anaba

Saturday, January 21, 2012

shows to see

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a list to myself and the world

LES-
gerald ferguson @ canada
nicholas buffon @ callicoon
trevor shimizu @ 47 canal
letha wilson + @ toomer labza
meghan petras @ blackston (WITH jeffrey scott matthews, more)

UES -
lee bontecou @ freedmanart
alfred jensen @ pace 57th
sarah mceneaney @ tibor de nagy

Midtown-
forrest bess @ christies (3/1)

BROOKLYN -
rick briggs + adam simon @ valentine
carrie pollack @ minus space
bromirski/labine/riley @ storefront bushwick (2/10)
katharine bradford/ej hauser/tamara gonzalez/lauren luloff/joanne greenbaum @ journal gallery

SOHO-
hugh scott douglas @ clifton benevento
b wurtz/fabienne lasserre/elisa lendvay/john newman @ kansas
meghan petras/maria walker/james hyde + @ bull and ram

West SOHO(?)-
george ortman @ algus greenspon

CHELSEA -
lee krasner @ robert miller
joyce pensato @ petzel
smith-stewart show @ c24
andrew lenaghan @ geo. adams
arlene shechet @ jack shainman
jason fox @ peter blum
lori ellison @ mckenzie
chris martin @ mitchell innes & nash
david kennedy cutler @ derek eller
kim maconnell @ salomon
sergej jensen @ anton kern
hugh scott douglas + @ wallspace

ALBANY
material occupation @ suny albany (2/7)

BALTIMORE
gina beavers @ nudashank (2/11)

(biggest bummer - missing edwin dickinson at babcock! closes 1/27)

plz suggest others...

Sunday, January 15, 2012

boats and trolleys

Nice paintings at an antiques/junk shop in Istanbul.

boats and trolleys... Istanbul scenes, maybe for tourists? but still really good... there is a famous trolley in Istanbul.

oh i am just noticing that nice sile bezi fabric it is on...

the paintings were throughout the shop - lots of other art/treasures/junk too... but it was easy to identify these as all being by the same artist.

i pulled them out from wherever and propped them for most of these photos.

the shopkeeper. he couldn't speak english but we were able to communicate enough to know that he is a musician and doesn't have any idea who the artist is.

only one of them is signed and dated but we could not read the signature.

Somebody tell Orhan Pahmuk.

Monday, January 09, 2012

carpets

Carpets, at the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum, in Istanbul.

more of my Istanbul photos here.

ragged....

Sunday, January 01, 2012

Favorites 2011

Hagia Sophia - I was in Istanbul for six weeks!!! courtesy of Jasmine Justice and Jesse Farber.

Meridith Pingree, Magic Curtain, at Freight and Volume.

Joshua Abelow's Art Blog Art Blog - Ross Bleckner let Josh have his NYC studio for six months, Josh let people curate shows.... he hosted nine two-week shows and a one-night Bro-Out. Thanks Josh!

Best Shows Not Seen By Me - Gina Beavers one-night show at PACS.... as seen by Andrew Russeth, and Lori Ellison + Lawrence Swan at Valentine.... as seen by James Kalm. Regretfully missed both.... BUT - Gina is having a solo at Nudashank opening in February! - and Lori is having a solo at McKenzie opening THIS THURSDAY 1/5.

Sharon Butler's New Casualist article - it is nice to be noticed. Thanks!

water delivery on buyukada

Monday, December 26, 2011

Meridith Pingree

Meridith Pingree, Magic Curtain (2011), at Freight + Volume 7/2011

I'm making a short list of 2011 favorites and top of the list is Meridith's Magic Curtain, but I saw it the day before I went to Istanbul and never posted it, so... HERE IT IS!!

strings of sparkly beads... insanely labor-intensive... together the strings creating a pattern - but a shifting pattern - as the individual 'wipers' slowly rotate, lifting/dropping sections of bike chain, which lift and lower the strings of beads... slo-mo curtain raise and drop, like an ocean swell.

ethereal

Meridith Pingree

... as seen on James Kalm!

Friday, December 02, 2011

KITTY!

Walter Robinson, Kitty, 1982... an edition of 900 and STILL available, only $30!! He mentions it in this COLAB article.

GREAT X-MAS GIFT!

and/or get some newer editioned treasures from Daily Operation art-stars of today and tomorrow...

OR wow how about this Mike Hein in the Flux Factory auction?

I WISH I HAD SOME CA$$$$H!

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Jamison Brosseau

Jamison Brosseau Studio

UPDATE!
- Jamison Brosseau currently included in Matthew Fisher's The Unfunny Show, at Small Black Door.... lots of pics and info on Two Coats of Paint.
- Jamison Brosseau bargains available from Daily Operation.

Mister

Jamison Brosseau

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Tamara Zahaykevich

Tamara Zahaykevich, Hey Harmonica!, at Kansas. Closed 10/29.

Tamara Zahaykevich

at Kansas

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Corin Hewitt

Corin Hewitt, at Laurel Gitlen, through 12/22.

Corin Hewitt

wow here is an anaba mention of corin from 2005... back when i actually wrote things and before i had a camera.

corin showing with laurel g. upstate 2009

Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Richard Prince

look what i got!

From None, The Paris Review, Spring-Summer 1978. Signed!

Eleven Conversations, in Tracks, Fall 1976. Signed!

... he said he didn't think he'd ever signed these before.

Terry Richardson photographing Richard Prince with son (stepson) Graham.

at John McWhinnie at Glenn Horowitz

Richard Prince and Terry Richardson.

UPDATE 1/7/2012 - John McWhinnie passed away this weekend... too young.

Monday, November 07, 2011

The Death Of Affect

Gina Beavers

The Death Of Affect, co-curated by Fran Holstrom and Jeffrey Scott Mathews, at Art Blog Art Blog.

Fran Holstrom with Gina Beavers painting

Fran Holstrom with a second Gina Beavers painting.

GINA BEAVERS SOLO SHOW AT NUDASHANK IN FEBRUARY!

Letha Wilson... another super-star.

Sunday, November 06, 2011

surprise!

BOO it's anaba

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

HERE'S BRO BRO!

I'm having a one-night show Saturday 10/29 6-9pm at ART BLOG ART BLOG... the space Joshua Abelow has been running all summer... this is the final show in the space and is gonna be a party/show... please come by!

Art Blog Art Blog
508 W. 26th Street, 11th Floor
Saturday 10/29 6-9pm
FREE BEER!

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