Collage on wood by Bäst. (Photos by C-M.)
The Brooklynite Gallery, a new space in Bed-Stuy, just opened its doors with a solo show by Bäst called Nose Candy. There was plenty of collage—all in color—as well as some pretty incredible animal heads decked out in rhinestones. (Blinding, in a good way.) If you see the show, don’t miss the Crack Beach Guns, on the back wall, all made with found objects (aka trash). They’re quite cool.
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Exam time! (Photo by jackhynes.)
The results are in for the first ever C-Monster artspeak quiz! How did you score? Here are the correct answers:
1. b
2. d
3. e
4. c
5. a
What does your score mean? If you scored…
0 out of 5: Congratulations! You don’t know what any of this crap means either.
1 out of 5: Lucky guess. You’re forgiven.
2 out of 5: Okay, anyone can have two lucky guesses. Be more cautious next time.
3 out of 5: All systems alert. You are getting perilously close to art blowhardiness.
4 out of 5: You’re officially artsy fartsy. Though more fartsy than artsy.
5 out of 5: Drop the Thesaurus and seek help immediately.
After the jump, see how the art pairs with the artspeak.
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A whole lotta Hype. (Photos by C-M.)
Ad Deville and Ali Ha opened up their brand spankin’ new space in a former Brooklyn bodega last Friday with a packed opening night party. The gallery featured an installation of paintings and sculptures by Skewville that pay tribute to pop and urban culture. The works take their cues from the indoor space, in this case, a defunct grocery: there are crates of hype, a supermarket-cart-turned-lounge-chair and silkscreens of grocery circulars filled with bogus slogans and clever wordsmithing. The exhibit also includes elements of Skewville’s long-running themes: visual plays on urban architecture and industrial settings, plenty of slang, and various two-dimensional salutes to their wooden sneaker series. It’s a damn fine show from the shoemakers from Queens.
Stay tuned for more from Factory Fresh at the end of June, when the gallery unveils its first group show, Un Named Rottens, with Beau Velasco, Daniel St. George and Jeremiah Maddock.
We have a winner! Congrats to Bucky Turco, of NYC, who won a Skewville ‘Fresh’ crate, for writing, “I will honor it always (or until it skyrockets like a Banksy).” It was an answer worthy of Skewville.
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This weekend, Ad Deville and Ali Ha, who used to run the famed Orchard Street Art Gallery on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, are unveiling their killer new space in Brooklyn - Factory Fresh - in conjunction with Bushwick Open Studios. Skewville, the notorious urban remix artists, get the honor of the first show. Don’t miss it. It’s gonna be…fresh.
Factory Fresh
1053 Flushing Ave.
Btw. Morgan & Knickerbocker
L train to Morgan
Opening party:
Friday, June 6th, 2008
6-9pm
Can’t make the party? The show will be up for viewing all day Saturday, June 7th, from 1-9pm. Also: Don’t forget to register for the giveaway of a super-fresh Skewville crate.
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Testing, testing. (Photo by extraface.)
Do you problematize? Are you the kinda person who likes to invert the paradigm? Do you use the word “protean” while ordering lunch? Then you are familiar with the foreign language known as artspeak. But how familiar are you? Test the depth of your knowledge of this incomprehensible tribal tongue with the handy quiz that follows the jump. All you have to do to prove you’re a pro is to correctly match the art to the artspeak.
If you’d like, post your guesses in the comments section. We will send anyone who scores 100% our deepest condolences. Good luck. And no cheating. Correct answers will be posted next week.
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Mine, 2008.
Photos from Remembering to Forget, Charles Browning’s show at Schroeder Romero in NYC. A friend of mine described the work as “ironic Romanticism.” It seems an adept label. The show runs through June 21st.
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