MAIA RUTH LEE . . WILL BE DOING A BOOK SIGNING !!
of her recent & very smart, retro-inspired: ‘Paintings of Illustrations of Women at Work’ . . $10 !!!!
TODAY !!
FRI SEPT 22, 2017 . . at 3 PM
at the PERADAM table in the DOME / booth B14
NY ART BOOK FAIR 2017 – at MOMA PS1.
7 x 10.5 in.
24 pages
Staple bound
Edition of 200
($10)
from the PERADAM PRESS RELEASE:
“Artists, illustrators or anyone in need of work-related graphics featuring women will find a treasury of well-painted illustrations in this handy archive.”
~MAIA RUTH RUTH LEE . . BOOK SIGNING / ‘WOMEN AT WORK’, PERADAM / NYABF TODAY, FRI at 3 PM |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 22nd, 2017, 10:55am
ONLY 500 !! – GRAB ONE, WHILE YOU CAN !!
PERADAM has a table in the DOME – booth B14
‘HOUSES’ – by PETER SUTHERLAND
50.3 x 75.5 in. — or: a bit larger than 4 ft. x 6 ft. !!
1 page, double sided / Edition of 500
Free (at the fair)
from the PERADAM PRESS RELEASE:
Houses, a limited edition by PETER SUTHERLAND, features a set of photographs from a group of similar houses that Sutherland has been shooting since 2015. The photgraphs are taken on the extensive road travels of the artist in and around the areas where he spent his childhood. Sutherland’s imagery captures the changing visual and cultural landscape of America through it’s most recent constructions – that of quickly made, and rather temporary, structures. Depicting them in their unfinished states, the photographs reveal a sense of disquiet within the fervor of American “development”.
FILE, again . . under: ARTIST ACTIVIST.
~PETER SUTHERLAND . . FREE POSTER / PERADAM / NY ART BOOK FAIR |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 22nd, 2017, 10:31am
STO LEN . . WILL BE RELEASING A NEW BOOK – ‘BAD WATER PLACE’ . . !!
this weekend – at:
NY ART BOOK FAIR – SEPT 22-24, 2017 / PREVIEW THURS SEPT 21
CINDERS GALLERY BOOTH: R07
MoMA PS 1, 22-25 JACKSON AVE, LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS, NY 11101
‘BAD WATER PLACE’ . . documents my printmaking adventures on the polluted waters of Newtown Creek in NY – come find me for a signed copy !!” – STO
and, I’m / artlovers . . . thinking the big IRONY is, NEWTOWN CREEK, once meant . . New Town !!
as in: fresh, clean . . HOPEFUL.
see: NEWTOWN CREEK, NY – WIKIPEDIA
see: NEWTOWN CREEK, BROOKLYN/QUEENS, NY – SUPERFUND
from the press release:
‘BAD WATER PLACE’ . . documents the site-specific work of artist STO LEN.
“Highlighting the relationship between aesthetic beauty and UGLY truth, Sto investigates urban sprawl and the illegal dumping of toxic waste in natural habitats through a series of prints pulled from the actual surface waters, in this book he focuses on NEWTON CREEK, one of the most polluted bodies of water in the U.S.
Working en plein air from a rowboat, Sto uses an original process he calls ‘Tsunaminagashi’- a mix of traditional suminagashi and his own techniques – to print directly off of the water. These works are arresting, psychedelic experiments in marbleized texture and design that reveal a dark, tactile truth of urban pollution in our city’s water.
It is within this context that Sto Len exposes the physical consequences of this abused urban landscape through land art, performance & printmaking as a site of discourse on environmentalism and art activism.”
‘BAD WATER PLACE’ features photography . . by TRACIE WILLIAMS, R. NICHOLAS KUSZYK, and WALTER WLODARCZYK.
Full Color, 80 pages, 8.5 x 5.5 in., signed & numbered first edition of 100, 2017
($20)
‘BAD WATER PLACE” . . is also available online: CINDERS GALLERY – ‘BAD WATER PLACE’
additionally, see: STO IS HERE / ARTIST PORTFOLIO WEBSITE
NOTE: ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF STO LEN / THANK YOU.
~STO LEN . . ‘BAD WATER PLACE’ / NEW BOOK RELEASE / NYABF 2017 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 20th, 2017, 10:59am
STO LEN’S NEW INSTALL of UNIQUE PRINTS . . at SECRET PROJECT ROBOT
image via Instagram courtesy of @stoishere
‘the static was natural, the music was human’
New Work by STO LEN + Ashcan Institute for Self Organizing Patterns
the show opened SEPT 12, 2017 , and runs thru OCT 10, 2017
SECRET PROJECT ROBOT, 1186 Broadway, Bushwick, Brooklyn 11221
hrs: the exhibition will be on view daily, thru OCT 10th – from 4-7 PM
from the PRESS RELEASE:
“Nothing in the world is softer or weaker than water
Yet nothing is better at overcoming the hard and the strong”
~Lao Tzu
‘STO LEN has been researching water as a medium, language, tool and collaborator for the past 5 years. His meditative style of printmaking captures a moment in time in nature with a mono print. Layers of oil paint, vegetable oils, spray paint, dirt and various debris is built up on the water surface in large kiddie pools, wooden trays and buckets for hours and sometimes days while preparing a print. Outdoor pools collect raindrops and leaves while patterns are allowed time to develop on their own.
Renouncing the fussiness historically associated with paper marbling, Sto’s work instead celebrates chaos by finding the rhythm and pattern within water’s movement. For This exhibition Sto will showcase new experiments on wood and found objects that begin to take on sculptural forms.’
~STO LEN . . SECRET PROJECT ROBOT / up thru OCT 10 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 19th, 2017, 8:56am
ZURIEL WATERS . . will be co-hosting / sax accompanist . . a FREE EVENT on the HIGH LINE
“with the great AMY KOSHBIN” !!
here’s the line up of artist/performers:
MELISSA BROWN, JACQUES V, SEUNG-MON LEE, MORGAN BASSICHIS, LORELEI
TO-NITE / 7 PM
30th & 11th Ave – inside an installation by RADAMES
~’STAND UP / STAND DOWN’ . . THE HIGH LINE, feat. ZURIEL WATERS & MELISSA BROWN / TO-NITE MON SEPT 18 / 7 PM |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 18th, 2017, 8:02am
‘DOES A MOON MOVE’ – GROUP SHOW
OPENS TO-NITE / SUN SEPT 17, 2017 / 7 – 10 PM
the show runs thru OCT 15, 2017
ORGY PARK, 237 JEFFERSON ST, 1B, BROOKLYN NY 11237
CURATED BY: BANNERETTE / EMILY DAVIDSON & STUART LORIMER
with:
JOE DeNARDO, HALEY JOSEPHS, KRISTIN LEE, KAITLIN McDONOUGH, RJ MESSINEO, JENNA RANSOM, CRAIG REMPFER, SAM STRAND
more about the show: ‘DOES A MOON MOVE’ – ORGY PARK/PRESS RELEASE/GALLERY TEXT
~FROM: THE PRESS RELEASE / ‘DOES A MOON MOVE’ – ORGY PARK / CURATED BY BANNERETTE
note: the flyer mage is an ARTHUR DOVE painting in the collection of the SFMOMA & which inspired the show.
“it’s pretty moody”.
~’DOES A MOON MOVE’ . . ORGY PARK / OPENING TO-NITE SUN SEPT 17 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 17th, 2017, 1:16pm
lol, RICHARD PRINCE . . the Grandaddy of ‘Real Fake’ – jumps on the media bandwagon !!
the ‘Artist-as-thief’ media wave . . that swept over the local scene last week, via ALFREDO MARTINEZ & created by Yours Truly / artloversnewyork.
“I sometimes spend more time in my lawyer’s office than in my studio” . . RICHARD PRINCE,
all illuminating quote . . in this morning’s NEW YORK POST article, titled: This artist is making mega-millions ‘stealing people’s work’
written by MICHAEL KAPLAN & posted today. September 17, 2017 / 10:41am
read: ‘This artist is Making Millions . . NEW YORK POST
RICHARD PRINCE: GRANDAD of COPYRIGHT THEFT / NEW YORK POST
RICHARD PRINCE lifts iconic KIM GORDON, of SONIC YOUTH photo – straight off Instagram / NEW YORK POST
what, everybody wanna-be . . Alfredo ?
underground street cred and all.
haha, listen up . . .
ALFREDO wanna-be Richard Prince, even MORE !! . . . $$$$$ !!!
let’s . . turn the tables: anybody with $5 grand, $3 grand ? $2 grand ?
in your pocket !!
buy . . a ‘THE REAL FAKE’ Basquiat by ALFREDO MARTINEZ !!
at least he does them by hand, his . . own.
Spin, spin.
Bubble & burn / sell that underground fringe art / the only 100% real stuff – in NYC right now.
FOR SALES: CONTACT PAUL NAVARRO / paulnavarrosye@gmail.com / Artist Rep
~RICHARD PRINCE . . the Grandaddy of ‘Real Fake’ – jumps on the bandwagon !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 17th, 2017, 11:07am
SIMON CERIGO, RIP . . 1952-2013
was funny. he wasn’t a forger like Alfredo, but he was a real fake – in his own way.
he was kind of a pretender. aspiring to be a major player / collector / dealer . . which he actually did nail on many occasions, though he just lacked the discipline & deep pockets $$$$ to be really successful.
when what he really was . . was an incredibly vibrant, deep soul-ed & visionary artist.
if you saw ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ .. then you know he was also a pretty fake hubby, who was willing to throw me under the bus without a moment’s hesitation, when it was he – who set up the ‘taunt’.
top: Gun / watercolor painting with hand-made paper surface collage, on found cardboard pizza box, 24 x 28 in., Sept 1, 2017 . . by ALFREDO MARTINEZ aka “THE REAL FAKE” #Basquiatforger
bottom: Found painting with hand-scribbles & bits of collage, 18 x 18 in., ca. 2004 . . by SIMON CERIGO . . #underthevolcano.
it was somebody’s rather primitive, but very charming acrylic painting / canvas on wooden stretcher bars, no less. that he picked up off the street, & probably saved from the garbage dump.
this collage bit – was an Artforum ad he looked to have cut out, from a newspaper ?
that was another element of his ‘real fake’ persona.
though he constantly pooh-poohed Artforum,his whole entire life – he would have given his eye teeth to have seen his name in print on those pages, even just once.
*though JOSH HARRIS . . did get to see his name in Artforum because of some Euro-chick, who wrote up . . ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ as her top 5 . . whatever.
though quite a few years after the fact. the film, which focused on the bonafide, real time . . hardcore / underground art scene in NYC / at the time of the Millennium (Dec 1999-Jan 2000) won BEST DOCUMENTARY (USA) at SUNDANCE, in 2009, so really I don’t find that very impressive at all, re Artforum. because otherwise no mention – at all.
yeah, SO don’t get me started on Artforum.
I’d rather be entombed forever, Under The Volcano – than dead, bought & sold all the way . . in Artforum.
SIMON was into hand scribbling, before ‘rough’ or primitive / DIY hand-calligraphy was all the rage, or even . . a term. a thought. a thought bubble.
it reads: “MY MOTHER’S BEAUTY WAS MY TICKET TO THE STARS.”
that’s Simon, ca. 1990, NYC. Lower East Side. . . with our young son, Theo.
yeah, that be me . . back in Canada. in the early 1970s.
I was studying with GUIDO MOLINARI at Concordia University, in Montreal, Quebec. in the MFA in Studio Arts / Painting program.
I had a nickname back then, too. before I was artlovers, I was . . Guido-baby !!
go figure. I dunno why – people . . just like giving me labels.
guess it’s my outsider, dorky, intensity sets me apart.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~SIMON CERIGO . . the other ‘fake’ |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 16th, 2017, 10:03am
GROUND CONTROL – to MAJOR TOM . . & IAN CHENG !!
after the opening, ALFREDO took me up to see his new painting HQ, a few doors down on 24th St.- in Chelsea. NYC.
in a high-rise metal & steel office building.
at first impression, it looked like a secret, mini-underground / MTA / NYC subway . . post-9-11 surveillance / command post. a hidden nuke respond command post / where the inhabitants never see the light of day. & are always on alert, and are therefore totally bored & eat bags of chips and juice. & the mess piles up. while they study the big screen. of the removed / real world.
except for the intermittent trace of tell-tale art supplies / like, a red paint lid.
well maybe they get to doodle in their (mostly) free time.
it sure did look like some kind of covert HQ / an urban guerilla . . control central, if I ever did see one. entirely fitting – to be the scene of ‘art’ crimes / forgery.
& quasi-legal gun replication.
there were at present, no 3-D gun (working, or non-working) replicas, nor any fake Basquiats . . lying about.
but, there were 3 really nice works in progress, up on the wall near the door.
the place was small, maybe 200 sq ft. / the words: illegal occupation – did come to mind.
he told me to ‘pop’ the top one down, I used a broom handle. it was pretty light, not even quite as heavy as your standard strength pizza box, maybe just a cheap flat rate, shipping box ?
or a cheap pizza – box ? have you seen them ? they sure don’t make things the way they used to.
at any rate, you can note the ‘folding-in’ – side.
standard . . 24 x 18 in. ‘light-weight’ cardboard.
as we caught up, he set about working on it, just a few finishing touches: some light blue watercolor tint.
finished . . & signed. beautiful / and, radiant.
take that – all you non-believers. and multiply by a factor of 10. 100. 1,000.
it almost looks – like ceramic ‘glaze’.
it’s . . so radiant.
and it’s so . . non-digital.
wtf. YES !!
it was signed: FNSALNYC / FOR NANCY SMITH ART LOVERS NEW YORK CITY / in front of my very own wide-open eyes.
and there it is . . . in it’s new home.
my covert HQ / in JERSEY !!
oh yeah, my ‘new’ home for about 13 yrs / my stronghold !!
in the now rapidly gentrifying, what else is new, Jersey City Heights.
tell me about it: gentrification follows me like a dark cloud. ever since I got here, NYC. in the early 80s. you could map the ‘trending’ real estate market . . just before the bubble breaks & the rents go sky-high / just by tracing my wanderings. the never-ending quest.
the never-ending NYC artist search – for survival housing.
just ask Alfredo.
his current ‘HQ’ on 24th St is super-dependent on an on-going landlord / tenant rent strike / or, rent dispute. something like that. when it’s (legally) resolved, he’ll be out, but until then – ain’t nothing the landlord can do.
here, again you can see the side of the ‘found’ 3-D cardboard box.
I guess that makes it: XX double strength.
as in . . XX REAL FAKE !!
A REAL . . . ALFREDO !!
obviously, it takes a real . . . forger to make sure his work – is unique on several fronts, where you gonna find a genuine ‘found’ box like that – down the road. likewise the patiently collaged / found scrap paper, his ‘signature’ patina / surface. & the misc stains, & the wobbly signature. let alone the ‘glow ‘of the thin paint.
just try copying – that signature !! let alone the shaky . . . intertwined, ‘AM’ logo.
likewise: the authentic grease, or is that coffee ? stains – which are always included, for free.
likewise, the uniquely Alfredo . . patiently collaged / ‘scrap’ paper pasted to the surface / an homage to the DIY paper he continues to work with, to add texture to his work.
Alfredo learnt to make paper in prison – from a old Russian gangster. the MDCC prison authorities wouldn’t give him drawing paper, so he had to make his own / from torn-out pages of old ‘lending’ books, using flour & water as paste.
he used instant coffee packets, and jello – for pigment. I think he used q-tips for brushes.
it’s that pasted-on diy paper scrap ‘collage’ – that also contributes to the ‘glaze’ quality of the watery / thin paint pigment, esp in concert with the ‘transparent’ brush strokes.
lol. I dare anybody to copy this. in fact, take it a wild step further.
I dare Basquiat to copy this / in fact, I don’t think you could turn the ‘forgery’ tables, even in your most . . wildest imagination. for one thing Basquiat wouldn’t have the patience for the DIY paste paper collage.
so, maybe only in the . . far-fetched sci-fi / time-travel movie ?
or, perhaps more likely . . a futuristic / AI non-scripted digital animation face-off . . .
‘THE REAL FAKE FORGER: BASQUIAT vs. MARTINEZ’.
in fact, I propose this as my very own . . . throw-down challenge.
to all ye next generation art world / software gamer / geeks & programmers.
& note: it might be coming, sooner than you think / AI simulated open-ended animation is already in the works.
note:IAN CHENG, ‘Emissaries’ .. at MoMA PS1 – thru SEPT 24th, 2017.
but, lol. what’s this ?
from a “REAL FAKE” . . ALFREDO MARTINEZ gun piece,
a real, FAKE FLOWER . . . grows ?????
can’t shake those . . bloody, blooming . . flowers.
great American tradition: guns & roses.
from guns . . do roses grow ?
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH / SEPT 1, 2017
~ALFREDO MARTINEZ . . “THE REAL FAKE” / inside the NYC headquarters of the Notorious Basquiat Forger |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 14th, 2017, 1:25pm
LOL, HURRICANE ALFREDO – HITS THE EAST COAST.
ALFREDO MARTINEZ – “THE REAL FAKE” . . !!
CLOSING PARTY – TO-NITE !! THURS SEPT 7, 2017 / 6 – 10 PM
CONTRA GALLERIES, 122 W.26TH ST. 6TH FL, CHELSEA
what else is new ?
they picked up the show – and moved it a few doors over !!
everybody jumping on the rippin’ bandwagon – that is . . Alfredo.
lit . . from within, is all I can say !!
ALFREDO TAKES US ON A WILD, RADIANT RIDE . . .
& PRESENTS US WITH: AN IMAGINARY, BASQUIAT / MID-CAREER RETROSPECTIVE,
ART WORKS – UP FROM THE DEEP AUTHORITY of the REAL BASQUIAT FORGER – HIMSELF.
IMPULSE, IMPULSE, if not . . SPEAKING IN TONGUES – RASTA, CARIB ISLAND STYLE / VOO-DOO !!
NEVER FLAT, NEVER.
THIS VIBE IS SO . . JEAN-MICHEL, IT IS RADIANT CHILD V.02 ALL THE WAY.
THAT’S .. WHAT’S SO CRAZY !!
when they say, he’s the REAL Fake . . they ain’t talkin’ trash.
I’m sayin’ . .
DEFINITE, CATCH ONE !! – WHILE YOU CAN / IT’S A FEW GRAND $$ TO ALFIE – OR ELSE,
SOME VERY VERY BIG BUCKS TO THE BIG AUCTIONS – TO HAVE THE SAME VIBRANT DANCE . . OF THE INNER MIND / ON YOUR . . . WALL.
FOR SURE, IT’S LANDMARK, UNDERGROUND ART . . not, to mention – a great conversation piece, all full-on context, with bragging rights / & stories to tell.
ALFREDO MARTINEZ, ‘Untitled’, 2017 . . in “THE REAL FAKE”.
acrylic paint on cardboard with Alfredo’s signature . . DIY / HANDMADE GLUE-PASTE / COLLAGE PAPER SURFACE, 50 x 40 in.
($5,000)
“PAW” / “WILLIAM HANNA – JOSEPH BARBARA” / “OUTSMART WARRIORS” / “IMPORTED CHEESES”
what a . . joker.
clown.
tears of a clown.
“COMMON BATTLE WEAPONS” / “NORTH”
“PARTICIPATING” / “GUILT”
“THIS LAND / THIS LAND NOW IT’S IN” . . . deep shit.
“THIS LAND IS” . . .
a) FUCKED
b) BROOKLYN GLUTEN-FREE & KALE-ORGANIC NON-GMO VIBE – TAKES OVER COMPLETELY / SHUTS DOWN GIANT MALLS
c) TOO PC / FUCK APPROPRIATION / DNA MASH-UP FOREVER / RESPECT COPYRIGHT / ESP. PHOTO COPYRIGHT
d) long live KARA WALKER
e) long live PSEUDO-WLIP
f) beware AI / algorithm / cosmic creation
g) ALL OF THE ABOVE !!
note: black nanny dolls – does come to mind / slavery
“AUSTRO – RUSSIAN” . . !!
hey, I’m . . AUSTRO-RUSSIAN. before I was Canadian. before I was a maudit anglais / Leonard Cohen gen 2 Montrealaise / before I was a NEW YORKER. LOWER EAST SIDE, 1980.
I lived on Rivington St / just up a few doors from the Bowery.in a storefront. JEAN-MICHEL was my friend, we used to chat in the Bodega !! on Prince St. at Elizabeth all the time. YES, I still hear him talking to me, still. all the time. he was like my only friend, everybody else blew me off.
yeah, so many . . stories to tell. the RIP ghosts / the dead artist club.
Jean-Michel. Keith Haring. (Jack Goldstein by work only). Eddie Slater. Simon Cerigo. Dan Asher. Mark Enger of EXPL SKY / RIP all my ghosts, my beautiful ghost army.
on the right, PAUL-ANTHONY NAVARRO, with his dad . . PAUL-ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ.
PAUL-ANTHONY NAVARRO co-curated “THE REAL FAKE” – and his big story to tell, so far !!
. . is, he came up with that million bucks – title !!
his dad, Paul-Anthony, Sr . . apparently has some stories to tell, too.
at “THE REAL FAKE” opening, SEPT 1, 2017. 3Squared Gallery.
obviously, with stories to tell:
AARON OLSHAN, ALFREDO MARTINEZ & STEVE MAASS, founder of CONTRA GALLERY. . where the closing party is taking place !! to-night !!
at “THE REAL FAKE” opening, SEPT 1, 2017. 3Squared Gallery, midtown.
BYRON HUART, with stories to tell . . .
I work on the FERRY, and I make paintings of ships.
yeah, that’s how Jean-Michel rolled. he’s just roll into people. you’d meet up at a corner, he didn’t care who, what. just loved that juice. that street play. that free play. what going on in your head, tomboy girl. that street artist talk. and the stories would spill into the gritty night. no dough. nowhere to go. same old same old. used to show me his tags.
and just when it looked like it was heading up, sure enuff – it was really all just going downhill. you know. and, real fast.
lots of $$$ and real fast. you had to pick: did you want to live / or did you want to die.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~ALFREDO MARTINEZ . . “THE REAL FAKE” / BASQUIAT – CLOSING PARTY: TO-NITE, THURS SEPT 7 / 6-10 PM |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 7th, 2017, 2:52pm
