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Prefab

Prefab, at Gagosian (uptown) -


Mike Kelley, Carpet #5, 2003, acrylic on carpet mounted on wood panel. Here's a detail.


Sherrie Levine, Chair Seat: 13, 1986, paint and wood.


Rudolf Stingel, Untitled, 1999, styrofoam.


Richard Artschwager, Splatter Table, 2005, formica and acrylic on wood.




Richard Prince hoods... In Dreams, car hood and fiberglass, 2006, Queendom, fiberglass, wood, steel, and bondo, 2008, Anyone Can Find Me, oil, autobody compound, cast fiberglass, wood, 1989, Dennis Wilson (hood), car hood and fiberglass, 2007.

Eric Sall

Eric Sall's LMCC studio, with Meridith Pingree.

Went to the LMCC open studios last week... I'm posting Eric's stuff because he has a show opening at ATM tonight, but I'll post some of the other artists by next week.

I remember last year talking to Eric about how we had both applied to this LMCC thing... it would be so good to have a big bright studio space again.

UPDATE - installation shots from the ATM show


Click the picture to see it bigger. Love purple and green together... Joker colors. The purple drips in the black and green are tight. I don't mean tight like slang talk... can't think of a better word. Same tightness feeling I get with Jakub Julian Ziolkowski (scroll down)... tension tight, oppressive. I try to get that...

Ron Johnson gets it. I want to be in a show with Eric and Ron.. I think it would look good together, and there are some interesting differences and overlap, a mutual creepiness.


Wow... it's the same one I liked two years ago, but he's completely re-worked it.

It's funny, because in the post featuring the previous incarnation of this painting I wrote "I've enjoyed my few visits to his studio, seeing how he struggles with his paintings. The same painting might still be in process months later, almost unrecognizable. I'm not sure if all that is fun for him, but I like knowing about the process"... and now he's exhibited it and re-worked it even more.


Sci-Fi Quills, 2006


Painting with child. This painting needed a baby, so I put Isaac's photo of his daughter on it.... CUTE!

Leo Koenig Gang

Tom Sanford, Tom and Alex in Bed, 2008, oil and acrylic on paper, at Leo Koenig - this was so unexpected, and sweet.


Alexis Rockman, Thistle, 2006, at Leo Koenig. He has the current show at the gallery... and the most interesting piece by far in Molecules That Matter.


Kelli Williams, Wet Bar, 2007, at Leo Koenig - it's real small, so much stuff happening, you need to click on the picture to see it bigger... here's a detail of the snake.


Awww, he's ADORABLE!

Kai Vierstra

Kai Vierstra's studio ceiling.

Dan Colen and Nate Lowman

Dan Colen and Nate Lowman, Clo$ing Down $ale, at Maccarone Gallery. Dan Colen, with the Olsen twins. Ha ha, just kidding, they're his mother and her sister. Acura on Ford. Nate Lowman. Strapped, bolted, and clamped together. Sign pole piercing rims. He said he almost killed himself doing it... (something like that, can't remember his exact words). macrack. "I went to a psychiatrist. He said, tell me everything. I did, and now he's doing my act"... that would have been a good one. UPDATE #1 - my photos ripped off by supertouch's uncle o'lame-acy. his captions are superlame. what a dork. UPDATE #2 - the show reviewed by Jerry Saltz.

Pissed-Off Douche L., Ry Rocklen, John Waters... plus

Ry Rocklen, Folding Chair (2), 2008, cardboard, metal, glue, epoxy putty, at Black Dragon Society.

Ry Rocklen, Wickervision, mixed media, 2006, at Baronian_Francey. They were really nice and had some good stuff, including Steve Canaday.


John Waters, six altered snapshots, wrote down the title and info but can't find it. Click on the photo to see it bigger.


Christoph Buchel, Mickey Mouse, 2007, animated speaking Mickey Mouse puppet, i-pod, edition 1 0f 5 + 2 AP, at Hauser and Wirth.

Swiss(?) children reading the transcript from the motion hearing... different children reading each role... recorded on i-pod stuffed in talking Mickey Mouse. I made a video of it.

ALSO LIKED: i think i have two more armory posts, but can't get to all the stuff i saw and liked, so here is a partial listing with links to some photos -

Ellen Birkenblitt (no photo)
Varda Caivano - two nice paintings, one so Redon-ish, at Victoria Miro.
Steve Canaday, at Baronian-Francey
Charlie Hammond, at Sorcha Dallas - they had a booth full of his stuff, but my photos are not so good. i really liked his show in the back room at Anton Kern last year as well.
Fawn Krieger, at Art in General - i'm a fan of fawn and faan.
Alessandro Pessoli - he had good work in two different booths.
Shirley Tse, at Murray Guy. Don't know the title or date.


with Richard Prince!!!

gallery gossip

Another 27th St gallery is supposedly closing... Clementine. That closing derails this gallery's plans to move into the vacant Oliver Kamm space. I guess the Oliver Kamm space was a sublet under the Clementine lease.

Overheard at Clementine last week -

"each month has gotten worse and we were hoping matt's show would turn everything around and it hasn't..."

"we knew three or four months of bad business and we'd be in trouble and that's what's happened"

clementine on anaba 4/6/07 -

Neil Farber at Clementine - SNOOZE. The piece pictured above is one of the first ones you see, many many many many little heads with faces... I initially thought it was an unusually unimaginative and drab Deki Yayoi. This show was a yuck that I probably wouldn't have mentioned except I'm playing this follow along with the NYTimes game.

Bridget Goodbody says - the show "brings to mind Dante’s Divine Comedy"... she also describes the show's "pièce de résistance".

HOLY SHIT! What crap! What is happening? She writes for the NYTimes??? Is that some kind of Sanjaya thing they are doing? I don't get it.

UPDATE: i was in chelsea months later... Clementine gallery's storage racks are viewable from the window on the tunnel... the Farber is sitting on a shelf in the back.

clementine on anaba 3/27/06 -

Daniel Johnston at Clementine - Went to this show ready to hate. Most of it was an awful waste of space, but some of them were strong. The person in the piece above is burning in hell and screaming "Please bring me back... I don't want to die. I don't want to be dead!".

The lack of editing was lame. The whole place was just one big ring of framed $2500 drawings. It could have, maybe, been a good show, but this just smacked of cashing in.

clementine on anaba 7/23/05 -

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!!!

Joanne Greenbaum, Xylor Jane, Rebecca Morris, Jakub Julian Ziolkowski

Joanne Greenbaum... don't remember the title... but I love this painting. At greengrassi.


Xylor Jane... don't remember the title or gallery.


Rebecca Morris, untitled (#06-08), 2008, oil and spraypaint on canvas, at Galerie Barbara Weiss.

Here is another one, and here they are side by side. They're small.


Jakub Julian Ziolkowski, untitled, 2007, oil on canvas, at Hauser and Wirth.

I liked the two paintings he had in a group show at 303 Gallery last summer -

Jakub Julian Ziolkowski, in Three for Society, at 303 Gallery, through July 27th - something creepy, like a leather mask or something...both his paintings are cartoony but creepy like that. I like the way he lets these tiny controlled drips happen, and then works them into the composition... for example, in the piece above you can maybe see that little drip of blue in the shoulder, and in this piece you can see the oily ass-crack sweat.

There is so much tension in that drip of blue in the shoulder.

Steven Parrino

Steven Parrino, Baby Blue Suicide, 1995, at Galleria Massimo de Carlo, at the Armory.




Idiot.




Jerk.


The Return of the Idiot.

Lucas Samaras

Lucas Samaras, Mosaic Painting #27, March 3, 1992, at the Armory Fair (but I can't remember what booth, probably Pace).

Misshapen, uneven, lots of cut-outs, all pieced together. Here's a detail.


Lucas Samaras, Cube with In-Out Pyramids, 1994..... paired with Tony Smith's Moon Dog, 1967... at Pace Wildenstein's Armory booth.


Lucas Samaras photographs... not at the Armory but in a big show at Pace Wildenstein. Photos of chairs, all of them documented outside on the street and sidewalk, digitally manipulated with electric color.

James Kalm has a video from the opening. He says "each study is snapped as if by an ornithologist documenting exotic birds in their natural habitat". It's true, these chairs are like parrots.

Christoph Buchel

Christoph Buchel, at the Armory.

Swiss(?) children reading the transcript from the motion hearing... different children reading each role. The part recorded here is Judge Posner.
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REVIEW:
5/16/2007 - predicting the show will never open
5/22/2007 - expecting notoriety
5/29/2007 - report from tarp show
6/12/2007 - some views
6/18/2007 - Buchel exhibits legal documents in Switzerland
7/27/2007 - tools of the master
7/30/2007 - CLANCCO cranks it up
8/20/2007 - World's First Google image search sculpture
9/05/2007 - Robert Storr VS. Nancy Spector
9/19/2007 - announcement, links to NYTimes, Brooklyn Rail...
9/21/2007 - report from the motion hearing.. part 1
9/22/2007 - report from the motion hearing... part 2
9/24/2007 - on Roberta's piece, and more
9/25/2007 - 2nd correction to Roberta's NYTimes piece
12/09/2007 - Buchel's Miami coda, with Jenny Holzer piss-take
2/15/2008 - From: Michele Maccarone
3/2/2008 - spirit of sharing
3/4/2008 - Clark Anti-Forum, aka Balancing Act by Christoph Buchel
3/27/2008 - Pissed-off Douche L., at the Armory... this was one of my favorite pieces.
9/21/2008 - Marc LeBlanc essay, with photos.
6/14/2009 - Appeal process begins; read the briefs.
9/17/2009 - Guy Ben-Ner takes the piss.
1/28/2010 - REMANDED!

White Columns at the Armory, 2008

Matthew Higgs.... soldddddddd. This is on Wednesday.


Janice Guy... Matthew's dealer, stopped making art years ago. Can you see the red dots over each picture?

Good job, White Columns.

white columns piss-take number 8 - creating a closed loop

Here are the three most recent White Columns reviews from the NYTimes -

White Columns in NYTimes 3/21/08 - Roberta Smith review of White Columns' exhibition of work from the collection of critic/curator Vince Aletti. The review also mentions White Columns' concurrent exhibitions of work from the collection of curator Bob Nickas, and a solo show of photographs by artist-turned-(Matthew Higgs)dealer Janice Guy.

before that was...

White Columns in NYTimes 12/7/07 - Karen Rosenberg review of Looking Back, a group show of art seen in NY (mostly Chelsea galleries) in the previous year. Last line of the review - "If you missed Andrew Lord’s ceramics at Gladstone, for instance, or Sadie Benning’s videos at Orchard, you’ll be grateful for the second chance."

before that was...

White Columns in NYTimes 7/10/07 -Roberta Smith feature reviewing Dealer as Artist, a group show of work by "six prominent art dealers" that used to make art. Janice Guy featured at top of page.

Good job, White Columns.

stuff in the mail

Timothy Buckwalter drawing. We traded.


Postcard from The Matthew Higgs Society.


Thanking me for my support of Matthew Higgs' legacy.


Keith Schoenheit photographs documenting Daniel Buren's LA bus stop benches. We traded.


Ron Johnson painting. We traded.


William Powhida authenticated Art in America review.


William Powhida AiA review, signed and dated.


William Powhida, Study for Hypothetical Ideal Career Trajectory, 2007. This was a surprise bonus sent with the authenticated review, because he was so slow.


Amy Wilson... one of two booklets. She had made a post asking if anybody wanted one.


Books/Catalogues/Periodicals - Jered Sprecher, Mildred Greenberg, Paper Monument, Eva Lake, Michael Lobel (Fugitive Artist: The Early Work of Richard Prince).