~FINAL GOOD-BYE: DEATH BY ART / DEATH BY AUDIO
RIP – DBA – THE FINAL GOOD-BYE
DEATH BY AUDIO – PUTS ON – DEATH BY ART DBA
A FINAL GOOD-BYE ART SHOW . . TO THE LONG TIME DBA VENUE on SOUTH 2ND
A GROUP EXHIBIT – CURATED BY MARK KLEBACK and JOE AHEARN
NOV 6-22, 2014
49 SOUTH 2nd St, Williamsburg, BROOKLYN
RIP DIY DBA / DEATH BY AUDIO, the free-wheeling, cutting edge venue – done in by . . VICE.
EDAN WILBERT
OLIVER ACKERMANN founded DEATH BY AUDIO in 2002, a small handmade effects pedal company – providing effect pedals for LIGHTNING BOLT, WILCO, NINE INCH NAILS & U2 . . .
by Spring 2007, the space was also being used as a venue for underground music and art, run by EDAN WILBERT and MATT CONBOY.
DEATH BY AUDIO/wiki
DBA UPDATE> – JUST IN FROM MARK KLEBACK:
“the DBA GUITAR PEDAL COMPANY . . has a new space on HALL ST in the NAVY YARD.
MATT & OLLI are putting out new pedals for the holiday season and keeping busy … most everyone who lived at DBA went their separate ways, most of them moving in with significant others (!!) – I know MATT wants to open another venue down the road – we’ll see what happens.”
JOE AHEARN co-curated the DBA show with MARK KLEBACK.
JOE is also well known as a curator for Clocktower at Pioneer Works in Red Hook.
JAY HEISELMANN
JAY HEISELMANN, free-fall wall assemblage in the DBA communal kitchen, a bolt of red energy sweeping through the creative chaos.
it’s also called: thinking outside the box.
whoosh – the DBA communal space.
scene of many parties no doubt.
DBA FLAG by NICK CHATFIELD-TAYLOR
DBA living quarters – were up the stairs.
it was definite: high energy. free-form. no holds barred.
it was like a giant maze – hallways leading every which way, in every direction.
JAMIE DRAKE WALL MURAL- the DBA art show covered all the available space, esp in the hallways.
JAMIE DRAKE had several murals, all of which were very powerful.
you can also see the ‘DBA VIRUS’ by SHMOAK coming in on the right – those small curious cubes, of gold. industrial meets expressive . . explosive.
JAMIE DRAKE also did this high octane wall mural in the communal area, note the kittens.
high voltage commutes with kittens, priceless.
JAMIE DRAKE is an artist from Virginia and a friend of Oliver’s.
JARED BOWDITCH – a strong wall mural, no doubt.
another strange intense, highly patterned wall mural – painted in a most original grid / non-grid way – by SHADYYOUTH / @shadyyouth
talking … ‘industrial’, and . . . ‘light’.
BOTH.
a narrative, real time, real world. photographic.
really and truly . . photogenic.
a magic, even romantic yet hard-core black & white graphic soundscape installation – by LOUISE FOO + MARTHA SKOU.
in fact, the Big Apple – as seen from Williamsburg / Brooklyn – over & across the East River.
going really, gold-en, and . . ‘industrial’.
GRILLZ installation – by ROOPA VASUDEVAN / @rouxpz
at left: jay-z, “hard knock life” (ghetto anthem).
at right: rick ross, “hustlin'”.
ROOPA VASUDEVAN, the notorious b.i.g.,”juicy”.
ROOPA VASUDEVAN, the total wall installation.
ROOPA VASUDEVAN, ‘rick ross, “hustlin'” graphic.
what I loved best were the graphics: great off-the-wall pastel colors, micro-print shadow ‘text’ designed to die for, and far-out in your face ‘object’ reality contouring.
bold. but not bold. almost cartoon, but NOT. almost hyper-real, but – not.
fascinating, gestural, yes.
just sitting right down straight on that cutting edge of . . fab. far-out conservative, very . . nervy. contradictory.
nice, very very nice.
that’s what I call – great d-r-a-w-i-n-g.
draftsmanship. whatever. graphic design. architecture.
so we’re gonna give the last word on the DBA / DEATH BY ART – DBA / DEATH BY AUDIO art show . . . to a woman !!
hoo-ray, MAGGIE BURNSED.
wall mural on a door – MAGGIE BURNSED.
what I liked most about it – was how it just was. no big deal, no big statement, quiet but oh so pulsating, so expressive, so temporal, and . . SO WILD.
like a hidden secret . . it spoke it spoke of life force, and creative energy. in the world, the ebb and flow all around us, cosmic and organic – we take a pen and make a mark, and a flower grows, a thought takes wings. as shimmery and complex as a butterfly, as a puff of (reproductive !!) pollen. the faint code . . behind the DNA.
C-O-D-E.
P-O-L-L-E-N.
W-E-B.
INTERCONNECTEDNESS.
note: there is a center, a purple passionate growing, squirmy hieroglyph – to this organic gossamer matrix.
just placed, as if by accident, by random gesture.
a big thought just growing on a . . dirty communal door in a place doomed to die by Vice.
what more can you say ?
how about ?
B-I-O !!
the mother of us all.
the mother lode.
what the hell does that say ?
STAY (??)
GREAT !!
DBA FOREVER.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH