Category Archives: Lower East Side Galleries
Where is this gallery? Guess right, and I might show you there. For real.
OK, so the f-ing misspelling below practically gives it away. Still, take the poll. Let yourself feel superior for a minute. Then ask yourself if I’m not totally on base here.
Results to come!
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Lower East Side Galleries are *urp* better than Williamsburg Galleries. (Did I just say that?!)
A foray last Sunday to Manhattan’s LES yielded, among some truly impressive art (like the show at CANADA, below)…
glimpses of optimistic market ’signs’ that, though hardly Upturn-Prophesy-worthy, deserve mention.
Here, my buddy, Francesco glances over as Rachel Uffner puts away a work we’d just watch her put on hold for the Principal of a blue-chip Chelsea [...]
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Event on September 20th: Traffic Cones are Everywhere. But, have you noticed?
Wanted to mention that Erik Sanner, that new-media artist, will be giving a tour of the East Village—vis-a-vis traffic cones. Yup. You heard me right. Three times on one day, he’ll walk you around and show you how to truly see them: as ad-hod sculpture, as visual phenomena, as…. Well, I don’t know. But go [...]
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Process Notes: How’d she do that, you ask?
Claire Corey. An artist whose been working in computer-based media for years–like, even before it was popular. The answer to this question is really complex. So, shall we just quote from her recent e-mail?
“…[I make these] small paintings using found imagery on the Internet [as well as] photos I take
myself which I combine into a [...]
Process Notes: you fold the paper in half…
A recent drawing by Daniel Davidson. Check out the symmetry. How does he do it? Draws on one half of a piece of paper. Wets it, folds it over, and burnishes the other half.
Voila. Process does the work for you.
His show opens at the ever-intriguing, very watchable LES gallery Sloan Fine Art on September 16th.
ArtInfo does Whitney Biennial pre-press Proper