watch out . . . . . !!!!
you.
you . . . cold, cold heart.
‘Pixel-by-Pixel: Interventions by LUKE MURPHY’
OCT 30, 2021 – APRIL 10, 2022
SMoCA – Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
7374 East Second Street, Scottsdale, Arizona 85251
more: LUKE MURPHY – SMoCA
LUKE MURPHY, ‘Monument to the Glitch (Tower 3)’, 2019.
LED light sculpture – with custom computer elements / software & assorted hardware.
image via: SMoCA
“LUKE MURPHY . . . subverts & liberates technology through re-purposing and recontextualizing it – to reveal its . . innate h-u-m-a–n-i-t-y.”
“To him, technology, screens, and code are physical and fragile in the same ways that we are – we break, crack, glitch, and can get repaired.”
“MURPHY . . . works with the LED screens we often see outside advertising the next big thing. He sees LED screens as part of the landscape, and although these light panels are intended to be selling machines, Murphy views them as beautiful, chatty companions, so he uses them as his primary medium, undermining their form and function.
“MURPHY’S . . . interventions (placed) throughout the Museum are interruptions to the norm. His work questions whether our interaction with screens are the real experience and art is simply just the content of the experience. He is interested in exposing the materiality of technology because there is such an effort to hide the material nature of tech to achieve total seamlessness.”
Organized by Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Curated by JULIE GANAS, curator of engagement and digital initiatives.
note: all above quotes – are from, & please read full statement: SMoCA – LUKE MURPHY EXHIBIT
NOTE: the animated, text-based / digital “LED DELI BANNER” – ‘RESIST’,
that runs across the top of this page – is also by LUKE MURPHY.
see: LUKE MURPHY / lukelab.com – ARTIST
PORTFOLIO
see: LUKE MURPHY INSTAGRAM / @lukemurphy49
& watch this, you . . . neon-colored, but cold, cold – heart !!
see: ‘You’ve Been Lonesome, Too’ / WIP – LUKE MURPHY, RECENT VIDEO / IG
~LUKE MURPHY / ‘Pixel-by-Pixel: Interventions’ / SMoCA / Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, ARIZONA / OCT 30, 2021 – April 10, 2022 – |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 29th, 2021, 11:43am
color studies – in the key of DREAMS !!
‘ANNA KUNZ: WITH RAYS’
ALEXANDER BERGGRUEN / UP THRU . . . NOV 20, 2021.
read more: ‘ANNA KUNZ: WITH RAYS’ / BERGGRUEN
ANNA KUNZ with . .
‘Unseeing Green’, 2021.
acrylic on canvas
60 x 66 in.
a glimpse of:
ANNA KUNZ, ‘The Tide’, 2021.
acrylic on canvas
66 x 60 in.
ANNA KUNZ, ‘Demo’, 2021.
oil on linen / 13 x 11 in.
PHOTOS: KATE CERIGO
~ANNA KUNZ with her . . . RAYS !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 21st, 2021, 11:15am
yeah.
fill me up with some of those . . . bright-eyed, thinking-mind / sun, sunny rays,
just before that cold, cold and pretty much /
I’m guessing . . cold-hearted !!
Winter 2021 – rolls in.
‘ANNA KUNZ: WITH RAYS’
OPENS WED OCT 20 / 5 – 9 PM
and runs thru . . NOV 20, 2021
ALEXANDER BERGGRUEN GALLERY, 10118 MADISON AVE, Fl 3. UPTOWM, NYC NY 10075
the gallery states that . . .
“With respect to the JOSEF ALBERS’ . . . 1959 painting, ‘Homage to the Square: With Rays’, (collection of the MET Museum, NY), KUNZ seeks to convey through her compositions . . . optical progressions – as colors ‘ray out’ towards the viewer and, into their vision.
Following Albers in drawing parallels between the relationships of colors, and those of humans, Kunz’s approach to color perception produces an ‘intra-active’ – (term composed by feminist physicist Karen Barad), which postulates that action originates from within relationships’ structures, not from cause and effect between individual entities – viewing experience.”
ANNA KUNZ . . . lives and works in Chicago, Il.
read more: ‘Anna Kunz – WITH RAYS’ / BERGGRUEN
ANNA KUNZ, ‘Birches’, 2021.
acrylic on canvas / 90 x 80 in. / 7 ft. 5 in. x 6 ft. 6 in.
image: courtesy ALEXANDER BERGGRUEN
~’ANNA KUNZ : WITH RAYS’ / ALEXANDER BERGGRUEN / UPTOWN / OPENS WED OCT 20 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 19th, 2021, 4:29pm
PRECOG MAGAZINE . . is excited to announce their latest curatorial project for the NARS FOUNDATION / EXHIBITION SPACE
‘BUBBLE ORCHESTRA’ . . is the first physical exhibition based around Issue 5 of Precog Magazine.
“Bubble Orchestra. . . prompts ideas around the concept and materiality of bubbles: as a metaphor for thinking through ideas of individuality & group cohesion; echo chambers and their tenuousness; algorithms; and the fragility of identity.”
~Precog
with:
ALISON KUO, AMIKO LI, ANJULI RATHOD, BEN ROSS DAVIS, BLINN AND LAMBERT, CARLOS FRANCO,
OLOLADE ADENIYI, PATRICIA DOMINGUEZ, UMBER MAJEED, and VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER.
OPENING: FRI OCT 15 / 6 – 8 PM
and running thru . . . NOV 5, 2021
NARS FOUNDATION / MAIN GALLERY: 201 46th St, 4th Fl, Brooklyn, NY 11220.
see: NARS INFO & HRS
see: Precog Magazine
see: NARS Foundation
more info: ‘Bubble Exhibit’ – NARS
~’BUBBLE ORCHESTRA EXHIBITION’ / PRECOG MAG / NARS FOUNDATION / OPENING FRI OCT 15 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 14th, 2021, 3:13pm
a few more images !!
the show is up thru . . NOV 9, 2021
KRISTEN LORELLO
‘Canciones en la Colmena’ / Songs Inside the Beehive
Brooklyn-based Florencia Escudero – was born in Singapore in 1987 / she is also a co-founder, co-publisher & co-editor of Precog Magazine
the sound elements – are by Mexico-based artist and writer Lucia Hinojosa Gaxiola with a “techno-futuristic vibe”.
more info: Florencia Escudero – Kristen Lorello
FLORENCIA ESCUDERO,’Odalisque’, 2021.
Hand-sewn digitally printed satin, hand-dyed and silk-screened ribbed cotton over piping, silk-screened vinyl, crocodile-stamped pleather, cast pewter, handbag chains, foam, and crushed velvet hand-sewn over foam.
28 x 18 x 15 in.
Photo courtesy: Kristen Lorello
FLORENCIA ESCUDERO, ‘Gitana’, 2021.
Hand-sewn digitally printed satin, cast resin, cast resin with speaker, cast resin with cst resin lips, vinyl hand-sewn over piping, foam, speaker, wires, metal, amp, and MP3 player with original sound piece by LUCIA HINOJOSA GAXIOLA: ‘Mass of Branched Decomposition’, MP3 recording from live performance, and field recording made with voice, SK-5 Casio sampling keyboard, rocks, dry lichen, dry leaves, bark, sticks, wood, tin bucket, 12 mins, looped.
26-1/2 x 24-1/2 x 20 in.
Photo courtesy: Kristen Lorello
~FLORENCIA ESCUDERO / ‘CANCIONES en la COLMENA’ / KRISTEN LORELLO . . |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 14th, 2021, 2:43pm
‘SONGS inside the BEEHIVE’ – how pretty !! complex, strong, gentle, fantastical & . . . poetic !!!!!
FLORENCIA ESCUDERO – ‘Canciones en la Colmena’
open to the public / SAT OCT 8
running thru . . . . NOV 9, 2021
KRISTEN LORELLO, 23 E. 73rd St., Manhattan / 5th Floor, Buzzer 5F
HRS: TUES-SAT / 11- 6 PM
see: KRISTEN LORELLO GALLERY / IG
see: FLORENCIA ESCUDERO / IG
image via Instagram @floescu
FLORENCIA ESCUDERO / in her studio.
everyone calls her: FLO, and ‘flow forth’ (!!!) – she does !!
FLORENCIA . . . wears many hats, she’s a co-founder / co-publisher & co-curator of Precog Mag /
and, she works in many mediums / mostly . . in the ‘soft’ realm.
it would be very hard – not to say limiting / to try and put a label on her, or her work.
unless you want to say: experimental, hard-worker / with, a huge imagination & a heart of gold.
image via Instagram @floescu
FLORENCIA ESCUDERO – large fabric sculpture
image via Instagram @floescu
FLORENCIA ESCUDERO / I guess that’s – the ‘hive’ !!
a kind of, and kind !! metaphor for community – mindset !!
~FLORENCIA ESCUDERO / ‘CANCIONES EN LA COLMENA’ / KRISTEN LORELLO / UPTOWN / BEGINS SAT OCT 8 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 8th, 2021, 10:06am
JACK HENRY, part of: ‘Or a Moon’s Surface the Planet Admires’,
P.A.D. / PROJECT ART DISTRIBUTION / PATRICK MOHUNDRO / SIDEWALK POP-UP / SOHO
this Sat, Oct 9, 2021 / 11am – 8pm
Spring & Mercer !!
see: P.A.D.
see: JACK HENRY @jackbhenry
JACK HENRY / image via Instagram @project_art_distribution
“casting trash into treasure, Jack Henry’s resin objects keep us attuned to the little. overlooked
things in our New York lives.’
~P.A.D.
JACK HENRY, ‘lock’. image via Instagram @project_art_distribution
“come pick up – a small momento of your daily commute !!”
~P.A.D.
~JACK HENRY / P.A.D. / SOHO / SAT OCT 9 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 8th, 2021, 9:32am
looking good !!!
‘HENRY FOOL’ – 11 person group show
opened OCT 5, 2021
runs thru . . . ????
TRIEST, 526 WILSON AVE., BROOKLYN 11207 / BUSHWICK
OPEN BY APP’T
with: JOE SPEIER, DANI ARNICA, JAMIE LYNN KLEIN, JAKE SHORE, ERIC SCHMID, HUNTER HUNT HENDRIX,
WALTER SMITH, JACK LAWLER, DEVON LOWMAN, RYAN FOERSTER, & BROCK BIERLY
see: TRIEST / INSTAGRAM @triest.es
here’s a small sampling:
JOE SPEIER, ‘Millennial Painting 10 (Sunny Day Girl)’,
acrylic medium, acrylic paint, glitter, ballpoint pen, marker on canvas.
48 x 60 in.
image via Instagram / @joe_sleepover
JACK LAWLER, ‘Frustrated’, oil on canvas.
image via Instagram @triest.es
‘HENRY FOOL’ – POSTER
image via Instagram @triest.es
~’HENRY FOOL’ / TRIEST / BROOKLYN |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 7th, 2021, 8:25am
ALL HAIL . . THE ‘REBEL’ VERNACULAR !!
IT’S COMING TO BITE – YOUR TOES !!
ANDREW FRANCIS in . . .
PATRICK MOHUNDRO – PRESENTS P.A.D. / PROJECT ART DISTRIBUTION
in his latest NYC sidewalk pop-up / ‘Head, Shoulders, Feet and Toes’
SAT OCT 2, 2021 / 11AM – 8PM
SPRING & MERCER / SOHO, DOWNTOWN / TRIBECA, NYC
see: ANDREW FRANCIS – INSTAGRAM
see: P.A.D. / PROJECT ART DISTRIBUTION – INSTAGRAM
image via Instagram @andrewmeriwetherfrancis
ANDREW FRANCIS,’KIM & KANYE GO TO THE MUSEUM’ aka ‘KIM & KANYE SPLIT’ (!!!)
DYE-SUBLIMATED IMAGES / VIA A COMMERCIAL PRINTER / MEN’S SOCKS / UNIQUE SET, 2021.
cost: sliding scale $40-$25 / go get . . yours !!!!
Language, cynicism, community, and real ‘care’ – about this world we inhabit,
and, a big big vibe of wicked smart humor – are all a big part of this creative’s – going wild on ‘utilitarian’ / commonplace & functional / body warmth – objects / aka ‘your clothing’ !!
and, very much – a wicked step-cousin to quilt-making – btw.
warmth, communication & visual . . hurrah !!
image via Instagram @andrewmweriwetherfrancis
Andrew posted this photo – of the work-in-progress in home / studio !!
it interests me for the energy, but also as a kind of answer – to those of you who may be thinking / Soho ? Lord !!
what would . . . JACKSON POLLOCK – be thinking ?
well, squint your eyes at the image / ha,ha not – so far off.
image via Instagram @andrewmeriwtherfrancis
Andrew will also be hawking some of his . . . ‘I Love Judy Woodruff’ / custom printed shirts !!
for all of youse – heading back into on-site work spaces and/or offices, and needing to re-fresh your work-from-home Covid attire !!!
Andrew says: “come bask – in her moral rectitude’ . . . &
I say: yeah, for sure: be part of the new / . . . hand-made DIY vernacular !!
and, maybe help change people’s dumbass – mindset / along the way.
can you imagine finding these – in a thrift shop / 20 years down the road ?
and, the world just keeps on – turning !!
~ANDREW FRANCIS / P.A.D. / SOHO, NYC / TODAY – SAT OCT 2 / 11 – 8 PM |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 2nd, 2021, 8:28am
the ERL / A$AP MET GALA QUILT is QUITE . . the ‘VERNACULAR’ – STAR !!
but, NO, is is not ‘ANTIQUE’ – it is . . ‘VINTAGE’.
AND DATES – FROM THE 1970s.
so, a woman came forward on Instagram – to claim that it was she who had donated the ‘Puff’ quilt / used by ERL as the basis for his show-stopping . . A$AP Rocky Met Gala ‘cape’ . . to the thrift shop, where ERL found it.
so interesting / what social media makes possible.
see: ‘A$AP Rocky’s Met Gala Quilt – Backstory’ by JOYANN JEFFREY, BUZZFEED / posted SEPT 26, 2021.
IMAGE VIA Instagram @books_n_babies
funny how – this story has . . . legs !!
but, also in being found – some info – got lost . . or ‘confused’, esp regarding the ‘originality’ of the quilt, and its . . date.
VOGUE – the ‘fashion bible’, lol / did not help by terming the quilt ‘antique’.
as per that BUZZFEED link above /
According to VOGUE, “Linnetz purchased ‘the antique quilt’ from a thrift shop.”
well, unless an object is over 100 years old, it is not antique / it is vintage.
also, Sarah . . the IG woman who claims to have given away the quilt, says it was made by her great-grandmother . which probably also confused some people. if you take 20 years as a kind of average generational indicator / that still gets us back to the 1970s,
when all things DIY, but esp quilts, knitting, and crochet began to grow in popularity, leading to a new advancement of skills /starting life in 70s as ‘hobby projects’, and leading to the full flower renaissance we see today. though there is still a heirarchy of ‘ making’. with top s designers like RAF SIMMONS making incredible hi-end sweaters with PRADA, through hand-knit ‘amateur’ hats & scarves, to the truly vernacular kid DIY projects such as puppet-making, or even . . . yarn dolls.
in the textile world, it is actually quite solid, not much grey area / and, easy to date things, such as quilts – by the fabric / for example: woven (very antique !!), or printed / which in turn breaks down into early / such as woodblock, or roller-printed textiles (colonial times) to silkscreens, to more modern, contemporary mass production factory techniques. and any decent textile reference book, would clearly find this quilt to be of 1970 manufacture.
detail ERL – A$AP Rocky MET GALA quilt / via full scale BUZZFEED image
another big clue, as to the dating of this quilt, would be that, although it is ‘pieced’ / i.e. made up of small units of cloth sewn together to make a whole bedspread, this is not the case here / in that, in the pattern we can easily see there was enough of a big yardage of each color, that permitted the quilt-maker to cut out as many squares, to makes as many ‘Puff’ pockets, as she needed to complete the grid pattern, without resorting to an i old-fashioned ‘scrap bag’. when this quilt was made, whole textile yardage, and micro-printed yardage at that / reflects ‘store-bought’ yards of material, and it was cheap, and widely available – so VOGUE, you can scratch off . . ‘antique’, once – and for – all.
PIECED:
the concept of ‘pieced’ quilts dates back to colonial times , when cloth was rare, and printed clothe even more rare / as it was imported from England, and therefore very very expensive. thus collecting, cutting out the remaining ‘good’ bits, and re-using these ‘pieces’ / from worn-out clothing – was the American pioneer way . . to make ‘sustainable’, large ‘bed’ coverings. think Amish quits, etc.
and, regarding the cloth that was local, woven & home-made, hand-dyed, maybe be even / roller-printed, woodblock printed with a rudimentary pattern / was also expensive, and labor-intensive / and, so it was harvested as well, from older garments – saved up, as ‘scraps’ in a ‘scrap bag’ / to ‘piece’ into larger quilts. obviously, not – the case here. in fact, one way to date real ‘antique’ quilts, or to assess the wealth or lifestyle of the maker / is to examine the ‘variation’ in the different, maybe ‘red’ textiles used to innovate – to complete – a continuous, over-all pattern, obviously – not the case here.
then we come to ‘feed sacks’ !!
dry food goods, such as flour or sugar, or animal feed, seeds, etc / at a little bit later time, think ‘Little House on the Prairie’, came in big multi-pound sacks made from cotton. (there was no synthetic fiber, or plastic at the time), and at some point these dry goods merchants realized if they roller-printed or woodblock printed) these cottons, that would increase their (i.e. sustainability) re-use, and also encourage the farmers’ wives to pick the brand of flour, or sugar that had pattern they coveted, and also women would gather scraps and trade, like a form of early trading cards. so that era also had ‘pieced’ quits.
by the mid 1900s, ‘piecing’ – was a conceptional ‘conceit’ / not done through necessity, cost or
industry, but as a ‘project’, as a way to follow and emulate older quilt traditions. this ‘pieced’ quilt falls under that evolution.
‘Puff’, ‘Biscuit’, or even ‘Bubble’ quilts, such as this ERL found vintage quilt / . . . actually have a history going all the way back to the late 1800s, Victorian times / when the little individual ‘pockets’ were stuffed with cotton batting filling, and again were made as a way to utilize small ‘scraps’, such as velvet, or silk from more elaborate handiwork, or expensive clothing.
so again . . unless it is an historic ‘stand-out’ / that has been carefully kept – even old, as in really old, 100 year old / truly antique ‘Puff’ quilts still fell very much so, under the ‘vernacular’ genre.
so, back to now !!
although, it would help to know what was used to ‘fill’ the ‘bubble’ pockets of this ERL / A$AP Rocky quilt / was it cotton batting, was it used panty hose or nylon stockings ? . . or synthetic fiberfill ?
it’s really not necessary to know, to be able to date the quilt, but it would help.
that no one was curious enough to inspect the filling, or if they were close enough to it, as Zak Foster must have been . . to make mention of it / speaks volumes to how woefully uninterested, or unaware – all the ‘founding’ parties involved with the quilt were – in terms of quilt history, and quilt-making / in general . . .
but, especially Zak Foster, the supposed quilt expert guy who repaired it, and didn’t think twice to mention – what it was stuffed with ?
no matter,
we know from the specific cotton cloth, the specific pattern, and especially the specific color dye used – that this was 1970s fabric.
further it was cloth made specifically – to support the new-found interest in quilting, and hand-made DIY projects in general, especially of the ‘vernacular’ / outsider genre . . which called for . . . traditional-looking, cheery small floral prints, in a range of many different colors.
it also helps . . if you have an original / ‘vintage’ bolt of this kind of printed cotton – with the maker, and the actual date – stamped into the selvedge, or yard cloth . . border !!!
and, yeah.
of course . . . I do !!
this a sampling of 1960s textile / it does not match,in sheen, brightness, nor intensity of color, nor in the size or style of – the tiny printed floral repeat.
~mass-produced cotton / textile technology – still had a way to go to match the ERL found quilt.
textile source: ‘Dating Fabrics, A Color Guide 1800- 1960’, by Eileen Jahnke Trestain.
Publisher: American Quilter’s Society, Kentucky / 1998.
Photo: Nancy Smith
Collection: Nancy Smith
but, this is more like it !!!!
this . . 1970 ‘craft’ fabric – is a dead ringer !!
Photo: Nancy Smith
Collection: Nancy Smith
1970s cotton fabric such as this – was used to make . . STUFFED – DIY / Christmas ornaments !!
Photo: Nancy Smith
Collection: Nancy Smith
some more Xmas / hand-sewn & stuffed ornaments
Photo: Nancy Smith
Collection: Nancy Smith
talk about . . vernacular !!
and . . other folk art projects / a wooden clothespin doll / and probably a Xmas ornament.
Photo: Nancy Smith
Collection: Nancy Smith
the cloth came with instructions, and . . . the date the fabric was printed.
Photo: Nancy Smith
Collection: Nancy Smith
1976.
Photo: Nancy Smith
Collection: Nancy Smith
ps:
yes !!
all the above 1970 / DIY hand-sewn craft Xmas ornaments, and the wooden clothespin doll, all came from local thrift shops, including my prized . . . ‘DIY’ bolt of cotton – with the DIY ornament cut-outs & instructions, the date printed into the border selvedge.
and, none cost more than $2.50 – if that / including the historic DIY fabric.
no wonder, I got so excited seeing that A$AP Rocky waltz down – the Met Gala red carpet !!!!
.
~ERL / A$AP Rocky / MET GALA QUILT / DATING CONTROVERSY / LOST & FOUND . . . |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 30th, 2021, 9:49am
