Archive for the ‘ART’ Category

Last week, a friend of mine told me he’d just attended a really cool art opening and showed me some photos on his iPhone.  A few days later, I just happened to be walking in the Meatpacking district, and I stumbled upon that same exhibit! It’s the art of Roy Nachum, and the show is entitled Open Your Eyes.

The show was divided into 4 sections and explored Nachum’s signature themes of perception and vision, blindness, illusion and reality. All of his work is painted onto canvas in which poetry written by the artist have been transcribed in braille. My favorite series represented was “Parallel Realities”. This series features a vividly drawn animal interacting with a human as well as color fields in washes… This girl with the gorilla and the balloon… wow. My other favorite is the giraffe painting, below. Look at the close up! I think that in the case of the gorilla and giraffe paintings, the braille adds SO MUCH to the work! It seems aesthetically purposeful.

Another series that I thought was interesting was Color Blind. The round paintings are based on the tests for colorblindness and apparently those who are colorblind can’t see the images of the women.

There were two other series Invisible Mirrors, not pictured, and Sea of Crowns… which is a sea of crowns below hanging red ribbon.

So what do you think? Any favorites? Does the show make you question the subjectivity and vulnerability of our vision and perception?

Have a great day everyone!

MAY 11 – JUNE 11, 2012

JOSEPH NAHMAD CONTEMPORARY
450 W 14TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10014

 

This collaboration by  designers culdesac  and the paint company valentine is a celebration of the ever evolving tools artists use. A friend sent it to me (Thanks!) and I think its witty, intuitive and fun. The collab is about the form following function, the way you can visibly imagine a someone using the tool is the way the paint looks on the canvas. Whip it, clench it, twist it, roll it, drag it. Every artist has used something funky to make art, creating new tools is part of the fun.

I think I would buy the whip and the hand brush if I had to choose. You?

Via Design Boom

It’s a rather spectacular weekend here in NYC, hope you are having a great one too!

(Photos were taken on The Highline in Chelsea.)

I donated this painting to an amazing event hosting by the Anti Defamation League called JustArt. It’s the ADL’s inaugural exhibition, a fundraiser and silent auction at the Benrimon Gallery celebrating the mission of the Anti-Defamation League.

For some reason, May is fundraiser month and so this is the second painting this WEEK that I’ve donated. Which should be fine right? Don’t I have 2 paintings laying around that I could donate? Well, the short answer is of course I do, but then when crunch time came around I g0t so nervous about it that I just made two new pieces.

In the studio before I delivered it.

And I’m so glad I did. I really love this new painting. Leandra gave me the idea to name all my paintings the mean things I say about them: “Looks like neon vomit”, ” Fucking horrible modern starry night”, and then this one: “Sidewalk Gum”. I was toying with “Gum on the bottom of my shoe” but ultimately decided on the more concise “Sidewalk Gum.” And while “Fucking horrible modern starry night” has subsequently been destroyed, and “Looks like neon vomit” never made it to the blog, I really actually like “Sidewalk Gum.” This one is good, and the sidewalky nature of the background is really the best part.

The event is sold out, but you can still buy limited tickets at the door, if you are so inclined.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Benrimon Contemporary Gallery
514 W. 24th Street
New York City

7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
VIP Reception: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Exhibition will be open to the public from May 18 – May 20

The new Hermes Leica M9-P cost $25K, so before you even become lusty over it, like I did,  just be aware- it’s out of your price range. OK, now you can drool:

Please do yourself a favor and watch a video of them making one. It’s the stuff luxury/artisanal/aspirational dreams are made of. Kind of like that Grey Goose commercial a few years back with the clinking ice cubes on the yacht. If only.