Matt Connors

Matt Connors, at Canada, at the Armory Show.

He had the whole booth, as did Sarah Braman with Museum 52 (Braman is one of the artists who runs Canada). Last year Canada's booth exhibited only one piece, a big three-panel yellowy-white Joe Bradley piece (Bread)... and I think I remember that Sarah B. and Philip Grauer were sitting in that booth wearing weird all-white sweats, with whistles(?), like gym teachers or something.


Matt Connors, at Armory. Also liked his black painting last year in Party at Phong's, at Janet Kurnatowski.


Matt Connors

Bridge Art Fair

ARTOUT artist escort service. Exquisite Artists For Rent!


Marshall Reese and Nora Ligorano, F**k Snow Globe, $150, at Fuse Works.

Fuse Works' booth was full of interesting things, mostly editioned pieces. The website is full of more good stuff... Melissa Pokorny (whose work I first saw at Aqua Miami 2005), Matt Richards' Gellochio, Ethan Crenson's bald hair model poster. WANT WANT WANT. What a great collection. I will definitely add links to all of this later.


David Kramer, Coffee Mug, $45, at Fuse Works. Want. It says "Fuck" on the back.


Allan Packer, Portal, at Fuse Works. It's a spinning mesmerizer in a grotto. Want. I would put it on top of my tv.


?, at maybe Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts? Sorry, I forget.


Peggy Cyphers, at BROADTHINKING's booth. BROADTHINKING (am I writing that correctly?) is Peggy Cypher and Chris Twomey's art collaborative/curatorial project. They did that good show at Broadway Gallery earlier this year, which included another nice painting by Cyphers.


Alexis Hubshman scoping Bridge.

I WILL ADD LINKS LATER!

Andrew Guenther

Andrew Guenther, Reclining Plate Face, 2009, at Freight + Volume, at Pulse.

Strange painting, and happily surprising, because I did not like his recent F+V show AT ALL.


blue nipple.

Adam Simon

Adam Simon installing his show at Pocket Utopia... OPENS TONIGHT... Saturday March 7th, 6-10pm.


hard at work.


Adam Simon, at Pocket Utopia. Adam is the creator of the Fine Art Adoption Network. I'll add links later.


Pocket Utopia Gang after pizza at Roberta's, following Sharon Butler's Pocket Utopia Salon. Pictured are Kevin Regan, Jonathan Stevenson, Austin Thomas, Brece Honeycutt, Sharon Butler.

Sarah Braman

Sarah Braman, at Museum 52, at the Armory Show.

She had the whole booth, and it looked great. I was talking to her and sort of captivated because it looked so good with two pieces in the background on either side, but our attention(s) were diverted before I could get a picture.

I saw her Museum 52 show last year, and the smart two-person show with Joel Shapiro at Andrea Rosen, and the piece at Artist's Space a couple weekends ago... liking it more and more each time.

Sarah Braman, at Museum 52, at the Armory Show.

Polly Apfelbaum

Polly Apfelbaum, From series Dance Steps, 2008-2009, Ink Jet photo paper, at Frith Street Gallery, at the Armory Show.

Polly Apfelbaum on anaba 6/26/08, Polly Apfelbaum on anaba 11/14/05. 

Kim Jones

Kim Jones, Blue Shirt with Horns, at Pierogi, at the Armory Show.

Kim Jones.

RELATED: Kim Jones in The Brooklyn Rail. James Kalm speaks with Kim Jones.

Cosbe

Cosbe, at Ad Hoc Art - this was up last week, in a three-day group show.

Cosbe

Cosbe, at Ad Hoc Art

painting

my painting.

Melissa Meyer

Melissa Meyer, at Lennon Weinberg, through March 21st.

Melissa Meyer.

art in space

John Torreano, at Feature... big mixed-bag show of Feature's painters. I liked this and the Richard Rezac.

Adrian Ting and Zach Needler, at Feature opening. Zach has a show up right now at Christopher Henry.

Patrick Brennan, at Artist's Space. It was a huge one-night only show. Packed.

Sarah Braman, at Artist's Space.

books

Martha Cooper, at Ad Hoc Art.

Martha Cooper's Going Postal. Martha Cooper is the photojournalist who published the 1984 book Subway Art... something that I had to reshelve over and over again - and subsequently spent much time looking through - when I worked at a bookstore in the early 90's. Nice interview with Martha in the Village Voice last week.

Michael Lobel's James Rosenquist: Pop Art, Politics, and History in the 1960's. I haven't seen this book yet but I'm sure it will be excellent; Michael is the art historian who curated Fugitive Artist: The Early Work of Richard Prince, 1974-1977... producing a catalogue with blank squares and written descriptions in place of the images Richard Prince refused permission to reproduce. That show was reviewed twice in the NYTimes, by both Roberta Smith and Benjamin Genocchio. Michael also wrote the recommended Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art.

Here is a Richard Prince work from 1971, pre-dating even all of the disavowed stuff from Fugitive Artist. 

Diane Schenker's book of poetry Relation/Couch/Dreaming.... pre-order here.

The cover illustration is a drawing by the late Morris Yarowsky, a 1966 piece given to Diane's husband when they were both at the University of Oregon.

Daniel Hesidence

Daniel Hesidence, ROSE LAUGHTER winter holiday, curated by David Altmejd, at Andrea Rosen (in the middle room).

This is the second all-red/rose show by a (former?)-Feature artist seen this winter...  Jason Fox is at Peter Blum through March 7th.


This show is more interesting than the show he had at Feature in November.

Luca Buvoli

Luca Buvoli, at Susan Inglett Gallery.


Spinning twisting car in space.


ramp.




So much better than Cai's flying Taurus' and lunging wolves... I would love to see Luca Buvoli in the Guggenheim.


Luca Buvoli