PIX FROM A BLACK LIGHT EXHIBIT . . !!
A MOST DYNAMIC . . REALIST, FUTURISTIC, EXPERIMENTAL, & DIVERSE GROUP SHOW
THAT RUNS FROM SCIENCE THRU SCI FI . . . & BACK TO COMMUNITY PROTEST & CLIMATE CHANGE !!
‘EDGE OF LIGHT’ . . . A GROUP SHOW
CURATED BY . . JONATHAN SIMS
PRESENTED BY . . CENTER for the HOLOGRAPHIC ARTS
CULTURE LAB at THE PLAXAL GALLERY, 5-25 46th Ave, LIC / LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS, NYC
DEC 3 – 27, 2020
timed entry from 5 – 9 PM / Thursdays, Saturdays & Sundays
book free at holocenter.org
def, check out / more info: ARTISTS’ PAGE – ‘EDGE OF LIGHT’ / HOLOCENTER / SCROLL DOWN !!
YES !!
I GOT TO SEE THE EXHIBIT . . . IRL !!
BLINN & LAMBERT / NICHOLAS STEINDORF & KYLE WILLIAMS . .
with their stereoscopic installation . . ‘NNAATTUURRAA MMOORRTTAA’
“Get Your Anaglyph Glasses . . On !!”
BLINN & LAMBERT, ‘NNAATTUURRAA MMOORRTTAA’ . . .
stretched across an eeennntire wall . . !!
EMMA HENDRY, ‘FOREST FIRE’.
“I use neon & LED lighting to make objects . . . in nature, seem surreal.”
firrrrreeeyy !! flowery !! detail . . . for sure !!
EMMA HENDRY, ‘FOREST FIRE’.
RACHEL GUARDIOLA, ‘VEGA Project / Bio-MYNE’
“A signal goes out and makes contact from a location that is unknown.
Projections of Madame Vega a bio-pirate comes through.”
read more narrative: Rachel Guardiola / ‘VEGA ..’ / HOLOCENTER
foreground: NOOSHIN ROSTAMI . .
NOOSHIN ROSTAMI, ‘ZAMAN’.
“Between physically shaping and shining light on an idea I get lost myself.”
outside the gallery, in real . . (kind-of-bright-wintery) daylight / SHOHEI KATAYAMA,
“a Japanese American artist living in Pittsburgh, PA / Pennsylvania.”
SHOHEI KATAYAMA, ‘Ancient Voices’.
an . . “Installation with Strontium Aluminate, Kopp Glass 40 filters, UV light, audio of deep-sea / surge glacier currents captures captured via goPro, sea sponges.”
see: a better rendition at Shohei Katayama / ‘Ancient Voices’ / Holocenter
KAMARI CARTER & JULIAN DAY, ‘Blissville’.
“within a darkened gallery, ‘HMS NT HTLS HOMES NOT HOTELS’ sizzles in bright neon . . .
the phrase quotes a sign from a recent protest in Blissvile , a ‘forgotten neighbourhood within Long Island City in which long term residents oppose the erection of a third homeless hotel branded as a short-term shelter.”
note: a full-color video runs on a small screen to the right, on the adjoining wall.
KAMARI CARTER & JULIAN DAY, ‘Blissville’ video / footage
KAMARI CARTER & JULIAN DAY, ‘BLISSVILLE’ video / footage
JONATHAN SIMS, the curator of ‘EDGE OF LIGHT’ /
a totally dynamic, diverse, visionary & . . in it’s own way: immersive . . exhibit.
def, go see the entire show – in its own (dark) light / not everything can be caught on camera, least of all . . . LIGHT !!
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH / SOME PIX from the ADVANCE VIEWING / SUN NOV 28, 2020
~’EDGE OF LIGHT’ . . PHOTOS FROM the EXHIBIT !! / IRL !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | December 19th, 2020, 9:52am
A ‘DARK SPACE EXHIBITION’ . . . !!
HOLOCENTER NYC / CENTER of HOLOGRAPHIC ARTS
PRESENTS: ‘EDGE OF LIGHT’ . . .
“Explore a series of installations created by artists working with light as a material & medium.
Sculptural projections have been created on-site by combining digital and optical manipulation with precision-made and found objects.
Light is deconstructed, shaped, and streamed in these stunning new works.”
the exhibit runs from DEC 3 – DEC 27, 2020
this diverse, fascinating, & often radical group show . . .
which yes !!, I did get to see . . via a private advance viewing last Sunday /
is curated by . . visual artist JONATHAN SIMS / @chromadetic on Instagram
is presented by the (roving) HOLOCENTER NYC / CENTER of HOLOGRAPHIC ARTS
at the . . CULTURE LAB LIC at THE PLAXALL GALLERY, 5-25 46th Ave, LIC, LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS NYC
is an interesting / large, and somewhat raw indie, non-for profit venue . . in, and of itself.
more community, than commercial platform – for sure / with a river – running by it !!
a great city views, & not to forget . . sometimes / live music, and a great taco truck, too !!
see: Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery, LIC / FB
because of the resurgent Covid numbers / there will be a . . . VIRTUAL OPENING !!
tonight – THURS DEC 3, 2020 at 7 PM !!
see here: for details.
otherwise: book free entry / timed visits: at holocenter.org
and, most def check out: HOLOCENTER NYC / CENTER of HOLOGRAPHIC ARTS
~’EDGE OF LIGHT’ . . HOLOCENTER NYC / PLAXALL GALLERY LIC / VIRTUAL OPENING: THURS DEC 3 at 7 PM |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | December 3rd, 2020, 10:56am
as surely as . . night follows day,
light . . follows glass.
or: ‘light’ . . as the artists’ medium.
BLINN and Lambert . . . NICHOLAS STEINDORF & KYLE WILLIAMS
‘CMYK’, NOV 2020 / studio photo.
Photo: via Instagram @blinn_and_lambert
CMYK: Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black
“if printers are using a digital printing method, they would print color on paper using CMYK colors. This is a 4 color mode that utilizes the colors cyan, magenta, yellow, & black . . in various amounts to create all of the necessary colors when printing images. It is subtractive process, which means that each additional unique color means more light is removed, or absorbed, to create colors.
When the first 3 colors are added together, the result is not pure black, but rather a very dark brown.
The K color, or black, is used to completely remove light from the printed picture, which is why the eye perceives the color as black.”
RGB on the other-hand . . “is the color scheme that is associated with electronic displays, such as CRT, LCD monitors, digital cameras and scanners. It is an additive type of color mode that combines the primary colors red, green, and blue, in various degrees to create a variety of different colors. When all 3 of the colors are combined and displayed to their full extent, the result is pure white. When all 3 colors are combined to the lowest degree, or value, the result is black.”
source & more info: AshworthCreative.com
well . . .
apart from the obvious technical properties of ‘light’ vs ‘glass’ as art mediums . . both require decision-making / that become in effect: hands-on projects.
glass: stained glass, hand-blown glass, molded glass, melted glass, etc . . is an old old art form, with both artisanal & artistic values.
though the ‘light’ effects / being produced by the final outcome . . is dependent on exterior light sources playing on the glass surface. glass artworks are absolute tangible, but their light reflections and colors, . . are ambient / and very much dependent on where they are being displayed, and how they have been made . . . and most importantly: as to whether natural or artificial light is animating their surface, and of course, the degree of transparency with which the piece has been made.
using ‘light’ as your medium of expression is an ultra-contemporary art form, dependent on technical, and digital knowledge.
it usually requires darkened rooms, projection, and often computerized . . ‘animation’.
you can put your hand through light, but you cannot . . put your hand through glass.
~BLINN and LAMBERT / CMYK |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | December 3rd, 2020, 10:12am
yeah, that’s about . . sums it up.
check out: ‘Skinny Love’ by BON IVER, 2007
~’SKINNY LOVE’ . . BON IVER, 2007 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | November 25th, 2020, 9:52am
the world feels . . so skinny !!
in . . Covid.
SCOTT KEIGHTLEY . . is showing a singular & very curious sculpture by young Canadian artist, NADIA BELERIQUE / in his upstate gallery, BABA YAGA,
in a small group show titled, ‘Silhouettes’.
‘Silhouettes’ – BABA YAGA GALLERY
5821 NY-9G, HUDSON, N.Y.
HRS: SAT 12-6 PM / or by appt
it’s . . a great sunny, autumn crisp day / perfect for a rural road trip !!
Go check it out – today / if you can.
it’s Sat !!
NADIA BELERIQUE, ‘Everything, All The Time’, 2020.
Maple wood, stained glass, copper, tape, lead.
(it appears to be . . ‘human size’.)
what struck me as so interesting about this, otherwise at first glance – so, very simple piece / were 2 things.
one: the use of stained glass, esp. in such a narrative way, but also as a visual addition to a sculpture. and a wooden, stand-alone one at that.
glass, and stained glass in particular . . being a recurring subject here on artlovers lately, and trending, apparently in the art world . . in general.
this sculpture is notable for the beautiful, and well, the truly exquisite and subtle color of the stained, leaded stained glass detail, but also most curiously for the lack of, or at least / extremely narrow . . translucent and / or transparent ‘zone’. being fashioned, seeminggly flat . . onto the wood’s surface.
Being attached to the wood at a close call / the pale glass is not a window to see thru / but a kind of shallow light, or reflection.
yet, for all that narrowness, it retains a deft . . dynamic. very curious, & very skilled. and also so controlled by narrative vision, and yet: in a seemingly spontaneous gesture, too.
two: the narrowness of the entire piece, the narrowness of the 2 upright human silhouettes, and yes, even the distance between time, struck me so much – as it jumped to my mind immediately as a Covid metaphor, for today’s limited and, often wounded . . social interaction.
even the stained glass elements, pale yellow ?, white ? gray ?
struck me as . . sickly, pale in hope . . / certainly not bright and sunny.
but still: reaching out, for a pat. a touch. a connection.
this is no steamy ‘kissing’ embrace / this is Covid. cautious. limited. wounded. wavering on the brink of human contact.
Nada Belerique (b. 1982, Canada) / lives and works in Toronto.
see:: BABA YAGA, ‘Silhouettes’ installation photos / on their website
see: NADIA BELERIQUE – ARTIST WEBSITE
note: ALL PHOTOS / COURTESY of THE GALLERY via Instagram @babayagagallery
~NADIA BELERIQUE . . ‘Everything, All The Time’ / Stained Glass details / BABA YAGA / HUDSON, N.Y. |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | November 21st, 2020, 9:31am
without consent . . !!!
so, A-N-N-O-Y-I-N-G . . !!!
JOSH HARRIS . . of ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’,
and, MARK ENGER (sadly departed for several years now) . . of EXPLODING SKY /
definite deserve a shout-out for calling out the ‘influence’ & media-power of 1960s sit-coms / & popular culture, but esp. of ‘GILLIGAN’S ISLAND’.
they most definite narrowed it down.
apparently, legendary PIMCO co-founder, billionaire BILL GROSS . . chose to repeatedly blast the theme song of ‘Gilligan’s Island’, loud enough, and long enough to disturb his warring over Gross’s large Chihuly glass installation neighbor – billionaire MARK TOWFIQ.
it’s also a potent hard fact occurrence of an even more annoying war . . the blatant theft of original content / i.e. intellectual property theft, specifically photo copyright – on the web.
and, it’s up-close & personal !!
very annoying. it’s most def micro=theft to the highest degree.
if I had a penny for every photo of mine that is circulated without permission, never mind basic photo credit . . I’d be a billionaire, too. or, well at least: sitting pretty.
if you google Josh Harris and Gilligan . . this ‘orphaned’ photo is what pops up:
and, yeah: of course . . it’s mine.
there’s really nothing worse; neighbor’s illuminated, over-size Chihuly glass installation aside, than doing some research and having your own photo pop up, without credit.
here’s the full / original photo.
the old iPhone camera ‘auto-focus’ & the angle . . are the dead give-away ‘signature’ of ownership.
that’s a DAVID PERRY painting on the left / and the JOSH HARRIS ‘Gilligan’ on the right.
JOSH HARRIS, ‘Gilligan’, 1998.
silkscreen on canvas / 20 x 16 in. / signed & dated / unique image on canvas.
made in collaboration with master silkscreen artist / MARK ENGER of EXPLODING SKY WORLDWIDE.
of course, the ‘appropriation’ of the Gilligan image itself / is also part of the problem, & we have to thank the art world, and the people who set up the early rules on internet posting / for creating a vast & commonly accepted culture of intellectual theft . . as part of the price of disseminating free . . information across the globe – with a flick of a finger.
and, a finger in the face – to the photog, who was smart enough to catch the image in the first place, & then maybe . . not so smart to post it.
see: the aptly named (!!) original post . . ‘Without Consent’ / Amy Li Gallery, Chinatown. Oct 5, 2013 on artlovers
JOSH HARRIS, photo by NANCY SMITH, NYC NOV 19, 2002
first published on artnet / in one of my very first reports for Walter Robinsn, then the artnet editor.
see: ART LOVERS NEW YORK / artnet . . FEB 2003
ps: includes the absolute first art world / public mention of the GEE’S BEND QUILTERS !!!!!
yep.
my earliest posted photo of JOSH HARRIS / founder of Jupiter.com / and Pseudo.com which was a streaming, real-time web platform, the first basically & even more astounding / at a time when most everybody was still on . . dial-up internet !!
his (rise & fall) story – is the basis for the 2009 Sundance-winning documentary . . ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’.
note: when I first met Josh in the late 1990s, he wanted to learn about . . quilts !!
he was then at his (financial) peak, having sold Jupiter – the first online tracking company . . for $82 million.
and, he wanted advice on buying an American ‘heritage’ / antique quilt as a wedding present.
after a few tutorials, I brought him in an early $5,000 Mennonite wool / log cabin . . . which he was quite entranced by.
Gilligan ? not !!
including the background culture that gave birth to quilting / and specifically log cabins / how it was made and by whom /as well as its being an early settler American artifact, and a spiritual one at that / as well as, the whole over-all process of ‘sampling’ (textile piecework) & binary organizing systems / quilt patterns.
MARK ENGER, photo by NANCY SMITH, NYC. Nov 19, 2002.
this: photo of Mark Enger was in the same early artnet report /
see: ART LOVERS NEW YORK FEB 2003
MARK ENGER / R.I.P. 1963 – 2011
was an amazing amazing artist, and a real real cowboy. and a real real . . friend.
the absolute coolest guy, ever.
he was a diehard master silk screen printer . . who seriously, only ate peanut butter sandwiches, cigarettes, and coca-cola.
he bragged about never drinking water, and I never saw him use any filtration / inhalation masks, in the studio either.
not surprisingly, between the potent printer ink fumes & the diet, he left this earth . . way too early.
48.
see: MARK ENGER MEMORIAL / artlovers
~JOSH HARRIS & MARK ENGER . . ‘GILLIGAN’ / BBB . . with a side of internet micro-theft (of my work) |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | November 9th, 2020, 8:28am
YIKES !! SPIKES !! MELTED FUSION & COLORED LIGHTS !!
this is how ‘hot’ glass art work is right now . . .
from the fringes of the underground / Jonny Campolo’s exhibit in a hardcore indie Gazebo in artist Jonathan Hartshorn’s New Mexico backyard, amongst the random roaming chicken . . .
to the increasingly bitter warring . . of gazillionaire / billionaire Laguna Beach, ocean-front owning California neighbors: Pimco co-founder BILL GROSS vs tech titan MARK TOWFIQ !!
& each worth according to Forbes, over $1.5 billion.
at the heart of their dispute ?
a 20 ft. long / 10 ft. high cobalt blue / aggregate glass outdoor sculpture by Mr. Chihuly, installed by Mr. Gross, on his side of the adjacent property line.
DALE CHIHULY sculpture . . on Mr. Gross’ property / at center of the dispute.
Photo: Los Angeles Times
note: the fact that it can be ‘illuminated’ at night . . probably adds to the controversy.
hey, Jonny’s Calendar Gazebo, fused glass exhibit – could be lit, too.
note: in fact, ‘light’ illumination / goes quite nicely with transparent, or even opaque . . glass works /
apart from the intrinsic, wonderous surface of glass, of any kind,
could it also be: because it’s born from fire / and fire = light ?
the sculpture as seen from the neighbors’ side / the Towfiq family
Photo: Yahoo!finance
the view-obscuring netting / also has something to do with the bad tempers !!
Mr. Gross insists he needs the netting to protect the glass works from the elements, duh.
but, he also seems to be alleging ‘damage’ from a thrown ‘rock’ / in some reports.
JONNY . . was happy to attach his much smaller scaled glass pieces to (paper !!) cardboard & let the elements work . . their magic.
emphasizing the expected entropy . . with glued-on strips of masking tape !!
then again, Jonny’s pieces go for about a grand, maybe a grand and a half, max /
while, Finance.yahoo suggests the Chihuly sculpture array . . tops out at over or about $1 million.
there you have it / glass, glass, everywhere.
from desert to ocean / rural backyard to cliff-hugging mansion.
and at every . . price point !!
from doughnuts to caviar / glass is not just classy / it’s breaking glass ceilings / esp as hot collectibles / and, even for outdoor sculptures per se, which are usually of steel, wrought iron, if not resin, plaster, or wood.
breaking art collecting no-nos / as well as money-class divides . . anybody with a little art smarts – can easily hop onto glass collecting . . band-wagon.
Cinderella’s proverbial glass slipper returns to haunt a covid-fearing nation . . in need of a fairy tale / or at the very least . . . something, very very pretty !!
~DALE CHIHULY GLASS SCULPTURE . . at heart of BBB / BILLIONAIRES BEHAVING BADLY . . with a side of JONNY CAMPOLO |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | November 7th, 2020, 9:54am
YO, HAPPY HALLOWEEN !!!!!!!!!!
JONNY CAMPOLO – ‘THE BIG ORANGE’
UP THRU NOV 4 / BY APPT
CALENDAR GAZEBO / @calendar.gazebo / ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO
looking just like a backlit . . . SKULL !!!!!
there’s an orange floodlight beaming down on the gazebo, bathing all in an orange glow at night.
orange-a glad !!
so.
just try telling me, ‘The Big Orange’ . . is just about early Dutch Settlers !!
nothing to do with – the mighty colorful Italian American immigrants ?
and, nothing to with Halloween. ha.
hey, it’s Jonny’s world, and everything is . . . F-U-S-E-D !!!!!!!!!
PHOTO: COURTESY of CALENDAR GAZEBO / JONATHAN HARTSHOEN
~JONNY CAMPOLO: HAPPY HALLOWEEN from ‘THE BIG ORANGE’ |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 30th, 2020, 11:17am
JONNY CAMPOLO & CALENDAR GAZEBO PRESENT:
‘THE BIG ORANGE’
UP THRU . . . NOV 4
CALENDAR GAZEBO / JONATHAN HARTSHORN . . an artist-run exhibition & research space
located in a backyard gazebo in Albuquerque, New Mexico
BY APPT ONLY
CONTACT: GALLERY or @calendar.gazebo/IG
that’s Jonny’s !!
fused glass pieces on cardboard, displayed on the wooden gazebo/porch railing.
see: a very sweet video of the installation, they even have . . . snow !!
JONNY made . . a trailer !!
to announce the show / sound on, for the fellow Italian-American crooner !!
watch: JONNY CAMPOLO – THE BIG ORANGE / Youtube
such a cool production . . esp. for a show in a gazebo !!
well, that’s where . . it’s at !!
Go !! Indie !!
the show runs OCT 4 – NOV 4, 2010
the work arrives all the way from NYC / the Big Apple . . . .
in a logistically ‘smart’, straightforward, & sturdy orange !! package /
and hurray !! super hurray !!
for indie pop-ups with chickens, maybe even roosters . . running thru it.
Jonathan Hartshorn, the artist behind Calendar Gazebo . .
probably in collab with Jonny . . choose to display the works on the wooden porch / railing.
and, that’s so !! mighty – fine !!
JONNY CAMPOLO, ‘Ensalada Disinteresante’, 2018-2020
fused glass, cardboard and tape / 15 x 23 in.
note: the tape is a permanent part of the piece.
it’s even glued on !! / to give the illusion that . . it’s falling off !!
Peel that orange !! – Jonny !!
JONNY CAMPOLO, ‘Garlic Ballad’, 2018-2020
fused glass, cardboard and tape / 6 x 12 in.
the theme of the show ?
an Italian breakfast . . . en plein air ?!!
JONNY CAMPOLO, ‘Tuxedo Rental’, 2018-2020
fused glass, cardboard and tape / 18 x 22 in.
for all the fun and games – that’s some serious thought going on.
tape & all. fused glass / low-fi cardboard.
great color palette, too.
JONNY CAMPOLO . . got the work all packed & ready to go / Big Orange all the way.
and so, yeah / the show definite . . lived up to the crazy wild Youtube animation.
THE BIG ORANGE . . straight up from The Big Apple /
the take-over of a rural gazebo in New Mexico / from the gritty concrete city.
Jonny relates the premise of the show . . is loosely based on a historical moment in time when NYC was briefly called New Orange by the early Dutch settlers.
Jonny himself . . is originally from New Hampshire (B. 1987), and is currently NYC / Brooklyn based.
he’s a had a hand in several group shows, as a curator as well:
notably ‘The Burn Show’ of last summer.
check out: JONNY CAMPOLO – ARTIST WEBSITE
check out: CALENDAR GAZEBO
NOTE: ALL PHOTOS COURTESY of . . JONNY CAMPOLO & CALENDAR GAZEBO, thank you !!
continues . . .
~JONNY CAMPOLO . . ‘THE BIG ORANGE’ / CALENDAR GAZEBO / ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. / UP THRU NOV 4 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 30th, 2020, 7:46am
listen: ‘Fade into You’ by MAZZY STAR / Youtube
MAZZY STAR . . is an American alternative rock band formed in Santa Monica, CA / formed in 1989.
the song was written by the band’s lead vocalist HOPE SANDOVAL, and composer DAVID ROBACK, who also produced it.
‘Fade into You’ . . reached number 3 on Billboard in 1994.
~’Fade into You’ . . . MAZZY STAR / Youtube |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 27th, 2020, 10:44am
