Month: May 2013

writing essays about abstraction is really tiring

i took this same photo two weeks ago on 81st street and now

well now i guess those little STIGMA STYLE and OVARY are either pollenated or no and either about to burst into a big green belly or no

i love the Dana Schutz painting but did she just… paint that painting on a door
did someone else paint it
it is cropped really weird
what is happening

i like this little kerfuffle
looks like JA and DINK are buddies huh

NGHR

i like when NYC graffities itself

I got contact lenses again finally after a month of glasses slipping down my nose
i wish someone woudl just tell me which is cuter and i woudl just do that because i have no personal preference

the cardboard is alive!
no its not

checked out a Alec Martin and Cole Mohr show

I forgot the third guys name i apologize

look familiar huh?

haha hope not too familiar

not tryign to out anybody

speaking of which i gotta send in my recs for the Out 100 this year, i asked my two out employees and they didnt have any suggestions. do you?
what gaylord do you wanna see in print?

going to Dartmouth I had more than I wanted of “the man in the mountain” you know that thing?
some rock that looks like a profile in new hampshire
yeah

I visited the two artists we will be takin to Switzerland next month and there are so many fun surprises to come
we are doing a sparse and conceptual booth this year, not a second hand shop, and im nervous
considering how much you pay per foot for wall in a goddam art fair, my natural impulse is of course to have as much and as expensive art covering as many of those feet as possible at all times

but as you may remember from Frieze
a curated booth is much appreciated….

I just wanna work on my essay and be left alone but I have been in gallery every day for like months and shoudl probably spend tomorrow in a cafe pulling my hairs out hunched over a laptop no?

crumpled in a corner cafe
havent done that in a while!

I walked by Maccarone as it is a block from Holton to see the Alex Hubbard show

I bumped into one of Nick’s Chicago friends who works there

and then into the big noodle herself

I was all pent up with stuff and I might have unbuttoned myself a bit too fully but it was nice

she told me lots of interesting things too, we complained about how hard it is to make big picture decisions when the market has gotten so crazy that it has no patterns and structure and erratically evades anticipation

i told her every day i try to sell just one thing, even if a book or a cigarette to a bum, and she said every day she tries to not eat cookies
its a metaphor

because both of us agreed that we cant just leave it at “follow your gut”
because we are not froofy idealistic hippies

saw ASAP Rocky playing basketball when going to the F train

you guys wont like this but boy i am really going to like this
which is fine because you can click the red button but i am stuck with myself forever
so:

i have been really interested in vintage occupations
like jobs that dont exist anymore
and made you a nice rhyming list of them

Harrier
Hurrier
Farrier
Furrier

Currier
Collier
Pannier
what the hell is a Hellier?

Slabber and Slubber
a Legger and Lagger and even a Puddler!

Kiddier, Codder, a Beamer a Needler
a buddling Buddler

Slubber and Rubbler
Tubber a Gabler a Snobber and what ever’s a Jobber

Jiggerman Hoggard and Higgler
Hedger Flogger a Badger Cadger a Verger a Clogger

and three strange ones
an Eggler a Mangler and Faggeter

a Tinner a Conner, a Troner and Spooner
the Ashman and Flasher, the Fletcher and Tosher
“the Finisher”

what is a Raffman
a Doffer a Duffer or a Whiffler?

Gelder, Felder, Beadle, Candler, Chandler
what about a Chandelier?

a Culver keeps pigeons
a Delver a Felder, the Gabeler and the Fowler

ask not for whom the Knoller knolls
Fuller, Melder, Moulder, Burler, Pelterer, Tabler, and Sutler

Wetter haha a Trotter, Lattener, Batman, Canter, Caster, Danter, Tinctor and “the Factor”
which i assume relates to Le Facteur in french?

a gaunt Gaunter, a Henter, we all know a Vintner, but Laster or Ostler or bumbling Botcher?

Nipper ‘n’ Dipper ‘n’ Dripper ‘n’ Snapper
Simpler and Slapper

Tapiter Tipper
Ripper Chippy Cropper Crimper!

Gummer and Lumper oh I love that
a Sumpter, a Scrimer

you dont mind that i am being silly amidst the install shots do you

my brain is so exhausted from pondering ABSTRACTION for the essay for the book that I just want to list odd jobs

Tinkers and Fakers, Hackers and Jerkers

that sounds so contemporary

Clicker or Crocker, Keeker or Stoker

maybe i will write a list of new jobs that didnt exist back then

in rhyming couplets of course
next time

the Crowner the Drowner

the Dowser and Bowdler and Floater

what is an Eyer and wish there were still Criers
the Cooper and Groover and Clouter

Chorister Borreler
Agister Ensign

Bartleby was a Scrivener i dont know anyone who was a Salter but i suppose there are those who still salt

Ceiler, Brazier, Grazier, Sizer
Tozer and Damster, Gorzeman and Burgess and Dustman

Mercer and Pessoner
Spurrier, Scullion
Quiller and Brailler

and my favourite
“the kisser”
A person who made cuishes and high armour

i told you i ran out of titles

so that is what it says on this check on my desk

it’s aurel’s company hahaha

jesper sold one of her artworks outta my show there at V1 way back when and we r just waiting
to feed maneater international their just desserts i guess you could say!

man it reminds me i need to hang around aurel more

i really could use some good old female empowerment

i am used to wearing the pants and i have felt recently like i am wearing instead a frilly lace pink tutu

as in
powerless
fragile
desperate
insecure

which is what i assume would be the opposite of pants wearing

maybe i should try wearing neither pants nor skirt for a while and see how that goes

actually i have been dressing like this lately
dont worry, i have no urge to look attractive
so we are all on the same page with that

this is in CUTLOG
a fair we forgot to promote fully!

oh fuck maybe this is why

no but the fair is in this big building on the LES
suffolk and rivington
and has some really interesting things in it and we DO want everyone to go!

joe took this where was he oh yeah in Mile End actually!

where am i now
oh ok we are totally cruising now
on the way to Frieze opening day

Asger checking out the Ryans
havent we seen these before?
i thought i had seen them before

some definitely i had not seen

man this Theaster Gates woudl have killed it in our Xstraction show
shoulda asked after it damn!

Rashid I actually did invite to be in the show but the survey says
“X”

honking is MY greatest pleasure!!!!
just ask Nick or Patrick or whoever

The Nicolai Wallner booth
entertaining me with Shrigley since 2006!

don’t fret
i took a photo of as many as i had time for

oof
right in the balls

i kept thinking this was Anna Sew Hoy
but it is Amanda Ross Ho
man you think my job is easy????

i have to keep shit like that straight
i forgot who made this actually

this is an easy one!

this was perplexing

i know i know
that kinda “any club that woudl want me as a member” line

but dammit i could have blown most of this shit outta the water!

or “off the island” or whatever

walking around with Peter as Asger was super fun Peter tells a LOT of jokes

Spencer!

Bjarne

shit you cant see the painting sorry guys

oo!

Keltie and Chris
I guess we are in the M I and Nash booth

hey hey a friendly face!

ooh and my first “job” or whatever
intern at Whitney working on the Joan Mitchell retrospective

this must be Salon 94

ack!

i walked by too fast i should have looked at this longer it looks neat

oh!!!!
and i shoulda taken photo of the label cuz i forgot who made this!

haha lots of photos of lonely ladies texting
what do people think now when they look at this?

i think
“whee”

and
“yay”

because my brain is MUSH right now but maybe your brains are more firm

i think
“sam falls”?

and Mark FLood!

who won “best dinner guest” at our last gallery dinner!

this was a curated booth
whose efforts were appreciated

choo!

what is that thing

one sec

there!
see it?
it is a sculpture
of a girl, looking for cell phone privacy or what?

neato

yay simon evans!

i tried to get details but its really hard you gotta see his works in person

this one was i think about the world that is caused by drug addition

in TENTS

man i could get titles for a year with just this detail shot

Daniel Arsham

really neat
Nadim, does he fit into your FORENSIC show???

last snaps as they shoo us out

and tape off their precious floors

i wanted to go back to my idea of wearing a skirt and feeling powerless

its not about, a swath of fabric that separates the legs

more about the dogged tenacity of sexual stereotyping

the lack of enough words to get away from it entirely

the slippery slope of powerlessness

because of course you dont lose it all at once, you lose it more like a COTANGENT graph

as in, slow at first and then a rapidly increasing negative assymtote

man school was JUST long enough ago that i forgot how to spell ASS IN TOTE

this is a bug not art and i guess i will just then spell it ASS IN TOTE

i felt pretty in control of myself and a situation for the past many months even up to just a few months ago shit maybe even a few weeks ago

when all of a sudden i rapidly slipped down the sea-weedy rock of feelings into the stagnant pool of dependance and neediness

i can’t UGH not care and the more i try to UGH not care the more i slip down down down

the more i think about the slipping the more i slip

the more i ignore it the more i slip, too

there is no path for me to get back on top of this rock and let the
rock know who is fucking boss and that it can’t toy with my feelings

which is why i need to buy some stock in Maneater International

and take some sort of power back over what is going on in my life

whoever cares less wins
that is sadly how the world works
and i am thinking of ways to make myself not care

it’s like “being cool”
because being cool really means not caring what others think
and so if you WANT to be cool, you are already REALLY NOT COOL

it is just a wee logic puzzle it is not super complex, it is just some Ps and Qs and stuff

once i figure it out I PROMISE to let you guys know

many ferries later we were allowed to leave the island

i havent seen enough episodes of LOST to make a LOST joke

or ANY episodes of any reality TV show where like, batchelorettes have to leave an island
is that how it goes?

this batchelorette is excited to leave her island
no batchelorette is an island afterall

stopped in with Asger at the JADE hotel a new hotel we did the art for

then i guess this looks like the standard?
after destroying ourselves the night before at le baron neither of us felt like drinking anything at all

i think i drank so much that night that i made myself sick this whole like last four days to be honest i have felt totally ill for days

im not like making a joke or speaking in some sort of code or even necessarily tying this back into the theme of powerlessness, i really want to start drinking way less and mean to do it

it cant be any harder than giving up drugs
can it?

because giving up drugs but then letting yourself get as blackout drunk as you want at all times is not a real solution to life’s problems

as Joe has told me many a time

and now that i have the whole drug thing down i think i can maybe take baby steps towards the drinkign thing

i am pretty sick of waking up and being like “oh. look what happened”

and i am mostly referring to bad tweets not casual sex or violence or anything really bad

one reason it has been hard to identify as a problem is because it has never caused me a big problem
just lots of little ones for a really really long time

anyway!
this is getting too heavy

I’m going to have one cocktail and start solving my little power puzzle and keep you posted

oops ran outta titles

too many posts and my current dog-eared Wodehouse left at home

who coulda provided us with some bon mots

this made me think of sharks

now i get to sleep here just like old times!

now I have to go
and find where the images of Matthew’s awesome show went

oh
ok i figured it out i think

they just uploaded wrong cuz had same filename as opening photos here oddly enough

they just put the final spire on this guy i heard!

somethign going on up on top of me too

this is old news
but to me still pretty fun

how “the magic happens”

also how the magic happens!

also how the magic happens!

man! lots of magic today

shit now i lost the photos ag
shit now i lost the photos again!!

talking about upgradin to an iphone i also need to upgrade to some sort of stable and easy and sustainable bloging situation i cant hunt through photobucket for lost photos out of order naymore

and porbably need to learn where the spellcheck button is too

ooh there it is! see not so hard

dressed like a girl but nobody cared so i changed in the car halfway

the reason the photos were so hard to find

is cuz i only had a chance to take a few before the people showed up

matthew stone and shepard fairey!

typed out their full names for the google alert 🙂

the exhibition is up at Subliminal Projects for a few more weeks

you guys should go check it out it is a super interesting show in a cool space in Echo Park or Silverlake or somewhere cool

🙂

the lady who runs the hotel was super nice and gave us croissants and we talked about Jeffrey

unfortunately didnt SEE jeffrey as he was home writing on the one day i had to move about freely

and as a writer person who can never make time to write i wanted to respect his privvacy

i love these flowers and i didnt know they came in this color and i am really happy in this photo
even if i look a little pinched

i gues those were the last few randos

i swear only one more post maybe and then we can all go to sleep

i have a back ache something fierce and think i will have to lie down like an old person for a few hours

if only i had someone to play tennis with i would stop aging rapidly i am sure of it

i need to run and hit stuff and sweat i feel so
un-sweatty

i want to feel Xhausted
for a real reason not just staring at a computer screen

hum hum hum what else

a few more art things

ayan farah

the show kinda started with her actually!

wyatt kahn
the last piece secured!

i think this is where davina semo get’s her X from actually!

XXoo

ooh! this actually was the last piece secured
just hung the new Chris JOhanson!

these remind me of the show that just closed at the moma
gotta track that book down somewhere
probably should check
the moma

truded and extruded

smalls

this Cory piece i thought was a refreshing and obtuse addition to show, really happy with this piece

love the Dianna MOlzan like crazy too

ew i just think i accidentally smoked some cigarette filter

need to watch what the fuck i am doing over here

so there is one last one and it will just be NYC art fairs so dont worry
just a million photos of
art fairs
actually that does worry me

ah fuck these are out of order

oh and his shirt said MR COOL and you cant see it but i did

watching planes fly over the In ‘N’ Out by LAX

i get to sleep here??

ugh the Shangri La hotel in Santa Monica is awesome

yay the Matthew Stone opening!

wait

where did the opening go

this is clearly the messy secret rave hours and hours later

where Total Freedom appeared and we were psyched

fuck i am all turned around

i guess we just gotta take it as it comes!

this is certainly the awesome URS FISCHER show at MOCA

if Jeffrey keeps doing shows like this everyone will just be too embarrassed to keep harrassing him

i am sure they feel stupid already tho so i shouldnt rub it in

smells

problems

oh man this piece

so good

not dying about these three tho

but the show overall

it made me want to step up my game here

which is great because Matthew was there and feeling the same thing as me

lets just all

break down some more barriers

not be afraid to crack a few eggs

and take it up a fucking notch already

some people have accused me of being stuck in jeffrey’s shadow

or somehow not being totally free yet to be me

i dunno

i dont think that is my problem exactly

just that I have been oddly playing it a bit safe

we cant afford literally to make a bad move

but if we tread too cautiously we will never get where we wanna go

so maybe then we will try to get even more free

and start charging more for it hahaha!

these are just some shots of the perm colleciton

“you see what he did there”?

then we wanted to look at show AGAIN

then we wanted to have the best food ever in their cafe LEMONADE

i had wine instead
this is the across the street
the BROAD

this is down the street where the show… CONTINUES!

man i will just hafta post it here and you just have to wait long time for loading it

sorry again
we cant fool around we have like four more posts of photos

this will help splain you

ohjeez

The Broom of the System

are those little jeffrey heads?

BOTH THESE SHOWS WERE IN SANE
if i weren’t in such a hurry i would write a bit about why
and i wanted you guys to just see them first

woof
we are super behind
i apologize team

and i worry that maybe there is some reason for my lack of burning urge to blog

my interest in blog is fragile and has been wavering and daydreaming of instagram instead

i just really dont want to buy an iphone

when i was in high school i interned for Senator Bingaman the chair of the joint economic committee

and I worked (ha!) on the Microsoft anti-trust case that was big what in the late 90s i am old

and now fucking Apple is being the biggest dick of them all

and i find myself on team microsoft at least for the nonce

i am just so annoyed to like be forced to purchase something

and everyone wants to be popular lets admit that

oh so much is going on here how can i make this go faster

look at this amazing puddles everywhere

hole-y crap

installing these shows was really hard and really fun lets look at the opening photos

paul and leo!
helped me make show awesome

our lighting guy nico makes our dinners look awesome

look at our funny hanging wall

do you know what a “bijoux residence” is? i love that phrase

wendy white!

i think Anita had my camera set on “night photo” or something?

this awesome work is at framers!

look at my cool lawyer! he is awesome

Jinjae

Tim is in show!

tethered to her iphone see what i mean??

ethan cook and his piece

devin and peace

bro down

thomas ovlisen manhandling

francesca gavin!

andrew sutherland in show too

whoever brings that cute bulldog to our openings
is welcome back anytime!

oh brother

there!
now we have at least covered the opening
hope you could see some cool abstraction behind all those ugly people haha!
just kidding you are all beautiful