before we get into the JOE BRADLEY show, thought we’d bring your attention to a great way to launch the Memorial Day weekend.
C.F. will debut his newest book, MERE – with a booksigning – this FRI MAY 24, 2013 / 7-9 PM
DESERT ISLAND – 540 METROPOLITAN AVE – JUST OFF LORIMER – WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN. N.Y.
p.s. when you are at DESERT ISLAND, don’t forget to pick up a copy of SMOKE SIGNAL, above is the latest issue #10 – they are FREE.
but . . . BACK to MERE !!
MERE . . is a PICTUREBOX PROJECT, 5 x 8 ins, 180 pgs, in color. $19.95
PICTUREBOX says this about . . MERE:
In 2012 C.F. began to produce a series of more than a dozen mini-comics, which he distributed via Twitter. Each mini-comic offered a take on, and expansion upon, a classic comic strip genre – from crime and sci-fi to punk and sex – all of them infused throughout by C.F.’s absurdist humor and loose improvisatory drawing. Those comics, along with unpublished art and photos, are collected here.
the cover of – MERE by C.F. – a PICTUREBOX BOOK.
of course, mere translates as: Mother in french.
of course, Talk about . . . Abstract art.
black & white mini-comic . . in MERE.
image from: C.F. – MERE, you know the mother web, the honey comb, the honey trap, and ultimately the battle for – Singularity.
C.F. . . at last year’s BROOKLYN COMICS & GRAPHICS FESTIVAL, NOV 10, 2012.
WILLIAMBURG, BROOKLYN.
C.F. / CHRISTOPHER FORGUES (b. 1979) works out of PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND . . he is also an ‘experimental’ musician, and you can find his music under: DAILY LIFE, KITES/Load records, and MARK LORD, trust me – you’ll know the real MARK LORD, when you see him.
C.F. – booksigning . . .
C.F. – 21 CRIME … “So-Daft” !!
C.F. – the back cover … “Paranoia”
C.F. – inside . . . 21 CRIME
a snippet of a C.F. POWR MASTR (#2) cover – brilliant (!!)
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH – C.F. & books . . BROOKLYN COMICS & GRAPHICS FESTIVAL, NOV 10, 2012.
~C.F. — MERE . . |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 22nd, 2013, 1:56pm
FILE UNDER: SINGULARITY.
looks like JOSH ‘LUVVY’ HARRIS, of WE LIVE IN PUBLIC fame .. was right, in the mass info digital age, singularity .. rules.
RAY MANZAREK, 74. died yesterday, MAY 20, 2013 – the legendary keyboardist/founding member of THE DOORS.
catch: THE DOORS – RIDERS ON THE STORM, the intro being his most famous riff.
” . . into this house we are born.
. . into this world we are thrown.”
the classic American icon / ‘still’: the singular car . . on the singular, and lonely highway.
IMAGE: THE DOORS – RIDERS ON THE STORM
in other SINGULARITY NEWS:
DAVID KARP, the NYC kid who just sold Tumblr to Yahoo for $1.1 Billion . . used to work at TEKSERVE !!
see: ‘DAVID KARP – Tumbling on success’ . . from 2012.
DAVID KARP . . IMAGE: FINANCIAL POST – MAY 20, 2013
DAVID KARP, ILLUSTRATION: JOAO MAIO PINTO – ADWEEK, JUNE 6, 2011
EESHA KARE . . IMAGE: DAILY TECH
EESHA KARE, 18 – a high school student out of SARATOGA, FLORIDA – won the recent / 2013 / $50,000 INTEL FOUNDATION YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD – for a flexible, and super fast .. battery charger !!
note: artlovers made the tech leap .. we are juiced !!
next up . .
JOE BRADLEY – LOTUS BEATERS . . PIX FROM THE OPENING – POSTING: WED MAY 22, 2013.
~KILLERS ON THE STORM . . |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 21st, 2013, 8:08am
OPENING TO-NITE: FRI MAY 17, 2013 / 6-8 PM
JOE BRADLEY – LOTUS BEATERS !!
MAY 18 – JUNE 29, 2013
Gavin Brown’s enterprise – 620 GREENWICH ST, WEST VILLAGE – NYC
when young artists ask me about JOE BRADLEY, and what he was like in his early days, in the very happening, beginning decade of this millennium, when he was trying to break onto the scene .. the first thing that comes to mind was how extra-ordinarily respectful and appreciative he was to anybody who ‘got’ who he was, and what he ‘did’. you’d thunk that was art school 101 – but funny, it is not !!
maybe it was because he was so hard to get ? that ‘recognition’ was like clear flowing water to him, and anybody who offered up a sip – was a huge solace ?
that said – for sure, he sailed over a lot of peoples’ heads at first. he did ‘abstrac’t art, when people were doing psychedelic collage parties. comic art. organic musings. also he was very very wild, in that .. quelle horreur, he was an active musician. a frontman for a crazy ‘art’ band called Cheeseburger. he used to show up, revved up, resplendent in girl’s tights, and rainbow suspenders. ha. o.k. sometimes he just wore white jeans. no, I don’t have any pix of him in the tights. sometimes having fun, trumps pulling out the camera.
but I did catch a photo of him way back, playing with Cheeseburger, and in fact – I was the first to post his image – mainstream – on artnet.
JOE BRADLEY, on the left, with his Cheeseburger bandmates. downtown NYC. JULY 24, 2003.
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
see: GOOD-BYE TO SUMMER 2004 – artnet
but forget the music, it was hard-core & spirited, but not really memorable . . . inside that head ticked a very lethal .. brain. the humor so dry, it could bust a desert . . equivalate a drug trip, cross-up the thought ‘zones’.
I see from the title of this show, he is still . . in fine form.
the ‘Greek’ reference reminds me of the ‘SWOLLEN FOOT’ video/music project of NICHOLAS STEINDORF and DARREN WILL – presented at ENTWINE, just a few months back. it also reminds me of SIMON CERIGO the recently departed art maven. who was very proud of his .. ancient Greek heritage.
he wasn’t exactly ‘lazy’, but he was kind of ADD/no patience .. and prob, sometimes too high, to get down to brass tacks, always being on the fast track to pleasure. or really the most direct, as in direct, do not pass Go. do not pick up $200 – road to pleasure. the road induced by the narcotic .. lotus flower.
the road to .. art. in its truest meaning. exhilaration.
yep, Simon was a Greek, a true Lotus-eater, if I ever did see one.
I bet there are quite a few collectors, I’m not naming names . . who miss Simon’s free-flowing but, acutely correct .. advice on where to art/park their millions, this auction season. hey, no wonder the samurai class disappeared, pay your people. they are NO damn good to you – dead. yeah, one was a really big Japanese ‘pretender’. almost rhymes with ‘tushi’.
the other interesting thing that comes to mind, obviously – is the work. which is really the kernel of the deal.
Joe’s work was so ‘banal’ and ‘abstract’ . . yet, so in your-in-face and challenging. as to be shop-stopping, at least – to me. no dead dogs here. the first piece I saw of his was a ‘found’ brown rug hung on the wall. at that music party above, actually.
ha. and he was serious.
catch me if you can !!
that was in the ………. SUMMER 2003.
the next work I saw of his – was his first one man show at CANADA, ‘Kurgan Waves’ – which opened in JAN of 2006. so take heart young dudes, it was a long slow road for Joe.
well, all things being relative. his friends were shooting by him, like shooting stars, since well before 2003. you could see the frustration – written all over his face, at every intersection.
sometimes, the slow turtle wins the race. esp if he is BRAINY. and, against the grain.
titled, ‘Kurgan Waves’, pipe-bomb brains title, or what .. JOE didn’t have much dough, as in $, so the paintings were made from shallow, flimsy store-bought stretchers, painted in primary solid colors, and strung together in a fragile way – to compose large abstract pieces that – stood like, men. equivilated: men. the human form.
though there were no eyes, or mouths, or any human features, just the ‘proportions’ of the pieces .. animated the whole. made the metaphoric .. leap.
so I’m thinking, it’s kind of the exact compositional opposite mental-state ‘startle’ you get, as opposed to say, the recently discussed Jack Goldstein work. where the hyper-realist photo image becomes totally flat and abstracted . .
in Joe Bradley’s work, no matter how minimal, or abstract the elements are – his work . . . always adds up to, takes on a ‘humanist’ stance. it’s very mind-blowing, if you think about it. the kinetic property of the work is in . . . the ‘cross-over’.
even in the black & white invite image, above – the grid looks to be more of a ‘window’ – than anything else.
JOE BRADLEY, ‘KURGAN WAVES’, 2006. IMAGE: CANADA
the piece on the left, reminds me of Joe in his ‘performing’ tights !! damn, I wish I had a photo.
the other 2 pieces . . the ‘rug’.
JOE BRADLEY, ‘KURGAN WAVES’, 2006. IMAGE: CANADA
see what I mean, about minimal elements adding up to a ‘humanist’ posture …
a featureless one, at that. no face. but I guess the head ‘proportion’ is there – as the tipping point.
and funny enough, typical Joe Schmoe, his next solo show – was pretty much all about – features !! details.
as in features on a face. a smile, a grin. a superman logo on a chest. as opposed to abstracted bodies.
Mr. Magoo. Mr. Shmagoo . . . the show: ‘Shmagoo Paintings’ opened Oct 2008.
some people felt confused. they could ‘get’ the ‘Kurgan Waves’ figures, but not the close-ups !!
I’m just shaking my head – in disbelief, and ok, laughter, here.
I remember at the opening, one innane socialite-type collector telling me, she had bought a piece from the Kurgan show, but CANADA took it away – and sold it to a bigger better fish, and had offered her one of the new Schmagoo paintings instead, and she had turned it down.
no words to relate what idiots collectors can ‘be’. she wasn’t about to pay for my advice – and we already had one person in the family giving it away for free, the afore-mentioned Simon – so I just kept my mouth shut.
about the only time – I do. ah, life in the fast lane.
JOE BRADLEY, ‘SHMAGOO PAINTINGS’ OCT 2008. IMAGE: CANADA
watch: IT’S MR MAGOO !!/ Thin-skinned, haha. short-sighted / art collectors – way yes !!
Mr. Magoo originated . . in 1949.
ps: yeah, I got . . scored is more like it, an early piece of Joe Bradley’s. it’s just a drawing on paper, but it’s big. 2 ft x 3 ft.
for sure, whatd’ya think ?
NOTE:
next up – pix from: the JOE BRADLEY OPENING TO-NITE.
then: BACK TO YALE !!
~JOE BRADLEY . . |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 17th, 2013, 8:44am
THOMAS SPOERNDLE – NEW WORK
OPENS SUN MAY 19, 2013 / 7PM
the show runs thru JUNE 16, 2013
NOVELLA – 164 ORCHARD ST – LOWER EAST SIDE – NYC
HRS: WED-SUN 12-6
more info: on the show
~THOMAS SPOERNDLE . . |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 15th, 2013, 9:17am
BELIEVER – DANIEL REICH / 1972-2012
A Gathering for Daniel – TUES MAY 14, 2013 / 4PM
All Welcome . . .
HENRY ST. SETTLEMENT, ABRONS ART CENTER – 466 GRAND ST. – NYC / Lower East Side
if planted, this card will grow wildflowers – so, no you can’t do that yet by digital transmission – but here’s to the day – you can !!
in memory of a visionary – Daniel Reich.
DANIEL REICH, WINTER 2004 . . . PHOTO BY NANCY SMITH
editor WALTER ROBINSON published it in artnet, the caption read:
“Daniel Reich opens ‘Milwaukee’ paintings by TYSON REEDER, in his new space on 23rd St.”
the report was titled: ‘Out in New York – Winter 2004’
Art Lovers New York – Photos by Nancy Smith
see: the full report – artnet/Out in New York – Winter 2004
~DANIEL REICH . . MEMORIAL |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 13th, 2013, 4:53pm
oh my god, could anything be worse than New York City this week ?
it’s so predictable. it’s so market-driven, it’s so embarrassing.
what ? is the only good artist .. a DEAD ONE ?!!!
we are so sick of JEFF KOONS, or what.
his retrospective hasn’t even opened, and we’re sick of him.
this guy peaked in the 80s – give me a break, that’s 40 yrs ago. and he’s still cutting edge ?
I don’t think so. he’s SO played out.
just take one look at that lame poetry/drawing piece he just did for the New York Times.
no wonder all his other stuff, is fabrication-driven. he even has an outside/consultant balloon wizard guy, design his balloons.
see: VULTURE
I used to be a big fan, but I guess that shows where my head’s at, it was the work inspired by that Italian porn chick – that I dug !! apparently his art rep took a big dive after that. well like I said, once a contrarian, always !!
but a word to the wise. look out, all ye would-be nouveau collectors . . . buying art is just like buying stocks, you have to look for the under-rated guys, not the over-valued ones, that everyone has already bought into – in which case, you have already .. missed the boat.
not to mention that awful awful cover portrait on NEW YORK magazine
if you are in town, and you really want to see some action, you do have a couple of other choices.
you can go see the ‘DENIS HOPPER – THE LOST ALBUM’ show up at GAGOSIAN on Madison Ave. a dynamic selection of Hopper’s early ‘paparazzi’ pix from the 60s, which according to the website info, haven’t been exhibited in the United States since 1970 – so don’t blink.
as for truly cutting edge contemporary art, as in NOT played-out to death – guess what, it’s THE JEWISH MUSEUM that holds the golden keys.
ok, he’s a dead guy, but maybe that’s what I’m talking about !!
‘JACK GOLDSTEIN x 10,000’ opens there this FRI MAY 10, 2013 and runs thru SEPT 29, 2013.
organized by the ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM of ART and curated by guest curator PHILIPP KAISER – this show is BRILLIANT. not overly informational, and dead-on: influential.
see: JACK GOLDSTEIN x 10,000/THE JEWISH MUSEUM
the other show to see at THE JEWISH MUSEUM is: ‘SIX THING: SAGMEISTER & WALSH’.
ok, they are not DEAD, but they are cutting edge, as cutting edge as you can get and still have a foot in both worlds, design and fine art. and they bleed. as in they take chances, a few things don’t quite make it, like that god-awful script that runs at the base of the exhibit walls, but they don’t bomb completely … like Koons.
sorry, I can’t resist sticking it to him, and the big $ marketing – that trumpets him.
as in, so cutting edge … they just might just be courting career ‘death’ – just joking !! calm down !! love it !!
when more of the mainstream gets a load of their . . . new business / calling card.
p.s take a note: to Sagmeister. better watch it , or people gonna be comparing you to the SOURCE FAMILY & Cult figure FATHER YOD, who was also into .. naked young chicks!! hahaha. omg, yeah, I’m laughing !!
see: THE SOURCE FAMILY .. documentary now playing in NYC
IMAGE: whatmademelook/tumblr
see: SIX THINGS: SAGMEISTER & WALSH/THE JEWISH MUSEUM
PIX FROM THE PRESS PREVIEW: ‘JACK GOLDSTEIN x 10,000’ – now at THE JEWISH MUSEUM thru SEPT 29, 2013.
CLAUDIA GOULD, the new DIRECTOR of THE JEWISH MUSEUM . . .
and looking good, bye the way !!
the show’s guest curator, PHILIPP KAISER.
DENNIS SZAKACS, Director of the Orange County Museum of Art, which organized the show.
the show includes 2 short film / loop areas. one dedicated to the early film clips, and the other, to the later ones. all are quite minimalist .. and fascinating. this one, ‘THE KNIFE’, belongs to the latter category. these films were made on actual film, this was way before video, let alone the digital video option on your iPhone today, and they have not been transformed or re-formatted, for the show. they are projected onto the wall by archival projectors, which is of interest all by itself.
an installation view.
you don’t get to see the big paintings, esp up close and personal, very often. partly because he is such an under-rated artist. don’t ask me why. maybe just as well.
the blue and pink one at the left, is one of my absolute favs. abstract art … to the max.
well actually, hyper-realist photo-base art – that crossed the abstract line, oh you can die a thousand deaths – to experience that transformation.
‘Untitled’, 1983. Acrylic on canvas. Vanmoerkerke Collection, Ostend.
JACK GOLDSTEIN, lightning painting. c-l-a-s-s-i-c.
‘Untitled’, 1983. Acrylic on canvas. Collection: B.Z. and Michael Schwartz, New York.
my recently deceased hubbie, I was going to say LATE, but truth be told, his biggest fault was being TOO EARLY !! to the game . . SIMON CERIGO was one of the first people to buy a large Goldstein ‘Lightning’ canvas. it was a knock-out. we paid like $8,000 for it, from METRO PICTURES, I guess just about that time, 1983 – 84.
I believe it’s still the biggest canvas Goldstein ever painted. it ended up being bought, we had to sell it, in 1989 – when we could get at least 10 x the purchase price, little kids to feed and what .. but good karma. it somehow ended up in the National Gallery of Canada, in Ottawa .. where the label still says: PROVENANCE/COLLECTION of SIMON CERIGO !!
double the karma actually, because like Jack Goldstein, me and Simon were both brought up in Montreal, we were like the generation just before his. Montreal was hot for art at that time. Leonard Cohen and all. the French Canadian color field painters. we alos moved to NYC in the early 80s.
so I’m thinking, too bad it’s not TRIPLE KARMA, that the painting wasn’t borrowed from Canada and shown here, esp it being .. the year that Simon died.
the other quietly impressive part of this exhibit was a row of vinyl recordings. according to the museum notes, JACK “embraced technology, using it to create works that anticipated today’s digital media … words had always been a presence in his work.” and with specific reference to these pieces, “GOLDSTEIN also began to appropriate and remix recorded sound and image; by the mid-1970s he was producing VINYL RECORDS as artworks ..”
the burning forest . . .
a swim against the tide . . .
the dying wind . . .
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH. MAY 7, 2013
P.S. not to worry, back to the YALE OPEN STUDIOS, up next . . .
~FREIZE, NOT !! GOLDSTEIN to the RESCUE . . |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 8th, 2013, 9:16am
YALE GRADUATE PROGRAM – OPEN STUDIOS, APRIL 27-28, 2013
first year Yale grad student/sculpture .. JERRY BLACKMAN.
I’ve been following Jerry’s work for quite a few years now. he is a native New Yorker, who went to LaGuardia High School, yes fame .. and Cooper Union. when his work started popping up in group exhibits, most notably a GAVIN BROWN summer survey a few years back .. I was on it, with no doubt – as to his potential.
the sculpture students really have it made. their building is brand new, they all have huge studios to work in, 4 times the size of the grad painting studios !! with huge windows looking onto to a shallow border of large trees. and a lot of sunlight. you can really step back .. and look at your work.
this looks to be the sister piece – to that ‘telephone’ piece highlighted in the recent 109 Gallery invite. it’s made of clay, with a matte matte black glaze/finish. it speaks to cultural stresses, and presents .. a medley of metaphor – that knows no bounds.
it is the exact OPPOSITE of an IED/pressure cooker.
but it also speaks .. to an interesting facet of Jerry’s work, that I always found compelling, and that is how .. even when his work references the real world, that is, it is OBJECTIVE / figurative .. it attains the abstract plane. not an easy feat. and the result is: a great, almost musical, theoretical tension .. runs through the work, making your brain do a nice .. visual double take.
the comes across as very straightforward, but in this aspect . . well, it’s very TRIPPY.
this piece is a nice upgrade to the mosaic-like mirrored wall pieces he has been showing around town, for the past few years. I like it much better than the few examples I saw in the past.
so I guess that answers: grow grow grow.
the small blue ball, is a nice feature. the open, negative space it lives in .. dances against the mosaic surface, asking .. all the right questions.
also really dig the color scheme and color choices, I mean REALLY. everybody is just so sick of bold color-block – esp as it’s all over the fashion scene right now. if the people on the subway are wearing it, and it’s splashed all over your TV 24/7 !! who wants to see it .. in your hi-end one-of-a-kind sculpture ?
that (perfecto) pink line – is just like a river running through .. me.
it’s the shade of lipstick . . that makes you do a double-take.
I guess I should be saying .. the work is sensual vs. just purely materials & composition – oriented.
another example of his off-the-hardware-store-color-chart hue, running amidst a more purely formal, abstract piece.
how to put it. it’s like the color hue of a flower just opening .. as opposed to the worn-out attention desperate / seeking .. shout-out of a Real Housewife .. of (……).
fill in the blanks yourself.
from right: musician DARREN WILL, JERRY BLACKMAN, and designer KATE CERIGO.
of course what’s really the best element of an open studio, is the opportunity for interchange with the artist, and seeing .. the works in progress, the work tables. the environment.
there’s that slightly left-of-center color hue, again !!
the color palette is basically the subject.
yeah, I had a fun time at YALE.
more studio visits .. to follow.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~YALE OPEN STUDIOS: JERRY BLACKMAN |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 3rd, 2013, 9:58am
ok, so artlovers is in the midst of a tech crisis and I gotta upgrade, quote: “artlovers has exceeded its .. we cannot disclose .. shared server memory allotment”, so I have to go slow on the uploads. or they gonna kick me off, and it’s not so easy to fix.
on a low budget.
nothing like reading a good cookbook to help relax the brain .. in the midst of an under-financed web server breakdown. so, guess what JULIA CHILD had to say about pressure cookers, aka IEDs / improvised explosive devices .. !!
Julia disliked them .. “Stinking, nasty bloody pressure cookers, I hate them.”
pg 57, ‘Julia Child – A Life’, Laura Shapiro. Penguin Books, 2007.
so was Julia right on, about EVERYTHING, or what !!
I also really like the book’s cover photo because it relates time-wise and utility-wise to JERRY BLACKMAN’s landline ‘telephone’, below.
and NO, I’m not making light of it, the Marathon Bombing. it was esp terribly sad to target a celebration of life and a new age aspiration .. to bio human green-ness !! I’m just saying, anybody else notice both parents were safely out of the USA. it’s like they came here, and dropped their evil Chechen seed, and split.
I’m just saying I feel for the younger kid .. because he didn’t have a chance. nature & nuture. it’s totally in-wired for humans, esp young humans .. to BELIEVE and to be manipulated . . that’s why their parents are supposed to stick around !! and to set them straight. not twist them out.
see: ‘BELIEVE .. Ever Meek, Ever Malleable’, FRANK BRUNI, NEW YORK TIMES, AUG 26, 2012
IMAGE GRAPHIC/Gullibility .. BELIEVE/FRANK BRUNI, NYT
which brings me to .. this past weekend I went up to YALE, to see the Graduate Open Art Studios.
the one thing that struck me, was .. how much they were bullied by their teachers. produce produce produce. grow grow grow. hey, even the WALL STREET JOURNAL will tell you that sometimes your best ideas come when you sleep, and that the world’s top ten start-up entrepreneurs say number one: .. take time to walk in the park and smell the daisies !!
so, FILE UNDER: pressure cooker, TAKE II.
teachers, ambitions .. living in a bubble. boil. boil. whatever.
it got me thinking back to my OWN time in grad school. well luckily, or unluckily .. pretty much just as much (!!), unlike most of the world .. I was born a dyed-in-the-wool CONTRARIAN, as opposed to a BELIEVER. though I have been, and still pretty much am, quite naive .. which is why the topic holds so much interest for me, I guess.
while everybody else was doing huge, and I mean huge !! acrylic color field paintings, with mad use of masking tape to delineate the sharp compositional edges .. I was drawing, with pencil, tiny 4 x 6 inch drawings .. riffing off 18th Japanese woodblock prints. go figure !!
I had a lot that said: “UP YOURS” !! though I can’t find one like that, exactly at this moment.
but here’s another one:
note the funky hair, and dazed expression .. looking both backwards and forwards at one and the same time, wtf ?
I saw something. but how to put it to .. words.
it didn’t change when I got to New York either.
Kiki Smith conceptualism, Basquiat primitivism .. I was painting flower & vase watercolors.
Jeff Koons hyper-fabrication. I learned to stitch and repair antique quilts.
Cindy Sherman and Gregory Crewdson fabricated narrative photography ? ha. that’s the best !!
I became a paparazzi.
Brooklyn, and back-to-the-earth drawing, with homemade pigments. I started a blog.
I guess that’s just another reason why .. they call me: CRACK, for short ?
NANCY SMITH, pencil drawing, riff off an 18th C Japanese woodblock print, 1976. on paper, 4 x 6 in. Concordia University, MFA Studio Program. Montreal, Quebec, CANADA.
Guido Molinari was my teacher / mentor.
yep, I paid .. my dues. and 3 decades later, I’m still waiting for MY ship to come in.
so good luck .. all.
I’m a BELIEVER, not !!
actually, in a hard-core sense .. yes !!
but, seriously: good luck. NYC ain’t one to embrace anybody, esp work work work, produce.
more like, network network, have dough – can travel.
not that I want to burst anybody’s bubble – what, me ?
and by the way, that’s NYC, spelt: pressure cooker. the mother of them all. and, that’s what’s so much fun about it.
for a contrarian, anyways !!
~Got Tech ? what about a .. pressure cooker ? |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 1st, 2013, 5:52pm
RE: BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING:
if you are a HIPSTER, COMPUTER GEEK, FUTURE THEORY DREAMER, or just anybody reasonably cognizant .. you will know that things really heated up when it came out that notorious CARMEN ORTIZ, the Massachusetts U.S. attorney who hounded down internet rebel/baby/genius AARON SWARTZ . . . to his DEATH (!!) will lead the government’s prosecution of the surviving younger brother .. DZHOKHAR TSARNAEV, 19 years old.
wow, now can she finally target, and I guess hopefully, legally kill .. . someone who actually harmed people. I’m thinking that’s gonna possibly turn the tide in the kid’s favor, at least not to kill him .. for a lot of people who might just see him in a more humane way now .. and who MIGHT be more likely to view him now, as a kid who got caught up in the crosshairs of a crazy fanatic mom, a loser dad, and an off-the-rails bro .. not to mention the great human propensity for manipulation, esp of the young . . .
p.s. the BOSTON GLOBE named her ..’Bostonian of the Year’ in 2011.
RE: JERRY BLACKMAN OPENING To-NITE:
(I was thinking .. JERRY BLACKMAN / as in .. GOODMAN. you might have caught the typo !! ha !!)
if you are an art-loving’ hipster, you might get more than a ‘kick’ out of JERRY BLACKMAN’S image below. the gallery website goes on and on about it .. in the most dopey way. and completely misses the point.
the theater. the lock-in .. to tragedy. the metaphor.
art at it’s best: working as a lightning rod to the brain, and .. the subconscious.
which ‘lightning’ is .. black days, old-world, upside-down world, messed-up communications, no logic. no good. short circuit. wtf. in a nutshell.
the land line. how quaint – it was not so long ago when it was the ONLY means of communication. person to person. family to family.
how fragile: wired devices. even if they be built of tough, heavy-duty plastic.
note the scissors, they spell .. ominous. a potential with just one snip .. of doomed communication.
‘THE SURROGATE SPACE … JERRY BLACKMAN & SCOTT GOODMAN”
OPENING TODAY – THURS APRIL 25 / 7-9 PM
the show runs APRIL 25 – MAY 19, 2013
109 GALLERY – 109 BROADWAY, WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN, NY
the image .. also brings to mind: surveillance cameras.
you know .. the way they hang overhead like that, but in a black domed/globe .. housing.
this is another metaphor for updated/old school communication .. evolution.
in the old days, this was “how you dropped the dime”. you saw something, you made the tip-off call to the cops.
plus: it’s funny to think how surveillance, the widespread surveillance of today .. both institutional and popular/grass roots can work BOTH for and against you, I’m thinking right now, police-wise, for instance .. but widespread surveillance has many other drawbacks, re privacy, etc etc. a specific example from Boston.
FOR: widespread cameras .. both institutional & amatuer caught the 2 bombers on video planting the bombs.
AGAINST: homemade amateur video, shot by a Boston man from his third floor upper window .. showed the real truth about the first police confrontation which resulted in the younger bro mowing down his sibling, with a car .. the older bro did not simply die .. “after a firefight with police”.
of course, expect the ever-ready conspiracy theorist to pop up .. over that too, like I said: wtf. a hanging upside down .. telephone ?
~JERRY BLACKMAN .. CARMEN ORTIZ |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 25th, 2013, 1:33pm
that be: LEONARDO DICAPRIO, ELIZABETH PEYTON and URS FISCHER !!
guess I was right a while back, while reviewing the low-key ELIZABETH PEYTON opening at GAVIN BROWN’S, which is still up thru MAY 13, 2013 .. when speculating that the ‘real’ action, had already taken place .. behind the scenes !!
‘HOW LEO GOT HIS NAME’, ART SECTION, WALL STREET JOURNAL/APRIL 19, 2013
in a recent WSJ interview, put out to no doubt create some buzz for an upcoming art project of his own, on MAY 13, 2013 . . Mr. DiCaprio is holding an art auction at CHRISTIE’S to support his environmental causes .. Leo lets it be known that ELIZABETH PEYTON is one of the invited participating artists, and that she donated a portrait she did of Leonardo, just for this event.
KELLY CROW who asked the questions, asked Mr. DiCaprio: “I hear you sat for the ELIZABETH PEYTON portrait that’s in the coming auction. What was that like?”
the answer: “I had to be incredibly still for a long time – like two hours – which I’m not used to, but it was amazing to see her flip that switch as an artist.”
earlier on the article he is quoted as saying: “At one point I slowed down in my collecting because I felt like I was a little misdirected, but lately I’ve been collecting more. I’m really excited about a lot of these artists like URS FISCHER in the scene now.”
I guess you can CONNECT the DOTS .. YOURSELF !!
read the entire interview, for yourself, it’s INTERESTING – YES !!: ‘How Leo Got His Name’, WALL STREET JOURNAL, APRIL 19, 2013
there is actually a new URS FISCHER photo ‘table’ – acting as a book’shelf’ – in the front lobby of the ELIZABETH PEYTON show, now up at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, MARCH 29 – May 13, 2013.
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH. MARCH 28, 2013
I actually happened to cross paths with URS FISCHER a little ago while I strolling thru the Lower East Side. he was with his pretty dog, Ms. Terry, aka MYSTERY … well, something like that.
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH, NOV 17, 2013
see: PIX from the ELIZABETH OPENING – MARCH 28, 2013
see: PIX from the URS FISCHER OPENING – OCT 22, 2011
~LEO LIKES .. ELIZABETH & URS |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 24th, 2013, 10:25am
