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

Chris Martin

Chris Martin, at Mitchell-Innes & Nash. Closes 3/3.


I thought of Chris Martin in Istanbul...


Chris Martin. Nearer. Detail.


and at the Chris Martin show I thought of Istanbul.
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Def some of my new paintings got influenced by those carpets -

Party at Phong's House

Peter Gallo - it says "Clifford Still".

Party at Phong's House, at Galeria Janet Kurnatowski - good show, curated by Chris Martin.

This was one of the best group shows I saw last week, along with the B. Wurtz-curated show at White Columns. Both are artist-curated medium-specific shows built around central artists... the Chris Martin (painter) show stars Ron Gorchov, the B. Wurtz (sculpture) show grounded by a Sol Lewitt.


Keltie Ferris


forget who.... someone please tell me. also, can't remember this artist's name either. UPDATE: Nora Griffin (?)

The show included 80-something paintings by more than thirty artists. I first checked out all of the work thinking about what I liked most before doing it a second time with the identifying artist list... was glad to discover that two of my "crap" picks were by a kid and an elephant. I should be an art adviser.


Ron Gorchov


EJ Hauser


who is this artist? i had it misattributed for a long time.

Really liked the black Matt Connors painting... but couldn't get an adequate photograph.


Alison Fox

Party at Phong's House closed YESTERDAY... sorry if you missed it.

Hrag Vartanian on Party at Phong's.
Roberta Smith on Begin Again Right Back Here.

artist-critics

In the comments to one of last week's posts artist Bill Gusky says "the few truly useful art critics remaining, for me, are the artist-critics, in particular Joe Fyfe, Chris Martin, and Stephen Westfall (does Westfall still write?), and, to some degree, Eleanor Heartney".

I included Merlin James in that group and asked "okay, that is four painters who also write art criticism - mostly about other painters. What about non-painters? Artists in other mediums?". An anonymous commenter added "what about female artist-critics? I hate this crowd of guys idea".

Can anybody recommend some other good artist-critics?

Related - Joe Fyfe for artcritical.com, Chris Martin on abstract painting for the Brooklyn Rail, Stephen Westfall for Art in America, Merlin James on Jean Helion.

PS - Is Heartney an artist also?

Chris Martin

James Wagner has a post on a really good artist named Chris Martin. These are good paintings.

Wagner says in his post that he can't afford one of these paintings but the Artnet site lists them all at $5,000 each. Can that be right? What a deal!

Can somebody please explain to me the contemporary art world's wild price discrepancies? Is it all just a matter of branding and p.r.?

I don't get it!!

UPDATE 4/8/05 -

They aren't all five grand. This one is $2,000, this one is $6,000, and this one is $7,500.

I was just thinking that Joe Fyfe would probably love this stuff so I googled "Joe Fyfe" and "Chris Martin" and saw that they were both included in the Kick-Ass Sid Sachs show covered by Fallon & Rosof.

UPDATE 2012 - so yeah in case anyone didn't know Chris Martin has since MADE IT.