GREGORY CREWDSON, somewhere around YALE, MARCH 25, 2013.
PHOTO: ARTLOVERS ARCHIVE
damn, the OSCARS ..
and even Yale’s dumb red tape ?!! .. they won’t show ‘BRIEF ENCOUNTERS’, the a-m-a-z-i-n-g film by BEN SHAPIRO .. on GREGORY CREWDSON, and his work .. to the students there .. because it’s not his own work, (the film itself ?) or something REALLY REALLY stupid .. like that.
if anything makes you REALLY REALLY wonder about really really goes on up there .. that runs counter-intuitive to all things good, and ..smart .. this would be it.
CHECK OUT: ‘BRIEF ENCOUNTERS’ .. a film on and about GREGORY CREWDSON – by BEN SHAPIRO (2012).
be warned, though the TRAILER is good, it’s NOWHERE as GOOD AS THE FILM. so see the film, duh !!
a frame from GREGORY CREWDSON – ‘BRIEF ENCOUNTERS’ a film by BEN SHAPIRO ..
still one of the best images ever, and the entire sequence, narration, and background of the snowy street shot – is one of our cinematic all time faves .. ever.
read: GREGORY CREWDSON – ‘BRIEF ENCOUNTERS’ premieres in NYC, NOV 11, 2012
~GREGORY CREWDSON |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 27th, 2013, 8:54am
NEW ART – IN BROOKLYN: POSTED BY KATE CERIGO, THURS MARCH 21, 2013 / 5:33 PM
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY ?
A BRIEF HISTORY of the FIRST SIX MONTHS at 109 . . .
OPENED SAT MARCH 9, 2013 / 6-10 PM
the show ran thru MARCH 17, 2013
109 GALLERY – 109 BROADWAY – SOUTH WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN, NY
the show’s ‘poster’ image . . .
NICHOLAS STEINDORF, ‘Green Corner’, 2012
25 x 27 in. digital inkjet print.
($750)
JERRY BLACKMAN, ‘Lance1’, 2013
18 x 12 x 12 in. ceramic.
($1,200)
LAUREN SEIDEN, ‘Untitled Wrap’, 2013
16 x26 in. graphite and pencil shavings on paper wrapped on stretchers.
($1,700)
HEIDI HAHN, ‘I Can’t Believe I’m Just a Painting’, 2013
32 x 26 in. oil on canvas.
($1,900)
PHOTOS AND REPORTING: KATE CERIGO
~WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY .. PART II |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 21st, 2013, 4:25pm
NEW ART – IN BROOKLYN: POSTED BY KATE CERIGO, WED MARCH 20, 2013 / 3:40 PM
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY ?
A BRIEF HISTORY of THE FIRST SIX MONTHS at 109 . . .
OPENED SAT MARCH 9, 3013 / 6-10 PM
the show ran thru MARCH 17, 2013
109 GALLERY – 109 BROADWAY – SOUTH WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN, NY
PIX FROM THE OPENING RECEPTION:
BORIS RASIN
top:
‘Brawl at the Parliament, Kuwait City, May 18 (2011)’
11.5 x 8.2 in. watercolor. ($450)
bottom:
‘Brawl at the Rada, Kiev, Ukraine, May 24 (2012)’
12 x 8.25 in. watercolor. ($450)
ADAM WISSING, ‘Untitled (cloudscape)’, 2013
72 x 48 in. pigment print & mounted projector.
($3,000)
ADAM WISSING, ‘Untitled (cloudscape)’, 2013
ADAM WISSING, ‘Untitled (cloudscape)’, 2013
JAMES MILLER, ‘Untitled’, 2013.
16 x 21 in. oil on panel.
($1,900)
CLAUDIA CORTINEZ, detail, ‘Viewfinder’, 2013. 46 x 38 in.
mounted inkjet print in wood frame.
($1,500)
CLAUDIA CORTINEZ, ‘Viewfinder’, in background.
back wall:
HANNAH RAWE, L: ‘Cherry Bunnies’, R: ‘Say Sorry’.
linoleum prints on newsprint, aqua resin, wood & acrylic.
($700 ea.)
at right:
CLAUDIA CORTINEZ, ‘Viewfinder’, 2013.
MORE PIX – FROM THE OPENING – POST: THURS MARCH 20, 2013
PHOTOS & REPORTING: KATE CERIGO
~WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY, PART I |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 20th, 2013, 2:38pm
the WALL STREET JOURNAL also likes .. ANTONY HEGARTY .. of ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS.
ANDY BETA mentions him in that recent DEVENDRA BANHART interview, writing . . .
re DEVENDRA: “In 2002, around the time his debut album was released, he moved to New York and became a figurehead in the ‘freak-folk’ movement, along with other outre musicians like harpist JOANNA NEWSOM and cabaret vocalist ANTONY HEGARTY.”
and a few weeks back – ANTONY got a huge shout-out on the WSJ FALL FASHION WEEK 2013 OVER-VIEW – at the top of the HIGHLIGHTS.
under ‘BEST SHOW’, and a most magical runway image, from PARIS, the caption reads:
“It seemed to be THOM BROWNE’s corpse-in-the-snowy-woods scene in New York — until GIVENCHY stole Paris fashion Week with a poetic collection that came with a passionate performance by New York band Antony and the Johnsons and a full orchestra. Was it the music and the scene ? Possibly. But Mr. TISCHI’S romantic clothing (and the torrid look shared by model NATALIA VODIANOVA on the runway and her LVMH scion boyfriend ANTOINE ARNAULT in the front row) cinched the deal.”
WALL STREET JOURNAL – ‘Fall Fashion, If You Dare’, March 7, 2013.
SIMON CERIGO’S VERY first music review for this site, back in MAY 2005 – was .. ANTONY and THE JOHNSONS’ second album, I AM A BIRD, of which Simon wrote: this CD . . . “is a wonder to behold.”
see: SIMON CERIGO REVIEWS .. ANTONY and THE JOHNSONS – I AM A BIRD.
ANTONY HEGARTY, of ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS – NYC. DEC 10, 2004.
PHOTO BY & COPYRIGHT OF: NANCY SMITH
I always thought it was funny, as in poignant/hard … that Antony recorded for a small indie record label called, SECRETLY CANADIAN, as I was .. secretly Canadian, for real !!
until my kids were able to sponsor me just recently.
I got here in the early 80s, when there were few issues, and then the immigration laws, just got harder and harder. esp for artists.
ANTONY would often pop up at downtown art openings back in the early 2000’s. so would DEVENDRA. in fact it was a banner few years for artists and musicians .. to mix and match. usually it was the (folk) musicians who were equally talented artists, and who were showing their art in small indie venues in the Lower East Side. and if not the musicians themselves, it was their small circle of friends, the people who did the unique art work for their highly individual CDs.
one big hub/small storefront space .. for this kind of activity was the long gone AFF / ART FIEND FOUNDATION run by a moveable collective headed by LEIF RITCHEY and TOOYA. located at 123 Ludlow St, just north of Delancey – it was to give rise to the fast-shooting-star emergence .. of the now famous, Paris-based sister artist/musicians .. CocoRosie. if you ever heard the soundtrack to THE FIFTH ELEMENT … well this the real deal.
(in a nutshell.)
in fact, the photo of ANTONY, above .. was taken at an opening of drawings by MATTEAH BAIM and LEIF RITCHEY, at AFF. it was very organic. very revelatory, and very grounded, all at the same time.
‘sound fragments’ .. at the opening were provided by RED BONE SLIM and HONEY CHILE.
RED BONE SLIM being .. BIANCA ‘COCO’ of CocoRosie.
this was the slim paper invite to the show, it measures 4-1/2 x 4 in:
GREEN . New, works, drawings & Sculptures
Matteah Baim & Leif Ritchey
Friday, December 10 / 7-10 pm
ART FIEND FOUNDATION
123 LUDLOW STREET
212.420.1033
Sound Fragments by Red Bone Slim & Honey Chile
that’s . . December 2004.
and yes . . that’s a phone no. (!!) landline, too – on the card. just even a few short years ago, ok .. 8 !! there were .. NO, NONE !! – gallery ‘websites’ !!
card courtesy: ARCHIVAL COLLECTION NANCY SMITH, NYC.
see: ANTONY and THE JOHNSONS – OFFICIAL WEBSITE
WATCH/LISTEN: ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS – ‘Cut The World’ . . . with WILLEM DAFOE, MARINA ABRAMOVIC & CARICE VAN HOUTEN
~ANTONY |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 19th, 2013, 9:30am
DEVENDRA BANHART is ALSO .. quite an accomplished artist – as in: visual arts.
his touch is very hands-on, inward, dreamy, symbolic .. musical. lyrical. mysterious. revelatory.
it speaks, it SINGS .. of the inter-relatedness of man & cosmos. man & body. man & imagination/mind. man & inner world. man & dreams.
man & the ‘trail’, the ‘path’ .. of creative thought.
back when he first hit NEW YORK CITY, he used to show his work at various group shows, and at CANADA GALLERY.
this is a piece he had in WHITE BOX gallery, a political show, just before some election, or something like that.
‘hands’ usually play a featured role in the drawings .. as in guitar ? as in Middle Eastern ‘palm up’ ?
as in eastern Indian mythology .. as in: the hand you are dealt ?!!
you can see the hands evolving here, at each side .. at the bottom .. border corners. and the ‘capping’ hand at the center – top.
instead of big sweeps of line or gesture, his work usually is built up with small, rhythmic elements .. often in pairs.
much like how a musician uses notes, and harmony.
pairs: yin. yang. male. female.
l-o-v-e ?
DEVENDRA BANHART, drawing on paper. NYC. MAY 5, 2004
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
~DEVENDRA BANHART .. drawing |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 17th, 2013, 7:25am
DEDICATED TO: SIMON CERIGO, MUSIC MAVEN WAY BEYOND THE CROWD, AND NOW .. WAY BEYOND THE BEYOND.
and, YEAH .. PLAY IT LOUD !!
SO:
the WALL STREET JOURNAL . . . just posted a sweet interview with DEVENDRA.
subtitled: ‘Devendra Banhart Returns With a New Record’ . . .
see: ‘A Quiet Place in the City’ – ANDY BETA .. INTERVIEWS DEVENDRA BANHART, WALL STREET JOURNAL/MARCH 14, 2013
it’s very interesting, with lots of good info.
apparently Devendra, with make-over .. and looking good, I mean who wants to be labelled a Hairy Fairy folk freak forever, esp when you are just 31 (?!!) . . . has returned to New York City from the West Coast, and no not LA, San Francisco.
turns out he has finally found his balance, after that mad NATALIE PORTMAN thing, and is seeing, make that .. is engaged to, seriously .. “the photographer and furniture designer ANA KRAS.”
the new album is titled: ‘MALA’ and is put out by Devendra’s new label: NONESUCH, and damn . . . if it doesn’t look and feel like a .. winner !!
rhythm, and back beat .. is everything. esp when you’ve already got a lock on the melody, brains & lyrics.
check out: DEVENDRA BARNHART – ‘Fur Hildegard von Binger’ .. from MALA, from NONESUCH
ok. first thing I wanna say, is also DAMN .. doesn’t that cover art look just the twin sister to the FRENCH KICKS ALBUM .. SWIMMING – which we just feature posted ?!!!
see: FRENCH KICKS, ‘SAID SO WHAT’, SWIMMING
am I right, or what ?
ok. second.
SIMON REVIEWED DEVENDRA BANHART’S early album, CRIPPLE CROW … for artloversnewyork in DEC 2005.
SIMON didn’t say a lot .. but what he did say was point perfect.
it was his 4th music review for this site.
he sure could call ’em.
see: SIMON CERIGO reviews DEVENDRA BANHART, CRIPPLE CROW – DEC 2005.
from the artlovers vault:
DEVENDRA BANHART . . . at OTHER MUSIC, NYC. APRIL 25, 2004.
PHOTO BY & COPYRIGHT OF: NANCY SMITH
BROOKLYN HIPSTERS .. KEEP YOUR PAWS – OFF THE PIX. more on that later.
P.S.
HEY SIMON, you ghost. and look at that .. you are the new ‘it’ KEYWORD. so chic after all.
so, what’s the music like up there, I mean it is .. up there, right ?
as opposed to you know, Simon loved DANTE !!
what ? cloudy, stormy, freaky ? serene ?
one big jam that never stops ? I believe it.
after I read the WALL STREET JOURNAL interview at 6 this morning, I promptly fell back asleep, and there I was .. transported through time, reality (?) at a DEVENDRA BANHART gig, at some smokey funky ghostly venue. and they, the band !! were all .. turning me onto some real funky psychedelic weed !!
but .. of course. you gotta walk like an Egyptian. afterlife, dudes, tell me about it.
just not the same dimension, is all.
~DEVENDRA BANHART resurfaces .. |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 14th, 2013, 9:17am
PETER HUTCHINSON: THE LOGIC OF MOUNTAINS
1963-2013: A 50-Year Survey of Constructions, Collages, Books and Film
FREIGHT+VOLUME – 530 W 24th St – CHELSEA, NYC
MORE PIX – FROM THE OPENING:
PETER DONNELLY, with PETER HUTCHINSON on the right, at the opening – FREIGHT+VOLUME, NYC. MARCH 5, 2013
Mr. Donnelly runs Mr. Hutchinson’s long-time studio in Providence, Rhode Island.
a self-portrait from back .. in the late 70s.
PETER HUTCHINSON, ‘Hunter’, 1978. Photo collage with text, 11 x 14 in.
($2,500.)
PETER HUTCHINSON, ‘Roman Empire Series No. 1: Romulus and Remus’, 1980.
Photo Collage with text, 20 x 30 in.
($5,000.)
detail, PETER HUTCHINSON, ‘Roman Empire Series No.1’.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~PETER HUTCHINSON .. PIX FROM THE OPENING .. PART III |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 13th, 2013, 9:32am
PETER HUTCHINSON: THE LOGIC OF MOUNTAINS
1963-2013: A 50-Year Survey of Constructions, Collages, Books and Film
opened THURS, MARCH 7, 2013
the show runs thru APRIL 13, 2013
FREIGHT+VOLUME – 530 W. 24th ST – CHELSEA, NYC
MORE PIX – FROM THE OPENING:
painter ERIK DEN BREEJEN, and photographer KEVIN KAY at the PETER HUTCHINSON OPENING,
FREIGHT+VOLUME, NYC. MARCH 7, 2013.
the buzz circulating about ERIK, was that the booth solely dedicated to his color field ‘text’ paintings, that F+V presented at the untitled fair – at the recent Miami Basel art fair weekend 2012 – was a pretty big success. duh. I’m a pretty big fan of his work – so, great news.
they have a great (super, really !!) selection of his work: featured on the FREIGHT+VOLUME website
CRAIG POOR MONTEITH … had an interesting story line.
He works uptown at the long established GRAHAM & SONS GALLERY, which just happens to represent the estate of his late great grandfather, ceramist HENRY VARNUM POOR, 1888-1970. and, yes of that .. STANDARD & POOR !! turns out his great grandfather was a close friend of EDWARD HOPPER, yes that EDWARD HOPPER, and in fact was one of the few friends to attend Hopper’s funeral, in Turo on Cape Cod. apparently he, HOPPER – was a bit of a misanthrope.
wow, HENRY VARUM POOR was really quite the talent, and talk about SKILLS – quite the craftsman !! turns out he is considered to be one of America’s finest painters, and is also well known as a muralist, craftsman, and architect, as well as ceramist. He co-founded the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture .. and most impressive, he designed his now-famous studio and home, ‘Crow House’ on South Mountain Road in New City, New York.
yep, check out: HENRY VARNUM POOR – ‘Crow House’.
and .. DO NOT MISS: the gallery of his works !!
MARCELA SALVADORE, an art enthusiast from Ecuador, who is currently an exchange student at MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY.
so, what is she doing in New York ?
“I’m on spring break !!”
she was standing beside .. PETER HUTCHINSON’S ‘Avocado’, 1973.
Photo collage with text. 30 x 20 in.
($5,500.)
PETER HUTCHINSON, ‘Avocado’, the text reads:
“making this video in Firenze, I drew on a blackboard with chalk tracing the growth of an avocado from the sprouting seed to the fully formed fruit.”
art world videographer, LOREN MONK aka JAMES KALM. two sides of the same coin. we reminisced about Simon, the late great SIMON CERIGO – and lamented .. the loss of his colorful, but accurate take on the art scene. as well as holding .. in that big round noggin, an immense oral history on the scene – going way back to the 80s.
nobody went to more openings, did the footwork like Simon. Loren told me he had caught a nice cameo of Simon .. way back in the SPRING of 2009 – at the ERIK PARKER, ‘CRISIS CREATION’ – PAUL KASMIN opening.
and sure enough he did !!
hey, I guess if a bonafide digital ghost pops up, you are allowed to let him – up .. on stage !!
the video is noteworthy for 3, ok 4 things . . .
1. the intro .. JAMES KALM: here’s SIMON CERIGO .. “he’s a professional art critic .. he won’t talk unless you pay him ..” haha I can hear the laughter breaking out .. across the computer world all the way to the desk of Charlie Finch, and all.
not that he didn’t have the goods.
ever try to invoice a collector, or even an art reporter for that matter ? in this town of tightwads at best, outright crooks – at worst.
2. his true love of art .. and his knowledge. this nite it went, roughly: yes I have known ERIK PARKER for 10 years now, from when he first scribbled on RIRKRIT’S apartment/installation at GAVIN BROWN’S Passerby, when he was still a student, still in school. (at COLUMBIA, where Tiravanija teaches).
I can even add a little color to that: .. and yeah, Erik Parker bitched heavy that Gavin wouldn’t pay him even one thin measly dime when the entire construction was promptly sold. Parker went on to swear .. up and down 15th St – that that was gonna be the last time he was going to scribble his stuff .. on somebody else’s wall. actually he was right, his scribble was quite the ‘star’ .. he had ‘dirty listed’ galleries – and named names !!
a real first. though pretty commonplace, now.
3. his, Simon’s legendary – it seems, (well if you read any of the media obits, you know !!) love of the marijudwanna !! since we are, after-all talking all things: earthy, flowery and organic !!
not to forget: ‘narrative’ !!
yep, he would tell you exactly when & where .. he had smoked the smoke with the artists at hand.
4. dude, he gave a shout-out to artlovers !!
watch: ERIK PARKER ‘CRISIS CREATION’ – by JAMES KALM / YouTube, posted MARCH 2009
SIMON pops up .. about 7 minutes into the 10 minute take.
yeah, but no denying. life belongs to the .. living.
PETER HUTCHINSON , ‘International Landscape’, 2006. Photo collage with text. 80 x 120 in.
detail, PETER HUTCHINSON, ‘International Landscape’. I especially liked this piece for the way the collage – displayed, and revealed.
detail, PETER HUTCHINSON, ‘International Landscape’.
detail, PETER HUTCHINSON, ‘International Landscape’.
we’ll give the last word … to photographer JEFFREY SHAGAWAT, and actress, the lovely MIZUO PECK.
to .. life.
behind them, PETER HUTCHINSON, ‘The Logic of Mountains’, 2010.
Photo collage with text.
80 x 120 in.
ONE LAST SET OF PHOTOS – TO POST WED of THIS WEEK . . or, something like that.
between the ghosts, and turning the clock ahead .. I got a little blogger ‘jet lag’.
you know: time. in all its layers, and dimensions.
day to day: it’s just one big … time collage ?
ALL PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
EXCEPT – PHOTO OF SIMON CERIGO: WHICH IS A YOUTUBE / SCREENGRAB VIA JAMES KALM
thank you, JAMES.
~PETER HUTCHINSON .. PIX FROM THE OPENING .. PART II |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 11th, 2013, 10:59am
PETER HUTCHINSON: THE LOGIC OF MOUNTAINS
1963-2013: A 50-Year Survey of Constructions, Collages, Books and Film
the show opened Thurs March 7, 2013 / 7-9PM
and runs thru APRIL 13, 2013
FREIGHT+VOLUME – 530 W 24th St – Chelsea, NYC
PETER HUTCHINSON: THE LOGIC OF MOUNTAINS / 1963-2013: A 50-Year Survey of Constructions, Collages, Books and Film . . . has the feel of a mini-museum-in-a-gallery retrospective. the exhibit has great depth, but is also swift, and sweet, and well . . . fleeting in nature.
and, yes. you can think .. about that.
PETER HUTCHINSON, ‘Tube Project for Utah’, 1969.
Photo Collage with text, 23 x 28 x 3 in.
($7,500.)
the collages were by far, my fave delight . . .
photos, flowers, and thoughts / what’s not to admire, question, wonder and peruse.
detail, PETER HUTCHINSON, ‘Tube Project for Utah’.
talk about the ‘Wizard’, and the road to . . . Oz (!!)
if I could discern any real pattern/formal evolution in the work, from early to present, I would say, based on this presentation .. that the earlier works were more ‘narrative’ in their own real-world compositions, e.g. the ‘barren’ road leading to the horizon, while .. the latter works develop a grid-like formal partition .. in their collage organization.
detail, PETER HUTCHINSON, ‘Tube Project for Utah’.
though it’s hard to tell from the photographic depictions of the exhibited works on the gallery website, all of the carefully framed works, which are unique by virtue of being collages, as opposed to straight photographic prints .. are accompanied by brief texts, in Mr. Hutchinson’s own interesting, spindly script.
so flow .. the thoughts of the artist, from behind the lens, and the paste jar .. so to speak.
these flower-like scribbles themselves .. often include slight jokes, and/or exact details .. to help you break-down & analyze, study .. the meanings behind the extremely pictorial, as in v-i-s-u-a-l rich . . . ‘pictures.’
when I asked Mr. Hutchinson about these notations, he said simply: “narrative art.”
which made me stop, and ponder: was he at the cutting edge of ‘narrative art’, like other people were at the edge of say, site-specific earth art ?
p-r-o-b-a-b-l-y. did come .. to mind.
this one says: “Tubes contain a cactus and chemical crystals mixed with salt.” these tubes are photographs, but in other pieces, actual glass vials, or containers .. of another sort of scientific nature are right there, adhered to the work.
this is a later piece . . .
PETER HUTCHINSON, ‘Birds of Paradise’, 2009. Photo Collage with text.
40 x 60 in.
($10,000).
detail, PETER HUTCHINSON, ‘Birds of Paradise.’ the text:
“Of course, seagulls are not the tropical birds of paradise but to me they might as well be, soaring in the bright blue sky, expressing freedom and the ability to survive, they represent the ever-present spirit of nature”.
even if you just get to watch pigeons from inner city front row seats, you know the longer you watch, you will get to see, be able to pick out .. the stout sentinels that guard the flock, the bravest scouts that take flight in pairs to roam the far-distant horizon from higher points, and of course, the dance of the breeders, the iridescent sheen of their neck feathers, more opulent than mother-of-pearl . .
detail, PETER HUTCHINSON, ‘Birds of Paradise’.
there seems to be a house in this one, and you can easily divine the compositional ‘divide’ of the grid-like organization of the photos, with some / most it seems at first, almost still roughly uncut .. or, better stated: slightly cut, but still in their total original ‘print’ rectangles . . .
it’s a closely held ‘quilt’ format … that, look closer is .. often, and eerily, deconstructed.
detail, PETER HUTCHINSON, ‘Birds of Paradise’ .. with cut-out bird shapes, breaking into the composition.
yep, I DID ask (!!) Mr. Hutchinson, what kind of magazines or catalogs, thinking must be old-school stock for sure .. that he cut into .. to get such bright colors and hard paper stock ? haha.
but, hey, great question !!
turns out: he takes all of his own photos .. and cuts them up !! and back in the day that meant hi-gloss, heavy stock, color vibrant KODAK PAPER.
they don’t sing, “momma don’t take my Kodachrome away” – for nothin’ !!
not only that, he also grows MOST (!!) of the flowers he photographs, yes, himself – as well.
go tell that to a contemporary collage ‘party’ artist.
so like I said, great question.
this is an artist, scientist, botanist, just saying.
this is the breed of visual arts thinker, observer, organic world thinker and eco-catcher/artist, who brought today’s world .. to art, back when most people really hadn’t gotten the ‘change of mindset’ yet.
the press release says:
“Born in England, Peter Hutchinson has lived in the United States for over half a century and has practiced art for nearly as long. Beginning as a geometric (I knew it !!) painter. his close contact with minimal artists in New York such as SOL LEWITT and TADAAKI KUWAYAMA exposed him to conceptualist thinking at its inception.
But Hutchinson turned away from minimalism and conceptualism’s rhetorical bent, preferring to follow a more overtly poetic and nature-oriented path. In this way, he remained true to his British roots, mirroring and even anticipating the landscape orientation, and physical commitment, of artists like RICHARD LONG and HAMISH FULTON, and evincing the heritage of the great poets and painters of the 18th and 19th century, including CONSTABLE, WORDSWORTH, and BLAKE.”
detail, PETER HUTCHINSON, ‘Birds of Paradise’.
one can discern the snip snip of scissors at work, here, in this ‘patch’ … too. but look even more closely, and you can catch some drawing, some hands-on .. vibrant, yet minimal line work, as well.
a hands-on ‘bridge’, if you will.
detail, PETER HUTCHINSON, ‘Birds of Paradise’.
same here.
detail, PETER HUTCHINSON, ‘Birds of Paradise’.
this patch even has some .. what looks to be green/yellow ‘tips’ of oil paint applied with a fine brush.
compositional camo, or what !!
the whole crew at the end of the opening . . . I’m thinking this show represented a great deal of thought, planning, and plain ole … hard work.
from left:
PETER DONNELLY, who is Mr. Hutchinson’s current studio manager; F+V’s KEVIN KAY, followed by Mr. Hutchinson’s longtime friend, VIRGINIA DWAN; at center, the artist, himself: PETER HUTCHINSON. F+V owner/director NICK LAWRENCE who produced the show .. and the rest of the FREIGHT+VOLUME gallery staff: ASHLEY DILLMAN, TAYLOR LANGONE, and last but not least, MONICA TRUONG, who received a nice ‘design’ credit – on the gallery website essay, in connection with this show.
they are standing in front of: PETER HUTCHINSON’S – ‘The Logic of Mountains’, 2010.
Photo Collage with text, at 80 x 120 in. – also the largest piece in the show.
MORE PHOTOS – FROM THE OPENING – POST SHORTLY / HAPPY ART FAIR WEEKEND, Y’ALL !!
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~PETER HUTCHINSON .. PIX FROM THE OPENING .. PART I |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 9th, 2013, 1:23pm
‘PETER HUTCHINSON – THE LOGIC OF MOUNTAINS’
1963-2013: A 50-Year Survey of Collages, Constructions, Books and Film
OPENS THURS MARCH 7, 2013 / 6-9 PM
the show runs MARCH 7 – APRIL 13, 22013
FREIGHT+VOLUME – 530 WEST 24th ST – CHELSEA, NYC
read MORE: about PETER HUTCHINSON & the show … yes, read it.
it’s a beautiful, intimate essay penned by F+V’s NICK LAWRENCE, himself.
see MORE: works from the show …
PETER HUTCHINSON, ‘THE LOGIC OF MOUNTAINS’, 2010. photo collage with text. 80 x 120 in.
IMAGE COURTESY: FREIGHT+VOLUME
PETER HUTCHINSON, ‘THROWN ROPE TACTICS’, 1992. Mixed Media Construction, 12 x 38 x 3 in.
IMAGE COURTESY: FREIGHT+VOLUME
~PETER HUTCHINSON .. THE LOGIC of MOUNTAINS .. OPENS THURS |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 6th, 2013, 12:47pm
