Joshua Abelow

JOSHUA ABELOW. is showing with James Fuentes at NADA, in Miami.

(I took these pics at the gallery in NYC, before they left)

preparing

Arch Connelly

Arch Connelly, at La Mama's La Galleria. Closes 4/8.




at nose level




leaf (pre-tomaselli?)


Culture and Landscape, 1984



MY WORK

is MANNERED, is HOMOSEXUAL, is EFETTE, is BASE, is SNOBISH, is SELFISH, is SELF CONTAINED, is SELF RIGHTIOUS, is EGOTISTICAL, is REAL, is RETARDED, is RUDE, is RELIABLE, is RENTED is also owned, loaned, enthroaned, and WELL HONED, A HONEY, AND HAD MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IT WILL implicate, try, kill and honor, NEVER DIE, point, thrill, and fill SPACE, DECORATE, IMPLICATE, be loose, be uptight, win the fight, move, prove, GROOVE, VISUALIZE, cover and be your lover, IT WAS denounced and has NOT YET POUNCED, pranced, danced BAD, is GOOD, and WOULD!!!!! MMMMMMMEERRLLLLYYYYYYY MMMMMMMMAAAAGGIIIINNIIFFIICCEENNTTTT PPPPPPPPPEEEERRRRFFFEEECCCCTTTLLLYYYY PPPPOOOTTTEEENNNTTTTTTT TTTTTTTEEEEERRRRRIIIBBBBBBLLLYYYYY
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Arch Connelly 1950-1993

peanut gallery

Agathe Snow - enjoyed her show at James Fuentes in October, even more so now looking back at my pictures. Each of those hanging sculptures - I thought of them as mobiles - was based on a different Leonardo da Vinci fable.

Peanut Gallery, curated by Joe Bradley, at Journal Gallery.

Rita Ackerman - this is my other favorite piece from the show, and I liked her paintings at Andrea Rosen on that same October visit. I think they're roommates(?).

Nate Lowman - i like this one.

It was an unexpected and pleasant surprise to see a Chris Martin side-by-side with a B. Wurtz in this group show of artist friends... because Chris Martin put together that fun painting show at Janet Kurnatowski, and B. Wurtz curated the concurrent and very good sculpture show at White Columns. Nice pairing.

I'm not actually sure if everyone in this show is friends... but maybe... and I like how he hung it with Dan and Nate on different walls, Agathe and Rita on different walls, Chris M. next to B. Wurtz. It's nice to see a network of artists feeding off of and informing each other... not this Nate Lowman specifically, but a few of the ones at Stellan Holm, are like more cluttered mini-versions of the dirty-canvas grease-pencil Bradley pieces at Canada.

(Elena Pankova is left of Snow, top photo... liked that one too, but didn't get a picture)

Chelsea, part II

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More on Wednesday's Chelsea visit. I'll be updating this post later with more links.

ATM - I like Deki Yayoi's work. She's an artist I've been aware of for a while, since her first or second show in Japan. The stuff here was more restrained than what I've previously seen of her work but still good. She's nuts. Every little dot of color has a smiley face in it. It was interesting to walk across the street to Baumgartner after that and see Kusama Yayoi's small painting. Can't find an image of that piece but it was a lot like one of Deki's without the smiley faces. They are both nuts. Is this the first show of Deki Yayoi in NYC? If so I wish you had been able to see one of her bigger more obsessively wacked and cosmic pieces.

Tomoo Gokita was a doodler.

DCKT - How could I not see Tyler Green's show? The artists in this show do that "lots of" thing again of taking lots of something and and piling it all together until they have a bigger something - lots of soy sauce packets, lots of little tape circles, lots of little pencil circles. Maybe the difference between the three in this show and most other "lots of" artists is that "lots of" people often let the final shape seem like a more organic thing, while the three here have mostly created straight-edge boundaries to box their growths in. Dan Steinhilber is the most interesting for me.

Augusto Di Stefano was a double disappointment because not only is he a lot-of artist he is also a doodler. I thought he would be showing paintings?

The gallerists were friendly. I wandered a little too far back but all three people back there gave a warm "hi".

Lehmann Maupin - At first I thought Christian Hellmich was the missing Leipzig chick except she's not from Leipzig and I'm not sure she's a chick. My favorite works in this show were the smaller of the David Deutsch paintings. Fabien Rigobert's video and photo came in second. I liked Angela Dufresene's smaller paintings at Monya Rowe more than her large ones here.

Clementine - Wayne White is so unbelievably boring. Please, no more! David Rathman is a doodler and boring (the link is from his old cowboy work, now he's doing boxers). No more scrappy drawings, please!!! There are very few people who can do scrappy doodles and lots-of well, and more are not necessary. Give me some meat and I'll take a scrappy doodle on the side, but I don't want any more scrappy doodles as the main course. It's not healthy!! Where is the nourishment in Chelsea? I can't believe I used to want to be in this gallery. Okay, I would still do it - but it's not my first choice!!!

Cynthia Broan - Melanie Stidolph's photograph of a radiant baby was a beautiful backyard Blakean cherub. Sarah Bednarek had a subversive sofa screenprinted with terrorists among the foliage. The Una-Bomber, Hitler - I forget who exactly but all of them are historical figures. This could be in your grandmother's living room with matching curtains and nobody would ever notice. If only this fabric could be slipcovered onto something for a Bush/Blair photo-op.

I'm a big Sarah Bednarek fan. Pictured above is a detail of her piece "Ideologues and Dictators", currently on the cover of the British magazine Miser and Now. Deadpan photos of her with Mussolini's mustache, Lincoln's mole, etc.