HEY, YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GET DRAWN NAKED !!!!!!!!!!
MARATHON VOLUNTEER / NAKED FIGURE DRAWING !!!
WAKE UP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! – NEW YORK CITY !!!!!!!!!!!!
THE LOCAL ART SCENE – ‘BOUT TO BLOW YOU AWAY /
PLUS – ALL DRAWINGS !!!! $20 A POP !!!!!
TAKIN’ the WORDS: ‘MARATHON’ & ‘NYC’ – TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL !!!
TAYLOR McKIMENS . . .
& KAYE BLEGVAD, JOSH COCHRAN, JILLIAN EVELYN, ANDY FRIEDMAN, ELLEN KAHN, NA KIM, MIKE PERRY,
DADU SHIN & AMBER VITTORIA
INVITE YOU . .. TO GET NUDE / GET DRAWN !!!!
CURATED BY: JOSH COCHRAN & MIKE PERRY
DRAWING WILL TAKE PLACE:
THURS NOV 7th . . 6-10pm
FRI NOV 8th . . . . 3-10pm
SAT NOV 9th . . . 11-7pm
SUN NOV 10th . . 11-3pm
HEADS UP: ** CLOSING RECEPTION: SUN NOV 10th . . 3-6pm **
THE OTHER ART FAIR – PRESENTED BY SAATCHI
BROOKLYN EXPO CENTER – 72 NOBLE ST., BROOKLYN NY 11222
TICKETS REQUIRED FOR ENTRY / $15 – $13.50 / PER DAY
$30 for the EARLY PREVIEW on THURS
see: TICKET INFO / EVENTBRITE
see: THE OTHER ART FAIR
def, CHECK OUT: online link . . .
@taylormckimens #getnudegetdrawn / THE GREAT GET NAKED / IG / INSTAGRAM TRAILER !!!!!
great hand-lettering, btw **
SIGN UP IN ADVANCE – BY EMAILING: getnudegetdrawn@gmail.com
or, STOP BY & TAKE ANY AVAILABLE TIME SLOT
PEOPLE WHO POSE – WILL GET A DRAWING (FREE) FROM EVERY ARTIST THAT IS THERE DRAWING THEM / AT THAT PARTICULAR TIME.
THE POSING/DRAWING TAKES PLACE IN PRIVATE / IN A SEPARATE SPACE – FROM THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
YOU MUST GET NAKED – YOU MUST BE OVER 18.
ALL ADDITIONAL DRAWINGS MADE – WILL BE HUNG & SOLD THEN & THERE FOR $20 EACH – CASH & CARRY.
#getnudegetdrawn
TAYLOR McKIMENS, sketch naked dude, 2019
image via Instagram @taylormckimens_sketchbook
~TAYLOR McKIMENS . . & FRIENDS / IN THE HOUSE !!!!! / THE OTHER ART FAIR / THURS, FRI, SAT & SUN / NOV 7, 8, 9 & 10 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | November 5th, 2019, 7:04pm
LUKE MURPHY: ‘IN MY HOUSE’
OPENS WED NOV 6 / 6 – 8 PM
and runs thru . . . DEC 7, 2019
PARISIAN LAUNDRY, 3550 Saint-Antoine Ouest, Montreal, Quebec CANADA
read more: Luke Murphy, ‘In My House’ – Parisian Laundry
LUKE MURPHY, ‘Broken Square’, 2019.
LED matrix panels, steel studies, software, power supplies, mini pc.
~LUKE MURPHY . . ‘IN MY HOUSE’ / PARISIAN LAUNDRY, MONTREAL / OPENS WED NOV 6 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | November 5th, 2019, 9:44am
‘SHIGEKO KUBOTA: RESTORED IN BEACON’
CURATED by DAVID A. ROSS
with the support of the Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation
OPENS SAT NOV 2 / 6 – 8 PM
and runs thru . . . DEC 15, 2019
MOTHER GALLERY, 1154 North Ave, Beacon NY 12508
“One of the key figures in the downtown video art scene of the 1970s, KUBOTA is renowned as both a pioneering artist &
video curator working closely for many years with JONAS MEKAS at ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVE.
Born in Niigata, Japan in 1937, KUBOTA moved to New York in 1967 at the invitation of FLUXUS impressario GEORGE MACIUNAS . . .
Married to NAM JUNE PAIK . . . KOBUTA, who died in 2015, is also a key figure in the development of the new video medium . . .”
~PRESS RELEASE
read more: ‘Shigeko Kubota: Restored in Beacon’ . . Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation & Mother Gallery
Shigeko Kubota in her studio, C Tom Harr, 1972
image courtesy: MOTHER GALLERY
Shigeko Kubota . . Meta-Marcel:
‘Window’, 1976
(with video of either Snow, Flowers, or Stars)
Video installation, with monitor, glass, plywood, and pedestal.
image courtesy: MOTHER GALLERY
~’SHIGEKO KUBOTA: RESTORED IN BEACON’ . . MOTHER GALLERY, BEACON NY / OPENS TODAY – SAT NOV 2 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | November 2nd, 2019, 10:04am
HALEY JOSEPHS has work in . . .
‘GETTING TO KNOW YOU’ . . . a group figurative painting exhibition / in Cleveland.
OPENING . . FRI NOV 1
the show runs NOV 1 – DEC 13, 2019
CIA / CLEVELAND INSTITUTE of ART / REINBERGER GALLERY
11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OHIO.
more about the show: ‘GETTING TO KNOW YOU’ – REINBERGER GALLERY
HALEY JOSEPHS, ‘Childhood’s End’, oil on canvas, 2019.
image via Instagram @haley.josephs
HALEY JOSEPHS was born in 1987 in Seattle, she is now Brooklyn-based.
~HALEY JOSEPHS . . ‘GETTING TO KNOW YOU’ / REINBERGER GALLERY, CIA / CLEVELAND / OPENING FRI NOV 1 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | November 1st, 2019, 4:10pm
Beware wooden man – wearing plaid,
Walter Robinson says . . “Hillbilly Realism – is in.”
‘JOSH ABELOW & WILLIAM KING’
OCT 31 – DEC 4, 2019
HANS WEISS NEWSPACE GALLERY,
MANCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE,
SBM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION BUILDING
GREAT PATH, MANCHESTER, CT / CONNECTICUT
HRS: MON-FRI 11am-8pm / SAT 12pm-4pm
ORGANIZED BY SUSAN CLASSEN-SULLIVAN
“So excited to exhibit new 12 x 9 in. abstract paintings alongside a dozen free-standing figurative sculptures (dating back to 1977)
by incredible artist WILLIAM KING (1925-2015) at Manchester Community College.
Many thanks to DANIEL FULLER for writing the text.”
~JOSH ABELOW / @freddybiz
BOTH IMAGES ABOVE VIA INSTAGRAM @freddybiz
see: JOSH ABELOW – ATIST PORTFOLIO WEBSITE
see: FREDDY GALLERY
JOSH ABELOW runs . . hardcore indie Gallery – FREDDY / somewhere in HARRIS, UPSTATE NY.
it was previously in Baltimore.
IMAGE: KYLE KNODELL / CULTURED MAG
def, see: ‘ARTIST JOSHUA ABELOW CARVES OUT AN UPSTATE NICHE with FREDDY’ / WRITTEN BY RYAN STEADMAN / PHOTOGRAPHY BY KYLE KNODELL
PUBLISHED 01.16. 2018 / CULTURED MAGAZINE
ah, yes !!
living the New Age – Hillbilly dream !!
I’m so down with this – I repair old quilts, remember ?
would I love to live & work in an old church – you bet !!
eat your eyeballs out, I say !!
no irony – intended.
whatsoever.
see: HARRIS, NY / CATSKILL REGION 12742 / INTERESTING HISTORY, ALWAYS – UP THERE
~JOSH ABELOW & WILLIAM KING . . MANCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE, CT |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | November 1st, 2019, 9:03am
I caught the last weekend . .
& found myself lost – in an enchanted forest.
it was not all . . magic / a sense of impending global doom prevaded the earthly delights,
all our wondrous & diverse . . fauna & flora might just not be around – next decade.
FRANCESCO SIMETI: ‘REFUGIUM’
CURATED by YULIA TOPCHIY
SEPT 13 – OCT 20, 2019
ASSEMBLY ROOM, 191 HENRY ST., LOWER EAST SIDE / CHINATOWN
“In this site-specific installation consisting of ceramics and digital prints on linens that are ever complex, exotic and decorative, Simeti creates a tension between reality and fiction and nature and the artificial through rendering decorative frameworks that emerge from his appropriation of ready-made imagery of printed mass media.
Furthermore, Simeti builds on this work to create artificial habitats where living organisms are trying to adapt to fast changing environments challenged by war and destruction, chaos and climate change, and seek refuge in a new, foreign flora fighting to preserve their own natural beauty and harmony.”
~Assembly Room
read more: ‘REFUGIUM’ – ASSEMBLY ROOM
PIX FROM THE ARTIST-LED WALK-THROUGH . . . . FRI OCT 18, 2019
Brooklyn-based Italian artist FRANCESCO SIMETI . . .
with Assembly Room co-founder, and curator of this show . . YULIA TOPCHIY.
“Inspired by his native Sicilian landscape, and the intensely personal, spiritually charged paintings of Charles Burchfield, Simeti collages images of old herbariums from a rich archive of botanical illustrations that he has been assembling for years, weaving them together through a layering process & further digitally manipulating its landscape with images found in newspapers and magazines.”
~Assembly Room
detail, FRANCESCO SIMETI
a sense of aggression, powered more by survival instincts than anything else, does comes across within the details, and the sharp ‘cut’ edges of the collaged compositions / emphasizes this momentum.
detail, FRANCESCO SIMETI
I really liked, and deeply respect that the artist, and his curator . . were not afraid to use the word: DECORATIVE !!
not too long ago, a ‘bad’ word in high art jargon / no longer . . today, esp with a new-found respect for all things craft / both as in serious skills & DIY / including the big role . . creative design & graphics play in our ever more visually-ruled world, esp on social media with its huge ‘image’ sharing capacity / it’s not just text, that’s driving this world . . forward.
speaking of ‘digital’ . . a careful observer will note the manipulated ‘referencing’ to earlier forms of print-making, including engraving & etching, dot matrix etc / re those old ‘herbiums’, etc.
whether conscious of them or not / these details add a sense of seriousness, a sense of ‘history’ / a contextual ‘weight’ . . to the overall effect.
a graphic ‘deepness’ to the overall visual plane.
the show is site-specific . . in that it’s a narrow space, so to allow for more works, and a sense of depth / the stretched ‘canvases’ are free-standing and stacked against each other (lightly), with the added support of some really simple, but well designed wooden wall supports, which you can see towards the bottom.
front row, at right:
FRANCESCO SIMETI, ‘Helleboraster’, 2019.
Digital print on linen / 57-9/10 x 44-1/10 in.
($8,000)
note: the dominant, strong-looking, (ghostly gray) rigidly upright plant at center, it’s from . . Afghanistan / enough said.
the ceramics are botanical in nature, but very fantastical. and forceful.
at right:
FRANCESCO SIMETI, ‘Palmata’, 2019.
Anagama Kiln porcelain / 15-7/10 x 11-4/5 x 15-7/10 in.
($10,000)
detail, hanging sculpture / it slowly tapers off at the bottom.
FRANCESCO SIMETI, ‘Drifter II’, 2019.
Glazed ceramic / 60 x 25 x 25 in.
($9,000)
and sometimes: erotic, exotic, and . . tempermental !!
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~FRANCESCO SIMETI . . ‘REFUGIUM’ / ASSEMBLY ROOM |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 25th, 2019, 8:11am
SO, YEAH . . . . !!
I DID find . . a car !!
flew in . . on the wheels of a silver chariot.
like a thief-in-the-night, with crew in hand.
nothing’s better, than a kid . . with a silver Audi.
TED GAHL . . ‘ZEN PAINTINGS’
OPENED SAT OCT 12 / 6 – 9 PM
show runs thru . . NOV 16, 2019 / BY APP’T
VICKI, 327 Liberty St., Newburgh, NY 12550 / www.vicki.fun
TED GAHL
‘Wake up and zen.’
this was my fav piece / it was very ‘passive-aggressive’ inter-active /
& you could even take it home, and it would continue performing, as long as you re-filled the incense.
imagine showing that off – to your friends !!
and ps,it’s aroma fills the room . . like a blanket
like a house on fire, next door . . with the right brand.
very functional, as well as being . . a flat-out art statement.
the fact that it stood vertically / attached upright to a wall,
as opposed to your standard incense holder, which sits on the tabletop /
allowed a very Freudian . . sequence to repeat, over & over.
when first placed in, the reddish velvety incense stick – is as rigid as hell /
pointing right at – you.
I caught here, at the down-time of the endless cycle / of life.
it was also a little bit of an illusion, but extremely realistic, definite based in real time / like a micro-viewing, of a fire.
broken down to / just one full element / an exercise in . . singularity.
in other words, it was very much the dance of the . . MALE.
(written in zen code !!)
TED GAHL, ‘Offering Painting’, 2019.
acrylic on panel, Nag Champa incense / 14 x 11 in.
($2,500)
I think it even comes with a . . free refill ?
this is the one to use / if you want to keep it . . REAL.
the whole room was suffused in hypnotic aroma.
the lay-out of the show / with its sparse presentation, (very) small repeating canvases, non-working wooden bench, & a random ceramic Japanese-like tea bowl, was quite the . . Architectural Digest minimalist / but, that was an illusion.
the ambience was thick as magic / totally smokey / a trippy haze enveloping all.
*thick-as-thieves in the dark, I even caught my on ghost reflection – in the window.
you can catch the BBQ food cart, with its glowing embers, on fire in the night / & also smokey, btw.
reflecting from the other side of the glass window, Zen lightning. Zen arousal. Zen fable.
Zen . . rising ?
*thick-as-theives . . in the night: outlaw / underground
as in, “stealing the hqrd-core art scene away, from . . Brooklyn.”
TED GAH, at center . . .
flanked by the VICKI curators / and co-founders:
(L) SAMUEL BOEHM, and (R) DANIEL GIODANO
Ted Gahl’s ‘Zen Paintings’, behind them.
DAN LOXTON, and DANIEL GIORDANO.
Dan Loxton . . just opened up his own indie curatorial space, upstate.
called Uffizi, it’s a one room “intimate viewing room in the Hudson highlands” /
i.e. in his (rural) house, in Cold Spring, NY.
“Food, refreshments, refinement, skuzzgrime.”
the inaugural show is up now: “Qasi Pink” / Uffizi / Vegan Curry
on view by app’t /OCT 19 – Nov 10 / email: info.uffizi@gmail.com
it’s like . . the proverbial ‘chip’ off the ole marble block / Uffizi, Florence / Uffizi, Cold Spring.
well, Hudson Valley is certainly turning into the bonafide art hub, isn’t ?
see: Qasi Pink aka skuzzgrime on Youtube / with 2 subscribers (!!!)
a ‘touch’ too much nihilist pink . . punk chaos ?
DANIEL GIORDANO, Hudson Valley native, born and bred in Poughkeepsie,
& now based in Newburgh . . will be showing there mid-November.
ROSEMARY, and TED.
I refuse to allow the site, to become – just about . . the men.
meanwhile, outside . . Donald “Witt-it” Whitted was serving up the best fresh grilled turkey tacos ever, only $4 a pop, totally worth it.
Vicki Island food cart ? / no disappointment there.
Donald says he’s grilling up pulled ribs, at the next one.
the live coal fire BBQ / made the early Fall night air, as smokey & crisp – as the show, inside.
TED GAHL, ‘Untitled’, 2019.
acrylic on canvas / in artist’s own frame / 8 x 10 in.
($1,800)
and there I was, expecting to see black line / cartoon drawings.
whack.
ah, living life in the Zen lane / Up-state.
see: more install shots – on the gallery website
including the very non-functional wood bench & . . the very functional / Zen / tea bowl.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~TED GAHL . . ‘ZEN PAINTINGS’ at VICKI / THE LOW-DOWN !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 23rd, 2019, 2:46pm
anybody . . got a car ??
VICKI PRESENTS:
TED GAHL – ‘ZEN PAINTINGS’
OPENING SAT OCT 12, 2019 / STARTS at 6 PM
TACOS + BEER
VICKI, 327 Liberty St., Newburgh, NY 12550 / HUDSON VALLEY
HRS: BY APPOINTMENT
VICKI . . . is a tres !! tres !! very !! very !! cutting-edge, right on the bleeding edge / artist-run, curatorial space . . .
located on the storefront side / of an old industrial building / in what New Yorkers would call . . the ‘downtown’ / i.e. formerly glorious & industrial, then distressed, & now . . re-purposed.
VICKI . . . is run by artists: DANIEL GIORDANO & SAMUEL BOEHM
see: VICKI.FUN
@vickivickivickivicki
PS: bring $10 – Vicki produced a great little zine of drawings by Ted, to be available at the opening.
yep, I’m getting one, or two – fer sure !!!!
UPDATE: just show up !! / the ‘ZEN’ zine is going to be . . . FREE !!!!
see: TED GAHL – ARTIST WEBSITE
follow: @tedgahl / IG
~TED GAHL . . ‘ZEN PAINTINGS’ / VICKI, NEWBURGH, NY / OPENING SAT OCT 12 / STARTS 6 PM |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 10th, 2019, 10:21am
anybody – got a jet plane ??
LA CAPITE / @lacipte . . .
a roving / pop-up artist . . ‘space’ / run by artists: MARGAUX DEWARRAT / @mgxltd, & LINE CHEVALLEY / line_ch & PIERRY JAQUILLARD
based in Switzerland !!!
Presents:
KELLY TISSOT / @ke_ke_keke_ke_ke_ & her pop-up: ‘Cold-Eared Cow’
SUNDAY OCT 13, 2019 / 13h – 18h
Zone Industrielle de Bois Genoud
ps: La Capite translates something like, . . . ‘get it ???’
see: MARGAUX DEWARRAT – ARTIST PORTFOLIO WEBSITE
note: Ms. Dewarrat showed her work in a group show at Chinatown’s new artist-run .. A.D. Gallery, 19 Monroe St., under Essex Flowers, this past summer . . 2019.
see: www.adnyc/co/
KELLY TISSOT . . recently showed work in a group show, ‘Le Lucky’, curated by JOSEP MAYNOU, at HVW8 GALLERY, in BERLIN, which opened last Feb 2019.
see: JOSEP MAYNOU – BOMBON PROJECTS
see: HVW8 GALLERY – BERLIN
~LA CAPITE . . KELLY TISSOT / ‘COLD-EARED COW’ / SWITZERLAND |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 10th, 2019, 9:30am
how about a little – time travel ??
JAENA KWON – STUDIO VISIT / OCT 9, 2014.
incl: JAMES MILLER & NICHOLAS STEINDORF !!
see: JAENA KWON – GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN .. STUDIO VISIT – OCT 9, 2014
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
~JAENA KWON . . FLASHBACK !! / GREENPOINT OPEN STUDIOS, OCT 2014 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 10th, 2019, 9:17am
