~JOHN HODANY/MICHAEL LAZARUS/CAETANO de ALMEIDA
JOHN HODANY, MICHAEL LAZARUS & CAETANO de ALMEIDA
FEBRUARY 19 – MARCH 16, 2008
ELEVEN RIVINGTON – 11 RIVINGTON ST – LOWER EAST SIDE – NYC
JUST WEST OF BOWERY
Our friend JOHN HODANY is in this 3 person show, the 4th show in this new space run by Director/Curator AUGUSTO ARBIZO. (we’re guessing the space has serious ties to – and – backing from JEANNE GREENBERG – but Augusto isn’t talking – except – to say – “no strings attached” – and we’re like – hey: give a hand to the backers – no matter who they are! we all need all the backers we can get – in this crazy artworld.)
AUGUSTO ARBIZO
MICHAEL LAZARUS
painting by MICHAEL LAZARUS
detail, painting by MICHAEL LAZARUS
painting by MICHAEL LAZARUS
detail, painting by MICHAEL LAZARUS
painting by MICHAEL LAZARUS
detail, painting by MICHAEL LAZARUS
CAETANO de ALMEIDA and independent curator FERNANDA ARRUDA. both hail originally from Brazil.
artwork by CAETANO de ALMEIDA
another view of artwork by CAETANO de ALMEIDA
we catch up with JOHN HODANY, he’s outside taking a ciggie break. with him, to the side, ANNA CONWAY
HODANY’S piece was hard to photograph in the room – it was so large – a totally handmade amusement park-type quarter-eating treasure hunting game.
these formally attired guests give some sense of its scale. JOHN HODANY made it all from wood – except the metal parts on the hardware, like bolts, and the security lock arches, for example – & – he also made all the mechanical inner workings. it runs on electricity. it’s timed to have on and off phases.
JOHN HODANY – the red ‘lobster’ claws come down to grab the ‘treasure’ which is a wide assortment of locks !!
JOHN HODANY – the locks !!
JOHN HODANY – the paint job, on the wooden locks and the wooden sculpture, itself – as a whole – was every bit as good, if not better than the woodworking & mechanical workings – most of the time you thought you were looking at metal – until you picked up on actual metal pieces – as in the lock arches.
JOHN HODANY – an example of the ‘very swift’ paint job and the place where the quarters go – & – the joy stick. it was interactive – for real.
JOHN HODANY lightens up a little bit, towards the end of the opening, ANNA CONWAY is with him.
the man who introduced us to JOHN HODANY – BRIAN BELOTT, with ANNIE PEARLMAN. BRIAN BELOTT’S gotta piece in the big MoMA Spring 2008 show about Books on Shelves !!
documentary filmmaker MAX FIERST and artist JEFF CARAMAGNA, good friends of JOHN HODANY’S
ERIN
ANNIE PEARLMAN, in a pensive moment. Annie edited that classic DAVID GREENBERG INTERVIEWS BRIAN BELOTT (at CANADA) clip – we all loved so much !!
CHIE FUEKI – the more we cross paths with her – the more we like her – she’s wild.
oh oh – the-after-the-after party at that German Bar on Rivington St .- some pretty wild rolling and rumbling around on the street – these guys are super fun to hang out with. P-A-R-T-Y !!
JOHN HODANY – says: cool it – what ?- he started it !!!
JOHN HODANY and MAX FIERST – who knew a night on RIVINGTON ST – in the middle of the week on a Tuesday no less, in the almost now totally gentrified Lower East Side – could be almost as rowdy as back in the old days – back in the rockin’ 80s – when BASQUIAT & RICHARD HAMBELTON used to tear up that very same street !! P-A-R-T-A-Y !! – S.P.O.O.K.A.Y !!
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH