MIC: CHECK (The: human mic)

Leslie Roberts

MIC CHECK! at Sideshow. The GIANT annual show. Yes, it is closed I am doing a lot of catch-up. I see too much good stuff.


Lawrence Swan - his stuff is so weird and cool.

SEE Lawrence Swan in Lars + Lori at Valentine, a JK video.


Loren Munk


Peter Reginato


Peter Acheson - had a really terrific 2010 show at John Davis, i still think about those paintings.


Rand Hardy - another very nice and weird little piece.

His resume lists a 2012 show at Narthex Gallery St. Peters Church. Has it happened yet? Put it on your calendars if not. Let's go!


better angle


Sharon Brant - she will have a show at Minus Space later later this year


Chris Martin


Maria Walker - NIIICE. i first saw one of her paintings at one of these big annual Sideshow shows and I've tried to see every show she's had since!!!!!! but i missed the last one.

Liz-N-Val - HELLO did you see the fantastic show Jon Lutz did with them?


The Real Rick Briggs

Bonnie Collura

Bonnie Collura, at Mixed Greens.


It was a group show and this could have used some more space but it was incredibly rewarding... amazingly crafted dense complex fantastic.

I was thinking of Mike Kelly because he had just died... but also David Altmejd, Matthew Barney, Paul McCarthy, Oyvind Fahlstrom... and the less compelling Arturo Herrera and Matthew Ritchie.










surfaces




grody>>!


sad sack


lush and rich


BONNIE COLLURA
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Valerie Hagerty had a terrific wall in this show too... she has a current solo at Marlborough.

Donald Moffett

signed on back

Donald Moffett, at Marianne Boesky. Closed 4/7.







i didn't like his 2005 boesky show...! maybe i would like it now? or not. who knows.




Donald Moffett

He has a big show currently up at the Tang.

Ken Weathersby

Ken Weathersby, The Other Ken Weathersby, at Gallery Aferro.

anaba special edition. LAST DAY is Saturday!!


stagesets!




APPLAUSE

Ken Weathersby at Pierogi, on anaba 6/23/10.

Dave Hardy

Dave Hardy, at Regina Rex.


I saw his installation at The Dependent and made sure the next day to see this show.


2 black lines


signed




Dave Hardy, with paintings by John Almanza, at Regina Rex. CLOSES 4/8.

Guy Goodwin

he said this was the best light for it.

Guy Goodwin, at Brennan & Griffin. Closes 4/8.


Tania's Day






cardboard


Guy Goodwin and Stanley Whitney having a laugh.

Stanley Whitney is showing at Team.


they are like those upholstery chair things people sit up in bed with...

The small ones especially, none of which I photographed because they are under glass and too reflective, reminded me of the GREAT and way-underknown RVA artist Don Crow... simple bold colorful shapes collaged together with all the staples showing... I cant find any images on his website it is all more recent but I wrote about them in 2004.


Guy Goodwin

Reviewed in the NYTimes by Roberta Smith.

Richard Prince on the Whitney Biennial

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"After lunch I went over to the Whitney. For some reason I wanted to see the biennial. I'm not sure why. Before checking it out I went up to the fifth floor. That's where they hang work that's in the permanent collection. I'm glad I did. There was a gorgeous late fifties Lee Krasner painting hanging in a room of it's own. After staring, I walked down to the fourth floor and it looked like people were exercising on a huge black rubber matt that took up the entire floor. There were maybe fifteen people following the commands of a woman who was talking into a microphone... telling the fifteen people what to do. I think the fifteen people following the commands were people who had walked off the street. They kind of just "joined in". I've heard this type of activity in the art world is called "relational aesthetics"... or something like that... It felt like I was interrupting the "relation". I quickly got out of there. I walked down to the third floor and in the back there was a room filled with an artist's junk. There seems to be a room filled with an aritst's junk in every biennial I've ever been to. I'm not sure why this artist's junk was there. I walked around the corner and there were fifty Dana Shultz paintings on the wall. At least I think they were Shultz's paintings. (I walked by pretty fast). I skipped the second floor and went down to the lobby. What happened to the bookstore? There was none. There were some catalogues thrown out on tables that looked "remaindered"... what was there looked like a bake sale. I walked out of the Whitney having spent less than twenty minutes... fifteen of those standing in front of the Krasner."

- Richard Prince on the Whitney Biennial