Some Things

Patrick Brennan, Symbol of a New, 2009, acrylic and popsicle sticks on wood panel, 10"x8"

Patrick Brennan FAZES opens this Saturday night from 6-9PM at 103 Reade St. No. 2, NYC. Also at 103 Reade and opening the next weekend, Dec. 12: Outrageous Fortune, curated by Rachel Hayes with Cece Cole, Gabriela Galvan, Emily Hall, Rachel Hayes, and Kazue Taguchi.


J.D. Walsh in the Dec. Artforum's Best of 2009. See the discussed collaboration with Ben Coonley on a Dr. Zizmor commercial.

Apartment Show's Happy House @ Printed Matter. Jesse Hamerman's iwillhearyounow@hotmail.com will be available. Other notables include Gina Beavers, Patrick Brennan, Cleopatra's, Ariel Dill, Stacy Fisher and many more. More at the Apartment Show website.

Jesse Hamerman (anotherday,anotherword) and Liz Linden co-curated Double Take, now up now at Metro Tech, Brooklyn.

Ned Colclough, Say You Do, 2009, wood, plaster, bronze, 30" x 6" x 45"

Ned Colclough has a nice new blog of his recent work.



This looks like a good show coming up next weekend...stay tuned for more Kaveri Nair here.



Christian Sampson and Ariel Dill Inglenook at Southfirst through Dec. 20.

I WANNA BE SOMEWHERE (pt. 1)

Inna Babaeva, In Deed, 2009

I WANNA BE SOMEWHERE was a Daily Operation that took place on on September 16. There were a lot of artists in the show so I'll split it up into a few posts. Here is the first group of photos and the "press release" below. Thanks to all who came out and participated!

For "I WANNA BE SOMEWHERE," each artist has created their own version of a diorama using the title as a jumping off point. To varying degrees, the artists attempted to marry the diorama format with their way of working. Beyond a size constraint, there were no rules about how traditional the works end up or the supports, materials, shapes, etc. used.

Elisa Lendvay, Manifold (there.here), 2009

Elizabeth Blomster, Getting Down to Brass Tacks, 2009

Jesse Hamerman, Living Room Antenna Shelf, 2009

Jaime Gecker, Blaise-o, 2009

Martha Clippinger, Vortex, 2009

Sue Havens, Trees and Dots, 2009

collage break

Here are some collages done by an group of artists in and around 2004...same group of people as in board at work, with the addition of Jesse Hamerman. All works around 4 x 5 inches.

Don't Miss: Use Your Illusion

Jesse Hamerman, Mean Girls; J.D. Walsh, Cloak, Frame, Disguise

Sherri Caudell Brennan, Untitled, Untitled, J.G. Ballard

Little Stars, Lake Michigan, Untitled

Patrick Brennan, Untitled; Jesse Hamerman, Jacqueline

Patrick Brennan, Dead No.2; Ned Colclough, I Found Out

Ned Colclough, Holy Evening

Use Your Illusion, a show set in the back of a Bushwick bodega, is a must see. In case you didn't have a chance to make it out last Sunday night for the opening, there's good news: it will be open by appointment for the rest of the week. Send organizer Jesse Hamerman an email to stop by: jhamerman [at] gmail [dot] com. Also see my labels for my posts on each artist in the show...

Perfect Strangers Daily Operation

This weekend is the last chance to see Perfect Strangers Daily Operation, the first show at Daily Operation. Send me an email if you'd like to stop by. The press release follows...

Perfect Strangers Daily Operation brings together eight artists for a special one-week exhibition. Representing a variety of current practices, these artists are comfortable being conflicted, ambiguous, and unrestricted. Rather than being didactic, each work operates as a kind of visual non sequitur where convention is borrowed and then displaced.

Patrick Brennan and Jasmine Justice each sustain a nonchalant approach to painting, but this approach reveals itself differently. Through layering, Brennan pits the decorative and crafty against the sensual and utterly esthetic. In Justice’s paintings, there is an initial appearance of completeness, which unravels slowly to uncover a playful and open-ended experimentation.

While unrelated in process, Gianna Commito and Jesse Hamerman each work with an anti-formulaic space. In Commito’s watercolors, a lyrical, soft-edge geometry intersects with meticulousness for perspectival, formal, and literal vagueness. Similarly vigorous, Hamerman reduces the signatures of public personas to sculpted, abstract line drawings, masking any referential content.

Aaron Steffes and Mark Stockton address the awkward nature of celebrity. Steffes envisions popular fiction writers transplanted from their book jackets into cramped apartments and surrounded by strange plants. Taken from sources like film stills and press photos, Stockton’s intimate and detailed portraits of well-known personalities simultaneously mimic, mock, and revere their subjects.

J.D. Walsh and Jaime Gecker carefully construct their arrangements of borrowed material, but they depart in their chosen subjects and manner of execution. Walsh uses a self-invented computer program that randomly generates text and images and projects them in rhythmic patterns onto wall constructions. Gecker photographs, dissects, and reconfigures film stills into paintings with miniaturized, conflated scenes with hazy narratives.















Images, from left to right, top to bottom:
Jaime Gecker, All time cut-up, 2008, photo transfer, latex and spray paint on canvas, 20" x 16"
Gianna Commito, untitled, 2008, casein and watercolor on panel, 10" x 9"
JD Walsh, Manual Blues, 2008, DVD derived from custom software, video, wood, metronome, dimensions variable
Aaron Steffes, Tom Clancy at my place on the eve of Baghdad’s liberation, 2008, ink on paper, 7" x 6"
Jesse Hamerman, My Signature Works (miss congeniality), 2008, foam, joint compound, paint, 31.5” x 21” x 2”
Patrick Brennan, untitled, 2008, acrylic, spray paint, and collage on canvas, 12" x 12"
Mark Stockton, Madonna I (After Lee Friedlander), 2008, graphite on BFK Rives, 6” x 4”
Jasmine Justice, untitled, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 20” x 10”







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