Month: December 2014

got a Bert with me and three young Berties that stay with me

deinstalling cave today getting ready for Jan show KATSU

new media conceptual art baby

Bert says wha?

last night had fun tiny dinner party got to make beef Bourgignon and braised red cabbage this was the before photo

ack~! that is goign to make a pretty loud noise

took some photos of the Takeshi Murata video from Early Man before we turned off the projector, made me so happy

i love group shows and i love bringing people and art together!

amazing

i think this is 2004….

anyhoos

got some…semi recent photos to spice up what woudl otherwise be me still cleaning out my iphoto from March 2014 onward

over christmas Bert got to pee on the White House christmas tree

pee in the Potomac river

pee on the trail

pee on me and errol

he got some stickers of himself made

he got to flick some new fills

to do fun studio visit with KATSU our next show

he is a happy boy

lots of old photos getting rid of now one sec

Grey Area pool toys by artists debut in Miami

matthew and his amazing collapsing video sculpture

Bert, apparently, “aint shit”

cool tattoo
(why does she look so bummed??)

you guys already saw the cave install right?

my cool jail love note (i love it!!!!)

eddie martinez sleeper and devils food cake sandwitch thingie

haloween dog freaks

unaHounder

oh shit this is a while ago

went upstate to pick some pumps and apples!

picking apples is very easy and we were very good at it

fall!
you flew by so fucki fast

Bathroom Tagger Men LOL sorry had to say it

dont be bummed

really all i have are cute photos of bert FYI

if that is what you are in the market for then that is what I am going to sell you!

this is back during Future Feminism

yeahbaby

Marina Abramovic hugging a lucky event attendee (not me! i am much taller duh)

rando

lol Danish people spell funny

this! back available on our shop website FYI

more adorable Bertitude

Beatitude Bertitude

aw bert is scared this is him at teh Vet

bert at the deli

sunny bert boy morning juice press

green and brown bertitude

bushwick bert

studio visit bert

lol

basement Bert

will hate to renovate down here and cover these amazing murals by Jesse

oh me and bert in print!

this looks like a field trip photo

trap house Bert got a Bert with me

sorry that song is annoyingly catchy

Evan Robarts and Margot installing a commission

i cant show you the amazing collection inside except a few wee wee details

the Robert Lazzarini gun~! this you have to see in person to believe

bert and evan

adek

free salad

rosson!~

ooh another yahnker

are you peeing?

are you peeing?

so many fun photos i want to post

gotta cut it off somewhere!
there will be world enough and time to be free with our photos in 2015

I can’t quite get the hang of this I think i’ve lost the urge to word splurge
Writing things a bit embarrassing or weird or over-sharing (which is crucial to posting)
no longer comes naturally

I gotta remember what it feels like to have “nuthin to lose” and “to give no fucks”

until then, let’s look at some artworks only as they will not tempt me to compromise myself

we have had so many great shows here since March, and have so many great shows for 2015~!!

right now we are looking at painted ceramic sculptures by Danish artist Rose Eken

she was our October solo show in Gallery 3 space

they are all pretty much to scale, maybe a fraction smaller than real life as the clay shrinks

her show here seemed like everything you might dig up in a fossil dig of CBGBs

maybe not champagne tho!

this is such a lovely piece

they are so fun to touch; im sorry that the public didnt get to handle them all, one of the priviledges fuck i cant spell privileges oh there i got it of running a gallery

ooh think how good this feels to hold!!!!

and the caps!

oh these feel so good too and solid and yeahbaby

they look good in groups 🙂

big boi

there are some fun euro and danske thingies mixed in too

this is a great piece

this is too!
so early 2000s

euro!

a kicked in monitor

music section

the tapes are randomly some of hte best works too

sniffy

smokey

amazing
but yeah kinda euro too

this is the install

i think we counted and i think this show had

498 works!

last few fabourites

even just hte lone ciggis are awesome

maybe the crushed cans are my favourites….

the title of the show: REMAIN IN LIGHT

now lets look at some other fun stuff!

found an old desktop folder of Eric Yahnker drawings and sculpture

read the titles!

amazing

now lets look at some very odd works on paper by Evan Robarts

colored resin and sticks

so amazing I want one of these too

this is kinda a work on paper too, its magic marker on emulsion photo paper with matte medium mounted on panel
pretty sweet

some other Evan Robarts

yeahbbaby

these are “line drawings”

making a drawing with a hose and using plexi as armature to hold it up, amazing

these are mockups for hte final works done in thick mirror class insteada plexi, you can just imagine how amazing they look!

you wont have to imagine for long however as his first solo show here will be March 2015

new scaffolding works

im so psyched about htis

i think im… psyched about everything?

when I asked joe to give me like a pared down core of my being analysis of my personality he describerd me as “psyched”

which is LOL because psyched of course requires a substrate on which to be psyched

tho I guess here today are three things upon which my personality is activated !

huh!
so it looks like I had some blog already in a folder back from March and just never uploaded it
here are images from a wee slice of life I no longer remember perfectly and can’t conjure
i wonder what i was thinking back then!
well if it was important i woudl have remembered it

Bert in a turtleneck is pretty unforgettable

i guess i was taking a photo of the MALVO tag?

ooh we can check out the Matthew Stone show from last March with Krysta for scale haha

i like using Krysta for scale because she is petite

i guess i like using Bert for scale too

i should do a wee test of my art offerings of which works get purchased more, those with Bert or with Krysta

i think the ones with Bert just make clients think “hey maybe I shoudl get a chocolate pomeranian instead”

i love this one
i want it 🙁
it is sold

same with this

whatever i keep missing the boat on buying works i want for posterity

i have been snoozing ergo i have lost

i can either sit and think about all the works I shoudl have bought over the years (tauba, joe bradley, katherine bernhardt dan colen ryan mcginley barry mcgee etc etc etc)

or I could just start buying shit now

like this one!

or this one
so edible!!!

ooh now it looks like this post is captuing the first DRONE paintings KATSU made
this is literally the first one

aw!
he has improved on this method so much since this March test

amazing

this is Graham Wilson in his studio way back when, before he started showing with this LA advisor, lol, what does that even mean, i guess it shows you how silly the words get in “the new artworld”

ooh now this is amybe somethign i should buy

ive been looking at holton rower focus works for almost two years now and still have no idea how he made them

and stupid holton wont tell me!

oooooo

ooh a wee old Kadar Brock I think this work was from Art Cologne last year

yup because here we are installing

our amazing Ayan Farah

Jesper and Josephine

hmm thats odd I must have more photos but now we are at Jaimie Warren;s opening her show was…. april??

ah this is fun here are my studio visit photos with David Pappaceno
Whose VENUSES are now on view in the cave room of Early Man right now!

bumping up to the present

feels good

hate being stuck in the past

yes!!!!
these are super affordable guys
imagine the look on your loved ones face as they open one of these ladies for Christmas lol

ooo

oh no its getting random again

spring styles i think

definitely

huh
this is on the way to

graham’s studio
this work was shown in Warp and Woof our weaving show I curated with Toby

last few

bert!!!!
getting a-holed

someone looking at a Sam Moyer

Bert looking to pounce on Lily

to farm or to pirate?
not a hard decision

aw!
jaimie in NYMag

this being built!
where errol and i danced through dinner and then set off fireworks this august much to everyones annoyance

love this one

love this one tooooo

as we descend now into deep winter

some fleurs from the past

A hearkening story

A shrinkage, try one!

Toys are hankering

Any hero streaking?

Thanking eyes roar

A arty gherkins one

Near yoga thinkers

Hyena ear stroking
lol

Aye, other rankings

Arty, sneaking hero

Sneakier orgy than….?

Yanking heart’s ore

Yanking hoe arrest
lol

Honking artery sea

Groin, knee, ashtray

Sergeant Rhino Yak

Ignorant shark eye

ETC

How do you like the jarring randomness of anagrams coupled with the contextless desktop cleaning art parade

we could in theory be more organized

for example this is our 2014 NADA booth painters studio of unpainted painterly works

some Gabriel Pionkowski on teh outside wall

here is a show back from this summer

CRATE CITY adapted from our 2013 NADA miami booth to be a joint storage show

“Storage Wars”

August 2014 at Eric Firestone in East Hampton

omg it was super fun

beautiful Shane Bradford works

beautiful Evan Robarts

beautiful plexi Matthew Stone

Beautiful Anders and Misaki and Nathan Ritterspusch poodle

jaimie warren classics

a cool Eve Falci from the Firestone side of the “wars”

here is what is up right now at the Hole
do you find the jumping around disconcerting?

aurel

barry

austin lee

bruce high quality

some bangin’ bjarnes

lol the cave!!!
a beautiful installation by Dennis Hoekstra

with some Fran paintings

some amazing Pappaceno sculptures

shrigley

yahnker

strother

fran fully lit!

some very odd self portraits from

giovanni garcia fenech

amaze

but seriously I am just cleaning off literally what was on my desktop today so you that is all the structure you have i think
this is an old Scott Reeder painting that I had in my “Early Man” inspiration folder

this too tho I dont know how inspirational this is

aw the deitch book party!

october show

october show

october show rando detail group photo!

OMG nada collector visit photo lol

another Scott Reeder from Early Man inpsiration

this inspires me on a daily basis

october installing

october installing

random photo of me sam moyer chris rosa in… berlin?

october installing

amazing Holton Rower pour

old kadar detail

aw! me and patty pat pat

bertie bert bert

ooh this is october upstate-ing

pickin apples

trying to get a good photo of a difficult kadar
that neon yellow jsut wont photograph!!

ooh december details

so sick

this photo from a year and a half ago is when the Early Man show was born
too bad we didnt get to breakdance as planned with Joe Bradley….

this i saved on my desktop for bert i think

what is this?

an old photo of joe!!!

katherine bernhardt for “Early Man” which i think she chose to interpret as “breakfast” :0

me at my cousin’s wedding

this beautiful Kasper chemical burn i hung upside down for an hour and a half before fixing!!!

mat brinkman sculpture

somehow i missed ever seeing images of this show from loyal long ago but yeah!

really good
we gotta get Mat over here again soon

the most perfect Matthew

misaki studio shot!

the coolest crushed can

a Moffat Takadiwa recycled keyboard piece from VIGO in london

aw!
a nicole einsenmann i really wanted to be in early man 🙁

finally getting these fabricated and for sale!
misaki bananan bench

this was september, more on that….sometiem!

bert is a pretty princess

a beautiful diptych someone should jump on this fast

one of the best rose eken sculptures ever

scott

kasper!

internet

kasper!

matt leines illustration for NYtimes

DTS

more rose imaage group

oooooh Monster Movie still by Takeshi playing right now in our cave!!!
ten years after debuting at Tedious Limbs at Deitch!

hot damn
def keeping this on my desktop
to look at when no one is around

lol lol lol

beautiful sculpture by Theo Rosenblum in “Early Man”
in the front window scaring everyone!

from the future feminism folder
ann snitow i think

who wore it better?

i miss my man

a few more days until he is back

dying dying dying to see him

“absinthe makes the heart grow fonder”
or something

is this fun looking at my desktop or is this like a huge bummer

after “waiting” for “months”

its funny that CC rentals has a strong overlap with the graffiti community and then sends these HUGE “popcorn” tins as thank you presents in December I mean, they are just asking to get all the stores a-holed for the holidays

miami grey area misaki and devin and FWY pool party

sleepi

hot n bothered

steve! by todd

eddie is sleeping while i am making desert

bert apparently “ain’t shit”

bert humping his caterpillar toy

bert you are a dirty morning doggie

rikers art, paid for with butt tobacco
i love this <3 <3 <3
this is supposed to be me
get it? im really messy
and bert shits on the floor if i dont wake up in time

oh man i have to finish this painting at home it is due for a show in two weeks and argh i just cant finish it
not htis one this one is months old and dry

KATSU is our next show, this is an oil painting that is amazing
robot selfie

my hair is about to get pinked dont worry my hair game is NOT slipping

HOUND and GOOG continuing to crush the city cool little abbot and costello team

BERT is about to get up all over the bowery with his new stickers methinks

matthew with his amazing crumpling video sculpture in miami a few days ago

there, was that so jarring was that so upsetting a computer full of old data this is what computer desktops deal with every day come on guys its fine