Month: November 2012

event ide!
as in a spray that rids you of having to host and attend events
would make a fortune

unFORTUNATELY for my pun, our past events here have been really really fun

we hosted the launch party for new cool ad and new media company NSGSWAT

Jack DJed

Ben Jones looked awesome with flickering colored lights on it
sorry this photo is poo poo platter

matthew Stone room with Lasers on

Joe 🙂

adults

haha that is the owner ad iconoclast Richard Kirschbaum

omg

Troy and that nice other dude whose name i forget
the party was like the funnest thing randomly!

Jesse Edwards showed some paintings too!

Fabiola’s shoes, i love this one

and then!

last night we hosted Matthew Stone’s dinner in teh exhibition

I cant get over the lighting this nice guy Nico did!

dont tell any of our glamorous guests but we did this event for under $1k

laura knows
🙂

Amanda our assistant director put it all together as the first big thing she was in charge of and it turned out amazing

it reminds me of 2004 when jeffrey asked me to do the K-48 exhibition in the Deitch Williamsburg space and then said my budget was $500

and I fucking did a great show for $500!

what is even better is that RIGHT as the party started, I got the magic phone call pledging BIG BUCKS for my miami parties

we are doing to PARTY again this year so hard i am tired just thinking about it

I cant wait to P Our parties to you but we are close

maybe Monday when contracts are signed i can start leaking the P

sorry i am being so gross
This is Andre J giving the best speech
he had us all say 1,2,3, :”THANK YOU UNIVERSE!” while holding hands

then matthew read a manifesto

with his ipad teleprompter
that he wrote months ago and whose last line was “love focused like a laser”

the title of his great show!

im eating lunchables and drinking leftover wine and worrying about how to fly out all the crucial people for under 3K

i want to fly all my friends around with me everywhere forever

maybe i can do that one day!!!

Matthew is giving these works to V1 for their Ten Year Anniversay show
wow i cant believe they have been there ten years
ten years ago i had…just started working as the receptionist at Deitch Proejcts

Jeffrey came in today and I gave him a big hug and another thank you and he blushed 🙂

finally shot the works in the light in case you guys wanna probe and peek

crazy

i gave a wee toast to matthew last night too of course

i talked about his commitment to innovate and be sincere and real

and how fun it is as a kathy to work with artists like him

can you imagine how fun???

troy sent me this from the previous barry event
got my barry book at my barry mural at my bam parteee

here are photos of our Sayre and Matthew openings

QUI TEQUILA so yummy and black outty and Pernille our great Danish Intern

favourite photo!

Kadar

Emerald

ooh luscious long haired ladies

haha! favourite

new intern GIA on the right
i think! i hope!

game of thrones and who is taller

pablo lopezz

ha!

party peepo

the hole team!
except me and the investors 🙂

this photo is so dorky i cant resist

poor matthew was working so hard he didnt get to go put on his cool michael jackson outfit

this looks like two photos next to each other

martin and mazur

cool hair lady!

ooh i like them

kathy face

look at all the nice men that come to hole openings

i gotta like…get on that sometime

this girls face is fantastic

yay! pussy power!

karley mad the vag tshirt

everybody loves Qui Tequila it seems!
makes the events go down smooth
and not come up rough

secret poems of loneliness

psalms of success!

this is pretty cool

article is great! buy this mag!

it’s been a graffiti party recently

todd james

oh man in this big space on Washington

those fashion dudes that did RETNA did it

pretty sweet

this guy Alexis pretty awesome

Eric Cahan guest bloggin

I spy Josh Lazcano

lightin farts on fire
remind me to brush my hair before i go out

this!

go see it

what else

barry book

old adek, young keegan

tried to take a photo and there were hackey sacking and i asked them to move haha they said no

what country is this? not nyc

oh shit!

troy!
haha

check out this new mural

i think jeffrey had somethin to do with this!

derp!

a little weird that its painted and not like his usual panel things but i actualyl dont mind that

who BAM is weirdy

MCGEE
JESSE

jason schmidt, some peepo

troy and tanlee

troy and i went to the literal closest restaurant possible

ok ok im spacing out
this is our new catalogue AAAAAA

remember our summer show?

read my essay

l
look how good this looks!

oh this book is actually awesome

if i doo say so myself

gonna be out on DAP

on amazon
bookstores

u know?

favourite one

i love them all!
i want to make books of everything
i want to make a blog book
who’s with me??

jon called this “the devil’s raquetball court”

we had a full week to install these shows but somehow it was so crazy stressful and last second again

we learn from each show we do how to do it better and more in advance but jeez

every month! every month we all almost kill ourselves and each other!

our tequila sponsor brought us amazing dinner at midnight one night that made everything awesome

got some wee old Ben Jones to sell here at the gallery

someone tell me how his MOCA show looks in person! i havent even seen photos!!

i’m gonna start hounding the museum to send em

oh and then the works arrived

ohhhhhh and it all becomes worth it to see new things

i didn’t take any photos during packed opening, then took a few when we shooed everyone out

i love flicking the lights

shoo, you!

look at Matthew’s SLUTEVER shirt

look at Sayre in Playboy sweater with tequila lady!

“We call my father-in-law the exorcist. Every time he visits he rids the house of spirits.”

had such great Pho and then sloshed our way to Le Baron
An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.
– Dylan Thomas

ohhhhh
A man who goes into the pub optimistically often comes out misty optically.
do you like my dumb drinking jokes?
only funny perhaps to the severely hangovered

I never drink unless I’m alone or with somebody.

slosh slosh slosh $1 tequila shots all night
‘He’s so full of alcohol, if you put a lighted wick in his mouth he’d burn for three days.’ Groucho Marx

i barfed tequila today
A drunk goes up to a parking meter, puts in a quarter, and watches as the dial goes to 60. ‘I can’t believe it,’ he says. ‘I just lost 100 pounds!’

tequila took my favourite glasses
and am hoping it will give them back
‘I drink to steady my nerves. Last night I got so steady I couldn’t move.’

tequila doesnt need glasses, tequila is not a dork
sayre and catherine taft from whitney doing dork talk today!

we are going to make a zine with writing by the artist and source images and some of the talk and it will be great because the works have lots of interesting ideas in them that are worth a clear long look

look what is going on in here!

it all worked out! its like magic!

‘

i would say that one on the left is one of the most powerful images of ecstasy i have ever seen in art
and is about how great i feel about our two new shows!!!

i almost drank jack’s pee last night

instead i had sushi

with this my best buddy

we were lucky and got the SACER table yes!!

Sandy ruined all the normal’s facebook pages who seem to only have haloween costume photos, people that go out on new years and haloween, feel bad for em, they can always just do a shoot at home or just, go out more or something

OOOOOOOOOoo we stayed in and watched this unfold and blossom

omg elections make me so weepy

glad these losers arent on my team

or any of these gross ladies
(hypocrites, imbeciles)
sorry i get kinda nasty especially with ladies who dont support abortion rights or equal pay or anything sane and like to keep their gender second best, they can all eat a huge dick for all i care, or not cuz that might make them psyched, they can all eat a nice shit sandwitch, as they are obviously already doing in this photo

glad i am down with these guys as this is EXACTLY how i feel

argh michelle is so cool i love her

srsly i get all ARGH teary and weird

i love america! and i love democracy, and i love obama it was such a love fest and we ate tons of cookies and got drunk

this shit makes me cry, god i dont know

woke up to another fucking storm coming, wind howling ominously

went to lunch with my newly engaged friend and her awesome vintage rock to prove it! wow!!!

mile end was hit really hard by the storm as their main food thingie is in red hook
we are going to have a benefit here on sunday more on that soon
we were so lucky we have to help the buddies that weren’t

yuck

geggin in on jessie’s photo

new amazing and weird ben jones work can u believe?

sayre gomez our next show being camera shy 🙂

what is art?
you guys seem to like to comment on that
that is something we will be addressing this Saturday

what is snow?
a huge pain in the butt when your boots have holes in them

!!!!

[sounds of silent rage]

so much to do

look at this amazing painting
i dont want to spoil the show but seriously look at this guy for 30 concerted seconds of your life

and tell me it doesnt kick ass

i thought we were having a conceptual art show but it looks like we are actually having a KICK ASS PAINTING SHOW

just what i love

i love the button “selective color” also

oooo

another bad ass Ben, old guy, going to framer now

he’s got a show at MOCA right now so we gotta get some works to give the clamoring crowds!

spent most of today at teh bank

ugh citibankkkkk and my branch closed so now i have to bank at jeffrey’s bank and it makes me feel funny, and highlights how much LESS i have in the bank than he ever did

progress!

we are painting floor right now then tomorrow put on the doors and install pieces then saturday works arrive and shit

im nervous but i have a great team to help and i give them thai food so they keep painting

thought i would end wtih this NYtimes photo of stand-in actors for romney and forgot his name and their wives rehearsing to get the blocking right
HA!~

almost stronger than the real thing

jon labeling outgoing photos with panache

i can’t wait to walk around downtown and see all the flowers

take it somewhere else bub

mayo is the first thing to go bad in a blackout

trying to find Poisson Rouge

ooh a show too!

i wonder what parts are Macaulay Culkin’s!

ha!

ah its so weird!

if i wanted to sit i had to order two things

yuck! tater tots

adam green and binky shapiro

first show testing their new album out in january!

i thought it was great!

and had fun with my camera

there was nothing psychedelic about the show i am just fucking around

sorry guys
sorry
i am having fun

then waiting for Matthew outside Pho Grand i got excited about ghost feets

omg im sorry i am being so annoying

ooh my favourite
ghost in boots!

i want to eat Pho every night
my early new year’s resolution

butter face
🙂

skip to my lew

look at all the old chinese dudes in long line to vote
makes my liberal heart tear up!
and mix metaphors 🙂

wanted to draw some dicks on the Romney side but didnt want the scanner to have ANY confusion about who I was votin for!

yuk

oh no!
accidentally went to an art show on the way to work

Lucien
the guy who makes the rain paintings

i wonder if he throws all the money he has made off those in the air and says make it rain

that might bum me out

dont get it

maybe PR will help!

oh GOD what is this
you guys know i only curated the Barry McGee and the Kenny Scharf right?
PLEASE everyone know that i only did those two
Tony Goldman the owner and curator of the wall passed away last month, very sad
I wonder what will happen to his street art empire?

shit i need to end on a positive note and am out of photos

here you go!
spencer s’weenie piece en route to Copenhagen!!

and T Koh en route today!
the show is DONE i am really happy

my camera deleted the first half of photos i took
which fits with the theme of this trip which is
EVERYTHING GOING WRONG but somehow not stressing about it

Jesper and Mikkel

they were so nice about the fact that we had like half the show at the preview and half the show stuck in my bag in Lisbon

the blackout! made me fly two days late and through lisbon and luxembourg and UGH what a mess

SACE i have never seen because it is on 24hr deli gate that is never down
now THAT is a great reason for a blackout!

lisbon: i bought a hat and marzipan and hung out in the gross smoker room

i guess my camera deleted opening and dinner and all photos except when i went upstairs to this awful open studios

this reminds me actually of

ella whats her face? what is with the trend of like picasso-y matissey women painting

gallery owner mopping floors?

apparently this thing visited copenhagen right after i did in august

ooh! when is this from?

gallery owner hanging the art himself? what is going on in this joint
i actually really like their spirit over there; they have been running their space for a decade now (SHIT!) and are really successful and hardworking do it yourself people that have stayed committed to what they believe in and don’t compromise but also dont stress. jesper in particular exerts this almost narcotic calm over me where i feel like everything will be fine and the world is great and why worry about anything

poot

the show was supposed to be about humour and art but everyone happened to send me sex paintings

old chris johanson out of control

more philosophically minded Kuo 🙂

Matthew LeFevre

would look awesome next to the Aurel burnout!

michael Williams

assHOLES
i should buy this one for the glalery

Carl’s nip

zizek joke book is awesome

its 20,000euros 🙂

Their main show was by Anika Lori

who seems like an awesome chick

this one favourite

got brendan up on the ceiling
sigh!!! show will be finished finished tuesday when aurel and simon evans back from framer and spencer sweeney and terence koh get there fed ex
literally i was tryign to pick up those two works but they live downtown like me and i went to their streets and yelled up to their apartments but their phones and buzzers were dead and like SERIOUSLY the main joke of the show was trying to curate a show during a blackout

ooh food
went to dinner with mikkel who steve powers says has no sense of humour but i think he is wrong 🙂

the guy Jacob Berliner gallery place in Sweden that has our Portrait of a Generation show up there now actually owns this hotel with one room

crashed a dinner party

this jolly red bearded fellow who is a great cook

and has a cool art colletction

NO PHOTOS is the only danish i learned
and home!

grab the zines i made at V1 while they still smell like yummy xerox!

Q: What did the O say to the Q?
A: “Dude, your dick’s hanging out.”