Month: December 2013

what is in a name?

Bertie dreams

Bertie sells art
I wish every fair we could have Crate City
Going to ALAC next month and wanna crate it up again but will have to find another fun idea

Here are some images of other NADA boohs

the puerto rican gallery by us Roberto Paradise

Bill Brady printouts 🙁 sad cuz i thought they were paintings but they just have clear gel medium on top to make it look painted

Adam Henry one of my favourite artists but weird on that wallpaper huh?

forgot but i like it

forgot his name but Cahan likes this guy

Jay Heiks is that it?

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oh brother in a cute way

canada

Untitled fair
paint logs!

Division Gallery

bronze
cool!

argh forgot his name already

i got to take photos of those wall labels fuck me
oh wait ! that says TODD KELLY i think

now THESE are real paintings and they have hte logic of photoshop but not the cop out of photoshop

an awesome Brian Belott notice the red dot yeah baby!

this guy
Zurcher also

Ara killing it with the new piece

and the old one

best booth goes to Ayan Farah pictured here with her works in Vigo Gallery booth

she was in Xstraction here in may and these new works kick ass and sold out first hour

they are forensic abstraction, fabrics exposed to natural processes, buried underground or exposed to light or heat or bleach or volcanic activity -ooh!

sold

damn Toby save some for the rest of us!
(our Ayan in the booth sold too)

almost there

interesting

i was so late to go pick Krysta up that I couldnt stay to learn much more except that they were resulting mess from performances collaged together

love this photo
chillin!

wendy white is great and ready for her close up!

these i did shoot the label!

hard to focus with the beach right there huh buddy

with anonymous gallery a Katherine Youssef work these are great works

jocelyn hobbie

young NJ artist Jamian Juliano Villani (previous studio visit last month on blog)

not bad for year two guys!!

bert had fun
they woudlnt let him into basel fair poor little shitter

i know its not fair i should have said you were my service dog sniffing out my allergy to pineapples and raw pecans

zonin out

zzooming in

things on wires

#thatlookslikeadick

its friendswtihyou at erm at Mondrian!

🙂

me and Bert fighting over a jalapeno margarita

Bushwick meets Basel or whatever it was called

Jaimie Warren on deck
she told me she had to drink a lot so she could pee her pants on stage

the blob!

Little Richard

and then GG Allin!

let’s watch Bert eat this doggie bagel from bagel shop

shot while driving down Alton Rd btw dont try this at home

oops a daisy

ok gnight

one day off of tennis lessons then beach, so psyched and so done!

krysta

used to be a gymnast as a kid can u tell?

i found a toy shovel and dug a big hole for bert

bert what are you doing

dig bertie dig!

ok ill come get you

i love you you are my little buddy

im so happy you came into my life little guy! you are so sweet a little brown angel

i will protect you

from stranger strangle

came home to snow and this!

in Stefan Bondell’s painting show

Bob Hollman of Bowery Poetry Club

it was 20 degrees but the people want their poetry!

richard kirshenbaum is the guy that like invented guerrilla media but he also writes for the observer

and was hilarious making fun of art collectors

Jonas Mekas read from his diary

Lizzi Bougatsos sang a song

had fun putting this Untitled Scott Reeder 2012 painting on instagram and asking the public to suggest a title for it

our photographer for Stefan show got a great shot of Bertie too that I will love forever!

then Kembra took me to John Waters christmas show

i tweeted some jokes as he told em so check twitter I cant remember anything except how he called some gay dude a “blouse” and they asked why and he said they were a “feminine top”

just noticed that Aggie Gund is in this photo too whoops!

ok who wants to see more bertie photos? i do and this is a dictatorship

pancake face

Bertie’s first snow! He was born in Feb in Oklahoma and this is his first time in his life seeing snow

look at his face

my most previous cargo!

and Santa Claus taking a big ol drunk piss

matthew borrowed my camera to shoot his new works for NADA

bertie says to bring these too

too cold to move

wandering the bleak freezing streets

alone

but then!

miami finally came to heat things up

thats a happy puppy right there

our nADA booth was craze

we wanted to highlight the sorta behind the scenes nuts and bolts of art fairing, and the lifespan of the artwork, and art as physical (heavy delicate) reality

oh balls and now i am way out of order from the iphone camera situation

my phone is back in the Parisian Laundry Valerie Blass show

installing Katherine And Youssef

goog one

JJ

returning a TODT piece from AREA whoah

back before we needed hats scarves and gloves every damn day

ja it sucks

damn look how small Bertie is wrapped in joe’s shirt

at our November openings

giaccometti steppin out

whats funny about this photo is both these guys are like 6’5″ but look normal here

stefan and bert

bert totally partying

well at least one day in teh past year i was awake to eat brunch

bert and joe have same eyes

oh yeez and then this happened

this show was really interesting

i liked his oddly timed and autotuned rants imbetween songs

he talked about art snobbery too

matthew was amidst planning his miami basel opera for Shore Club, the guys Thunderhorse who did Salem 2010 with us and also Yeezus tour also did Matthew visuals

guess who else worked on the show?

if you guessed Vanessa Beecroft you are righT!

i liked this guy the best

there were lots of religious things happening

jesus came down from the mountain

and there you have it
i cant copy all the things that he said during the concert but it was pretty interesting stuff and made me think more about this guy as an artist and the power of mainstream success and the art world etc etc

went home to DC for thanksgiving

checked out the Alex Prager show at the Corcoran

emailed out about Stefan’s show

baltimore training

hmmm i guess i didnt take any thanksgiving photos whoops

did you guys see Detroit recently??
google nekst detroit

oops back in miami i guess sorry about this

lola

our neighbor rachel uffner

peter linde busk

peter

katherine and youssef selling rugs!

the name is
the name is coming it is
Gina Beavers

what a relief!

jon on his vespa

Davina Semo at Marlborough harumph

and Tap Tap

the bear
wait i have a lot more photos where did they go
they will have to be tomorrow as the fingers have now completley frozen

i wonder what “flirt gills” were
or “skains-mates”
or “ropery”

go home hippy haha

this dog

i use all my camera battery in the dog park and none left for the art

in youssef and katherine’s studio

leading up to the show!!! so behind on these photos damn

then me and joe and enno drove up to Brant Foundation house for the Julian Schnabel opening
this is a portrait of may!
it really looks like her, huh?

super weird piece!
loved this one

greek hurricane!

may and bros

todd eberle shooting some after hours portraits of the big man and the big man

lola and stella and may and julian

🙂

they have been buddies for like 35 years!

this is a great piece too

wheres bert

wheres bert

now we are checking out Devin Troy Strother at Marlborough new downtown location

the basement is full of cowboys n indians paintings

i saved the checklist so i could type the titles as they are important but then i used the checklist to pick up dog poo

im sorry the dog poos and i never have baggies

what do you guys think of this work?

i am psyched on it

here is a LINK to read the titles for the pieces they are important

what else

now i am at oh man what are they called again

reena spaulding

looking at the K8 Hardy show

with “my man” Andreas!

time to reflect, Bertie

now we are at Max Levai’s house for DTS marlborough dinner after

dont even think about it Bert this is all for me

cool Andrew Kuo painting

and that is it for now I suppose as it’s Sunday and I made all the checks I needed to make and met all the people and received the Devendra drop off and emailed the press the images and my to do list now just includes going to eat dinner somewhere nice

what else

back november when this was the gallery was thrown into upheaval by AREA the book and exhibition

we are still picking nails out of our floor, but we did get some interesting walls out of it

oops looks like i was photographing some inventory

Holton
this is a really good one, no fireworks just slight compositional weirdnesses

Misaki Kawai designed the bar

steve powers and todd james made the money and money booth

chuck close in front of his work hanging at AREA bathroom

Andy Warhol presenting “invisible sculpture” at AREA

Andy tshirt maybe i cant read the lettering

kenny in area with his work

barbara kruger in area

these people
they are all now 30years older

despite very unfun continuing issues in this department, the show went off without a hitch!

even Andy Spade got into the area spirit with his concert in Sleepy Jones window

double Warhol in front Hole window!

grabbin for cash

“naked office” viewable through peephole

did you know that when i was in college me and Laura Tepper convinved the administration to give us a space to create a student art galery
and we called it AREA
so the first gallery i ever owned was called AREA
weird

i thought serge was being silly spending so much time on the little stuff but then it was the little stuff that really made the project
this is ABSOLUT AREA hotel soap jello shot

sandy kim in her bra shooting photos under the chuck close piece in hole AREA bathroom

jerry saltz shooting linda yablonsky as andy warhol

this guy!

we had to have two private openings and both were slammed

a view through the Hole floor into our creepy basement!

a Haring mannequin worth over a million dollars and not behind plexi—heart attack!!

later at the bowery hotel

this really made it worth it to me, i got to install and show this historic artwork in my gallery
this was in my art history book in college, now it is on my wee gallery wall SIGH!
you know it is from that nazi dude slogan when i hear the word culture i unholster my gun or whatever, ya?

other cool details

some pens i bought jon
unrelated

haha joey frank!

bertie woudl like to serve you our signature cocktail by our sponsor absolut

NFS!

survival research labs
there is an interesting historical anecdote behind this piece as well but my fingers are too cold to type

julian schnabel boxer
this was in the movie King of New YORK with Christopher Walken

ben jones videos on teh dance floor

degenerate art

a keith haring odd drawing looks like tarot card

leroy neiman femlins always fun

the ephemera room kind cool right?

this larry rivers!

better view of “mark” 🙂

then i went to help aurel hang her show in a deli on stanton

in case you missed the show here are the works

aurel wanted to do the show in a space she rented so she coudl avoid the pressures or expectations of gallery drama
whereas area wanted to do their show in my space so they could exploit the pressures and expectations of galery drama
and fucking drama-d the shit outta my life for ten days and were out

maybe i need to take a lesson from her and when people bring drama my way, tell them no thanks I will just do things by myself

apparently some things happened before paris i missed

i need to find a good way to talk shit without talking shit

im feeling pushed around and taken advantage of and need to assert myself

but am sure that the right place to do that is not on the internet

inert – net

inner net

jordan came out to studio visit and shot nice photo for book of Lola

i was psyched that someone made this little drawing of me and Bert on the inert net

the reason i picked Bertie off page 8 of the petfinder.com search results i finalyl realized
is because he looks like my childhood teddy bear Potsy
that is what i think at least

have you guys gotten to see images of the Valerie Blass show we had

pretty need puppeteering photo painting thingie

pointy

taylor n misaki setting up boob bench

huey helping anders

appetizing

chris johanson and misaki

banksy tattoo
yeah

Fab’s baby Julian and Bert the brown streak haha

Bert got to see central park

i got to see myself in magainze Harpers

gotten a lot of milage outta those Dior Holton photos phew!

i think this is coming up int eh photos soon so im just gonna stick it here

yes you get to come on this trip Bert McGurt!

ewww

passed out at Lucien

with Jesper and some dude

BLA!

so this is me heading to Toronto
I have never seen anything like this before and it created strong feelings of foreboding

it made me feel pretty stylish with my Shrigley passport cover and custom hat i think too

we are installing Jim Joe at Copper Cole space!

these are oil stick on raw canvas

they are like hieroglyphs or something little pictographs that make little poem

this one is the funniest. why does it have a bubblebutt

days of our lives

i was psyched on this show

toronto was funny

i domnt know why i took a picture of this

hmhmm i am inscrutable

i took this photo because Bertie is the cutest dog in the whole world my sweet little Bert!!

it was rainy and cold and i bought Bert his first jacket

seeing art everywhere
it’s a real inconvenience haha

they had some fun local writers

and wasnt too much of a buff

this was the title piece

this was the wipe my oil stick here to sharpen piece

sweet

sweet

i hope peopel liked the show! Bertie sure did

had a lot of vegan food but even that was ok

Art Toronto the fair was there and it was really weird

i thought these paintings were pretty sweet

AND remembered to shoot the wall label thank sgoodness

this didnt quite work

ok this will murray was really cool

Megan from Paris said if you strayed too far from the main area your eyes woudl start to bleed

and boy was she right!!!

bad art is the scariest thign for Haloween
I shoudl have been bad art for Halloween

bert had to pretend to be turtlenecks while we were at breakfast

then after he got to play with anders and suzy’s doggie

sullen hippie

they had in there house a lot of cool art

look at this up close

insane right??

they look sweet as monochrome

cool

Suzy’s work was aweseome

so weird!!
“photography in teh third dimension”
one of our upcoming shows actually

favourite photo of whole trip
OBV

now i think i am home looking at the giant cock faucet in Eric Goode’s office

some film with Heather Graham

some Pomeranian with some Pomeranian book

i gotta go home and sleep so gonna rush thru this

warhol impersonator try outs

kembra Hole o ween party

bertie turned evil when i invented a crustless pumpkin pie cupcake

a costume

rugrats!
Bertie and Lily denmark’s dogge

look at me!

loook to the right!

now SCREEEEEEEEM

artforum announced our next show

stephen dorff tried out to be Warhol and I asked him to sign my e-cigarette

went to some openings in our neighborhood

but dont remember anythign about anything

an Abelow made this

i can tell by the signature sax

dunnoo

Eric and his wife’s new Papillon pupperino

at Michael Williams opening!

bert loved it

what is not to love?
puh-leez

there were complaints about what was painted and what was digital

but it will be another few years before people stop doin that and it is ok

is this a cory arcangel spoof?

just aesthetically so offensive

ok that is all for me for now you can see AREA next time!

ok so with almost a thousand photos to upload and post since last blog i’m not sure how much is even interesting anymore
i remember how small the elevator at the Hotel Beaumarchais was
and I suppose I am still interested in it

this is me in paris during FIAC

what art sticks with you when so many weeks pass without looking at is a second time?

the dog with the pink leg running through the Pierre Huyghe show stuck with me
but perhaps that was tied into missing Bertie feelings

i even visited a pupppy store while i was in paris cuZ i missed puppy smell 🙁

bertie!

Cartier foundation or Prada foundation I forget

Ron Mueck

these are all hand carved by the way very important to know that detail

months and months and months and months

gross

“cool”

had dinner with Korakrit

at some artist designed restaurant that was wack

installed Holton and Matthew at Salon Zurcher

it was fun

sorry for the occasional instagram overlap

went to check out Rosson Crow at Nathalie Obadia

this photo is so derp hahaha

which ones do you like best i like the abstractions

instagram filters never hurt nobody

spent a lot of time by myself

that i think will be a theme of all these catch up posts

and am in the process of extricating from my life my one friend at the moment so we will see how that goes

then i can finally be completely by myself, just how i want it

oh but then theres the puppy i cant get rid of him…

so i went to do a big gallery tour of all the paris galleries (that were open :))

marian goodman i think
and what is that guys name
Richard Tuttle i had to google that

oh and this i have to google too dammit

pioneering neon artist multiply ripped off today
Keith Sonnier
Man that took a lot of googling and even google maps
waiting to long to post shit is bad, memory gets real messed up

some nice space but not so interesting show

and this i loved these so much

in this weird basement storage gallery

yvon lambert was closed lame

something or other

some Cy Twombly drawings somewhere

i liked this found art on the street

Ropac was real impressive with some not so interesting Chinese painter

perrotin had its weird circus vibe going
funny how jeffrey was called circusy but to me Perrotin aesthetic is so different than jeffrey’s

dude look at this

this show was crazy

i wish i were the writer asked to review these shows
think how fun it would be just to describe the works let alone critique them

kinda liked this

REALLY liked this

and bought a toilet paper mug in the gift shop

Perrotin again
imagine if this was the entrance to Hole!

oops sorry

moving right along! in the rain

Agnes B finally

some strange street art situation

but not all bad and very diverse

an artist who N Dash knows who i cant remember

this was the gallery not the art

looking for restaurant

finding restaurant

interlude

dude
snails taste gross

what is the surprise???? i never found out i don’t have grindr

bleh! go away go home

i will after the FIAC preview i promise

getting up early is fun sometimes

weird detail of mark flood

javier
so everyone is just kidding about david ostrowski right?

right???

Eddie Peake seems like an interesting artist

a Brendan Lynch painting whoda thunk it remember that dude?

korakrit hmm there seem to be more burn denim printies around

ramiken crucible what is that

i am down for this

NOT DOWN

theres always a clever palette knife painting somewhere in an art fair

liek the photo

what do yu’uns think of Parker Ito booth?

i think… pleasantly surprised but maybe pleasant is not the best emotion in contemporary artmaking

FIAC is so fancy i want to be in FIAC next year

miriam cahn

nicolai wallner booth

that mattress artist always makes that BIG song stuck in my head

interestin or not interestin?

mark barrow i really like this one

this guy!
i was finally going to learn his her name and then the photo of the wall label was too blurred to read

another miriam cahn

klara liden everyone loves these
well i guess i do too

k8 hardy

erm

will never remember this artists name as long as i live i think

love peter halley

katharina grosse too

is that nikki de saint phalle”?

derp

Emin-ed out from miami cant even look

alex prager having soon show in NYC!

mickalene

oh no one told me i had to read at the art fair bo-ring

this painting should be the cover of my wee Paris album

that

is definitely art

sam falls im guessing

roni horn and rob pruitt im guessing

jules de balincourt

yo yo yayoi

Recent address; stuck you for your stash in your pissy mattress; Your mom’s an actress didnt wanna show me the safe; It’s okay, she was old anyway

“Get Money” would actually be a good song to play in the background for art fair postings esp this silver guy what is his name argh i just don’t care
it’s not ryan sullivan it’s
it’s on the tip of my tongue
it’s
jacob kassay! got it not dead yet still tickin up there

aiken awesome

joan mitchell official

this should have been way better than it was

haha

Two Hundo Hunley

actually i don’t know how much it was
expensive

everything in this room is expensive

these letters are expensive

this messy thingie is expensive

laura owens is expensive

alex katz is expensive
i don’t need to say it each time you guys know
this painting is beautiful

this painting is super sweet i thought theo rosenblum would like it

i hope this is the right label i cant see when so small thumbnail

a new Sterling Ruby

Argh i forgot already

altmejd

spencer just kidding

this guy older artists is it artschwagger?

cute tiny found photo somewhere

everyone loves to copy this everyone go home and make one right now!

these are great Ken Price poots

this is a sculpture by KAWS

razor blades on a Hirst

mcginleys tumbling down at team

murakami smiles for miles

painted really beaufitully actually

everyone loves this too

quick buy one have you bought one oh down low you’re too slow

i liked this better in case anyone was comparing

an oscar murillo painting

a dan colen wall cut out
apparently there was a second component to this piece but i didn’t bother to go see what it was

a sterling expanse

new too i guess!

this is cool again

this too

this is amazing

funny

holton’s bro and his wife

a man on a mat of bats

pretty fun way to spend a morning i would have to say

tempting

andrea cashman sold the piece behind her!

yum

ok lets git

check out the palais de tokyo on the way out but who is the artist again

parreno and friends
for example this involves tino seghal it just must

haha out of order ADEK was not one of the collaborators

i think i got stuck in teh bookstore
oh me and tony had a fun time with this one
fond memories!

love this photo

i wish Dash could have seen the Hole

sigh

now we are at some emerging fair i think

i spy Jim Joe

🙂

more on that soon

those last two pieces if put in the main fair and a fancy booth and a huge price tag coulda totally held up in there

haha not this one

oh ok i have to go to airport now, or then, or whenever