that cold hard, hot !! cutting edge.
‘Love of the Common Man’ – RUSSELL BARSANTI, DANIEL GIORDANO, SAM SIEGEL
presented by GAZEBO
hosted by Mery Gates, 1345 Dekalb Ave, Bushwick, Brooklyn
open: SAT & SUN APRIL 13 & 14, 2019 / 12 noon – 6 PM & BY APPOINTMENT
above:
RUSSELL BARSANTI, ‘Untitled’, 2019.
UV prints on sintra and adhesive vinyl, artist’s steel frame.
56 x 32 in.
above:
DANIEL GIORDANO, ‘Self-Portrait 150 Years Ago’, 2017-2019′,
moisturizing face mask, rabbit fur, 24 karat gold, Tang dink mix, epoxy paste, wire hanger.
11.5 x 8.5 x 22.5 in.
above:
SAM SIEGEL, ‘For my loving’, 2019.
chromogenic print, artist’s aluminum frame.
14.375 x 11.375 in.
ALL PHOTOS COURTESY: SAMUEL BOEHM / GAZEBO
~’Love of the Common Man’ . . GAZEBO / INSTALLATION PIX |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 10th, 2019, 8:06am
GAZEBO PRESENTS:
‘Love of the Common Man’ . . RUSSELL BARSANTI, DANIEL GIORDANO, SAM SIEGEL
opening TODAY – SAT APRIL 6, 2019 / 6 – 9 PM
on view April 7th, 13th, and 14th / 12 – 6 PM & weekdays by appointment
hosted by MERY GATES, 1345 DeKalb Ave, Brooklyn
see: GAZEBO / gazebo.space
GAZEBO . . is pleased to present ‘Love of the Common Man’, an exhibition of new work by Russell Barsanti, Daniel Giordano and Sam Siegel. Utilizing contemporary materials, the 3 artists produce work that references both the mechanized and the workaday. Each of the artists lives and works in the New York City metropolitan area.
RUSSELL BARSANTI . . is displaying 2 wall works. They portray varied subject matter but partly function as portraits. The works consist of UV prints on adhesive vinyl & sintra and are mounted inside heavy-duty steel frames. Both were made in 2019.
Barsanti was born in Norwalk, Connecticut.
DANIEL GIORDANO . . is presenting 3 new sculptures. Two resemble face masks and a third appears as a large column. They are made from a variety of materials and are pieced together in his sstudio on the the top floor of a former factory in the Hudson Valley. The sculptures were completed in 2019.
Giordano was born in Poughkeepsie, New York.
SAM SIEGEL . . is showing several photographic works. The works are chromogenic prints that depict various laser-etched crystals. They are matted and enclosed in aluminum frames. They were produced in 2018 and 2019.
Siegel was born in Los Angeles, California.
note:
This is GAZEBO’s inaugural exhibition. Gazebo is a new project by SAMUEL BOEHM.
According to Wikipedia, a gazebo provides: ‘shade, shelter, ornamental features in a landscape, and a place to rest.” Much like an actual gazebo, Gazebo will move around as needed.
Gazebo would like to thank MERY GATES for hosting this first exhibition.
~Gazebo press release
all images courtesy: GAZEBO
~’Love of the Common Man’ . . RUSSELL BARSANTI, DANIEL GIORDANO, SAM SIEGEL / presented by GAZEBO / OPENS SAT APRIL 6 / 6-9 PM |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 6th, 2019, 10:20am
MORE PIX !!!!
‘THE SOCRATES ANNUAL 2018’ – CLOSING PARTY / Sunday, March 24, 2019
see: SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK – SOCRATES ANNUAL 2018 EXHIBITION
changing gears !!
heading into the light, literally & yet still . . very very curious.
AMY BRENER, ‘FORT-DRESS’, 2018.
steel, plexiglas, resin, pigment, found objects. 12 x 3 x 3 ft.
although quite static, the piece lifts upwards, translucent, pink and fluttery.
it must really glow in strong sunlight, unfortunately this day was a bit overcast.
‘FORT-DRESS’ . . “is a partial shelter within an abstraction of the female form. Viewers may walk into the back inhabiting the dress as if wearing it, and look out through its panels made of translucent pink resin and embedded with an arsenal of functional tools and gadgets.”
~SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK – AMY BRENER
also speaks to re-cycling, but more in terms of . . memory jars ?
memory jar of the street / of random foundness.
civilization / tools.
future forward / contemplation.
from translucent pink – to BLUE !!
again, one can only imagine how gorgeous these transparent blues are, on a sunny day.
LEANDER MIENARDUS KNUST, ‘Re-Material Wall’, 2018.
hot rolled steel, reclaimed pine, soil, golden trumpet vine, glass jars, copper sulfate and water, copper piping, rubber coated wire, polychrome wire, solar panel.
10 x 2 x 2 ft.
“The solar panel atop Leander Mienardus Knust’s ‘Re-Material Wall’, powers an electroforming process that slowly transfers copper molecules from suspended pipes to individual wires each floating in a solution-filled jar. Over time these molecules accumulate and take unique forms as a physical trace of their carrier electricity, while the steel rusts, wood warps, vines grow, and piping disappears.”
~LEANDER MIENARDUS KNUST – PROJECT / SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK
it’s interesting to contemplate how static re: objects . . Amy Brener’s piece is, and how ‘active’ this one is re: its objects.
in both, objects become: subjects. archival artifacts in Amy’s / decomposing science in Leander’s.
in both – colored light flickers about, animating the ‘composition’.
I’ve seen Amy’s work before, most notably up at Bobo’s Hudson Valley Art & Music Fest, a few summers ago – but this is my first time coming upon Leander.
also a show stopper. in a real nice way. plus science is cool.
LEANDER MEINARDUS KNUST, b. Philadelphia 1991, now lives & works in NYC. received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. “His work reflects an interest in growth and decay, and he uses methods that demonstrate the process of change and ephemera.”
~LEANDER MEINARDUS KNUST / ARTIST BIO – SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK
SHERWIN BANFIELD and his 3 part sculpture, ‘A CYPHER IN QUEENS’, 2018.
steel, winterstone, wood, resin, cement, paper.
9 x 10 x 4 ft.
while most of the projects centered on human-made objects, whether sheltering, harming, self-destructing, questionable, encasing, and even embracing nature / 2 projects were straight-out . . . PORTRAITS.
unlike ANTONE KONST’S imaginary, world-weary but giving ‘Free Peddler’, SHERWIN BANFIELD’S sculpture grouping was about real people, now dead. further these 3 men are cultural heroes that belong to the Queens community, as Queens is the NYC borough where the Socrates Sculpture Park is situated, this proved to be a deeply emotional work, very moving, against a field of theory, in a sense.
his was a memorial to reality.
the abstract designs, a kind of graphic ‘street code’ – on the reverse of the columns, were just as compelling as the realistic, powerful faces.
SHERWIN BANFIELD’S . . ‘A CYPHER IN QUEENS’,
“is a 3-part audio sculpture combining the busts of Queens’ Hip Hop legends Jam Master Jay, Phife Dawg, and Prodigy – with their music. The sculptural forms are inspired by stacked speaker boxes seen on streets during Carnival celebrations & . . ‘slit gongs’, tall painted wood musical instruments made by the Tin Mweleun peoples of Ambrym Island in the Pacific Ocean.”
~SHERWIN BANFIELD PROJECT – SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK
note: a ‘Hip Hop Cypher’ . . is a ‘participatory gathering of onlookers forming a circle to experience the frequencies of a freestyle battle between Emcees, DJs or breakdancers.’ (the web)
Mr. Banfield was born in Trinidad & Tobago in 1976, and lives & works in Astoria, Queens.
see: SHERWIN BANFIELD / BIO – SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK
SHERWIN BANFIELD “received his BFA from Parsons, The New School for Design in 1999. He works primarily in illustration, sculpture and painting. A dedicated portraitist, Banfield believes people’s stories can be told through gesture, texture, and composition.” (Socrates Sculpture Park bio)
which makes his ‘graphics’ (re: the advanced ‘schooling’), even more . . compelling.
soulful. wild. expressionistic. unpredictable. deeply of the street. etc. etc.
there seems to be a lot of his island culture – still deep at heart.
P / PRODIGY
JMJ / JAM MASTER JAY
5 – PHIFE DAWG
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~’THE SOCRATES ANNUAL 2018′ . . CLOSING PARTY / PART II . . AMY BRENER, LEANDER MIENARDUS KNUST, SHERWIN BANFIELD |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 5th, 2019, 12:33pm
I did . . .
make it to ‘THE SOCRATES ANNUAL 2018’ closing party / Sunday March 24, 2019.
it was quite the wonderful time, with beautiful outdoors weather, right on the water, overlooking the iconic East River – with clear views Manhattan.
and, with many charming, very approachable, often clearly, and/or inadvertently . . interactive pieces, to wander about.
ANTONE KONST, with fellow Brooklyn-based artist, JOHN SZLASA.
note: large MARK di SUVERO raw metal sculpture in the background / his outdoor sculpture studio, is adjacent.
I was told di Suvero actually donated the slice of land, Socrates Sculpture Park is located upon.
ANTONE KONST, ‘Free Peddler’, 218, seen from the back, where all the interactive action is.
note: the “Lady and the Tramp” vibe, most jolly, loyal . . little dog.
the cutest . . albeit slightly ‘deconstructed’, doggie.
the ‘free exchange’ ‘backpack’ / ‘shelves’ of the ‘itinerant peddler’.
the was the ‘interactive’ element: take something / bring something. free exchange.
I got a free pot of garden blooms to take home, I guess my pix – are what I brought in exchange.
but make no mistake, this peddler is . . female.
with quite the strangest, most stubborn & determined, but maybe weary . . face.
it’s a lot of . . walking, with a heavy load.
well, at least she has a nice Woody Allen-type . . sun hat.
RONEN GAMIL, ‘HOME (-) AND GARDEN’, 2018.
Steel, drinking cans, aluminum, copper wire, plexiglas, flooring, paint, perennial woodland plants, compost, bulbs, woodchips, bricks.
each tent – assemblage: 18 x 32 x 32 in.
moving on from Antone’s larger-than-life, story-book peddler, the next thing to catch my fancy . . . .
were these ‘hobbit-sized’, or perhaps . . even tinier ‘houses’, for ‘fairies’, wood nymphs, or just plain ole Beatrix Potter squirrels, and the such. they seemed both magical, and shamanistic.
little ‘habitats’, made from re-cycled materials, surrounded by very cozy woodlands, they def seemed lived-in, home to small creature families, and most curious . . in a wonderful, innocent, smoke coming out of the chimney, childhood book way.
this set seemed like . . little hi-rise McMansions, with multiple floors, and big floor-to-ceiling windows, fit for a prosperous mouse family !!
these seemed more like tents fit for small adventurous . . hobbits, or gnomes.
so imagine my surprise, when I looked up the artist on the Socrates website, and found that, however playful and imaginary & also storybook – they seemed in person, in text . . they lived a more ‘political’ reality !!
with talk of “homeless encampments” ???
I had trouble connecting the dots, though maybe an agenda was . . necessary to get the project taken seriously, and/or considered ?? considered ??
see: RONEN GAMIL – PROJECT / SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK
I mean, wasn’t it enough of a creative leap, to connect re-cycled soda cans – with animal shelters, albeit of the Beatrix Potter fashion ?
it’s an interesting case of theory – leads to Fiction and Fanciful day dreams.
I could see him selling brightly colored nylon ‘tents’ for American dolls, at Wallmart – as opposed to making human-size tents for stressed-out & desperate homeless. though I suppose instant, mobile ‘nylon’ or recycled material shelters are perhaps a very good idea – for humanity.
such as where the present world is & where, it’s heading to be.
interestingly, Mr. Gamil’s real-life travels, have included homeless camps, around the glove. According to his bio on the Socrates website, he’s a native New Yorker, born in Brooklyn in 1980. He received his B.A. in 2008, and a Masters of Urban Planning in 2009, from the City College of New York, so he def has some very bona-fide academic roots / pun intended . . because he’s also a professional gardener !!
in fact, he is currently the horticultural supervisor at Prospect Park !!
see: RONEN GAMIL – BIO / SOCRATES SCULPTURAL PARK
things took a decidedly more desolate, and brute / dystopian tone, with these collapsed forms – of human making.
one part, after-STAR WARS / one part, pre- MAD MAX.
NICHOLAS MISSEL, ‘The Read Deal: Soft Touch & A Gentle Push’, 2018.
Silicone Rubber / 12 x 7 x 4 / 10 x 6 x 5 ft.
“A pair of enormous limp silicone machines, the Park’s compact loader, and a decommissioned bulldozer, that will lie sprawled across Socrate’s lawn. Cast from working pieces of equipment involved with traces of dirt, rust and debris, the sculptures can be understood as a meditation on global patterns of industrial production, material circulation, and the sustainablity of existence on earth.”
~Socrates Sculpture Park
see: NICHOLAS MISSEL – SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK WEBSITE
funny, how old machines – have such . . old human souls.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~’THE SOCRATES ANNUAL 2018′ . . CLOSING PARTY / PART I . . ANTONE KONST, RONEN GAMIL, NICHOLAS MISSEL |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 2nd, 2019, 2:22pm
‘THE SOCRATES ANNUAL’ GROUP SHOW – is closing today, SUN MARCH 24, 2019 . . with a reception / 3 – 5 PM
SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK, 32-01 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City, Queens NY 11106
entrance is free, but please RSVP at their link above.
more on: ‘The Socrates Annual 2018’ – Socrates Sculpture Park
image via Instagram @annntone
~ANTONE KONST . . GOOD-BYE for now, ‘FREE PEDDLER’ / SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK / CLOSING PARTY SUN MARCH 25 / 3-5 PM |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 24th, 2019, 8:22am
JOSH HARRIS – THIS MAN, COULD TELL THE FUTURE.
or:
FERAL . . . is a 5 letter word.
ANDREW SMITH’s book on Josh . .
and the early 1980s dot.com era in general,
‘TOTALLY WIRED’ / ‘THE RISE AND FALL OF JOSH HARRIS AND THE GREAT DOTCOM SWINDLE’,
originally published in 2012, has just been re-released, by Black Cat publishers . . hot on the heels, of the 10th anniversary of the astounding, 2009 Sundance Grand Jury prize – win of the documentary, ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ . . . the story of Josh Harris / which netted director ONDI TIMONER, her notable, second Grand Jury prize at Sundance.
(Her first was for ‘DIG’ . . Brian Jonestown Massacre & The Dandy Warhols).
the new release just came out on the 19th of March 2019, & it’s already burning up the charts / if the reviews are anything – to contend with !!
it’s . . . hot. hot. hot !!
Josh, and his ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ brand – is just so complicated / and has so many facets, so many depths of field, all the way from wholesome, ritualistic artifact (lol, Quilts), to evil, to creative, to visionary, to web innovation, to commercial product (i.e. art, movies and book), that it’s no no surprise that the 3 reviews I know of, . . not only reflect Josh, in vastly different ways, but also reflect the agenda/program, of the publisher on which – they have popped up.
which makes for a really, jolly literary party.
1. of course, being a . . New Yorker (!!),
my fave is the one that surfaced today . . in the NEW YORK POST !!!
BAD BOY, JOSH !!!
side note: my kid, Theo, now all grown-up and very fine, thank you, . . .
was the 9 yr. kid shooting off the big guns !!
I mean, it was a party about the FUTURE, right ? kids, future, get it ?
when all the press came out back then, and some of it was very very X rated, & over-the-top notorious, & TRUE (!!) I got called into the principal’s office to explain why I should not be sent to child protection services immediately / turns out my kid’s middle school philosophy teacher was sitting at the ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ MoMA NYC premiere, almost directly behind us, (scratch a middle school teacher, find a movie nerd), and he had also recognized Theo in the film . . (amazing what a small world NYC can be !!).
Long story, short: it was just gun props, (under Alfredo Martinez supervision, OY).
and the ‘quilts’ were in a separate area. (not) (ok, sort-of).
oh, lord how can you not love . . the NEW YORK POST.
there’s JOSH, in full-blown Luvvy the Clown persona, (in the dark shades), looking like a serial killer clown, if not worse.
right next to: OMG !! AOC / Ocasio-Cortez !!!
though they got one fact wrongo, it was $80 million !!, not $50.
but, otherwise . . it’s pretty much all Josh, all true, and all . . BAD, BAD, BAD to the bone !!!
quick, and witty – it’s a great read.
sample paragraph:
re: the Pseudo ‘tech’ offices . . .
“Pot smokers held ‘Code Green’ meetings during office hours, and at night things got even wilder. Though Harris usually stuck to whiskey and cigars, he acquired a 6-foot-high glass bong for one party, described by one eyewitness, as ‘bigger than my bathroom’.”
re: future-vision, the web & being declared the godfather of social media . . .
“And yet, despite his highly public failures, there was one thing Harris was successful at – predicting the future. As he told one interviewer in 2009, ‘We’re moving into a world where our status and value will be measured by how many people are watching us’.”
have some fun tonight, read it for yourself: ‘How Josh Harris, a dot-com party boy worth $50M lost everything in an instant’, by RON HOGAN, NEW YORK POST / MARCH 23, 2019
2. second up, is the review in the WALL STREET JOURNAL, that surfaced yesterday, FRI March 22, 2019 – on their prestigious OPINION PAGE.
and, if you google it online now – it’s at the top of their most read list. (!!)
btw: it refers to Josh’s fortune as . . “$75 million on paper”.
most remarkable features ?
the article’s title !!: “Social Media’s Patient Zero” (!!!!!!!!!)
and second, written by someone name of, WILL LEITCH . .
it is written from the point of view, of someone who 19 years ago, had been a young kid who had just caught the tail-end of the Josh Harris experience, the smoke trail / just missing out on the ‘party’ – by under 30 days !!
“I moved to New York in January 2000, fascinated by Mr. Harris even if I didn’t know him personally. At the time the tech bubble popped in April of that year, however, Mr. Harris’s company was already in tatters. His investors had pulled the plug, and he retreated into odd art projects like ‘We Live In Public,’ for which he outfitted a loft in Soho with cameras in order to document every moment of his and his then-girlfriend’s life for an online audience. Like many undertakings of that era, ‘We Live In Public’, was grander in concept than in execution, and by around Day 70 both Mr. Harris and the girl had moved out. So who lived in that apartment instead, to entertain the theoretical (but mostly non-existent) on-line audience ?
Me, actually . . .
“I had cameras on me, but I wasn’t doing anything worth watching, and no one was paying attention anyway. The audience had changed the station entirely. As we now know, they were about to tune into something much more interesting: themselves.”
read: ‘TOTALLY WIRED’ REVIEW, by WILL LEITCH, WALL STREET JOURNAL / MARCH 22, 2019
3. third is for nerds only, and/or people who want the facts, and raw details – from the source. and I mean source.
as in: sacred water / running stream / journalist meets medicine man.
‘This Guy Predicted Society’s Thirst for Internet Fame – in 1999’ / WIRED
written by the book’s, ‘TOTALLY WIRED’ . . author, ANDREW SMITH !!!
(note: classic quilt – grid / organization = riff on social networking inter-linkedin-ness)
“Josh Harris may have been the first internet millionaire in New York.
As founder of Jupiter Communications and New York’s first online media portal, Pseudo.com, he rode the web 1.0 dotcom boom to a fortune of $85 million.
But as the 1990s ramped up, his view of what the internet would do to us, darkened, and he spent his fortune on a series of lurid social experiments aiming to demonstrate what he saw. The biggest was an ambitious millennial happening called ‘Quiet’, which Andrew Smith writes about in his new book, ‘Totally Wired’.
“1999 …
“Where to start ?” . . . .
“There are similarities between ‘Big Brother’ and ‘Quiet’, but the dissimilarities are significant.
Where ‘Big Brother’ would be tightly edited, directed and as stage-managed as ‘The Truman Show’, ‘Quiet’, would be feral, unedited, and interactive, with each participant given their own Japanese-style sleeping pod, fitted with CCTV camera streamed live to their own channel . . .”
read up & . . BE AMAZED: ‘This Guy Predicted the Future’ by ANDREW SMITH, WIRED / March 15, 2019
~JOSH HARRIS . . scoops up the press, NEW YORK POST, WALL STREET JOURNAL & WIRED !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 23rd, 2019, 5:39pm
. . . ART FORAGING !!!!
at: GIFC / GOT IT FOR CHEAP . . .
where: ARMORY WEEK / THE HOLE, THE BOWERY / DOWNTOWN NYC.
when: SUN MARCH 10, 2019 / ONE DAY ONLY – ALL WORKS / ALL SIGNED ORIGINALS / NO PRINTS . . . $30 / CASH & CARRY !!!
NH DEPASS . . .
JANE FERRY . . .
yep !!
I found one of mine !!
a ‘cut-out’ paper collage / riffing on both:
Japanese Edo Period woodblock prints & contemporary Japanese love for all things, folk art & esp. ‘Americana’.
I cut-out images from a vintage, kid’s ‘Japanese Art’ coloring book !!
& flowers are cut-out from standard issue – Garden Catalogs.
Signed & dated, March 2019. 9 x 11 in.
OONA BRANGAM-SNELL . . .
it was a such trip . . watching the pieces ‘talk’ to each other.
setail, OONA BRANGAN-SNELL.
I def was, so . . feeling a kindred, magical, ‘impish’ . . spirit.
oh, and under there / there’s another one of mine !!
hello .. Mr. Samurai !!
painterly faces by . . GRETA DONAHUE.
the randomness / the diversity / the infinite parade of so much unique expression – was a big part of the excitement.
foraging for art / seriously !!
watch: my GIFC CLIP !!
foraging for art / seriously !!
foraging for art / seriously !!
you had to be quick, the moment you put something down, in hesitation, it was gone.
and then you felt real bad, as it walked away – to another home !!
ps: you could also, in a blink: turn around, and come face-to-face . . with the main exhibit.
the space between the tables, laden with GIFC !!
and, the formal exhibit walls – was excitingly, perilously – lit purple, and very narrow.
I hadn’t really noticed til then – that THE HOLE gallery walls, were actually ’rounded’ where they meet the floor.
a way to break down that . . White Cube ?
very very nice.
I mean, seriously: rounded corners, too.
and seriously, you could turn around & look at the exhibit too.
RY DAVID BRADLEY.
ok.
a few more . . . !!!
SOTYMAE . . .
ANGELA LEYVA . . .
ANNA SIMSON.
ps: yes, there were – a lot of women artists – on the GIFC table !!
Madeleine . . .
and . . the most curious of the lot ?
‘primitive’, loose / realist paintings of birch branches . . holding smokin’ ciggies ?
by AUSTIN SIEGURT.
and yes, a good time – was had by all.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~GIFC . . good-bye from NYC / had a super great time !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 15th, 2019, 12:03pm
BIG, BIG GIFC / GOT IT FOR CHEAP . . . POW-WOW at THE HOLE, today !!
SUN MARCH 10, 2019 / 5 – 8 PM
EVERYTHING . . is $30 a pop !!
THE HOLE, 312 BOWERY, NYC 10012
check out: GIFC / GOT IT FOR CHEAP / O-OLA aka ZERO ZERO GALLERY, LA
The Hole is proud to announce their . .
“second year hosting the GOT IT FOR CHEAP (GIFC) guys in the gallery. This Sunday March 10th we host the armory Edition of their international traveling worlson paper extravaganza. Hundreds of artists participate making works on paper and every piece is $30.
Well-known artists and lots and lots of emerging artists come together to contribute over a thousand works, laid out on tables throughout the gallery. It is $30 to enterwhich gets you one work of your choice; first come, first served !Yiu can buy as many as you want.Or just hang out and have some drinks and enjoy our current exhibitions.”
~THE HOLE Press Release
the range of works coming in – is as amazing and diverse as you would expect.
some of my faves:
above:
DEAN CHRISTENSEN . . .
image via Instagram @deansace_official
above:
JUSTINE NEUBERGER . . .
image via Instagram @gifcworldwide
above:
ELIOT GREENWALD . . .
image via Instagram @gifcworldwide
above:
NH DEPASS . . .
image via @nhdepass
above:
JULIA SERVINO . . .
image via Instagram @gifcworldwide
above:
KIRSTEN DEIRUP . . .
image via Instagram @gifcworldwide
above:
NANCY SMITH . . . collage, 2019. 9 x 11 in.
yes !! lol !!!!
I have 4 pieces – in the show !!
image via Instagram @gifcworldwide
GIFC . . .
at THE HOLE – AMORY EDITION / ONE DAY ONLY / SUN MARCH 10, 2019 / 5- 8 PM
plus there are . . 2 totally absolutely awesome exhibits – up at the THE HOLE !!
RY DAVID BRADLEY
RY DAVID BRADLEY, ‘$S”xx{‘, 2019.
Dye Cotton tapestry. 55 x 75 in.
with . . stage lighting !!
this is the room – where the GIFC tables are going to be set up.
and, in the side room !!!!
‘SNAKE PIT’ – by JOAKIM OJANEN !!!!!
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH / except where noted.
~GIFC . . THE HOLE / ARMORY EDITION /TO-DAY . . SUN MARCH 10 / 5 – 8 PM |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 10th, 2019, 9:36am
on the other hand,
if you are looking to figure out the best ticket, among the absolute ‘horde’ of
’emerging’ artists . . clamboring on top of each other, to get your attention this weekend,
ANTONE KONST . . . would be a best bet.
ANTONE KONST, in . . . ‘Hi Friends’
a 3 person group show / opened MARCH 27
& runs thru . . . APRIL 24, 2019
DTN / DISTURB THE NEIGHBORS 339 E. 90th St, Suite D, Uptown, NYC 10128
note: with extended hours this weekend
ANTONE KONST, ‘Juggler’, 2019.
epoxy clay, glitter, acrylic, oil, canvas.
78 x 48 in.
(>$10,000)
image via Instagram @annntone
ANTONE KONST, ‘Juggler’, with a peek . . at a STEPHEN BENENSON canvas, at right.
image via Instagram story @annntone @jpirello
ps: the top/first image . . has the truer hue of blue,
but, the this image – is great for scale & general context of the show.
check the show out, for sure.
this small apt art gallery, albeit with big ambitions (!!), and a most dedicated following, will provide a much welcome respite – from the vast & chaotic art fairs.
~ANTONE KONST . . DISTURB THE NEIGHBORS |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 9th, 2019, 10:06am
HEADS UP: IT’S A BRIT INVASION !!!
BIG !! PARTY !! TO-NITE AS WELL !! / SAT MARCH 9 / STARTS at 6 PM
DRINKS, MUSIC, GREAT ART & GOOD COMPANY !!!
DISTASSI ART X CONTRA GALLERIES !!!
LONDON X NEW YORK !!!
A LDN X NYC COLLAB / SHOWCASING . . . THE GREAT SCHOONY !!!
at CONTRA GALLERIES
122 W. 26th St, Floor 5, NYC 10001
HRS: FRI til 6 PM / SAT & SUN: 12 – 6 PM
RUNS THRU . . . SUNDAY MARCH 10
PIX FROM THE WILD, OPENING PARTY . . LAST NIGHT / MARCH 7, 2019:
great to finally see them up, up close & personal.
capturing the maybe / could very well be . . future in a heartbeat.
beautifully rendered.
Schoony, ‘Boots’ graphite Edition, 1/10
Fiberglass, 2019
($19,500)
Schoony, ‘Boy Soldier Panel’
Fiberglass, 2019
($13,000)
detail, ‘Boy Soldier’
unbelievable . . what a statement.
a promise.
a dare.
classical modelling – with a determination,
that seems . . ingrained into the very DNA.
just you – dare me !!
KA-BOOM.
get it together, world / or . . this I promise you.
street fashion . . meet up.
I see your true colors . . .
from left:
Schoony, ‘Branded Off White’, 1/10
Fiberglass, 2019
($19,500)
Schoony, ‘Branded Louis Vuitton’, 1/10
Fiberglass, 2019
($19,500)
Schoony, ‘Branded Supreme’, 1/10
Fiberglass, 2019
($19,500)
that is, so !!! so !!!
in-your-face / in your arm.
Schoony, ‘Branded Louis Vuitton’, 2019.
‘XL’
in-your-face.
in-your-arm.
The Love Child kills the . . DJ station.
the party temp goes way way up, when this ‘artist/dude’ gets behind the audio.
as JOSHUA will attest to.
the show attracted . . a supremo, gritty / edgy crowd.
CHRIS MARTINE of . . Contra.
DISTASSI X CONTRA !!! . . . . . LONDON X NYC !!!
KA-BOOM !!!!!
MICHAEL HOWES/LONDON, MATT McGLYNN of CONTRA, ED SANDERS/LONDON, BOE/DISTASSI/LONDON.
see: DISTASSI ART
also noted, Delta2 got the color up and running, on the custom subway car.
Delta2, Aluminum subway train, 2019.
($3,000)
they . . moved the RICHARD HAMBLETON down lower . . all the better to see.
the large, horizon-focused, gloriously metallic ‘landscape’, had been hung high up previously.
now it was eye-level, an eye-poppin’ eye-level at that.
it’s outrageously . . gorgeous.
if he hadn’t been so street bitter, Hambleton could have been a modern-day . . Turner.
RICHARD HAMBLETON, ‘Beautiful Painting’, acrylic on wood panel, 1994.
signed & dated. incredible condition.
(price upon request)
you could feel Hambleton’s tightly wound, aggressive energy . . in the way the surface was obsessively . . incised.
even his signature – was like a knife wound.
a branding, not unlike the Schoony arm-branding . . above (!!)
ALFREDO MARTINEZ, Gun Drawing.
I’m always going to be a die-hard fan.
ALFREDO MARTINEZ, gun drawing. 2017.
on hand-made collage paper, with colored marker.
at $1,000 / an outright . . steal.
wake-up . . my peeps, run & jump. & put your $$$ down.
just as we were about to say good-bye . . .
AL DIAZ (SAMO) shows up . . .
to make his mark !!
SCHOONY X AL DIAZ
LDN X NYC
DISTASSI X CONTRA
I always thought, or imagined, that ‘Schoony’ . . stood for: schooled by NY ???
LDN X NYC
DISTASSI X CONTRA
HERE’S YOUR – TICKET !!!
THIS WEEKEND ONLY / DON’T MISS THE . . . JOY-RIDE !!!
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~SCHOONY . . DISTASSI X CONTRA / POPPIN’ MAD . . GREAT !! / & BIG PARTY TO-NITE SAT MARCH 9 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 8th, 2019, 2:14pm
