No. 18 by Wan Zhijie. (All photos by C-M.)

Yesterday we packed a lunch and trekked down to Pulse New York, over at Pier 40 in the West Village, where people (like me) ordinarily get their cars out of the impound. Pulse is Armory’s hipper sibling: younger and less pretentious. And I’m a fan of their new site because it’s just a brisk 15-minute walk from Johnny’s, where I once watched a golden retriever – seated at the bar – take a lick out of Celso’s margarita.

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Light this mother up! Pipe, by Andy Yoher, at the Edward Winkleman Gallery, is a sculpture made out of black licorice (with silicone and styrofoam). Winkleman tells me that licorice has an unnaturally long shelf life that can be extended with regular rubdowns of WD-40. Delicious!

Motorcycle helmets by Patricia Paccini. For when your extra head also needs protection.

Davide Zucco, aka Rekal, at Perugi Gallery.

Laundry Room With Mirror, 2008. Deconstructed photo by Isidro Blasco.

Sculpture of the Dolls: Detail of an installation by Jennifer Burkley Vasher. (Don’t get too excited: I already plucked out all of the nasal decongestants and the Xanax…)

merryGoRound by Ray Rapp. See the video.

Strike a Pose: Entrance to the Pulse Art Fair. Kinda like entering a night club. But nerdier.

An assemblage of small paintings by Cameron Gray.

Obey Shepard Fairey: Detail of one of the small paintings in the Cameron Gray assemblage. See another panel here.

Woodcut panels by Kenichi Yokono, who had some killer skate decks at Pulse Miami in December. See a detail.

And here’s what I look like after a day of hanging out at the fairs: Homemade Eye Surgery by Royal Art Lodge.

See many more pix on my Flickr.

Read more about Pulse at ArfInfo.

Posted by C-Monster.