IT’S A – WRAP !!!!
ANDREW MERIWETHER FRANCIS, ‘CONSENT CANDIES’ / “should we . . . ?”
(open edition), 2018 /
packaged ‘candy’, 5 x 5 in.
custom-made Valentine’s Day Candy – that we all grew up with !!
in a sandwich . . baggie.
available at the huge . . P.A.D. / PROJECT ART DISTRIBUTION exhibit – at WATER ELWOOD MUSEUM, upstate NY.
see: P.A.D / Project Art Distribution Instagram
image via: P.A.D. / PROJECT ART DISTRIBUTION Instagram
see: WALTER ELWOOD MUSEUM of the MOHAWK VALLEY
NOTE: LAST 2 WEEKS TO SEE THIS . . !!
PS: PATRICK MOHUNDRO FOUNDED P.A.D / ART PAD DISTRIBUTION – ALTERNATIVE POP-UP ART EXHIBITS
SOPHIE MA CURATED THIS ELWOOD MUSEUM NY EXHIBIT – WHICH IS A BIG SURVEY & RUMMAGE SALE/
of PAST P.A.D Projects !!
UP THRU . . . FEB 27, 2022 !!!!!
GO ON !! – TAKE A TRIP !!!!!!!!!
check out: Andrew Meriwether Francis on Instagram @Andrewmeriwetherfrancis
~ANDREW MERIWETHER FRANCIS . . HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY CANDY / P.A.D. |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 14th, 2022, 10:03am
HAPPY, ARCHIVAL VALENTINE’S DAY . . . !!!!
TO – ME !!!!!!!!
R. CRUMB – SURE GOT MY ETERNAL . . . ‘FATE’.
R. CRUMB . . . ‘OH, POOEY ! IT’S A HARSH UNIVERSE’
EXHIBITION CARD for:’R. CRUMB RESTAURANT PLACEMAT DRAWINGS’ /
PAUL MORRIS GALLERY, NYC / NOV 2 – DEC 9, 2000
Collection: NANCY SMITH
SIGNED !! – in the bottom right-hand corner in black ink, at the opening !!
‘To NANCY FROM R. CRUMB – NOV., 2000’
check out: NANCY SMITH on Instagram @artloversnewyork
~R CRUMB / ‘Oh, POOEY !! IT’S A HARSH UNIVERSE’ – signed exhibition card, NOV 2000 !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 14th, 2022, 9:44am
SOME ARCHIVAL PIX – of the EXHIBITION CURATOR & INVITED GUESTS . . !!
‘HARD-ASS FRIDAY NITE: THE ART of SPAIN RODRIGUEZ’
CURATED BY: DAN NADEL
ANDREW EDLIN GALLERY
thru . . . APRIL 2, 2022
see: PRESS RELEASE, BIO & PHOTOS
SPAIN RODRIGUEZ (1940-2012), “Nightmare Alley’, 2003.
ink & graphite on paper / 14.5 x 11.5 in.
Published as the cover for ‘The Comics Journal No. 204’.
image via ANDREW EDLIN GALLERY
I didn’t ever cross paths with Spain Rodriguez, but I did cross paths . .
with some of the featured guests, & the esteemed !! curator !!
FROM THE ARTLOVERSNEWYORK ARCHIVE:
DAN NADEL, NYC / NOV 18, 2010
ARCHIVAL PHOTO BY: NANCY SMITH
ALINE KOMINSKY-CRUMB & ROBERT CRUMB,
at the exhibit: ‘The Book of Genesis’, a series of 207 drawings /
David Zwirner Gallery, MARCH 4, 2010.
ARCHIVAL PHOTO BY: NANCY SMITH
ALINE KOMINSKY-CRUMB,
book signing for ‘R.Crumb Handbook’, NYC / MARCH 4, 2010
ARCHIVAL PHOTO BY: NANCY SMITH
see: ALINE KOMINSKY-CRUMB – artloversnewyork
KIM DEITCH, at a Brooklyn book signing, DEC 6, 2008.
ARCHIVAL PHOTO BY: NANCY SMITH
KIM DEITCH, ‘The Search for Smiling ED !’,
book signing, NYC 2008.
ARCHIVAL PHOTO BY NANCY SMITH
~’HARD-ASS FRIDAY NITE: THE ART of SPAIN RODRIGUEZ . . . SOME ARCHIVAL PIX’ |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 14th, 2022, 9:01am
CURATED BY – DAN NADEL . . . !!
‘HARD-ASS FRIDAY NITE: THE ART of SPAIN RODRIGUEZ’
CURATED BY : DAN NADEL
OPENS . . SAT FEB 12 / 3 – 7 PM
runs thru . . APRIL 2, 2022
ANDREW EDLIN GALLERY, 212 Bowery, NY 10012
HRS: TUES – SAT / 10 AM – 6 PM
see: THE PRESS RELEASE / INCLUDING A GREAT BIO of RODRIGUEZ / SELECTED ART WORKS / & A SCHEDULE of EVENTS
“SPAIN RODRIQUEZ, (1940-2012), called the ‘socialist soul’ of the 1960s underground comics movement, combined leftist politics, outlaw biker adventure, and science fiction . . .
raised in Buffalo, New York . . where he became a member of the Road Vultures Motorcycle Club, which offered him comradery and decades of material / he moved to New York’s East Village in the mid 1960s . . where he began a near 50 year run of publishing / becaming a staff cartoonist for the most renowned of the underground newspapers.”
“In 1969 Spain moved to San Francisco, where he was invited to join ZAP Comix by ROBERT CRUMB.”
~Press Release
note: ROBERT CRUMB & ALINE KOMINSKY-CRUMB in conversation with . . .
exhibition curator DAN NADEL / THURS FEB 24, 1 PM EST on ZOOM / RSVP needed
note: ‘Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriguez’ film screening / with director Susan Stern & KIM DEITCH – MARCH 24, 6:30 PM at the gallery.
~’HARD-ASS FRIDAY NITE: THE ART of SPAIN RODRIGUEZ’ . . ANDREW EDLIN GALLERY / OPENING SAT FEB 12 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 12th, 2022, 6:43am
WILL . . IS ON A ROLL !!
WILL LEUNG, of ATM NYC & ANOTHER PLACE NYC is expanding westward – good luck Will !!
the debut opening . . is this WED FEB 16th.
“Bringing some artists I’m showing in NYC this year to LA, next week”.
‘ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK’ – 7 person group show
opens WED FEB 16
and runs thru . . MARCH 27, 2022
ANOTHER GALLERY, 355 N La Brea Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036
HRS: TUES – SAT / 12 – 6 PM
with: ANNER COHEN, KATELYN LEDFORD, KEITA MORIMOTO,
JEAN-PIERRE VILLAFANE, RICHARD WATHEN, MING YING, YOORA LEE
check out: the new space on Instagram @anothergallery.la
~’ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK’ . . !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 12th, 2022, 6:23am
looks like Albert Shelton, b. 1979 North Carolina, been in NYC since 2003 . . .
had himself a great time – at the opening last night.
‘BE LIKE WATER, MY FRIEND’ / ANOTHER PLACE NYC
OPENED LAST NIGHT – THURS FEB 10, AND RUNS THRU . . . MARCH 20, 2022
52 Henry St., NYC 10002
HRS: WED-SUN / 12 – 6 PM
ALBERT SHELTON aka REALIST RADIO . .
at the opening of ‘Be Like Water, My Friend’, Another Place NYC, FEB 10, 2022
image via Instagram @realist_radio
~ALBERT SHELTON . . at the opening |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 11th, 2022, 2:34pm
BE LIKE . . WATER, SCREAMING TIRES, EXPLODING FIRES, & COSMIC RADIO !!
ALBERT SHELTON . . is on fire / and, in . . watercolor !!
he has new work in the ANOTHER PLACE, NYC – 2nd show.
‘BE LIKE WATER, MY FRIEND’ – a 10 artist / watercolor group show
at . . ANOTHER PLACE, NYC
OPENS THIS THURS FEB 10 / 4 – 7 PM
& runs thru . . MARCH 20, 2022.
Albert Shelton . . .
born 1979 / in Winston-Salem, North Carolina /
according to the all-knowing web, he’s been in NYC since 2003, receiving an MFA from PRATT in 2005.
see: CV / artdoxa
his CV is pretty interesting, especially to me, anyways – for those years of ‘samo-samo’ studio assistant work for some very famous artists, i.e. the two big K’s / KAWS & Koons.
a day job that can eat you alive, but pays the bills.
but, all the while, your own inner creative voice smolders with your own heart-felt / mind-sparked ambition.
yeah. we all know the feeling. of wanting to break-out . . with our own work, and, btw just the F . . . when ?!!
scan his IG posts / same is true here – he writes a nice diary.
the yearning, and burning / and one day . . yeah / my work is going to be – understood, and up on those (art fair) walls.
well, it’s definite about time, his time, to fly free . .
and set the record straight – on what’s . . . really, cutting edge.
I hope he takes off, and never looks back.
Be like water ?
Be like compressed passion – yearning to break out.
ALBERT SHELTON, WIP
image via Instagram @realist_radio
ALBERT SHELTON, ‘Wildfire’, 2022
sumi ink & watercolor on Arches paper / 24 x 18 in.
Image via Instagram @realist_radio
ALBERT SHELTON, ‘OUTER SPACE – ORBS ORBITING’
most def, watch this video & sound track: Albert Shelton / cosmic clip (!!) – Instagram
check out: ALBERT SHELTON . . @radio_realist / Instagram
~ALBERT SHELTON . . ‘BE LIKE WATER, MY FRIEND’ |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 9th, 2022, 10:15am
“Be like water, my friend” . . .
unless that water turn to ice . . . then, be like a 15 yr. old Russian figure skater !!
either way, this show promises to be: . . NEW GEN !! / OLD MEDIUM !!
‘Be Like Water, My Friend’ – 10 artist group show . . all watercolor !!
opens THURS FEB 10, 2022 / 4 – 7 PM
ANOTHER PLACE NYC, 52 HENRY St., NYC 10002
HRS: WED-SUN / 12 – 6 PM
with:
IVANA CARMAN, HYEGYEONG CHOI, UWE HENNEKEN, DAVID RISLEY, KOICHI SATO, ALBERT SHELTON, STIPAN TADIC, RICHARD WATHEN, YE’ELA WILSCHANSKI
here’s a small sampling:
STIPAN TADIC, ‘At the Subway on Valentines Day’, 2021-22
watercolor & gouache on paper /
14 x 10 in.
image via Instagram @stipan.tadic
ps: that’s a KERRY JAMES MARSHALL painting in the [MOMA] poster.
check out: Stipan Tadic on Instagram @stipan.tadic
I’m thinking:
Stipan Tadic’s . . watercolor looks so realist !! great details.
it’s both misty & atmospheric, and then you realize it’s not outdoors . . . it’s inside !!
and, then the ‘painting’ takes over – completely.
RICHARD WATHEN, ‘Smear’, 2022.
watercolor on 640gsm Hahnemuhle paper /
40 x 30 cm. / 15.7 x 11.8 in.
image via Instagram @richardwathenstudio
check out: Richard Wathen on Instagram @richardwathenstudio
Richard Wathen’s watercolor . . . !! so streaky !! so pensive.
such a familiar tactile . . gesture.
yet, so . . strange & other-worldly.
almost ‘realist’, but . . quite over-the-edge !!
that is . . not so real in a visual photographic sense / but – totally captures in a very touching & real way / the introspective feeling of a ‘casual’ moment – that, we all can relate to.
mirror, mirror on the wall.
who – am I ?
~’BE LIKE WATER, MY FRIEND’ . . GROUP SHOW / ANOTHER PLACE NYC / OPENS THURS FEB 10 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 8th, 2022, 10:48am
AUDIOPHILES & DESIGN GEEKS – HEADS UP !!
I got a little caught up on the co-show of LARRY LI, it being the Year of the Tiger, and all.
especially when social tensions collided with folklore, and exploded with the same kind of violence,
as which Larry Li – attacks in his own work.
but, as someone who was married to a serious audiophile for over 25 years,
how could I not bring your attention to the this being / the last weekend, in which to check out this co-show.
MIKE RUIZ SERRA – ‘HEAVY’
JAN 8 – FEB 7, 2022
ANOTHER PLACE.NYC, 52 Henry St., East Side, Manhattan
HRS: WED – SUN / 12 – 6 PM
MIKE RUIZ SERRA, ‘Sound System 1’, 2021.
32 x 16 x 33 in.
image via ANOTHER PLACE.NYC
def, check out: MIKE RUIZ SERRA on Instagram @serrastuff
note: MIKE RUIZ SERRA is . . . a New York based designer & fabricator, b. 1997.
talking about sound systems, and I do mean VERY VERY HIGH-END . . SOUND SYSTEMS !!
here’s a little personal story – from the artloversnewyork archive:
this is me & my young family back in ca. 1988 / that’s SIMON CERIGO, R.I.P. – aka the audiophile / on the left.
butter wouldn’t melt – in this guy’s mouth. and, not a party, nor an opening – did he ever miss.
that’s our storefront behind us, 5 Rivington St., about a half-a-block up from the Bowery, back when those were very very mean streets / but, peopled with the soon-to-be-80s . . legends.
3 decades later & it’s now . . a very high-end Japanese Design / Plant Store – called GREEN FINGERS MARKET.
the current rent has got to top, conservatively – at least $15,000, maybe $20.000 a month.
PHOTO: Collection NANCY SMITH
we lived there, well basically ‘squatted’ for about 9 years.
we had sublet the crummy rundown place, from the notorious RICHARD HAMBLETON aka THE SHADOWMAN, who then didn’t give the slum landlord – our rent money, all of $400/month (!!) for the entire floor / landing us in landlord tenant court for about 9 years, during which time we paid no, as in zero rent.
that’s how low value the place was, and the Lower East Side in general – back then.
besides trading in art, Simon ran a little ‘audiophile’ gig on the side.
it was the days when STEREO EXCHANGE was the audiophile mecca on Broadway / so, apart from all the artwork lining the front half of the space, including a huge JACK GOLDSTEIN, ‘Lightning’ painting, and, the also quite large MARIKO MORI ‘Love Hotel’ to name just a few / and with wild young kids, and their bikes, and skateboards tearing through the place at all times / the place was also stuffed with stereo equipment: turntables, vintage tube amplifiers, and, mostly . . speakers !!
often custom-made, they were also huge, and in weird shapes – like elongated pyramids, etc.
I was aware of the ‘potential’ value of the paintings, which hadn’t yet reached a secondary market / so, I just assumed the sound equipment – was also kind of in the same range, i.e. bought ‘smart’ . . but certainly, not topping $10,000 – in your wildest dreams !!
until one day of one year, a young hip telephone repairman, who looked like he was a budding ghetto rapper or DJ at night / and, probably the only kid they had brave enough to service the area / this was back in the ancient days of ‘land’ lines / the landlord had cut our phone wires or something. anyway, he walked in – and almost fainted.
I never saw anybody so stunned before, or since . . in my life.
I thought it was the art / we even had a large chalk Keith Haring – on the side of a huge refrigerator cardboard box, (another long story), but . . . no, no, NO.
it was the stereo equipment !!
he told me . . “lady, do you know you could buy this whole city block, and maybe even 2 more – with all that stereo equipment.”
BUSTED !!
GAME OVER for Simon . . after that it was SUSHI in the West Village for the whole family, at least once a week.
and, looking back,
it sure was lucky we had replaced the broke-out storefront window / with a primitive, but war-ready . . concrete bunker facade.
talk about: concrete ‘brutalist’ architecture. ha.
nobody had it – on us.
~MIKE RUIZ SERRA . . ‘HEAVY’ / ANOTHER PLACE NYC / LAST WEEKEND |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 4th, 2022, 10:33am
‘STRAIGHTEN UP & FLY RIGHT’
see: SLAPDANCE FILM FESTIVAL CHANNEL
in the . . . . ‘UNSTOPPABLE FEATURES’ SECTION
see: SLAMDANCE FESTIVAL 2022 HOME & $10 PASSES
KRISTEN ABATE . . .
A YOUNG FRIEND of MY FAMILY ever since her, and my daughter KATE,
were together in kindergarten !! at P.S.3 / in the West Village NYC.
well, turns out she’s quite the . . . FILMMAKER FIRE-CRACKER !!!!!!
‘STRAIGHTEN UP & FLY RIGHT’ – SCREENSHOT via SLAMDANCE
‘STRAIGHTEN UP and FLY RIGHT’ (2022) / 1 HR 28 MIN
that’s Kristen – on the right.
note: although Kristen plays a disabled young New Yorker,
she herself – is not disabled, she’s . . . acting :)
while the film’s co-author, co-director, and co-producer . . STEVEN TANENBAUM is disabled /
Mr.Tanenbaum has in fact been a long time creative mentor to Kristen,
so, it’s a very close to home / personal experience for her. the film is in fact,
a deliberate – creative ‘inversion’ . . the better to tell the story.
knowing Kristen – I’m guessing the narrative . . is quite bold.
the film has both a ‘drama’, and a ‘comedy’ tagging . . on IMDb.
in brief: “In a funk, Kristen, a physically disabled New York woman walks dogs for a living but
dreams of being a writer and as her her life unravels, she must make a choice / to fall apart, or straighten up.”
~SLAMDANCE
“A young, physically disabled woman meets an old man who helps her transcend the limitations of her mind.”
~GOOGLE
‘STRAIGHTEN UP and FLY RIGHT’ . . is as INDIE – AS THEY GET !!
& has been a long time – a coming.
DIRECTOR: KRISTEN ABATE, STEVEN TANENBAUM
PRODUCER: KRISTEN ABATE, LINDSEY CORDERO, ARMANDO CRODA, STEVEN TANENBAUM
SCREENWRITER: KRISTEN ABATE, STEVEN TANENBAUM
FEATURES ACTORS: KRISTEN ABATE, SASHA BOYKIN, A.J. CEDENO
GOOD LUCK, MY HOMETOWN CREATIVES !!
from left / KRISTEN ABATE and KATE CERIGO, UNION SQ., NYC / ca. 1998
Archival Photo: Collection NANCY SMITH
DEF, CHECK OUT: KRISTEN ABATE on IMDb
~KRISTEN ABATE / ‘STRAIGHTEN UP & FLY RIGHT’ / SLAMDANCE 2022 |
Posted in Movie Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | January 29th, 2022, 10:02am
