING’, 2007, Enamel on aluminum, 48 x 48 ins/IMAGE: Courtesy of the artist
STEVE POWERS, ‘HELL RAISER’, 2007, Enamel on aluminum, 24 x 24 ins/IMAGE: Courtesy of the artist
STEVE POWERS, ‘ROAMING’, 2007, Enamel on Aluminum, 48 x 48 ins/IMAGE: Courtesy of the artist
STEVE POWERS, ‘STEPPING RAZOR’, 2007, Enamel on Aluminum, 24 x 24 ins/IMAGE: Courtesy of the artist
STEVE POWERS – ‘THE MAGIC WORD’
OCTOBER 20, 2007 – JANUARY 27, 2008
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY of the FINE ARTS
MORRIS GALLERY – HISTORIC LANDMARK BUILDING – 118 NORTH BROAD STREET
PHILADELPHIA, PA (PENNSYLVANIA)
HOURS: TUESDAY-SATURDAY: 10am-5pm / SUNDAY 11am-5pm
STEVE POWERS (STEPHEN POWERS) aka ESPO – was born and raised in Phillie’s Overbrook neighborhood. He has resided in New York City since 1995. He mostly uses billboards and storefronts, to create his “illicit outdoor murals” – one of his earliest projects, in NYC – being a huge billboard that seamlessly offered up the invitation to call ‘ESPOLAND’ and gave a phone number. Not all his projects are “illicit” – as well as having served up several exhibits at DEITCH PROJECTS in SOHO, he is perhaps best known, in NYC, for the very legit – collaborative project he dreamed up with CREATIVE TIME, beginning in 2004, and in which he participated and co-curated – the ‘DREAMLAND ARTIST CLUB’ – a “project on CONEY ISLAND AMUSEMENT BOARDWALK in which he and several other artists worked with low-income business owners to improve commercial signage” – making a trip out to Coney Island, a must-see artist destination.
At the same time – STEVE POWERS maintained a small studio out there, in a storefront, right next to the CONEY ISLAND ‘MUSEUM’, a FORTUNE TELLER, some rides, and a POPEYE’S – which he called – the DREAMLAND ARTIST CLUBHOUSE.
‘I’LL DO A GOOD DEED – I WILL SNUFF OUT EVIL’ – STEVE POWERS at work in his DREAMLAND ARTIST CLUBHOUSE, CONEY ISLAND, JUNE 18, 2005 – PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
STEVE POWERS in his DREAMLAND ARTIST CLUBHOUSE, during the 2nd summer of the CREATIVE TIME PROJECT, CONEY ISLAND, JUNE 18, 2005 – PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
THE SLOGAN ON THE EVENT’S POSTER WAS:
‘DREAMLAND ARTIST CLUB 2005 & CONEY ISLAND USA REMIND YOU:
FAST NICKEL – IS BETTER THAN – SLOW DIME’
see more pix: DREAMLAND ARTIST CLUB/CONEY ISLAND 2005
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY of the FINE ARTS
~STEVE POWERS/PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY of the FINE ARTS |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | December 28th, 2007, 5:50pm
. . . looks like we’re not the only ones thinking about STEVE POWERS – aka – ESPO – as the NEW YEAR APPROACHES !!
KATHY GRAYSON JUST POSTED THESE 2 PIX – in her blog – under the title: “MALCOLM ALCHEMY”.
and those are her “captions”.
PHOTOS POSTED ON KATHY’S MYSPACE PAGE/FRI DEC 21, 2007
“there’s a new boss in town”/PHOTO: KATHY GRAYSON/kathernator
“and he doesn’t wanna show ESPO anymore”/PHOTO: KATHY GRAYSON/kathernator
you can check out Kathy’s CHRISTMAS, as well: here !!! – http://blog.myspace.com/kathernator
. . . will archive as Dec 26, 2007 – for all you IN-THE-FUTURE !! VISITORS !!
~STEVE POWERS/KATHY GRAYSON |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | December 28th, 2007, 3:19pm
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH – at the opening/FRI DEC 14, 2007
HELMUT LANG exhibits what looks to be a giant mirrored DISCO BALL – that has been punched out !! – with paint wounds. Detractors, and fans of the installation were to be found at the opening. we’ll leave it to someone else to write the commentary.
‘NEXT EVER AFTER’ – AN INSTALLATION BY HELMUT LANG
DECEMBER 14 – JANUARY 28, 2007
THE JOURNAL GALLERY – 168 NORTH 1st ST. – BROOKLYN – NY
GALLERY HOURS: MON-SUN 12-6PM
This exhibit is apparently HELMUT LANG’S first solo gallery exhibition. He wasn’t at the opening, but GREG FOLEY, VISIONAIRE’S creative director/design director – since 1991 – was.
GREG FOLEY, CREATIVE DIRECTOR/DESIGN DIRECTOR – VISIONAIRE – at the HELMUT LANG – ‘NEXT EVER AFTER’ OPENING, THE JOURNAL GALLERY, DEC 14, 2007
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
UP-DATE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2007
. . . supposedly this is the ORIGINAL !!!! DISCO BALL from STUDIO 54.
STUDIO 54 opened in APRIL of 1977 – which would make this exhibit – the 30th ANNIVERSARY MARK.
THE JOURNAL
~HELMUT LANG/THE JOURNAL/GREG FOLEY/VISIONAIRE |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | December 19th, 2007, 11:00am
WHITE MAGIC PLAYS – TO-NITE !! – SAT DEC 15 – 8PM – !!!!!
MUSIC HALL OF WILLIAMSBURG – 66 NORTH 6TH ST – BROOKLYN – NY
NEAR WYTHE AVE – L TRAIN TO BEDFORD
TICKETS: $10 ADVANCE / $12 AT DOOR
CHECK OUT WHITE MAGIC: on MYSPACE !!
INTERESTING NOTE: WHITE MAGIC’S – MIRA BILLOTTE – SINGS ‘AS I WENT OUT ONE MORNING’ -&- WHITE MAGIC’S – DOUG SHAW – PLAYS GUITAR ON:
‘I’M NOT THERE’ – THE SOUNDTRACK ALBUM on COLUMBIA RECORDS of the BOB DYLAN BIO FILM by TODD HAYNES !!!!
PIX OF THE BAND – FROM LAST NITE’S – DEC 14, 2007 – ‘HELMUT LANG’ OPENING – AT THE NEW – JOURNAL GALLERY – WILLIAMSBURG – BROOKLYN – NYC – !!!!!!!
from left: DOUG SHAW – GUITAR/VOCALS – of WHITE MAGIC, a band out of BROOKLYN – on the rise – with TAKA IMAMURA.
TAKA has been traveling with WHITE MAGIC, while they have been on a 3 month tour – mostly documenting them on video.
The band just returned recently to NYC.
MIRA BILLOTTE, center, the singer, and piano player, of WHITE MAGIC, with DOUG SHAW, their guitar player, and singer, at right.
TOMMY ROUSE, the WHITE MAGIC drummer.
WHITE MAGIC drummer – TOMMY ROUSE.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
MORE ON THE HELMUT LANG – INSTALLATION – OPENING: ‘NEXT EVER AFTER’ – POSTS: TUES DEC 18.
HELMUT LANG – ‘NEXT EVER AFTER’, 2007 – OPENING RECEPTION – DEC 14, 2007
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
the show runs:
DEC 14, 2007 – JAN 28, 2008
THE JOURNAL GALLERY – 168 NORTH 1ST ST – BROOKLYN – NY
GALLERY HOURS: MON-SUN 12-6PM
THE JOURNAL GALLERY
~WHITE MAGIC/PLAYS BROOKLYN/TO-NITE !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | December 15th, 2007, 1:35pm
THE POSTER FOR: ‘BITTEN!’ – A GROUP SHOW FEATURING WORK BY:
CORY ARCANGEL, MICHAEL BELL SMITH, JOE BRADLEY, RY FYAN, KATHY GRAYSON, BEN JONES, CHRISTINA MALBEK, TAKESHI MURATA, SIMMONS & BURKE, and FRAN SPIEGEL
(image on the poster looks to be by KATHY GRAYSON)
DECEMBER 15, 2007 – JANUARY 26, 2008 – OPENING To-NITE/SAT DEC 15 6-8PM
KIM LIGHT GALLERY – 2656 S. LA CIENEGA BLVD – LOS ANGELES – CALIFORNIA
IF YOU ARE IN L.A. – !!! – CHECK IT OUT – !!!
BEN JONES/IMAGE COURTESY: KIM LIGHT GALLERY
CORY ARCANGEL AND PAPER RAD/IMAGE COURTESY: KIM LIGHT GALLERY
JOE BRADLEY/IMAGE COURTESY: KIM LIGHT GALLERY
KATHY GRAYSON/IMAGE COURTESY: KIM LIGHT GALLERY
CHRISTINA MALBEK/IMAGE COURTESY: KIM LIGHT GALLERY
FRANCINE SPIEGEL/IMAGE COURTESY: KIM LIGHT GALLERY
MICHAEL BELL SMITH/IMAGE COURTESY: KIM LIGHT GALLERY
SIMMONS AND BURKE/IMAGE COURTESY: KIM LIGHT GALLERY
TAKESHI MURATA/IMAGE COURTESY: KIM LIGHT GALLERY
RY FYAN/IMAGE COURTESY: KIM LIGHT GALLERY
UP-DATE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2007
KATHY wrote to tell us the opening was really fun, and the show seems to have been really well received – KATHY herself, had 4 of her paintings sold !! and BEN JONES, . . “FINALLY sold a major work!” … the mural posted above !! – good going BEN !!!!
~you can now view installation shots/KIM LIGHT GALLERY WEBSITE: here !!
~KATHY GRAYSON posted some behind-the-scene pix on her photo blog.
you can check out some of her ‘BITTEN!’ – PIX: here !! – DEC 18, 2007
~and there are some more KATHY GRAYSON ‘BITTEN!’ – PIX: here !! – DEC 19, 2007
KIM LIGHT GALLERY
~BITTEN!/GROUP SHOW/L.A./OPENS TODAY/DEC 15 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | December 15th, 2007, 12:15pm
KELIE BOWMAN – ‘HOW TO BUILD A HOUSE’ – SILKSCREEN ON LEDGER PAPER – EDITION OF 22 – $40
IF I HAD $40 – !!! – NO BRAINER – !!!!!
SOME OTHER KELIE BOWMAN PRINTS ALSO AVAILABLE AT CINDERS, PRETTY MUCH IN THE SAME PRICE RANGE:
DIGITAL GLYCEE LASER PRINT/EDITION OF 30 – UNTITLED – $100
‘HOLD ME TIGHT’ – SILKSCREEN PRINT – EDITION OF 17 – $50
‘THIS IS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD’ – SILKSCREEN PRINT – EDITION OF 30 – $40
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
KELIE BOWMAN, along with STO, IS A CO-FOUNDER OF CINDERS.
A SELECTION OF HER PRINTS CAN BE FOUND IN THE CINDERS BOOKSHOP/STORE IN THE BACK OF THE GALLERY.
CINDERS GALLERY – 103 HAVEMAYER ST – BTWN HOPE + GRAND – BROOKLYN, NY
GALLERY HOURS: WED-FRI 2-8PM / SAT + SUN 12-7PM
CINDERS GALLERY
~Kelie Bowman |
Posted in If I had $200 | By Nancy Smith | December 14th, 2007, 4:13pm
JULIAN GATTO, WOODBLOCK PRINT, edition of 25, 4-1/2 x 4 ins.,
($20) available at his current show, along with larger woodblock prints,
gouaches and watercolor ‘drawings’. . . . prices range from $300 – $500, and slightly up for the gouaches.
JULIAN GATTO – ‘THE LIGHT PACK’ – NOV 16 – DEC 16, 2007 – LAST WEEKEND !!
LITTLE CAKES LITTLE GALLERY – 625 EAST 6TH STREET – GATE BUZZER #1B
HOURS: FRIDAY to SUNDAY: 1-6 PM & BY APPOINTMENT
JULIAN GATTO – ‘THE LIGHT PACK’ – INSTALLATION SHOT/COURTESY:LITTLE CAKES
JULIAN GATTO – ‘THE LIGHT PACK’ – INSTALLATION SHOT/COURTESY: LITTLE CAKES
JULIAN GATTO – ‘THE BACKPACK’ – WOODBLOCK – PHOTO/COURTESY: LITTLE CAKES
JULIAN GATTO – ‘GRILO’ – GOUACHE/WATERCOLOR – PHOTO/COURTESY: LITTLE CAKES
JULIAN GATTO – ‘THE LIGHT PACK’ – GOUACHE/WATERCOLOR – PHOTO/COURTESY: LITTLE CAKES
JULIAN GATTO – ‘MERCEDES’ – GOUACHE/WATERCOLOR – PHOTO/COURTESY: LITTLE CAKES
JULIAN GATTO – ALSO POSTED 3 PHOTOS – of his native ARGENTINA, believe it’s the towns, he mentions visiting in his written statement – and, which he termed: ‘INSPIRATION’ on the show’s website page:
PHOTO: JULIAN GATTO/COURTESY: LITTLE CAKES
PHOTO: JULIAN GATTO/COURTESY: LITTLE CAKES
PHOTO: JULIAN GATTO/COURTESY: LITTLE CAKES
JULIAN GATTO is a graduate of COOPER UNION for the Advancement of Science and Art. He has shown in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Frankfurt, and his home town of Buenos Aires.
some excerpts from the WRITTEN STATEMENT – JULIAN posted for the show:
1.
. . “After living in New York for four years, I decided to move back to Buenos Aires last year, in May. Before moving to New York Ihad always lived n this city, in its central araes (mostly buildings). This time I wanted to live a little further out, in a neighbourhood similar to the one where my grandparents’ house was . . .
I visited my grandparents’ house after years of being away and found many objects and things that at the time I thought represented this feeling that I was trying to have in my work . . . (and worked on) installations that featured these objects. . .
(TAZA TAZA at LITTLE CAKES/2006)
. . . To me the idea of recycling and re-using was also important . . . (and, not just retrieving family history). Why are these things covered in dust when thy can still be used? Recovering these items was a way of refusing the need to produce new ones. Although those objects … gave off a feeling of warmth, I was also aware that they belonged to a different time. Nostalgia for the past is somewhat implicit in them. But I didn’t want to be nostalgic about the past. The present is very far from being ideal, but living in the past isn’t the solution either. Even though looking back can help us solve problems, now I wan to concentrate on the future.”
2.
“In February, I was in Japan. Walking around certain areas of Tokyo . . .(old Eastern Tokyo) . . . I noticed several things that reminded me of the places and things that I love in Buenos Aires; flower planters on the sidewalk and between narrow spaces between houses and corrugated steel sheets nailed to old wood homes. It was this warmth again, which to me, had to do with a certain kind of precariousness. People usually associate this concept with poverty or lack of resources. Something precarious is almost dysfunctional and unwanted. Things should be functional, new, and pristine. We buy them because we feel we can’t make anything that could work or look good.
When I came back from Japan, I traveled to two small towns in Argentina: Buratovich and Arcadia. There as well, I kept finding people that were solving some of their needs using recycled or found materials. They made structures that supported things, or that provided shelter; greenhouses that allowed plants to live in winter or tree houses that could be used for play. They adapted and transformed vehicles that could move around according to their needs and made stands that sold homemade food and other things. All these things worked. They did not fall apart. And although they all used the same basic materials . . . each one reflected something about the person that had made it . . . These things embodied a certain dedication, love even, and inventiveness. I decided I wanted to use this mode of making into my work.”
3.
‘. . . mobility and portability have become an important part of my work. Along with a watercolor box, I can take a piece of paper with me and paint where ever I want. Luckily, water is still available for free in most parts of the world.
. . . (for this show) all the materials needed would be collected from scraps and found things. The structures will be precarious, but will not fall down . . . and once the show is over, the whole thing can be disassembled or reassembled into something else.
The gouache and watercolor drawings reflect these ideas of mobility. They show things that you can carry around, or places you could go to and activities you could do once you’re there.”
more info & pix: LITTLE CAKES/JULIAN GATTO
check out: artlovers pix of JULIAN GATTO & the installation
LITTLE CAKES LITTLE GALLERY
~JULIAN GATTO/THE LIGHT PACK/LITTLE CAKES |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | December 14th, 2007, 1:22pm
MARIE-JOSEE KRAVIS & HENRY KRAVIS – PHOTO/NANCY SMITH/artloversnewyork.com
take a look at that clip again, link !! – he’s even got his god damn logo !! – warongreed.org – imbedded into MY photo – all the photos – on the top left hand side – like some kind of TV station ownership – he doesn’t just steal the photo – he usurps ownership.
besides being so boring.
and, this is not just an internet clip – this is (supposedly) just PART ONE of a 4 PART MOVIE SERIES – !!! anybody who’d fund this guy – gotta be a bigger idiot than can be pleasantly imagined. he’s so bad – I’m almost thinking he is part of a larger, as yet unknown ‘conspiracy’ or agenda of some kind. he can’t seriously think he is going to make it as a filmmaker based on this utterly unoriginal clip – no matter how much NEW YORK TIMES PRESS he receives. plus, what kind of film industry people would want to work with a scum bag, who from the get go – so wantonly disrespects one of the key foundations of the professional media – copyright protection. it also carries serious financial liabilities into any bigger plans he might have for this pathetic self-promoting vehicle.
ROBERT GREENWALD – take note: YouTube, Google, and WIKIPEDIA, definitely don’t like this kind of action – copyright violation – on their sites – it’s bad for their credibility – and speaks toward rigid and wider government scrutiny & controls. it’s not ‘new world-green’ & nobody wants to see copyright infringement & content/ownership theft take the place of freedom for real creativity.. and forward thinking.
~ROBERT GREENWALD/BRAVE NEW FILMS/rip-off!! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | December 7th, 2007, 2:54pm
JIM KRANTZ’S PHOTOGRAPH, ‘Stretchin’ Out’ (1997) – taken for a MARLBORO AD/
PHOTO COURTESY: THE NEW YORK TIMES
here’s the RANDY KENNEDY ARTICLE – WHICH SAYS IT ALL – PUBLISHED in the NEW YORK TIMES/
THURSDAY DECEMBER 6, 2007 !!
read it !!: ‘If The Copy Is an Artwork, Then What’s The Original?’
and don’t miss the slide show: more pix, here !!
from the NEW TIMES SLIDE SHOW – the banner that lines the streets uptown with a unattributed JIM KRANTZ PHOTO IMAGE – PROUDLY PROCLAIMING – the RICHARD PRINCE RETROSPECTIVE at THe GUGGENHEIM – PHOTO BY MARILYNN K. YEE/THE NEW YORK TIMES
this is the same image that is the poster for the show – doing brisk business at $9.95 a pop.
looks like they did change a few pixels on this image – they deleted the ciggie !
you’d have to laugh if it wasn’t, so sad.
Image how Mr. Kranz felt encountering that banner floating in the air so grandly. One can pretty much conclude he wasn’t too happy – the article states that he didn’t – “investigate much further to see if any other photos hanging in the museum might be his own, but said of his visit that day, ‘When I left, I didn’t know if I should be proud, or if I looked like an idiot’.”
guess what, yo, you do look an idiot to have let this go down, and for so long – and, why are you so defensive in the article – the beauty of the photos isn’t in their so-called ‘conceptual content’ – as rephrased (?) by RICHARD PRINCE – it’s in the beauty of YOUR VISION.
!!
at the very least, RICHARD PRINCE, & THE GUGGENHEIM – should give him a photo credit.
that’s an unbelievable ommission. JIM KRANTZ is 100% right on – to want people to know who took the photo(s) and to be recognized more widely. Apparently he’s not even an “asterik” in the catalog.
and it isn’t as if a series of in-house photographers took these photos – it seems pretty much – all these companies turned to JIM KRANTZ for his ability to produce these “iconic” American images & he doesn’t even get an asteriked photo credit – he should get a book. what’s up here.
the only thing RICHARD PRINCE got right is the brutal street smarts in American culture and business – he who gets over first – wins.
and, you got love RICHARD PRINCE’S 1992 statement regarding his quote unquote “rustling” of the MARLBORO aesthetic – and MR KRANTZ’S WORK – “No one was looking. This was a famous
campaign. If you’re going to steal something, you know, you go to the bank.”
we’ll give HOLLAND COTTER – also of the NEW YORK TIMES – the last word – with the neat way he ended his review (posted today, FRIDAY DEC 7, 2007) on the PAUL McCARTHY CHOCOLATE FACTORY at MACCARONE – “but that’s great art for you: It may give you a sugar high, but it has dirty little secrets” !!!
~RANDY KENNEDY/on RICHARD PRINCE & JIM KRANTZ/RIP OFF !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | December 7th, 2007, 12:37pm
