~CASUAL ART FAIR: ORGY PARK . . an anarchy of like-minded friends
ANARCHY: AN ARMY – OF LIKE-MINDED, REBEL FRIENDS.
ORGY PARK: is as good a ‘metaphor’ as any . . for the current times.
as a riotous, determined crowd of new underground players: indie artists & the new crop of start-up indie galleries that show them . . struggle to ‘break’ into – the art scene proper headlights.
yeah, crash that crusty – ole party.
otherwise, it’s pretty much a closed-circuit scene.
it’s very very hard to break in, the only way is to gather your friends, and start your own . . damn scene.
and all of a sudden, pop-ups included, there’s so many of them – it’s like friggin jumping beans, out there.
while in the meantime, last gen’s Chelsea – is completely dead.
in Brooklyn – it’s Bushwick that’s rockin hard right now. I guess one of the newest, rawest examples of a single artist/person . . going extreme indie ‘ballastic’ / i.e. getting so pissed off by the lack of opportunity for themselves & their friends . . that they put a fly-by-night gallery right smack in the middle of their living room, of a very small ground floor apt . .
would be . . MICHAEL FLEMING and his MOUNTAIN GALLERY / @mountain.bushwick.
another ‘solo’ indie gallerist, ‘hoping to bust-out’ . . would be STEVE MYKIETN, of ORGY PARK / @orgypark.
who I had just met at the Casual Art Fair, and who told me, proudly, in true indie rebel outlaw fashion, that, his gallery was . . “in the basement of my apt building in Bushwick.” !!
game . . on.
take back the – streets.
ESSEX FLOWERS in the Lower East Side. . .
is indicative of a even more growing number of alternative spaces . . composed like-minded friends / plural, who band together to organize & chip in re: finances . . the more free-fall, and diverse . . ‘group-run’ indie spaces that seem to be everywhere. freed from the pressure of a sales-driven agenda – because the group is large enough to carry the overhead, the resultant curatorial projects are diverse enough to keep things . . all ‘shook up’.
in the 90s, everybody wanted to be the new MARY BOONE. that status quo is so, so … over.
finally.
now, the new gritty / ditty is totally alternative indie, and . . it goes like this:
UNDERGROUND ART WORLD / NYC 2016 – ‘INDIE ORGY’
hey you, soldier-boy solo / gallerist,
who will be . . . the new BILL BRADY / breakin’ the ATM ?
hey you, band of friends,
if orange is the new black, who gonna be . . . the new CANADA ?
ORGY PARK – business card.
ORGY PARK – 237 JEFFERSON ST, BROOKLYN – STEVE MYKIETYN.
orgypark.com
STEVE MYKIETYN . . owner, founder/director of ORGY PARK, in Bushwick.
ORGY PARK . . at this year’s CASUAL ART FAIR, Oct 2, 2016, under the umbrella of the HESTER STREET FAIR, was a low-fi, kind of ‘geo-desic’ / ‘de-constructed’ big, free-wheeling, encircling . . wind, of raw energy.
it was pretty crazy: a swirling of metal fence mesh, circular motion, roughly hanging art, a stack of white painted tires – as a ‘display’ case ?
I will attempt a 2 word definition . . ‘deconstruction: serious’.
a swing.
yeah, merry pranksters, for sure.
DIY . . new world, KACHINA dolls – by DYLAN LANGUELL.
DYLAN LANGUELL, ‘Kachina dolls’ made of shiny re-cycled food, snack & candy wrappers, wrapped around a mold & fused together in a microwave, something like that.
they were priced at $800. or was it $900. / each.
from the small diy kachina, to the large . . diy child-size monster – ‘reading’ a book . .
was it a . . gender/bender kind of conversation – thing ?
reading monster by . . SIEBREN VERSTEEG.
no. it was more of an OGRE type . . thing.
though it looked really .. ‘knitted’. definite a ‘hand-made’.
on the right, CRAIG MONTEITH co-curated this ORGY PARK offering.
with him, his friend . . Carla.
CRAIG MONTEITH is also a member of the REGINA REX Gallery collective.
loved how the ORGY PARK card – matched his knitted sweater.
new take on the ole ‘Nurse painting’ – by NANCY DREW CAREY GALLERY
Richard Prince, and WALTER ROBINSON . . roll over.
walking that thin line – between art & craft – a bonafide merry prankster does . . stained glass – wind chimes ?
glass and lead art work by IREN HANDSCHUH.
rebel, rebel. ALFRED E. NEUMAN ? by NANCY DREW CAREY GALLERY,
JOE BRADLEY – watch out !!
SEER ?
WREN ?
NEVR ?
STATIC ?
I think, so !!!!!!!!
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH