‘SOFT TEMPLE’
June 22 – Aug 4 / extended thru Aug 11, 2019
MOTHER GALLERY, 1154 North Avenue, Beacon NY 12508
HRS: SAT & SUN 1-6 PM & by appointment
with:
RYAN BROWNING, BROCK ENRIGHT, GIOVANNI FORLINO, DANIEL GIORDANO, CHASON MATTHAMS, STEVEN MAYER, JENNY MORGAN, LARYSA MYERS, & ELISA SOLIVEN
more about the show: ‘SOFT TEMPLE’ – MOTHER GALLERY ARCHIVE
DANIEL GIORDANO, ‘My Scorpio’, 2016-2019.
1970s Husqvarna motocross bikes, deep-fried batter, glazed ceramic, mermaids, steel, aluminum, railroad spikes, phosphorescent acrylic, Canadian maple syrup, urinal cake, cattails, epoxy, plastic wrap / 88 x 72 x 74 in.
($13,000.)
DANIEL GIORDANO was born in Poughkeepsie, NY. He earned his MFA from the University of Delaware, and has shown nationally & internationally. Daniel Giordano also co-founded & runs Vicki, a curatorial space in Newburgh, NY where he lives & works.
~Mother Gallery
DANIEL GIORDANO, ‘Self Portrait with Tchotchkes’, 2019.
Moisturizing face masks, peat, strawberry Nesquik powder, epoxy, correctional fluid, alligator, artificial tooth, fibered aluminum coating, glass, iron ore, wire hanger, hardware / 9 x 16 x 15.5 in.
($1,200.)
‘Self Portrait’ . . from the side
DANIEL GIORDANO, ‘Gougoune’, 2016-2019.
Aluminum, shark, tennis ball, canned marzipan, canned persipan, bells from Santa’s sleigh, copper foil, iron ore, epoxy, diaper rash ointment, tiger balm, twist ties, plastic wrap, wire hanger, hardware / 55 x 29 x 20 in.
($3,000.)
note: ‘Gougoune’ translates from French as ‘flip flop’ / as in thong footwear / summer sandals / flip flops.
‘Gougoune’ detail
‘Gougoune’ detail
BROCK ENRIGHT, ‘Hum’, 2019.
Crushed velvet, hose, note, bell, whisper / 48 x 78 in.
($1,500)
BROCK ENRIGHT was born in 1976 Norfolk, VA / Virginia. He received his BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in 1988, and his MFA from Columbia University 2002. He currently lives & works in the Hudson Valley.
~Mother Gallery
GIOVANNI FORLINO, ‘The Great Curve 3’, 2019.
ink & colored pencil on paper / 16.5 x 11.7 in.
($9,000.)
GIOVANNI FORLINO was born in Livingston, New Jersey in 1984. He moved to Brooklyn at age 17 & obtained a BFA in drawing from Pratt Institute. Giovanni’s work is in numerous private & public collections world-wide including the Getty Museum & the Guggenheim. He lives & works in Brooklyn, NY & London, UK.
~Mother Gallery
CHASON MATTHAMS, ‘Daffy’s head on Sylvester’s body (beat up)’, 2017.
Oil on panel / 39-3/4 x 19-3/4 in.
(SOLD)
CHASON MATTHAMS (b. 1981, from Pacific Grove, California) lives & works in New York, NY. He received an MFA & a BFA from New York University. Matthams has had several solo shows in NYC & San Francisco.
~Mother Gallery
RYAN BROWNING . .
L: ‘Bavarian Candelabra’, 2019.
Oil on linen, 10 x 8 in.
($800.)
R: ‘Visitation’, 2018-2019.
oil on linen, 10 x 18 in.
($800.)
RYAN BROWNING is an American artist living in Doha, Qatar. He has exhibited & curated in galleries & museums nationally & internationally. He is an Associate Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar.
~Mother Gallery
STEVEN MAYER, ‘Look Far’, 2019.
Acrylic & medium on panel / 16 x 12 in.
($1,200.)
STEVEN MAYER (B. 1986), grew up in the Skylands region of northern New Jersey & received his BFA from The Tyler School of Art (2009) & his MFA from Rutgers Mason gross (2014). Steven is a piper & artist currently living & working in Brooklyn, NY.
~Mother Gallery
JENNY MORGAN, ‘Space For Forgiveness’, 2019.
Oil on canvas / 19 x 16.5 in.
($5,000.)
JENNY MORGAN was born in 1982 in Salt Lake City, Utah & holds a BA from the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Lakewood, Colorado & an MFA from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York, NY. She has had numerous shows and critical reviews. She currently lives & works in Brooklyn NY.
~Mother Gallery
DANIEL GIORDANO, & MOTHER GALLERY, BEACON NY . . OWNER / DIRECTOR: PAOLA OXOA.
the tribe comes to . . . Beacon
KATE, ZORA the pooch, artist/curator DANIEL GIORDANO, and . . taking after his dad, young collector THEO CERIGO.
ps / ps / ps / ps / ps / ps / ps / bring on the par-tay !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! New York Times alert !!
I almost forgot !!
it was such a pumped-up day !!
WILL HEINRICH of the New York Times . . had just published a great essay on the art scene upstate,
“Summer Art Trek: Gallery Hopping in the Hudson Valley” . . which included a really nice spread on DANIEL !! and his distressed motorcycle !! and the ‘Soft Temple’ show in general . . at MOTHER GALLERY !!
as Daniel . . is prone to say: FULL THROTTLE – AHEAD !!
screenshot: NEW YORK TIMES
MOST DEF see: “Summer Art Trek: Gallery Hopping in the Hudson Valley” / “Galleries abound due north of the city, showing Warhol, Basquait, and the talents of Arte Povera”,
written by Will Heinrich, NEW YORK TIMES / AUG 9, 2019
ps: I think the ‘arte povera’ reference – belongs to . . Daniel !!
yep, full throttle ahead.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH / SAT AUG 10, 2019
~DANIEL GIORDANO, BROCK ENRIGHT, GIOVANNI FORLINO, CHASON MATTHAMS, RYAN BROWNING, STEVEN MAYER, JENNY MORGAN . . ‘SOFT TEMPLE’ / MOTHER GALLERY / BEACON, NY |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 9th, 2019, 11:10am
DANIEL GIORDANO – STUDIO VISIT
AUG 10, 2019
DANIEL GIORDANO’s studio . . is in an old red brick industrial building / on the seedy side of Newburgh.
well-worn, the building looks to hold a lot of local history, but for him in particular – as it was home to his family’s coat manufacturing factory for several generations.
well, manufacturing coats, unless you are in China, Pakistan or Viet Nam, ain’t gonna get you nowhere this century, but maybe re-translate that entrepreneurship, hard work, and skills . . factoring in the new (serious) art influences in the surrounding community, and well . . maybe art – will win the day.
looks like a win win – to me.
ps: VICKI . . is on the ground floor storefront.
mark your calendar: TED GAHL – ‘Zen Paintings’ . . opens SAT OCT 12.
DANIEL . . has the whole top / 3rd floor. eat your heart out – Brooklyn.
plenty of room, to go big / catch . . that power and the ‘fury’.
work in progress.
cannoli / and . . cream.
another metal pipe / ‘pole’ piece.
this one looking very . . bio.
Theo and Daniel.
when a (young) collector, gets to see where the magic happens – it’s an awesome thing.
I hadn’t know Daniel was so into working with clay.
this is such a cry. such a call to . . ‘death’.
to depth of soul.
to . . wanting.
my feeling was: a lot of the raw power of the works . . comes not only from the freedom of working in, such a huge, old industrial space / but also from, all the aggregate ‘conversations’, between the different projects, and diverse materials.
‘formalism’ – as in creative, dedicated formalism / it’s funny how it thrives in dedicated . . ‘chaos’.
diverse materials, is not the word / diverse diverse diverse diverse comes closer.
many coats / of many colors. Daniel in the Lions Den.
man-made, artist-shaped, collaged, stood-up, assembled / found.
even . . animal parts.
even . . futuristic.
yep, Daniel . . in the Lion’s den.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~DANIEL GIORDANO . . STUDIO VISIT / NEWBURGH, NY |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 8th, 2019, 9:31am
out, and about with the tribe.
subtext: industrial
subtext: industrial vs. post-industrial
subtext: small towns / big hearts, big ambitions / the changing history & re-awakening of previous industrial hubs
subtext: local-born, up-state NY artist / crashes NYC art scene to bits
DANIEL GIORDANO OUTDOOR SCULPTURE . . NEWBURGH, NY / NEWBURGH SCULPTURE PROJECT
Aug 10, 2019
Danilel Giordano, and his other outdoor sculpture – on view this summer in Newburgh.
the most interesting aspect of this 2nd outdoor sculpture, which stood in the heart of town,
as opposed to dominating a college garden grounds, (and, facing the water, btw) . . was not so much the visual or conceptual impact, as its . . fluidity.
like a totem, or a flag pole . . it held its ground as the world spun around it / 360 degrees.
and, as it did so – it made you . . look more / and realize the place / in the moment.
with greater awareness, as opposed to just . . you know, walking down the street.
note: the ‘Gregory Crewdson’ . . like, historic, small North-eastern town, movie theater on the right / RITZ.
apparently, the sculpture had inadvertently – become ‘interactive’.
somebody had tied a red kerchief – to it !!
I’m taking that to mean, in the greater sense / that the ‘tribe’ of the entire town . . had taken note / of this crazy, compelling . . proud wild and free ‘stake’, planted among their midst.
DANIEL GIORDANO, ‘Self-Portrait While Fixated on the Juicy Lips of Megan’s Eclipse’, 2019.
moisturizing face masks, copper, steel, steel wool, azurite, iron ore, various plastics, cable ties, bells from Santa’s sleigh, stone, railroad spikes, wire hanger, cattails, Tang drink mix, epoxy, spit balls (toilet paper, saliva, phosphorescent acrylic, acrylic polymer emulsion) / 79 x 60 x 36 in.
Daniel Giordano – is not a minimalist, when it comes to his materials / he’s more of a . . grab this earth / and run with the ‘fury’ kind of guy.
all part & parcel of . . historic references / esp industrial era vs digital / rage about the ‘machine’ / current society etc etc / and def, all about put down that device and come see the thing.
experience the ‘fury’, thunder, and yes: sweetness. lust. love. questioning.
in a word: young men on the cusp – of taking over.
the circle dance – begins / the unexpected camouflage kicks in / as you move around the ‘pole’.
it’s most definite a kind of anti-Koons / anti-Urs Fischer / call-to-arms . . in its own ‘thrown-together’ way.
this part of Newburgh is so interesting, there is still a real rural / urban . . sweep.
Newburgh . . is also considered part of the ‘Hudson Valley’ – as the thriving, aggregate art scene upstate refers to itself / DIA Beacon helped kick the gears.
my first experience was through a more underground route – the BOBO COLLECTIVE: ‘HOT MUD FEST’ of Aug 2017, an highly wild interactive music, performance / art show . . on a big ole farm, with a creek running through it / Spook Rock Road, Hudson.
see: Newburgh, NY
though, what makes Daniel Giordano so interesting, is that he is a native-born son . . of the area.
now that’s a . . self-portrait, if I ever did see one.
the fluidity of the basically stationary, rigid, metal ‘pole’ – within its environment / was a big part of the experience.
so contrarian / of a visual fact.
that’s my daughter.
well you could gaze, and walk around the piece in a trance, for quite a while.
and then, suddenly . . you are on the other side / and the ride is over.
another part of my art loving tribe: my son.
my kids are also natives, but of another ‘historic’ NY art scene / both being born on the gritty Lower East Side, of Manhattan in the 80s.
NY is such a huge hub for artists / it’s interesting when you bump into a true native-born son.
Daniel . . and the small art world tribe / that drove up that Saturday from NYC, BROOKLYN / & NJ.
what a great day for a car trip, nice ride. good roads. pleasant scenery / not much more than an hr. each way.
everybody had a great time.
including my big poochie, Zora. a 100 lb. American Akita long coat / sometimes called a woolie coat.
and, obviously very down with the trip – too.
Photos: Nancy Smith
~DANIEL GIORDANO . . and the tribe / NEWBURGH, NY |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 6th, 2019, 11:56am
subtext: industrial entropy
subtext: great industrial / educational setting
SUNY ORANGE NEWBURGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE / NEWBURGH SCULPTURE PROJECT
AUG 10, 2019
a dystopian sight, yet something very sexy about it.
from this angle, it looked like a slipper.
something soft, a pliable thing, that you could slip your foot into, if you were . . a giant.
I though that was maybe just me, until I read the accompanying wall plaque.
if, the glass slipper fits – wear it !!
DANIEL GIORDANO, ‘Goumada’, 2016-2019.
1989 Yamaha jet ski, deep fried batter, aluminum, window sash weight, plastic wrap,
rocks, tennis balls, Canadian Maple Syrup, epoxy, reactive metallic copper enamel,
phosphorescent acrylic / 71 x 111 x 55 in.
*goumada: Italian-American slang for a mistress / esp of a Mafioso.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~DANIEL GIORDANO . . SUNY Orange / NEWBURGH, NY |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 5th, 2019, 8:49am
NEW YORK WRITERS – ON THE MOVE !!
NANCY SMITH, and DANIEL GIORDANO, just outside Newburgh / Bloominghill Farms, New York. Aug 10, 2019.
Photo: Kate Cerigo
took the tribe / Kate, Theo & big poochie Zora . . upstate to visit – Daniel Giordano !!
a few weekends back.
now, that’s some – visit !!
it was the first time me & Daniel got to meet – in person.
I have been following his work / ever since I first got invited to a small / 3 person group show / the inaugural show, in fact: for Daniel’s friend Samuel Boehm’s . . ‘roving’ curatorial pop-up: ‘Gazebo’.
titled: ‘Love of the Common Man’, which was already intriguing, I super liked the advance p.r. graphics, concept & images – but it being my birthday (!!) and a big sushi dinner in the works, we got there too early, and then couldn’t return in time to make the actual opening / but I’ve been following them all on IG, & have been hooked ever since.
that’s also how I knew about Babayaga’s . . huge great, fearless, fresh & fiery, often ‘industrial’, punk & goth / raw energy blow-out . . Memorial Day summer fest art show – that took place in an ole Chinese buffet diner, up there – in Hudson Valley / Daniel and Sam were in the show !!
go, Hudson !!
def, see: BABA YAGA, big group show / Memorial Day Weekend 2019 / Grand Buffet & Pulvers Glass
def, see: BABA YAGA, Hudson
def, see: GAZEBO.SPACE
def, see: ‘Love of the Common Man’ / archival photos & text – Gazebo
(the eerie golden mask hanging on the wall at right, and the free-standing sculpture ‘column’ are Daniel’s.)
def, see: DANIEL GIORDANO – ARTIST WEBSITE
def, see: SAMUEL BOEHM – ARTIST WEBSITE / with a one-person show coming up, in NYC in SEPT
but, back to NEWBURGH !!
we checked out some large on-site sculptures of Daniel’s, which were scattered about Newburgh, an old industrial hub, situated on the water / Hudson River, and now on ‘fast forward’ to gentrification; spent a great time exploring his huge studio, where we saw many finished works, and varied works-in-progress. Located on the ground floor of the same, huge old building, we also got to see where super indie, cutting-edge VICKI, which Daniel and Sam founded / & which they run intermittently, throws it’s . . hit-the-wall art shows & block parties !!
Both Daniel’s studio, on an entire upper floor, and VICKI, an almost triangular space on the ground floor, with a storefront window . . are located in a big ole, once heavy humming with sewing machines & other manufacturing industry, that had been pretty much ‘abandoned’, and is now teeming with enough energy, to make Brooklyn jealous.
A big red brick industrial era factory / warehouse . . it sits there, square & squat / come back to life, re-purposed as an artist & artisan workshop hub !!
and, which just shouted: History !! American history !!
it reminded me so much, of where I raised my young family, back in the early 80s, on the now legendary Lower East Side, in an abandoned, run-down storefront, on Rivington and the Bowery. old run-down spaces are the greatest places to make art. just an old, long empty storefront, just barely functional . . a remnant of a once teeming tenement, immigrant world / where, new art was now taking life / as tough & scratchy, as the start-up weeds – in the cracked concrete sidewalks outside.
just the same first impression: so, ole time-y turn-of-the-century New York.
industrial. raw. but full of history, slowly going . . under.
ladies & gents, step into the future . . in the arms of the – past.
def, see: VICKI
and, we also got upstate . . just in time, to catch the last weekend of a really great, knock-out group show, titled ‘Soft Temple’, and aptly so . . . that Daniel was in, at super contemporary & plenty ambitious . . Mother Gallery, in Beacon.
def, see: MOTHER GALLERY, BEACON
great opening coming up !!
def, see: ‘SOFT TEMPLE’, MOTHER GALLERY / June 22-Aug 11, 2019 – gallery archive
ps: the big raw, severely distressed motorcycle – & yet, way raised up . . to the uber goth & ‘fantastical’ !! . . is Daniel’s, of course.
more pix, soon.
happy Labor Day Weekend, y’all !!
~NANCY SMITH . . DANIEL GIORDANO / NEWBURGH, NY |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 29th, 2019, 10:05am
NEW YORK ARTISTS – ON THE MOVE
& relevant.
HEADS UP !!
these (very) limited edition prints become available . . on the 30th of August 2019.
Distassi Art Presents: 2 Al Diaz Limited Edition Prints . . .
‘Tolerate Civilization’ & ‘Because War is just a 3 Lettered Word’
“With a . . career that spans 5 decades, this first generation NYC subway graffiti artist is bringing his poignant works to London.
Distassi Art is proud to announce 2 very limited edition / prints marking Diaz’s . . debut transatlantic partnership.
‘Tolerate Civilization’ . . sees the New Yorker explore notions of society, with various historical references.
‘Because War is just a 3 Lettered Word’ . . sets military imagery against blooming flowers.
Both pieces contain WET PAINT lettering / i.e. slicing out individual letters & then reassembling them to form socially-charged messages, and SAMO tags.”
these carefully crafted editions will be printed by . . House of Roulx.
~Distassi Press Release
set to sell . . . at 425 GBP / $521.84 USD, the prints will be available via Distassi Art’s ‘Spotlight’ online / portal,
and will be sold exclusively – through this London-based dealer.
~ sized at 18 x 24 in., the prints include a small white border for easy framing.
~ printed on premium Hahanemuhle William Turner matte fine art paper, 310 GSM, they are flat sheets – not off a roll.
~ they are hand-cut, with hand-deckled edges, and are hand-varnished twice post-print.
~ they are printed with archival pigment in the US.
~ this is a limited edition print run of 20 pieces each.
~ an artist proof is also available (600 GBP / $736.71 USD).
see: Distassi Art
see: AL DIAZ – SAMO / Distassi Art
see: SAMO / BASQUIAT & AL DIAZ .. Wikipedia & A GREAT READ !!
see: Al Diaz – artist website
a few golden nuggets from the above resources:
~ AL DIAZ was tagging trains of the New York subway, in the 70s – aged 12, as ‘Bomb-One.’
~ in the years between 1977-79, Al and his high school buddy, Jean-Michel Basquiat, were covering the walls of Lower Manhattan with: SAMO.
so, go back & read those links / they are super fun,
and informative. these 2 kids blew-up the art scene, single-handedly.
it was quite the rebel / collaborative . . moment.
AL DIAZ . . signing the limited edition Distassi print:
‘Because War is just a 3 Lettered Word’.
image via Instagram @albert_diaz
AL DIAZ . . ‘Because War is just a 3 Lettered Word’ / Distassi Art
image courtesy & copyright of . . Distassi Art
AL DIAZ . . signing the limited edition Distassi print:
‘Tolerate Civilization’.
image via Instagram @albert.diaz
AL DIAZ, ‘Tolerate Civilization’ / Distassi Art
image courtesy & copyright of . . Distassi Art
~AL DIAZ . . LONDON |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 25th, 2019, 10:17am
NEW YORK ARTISTS – ON THE MOVE
HALEY JOSEPHS . . is in this summer’s August residency, at The Macedonia Institute,
located upstate in beautiful, rural . . Chatham NY 12037.
their artist-in-residence program provides housing and studio space for 1 month.
see: The Macedonia Institute
see: Haley Josephs – artist website
HALEY JOSEPHS . . new work / The Macedonia Institute
image via Instagram @haley.josephs
image via The Macedonia Institute / mobile device
~HALEY JOSEPHS . . CHATHAM, NY |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 24th, 2019, 9:34am
NEW YORK ARTISTS – ON THE MOVE
HALEY JOSEPHS had new works in a group show, this summer in SHANGHAI !!
‘Right Behind Your Eyes’
curated by SARAH FAUX
June 29 – Aug 15, 2019
Capsule Shanghai Art Gallery, First Floor, Building 16, Anfu Lu 275 Nong, Shanghai, China
see: ‘Right Behind Your Eyes’ / Capsule Gallery
see: CAPSULE SHANGHAI
see: HALEY JOSEPHS – ARTIST WEBSITE
HALEY JOSEPHS, ‘Spiral Bubble’
oil on canvas / 16 x 20 in.
image via Instagram @haley.josephs
~HALEY JOSEPHS . . CHINA |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 23rd, 2019, 10:35am
NEW YORK ARTISTS – ON THE MOVE
subtext: Industrial
LIZZIE WRIGHT HAS WORK . . in:
‘Now that I’m a woman, everything is strange’
opening Sat Sept 14 / 6 – 9 PM
and running thru . . OCT 6, 2019.
Good Children Gallery, 4037 St. Claude Ave., New Orleans, LA 70117
Good Children Gallery . . “is a pioneer artist-run space in the St. Claude Arts District,
aimed at enhancing the cultural landscape of New Orleans. The space serves as a bellwether for artistic endeavors by exhibiting engaging work form local, national, and international artists.”
~Good Children gallery: about
see: Good Children Gallery
see: LIZZIE WRIGHT – ARTIST WEBSITE
curated by JESSICA BIZER, ‘Now that I’m a woman …’,
“is an immersive mixed media exhibition inspired by song lyrics from the film ‘The Last Unicorn’.
Channeling the idea of the “witchy woman”, the show explores fluidity and shape-shifting as sources for feminine power.” ~Good Children Gallery
all images via Instagram @lizziewright
LIZZIE WRIGHT . . . ‘Shoe Box’, 2019.
converted salt lamp, plaster cast Adidas, dyed faux fur, painted plexi,
aluminum, and plywood / secret dimensions.
~LIZZIE WRIGHT . . NEW ORLEANS |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 22nd, 2019, 9:50am
HUDSON VALLEY / NEW YORK ARTISTS – ON THE MOVE
NICK PAYNE . . showing in a 3 person show at HARPY !!
opening tomorrow evening / SAT AUG 17th / 6 – 9 PM
“Quick train ride from NYC.”
‘TREVOR BAIRD, ANDREA LUKIC, NICK PAYNE’
AUG 17 – SEPT 14, 2019
HARPY, 92 Park Ave #2, Rutherford, New Jersey 07070
see: HARPY ABOUT for hours & travel directions
see: HARPY GALLERY
“the objective is to bring something different to Rutherford and the surrounding areas of New Jersey.”
see: NICK PAYNE – ARTIST WEBSITE
NICK PAYNE . . ‘I’ve always wanted to go up to a total stranger and …..’, 2019.
watercolor & pencil on paper / 18 x 24 in.
($1,750.)
image via Instagram @senyor_amigo
BTW: HARPY – GREAT LOGO !! GREAT NAME !! QUITE THE – FLAME !!
~NICK PAYNE . . NEW JERSEY |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | August 16th, 2019, 6:01pm
