~AMY GARTRELL/LAST WEEK . .
AMY GARTRELL, and best bud – PATTERSON BECKWITH, arrive at the opening of Amy’s new show, ‘Whatever and Ever’ at DANIEL REICH. Sat, May 22, 2010. the show runs thru June 26, 2010
Amy’s show just got a sweet review in the NEW YORK TIMES !!
see: AMY GATRELL/KAREN ROSENBERG/THE NEW YORK TIMES/JUNE 18, 2010 !!
NOTE: THE SHOW JUST GOT EXTENDED – THRU JULY 17 !!
AMY greets long time pal – SPENCER SWEENEY, at the opening.
SPENCER SWEENEY .. . said to have done very well at BASEL – with big-time names like PETER BRANT and VAL KILMER – thrown into the mix !!
one of Amy’s flower photo collages, 2009. 25.5 x 19 in. ($5,000).
Amy told me – she puts the actual objects onto the scanner bed – to get the effects she is looking for – a kind of hyper realism – that actually goes very romantic.
AMY GARTRELL, ‘Couple’, 2010. ink on paper.
8.25 x 8.75 in. ($2,000).
detail, AMY GARTRELL, ‘Couple’.
one of the more unusual pieces is a kind of modernist dollhouse – that riffs off the modernist designs Amy has painted directly onto the gallery walls. it comes on a very stylized pedestal !!
AMY GARTRELL, ‘Compartmentalization is Cool’, 2010. Glazed ceramics, model chair, MDF, acrylic.
54 x 18 x 18 in. ($8,000).
on the right, gallerist DANIEL REICH basking in the cool summer eve of last month’s so reasonable weather !!
with him, artist/photog GRANT WORTH.
CYRUS has brought along his pet plant !! it’s a violet – and when he is not out and about – he hangs it from a hook in his Brooklyn garden !!
POSTED BY NANCY SMITH – JUNE 22, 2010 8:55 AM
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