~’TIDUS GROUP SHOW 1′ . . SPIDER GALLERY, WICHITA / with a side of . . PATTY MULLEN
featuring . . CONNOR LANG, ELOISE LANG, and DEVON LOWMAN
organized by . . ELOISE LANG !! You Go Girl !!
the worst part of writing an Indie blog are the low level scavengers who make a pretty pretty nice
salary, chasing you – to work, for free of course, on their clients’ behalf.
so yeah if I could go away to the countryside, it sure wouldn’t be to that played-out & ticketed !! NADA – FORELAND !!
and, hell no, it definite would not be – to that nursing home center of worn-out scenic aesthetics . . NADA – MAINE, either.
FORELAND ?
FORECLOSURE is more like it – thanks to these art world vultures, and more importantly, the people who sponsor them.
“Dear Nancy, if you happen to be in Maine . . ?” / are you kidding me.
I can’t even afford an Uber to Marvin Gardens, apparently.
and, I mean Marvin Gardens, Ridgewood NY, not Monopoly.
because, seriously what’s the diff / it’s Pass Go & lose . . $200 in NYC / IRL.
nope.
Apparently, I was born to be hard-core Indie, and way ahead of the middling crowd, and probably will be, til the day I die.
timing is everything, and trust me when I say, being way ahead of the pack – is NOT the best kind of timing re your bank account.
slow and stupid – wins in this town.
well, maybe it’s not so stupid, to be able to get your little gallery-opening-ready black dress off the hard work – of someone else ?
nope, if I could get to the country, it would be somewhere . . raw, authentic, and totally off-the-beaten-track. where the talent, and the long summer days float up to that big summer sky, in perfect harmony.
nope, I’m going to – Wichita, if only in my dreams.
SPIDER GALLERY, Wichita, Kansas.
note: all photos courtesy of the gallery via Instagram @spider.gallery
yikes !!
did you notice the ‘detail’ of the scenic photo above ?
that’s what I mean, authentic & crushing it . . SPIDER, you lovely true-blue / hard-core Indie Rebel !!
just born that way, and nothing contrived.
this is what real creative community – comes down to.
take that, all you poser NYC art dealer wannabe . . bros.
the artist is . . PATTY MULLEN, who had the Spring 2023 show at SPIDER.
and, just in case you are a big-time artlovers fan from Japan – yes !!
we are talking Dorothy, the Wizard of Oz, and the fab fab Wicked Witch of the West – sprung from Depression era / mid-west America – and, that is spelt: K-a-n-s-a-s /
‘The Wizard of Oz’ – by L. FRANK BAUM.
which was actually written to address / expose . . . government corruption, and posers of all genres !!
YEP, I’LL BE FLYING IN ON MY VIRTUAL, TALENT-SEEKING, TWITCHY BROOMSTICK . . . TO SEE:
‘TIDUS GROUP SHOW 1’ – SUMMER 2023
FEATURING: CONNOR LANG, ELOISE LANG, AND DEVON LOWMAN
ORGANIZED BY: ELOISE LANG
SPIDER GALLERY – A DOMESTIC EXHIBITION SPACE IN WICHITA, KS / KANSAS.
PS: CONNOR AND CHLOE LANG,
EX-PATS . . from let me guess: Capital M F A / North East art schools & circles ?!!
run Spider, “out of our garage turned gallery space in Wichita, Kansas. We moved to Wichita about 4 years ago right before our now 4 year old daughter, Eloise was born . . .
We appreciate staying connected with artist friends and highlighting their work.”
PS: CONNOR LANG – designs those incredible awesome exhibition ‘posters’, and the logo spiders, which I first noticed on their BILLY GRANT / solo exhibition IG posts, March of 2021.
all I can say is: BILLY BE . . GOOD !!!!
the other thing I really REALLY like about this show,
and that I consider to be very brilliant, and of unique, cutting-edge rebel / forward-Indie vision / is that this is a GENERATIONAL SHOW / but, unlike your average run on-and-on, boring by now / multi-generational art shows in NYC, and probably around the world, in a ‘new’ (ugh) drive to be ‘inclusive . . which only leans to older / this one, ‘TIDUS GROUP SHOW 1’ . . . skews YOUNG !!
and I mean, young.
yes. their afore-mentioned daughter – Eloise Lang all of 4 years old, ‘organized’ the exhibit, and proudly displays her work too. I dare you to guess which piece . . is hers !!
hint: it’s yellow, abstract expressionist – and really ‘hugs’ the ‘plastic’ compositional borders of the surface.
the bright-eyed, drop-dead-comic, realist / ‘SUPER MARIO’ – is by DEVON LOWMAN, currently based in NY/CT.
DEVON LOWMAN, ‘SUPER MARIO’, 2023.
‘realist’ / animation game character – painting / with just the perfect amount of ‘bold’, and great diy humor in the details. and texture, heavy. just so you know, it’s ‘human-made’.
what could be better – than a fierce flying, almost one-eyed . . Mario /
counter-intuitively installed on a fabulous-in-its-own-right / wooden, barn-like, garage shed, in deep south-central Kansas ?!!
CONNOR LANG, CHLOE LANG, ELOISE LANG, ‘COLLABORATION’, 2023.
MIXED MEDIA.
GREAT FREE – FALL PAINTING / ESP INSTALLED ON THAT GREAT INTERIOR WALL.
detail, ‘Banana Dude’ / Chloe, Connor, and Eloise Lang.
Eloise !! hello !!
so fun, I’m going to be the very first line – in your CV / ‘Exhibits’ !!!!
best of luck, in all your future endeavors . . !!
all photos: Spider Gallery on Instagram @spider.gallery
