My delightful pal Bruce forwarded the following announcement to me. It looked interesting so I thought I’d pass it on. Hopefully some of you will be able to attend the event/s.
Urban Alchemist Design Collective
SALON SCHEDULE:
Things Left Behind @ Urban Alchemist
Kelly Murphy
Friday, June 5, 7-9 pm
7-8pm Cocktails
8-8:30 Discussion and Q & A with the artist
Saturday, June 13, 7-9pm
7-9pm Interactive craft-making session with the artist.
Untitled by Bjorn Copeland
So there was this one time when this little girl’s brother decimated, by means of hanging and drowning, her entire stable of My Little Ponies. The post title is a partial quote from her apparently understated but slightly menacing reaction.
If the concept of a slew of modified My Little Ponies appeals to you, you may want to head over to Champion Coffee, 1108 Manhattan Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn where there’s currently an exhibit of the altered equines. Participating artists are all local pals of Talitha Whidbee, cafe owner and show curator. The show ponies are being auctioned via ebay to benefit Just Food, a non-profit organization that works to develop a just and sustainable food system in the New York City region. There’s a Pony Party scheduled for this Friday May 29 from 7 – 10pm. Bidding ends at 9pm, an hour before party end.
Read more details at Brooklyn Based, the organization with whom Whidbee partnered to transform the Equine event into a charity benefit.
-Steph Gerolimatos
A Yellow House on the Main Street
Siddharth Parasnis
Courtesy of Hang Art Gallery
Recession hurtin’? Want good, reasonably priced art? Huh? well do ya? Check out theAffordable Art Fair in NYC going through Sunday the 10th.
What do you get when you cross Steph’s love of beards and JD’s First Thursday art coverage? First Thursday beard art revue of course. You can catch JD’s art coverage tonight on Twitter at http://twitter.com/j_d_hastings, or, if I can figure out how to tweet from my phone I might cover some New York galleries at http://twitter.com/reverend_bunnie”.
- Toni “bunnie” Tiller
So my niece Margaret (Meg), a fine photographer – Meg’sBlog– comes over to hang out and paint, but we decide to head on out to Coney Island instead, to shoot some photos and maybe spot LizardMan. Steph prompted the whole idea in an earlier post, but it was well past his show time when we got in the car. The fog was thick as soup and Meg and I were crawling around in the misty mess when finally we spotted the Circus Sideshow Freak Bar, and low and behold, there was Lizardman hmself, holding a post-performance chat with his fans and a few gecko groupies. He spoke of his sword swallowing techniques among other things, and we took some pictures. His dedication to his self-mutilation –– that is, uh, craft – is remarkable. Well, here are some shots.
Tom Bennett
This was Coney Island in the fog :
And then we meet Jim Morrison- uh, I mean, the Lizardman:
French kisses are a dollar.
LizardMan and BatsBoy.
Meg and the Fire Eater’s chin.
Meg is pleased by snakes.
“Lorenz Manifold” by Hinke Osinga
In mid-January I posted about a recent trend of using fiber art to visualize certain scientific or methematical concepts.
As it turns out, I’m not the only one who’s been following the trend. The PS122 Gallery in New York is holding an exhibition this month titled “Yarn Theory”. As they state on that website, “Yarn Theory highlights the vibrant and deep interrelationship between the sciences, mathematics, crocheting and knitting.”
They go on to state:
Highlighting the work of some of today’s most interesting practitioners, Yarn theory juxtaposes installations and art objects made with a scientific or mathematical basis as a starting point, and with mathematical models and items made explicitly to explain or clarify abstract concepts, which end up being compelling aesthetic forms unto themselves. Because of their incremental structure, the crafted shapes often mimic growth systems found in nature. Such correlations are being explored by today’s needle workers, many of whom are also scientists and mathematicians professionally.
This sounds like an excellent show with any number of aesthetic, scientific and political issues to address and II encourage anybody who is able to attend to go. The exhibit will run from April 25 until May 17 and the gallery is located at 150 First Avenue, NY, NY 10009 (enter on 9th St. between First Ave. and Ave. A).
-JD
Ever since my father took me to Madison Square Garden, when I was 7, to see the Barnum and Baily circus I have been fascinated with it and the side show.
An artist and photographer, James Mundie, let me know about this.
There is an exhibition of human oddities and medical anomalies at a gallery in downtown Los angeles called the Todd Browning Gallery, named after the director of the classic horror film, “Freaks”. The gallery specializes in vintage and contemporary photography by international artists. The show is called Shock and Horror
from New Museum.org:
The New Museum’s current show “The Generational: Younger Than Jesus” will be the first major international museum exhibition devoted exclusively to the generation born around 1980, tapping into the different perspectives, shared preoccupations, and experiences of a constituency that is shaping the contemporary art discourse and prescribing the future of global culture. In the United States, this demographic group is the largest generation to emerge since the Baby Boomers, while in India half the population is less than twenty-five years old; the sheer size of this generation ensures its worldwide influence. By bringing together a wide variety of artists and contextualizing their different approaches, “Younger Than Jesus” will capture the signals of an imminent change, identify stylistic trends that are emerging among a diverse group of creators, and provide the general public with a first in-depth look at how the next generation conceives of our world. Revealing new languages and attitudes, the exhibition will comprise a portrait of the agents of change at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
It opens today in manhattan.
Tonight is the monthly “First Thursday” art event in San Francisco, and I will be honoring it by running from gallery to gallery tweeting like an idiot. But this time I will be joined by likeminded d’Arte Boardist, Toni Tiller, who will be taking photographs for posterity and blackmail, if at all possible.
You can follow me at http://twitter.com/j_d_hastings. I don’t know if she’s set up to tweet mobiley (mobily?), but if so, Toni is at http://twitter.com/reverend_bunnie.
I will also try to set up a temporary widget that updates this site with my tweets directly.
Hope you enjoy.
-JD
This Saturday, April 4th is the opening for a group show of monotypes curated by the
Monotype Guild Of New England , an organization dedicated to the unique print, of which I have been a member for a few years. The guild boasts some very dedicated and talented printmakers. The show, Endless Possibilities , is at Lynn Arts, in Lynn, Massachussetts, and is one of several events being held throughout the Boston area in conjunction with the North American Print Biennial. So if anyone is in the neighborhood over the next month and likes free alcoholic grape drink and soft cheese-foods, check it out.
Tom Bennett
This is the monotype I have have represented in the exhibition:
Borias and Orythia (after Rubens), 2008, monotype, 16 x 20
Art Church! my favorite kind! Have you seen “Consumed” yet? As promised, it’s a show worth seeing! This Sunday will be a great opportunity to revisit (or visit for the first time) the work before, during and after a discussion with the artists. Sarah Bliss and Petula Bloomfield will sit down, talk about their work and answer questions in a friendly, casual gallery setting. Hope to see you there! THIS Sunday March 29 from 12 – 1pm Wunderarts Gallery -Steph Gerolimatos
383 Main Street
Amherst, MA 01002
413-256-6699
Agora Gallery - the proud sponsor of the Chelsea International Fine Art Competition, which offers contemporary artists the opportunity to show their original art at one the most acclaimed juried art shows in Chelsea, New York’s art galleries district.
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