Monday, May 17, 2010

Kunstvlaai Art Pie 2010


1K Projectspace in the Zuiveringshal with work by Chris Baaten, Kevin Jerome Everson, Pamela Fraser, Alison Moffett, Eva Pel and Tatyana Gubash. Thru Sunday May 23rd.

Kunstvlaai

Saturday, March 6, 2010

NYC-march 2010- art fairs etc










Paintings by Betty Parsons at Spanierman Modern at the Armory. A legendary art dealer, less known for her own work. These were incredibly fresh. Made me think of Dana Frankfort a bit.









I am a long time fan of Phillip Allen's paintings. These two wee canvases were the smallest I've seen, and I thought at this scale the
schmutz worked really well- differently, proportion-wise. From Kerlin Gallery at the Armory.




A nice surprise encountering these juicy paintings by GL Brierley at Madder 139 from London at Volta.



Brody Condon at Virgil de Voldere Gallery, NY, at Pulse


Jered Sprecher at Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, at Volta NY

Of all the fairs I'd have to say Volta was the most exciting. Emerging galleries with each booth a solo show, representing artists largely unknown, some coming a very long ways away. a sense of hopefulness -eggs i the basket feeling over all , with many good surprises. Very happy to come across a painting and really dig it, and then know the artist, as in Jered Sprecher. my camera battery died by the time I got to the armory, so my pics are limited.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Eva Pel at 1k opening reception

Eva Pel's Observations of a Celebration.
February 20th- March 28th, 2010
330 snapshot size photographs documenting several of the events Ms Pel visited in New York during the 2009 NY400 celebrations. Some are included in the book she published earlier this year with the same title.



I love seeing this LED sign when I'm waiting for a red light!





link to Eva Pel's website

Monday, February 15, 2010

de Appel new site

On the occasion of the inauguration of the new exhibition venue ‘de Appel Boys’ School’ on the Eerste Jacob van Campenstraat 59 in Amsterdam, de Appel presents “For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there”.
This group exhibition celebrates the experience of curiosity and speculation as a form of knowledge. In that spirit, the contributing artists each pursue a better understanding of the world, but also insist that an artwork isn't an explanation and that art is not a code that has to be unlocked. In this exhibition, viewers stop being passive receivers of information and become active participants in a playful spirit of inquiry.

Curator Huberman speaking about this expo you tube link Just as when I was first residing in Amsterdam, attending exhibitions, I had the sense that everything was in code, and I was on the outside of some (obvious) pre-requisite knowledge needed to understand the work I was seeing. Thus I was excited about this intro for the show travelling to de Appel. Just as I was excited when reading Roberta Smith expressing I started to feel as if it were all part of a big-box chain featuring only one brand. Me too!! This NYtimes article was shared a great deal on the face book by many an artist.
I thought more about the show at De Appel in the next couple of days after I saw it. However immediately after viewing this show, it all felt a bit flat. I realized there was no painting. This premise- this not knowing- is essentially what many painters do- enter into completely unknown territory. I have a hard time believing in a lack of calculatedness whereas some of the artists in this particular show are concerned. Perhaps more of a painting envy?
btw- very much a PS1 vibe here at this former boys school. .



as a maker of rocks myself, my attention is of course peeked when other artists are making rock like objects. The thing that struck me the most with this Rachel Harrison installation was how now the fotos are orbiting around the sculptural object rather than sitting on it's surface. I realize in my mind, when I see Harrison's work, I always get a visual flash of an early work of her's.. acting as some kind of barometer of how I see all her (future) work. It was a structure of precariously leaning drywall, and an inserted video of termites or an ant-farm or something of that nature.

I liked Matt Mullican's room with lot's of stuff.
be nice to have a big (wall) space to drag out the archive and have a look at it.


The not knowing is easy, so sings stuart A. staples.


Sunday, February 14, 2010

Etalages Zeeheldenbuurt


one of my 6 windows on view in the Zeeheldenbuurt etalages.

Kathleen Kucka: Fluidity, at Galerie Roger Katwijk.


Kathleen Kucka: Fluidity, at Galerie Roger Katwijk.
Diana Cooper forwarded me Kathleen's announcement. A couple of other friends of friends in New York turned up too. Katwijk gallery artist Jim Harris, and Monica Perez Vega, who it turns out went to California College for the Arts and is now living in Amsterdam.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Art Rotterdam 2010


I was a guest at Virgil de Voldere's booth, showing my new painting and new paper pieces. Markus Hansen's fotos on right. Animal portraits, replacing his own eye for the creature's.




Abner Preis performance quite the hullaballoo. Dennis Hollingsworth painting up there on the right




Mika Rottenberg in the booth of Laurent Godin from Paris. Viewable from Virgil's booth, enjoyed seeing these photos again. Something comforting about the familiarity and proximity- I must have passed by her show a dozen times when when it was up at Nicole Klagsbrun, and I was installing my show at neighboring Bravin Lee.

Hey! there he is again. Hello. I really wanted to have this dog house sculpture by Freek Wambacq in my I love the Benelux show. Here at Elisa Platteau Galerie from Brussels. (left) And looky there: a Snoopy painting. by Paul Housley at Akinci (right)




Philip Akkerman sporting t-shirt showing support for local government party of the Hague, and the posters(left) he made for the occasion, at Torch gallery..his paintings on the right. Notice on Mr. Akkerman's t-shirt, the crane has a human eye, sharing the zeitgeist with Markus Hansen's fotos behind him



The recurring image at the Rotterdam fair was the mike stand. Amalia Pica's, with sensor activated spot light was one at Diana Stigter, Monica Ursina Jäger's was another at Christinger De Mayo from Zurich. There was a third by Pepo Salazar at Upstream.

Everybody is a star.



Art Rotterdam

Kevin J. Everson in Rotterdam


















Kevin J. Everson and friends after screening for
Erie thursday evening.