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. 3)

Meridith Pingree, Spiny Plains, 2009

Rachel Hayes, Ice Cold Daydream, 2009 (1:24 Scale model as installed @ Dolphin Gallery, KCMO)

Mike Hein, Untitled, 2009

Ned Colclough, Untitled, 2009

J.D. Walsh, Maze with 7 Levels, (video) 2009

William Downs, Tattoo Your Body with Line, 2009

Liz-N-Val, Everything, 2009

I WANNA BE SOMEWHERE was a Daily Operation that took place on on September 16. All pics here.

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...

Make it last

Stephen Davis, untitled, 2002, approx. 16" x 12"

Jaime Gecker, Broken Water, 2009, 24" x 20"

Jaime Gecker, Blank, 2008, 20" x 15-1/2"; Ned Colclough, untitled, 2009

Stephen Davis, untitled, 2007, 58" x 58"

Ned Colclough, untitled, 2009

Thanks to everyone who came out for Make it last...probably the best time had in 718 Dry Clean. I hope to do it again...Many more pics on Flickr.

For more info on the artists: Ned Colclough, Stephen Davis, and Jaime Gecker.

Ned Colclough

Tug of Love (detail); Read Your Mind, 18" x 24"; Florida Room (detail)













Souvenir, 22" x 28"; All the Bass, 18" x 24"


Florida Room; Souvenir, 22" x 28"; Tug of Love; Read Your Mind, 2007, 18" x 24"

Pacific, 19" x 23"

Theme from Planets and detail

Anything at all

When I first got a peek at Ned Colclough’s studio a couple of years back, there were a few paintings on the wall, pinned up photos, and various parts that would become these constructions. I recently had a chance to stop by again and the room is now filled with finished pieces. Maybe it’s because there’s no space for more, but they seem to represent his first major body of work. I'm really into the the sculptures because they are deliberately precarious and oddly rythmic. They pivot, lean, brace, and balance with nothing but friction and gravity keeping them together. Keep an eye out for his work…