~BREVITY’S RAINBOW/CINDERS
ONLY UP FOR 10 DAYS !!
BREVITY’S RAINBOW – A GALAXY OF TINY ARTWORKS
CURATED BY MAXWELL WILLIAMS
THE SHOW RUNS FEB 8 – thru – FEB 17, 2008
CINDERS – 103 HAVEMEYER ST – BTWN HOPE & GRAND – WILLIAMSBURG – BKLYN – NY
HOURS: WED-FRI 2-8PM / SAT+SUN 12-7PM
A GREAT LITTLE SHOW OF OVER 200 VERY SMALL ARTWORKS BY A DIVERSE RANGE OF ARTISTS – INCLUDING – PFFR, ERIKA SOMOYGI, NOAH LYON, KEEGAN McHARGUE, ANDREW JEFFREY WRIGHT, ANDREW GUENTHER, MIKE PARE, WES LANG, ASSUME VIVID ASTRO FOCUS, MISAKO INAOKA, ELIZABETH HUEY, MAYA HAYUK, ROYAL ART LODGE, KELIE BOWMAN & STO.
MOST OF THE WORK FALLS WITHIN THE $50 – $150 range. for example the ANDREW JEFFREY WRIGHT PIECES – ARE A STEAL – at $50/a piece. KELIE BOWMAN’S PIECE is $125. YOU CAN PICK UP A SMALL ANDREW GUENTHER PAINTING FOR $250 – INCLUDING A VERY FUNNY (WORKING) CLOCK – also $250 !
the top-tier prices are:
KEEGAN McHARGUE’s untitled piece is $3,000; the WES LANG piece, ‘Since I laid my burden down’ goes for $4,000; and small line drawings by ASSUME VIVID ASTRO FOCUS are priced at $5,000/a piece.
our favorite pieces were the tiny figurines by MISAKO INAOKA – just because we’ve never seen anything like that before – imaginary animal/beasts crafted like mass produced STAR WARS figurines – they were beyond perfectly detailed – and emitted strange bleating – motion sensitive sounds !! Her ‘3 EGG EVOLUTION’ is priced at $1,500. – and her ‘TREE OF EVOLUTION’ – taps out at $5,000.
at the opening, of ‘BREVITY’S RAINBOW’, NOAH LYON, (with work in the show), and his wife, of about a year, MARIA LYON.
NOAH LYON, ‘Many moods of dudes’, ($200 ea.)
top, NOAH LYON, ‘Many moods of dudes’, below, STO, ‘asspirin’
STO, ‘asspirin’, ($80)
JESSICA VITKUS, ‘I hate you 752’, ($100)
ERIKA SOMOGYI, untitled, ($50-$150 ea.)
ERIKA SOMOGYI, ‘untitled’, ($50), in ‘Brevity’s Rainbow’
ERIKA SOMOGYI, ‘untitled’, in ‘Brevity’s Rainbow’
left: BOYD SHROPSHIRE, ‘4 small paintings’ ($150), and, right: JESSE BROWN ‘5 Inch Cube Drawing’ ($125)
ANDREW JEFFREY WRIGHT, ‘GRIMMACE BONG’ & ‘Who Blurbered’, ($50 ea.)
ANDREW JEFFREY WRIGHT is a member of Philadelphia’s SPACE 1026
ANDREW GUENTHER, ‘untitled (clock)’, ($250)
MIKE PARE, ‘DID YOU MISS ME’, (sold)
ANN REGAN, ‘El PASO, TEXAS (HIGHWAY 61)’, ($50)
ANN REGAN, ‘EL PASO, TEXAS (BOB DYLAN)’, ($50)
KATLYN HERSHMAN, ‘I give up’, ($125)
the tiny flag turned on electric power, KATLYN HERSHMAN, ‘I give up’
MATT HANSEL, ‘Cloud connected’, ($480)
detail, MISAKO INAOKA, ‘Tree of Evolution’, ($5,000) (5 individual ‘toy’ animal/beasts on a tiny shelf – the figurines are motion sensitive and produce sounds)
detail, MISAKO INAOKA, ‘Tree of Evolution’
detail, MISAKO INAOKA, ‘Tree of Evolution’
DYLAN MARTORELL, ‘untitled’, pencil on paper, 4.5 x 4.5 ins. ($150 ea.)
another great deal !!!
MOLLY McINTYRE, ‘Sean’, ($50)
MOLLY McINTYRE is a member of Philadelphia’s SPACE 1026
MAXWELL WILLIAMS, the curator of ‘Brevity’s Rainbow’, at the opening, outside on the street in front of CINDERS, FEB 8, 2008
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, FEB 8, 2008
see: more pix from the show/CINDERS website