THE CASUAL ART FAIR, SEWARD PARK, LOWER EAST SIDE. NYC. Oct 1, 2017
so like I was saying,
ANTONE KONST’S drawing on an aqua-resin tablet, was so . . terrifyingly EROTIC !!
really beautiful, how it ‘dialoged’ with . . the ALFREDO MARTINEZ / phony ‘BASQUIAT’ – behind it.
“ORES of URANIUM” – one of ALFREDO MARTINEZ’S best “Real Fake” Basquaits, and a gun piece on hand-made paper to the right.
This forger is so good / he got caught red-handed, and went to jail.
as long as he sells them as outright fakes, he’s ok / conceptual artist ?!!
RIP / SIMON CERIGO, ca 1980s.
raw & wild paint / collage piece on board. love the color chart !!
it’s interesting to see work outside – of its usual resting place.
this time & place – I picked up on a wild angry yellow ghost man in the background.
‘Ulysses Yellow’ was Simon’s nom de plume / back in the 80s when it wasn’t cool to both show & make . . your own work !!!
as in: to be both gallerist / curator . . and painter.
the back wall.
SIMON CERIGO, NICHOLAS STEINDORF, DAN ASHER.
of course !! NICHOLAS was loving . . hanging between these 2 old Lower East Side legends !!
not to mention the real life fauna background, was a real boon for his artwork !!
in fact, NICHOLAS made it a point to tell me, the spontaneous raw / & casual vibe . . of the fair was really fun for him.
NICHOLAS STEINDORF . . the prints were color separated, not just color saturated !!
and you caught the best bang, when you looked at them . . through 3-D glasses.
though I thought they were pretty rockin’ out – just as is.
looking at NICHOLAS STEINDORF’S color separations !!
we had plenty of 3-D glasses on board, and they & Nicholas’s work – were a big hit with the Casual Art Fair goers.
NANCY SMITH – ‘Double Wedding Band’ quilt repair – ‘Dedicated to EMILY DICKINSON’.
my newest quilt project was very subdued, compared to the wild and wacky ‘100 and 1 Dalmatians’ Disney crib quilt repair project / I showed at the fair with ESSEX FLOWERS, last year.
which had been . . a real show stopper.
I didn’t care – repairing quilts is always about – change !!
and something . . new / some things just come on slower, but then – they make a really big BANG.
anyways, I was hosting this booth, so I was quite content to let my invited guests . . do the flower, bloom & shine !!
this was all about . . being Emily Dickinson !!
quiet. gracious, humble. but secretly . . intense, concise, to the point, skilled. killer.
full of workmanship & tiny elements / poetry. reveling in nature. leaving the ‘humans’ behind.
repairing quilts is . . very much a channeling. a ghost play. a ghost army of one. a ghost army of LOVE.
even the more so, because this particular quilt is actually . . a vintage, commercial ca 1980s-90s / CHINESE ‘REPLICA’ / CHEAP ‘REPRODUCTION’ QUILT.
still ‘hand-sewn’, but by some poor day laborer in a Chinese knock-off factory !!
the word . . counterfeit does come to mind !!
the “Real Fake’ . . quilt ???
one of the clues to its ‘faux’ origin is the textile pattern, it’s slightly off for being more Chinese than American, in color and tonality / and of course – how it is not cut into piecework. but patterned into ‘faux’ piecework.
as well, the lack of precision . . through-out.
but still, these are really fun to work on, and developing a new context for them, Emily Dickinson lol, . . is all, PART OF THE GAME – FOR ME.
talking about . . small elements, humble. concise and, meaningful.
we showed a rare & early DAN ASHER pencil drawing, a ‘finger print’
a lot of people were very confused by these, when DAN first put them forward, late 1980s.
minimalism – hadn’t quite gone this far . . minimal !! yet !!
DAN ASHER . . bring on the ghost army !!
if you are wondering how I come to have these, I worked as Dan’s studio assistant, in trade for his art work.
smarts – is smarts / esp in the art world.
small elements !!
I mean look at how Dan’s graphite piece converses so well, with this cutting edge / minimalist painting – with just 3 tiny elements of colored light – by JAMES MILLER, 2017.
I guess if our booth had a theme it was: faux, faux, faux and . . . go !!
small elements, and counterfeits . . of the soul !!
damn, that’s EROTIC !!
THEO CERIGO, the ARTLOVERSNEWYORK booth curator, with . . ELISE McMAHON of Like Minded Objects, and the founder of THE CASUAL ART FAIR & . . the entire HESTER STREET FAIR GROUP.
NICHOLAS STEINDORF, and ANTONE KONST, at the ARTLOVERSNEWYORK booth . . .
THE CASUAL ART FAIR, 2017.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~ARTLOVERSNEWYORK . . OUR BOOTH / Part II |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 6th, 2017, 12:48pm
at . . . THE CASUAL ART FAIR.
SEWARD PARK, LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC. OCT 1, 2017
our booth . . .
came together . . . much easier & way better than we had anticipated !!
the random tent assignment, which gave us . . . nature and trees for a backdrop !!
was an incredible . . lucky BONUS !!
not only did the grid of the little urban ‘pocket’ park fencing that ran behind us – solve the technical issue of how to hang the works / but it looked so great to have a moving, alive & breathing !! backdrop behind the displayed art.
and esp. behind NICHOLAS STEINDORF’S ‘leafy’ nature / ‘color separation’ pieces at the center.
our intended spirit of hanging everything casual / Casual Art Fair !!, & wild, as in ad hoc & improvised / as opposed to formal, framed & white box/ . . super benefited from this real time, real world . . lit !! & sunny dialogue.
it was just the best background ‘window’/ a virtual video of ‘nature’ running behind – could not have said it better. it gave a fluid, infinite space to the cutting edge art & in a very real sense, combined the diverse nature of our effort . . bringing in the prevalent & shared humanity !! loud & clear !!
that’s our curator THEO CERIGO, with artlovers’ ‘mascot’ & real life pooch . . Zora / a crowd pleaser – if there ever was one.
ps: that’s my newest, & very subdued . . quilt project, hanging down on the right.
we originally intended to screen . . a loop of the VDC / VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER . . inter-active, archival digital animated re-creation of ‘UNDER THE VOLCANO: SIMON CERIGO, DAN ASHER, NANCY SMITH’ – ‘A Pop-Up Painting Show: Lower East Side 80’s Art Scene’, June 2015 . . . on the right hand side of our main table . . . ??
which would have been . . . SO GREAT !!
but alas it was not to be, screening video is a touchy prospect it turns out.
have to admit – we were very disappointed by the fail !!
fair goers would have been so enchanted !!
you can catch a glimpse of the beginning of the re-creation here . . the empty storefront in New York’s gritty Chinatown, where the pop-up took place / June 6-8, 2015.
right on The Bowery.
which is pretty close to by, to where we actually we had our studio & where most of the art included in the pop-up show was made / a raw storefront, at 5 Rivington St, just 2 doors up from the Bowery, where we, me and Simon .. lived & worked & Dan was just around the corner / 1987-1996.
we have to thank NICHOLAS STEINDORF . .
who actually produced the digital re-creation from photographs / and of course !!
a GIANT BIG thank you to . . Paris-based JEAN-BAPTISTE LENGLET for including ‘UNDER THE VOLCANO’ – on his futuristic online artist gallery space / VDC – VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER !!
yes, CHECK OUT: VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER / it’s an online, ongoing . . interactive platform that you CAN DOWNLOAD – FOR FREE !!
DIRECT link to: ‘UNDER THE VOLCANO: SIMON CERIGO, DAN ASHER, NANCY SMITH’ – on VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER ARCHIVE !!
well, BACK TO REALITY, um, maybe . . . !!!
we did have some catalogs explaining the Paris-based online project:
VDC / VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER, founded & curated by JEAN-BAPTISTE LENGLET, that fair-goers could leaf through.
and some of JEAN-BAPTISTE’S own artwork !!
sketchbooks he made while on an art residency in . . TIBET.
he used everyday children’s notebooks – as the forum, but hello !!
of course, the line drawings inside are quite – XXXXX rated !!
lol, FAUX – DISNEY !!
the “Real Fake” . . . WALT DISNEY / with hand-drawn PORN inside – to boot !!
& . . check out that blowing-up / friggin trippy MUSHROOM !!
& that Looney Tunes ‘tweety’ bird !!
what kind of message are these guys – giving their schoolchildren . . anyway ?
it’s very Americanized – to say the least.
it’s very .. counter-culture ?
it’s also very counterfeit ? is that the Asian . . component ?
it’s the new . . global ‘mix’ !! and such a ‘happy’ place too, lord.
esp in Tibet.
that this is such a taken-for-granted / made for kids / new wave global ‘branding’ statement . . . astounds me.
I mean Hello Kitty . . was one thing.
I mean . . TIBET ? sacred Tibet / or what’s left of it.
on the left:
a fine & lively papier-mache ‘Orchid’ by TAYLOR McKIMENS . .
Collection: THEO CERIGO
and . . 2 small ‘tablet’ (aqua-resin) pieces by the ‘2 sides’ of yin / yang ANTONE KONST !!
and so . . damn erotic.
that’s a “real Fake” . . ALFREDO MARTINEZ faux Basquiat, coming in on the right.
there was just some inherent ‘narrative’ – that run through all of these pieces / a kind of slightly twisted / slightly sad, slightly lush/tainted erotic, slightly alarming ?
. . take on ‘reality’ ??!!!
esp with the complexity . . of Taylor’s flat, yet 3-d space.
obviously so “FAUX” yet . . real / as in well-observed.
the orchid flower petals really popped against the black cloth, of the tent next door.
at once so painterly, and so . . cartoon / lush vs. ironic is all I can say.
‘faux’ vs real is a very real – issue here. it’s a very deliberate . . game.
TAYLOR McKIMENS: the “Real Faux” / the “Real Fake” . . . flower painter ?
which is always what intrigues me so much about Taylor’s work . . that crazy balancing act he has going on – between . . narrative & philosophy / realist & cartoon-inflected.
sincere & tongue-in-cheek.
of course, sadly later . .
that night was that terrifying & deranged Los Vegas country music concert massacre / a kill box, some called it. like killing fish, and young ones at that . . . in a bucket I would say.
the horrific stats made the bad news / killer clown nuclear international threats fade away.
the brilliant planning . . so god damned American at it’s very best / & worst.
so efficient. and great, now everybody got the ‘master plan’.
after that, the next morning, when I looked again at the photos, I saw more clearly the jaded, sad narrative, the esp sad American cowboy narrative . . that Taylor distills, & which . . inform his ‘cartoon’-based works especially.
I saw a mad, angry face in the pink ‘water’ spill, spreading like a a huge blood stain against the ‘table’.
I saw ugly consumerism in the tiny, shabby peel-off orange price tag; and I saw the death of the soul – in the green drooping cash / money.
and of . . course, tears, tears, and more tears !! in the drippy drips.
a McKimens trademark from day one.
damn: it’s a drippy world, out there.
damn: it’s a drippy world amongst the beauty.
MORE PIX – ON OUR BOOTH – TOMORROW !!
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~ARTLOVERSNEWYORK . . OUR BOOTH !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 5th, 2017, 10:48am
ARTLOVERSNEW YORK . . will be participating in the 2nd annual CASUAL ART FAIR !!
THIS SUNDAY . . OCT 1, 2017 / 12 – 6 PM
SEWARD PARK – CORNER OF ESSEX & HESTER ST, LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC
see: CASUAL ART FAIR / HESTER STREET FAIR
LOOK FOR OUR TENT !!
CURATED BY . . new gen curator/collector, THEO CERIGO,
the booth will feature new work by . . TAYLOR McKIMENS, NICHOLAS STEINDORF, ANTONE KONST, and JAMES MILLER.
and will include a rare piece each – by ‘forever cutting edge’ indie artists: RIP DAN ASHER & RIP SIMON CERIGO.
NANCY SMITH . . will exhibit her newest quilt repair project, and ‘the real fake’ Basquiat forger . . ALFREDO MARTINEZ will e exhibit one of his notorious faux Basquiats and 2 smaller gun paintings.
additionally we will present a catalog of . . . Paris-based JEAN-BAPTISTE LENGLET’S virtual reality online platform: VDC / VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER – not available outside Paris.
here’s the sign I made for our tent – drying in the sun, this morning.
Theo requested a rough and raw one, just the like the one, in spirit !! that I spray painted on the wall . . for his and Kate’s pop-up show: ‘UNDER THE VOLCANO: SIMON CERIGO, DAN ASHER, NANCY SMITH’ / summer 2015.
kind of raw and wild, and in indie distress, lol !!
yes, those are two very real, authentic vintage American folk art . . ‘tire’ planters, that I found dumped on the street a few years back & have cherished ever since, RICHARD PRINCE, roll over . . with envy !!
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
NANCY SMITH . . detail of the reverse side of my current quilt project.
it’s ‘Dedicated to EMILY DICKINSON’, because y’all know I’ve been obsessed with her – all winter !!
therefore. I’ve tried to keep it very condensed & minimal in decoration, and execution, but still: packing . . . a quiet PUNCH !!
very spiritual. very contemplative.
I’ll “reveal” the front tomorrow, . . or better yet, come see it at the Fair, and I’ll explain all the old school traditional patterns, and resources . . to you in person !!
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
a page from JEAN-BAPTISTE LENGLET’S . . ongoing / online virtual reality project catalog: VDC / VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER.
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
ALFREDO MARTINEZ aka ‘the Basquiat forger’ !!
we will have one of Alfredo’s notorious . . ‘Real Fake Basquiat’ drawings.
come see if . . YOU !! can tell if: it’s real, or fake !!
besides, the price tag !!
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
ANTONE KONST . . will exhibit some new ‘slabs’ . . magic, passion and ghosts are afloat – already !!
PHOTO: COURTESY ANTONE KONST
speaking of which, RIP SIMON CERIGO, (1952-2013) . . crossing the line – to come par-tay with us !!
Ghost army !!
PHOTO: MARTIN BROMIRSKI via represent.com
most def, read: the obit article – THE DORSEY REPORT / REPRESENT
~ARTLOVERSNEWYORK . . CASUAL ART FAIR, LOWER EAST SIDE / SUN 12 – 6 PM |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 30th, 2017, 7:13pm
BUSHWICK !! BROOKLYN !! ARTIST !! DANCE !! PARTY !!
8:30 PM . . DOORS / 9:30 PM . . SHOW !!
“10 BONES before 10 PM / or after performance / 20 BONES OTHERWISE”
“DRESS TO SEE & BE SEEN”
RSVP to rubulad@outlook.com for address
see: RUBULAD . . on FACEBOOK
~RUBULAD . . BIG PAR-TAY-YAY-YAY !! TO-NITE !! SAT !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 30th, 2017, 1:37pm
THOMAS SPOERNDLE . . ‘STAND’ – OPENS TO-NITE / FRI SEPT 29, 2017 / 7-10 PM
WON_EH .. 467 TROUTMAN ST., BROOKLYN NY
~THOMAS SPOERNDLE: ‘STAND’ . . WON_ EH / OPENING FRI |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 29th, 2017, 7:36am
NYABF/NY ART BOOK FAIR 2017 . . MoMA PS1
JOHAN KUGELBERG . . curator / archivist & founder of BOO-HOORAY
VINTAGE PADDINGTON PRESS POSTER – FUND RAISING DANCE for RASTAFARIAN WOMEN, ca. 1982.
VINTAGE PADDINGTON PRESS POSTER . . ca. 1975.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~BOO-HOORAY: VINTAGE PADDINGTON PRESS POSTERS . . NYABF17 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 29th, 2017, 7:24am
NYABF17 / NY ART BOOK FAIR 2017 . . at MoMA PS1
PAUL WINDEL, and . . . RAND RENFROW / RAND PAUL.
also see, for merch: VALLEY CRUISE PRESS
MOST, DEF !!
CHECK OUT: PAUL WINDLE – ARTIST WEBSITE !!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MOST, DEF !!
CHECK OUT: RAND RENFROW – ARTIST WEBSITE !!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
table of goodies by . . PAUL WINDEL
yeah !! YOU KNOW !! . . . I’m digging the faux ‘sushi’ !!
or are they . . . The Real Fake ‘crystals’ ?
maybe sometimes, no diff !!
oversize patch by RAND RENFROW . .
The Real Fake . . . terrarium !!
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~RAND PAUL: PAUL WINDLE & RAND RENFROW / NYABF17 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 28th, 2017, 3:15pm
NYABF17 / NY ART BOOK FAIR at MoMA PS1
these art history coloring books by . . Berlin-based CHRISTIAN GFELLER, were pretty funny.
$15 ea.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~CINDERS: CHRISTIAN GFELLER . . NYABF17 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 28th, 2017, 8:43am
HIGHLIGHTS of the . . NEW YORK ART BOOK FAIR 2017
STO LEN, holding up one of KELIE BOWMAN’s machine-sewn / book-like . . puzzle / gatherings of actual unique artwork.
you can see his own marbled ‘Tsunaminagashi’ unique print, taken from a toxic water surface . . to the left, and those are other (multiple small edition) prints by Kelie, directly behind him.
KELIE BOWMAN, one of her folding books of unique parcels, of her ‘mural’ artwork.
one-of-kind editions, they were going for about $70 ea. depending on the size – they each varied slightly in size and shape.
kind-of-pocket . . kaleidoscopes. even though the visuals were very different from Sto’s works, and so most importatly was the process . . there was definite a visual rhythmn, song, or dialog going on, between their work, in the greater scheme of things.
brother & sister . . ‘swirls-from-another-mother’.
KELIE BOWMAN, folding down. very kinetic, in a super quiet way. nice.
KELIE BOWMAN, all folded up. small, but expansive, lol.
packed a BIG PUNCH, for a little package. lots of fun to play with. 3D !!!!
STO also had package assortments of his work, also priced in the $70 range / or there abouts depending on size.
it was a super nice way to flip – through some of his images, which were on strong paper / unique prints – not reproduced pages in a book.
there were even some mini !! book-like packages !!
I think these were priced around $35.
so fun. yet, serious. and most def: 3D !!
little . . ‘museums’ of the hand.
small package – big wallop.
both artists’ works – were ultimately about: INFINITY.
and the pattern . . of NON-PATTERN.
endlessly fascinating, and something to wonder about . . forever.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~CINDERS: STO LEN & KELIE BOWMAN . . NYABF17 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 27th, 2017, 8:17am
HIGHLIGHTS of the . . . NY ART BOOK FAIR 2017:
New York-based, ELIZABETH JAEGER of PERADAM, with the PETER SUTHERLAND ‘HOUSES’ poster, behind her.
Peradam . . gave away 500 0f these at the fair.
PETER SUTHERLAND . . ‘HOUSES’ posters, neatly folded and stacked . . yours for the TAKING !!
the Peradam table in the Dome.
the posters, published by Peradam / are a double-sided print, edition of 500, 4 x 6 ft. (large !!) and, FREE.
Made possible by a publishing grant from . . LEVI’S MADE & CRAFTED / CLOTHING BRAND.
on the left:
the slim, cardboard stock-like, retro-inspired volume that is:
MAIA RUTH LEE, ‘READY-TO-USE’ – ‘PAINTINGS of ILLUSTRATIONS of WOMEN at WORK’, published by Peradam Press
limited Edition of 200 . . $10 (!!)
“A treasury of well painted illustrations.”
Design by: MAIA RUTH LEE and PERADAM
Published in 2017 / 24 pages, Staple Bound / Edition of 200.
available online: PERADAM PRESS – MAIA RUTH LEE
MAIA RUTH LEE . . the House painter, the ‘Nails’ Painter.
MAIA RUTH LEE . . the Industrial Woman Worker
MAIA RUTH LEE . . the TAILOR, the RETAIL PRINT MAKER, & the GARDNER !!
MAIA RUTH LEE . . the LIFEGUARD.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~PERADAM: ELIZABETH JAEGER, PETER SUTHERLAND, MAIA RUTH LEE . . NYABF17 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 26th, 2017, 2:03pm
