This sums it up!

This basically sums up the Occupy Wall Street/Foley Sq. demonstration last night, pictured above.  After showing up for the rally, it was out to Studio 10 for the opening of COPIA CARTACEA, pictured below:

my books running down the walls.

And then to conclude the evening, this is what I saw on the way home, about 4 hours later, going back to Manhattan on the L train:

good night!

Browsing

Well, the reviews for most of the performances of Performa 11 have been lukewarm, see today's review by Ken Johnson where he questions what is performance art or read Gia Kourlas's review of Mai-Thu Perret's "Love Letters in Ancient Brick.  Here's a mention by Linda Yablonsky of the Frances Stark performance I dragged Adam Simon to:

  Frances Stark fleshed out her obsession with sex-chat texting, and the aggressively sexual Jamaican dance called daggering, in a sold-out Performa program that required a lot of reading on the part of the audience. Dressed in a billowing “telephone dress,” when she wasn’t in a flesh-toned bodysuit, Stark shared the stage with Mark Leckey’s enormous BigBox speakers and dancehall “hype man” Skerrit Bwoy—a stranger to these parts in one of the strangest, and most disturbing, performances of the week. 

But I wouldn't let the thoughts of a few reviewers stop you, for it is interesting to browse and collect data.  I would recommend stopping in at Performa's Hub, located in an old Catholic School on Mott Street where there is bookstore complete with a seating arrangement by Sit and Read.

Performa's Hub above

and the bookstore below:

(notice the sign for the architectural sub-committee of Occupy Wall Street, I hear there are a lot of committees in Zuccotti Park.)

 Performa 11's schedule on the blackboard like homework (data collection)

And staying on the theme of bookstores, I finally got the chance to stop in at KARMA.  This small bookstore, gallery, storefront of art ephemera is on Downing Street and is a way-station for those reading, collaging, curating and writing.  Karma sells book, publishes books and now has small exhibitions.  An excellent place to data collect and browse.

Random data collecting snapshots (taken by Brece Honeycutt) below:

Peter Blum gallery's Kindred Spirits: Native American Influences on 20th Century Art 

and more Peter Blum gallery below:

Below studio pals David Storey and Jane Kent are in a show at Lesley Heller:

David Storey

Jane Kent

next to Lesley Heller, I found Jonathan VanDyke orchestrating a performance for PERFORMA (he loves that dripping paint)!

It was a storefront performance.

Browsing the back room of Lesley Heller with Brece, loving the Loren Munk.

the back cover of the book I'm reading Pep Talk 5, a collection of writings by Bruce Hainley.

Grant and Violet at OWS:

Wackadoodle

Every once in awhile you have to add some or rather a "wackadoodle" to the mix to bring on a smile.  Here's another week in pictures:

 Getting lost in a corn maze en route to a pumpkin catapult AND enjoying getting lost, the monochromatic wandering of it all (yellowing brown/blonde to smashed orange)!  Really, a calming experience...

a visit to KK Kozik's studio, brushes above, paintings below.

I like this pairing, a painted walk through the woods with a black and white of portrait of Billy Bragg above it, looking above.  The portrait accompanies KK's article in this month's Brooklyn Rail, titled "Content Over Style."

A lava lamp, stands in as a beacon in this soulful KK painting.  

A detail of a different kind of light, also KK's.

The bigger painted scene above and below in several parts.

Switching scenes below to a more performative 48-hour scene, I follow-up  with a report on the aftermath of Julie Torres's  most recent collaborative, a time-based art making project at Camel Art Space: All the art was made over a 48-hour time span by 14 artists.  The show was open to the public for one day only or rather for 12 hours this past Sunday.

Rebecca Goyette's unoccupied controlled intimacy sacks.

Joey Parlett's portraits of Muybridge, also controlled (an operative word for this 48-hour work session) in that each portrait was drawn by covering up the previous portraits, an appropriate stop and go and stop after 48-hours way of interacting with a subject.

Next up, above another set of rules governed 

Chris Mcgee's drawing, with all lines turning 180 degrees with each line drawn smaller than the one before it. 

Julie Curtiss pictured above, not governed by a set of rules of engagement but engaging and made a very particular way, by layering and arranging so that there's a re-engaging of how you are looking at something...A

wackadoodle.

Look, I match a painting!  (Jamie Powell above and below)

Camel Art Space - the opening and from their mission statement, and they seem to be true to it: an artist-operated exhibition space with a focus on current trends in art within a not-for-profit framework and is affiliated with the studio artists at 722 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. Camel Art Space does not represent artists in the traditional sense, but merely composes shows of their works for the inherent merits of showing art. Situated in one of New York’s artistically richest neighborhoods we strive to provide an accessible exhibition platform and meeting venue for artists, curators and audience alike. In an inclusive spirit, Camel Art Space is open to proposals from independent curators and artists. As an affiliate member of Williamsburg Gallery Association, Camel Art Space participates in 2nd Friday Art Walk. Camel Art Space has been named by New York Magazine as one of the City’s new galleries to watch. (groovey)

Julie Torres above and below!  She organized this whole thing, yes real artists curate!

A partial view of a longer painting by Erin Halrup.  View the entire piece from her link.

 
Let's end here again with Rebecca Goyette contained within 48 hours.

Nothing but Happiness as things Descend into Chaos

Nothing but happiness as things descend into chaos, unease remains under the surface...I read this statement on the back of my notes from my last blog post, so I thought I would start there.  I'm behind on posting, but getting ahead in other areas, so here's an update in pictures, all taken on my new phone, since my camera broke.

Most afternoons find me getting down and dirty with my public art piece.  How will this thing attach to the ground? The Guild and Ben are helping me, HELP ME!

When I need to be inspired, I hang out with Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, whose new Laundromat Project folds the art-making process in with oral history and the spin cycle.  The result of this folding is displayed in a postcard series available at her local laundromat.  See below:

I had the best time at the Laundromat's recent $35 a head fundraising dinner, held at the Julia De Burgos Latino Cultural Center in a 
beautifully decorated cafeteria with amazing food by Berlin Reed the ethical butcher.

Below is not the $35 fundraiser but last week's very successful NurtureArt's benefit where we drank and auctioned our work to much fanfare!  They open a new space November 11, so we're anxious and excited to see what exactly they do...as they say their name is their mission.  Nurture me!

And to get away these days, it's to DC for a Maggie Michael show.  Love it, more folding, sprayed, painted works on paper and acetate...see below:

above might be a work on canvas

nice folding blue above and more below with black tape:

Then it's back to Bushwick for a meal at my favorite restaurant, Cafe Ghia!!  Those shelves look a little bit like the perch trellis (must show this picture to the Guild)

Lots of pictures of one of my favorite artists, Ellen Letcher, she pops up whenever I go out and about.

Here is her's and Kevin's Famous Accountants above with a Scott Hug from their current show below:

Ellen again.

Kevin above.  Did I mentioned that Famous Accountants threw me the best birthday party ever!!!  Thks!

The back of Ellen's head at Centotto.

Look, it's Ellen again at Norte Maar!  Standing next to a Paul, from Centotto, piece.

Above at Norte Maar an Ellie Murphy.

The view from the sidewalk into Norte Maar's living room.

Before Bushwick it was Rico Gatson!  At Exit Art!  Rico, who was in Bushwick before all of us...

Above, I found a picture from the yummy food at the Laundromat Project's "potluck," which wasn't really a potluck.  

That's it, back to work.

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