~’GANGS of NEW YORK’ !! . . ESSEX FLOWERS is on the ROAD / ADDS DONNA, CHICAGO / OPENING TO-NITE / FRI
ESSEX FLOWERS . . . IS ON THE ROAD !!!
FRESH ART DELIVERY . . . TO CHICAGO WITH LOVE, FROM NYC !!!
‘GANGS OF NEW YORK’ . . CURATED BY ESSEX FLOWERS
OPENING TO-NITE / FRI MAY 8, 2018 / 6 – 9 PM
the show runs thru JUNE 16, 2018
ADDS DONNA, 3252 W. NORTH AVE, CHICAGO
HRS: SAT / 12 – 5 PM & by appointment
a group show of 11 artists – who run !!! some of NYC’s best / artist-run spaces !!!
curated by one of the city’s most energetic, artist-run galleries . . ESSEX FLOWERS.
with roots in a basement, and now . . a storefront, 19 Monroe St. in Chinatown.
red rover, red rover – let, the ‘show-runners’ – take over !!
featuring:
YEVGENIA BARAS (Regina Rex) / ZACH STEINMAN (The Boom Boom Room) / JASON OSBOURNE (Off White Columns)
MAX SCHUMANN (Printed Matter) / ALLISON WADE (crystal flowers) / LAUREN CLAY (Won Eh)
HOLLY COULIS (106 Green) / JJ MANFORD (Underdonk) / NATHAN GWYNNE (Helper, Constance)
ERIC HIBIT (Ortega y Gassett Projects) / ALA DEHGHAN (17ESSEX)
well, sure now there’s micro art galleries . .
and some very inventive, truly ‘alternative’ viewing ‘venues’ & platforms,
tiny living rooms, degraded pay phone booths, a dingy Hunter basement office, to raw Chinatown studios, and the fall-back / empty storefront pop-ups !!
and, even just some plain ole, solely . . web-archived, or Instagram one-liners !!
but, let’s not forget the ‘heady’ culture of the galleries – run by artist collectives !!
including, in some cases (Off White Columns), e.g, a single artist-director/curator on IG.
but, he’s / they . . are engaging a community, around them.
where the members all chip in to run their spaces, but more importantly share a huge combustible curatorial spark of collaboration, new thoughts bouncing off each other, this way & that / resulting in some of the city’s very best and freshest, cutting edge art !!
GANGS . . rule !!
the premise of this show is that, “each member of ESSEX FLOWERS selected one work by one member active in a fellow artist-run organization”, and put they packed up, and put the work into a truck . . and drove it to Chicago !!
to another collective space . . ADDS DONNA.
founded in 2010, “ADDS DONNA functions as an experimental institution comprehending an exhibition space, an artist collective, and an on-going study group program.”
read more: ADDS DONNA – ABOUT
GANGS . . . on GANGS – on GANGS !!!
ON THE ROAD !!!
ESSEX FLOWERS MEMBERS: NICK TYPOLDAS & JEFFREY TRANCHELL . .
delivering some super fresh / NYC ‘gang’ art – to CHICAGO !!
making the journey . .
art work . . by NATHAN GYWNNE
art work . . by MAX SCHUMANN
ERIC HIBIT, ‘Yellow Anthurium’, 2018. (cc ORGY PROJECTS)
POSTER CHILD, lol – FOR A SHOW OF ‘HEADS’ / GANG TURF.
all images via Instagram @essexflowers