Month: April 2013

you dont have to be an old turkish dude or whatever

to read the writing on the wall

this post will be too long but whatever just give it a sec to load

i have done a shit load of … shit since i was back from Brussel/Cologne

and it has piled up like … shit

sorry my vocabulary is stunted after a long day at computer

i don’t say “at work” because that suggests i get to move around and look at trees and spring

i say “at the computer” because my goddam life is ruled by this goddam screen

who wants a Donkey Taco?
anyone?

pickin out paintings

yellow themed visit overall it seems!

the cheese stands alone

hrmph

haha looks like joe made a picture of me
cool
thanks

yay!
got to visit may
nothing like a pregnancy to make you feel optimistic and put your life in perspective, no?
i mean that

pregnancy and spring might be an overused metaphor

esp as for most young ladies as you spend your entire life avoiding it, since teenagedom when your school tells you that if you even touch a penis you will get pregnant

and then at some point you … feel differently

go figure!

thank goodness it turns out it is WAY harder to get pregnant than you were taught as a teen

sorry i am sure i should be writing some other captions that should be building to some higher purpose but today

today is more about the writing on the wall

i am feeling this

i am not feeling this

it’s nice to be surrounded by much younger friends than you sometimes because they think even dating is like way too big a committment

oh, i do not want to be in this, the soup, i can’t help but allow that anxiety to creep into this

lets explore the metaphor of pregnancy from the other angle instead then

which is the only angle i am familiar with

JA and DINK along the metro north

adek approved haha

aw i missed a really good MSKINGS sean did cuz darn train goin too fast

ah this almost caught somethig cool

🙂

yay we are at YALE!

looks like the photo department is still down with their old alum d benjamin sherry

painting dept had some cool stuff

you see i am sharing this and not even charging you, rival art dealers

i can afford to give this shit away free

haha i mean the 30bux i spent on train ticket i guess

sandy

super sandy

also known as jenna

man who doesn’t love an airbrush

austin loves airbrush

FINSIH HIM

undergrads are not alowed to finish

and there you go

that was the overview

of young talent

or somethin

man i was lookin forward to this but it was closed

i want to go back to my meditations about “writing on the wall” and “reproduction”

i was so sure i was getting somewhere

so since i got back from europe there has been a feeling….inside me

and i am not into it

and i dont know exactly what is up

but i do not want those feelings inside of me to … grow

haha from super gourmet tapas place to fried pickles
typical

because i am content just the way i am without any growing desired
i have reached my full height i hope
and would only choose to diminish my width

i guess i am down with the feeling part, but not so much down with the growing part

and so i need to flood my feelings with… other feelings so that the previous feeling gets lost and passes, right out of me, and is gone

does that make sense?
god i hate when people say that all the time
“does that make sense?”
ugh

i have tried to feel very intense feelings since then, and those feelings kept me almost unable to get through the day last week actually

but now i wonder if that worked, if the old feeling is really gone

life is so long!
and then sometimes
so short

i promise that is all i will say on the matter

as i dont have any diary or real long term memory capacity, unless i write these things down they do just pass away anyway

let’s just let them pass away

this morn with peter demos

we have a show to do, remember??

it’s friday and holy shit, we are about to go crazy these next few days!

that is my favourite europe word

it makes me think of a very literal and short version of Sartre’s “Huis Clos”

the rug lady apparently did not have any rugs free for XSTRACTION oh well

many works helped me hone my concept by being bad versions of the concept if you know what i mean

for example i had originally wnated David Reed for it but

meh

argh i wish this were in focus

i wish this were NOT In focus

ah! i found the V1 booth

i think Jesper had a lot more fun (and success) than I did

oh well! picked the wrong fair i guess

how am i supposed to know what to do?
there is no real info sharing, no data to analyze, just swirl of opinion mostly lies when it comes to picking fairs and where would sell best

i cant like crunch numbers and look at which galleries sell work like mine and see their past sales reports from various fairs or something

this guy i had chased a bit too for X

margherita is very pretty but maybe the painting not so much
i dunno, sour grapes maybe?

some dash collages

always throws me for a loop to see something like this at a fair

sigh

oog

oof

oh man

something kinda likable about this

omg this is the exact same booth that was across from us at brussels or am i going crazy already?

very nice

amazing

interesting

you guys want me to post these labels right?

is it just that now that i have visited him i see him everywhere or is it that they are suddenly everywhere?

yay we’re free!
the last hour of a fair is the worst and i got to do it twice in two days hahaha

gerhard richter is reserved

gerhard richter with tortillas

bye cologne! i had to leave u on train at 6am

i got so drunk that night, last night still technically, that i am SO HAPPY that these are here at the Hole and not on the Eurostar or at the bar or worse haha

BLEH no sleep makes world blur
i had so much brief fun in Cologne it fixed my Brussle-bruised brain, seriously, which is exactly what i had hoped

this should be a new friedrich vaerslav painting

i am mesmerized by it

i did read this book
don’t judge me
i ran out of book while traveling and it was the only option

there was a pack of cute kids on the train to Bruss airport to entertain me

and i’m home

seems spring is encroaching

seems my high speed grafitti photo skills are deteriorating

no i am going to stay for a while
till may 4 when i get to go to LA

stay here w my buddies

well lets do this real fast before we go
LIVE BLOGGING or something

we are having the BAM auction opening here 6-9pm right now

those are the pieces I would bid on!
you can bid on Paddel 8 or here in person or howev
works are up here to view and bid on for next four days!

i will now lull you to the sleep i so desperately need with art fair photos and no fun jokes

art fairs numb your brain

its a well documented fact

whether its just the overload of so many extreme different stimuli or the architecture or the people or the food

instead of provoking thought it lulls you to a stupor

this little guy animatronically banged his head against the wall
which woudl have been funner if we didnt share this wall with this gallery

davina semo

amanda

did her best to cheer me up

and crack a smile

Pat Walsh

Torben Giehler

i had wnated this guy in xstraction but literally it just was a matter of being too lazy to try to track him down and i meant to but i got bogged down chasing all the other people

one brief tits interlude i guess
but dont be excited they are just mine

the most embarrassing part of this photo is that I am reading a John Grisham novel I found in the house

ugh then back here

then back here

BRAIN DEADY

went around to “Brussels Gallery Night”

🙂

saw Wendy White show at somethin somethin

head band

sorry my camera is beeing all kooky

this gallery is just window called “Sorry We’re Closed”
erm

This is cutting boards

and flash lights?

this made me smile a bit

aw! this bruss has fireplace in office!

obligatory Moules photo

we had Belgian food one night it was great then back to falafel and frites at the all night pita place

er

Fruit and Flower Deli is also Sorry We’re Closed

no one even wanted to talk to me while i was smoking

this is one of the two Halle

we were in “Young Talent”

this guy is young talent!

now that is a cool kid

seeing Wendy White everywher!

this guy was so nice to see in person

a really good one

and wrap it up we are done

moved to some weirdy hotel

this is me having a panic attack of sorts

i just couldnt make up my mind what i was doing i am in a very … insecure and vulnerable situation

ah fuck it i will just go

man that dot is ruinin all my photos!!!

BLEH

i remember thinking ” i feel crazy inside do i look crazy” i guess not

europe maybe makes me not like graffiti a little

am i in france? where is this train going

ah!
there we go

i guess i will wait to bore you with another huge art fair in another post!

we lost the battle
but its ok because we are winning the war

i have been gone for over a week and have these old photos to post

we are at Leo Koenig

checkin out the Yale lady’s abstraction

Anoka Faruquee that is a mouthful

fun meeting made me very excited about XSTRACTION

seeing it everywhere

a studio visit and a cat~!

i dont wanna spoil so i guess for now just a detail??

two of em

<3
i missed joe so much!!!~ and eating at takahatchi with him every week

well! ready or not off we go

ooh

had a nice window seat in the cab and enough traffic to get some flicks

oh no what happened to the graffiti

come for the art fair, then stay for the seafood convention!

all this art came on plane with us can u believe

amanda ate all these cold weiners in one day can you believe

dont believe me i am being a twat
the twat is thinking she may redo her gallery ceiling lights in something more like this

with her Rood Fruit and Grills

cherchez la vache!

i liked this

man euro graffiti can get really visually offensive tho

we couldnt read the Flem menu and ended up with–shudder–steak tartare

one food i actually have managed to never eat and had wnated it to stay that way

each subway has its own cool design

hahahaa

check this oot

new matthew stones

new lolas

ooh!

she and matthew both met us in bruss and we had vietnamese and got excited

pee

bad news is we didnt get our main piece until the fair had already opened

up by 5pm BLEH THANKS A LOT

i shouldnt complain as there were six galeries that had NO art most of the first day
we all used the same shipper and the shipper got stuck in customs

some galleries staged a walkout of hte fair as the fair did not help us in any way or seem to care until the very last second when it was too late

but then the works arrived so they chipped out a bit

everyone chill it will be fine

wendy white had a solo booth

art fair photos

i promise i wont bury you in them

especialyl because i have to pee

and the BAM auction i am co hosting is starting now

there is a cocktail here named after me

being serious

ah life!! i havent slept in 48ish hours

haha I am reading David Copperfield
unfortunately for the second time

and realized how much I miss of the content when plowin through the old paperbacks

as in the first page even talks about how Copperfield was born with a “caul”

and I never bothered to google that

and it turns out it is this weird superstitious thing where some babies are born with like some membrane over their face and that people would collect and sell them to sailors as a apotropaic trinket for drowning
what the fuck is that about

and yuck!

and im scared of having babies and this is another thing i can freak out about

i guess back in Caesar’s day they had superstitions about babies born by the eponymous cesarian section

and wow how in 500ad or whenever the fuck that was did they operate on pregnant women

pretty sure that was before anesthetic or tylenol or hydrocodone

yikes again!!

kinda gross having these blood ‘n’ eyeball works while discussing this

these are great new works by Nick Mead
Julian and May were so generous to hang them so that we coudl bring the Yale-ies over to look!

had a really long day that day, what was it, yesterday?

spent all day talking i felt like
from people coming into gallery to studio visits to the museum visit

i had to export a lot of into fast, and intelligently, to a lot of people if i wanted to motivate and inspire them to do the things i wanted

May may motivates and inspires me!

sophomore year i think it was i interned at the Kreeger Museum in DC

i was a docent and I led tours of their collection

i had torn my ACL (see previous post about anaesthesia) and hobbled around on crutches through the Phillip Johnson building discussing each Monet and Manet they had up

it taught me about repetition

how each group of little old ladies was new to the place, and each group deserved my best speech yet

like any tour guide i got my schtick down and repeated it, trying to say it each time with real enthusiasm and humor and rapt attention

then at Deitch I remember hearing Jeffrey do the same thing, saying “This Chris Johanson work is his best piece, it captures his life and his world view with raw vitality, infusing every gesture and shape with his ideosyncratic and chiefly human sensibility” or whatever

and saying that five times a day to the five different clients that came in

he taught me a lot about giving it your all, like an actor with an extended run, each night, same lines, same passion

so the past few days of meetings and studio visits i have really given it my all too

telling each artist about the show
all the different aspects of it and how great each were

the different artists included, what they will show, how they relate

why i am doing it and how passionate i am about new tendencies in abstraction

that’s right folks! our next show here is a sister show to Jesper’s Chicken or Beef that promises to be just as toothsome

and looks at new ways of making an abstract painting

like Landon Metz who uses fabric dyes and makes shapes with pressure and gravity and focuses on fabric and shape and density

jesper had told me but i had forgotten he shared a studio with Ethan Cook whose crazy loom this is

stresses me out just seeing loom and thinking of him laboring over all these hand made fabrics

but look how interesting each texture is

there!
in the middle!
interesting

jesper had told me he thought they were very handmade and sincere minimal artists and i thought that was him being a dork but when i discussed the works and saw them in person i really did feel the sort of fragility, delicacy, sensitivity of the pieces

i was hoping it was something he and i could argue about but no, he was right

that is ok! i am ok being in agreement with my peers

i am not precious about the competition of curation and the idea of finding someone myself, the idea of finding something first, i am ok that jesper found and shared with me something he understood first

i am not pissy, i am so grateful to have anyone who wants to teach me things and inspires me
i want to learn from others not just give them tours of what i already know

chill out
the works for Brussles are all coming in and going out on time!

“The moon looked like melted mozzarella to my bleary and blurry vision. Was I tired, intoxicated, or in love? Or was I sober, asleep, and alone?
”

“Everyone is someone’s friend, even when they think they are all alone.”

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”

“Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don’t want to make eye contact while doing it.”

“And if you couldn’t be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.”

“What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.”

“Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one’s cow has exploded.”

are you guys enjoying these

not the loneliness quotes i mean the Kadar and other art details

i dont give a fuck if you like my quotes or not

speaking of FUCK what is wrong with my camera recently???
have i gone through another canon powershot elph already

got some Yale-ies coming tomorrow to see this and other Nick Mead works
Gotta wake up early and find my Darmouth tshirt somewhere in my apartment

“I was always on my oddy knocky.”

“How alone everyone is in the vast tomb of the universe!”

I almost decided to post outdated anachronistic job titles instead but then YAWN it was raining out and I didn’t want to walk home until it stopped so YAWN i am using you to entertain myself until the rain stops and YAWN nothing makes one feel alone like sitting in huge gallery listening to the echoes of her keystrokes on the iMac

ooh!!! tomorrow I will post my collection of YAWN photos that will be fun!!!
I had my first in person studio visit for our next show

Wendy White

some cool soccer pile, a pile
she is really into sports!

Jeffrey always said that “Rosson Crow” and “Sterling Ruby” are like un-make-uppable perfect artist names

But I think “Wendy White” is a good solid artist name that inspires confidence

her dealer went from flabby to certified iron man and I think that is a great thing
imagine if your gallerist was a fucking iron man or woman

now that inspires confidence!

OMG i love every one

curating sometimes comes down to simple picking
and you can pick your friends and you can pick your nose…

these are adidas inspired! three liners

buckles!

nyc is beautiful

she is not from LA as many think but her work is still filled with sun and light

you will see me going on lots of these treks over the course of this month
oh man its BEEF all over again but i am on my own this time

in more ways than one

yeah yeah i know

i would like to think i am not on my own but rather i choose to be alone

it’s lonely at the top of the pile of shit
let’s read some more being alone quotes that sounds super fun

“Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.”

ugh you know what makes me feel lonely? CLICHÉ

and improper punctuation and grammar

“I finally faced the fact that it isn’t a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.”

says Whitney Houston

“I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.”

what?

“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.”
Lord Byron knows whats up

“You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.” Zizek

you could say, in a vulgar blogger way, that I am the unahppy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, however, I was profoundly group oriented and desperate for like-minded people who wanted to discuss the books I had read with me. This has not changed

so these bees knees are from another blog!
let’s let some other poor sap do all the work this time
he seems to like the same shit i do anyway!
fuck and now that i have uploaded all these i cant remember where i got them
how do i find it
oh wait browser history

wow remind me to delete my browser history haha!

“It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.”
― Marilyn Monroe yeah yeah bla bla

oh! he was at hole

“I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.”
― Audrey Hepburn

whoah look at that old barrry

espo!

i still cant read philly graffiti sorry guys

ah yes i found this blog when googling chris johanson

i am into his abstraction and conceptual weirdness
get weird chris! you have a following of people that are informed and ready for your next level-ness!

“Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.”
Yes! The latter! It is mostly from the feeling that I am the luckiest girl in the world that I feel so empty not sharing that luck with someone

huh
maybe this blogger is friend of asger’s?
oh i found them! where these photos are from. you can too HERE

i have had this on my desktop forever the jpg i pulled off internet is called Ludwigvonbeatdown

oh, and hands in the air for the cover mockup of our next show’s book!
pretty Xcited for all the Xing i will get to Xpell Xpeditiously!

you guys are gonna get so sick of me

These intents should be created by the profile maker so that pleasing images occur with the perceptual intent while eye-catching business graphics occur with the saturation intent.

This is the last photo I will have of me wearing winter shit I hope!

It is spring and I am letting my saturation levels go crazy
By the end of this post we will have achieved full saturation

Starting out at Peter Halley studio I don’t need any relative colorimetric

Colorful prisons, let’s keep that in mind as a theme as well

this one is amazing

should be up on Opening Ceremony blog soon!

this blue was on fire

ooh

we had such an interesting talk
Peter’s work and his themes are so vital right now and he has made very similar work for thirty years, with variation of course, but really committed guy, and work stays so fresh

Consumer aesthetics
Prison architecture
Impediments to the greatness and potential of man

here is another impediment

I read this as SLEEP NO MORE but haha that is my projection of Macbeth on everything
and my stress-induced insomnia talking

Kenny Scharf afterparty for his Kasmin show

sugary places to “stick it”

someone parked their pup outside

the blue ribbon afterparty for Kuo at Marlboro

sorry guys!
i made it to the Halley interview and then only had time for the two afterparties and not even the openings!

here is where one of our sold artworks ended up!
more on that soon

got six pages of photos to get through!

made really awesome chicken kale casserole

got a new Lola painting for Bruxelles

took some Kadar details for sellin

last person to get neon pumps but i am not sad about that!

hey hey!
joe and I went to takahatchi and i got the SACER seat!
it is a sign of good luck

descending down down to DC for my weekend

deer old parents

oh man there are fucking deer everywhere

it gets kinda scary actually!

spring in bethesda is pretty nice
i bet i could scroll through the past years of my blog and there is always a post of going home and looking at flowers

and weeds

the dog is wondering what i am doing

i dont know what im doing

looking for what tree will win best in show

so i had to go to the Tidal Basin

i feel bad cuz i keep UGH taking ambien to fall asleep and then waking up to bizarre social media posts i dont remember making

some Ambien people like eat tubs of mayo or like drive cars and dont remember
i participate in the internet and dont remember

taking photos of the people taking photos helped me feel less touristy
and like i had friends

i guess it makes waking up every day an adventure

but not an adventure i want!

what ya squeezin over there?

i dont actually say anything personal on my blog tho it might seem so

and anyone who participates in social media knows about persona vs personality

but i had an artist not want to be in a show because i said something snippy about their work on my blog years ago

and i hope i hope i didnt make others mad at me or think i suck

it seems such a cop out to be like “that’s not me” but my real life and my real personality are really different, even just in the fundamental way that in real life i am fairly private and fairly quiet and not the exhibitionist that performing your personality for everyone so often would necessarily suggest

i think i am just mad/embarassed, madbarrassed, because i occasionally break character or something and then i worry it makes my character seem real when its not

sorry im being vague.
i tweeted a week ago somethign mean about hating something
and in real life i dont even use the word hate, i hate hate!
i dont hate anything
except hate
hahaha

i tried to use the two days to just back up a step and think about some gallery business but i stepped so far back i fell into flowers

dad just sat on bench but he has seen these many years every year of his past 82 years so that is ok

spring is for the young
or something

but not for me

tree orgy, fecundity, reproduction, FLOURISHING bleh

i feel no fellowship with man or beast

i want to enjoy spring by myself
alone
and throw my smartphone into the tidal basin

and then at the same time spring makes me have a crush on everyone walking down the street its just UGH chemical or something

oh deer
as kembra would say

where is kembra i think she is in hawaii

i like this cat best

this one sucks
i can’t pet any of them anyway so who cares

what good is a cat you can’t pet?

i could extrapolate on that last question to bring up many other issues but i will refrain

i have no urge to make my feelings supersaturated
or to share anything resembling a real emotion

in fact i have no urge to feel anything at all
i would prefer a state of non-feeling
i would prefer to pack myself into a sofa

but since i dont get to do that i will pack myself into gallery

there is plenty of room within it for many people even besides me to get lost in it and to lose their personhood and become part of a un-individuated work blob

i made un-individuated chicken ratatouille to entertain my parents

and potatoes and goat cheese spinach salad

my camera was dying so there is crappy DC graffiti but it kinda crapped out when the graffiti got good

furze

ooh caught that VIZIE on the reverse!

does smell

i always take a phtoo of this cuz it is when the train is going real slow
highlighting my worthlessness as a high speed graffiti photogrpaher

do you think this guy went to bard? do you think this guy is from laos? do you think that guy BLERRRRg

argh! a little to quick on the click
the nekst one will be better

yuk not that

my hand looks cool

this one!

yay! so flagrant!

yay!

yay!
ok i am satisfied

the demo buff
crueler than the paint buff

indeed i do!

saturated as in lacking a double bond

The outwork is finally in place!
the citizens are safe

sorry everyone was running around screaming and on fire last two weeks

found a little pile i had overlooked
in my frenzy

if that is the rite word for it

a moment where getting through a single day seems like a catastrophe of pain

i feel that whatever hormone bath my brain was boiling in has finally boiled off and evaporated

giving me back to myself

phew!
funny thing about not doing drugs is you never get to take a vacation from yourself, you are always there, with all the lights on, everything plugged in, always

you feel everything
like coming off anaesthetia while surgery still in progress

i remember waking up after i had ACL surgery in college it was the worst experience of my life

i was freezing cold and coulnd’t get warm
i came to like mid-panic attack where i couldn’t talk and time was standing still

i thought i was dead, or dying and the time distortion was what happened to you right before you die or something

thank goodness my dad was there i remember holding on to his shirt and he kept asking me if i was ok and i couldn’t talk and it felt like an eternity

this provides only temporary relief
to the masses

this provides actual relief!

haha this too i guess

always good to remind self “fuck you i do what i want” sometimes when you get caught up in too many people trying to tell you how to do and be or self trying to do that to self

do be do be do be do

oh what a shit photo i am a shit

KATSU sprayed the Eyebeam
and their neighbor Paula Cooper
haha Tauba is the only one they want sprayin it up over there!

this is a show KATSU was in and a bunch of other hacker nerd types

Saul Lipsizm

all the works were only interesting once friend ‘splained em

hacked apple store so computers on display secretly recorded shit

got a nice search warrant for that piece!

I think Jesse is trying to “participate” in the show

who would ever wear this what the fuck is this

haha oops sorry !
C is going to punch you if you try to scan his face

tough guy

Got emailed some “fame tokens” after the show
me (and Jesper show) in Time Out and KATSU on these sites

ARTINFO
GIZMODO

then bumped into this pink blob walking home and decided to look him out for a bit

i love walking around with my pink blob he is so fun and adorable
oh sorry i wont say that that is patronizing i will say cute as a button
no i will say smart hahaha

one flowers is happy but two or more is funeral

got some Brussles Art Fair works today

getting really psyched!

and inventoried some spooky Matthew that I dont think you guys have seen actually

we are gearing up for a show at Shepard F’s gallery in LA actually May 4–shit!

April is going to fly by I can feel it already and ugh Brussels I remember Brussels just being pickled in strange beer and no young people anywhere

apparently all the cool kids will be at Cologne Art Fair same time

what is up Europe?
can’t you like plan your art fairs properly

did someone miss a memo?
this work reminded me that Dante Gabriel Rossetti might be interesting to mention in the next Matthew press release

“You hardly know your own mind enough to make both your legs walk one way” i’m almost done with Silas Marner I read faster when my brain is not being boiled

I had to look at a LOT of cuteoverload this time, more than other times, really serious

“You’re a deep little puss, you are”

Here are some defensive military structures.
Tomorrow we are going to learn about some anachronistic job titles:

Abatis
Broch
Castra
Crannog
Grad
Palisade
Sudis
Trou de loup
Vallum
Arrowslit
Barbican
Bartizan
Bastion
Bergfried
Caltrop
Cheval de frise
Citadel
Enceinte
Embrasure
Gabion
Glacis
Gulyay-gorod
Hoarding
Keep
Kremlin
Machicolation
Motte-and-bailey
Murder-hole
Neck ditch
Peel tower
Portcullis
Reduit
Ward
Yett
Bastion
Blockhouse
Breastwork
Caponier
Casemate
Crownwork
Coupure
Hornwork
Lunette
Ostrog
Outwork
Punji sticks
Ravelin
Redoubt
Scarp
Star fort
Tenaille
Barbette
Sangar
Wire obstacles
Spider hole
Czech hedgehog
Dragon’s teeth
Flak tower
Hesco bastion
Rocca