March 2010 – Art From Behind

squid pro quo

a posse ad esse!

from possibility to reality!!!

almost

got a little more esse to assay, ese

a posteriori

rosson’s last day of show saturday

eavesdropping on this skater kids talking about her work

they stayed for like half an hour!

ab absurdo, ad absurdo

there is no good rationale for waiting in line for pricey treatlets at magnolia

ab extra

you will need to do some extra ab work after these

amor omnibus idem:

im sorry this post is half latin

i am really into latinate expressions right now and have been reading up

ars longa vita brevis!

oh wait i have a better one:

cacoethes scribendi 🙂

asinus asinum fricat: the jackass rubs the jackass

so rosson and suzanne had this great closing party at suzannes loft saturday

it involved, for some inscrutible reason, these 10ft sandwiches

audax at fidelis

one of suzannes three cats scrambling to get away from:

audere est facere

Bridget!

carpe…noctem!

there is no good description of her insane performance so until i upload this huge video just look at the photos and try to imagine what she is singing and saying

caveat carmen!

coitus interruptus

try to imagine her running her fingers through ben jones’ hair

collige virgo rosas!

not unrelated

corpus delicti

corpus delecti??

credo quia absurdum est

you have to imagine her going up to hula hoopin Malcom in the middle of a song and saying, rapturously, “you look just like avatar”

and then grabbing him up onto stage

by the butt

my dad’s favourite he used to say to me and my brother all the time and is appropriate here: de gustibus non est disputandum!

e unibus plurum 🙂 courtesy david foster wallace

et tu, brute? see previous post

ex cathedra; dont know why i love this one so much

makes me think of catheters

and that IS an adult diaper around her leg

there is a whole other second act too

one day i will be able to post some of her lyrics or banter properly

songs about this popular guy in highschool who dated her because he heard she was a slut but woudlnt take her out into public and gave her an STD, a song about how large and in charge she is, a song about this guy dumping her with his facebook status update on valentines day and the ensuing drinking/humping of that night

sandwich ex machina!

after everyone left we thought we would have some personal time with the sandwich

habeus sandwich!

how many more latin sandwich expressions can i dig up?

pro boner?

that is not about sandwiches

diem perdidi

we slayed the sandwich but could not vanquish it

veni vidi vici!

sandwich vincit omnia!

ex nihilo nihil fit: see also “twice as much as nothing at all is still nothing at all”

ok i promise no more latin

i wish i had taken latin insteada french in elementary school

how more annoying a nerd kid would i have been? wow

rosson told me the name of this cat and it is hilarious and i just cant remember it to save my life

semper letteris mandate!
shut up kathy shut up kathy

speaking of writing

since brendan fowler sprayed my name 8 feet long on bedford ave in 2003 there is nothing that makes me stupidly happy more than someone spraying my name on a building

nothing!

i dont care how much of a ding dong that makes me

i wish i had the balls some girls have to do it themselves

but i am too old to grow those balls, alas

morte magis metuenda senectus: old age should rather be feared than death

this is my favourite picture in this blog

rosson took me for squishy since i was broke

two days till pay day!

had a mushed peanut butter and jelly sandwich outta my purse today

Videlicet

or VIZ as it is abbreviated

what is this?

oh its just abby brooklyn bowling birthday

(i won)

(i annoyed everyone by calling that to their attention)

rosson made nick “twilight” on the board

he hated it

hands under high speed dryer:

gross!

obit anus, abit onus

🙂

that’s schopenhauer i think

this morning: out with the floss in with the jules!

well well acta non verba starting….NOW!

not boring

that is my new defense of everything

why are you hanging out with that dude?

why are you friends with that girl?

why do you hang out there?

why did you do that you freak?

all this and more can be answered by “well its not boring”

this girl is not boring

i met her outside ryans opening she is amazing!

the T magazine thingie he talks about her and how crucial she was to making this series of photos i found it really great

i feel like i know this guy. amazing

i think i know this girl from facebook?

how did ryan keep his camera working with all the drool there must have been everywhere

suzanne rosson and i had salads and came to see the TEAM without being full of team

antibiotics and white beer en route to tomoo opening

wow!

how old do you think this thing is?

this first

chris johanson selected this artist to do a show

tact

dignity and restraint!

that went out the window huh?

tomoo!

i love him he is so much fun im so annoyed i didnt get to hang out with him

and his friend taka to the left and of course erik we know and love

the paintings were odd

stencily but oddly interesting spray and imagery, nip slip punk zine what is going on

bill brady!

andrew guenther had the minispace behind it

face plate plant

one of andrew’s tattoos!

not boring

then suzanne took us to queens to this italian grocery where at night they put out tables and candles and have a restaurant

with opera singers!!

not boring

rosson’s food came out of this cheese wheel!

also not boring!
wait lemme upload rosson’s cameraphotos they are better than mine:

had some interesting conversations here, to say the least

not boring!

woke up all like

WHAT THE FUCK

saw my favourite truck again

went to my childhood friend Sarah Perpich’s 30th birthday dinner and party last night so cute and fun!

i really like her parents and they havent changed a bit in 15 years and her dad delivered the cutest speech about her and all these things that i remember about her from 3rd grade and so cute was dying

dying

that’s her and her boyfriend phillip

we went to this club on the bowery after but it was too dark and vondkaish in there to get good photos

i picked up one of sarah’s friends who said she used to be a raver and went to brooklyn

to Kenny Scharff’s COSMIC CAVERN!!

immortalized by rosson in one of her paintings if you remember

fucking are you kidding how cool is this place

scott ewalt

creator of the cock and djing the disco

dude

eric!!

look at that guy on the left

look directly at it i dare you

dude kenny is a dance machine

i love everyone’s energy!

i love Many Diverse Manly Advances

that is an acronym folks

look how terrifying it looks with the flash

you must stay in the zone

you must not flash

harness your hopes to the folks with the liquor with the ropes

they’ve got everything you will ever need stored under the chair

this is sarah’s friend carloyn i brought with me

dying

how cute is this bundle?

dying

this lady

dying

its almost fivvvvvveeeeeeee

me when i got home

is “not boring” really a good criterion to go through life wielding?

if all you ever do is business you don’t like

maybe i should just turn this fucking thing into a graffiti blog jesse

i just wanna walk around in the pouring rain and see new tags

sigh!

i started to do a murdered umbrella carnage series because i loved pat’s so much, but there is no way i could top his and stopped with this wet one

have i put aurel’s historical plaque on the blog before?

have i put her weird sex shop on it?

See my tailor, he’s called Simon, I know it’s going to fit!

this was a confusing thing i did what saturday?

it was a magazine release but with printouts of i dont know and we just went because max was involved and it was his last night. bye max!!!! come back soon

i accidentally took a photo of that green tag and then like magic he appeared!

aurel’s house

i walk by clinton street bakery all the time and finally just went in for breakfast and oh my effing god this was the best breakfast on the planet. $13? i swear it was worth it.

meat ‘n’ potatoes at LIT i think it was?

i bought a new belt

ebay let me go back on ebay! i am no longer banned

just kidding i made up a whole fake new everything because i just want to buy weird clothes on ebay and i couldnt wait for them to release me from ebay jail

LUCIEN we kind of made a mess of things there, but they forgave us

ahhh the elusive silver fill white outline

looks so good! why dont more people do this its so prettttty

daffodils!

crocuses! the one day before they get stomped and then shit on

Here’s a little piece of advice

You’re quite welcome it is free

Don’t do nothing that is cut price

You know what that’ll make you be

They will try their tricky device

Trap you with the ordinary

Get your teeth into a small slice

The cake of liberty

reachy kisses

a pair of em!

i forgot to take photos the past couple days except of graffiti

so there i dont care

i love this

me at bacaro last night with abby

i paid a psychic five bucks to tell her her future but she was too drunk to remember what the lady told her

she remembered to steal tim’s hat for the rainy walk home though!

today

fucking soaked through to my underwear walking to work

this cheered me up

there’s something perversely gratifying about walking to work in a rainstorm when you are intensely hungover

the dehydration wrought by the alcohol and things makes you mega hydrophylic; you want rain to pour down your face and into your mouth. you may not realize that overtly, but it lends this appeal to the world around you that you can’t quite put your finger on

meditate on this for a minute!

oo a rosson made it in here, spraying paper for book project

she is in LA for 10 days!

me and my blog are going to shrivel up and die

but lo!

rosson gave me her memory card a bit back and my computer uploaded way more than she bargained for!

we probably have enough secret rosson to keep us busy alll rainy march!

alright so “lest” this turn into a graffiti blog, or a purely rosson blog, here is a great art photo project jaimie warren did on a recent trip to India. you all remember her, right? the best.

kathy projects!!! that is what i am going to blurt out now when i like something.

wow

a whole lot of “taking it there”

a whole lot of found awesomeness, a whole lot of created awesomeness

not PC but not like not PC right? what is up in that area?

let’s ravel all this matter out

the big dirty

spencer brownstone has this great show up you should go there

guess what you get to do with these?

smash the state! FTL! or something

feels good to smasssshhhhhh things

dying a friend’s hair black gave me Amy Winehouse hands

abby bough me some st patricks day drinks and saved my struggling butt yesterday

fun with bar napkins

bar mitzfah napkins?

fun with spray

fun on canal

JR is a hairball of fun

stealthy fun with the roll down gates down

helicocksuckers followin me!

or maybe just in my head

large and in charge

is knight flipping me off??

i had so much fun last night and didnt take many pictures

you get what you get

teddy made that awesome dress tracy engman is wearing but meghans dress is pretty asesome as well

hey!

these guys said they were my facebook friend

they look awesome can we be friends in real life??

i love rosson in this photo

i was drunk when i woke up and texted rosson I LOVE YOU apparently

gruesome!

look at the waitresses

this is the view while you peee

or maybe this is smoking

i like this blurry photo

those are rosson’s parents!

this camera! has been missing the best parts of things

why is it blurring the shit out of everything?

i am a camera tard i need a camera that does everrrrryyything for me

caught some boob grabbin

caught suzanne at terences!

caught this in my hallway at 7am coming home what is up with life recently???

tomorrow you get some of rosson’s photos maybe they will fill in some gaps

and maybe some better analysis if i dont pickle my brain again tonight

march hair

The March Hare will be much the most interesting, and perhaps as this is May it won’t be raving mad — at least not so mad as it was in March

first photo on the new camera

march is fucking madness in the artworld

when a biennial meets the armory and is flanked by rosson and dakis, there is what some might call a perfect storm

im going to the armory in like 30 min at which point i will feel even more like death

for now we can stand in a crowded elevator together

whee!

lets see how many photos i could sneak before my “artistic voice was stifled”

ooooo

love this piece

art camo

where did rosson go?

we started calling tauba TAUERBACH which for some reason we find hilarious

best gillian wearing ever

stefan!!

i dont know why him posing with art is so funny but it is

ive seen photos of this piece but in person!
christ on a cracker

i think the only person in his whole collection i dont like is mark manders

oh wait who made this piece?

dammit.

whoever made this piece, i did not like this piece

great of these

beshitted

best altmejd

but dare i ask

where is the nut guard????

ooo i wish i could have just hung out with this piece the whole time

there were tons of amazing works i wasnt wily enough to snag photos of

best new museum show ever!!!!

not because im biased

i do love the new museum bathrooms though

all of them

the party at the bowery hotel was so nice with fancy food everywhere, open bar, all the fancy people

had one million conversations

highlights: eivind from oslo telling me new york is lame and my friends and scene are lame, tony shafrazi, he is like a party animal version of jeffrey to me, abby and thalia, andreas’ brother!!! how have i never met him before?? Addy, whose full greek name is too hard for me to pronouce/remember who is super nice, jules, aurel, francesco being a perv, dennis, david lachapelle, i dont know! people people everywhere

i tried to take a photo of david velasco dancing because he is always on the other end of the camera and was killing it on the dancefloor but oh well, failed by a flail