The local paper wrote about my show Baldanders at Blade Study Gallery and me acting foolish in public. Thank you to everyone who has supported this show and made it possible, it’s been an insane lift. To Brooke and Ian, to Rebekah Chozick, to Phong Bui, Angela Dufresne and Andrew Ross, to Bradley Milligan, Obadah Aljefri, Struth Novogratz, Anthony Hawley, Austin Johnson, Basharat Ali Syed, and my dad and mom and sister and brother. Love you all.
Angela Dufresne and I are getting weird with it tonight at 7pm. Hope to see some of you there!
Thank you Martha Schwendener for making this dream happen! Really appreciate all that you do!
Thank you everyone who came out last night for the opening. Felt cute might delete later.
Tomorrow (Saturday) I will be doing paintings of people in the gallery as ol’ Bill Blake, so feel free to stop by.
And more importantly, on Friday I will be interviewing the force of painting Angela Dufresne, who will be channeling Shulie Firestone while I do my best to be Frankie Picabia.
You can reserve tickets online. Hope to see you there!
If you weren’t able to attend Baldanders 1 at Anton Kern, I am about half way through editing together the video from the first performance. Phong Bui and I spoke to each other as Immanuel Kant and William Blake and I’m excited about what we were able to discuss together. I’ve split the performance up into four parts. I think the best way to do this is to set up a Dropbox since the files are pretty big, so email me if you’d like a link so you can download and watch.
This was quite the undertaking, and I’m beginning to work on the next few iterations, which will somehow be even more ambitious, so I’m also putting a suggested donation of $5-$20. If you are an artist or student, please completely disregard this, but if you’re in a place where you can, it’ll go directly into the funding of the next Baldanders performance. Thank you all so much! More clips to come! (DM if interested)
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Join us for a panel discussion on the current state of curation, its definitions, its excesses, and its limitations in our present moment.
Constanza Valenzuela, Darla Migan, KO Nnamdie and Nakai Falcon will discuss this term from their different vantage points in an attempt to trace its perimeters, thresholds, and possibilities.
Part pattern recognition, part diagnosis, part prophecy, the role of the curator is grounded in the market, in sensuous poetics, and in pragmatism. Is curating a way of writing with images and objects? An act of mystification? or a trickster performance that legitimizes the subjective positions of aesthetics? And further, what zones remain in which a curator can perform, act, and initiate today?
!BYOB! REALLY !BYOB!
RSVP VIA ITM LINK IN BIO
The talk will be moderated by
Andrew Woolbright
(and Hopefully Recorded)
Image by @avocado_ibuprofen
Join us for a panel discussion on the current state of curation, its definitions, its excesses, and its limitations in our present moment.
Constanza Valenzuela, Darla Migan, KO Nnamdie and Nakai Falcon will discuss this term from their different vantage points in an attempt to trace its perimeters, thresholds, and possibilities.
Part pattern recognition, part diagnosis, part prophecy, the role of the curator is grounded in the market, in sensuous poetics, and in pragmatism. Is curating a way of writing with images and objects?
An act of mystification? or a trickster performance that legitimizes the subjective positions of aesthetics? And further, what zones remain in which a curator can perform, act, and initiate today?
!BYOB!
The talk will be moderated by Andrew Woolbright
Image by @avocado_ibuprofen
This show is an important one.
It’s complex. The issues it brings forward deserve something closer to a book to address how our ideas of culture change, and how art offers itself as a memory of different times.
It’s hard to tell if Brock Enright wants to be a Dadaist or find and produce moments of magic outside of aesthetic experience, and that difficulty is important.
I found myself thinking about all of the art writing of the last year complaining that art doesn’t shock or elicit stronger responses anymore, and this show reveals the difficulty in that return. It’s refreshing to see but it’s also complicated.
The show starts a longer discourse, and because of that, it’s a must see.
Thank you to my wonderful and patient editors who let me wrestle with this one for 2000 words.
The Tattooists
A delicate hand gives a tattoo of a rough painting done by a sensitive painter (Carol Rama)
A rough hand gives a tattoo of a delicate painting done by a brutal painter ( a dog by Francis Bacon)
Lots of half finished apricots in this one.
The local paper wrote about a show I’m in. I’m just a young gun making wan and spectral paintings over here.
Thank you Andrew Russeth for the wonderful review!
And thank you to the unfuckwittable Max Werner and Lindsay Jarvis for putting together such an amazing show. Incredible fucking dealers. Georg has to give me his hat now. If you can hit the dougie, I’m asking you to hit the dougie with me right now. Spiritually.
One of the best interviews I’ve ever had the pleasure of doing. There’s too much to quote and excerpt, so I hope you all get a chance to read it and visit Rob’s show, but for now let’s leave it with Rob is at war with repression in all of its forms, and meets it with rage, sadness, subtlety, and wonderful humor. Thank you for all of it Rob!
I’ve been excited about this book for awhile! I loved getting to contribute an essay for Noah Simblist’s book on radical arts pedagogy, in what I’m sure will be a really useful resource for everyone teaching in the arts.
And speaking of…all of the sexy and cool people that you know are doing what they can to support the national strike tomorrow and you should too.
