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February 23, 2007
January 26, 2007
Womanizer at Deitch Projects
from the Deitch Projects website:
January 06, 2007 - January 27, 2007 76 Grand Street, New YorkDeitch Projects is pleased to announce a group exhibition of dangerous females featuring Julie Atlas Muz, Kembra Pfahler, E.V. Day, Breyer P-Orridge, Vaginal Crème Davis, Bambi, and Liz Renay. These artists utilize various media for their confrontational, edgy exploits but all share a background in cutting-edge performance. This exhibition will feature not only performance, but also all manner of media to give a truly three-dimensional view of the artists.
Taking on the title WOMANIZER, not in the sense of a womanizing male subject but rather to "ize" with or to saturate with femaleness, this exhibition will illustrate the unique vocabulary of these funny, transgressive, beautiful heroines. Horror, hedonism, pandrogyny and pussies will all figure prominently, as these challenging artists show sculpture, video, photography, and exploring couture.
November 11, 2006
Art: Matt Greene Surrender show at Deitch Projects
From the Deitch.com website:
Known for his ethereal landscapes of fleshy fungi and bushy bombshells, Matt Greene continues in this series an exploration of his favorite shelves in the library: horticulture, vintage pornography, horror films, fairy tales, 19th Century Symbolist art, and of course the history of Modernism. These disparate interests—and the weighty themes of gender, sexuality, and epistemology that accompany them—Greene masterfully approaches in a hallucinatory, visionary manner allowing them to come together in phantasmagoric splendor on his canvases.
A Reader's Toolbox:
The laptop computers are on the hype in electronics world. It is such a great product that while travelling or moving around one can connect their cell phones with their laptops with the help of wireless technique. There are other devices which you can attach with it as well like printers, scanner, and digital camera etc.
Splendor is correct. But I wasn't observant of any weighty themes in these wonderful and engrossing pieces (most are large enough to not fit inside my apartment at any angle). I simply noticed that there was a common theme of a sort of playful sexuality, like pornography but without the cold faces. In these mostly party-themed paintings and sketches, you can feel the warmth and the joy of the female faces looking back at the audience. It's like a 1970's disco orgy on canvas, and everyone's having a great time.
November 06, 2006
Gallery Wine: Rosa Regale
Everybody knows that most wine served at art galleries is usually pretty awful, but this may be changing.
Rosa Regale just may be the new favorite wine of art galleries. I have attended two events where the delicious red sparking wine was served. At the opening at Onishi Gallery in Chelsea, I had my first taste of Rosa Regale. It tastes like a red champagne. Then I had Rosa Regale again at the closing reception for Travis Lindquist's exhibit, "Subliminal Seduction", at McCaig-Welles Gallery in Williamsburg. Travis is one of the founding members of the Goldmine Shithouse Art Collaborative, which is a group of artists who found a way to inspire each other artistically by collaborating yet still promoting the works of each individual artist. Plus, the guys throw cool silk screening parties!
October 28, 2006
"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me."
Vintage Spanish Drug Ads (via Ex Novo / Flickr)
August 01, 2006
Art : Just In Case You Forgot About Stanley Kubrick (and their images burned into your mind)
Kubrick Film Art (indelibleinc.com) - movie posters, multiple languages, throughout the decades...
July 30, 2006
Art : Dr. Sketchy's
Local for Brooklyn kids: sketch meetings at a bar, model provided, and hosted by the super-brilliant Molly Crabapple...
Dr. Sketchy's is what happens when cabaret meets art school.
June 29, 2006
Art : Computer Porn
from metafilter: Perpetual Ocean Digital Image Gallery (apparently these are all made from computer algorithms, and have no physiological or sexual meaning except in your dirty, dirty mind)...
June 02, 2006
Art + The Unexplainable : A Massive Baby Head
It's up to you how to process this information. Seriously, I don't know whether to run or if I should pray to it. (via flickr)
Bonus: if this faintly reminds you of SmashTV, you can find it at Barcade in Brooklyn. (which gets its own gallery entry soon enough)
