~LEIGH JOHNSON/at THE JOURNAL & JOE BRADLEY CURATES SALON XXIV !!
LEIGH JOHNSON – ‘THE HARD SHOULDER’ – OPENS To-NITE !! TUES OCT 28 – 6-9 PM
the show runs: OCT 28 – NOV 12, 2008
THE JOURNAL – 168 NORTH 1st ST – BROOKLYN
GALLERY HOURS: MON-SAT 12-6pm
plus you can score a copy of the newest: THE JOURNAL – ENTRY no. 24 – at $15 – the best NYC originated (hard copy) art journal around !! it has a LEIGH JOHNSON photo on the cover, and a bonus insert – a beautiful photographic ‘MOBY DICK’ SUPPLEMENT BY TERENCE KOH !! articles include: ‘CAMPING IN KABUL’ – an intriguing essay, with beautiful photographs, by MICHAEL OBERT, and a FOCUS/INTERVIEW WITH PATRICK GRIFFIN conducted by AUREL SCHMIDT !! as well as a portfolio of LEIGH JOHNSON photos; MARIA CORNEJO interviewed by TIM BLANKS; and TAKESHI MURATA + FRANCINE SPIEGEL interviewed by KATHY GRAYSON. there’s also an interesting, though sad note from MICHAEL NEVINS, THE JOURNAL’S publisher, regarding the very small-town, and often frightening behavior of the NYPD – NEW YORK POLICE DEPT. you don’t know who to be more afraid of, the cops, or the real hard-core thugs, on the street – esp. if you are a young white male. I know of quite a few scary stories – first hand – and I’m pretty sure a lot of you out there, have your own sorry NYPD zero intelligence – brute intimidation, dark holding cell, no reason stories. hey, but let’s end on an up-beat !! – JOE BRADLEY does this issue’s SALON !!!
‘IN FOCUS’ – PATRICK GRIFFIN – INTERVIEW BY AUREL SCHMIDT/INTRODUCTION BY KATHY GRAYSON/PHOTO PORTRAIT (ABOVE) BY KATHY LO.
ARTWORK BY PATRICK GRIFFIN, ‘OH SHIT!’, 208, acrylic & resin on wood, 16 x 17 in.
ARTWORK BY PATRICK GRIFFIN, ‘WE’RE FOR THE BIRDS’, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 24 in. round & ‘HANG ON BABY’. 2008, acrylic on canvas, 24 in. round.
see: pix of the PATRICK GRIFFIN OPENING – ‘COUNT THY BUTTONS’, at THE JOURNAL GALLERY, AUG 14 – SEPT 2, 2008
from SALON XXIV – CURATED BY JOE BRADLEY: KEITH MAYERSON & AGATHE SNOW
from SALON XXIV – CURATED BY JOE BRADLEY: BLACK DICE & WERNER BUTTNER
from SALON XXIV – CURATED BY JOE BRADLEY: BILL SAYLOR & EUNICE KIM
from SALON XXIV – CURATED BY JOE BRADLEY: MICHAEL WILLIAMS, ‘Once / wasn’t’, 2005 & JASON FOX, ‘Negrodomus’, 2006.
from SALON XXIV – CURATED BY JOE BRADLEY: RITA ACKERMANN & DAN COLEN
from SALON XXIV – CURATED BY JOE BRADLEY – SARAH BRAMAN, ‘I LOVE RADIO’, 1999.
from the TERENCE KOH/MOBY DICK – SUPPLEMENT PUBLICATION
from the TERENCE KOH/MOBY DICK – SUPPLEMENT PUBLICATION
PHOTOS: FROM THE JOURNAL ENTRY NO. 24 – NANCY SMITH
THE JOURNAL – ENTRY NO. 24. FRONT COVER: LEIGH JOHNSON, ‘HARD SHOULDER’, (detail).
TERENCE KOH – MOBY DICK – THE JOURNAL ENTRY NO. 24 – SUPPLEMENT PUBLICATION
THE JOURNAL IS PUBLISHED QUARTERLY & IS ALSO AVAILABLE BY SUBSCRIPTION.
see: THE JOURNAL – CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
