shows to see

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some shows i would like to see -

Lucio Fontana @ Gagosian, closes 6/30
Sven Lukin @ Gary Snyder, closes 6/30
Jess Fuller @ Martos, closes 6/30
Ken Weathersby @ Pierogi, closes 7/1
Mike Hein @ Mulherin Pollard, closes 7/1
Gandy Brodie @ Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, closes 7/1
Ellen Letcher @ Pocket Utopia, closes 7/15
Everyday Abstract @ James Cohan, curated by Matthew Higgs, closes 7/27
Edouard Vuillard @ Jewish Museum, closes 9/23

Gina Beavers @ James Fuentes, OPENS 6/17
Group Shoe, curated by Joe Bradley, @ Gavin Brown, OPENS 6/28? 6/30?
Ron Johnson @ Gary Snyder, OPENS 7/10

N Bennington VT - Mark Barry @ Vermont Arts Exchange, OPENS 6/14
Amagansett NY - Liz Markus @ Ille Arts, OPENS 6/16

please suggest others.

5/26

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I have a show opening 5/26 at John Davis Gallery, in Hudson... it's in the carriage house, one of the coolest places to hang a show in the world.... Rosanna Bruno is in the front gallery.

It's the opening show of the season!

Saturday 5/26 6-8pm
John Davis Gallery
362 1/2 Warren Street
Hudson NY

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!

facebook event page

4/29

Beach On The Moon, at WildLife


small.black.show, at Small Black Door

event page!
event page!

Darkness Falls Upon Us

Darkness Falls Upon Us
curated by Timothy Buckwalter
at NIAD
April 4 - June 3, 2011
Reception: Saturday, April 9, 2011, from 2-5pm

551 23rd Street
Richmond CA

pictures

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my flickr setttttsssss

abstract painting
anaba paparazzi
artist sets

ARTIST SETS
Peter Acheson, Rita Ackermann, Justin Adian, Polly Apfelbaum, Ivin Ballen, Gina Beavers, John Beech, Jane Benson, Huma Bhabha, Josh Blackwell, Katharine Bradford, Joe Bradley, Sarah Braman, Patrick Brennan, Roger Brown, Rosanna Bruno, Benjamin Butler, Varda Caivano, Dana Carlson, Whitney Claflin, Gregory Coates, Jason Coates, Jennifer Coates, Peter Coffin, Dan Colen, Gianna Commito, Travis Conner, Matt Connors, Joy Curtis, Herman 'Ray' Davis, Steve DiBenedetto, Cheryl Donegan, Leonardo Drew, Marlene Dumas, Ida Ekblad, RM Fischer, Stacy Fisher, Alison Fox, Jason Fox, Joe Fyfe, Jaime Gecker, Beth Gilfilen, Suzanne Goldenberg, Brenda Goodman, Ron Gorchov, Ethan Greenbaum, Joanne Greenbaum, Mildred Greenberg, Nora Griffin, Fred Gutzeit, Katharina Grosse, EJ Hauser, Rachel Hayes, Mary Heilmann, Mike Hein, Daniel Hesidence, Patrick Hill, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Shirley Jaffe, Merlin James, Anya Keilar, Harriet Korman, Mark Kostabi, Fawn Krieger, Lady Pink, Ben LaRocco, Sol Lewitt, Judith Linhares, Liz-N-Val, D. Dominick Lombardi, Al Loving, Nate Lowman, Lauren Luloff, Matthew Lusk, David Malek, Liz Markus, Sarah McEneaney, Melissa Meyer, Rebecca Morris, Carrie Moyer, Loren Munk, Dona Nelson, Joe Overstreet, Paris/aka Holy Joseph, Steven Parrino, Meridith Pingree, Judy Pfaff, Megan Pflug, Richard Prince, RH Quaytman, Noam Rappaport, Lance Rautzhan, Richard Rezac, Joshua Rickards, Leif Ritchey, Eric Sall, Lucas Samaras, Tom Sanford, Dana Schutz, Josh Smith, Mike Smith, Michael E. Smith, Molly Smith, Nancy Smith, Agathe Snow, Jered Sprecher, Jessica Stockholder, George Sugarman, Blair Thurman, Jeffrey Tranchell, Lane Twitchell, Johannes VanDerBeek, Kai Vierstra, Maria Walker, Roger White, Wendy White, Barnaby Whitfield, Bruce Wilhelm, Michael Zahn, Larry Zox.

I SEE MY PHOTOS EVERYWHERE!

Shadow Boner

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i'm having a one-night show (of my own paintings) in bushwick 10/1 BYOB paaarty.

Shadow Boner
Fri 10/1
6-10pm
245 Varet, Brooklyn
Morgan Stop L Train. Exit at Rear.

there will be beer i am saying byob for extra. please come...

facebook page

a show...

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hey i'm having a one-night show (of my own paintings) in bushwick friday 10/1 BYOB paaarty...

details to follow.

abstract painting

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hey if you like abstract painting click here to see a shitload of contemporary abstract painting in a flickr set.

at the convent

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There is what looks like another interesting show opening at that convent, on Thursday. Artists include Ethan Greenbaum, Deniz Ozuygur, Mike Smith, many more. Oh man this piece called Stuck on Deniz' website is hilarious... loved her hi-five machine last year.

The last show included Inna Babaeva, Kai Vierstra, Meridith Pingree, Tom Brauer, Mike Hein, Saira McLaren. Paddy posted some thoughts and photos from the opening.

Is this the second show there? Is it by the same people? The information for the two shows is on two different websites.

St. Cecilia’s Convent, 21 Monitor St, Brooklyn. L train to Graham.

YO

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YO my shOw is Open frOm tOday... the reception is Saturday 6-8pm. John Davis Gallery, Hudson.

Cro-Mirski. tell your friends upstate to come by. gonna be a NICE DAY to visit Hudson.

Cro-Mirski

...in Nega-View!!!


April 1st-25th, at John Davis Gallery, opening reception Saturday April 3rd, 6-8pm.

BE THERE OR BE SQUARE.

plus:
- Kai Vierstra+ in Tek'tanik, curated by Evonne Davis, at Gallery Aferro, opening reception THIS Saturday, March 13th, 7-10pm. This exhibition includes Jacob Galle... saw a some of his work in RVA four years ago... this looks like it will be a good show. Kai is one of my favorite artists.
- Ocketopia, at Lesley Heller Work Space, 3/10-4/18. Curated by Austin Thomas, who used to run Pocket Utopia.... get it? she got rid of the PU... funny. Kevin Regan, Adam Simon, Elisabeth Condon, Rico Gatson... more.
- Joanne Mattera+ in Geometric Themes & Variations, at Gallery 128, reception Thursday March 18th, 6-8pm. Many good artists.
- Tom Burtonwood, at Fountain, opening reception 3/13, reception 7-10pm.

Skin Fruit

Skin Fruit

3/3-6/6

UPDATE: a visit to the show.

Neo-Degenerates

A facebook friend linked to this Judge Judy youtube clip and I recognize that second dude as an artist I knew in Richmond... Brian Blomerth.

***Neo-Degenerates living in the ironic digital age where nothing is sacred***

Brian Gahona aka John Xero's Whitney Biennial Rorshach Test. My link is to Damien Crisp's site... then you have to click on the pdf. Do it!

a blog panel

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there is a panel about artblogging, this friday at 6:30 p.m. i think you need to rsvp. hey panel... artloversnewyork (nancy smith) and tom moody.... CLASSICS! two of the best. right now i am also liking 16 miles of string and henri.

Figurative

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Figurative, by Dan Graham.

i can't bid anymore... there is still an hour left.

Favorites '09

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'Pop-up'/DIY/artist-driven shows and spaces. Many of these shows were one-night only, or in gallery spaces which the artist-organizers created from extra live/work space -

*106 Green - one-month shows open on Sundays and by appointment in a space run by artist Mitchell Wright. I saw Whitey on the Moon, curated by Kanishka Raja.
*Apartment Show - one night shows, mostly in empty apartments between tenants, organized by artists Denise Kupferschmidt and Joshua Smith. Are these all archived somewhere? I went to Apartment Show XOXO, Apartment Show at Artist's Space, and Real Love Apartment Show.
*Daily Operation - one night shows curated by The Old Gold's Jon Lutz... I saw last year's outdoor sculpture show in a park (co-curated by Matthew Fisher) and Patrick Brennan's FAZES... most of the recent ones have been in the same borrowed space, ClIcK on the individual shows to see installation pictures and what you are missing. Many shared artists and friends between the Apartment Show and Daily Operation gangs.
*EXHIBITION - this was a months-long, multi-artist, ungoogleable and practically anonymous continusly-evolving installation in a an empty storefront that I just happened to stumble upon. It's over now and I never read anything about it anywhere else. Don't know what they are doing next or even who it was.
*HKJB - one-week shows organized by Benjamin King and Jay Henderson. I saw Bad Graphic Design.
*Real Fine Arts - okay this is an actual dedicated gallery space, but run by artists living in the back, only open on the weekends when they are free from their day-jobs or otherwise available. I saw Sam Pulitzer.
*The Sum and All Parts was a one-month show in a temporary gallery space curated by Jenny Borland and Beau Rutland. Listened to Leroy Stevens scream album.
*Use Your Illusion was what looked like (i missed it) an excellent one-week show in the back of a Bushiwck bodega, curated by artist Jesse Hamerman. Don't know if there is a website or if he has done any others, but the space is wicked.
* there is another ongoing one but I can't remember enough to find it... a basement space... where is that? what is it called? they had a group anonymous show recently.

TOP FAVORITE SHOWS
Joanne Greenbaum at D'Amelio Terras
Luca Buvoli at Susan Inglett
Sarah Braman at the Armory
Manzoni show
Apartment Show XOXO - LEGENDARY!
Small A Projects Upstate show

ONE MILLION PAGE VIEWS
anaba broke the one million page view mark... damn! not bad for an artblog... what other artblogs have had a million page views? definitely Tyler Green and Ed Winkleman, probably Fallon and Rosof(?)... I'm not sure if even AFC has it yet (she started a little later). UPDATE: oh wow AFC has it... she's had a million page views in the past six months(!).

FIRST (or Early) NYC-area SOLO SHOWs I WAS GLAD TO SEE -
Martha Friedman
Ida Ekblad
Josh Blackwell
Jonathan Van Dyke
EJ Hauser - at Pluto (not solo but many paintings), and at John Davis.
Jane Benson
Patrick Brennan
Barb Choit
Erin Shireff
David Kennedy Cutler
Jonathan Delachaux and Lizzie Fitch - okay, it was a 2-person show.


Joanne Greenbaum in Cave Painting 2.

MORE Favorite ARTISTs/work of 2009
Lance Rautzhan
Melissa Meyer
Deniz Ozuygur
Nicole Eisenman - at the Tang, and at Leo Koenig.
Ethan Greenbaum - in Abstractions and Contractions and Fresh Asphalt.. but missed his solo show.
Agathe Snow - at Canada, and at the Armory.
Arnold Weschler
Linda Francis - great interview with her.
Cosbe
Loren Munk
Stacy Fisher
Jeffrey Tranchell - in HKJB's Bad Graphic Design and Apartment Show XOXO.
Ivin Ballen - in Abstractions and Contractions, at Pulse with Winkleman, in Blackston show... unfortunately never got to his solo show at Winkleman, but Kai said it was fantastic and took some great pictures.
Patrick Brennan - in The Object Direct (at Heskin, curated by Matthew Fisher), in Apartment Show at Artist's Space, Solo Show with Daily Operation.
Joe Fyfe - and here
William Powhida - his Brooklyn Rail piece.
Joanne Greenbaum - at her studio, at D'Amelio Terras, in Cave Painting 2.
Rosanna Bruno - at Pluto and at John Davis.
Lauren Luloff
Keltie Ferris - these photos are mostly from 2008, but I am all-on-board now.
Sarah Braman - in Apartment Show at Artist's Space, at Museum 52 with Joe Bradley, at Armory Show with Museum 52, in Apartment Show XOXO, at Small A Projects show in Greenwich.
...i keep thinking of artists but i have to stop because i am just re-posting my whole blog.

WORST '09
Jerry Saltz. this isn't a popular position but it just got worse and worse for me...
* slammed Marlene Dumas for years, not in reviews but in sideswipes, and when she had a solo show at MoMA all he could manage was a spiteful Facebook note.
* i added Saltz on Facebook because I'd heard he'd written that note about Dumas and wanted to read it. I quoted it critically and was immediately 'de-friended'... guess you can read his facebook criticism as long as you do not disagree publicly? this is where he really lost me, with trying to control who can see what he writes AND punishing dissenters.
* Bravo show... it might be good, but I doubt it. Samantha Mathis and Kyra Sedgwick? Someone told me that Jerry wants to be the new Tim Gunn. i wish it would just happen already and he can move on.
* feminist crusade -sorry, it's creeeepy
* 'challenging' Glenn Beck to curate two shows with the promise to "secure a first-rate New York venue for each exhibition" and to write about each show in NYMagazine. WOW. Thankfully that never happened. Glenn Beck's producers are pretty good at sniffing out the fame-whores. Sorry, Jer!
* three defense of New Museum articles in a week, the last one a ridiculous deflection.
* suddenly this month his Facebook wall has become visible, not sure if it is intentional or if he missed adjusting the privacy settings. Jeez I had been pissed I was missing something.... shouldn't have worried... my prophets, my children of Thebes, my darlings. BARF! No surprise after my January de-friending to see that almost all the comments are adulatory, from the same few hundred or so 'friends'... I'm assuming his remaining 4,400 'friends' are reading along thinking WTF? and wisely keeping silent.
(this will be edited later)

RELATED: Favorites '08, Fantastic Four 'o7, more '07 faves, Worst Art Things 2004.

shows to see

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can't, but want to see...

Soft Edge, at Camel Art Space, with Peter Acheson, Nora Griffin, Chris Martin, Anna Rosen, Rachel Salamone, and Maria Walker. I've only seen one Maria Walker painting... want to see more. Closes Dec 20th.

Jr. and Sons, curated by Joe Bradley, at Zach Feuer. Peter Acheson and Joe Bradley are in this one also, together with Jason Fox, Steve DiBenedetto, Michael Williams and some other dudes. Joe Bradley curated Peanut Gallery at Journal Gallery.

Martin Wong at PPOW, through 1/31.

Hot NY Ticket

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Patrick Brennan, Fazes, at Daily Operation, opens this Saturday 12/5, 6-9PM, 103 Reade Street, #2, NYC, 10013 (Map).

Interview with Patrick Brennan.

inside job

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"The one on the right is so nasty (and funny) that even the security guard commented on how rank it was. (Please don't fire him--it's a valid reaction.)" - Tom Moody on Mike Kelley show at Gagosian.

"Giggling at Mike Kelly's penis paintings at Gogo with fabulously inappropriate museum guard." - Joy Garnett facebook "status update" on Mike Kelley show at Gagosian.