How Andre Ethier Uses Paint

Andre Ethier [Derek Eller Gallery]

Dear Oliver Hilbert, My Mouth Tastes Purple

Groovy Love Thug


Magic Brush


Untitled


Time Out London

Oliver Hibert [portfolio]

A Little Library of Factory Sleeves

Record Envelope [crossedcombs]

Streaming Hitchcock

Did you know that right now NBC is streaming episodes of the Alfred Hitchcock Hour on their website? There are currently two episodes, "Don't Look Behind You" and "A Piece of the Action". It appears that NBC releases a new episode each week. Most episodes are not the work of Hitchcock himself, but who cares? They are beautiful nonetheless.




Alfred Hitchcock Presents [Wikipedia]
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour [NBC]

Follow the White Bunny

Thomas Beale introduces Mickey Western.

Walking into Honey Space was kind of like entering the core of a fresh baked apple pie. They were brewing apple cider (with real fruit and cinnamon sticks) on a hot plate and had a Valentine's-appropriate spread of chocolate fondue with sliced strawberries and bananas. The entrance was curiously accented by hay. I don't think I've ever seen real hay in New York City before. Not a single sense I possess was left unsatisfied by the time I departed. The band was phenomenal, the attendees gorgeous, the art delightful, and the tambourine player in a bunny suit was the icing on the pie.


Western and Beale on the accordian


Tambourining bunny, dazzling bass guitar, piles of rescued woods.

I even used the video function on my cam for the first time to capture all the carousing, which means this video sucks, but here it is anyway:



More Photos from the show on my [Flickr]

The Manifold Tabloid Anxieties of Baker Overstreet

Dirty Piler's Beauty Bumps, 2006-7


Discodux, 2006


Pleasant Conversation, 2004


Ginger Bangs, 2006




Hypnotic Breakdown, 2005


Holes for Eyes, 2006


Hair-Don't, 2005


3 Legs in Mink, 2006

Baker Overstreet [Mary Pauline Gallery]
Baker Overstreet [Saatchi Gallery]

Advanced Honey Beauty Space

It is my duty to inform you of two original and fresh opposite-ended emissions into the creative ethers. Behold, a virtual heaven and an unsupervised earthen playground:




The UK-based design deities at Universal Everything have launched Advanced Beauty this week. For months it existed only as a mysterious tab connected to the UE/Everyone Forever empire, but has finally been consecrated with content for the enjoyment of us mere mortals.



Paintings by Adam Stanforth

Coming as it does, from a person who detests the Chelsea gallery format (clinical white walls, beady-eyed receptionists, neatly summarized and stacked press releases, requisite silences, track lighting!) and other infirmary-like vestiges of the so-called "art world," you will be kind to permit my enthusiasm for Thomas Beale's Honey Space.

From Nonsense NYC:

A new space opens its doors for business in Chelsea, though no business is planned. Honey Space, founded and operated by artist Thomas Beale, will present site-specific installations in an unmonitored former warehouse set in the heart of Chelsea. The space is decidedly raw: ceiling tiles are falling down, the back wall is shot up with masonry nails, the floor is uneven. Having invested minimal money in the space itself, Beale has no plans to broker sales of work by the artists exhibited, instead directing interested collectors to the artists themselves, and he has no plans to spend much time operating the space either, for that matter. Every Tuesday through Saturday when installations are on view, he will open metal security gates in the morning, close them in the evening, and during the day be in his own private studio working, while the space is open to the public, unattended. Most striking, the space, on the West Side Highway between 21st and 22nd streets, is dead center in the middle of Chelsea, making it, in a sense, in the center of the contemporary art world itself.

The hyper-development of Chelsea has given Beale the opportunity to create this space. The building is owned by developer Alf Naman, who in the near future plans to develop a luxury residential project on the site. In the meanwhile, Naman has granted Beale and a group of other artists use of the building for studios, in exchange for artwork. Last year he negotiated with Naman to transform his space into an installation of his own work, and open his doors to the public for two separate exhibitions. Based upon the success of these experiences, Beale decided to reduce his own studio space by half, and dedicate the remaining 800 square feet to presenting other people's work.

Honey Space hosts its first opening on Valentine's Day, featuring an installation of paintings by Adam Stanforth, and a rock and roll performance by Mickey Western.

For further proof of that Beale is destined for artistic sainthood see visual evidence below.


Dream Raft


Universal Everthing [UE]
Advanced Beauty [AB]
Thomas Beale [Portfolio]
Honey Space [HS]
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Adam Stanforth [Portfolio]
Mickey Western [Myspace]

Fact Sheet: Janko Domsic

Janko Domsic (1915 - 1983)
Born: Croatia
Lived and worked: Paris, France
Occupation: railroad worker
Education: elementary school
Classification: outsider
Other than that: no one knows.

Janko Domsic [abcd artbrut]