panache / ganache

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if you thought i hadn’t posted a blog in a while because i was saving up all these awesome events and was in venice and no uploady cord
you will be sad

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rosson (fingered here) is in venice, so is jack and fabiola and a million others but not me

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i gotta get new gallery open and get the money and make things happen

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good think i have team!
you know nothing ever gets accomplished without team

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its a weird interaction though because nothing gets accomplished either without SINGULAR VISION

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the crisis of having gallery is not just building team but having the strength of vision to both imagine the thing, in all its detail, a cohesive logical well-entheorized thing, but then to communicate that strength of vision to create team

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which sometimes makes one feel terribly terribly solitary, crushed by the obligation to see the future and then shape it to one’s ends

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i make sad food for one and try to grab the future by the balls

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i watch Trailer Park Boys on my Ipad with a bad connection and get wasted and take photos of it

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i read this book and it appears that no other gallerists have my same method of drunkeness/ipod/camera/future-by-balls

but did you know!

when i was at Dartmouth i started an art gallery there called AREA and for one of the shows i taped poor Jordan Benke to the wall jsut like Maurizio did!

he passed out on the wall from lack of circulation and too many pot brownies but he was up there a good hour or so!

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the future….
hmm…..

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pregnant belly about to be full of guacamole

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i was sad because i got a google alert that was this long conspiracy article about how Jeffrey is secretly helping me or making money from me or some sad weird made up nonsense

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it made me feel crazy, that people don’t understand that i am totally abandoned, left to myself to either make something out of this or to have nothing

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and what a huge pressure on me (put there mostly by myself) to MAKE SOMETHING and not let things be nothing
how could this guy, instead of sympathizing that in the past three months i have dragged a huge SOMETHING out of a murky swamp of shitty nothing, nearly singlehandedly, at huge personal expense mentally and physically, and instead try to tease out from my blog a crazy story of secret boss manipulation

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sigh!!!!

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im dancing around showing you the gallery because i want it to be the biggest best surprise for our opening June 9th. i want everyone to be as happy as i am that we now have an awesome space to program amazing shit for downtown

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not just a great space but THREE creepy basements too!

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should this creepy basement be
“pottery studio”
“silkscreen shop”
“laundrymat”
“sandwich making”
“the dirt room” (unknown)
“wine cellar”
“shoe store”
i mean there are so many things!!!!
please tell me things you want and i will try to provide them

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im listening!!!! talk to me

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as long as you dont say “witchy girl street art room”

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i really liked the directness of this message

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blurry graffiti train means im going to DC!

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not quite as glamorous as venice but there you go
reading a nice american writer on my nice american train

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sigh!!!!

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i like how none of the fonts used are as good as the natural font on the building

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i don’t remember what i was musing over on the train

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probably thinking about being on my own and what that will be like, probably thinking about my aged parents, probably trying to imagine gallery

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im trying to communicate a mood here, are you feeling it?

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staring out of windows drinking whiskey

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very important

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yay its my mom!!!
i showed her how to make hair bubushka like me

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she showed me her increasing cat collection

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there are way too many of you and you know it

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they make me breakfast

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i give them funny presents i bought them in russia

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we went birdwatching

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i see green

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that’s about it

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a duck!

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the thing i saw most of were slugs

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yes those are rollerblades

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i need to do things that take me out of myself and liberate my poor brain

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that aren’t drugs

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like rollerblading 11 miles

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HONK if you like canadian geese

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i almost rollerbladed over a big black snake! look its its tail disappearing

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glen is with two n’s?

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this is very “DC Memorial Day”

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i went to the Folger Theater instead

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i see my mom’s head!
the play was Cyrano and it was great

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girls only caring about a man’s looks and not his intellect?
i think they got it backwards

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this was my favourite photo i took the whole trip

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or this
Sarah Perpich’s pool!

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swimsuit makes me feel pasty, gangly, and jiggly all at once

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art from behind!

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i got really sunburned as everyone should on Memorial Day

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well, i peeped in on my parents long enough
they are doing good and they really want me to visit them more
that about sums it up

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back to work i guess

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i found some green that nick had hidden somewhere in the apartment? or lost. and the TV made me think it woudl be fun to smoke it? who knows

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it helped me install the airconditioner awesomely

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it made me feel like my house was very lonely and empty

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if having a kinda difficult someone in my life is so distracting according to all my friends, why do i feel way more distracted by the feelings caused by not having him?

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one fish two fish

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six of one, half a dozen of some other?

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the third show at the Hole will be something like this

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is it Wise to Guess what is Nekst?
it might Lead to Arguing

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Author: admin

I am the owner of downtown contemporary art center THE HOLE! I am arts editor at i-D magazine I paint paintings and curate art shows all around

12 thoughts on “panache / ganache”

  1. You are one of the strongest/most independent girls I have ever seen/known…you just need to surround yourself with the right peeps and you will be O.K. You have the chops/smarts/connections…, now, just do it!

  2. i was going to diss you for rollerblading but i was just too happy you finally updated! next time though im calling you a pussy or something…

  3. only boring idiots have the time to think up tales about former bosses running galleries behind the scenes while also running museums. but we all know that you’re awesome and that you are making your own mark out there.

    and you should put a pool in the basement.

  4. a HOSPITAL in the basement please -and a sign that reads.
    IN THE EVENT OF A NUCLEAR WAR THIS HOSPITAL WILL BE TURNED INTO AN ART GALLERY….
    or upstairs viceversa!

  5. i think the basement should be a secret social club. didn’t you always want a secret club when you were a kid? put in a little bar and some folding tables and you could make it so people had to know the secret sign and pay membership dues and then they can come in and drink freely and speak in hushed tones. any new members would have to be voted in, all that shit. all kinds of shit would get plotted down there.

  6. please please please leave one part of the basement as a creepy basement space, they are the most fun to put art in! and to see art in, the creepier the better!

  7. i co-sign for pool party basement fun! i love ‘art from behind’ shot. haha YO plz hit me up if u need any help at the new gallery i’m willing to help out!!!!

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