Richard Kern at Feature

Devon Dikeou Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe wanted to Be Buried in Pucci Through Friday, November 21
The Design Center
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Marilyn Monroe wanted to be Buried in Pucci, is a mixed-media installation by New York-based artist, Devon Dikeou opening on September 18, 2008 and running until November 21, 2008 at The Design Center located in the Goldie Paley House at Philadelphia University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In this solo exhibition, Dikeou uses Marilyn Monroe’s living request to be buried in Pucci as the lens through which to reconsider various developments in art and design since the 1960s, particularly as they relate to the social, urban and popular cultural contexts. The installation will be comprised of various objects of art, artifacts and design including 36 abstract paintings created by the artist based on a Pucci dress. The number 36 represents the age of Monroe on her death. Five color photographs documenting the American flag hanging at half-mast in New York’s Union Square to commemorate the death of the great baseball hero Joe DiMaggio will be mounted on aluminum and hung sequentially showing the change of light on this mournful day in American popular culture (five was DiMaggio’s Yankee baseball jersey number). DiMaggio adored Monroe not only in her lifetime when he took her as his bride but in her death and year’s after their divorce remembering his love for her with six red roses that he would send weekly to her burial site. During the run of the exhibition, The Parisian, the Beverly Hills florist who took care of DiMaggio’s weekly request, will deliver a funerary urn with six red roses to The Design Center. The artist has commissioned a replica of the DiMaggio-Monroe platinum eternity band and it will be displayed for viewers to touch or try on affecting the spirit of this iconic American romance.

In this installation the artist focuses formally on creating works where Pop Art, abstract painting, Minimalism, Performance and Conceptual art variously converge questioning the mutual exclusivity of these art historical categories. All of the varied components will be melded together to suggest a loose biographical and historical tableau of this romantic and turbulent era in American culture.

The Goldie Paley House, where The Design Center is located, is a 1950’s-era modernist home built on the model of the California Case Study houses. Floor-to-ceiling glass windows provide sweeping views of a garden and swimming pool that was designed in the shape of a baby grand piano. The pool will be covered in a tarp that the artist has designed inspired by the undulating swirls of the Pucci dress.

Devon Dikeou has exhibited widely throughout the United States and Europe including: Hohenthal und Bergen - Statements: Basel Art Fair 29, Basel, Switzerland; MAMCO, Geneva in collaboration with Outcasts Incorporated; Postmasters Gallery, New York; and more recently at artMovingProjects, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Dikeou is the publisher/editor of Zingmagazine, a curatorial crossing, an award-winning publication that recently celebrated its 12th anniversary.

Addison Thompson finds Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol "Self-Portrait"
http://www.nysun.com/arts/possible-warhol-self-portrait/70054/

David Sandlin at Jack the Pelican

RESET/PLAY

RESET/PLAY
September 6 – November 2, 2008

from: vertexlist blog

Cory Arcangel
Beat the Champ (Sega Genesis Championship Bowling: Dana), 2008
installation with hacked Sega Genesis game controller
dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist and Team Gallery, New York, NY

The video game as a medium and a style of life has reached its middle age along with the first generation of people who grew up playing them. The non-linear, interactive, processor based narratives, which at first mimicked Hollywood and struggled to convey their simple content with 8-bit processors, gradually became the largest entertainment industry in the history of electronic media. RESET/PLAY is an exhibition attempting a critical exploration of contemporary art inspired by video games. Questioning the history, control mechanisms, political and art-historical implications of electronic games, RESET/PLAY assembles a formidable group of international artists who made a significant impact on this growing post-game artistic sub-genre. Artists include Cory Arcangel, Michael Bell-Smith, Mike Beradino, Brody Condon, Alex Galloway, JODI, Guthrie Lonergan, Kristin Lucas, Joe McKay, Michael Smith, Eddo Stern and Keita Takahashi.

Brody Condon
Judgment Modification (After Memling), 2008
self-playing video game
Courtesy of the artist and Virgil de Voldère Gallery, New York, NY

Talking Art with RESET/PLAY guest curators Marcin Ramocki and Paul Slocum

Saturday, September 6, 3:00 pm

RESET/PLAY is organized for Arthouse by guest curators Marcin Ramocki and Paul Slocum, both of whom are practicing media artists who also run independent spaces in Brooklyn and Dallas, respectively, that focus on media art. The exhibition will be accompanied by an 8-bit music and film festival co-organized by the Austin Museum of Digital Art.

Cynthia Bloom Namenwirth Works on Block Island

Cynthia Bloom Namenwirth oil on canvas approx. 4x6 feet
Collection of Estate
Cynthia Bloom Namenwirth oil on canvas approx. 6x4 feet
Collection of Estate
Cynthia Bloom Namenwirth oil and mixed media on canvas approx 3x5'
collection: Estate
Cynthia Bloom Namenwirth mixed media approx 24x36"
Collection of: Peter Wood

Pam Gasner (Littlefield) whaT A looker!

Cynthia Bloom Namenwirth mixed media (Monarch Butterflies) Not sure if before Damien Hirst. approx 24x36"

Collection: Peter Wood

Cynthia Bloom Namenwirth mixed media approx 24x36"
Collection of Shirley and Walter Gasner

Cynthia Bloom Namenwirth "Windows on Block Island" mixed media 1985

Donated To: Block Island Historical Society's Benefit


Cynthia Bloom Namenwirth Pastel on Paper approx 8x11"
collection of Lisa Karst

Cynthia Bloom Namenwirth watercolour approx 9x13"
collection of Lisa Karst
If anyone has seen paintings of lobsters by this artist please let us know.

Ken Butler @ The Dayton Art Institute

Exhibition with nearly 100 works opened last weekend at The Dayton Art Institute in Dayton Ohio, including many hybrid instrument sculptures, collages, drawings, and video works. http://www.daytonartinstitute.org/

Recipient of a grant from the Pollock/Krasner Foundation in 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsup9O1HNCI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Az65Ld2E_s

Tom Moody's OptiDisc Online installation

27 feet x 4 feet eight inches, 60 screen captures of the OptiDisc GIF on various websites

BAM Silent Auction Adam Simon aMP

Adam Simon "Jog"

BAMart's Silent Auction is open for bidding, with some bids already placed! Please help us beat our expectations by spreading the word. As you know, all funds go to support BAM programs.

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Dan Davidson

Dan Davidson with work on paper at artMovingProjects

It's not over "Only the good Die Young"

Tim Spelios, Leon Dewan , Brian Dewan, and Ken Butler (link right)
(click on images to enlarge)


It is not quantity but quality. Marcin Ramocki and Tom Moody (right)
Matt Freedman

Scott Fulmer
Photos: artMovingProjects/Aron Namenwirth
To dis-spell a rumor this was a closing party for Cynthia Bloom and Jens Brand's show at aMP
not a closing of the gallery. Their work will remain up for at least another month by appointment only. We will remain very much alive. We regret having to postpone the shows of Adam Simon and John Giglio.
Let's start a new rumor - look
for artMovingProjects or a gallery with a different name, same players to open in china town near the new museum fall/winter 2008. Cheers and thanks to all the performers for keeping the spirit real, surfing and burning. Also, Thanks to Dan Davidson who came up from New Mexico to help with installation which is continuing with hand made kites baring the i ching.

Closing Party Easter Sunday

"Fallen House of Cards" part of exhibition currently up, note: I am bringing back 40 more credit cards found in the Block Island House- This piece is highly influenced by Marcin Ramocki's Credit Card "Neo-feudal Screensaver" as seen in Zing Magazine and Mike Smith's Credit Card Piece recently exhibited in New York.

Performance: "Only The Good Die Young"
7.00 pm Brian and Leon Dewan - Tim Spelios
8.00pm Ken Butler
9.00pm Scott Fulmer

at artMovingProjects 166 North 12th st. Brooklyn
info. 917.301.6680

Cynthia Bloom large Paintings

Cynthia Bloom "untitled" oil and mixed-media on linen 7 x 8 feet 1970's
Cynthia Bloom "Fenton River" oil and mixed-media on canvas 9x12 feet 1970's

Jens Brand New Media Project Space

Music=0D=0D1 The idea:=0D=0Dis a DVD extract of the "respirator =
tracts/tracks" project, featuring the breathing sounds of one singer =
(Madonna) and one complete album (Music), including the music videos =
that accompany it.=0D=0DThe concept is based on an observation of recent =
pop-music. =0DSince some years the singers produce intense inhalation- =
sounds, before they start to sing the next phrase. =0DIn some songs the =
breathing is so intense that, if one would try breath along, you will =
start to hyperventilate.=0DThis "breathing" is supposed to express =
intensity, but also creates the "concept" of reality and physical =
closeness in the time of more distance creating digital and sampling =
based productions. =0DIn this sense it's like the "dust" filter of =
Photoshop.=0D=0DThe installation "Respirator Tracts/Tracks" is based on =
8 tracks and 64 breathing circles edited from different songs and =
stiles. Every sound is a sample from existing songs. Although the short =
excerpt does not allow to recognize the source, it allows to recognize =
the style of recording of the specific age.=0DThe "RT/T" sample library =
contains beathings from Enrico Caruso, Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, =
Barbara Streisand and Sonnyboy Williamson up ( or down) to Bruce =
Springsteen, Madonna, Celine Dion, Britney Spears and others. While =
"RT/T" is running from a computer and due to the logics of set up =
constantly remixes itself, "Music" is a 5 channel work played from DVD, =
and thus with fixed development. =0D=0D2 The structure: =0D=0DMusic=0D=0D=
The album contains 9 songs, three of them with video version.=0D=0D=
Impressive Instant / Runaway Lover / I Deserve It / Amazing / Nobody's =
Perfect / Don't Tell Me

Cynthia Bloom "only the good die young"@artMovingProjects

artMovingProjects
166 N.12th St, between Bedford and Berry Sts., Williamsburg (917-301-6680, 917-301-0306).
Subway: L to Bedford Avenue  Thurday -Sunday, 1pm - 6pm
http://artmovingprojects.blogspot.com
info@artmovingprojects.com

Feb.28th - Mar.30th 2008 :) by appointment only
Performance, Ken Butler, Brian Dewan, April Smith, Scott Fulmer, and others- to be announced

Cynthia Bloom

“Only the good die young”

Paintings, photographs, credit cards, and assorted items come out of a home prepared for sale to support her upcoming medical expenses. Also, savaged from the house the manuscripts for the “Happy Holocaust “ by J. Zvi Namenwirth and the definitive text in three volumes on Mahler by his brother Micha Namenwirth. A mother-son psychodrama.


A new fresh spring and a fresh new sound:
I want that this song rings as the birds call
That oft heard on a summer night
In an old town along the water way.
Inside, it was dark yet the silent street
Collected twilight, last rays shone late
In the sky, there fell a golden speckled shaft
Over the roofs into my window pane.
Next blew a youngster as on an organ pipe,
That shook ripely in the open sky
As mellow cherries do when a springtime wind
Awakes in the woods to start its trip.
It roams on bridges, and at waters edge,
So slowly going, blowing everywhere.
Chirping as a long bird, unaware
Of its joy over the evening’s quietude.
And many a spent man awaiting supper meal
Listened as if it were an old tale,
Smiling while the hand that closed the pane
Dawdled momentarily for the youngster sang.

At war, I did dream it was wartime yet:
A wooden airplane tumbled from the sky
And rockingly drove through the grass
To stop the groaning, singing, and relief.

From the sickly ark came wounded animals
Of each kind one, dragging feet to a tent
While I was to beautify this heavenly house
With grass, tree twigs, the fieri firmament.

Then what did I see on a long whitish table
But the white birdie with the bluest head
Just a blue fire that in the evening heat
Burns on a summery hillside top.

Was he badly hurt and should I care for him?
Firmly he clawed my finger tight.
Then, it was night. Blenchingly white
Removed the dawn when the sun appeared.

And, examing my own two tiny hands,
The finger that he clawed became blue.
I wrote this verse as the bird did burn:
He glanced back as to bless me as it seemed.

(in scripted Cynthia Bloom the last poem 1991 by John Ree aka J. Zvi Namenwirth)

New Media Project Space

Jens Brand
http://aronnamenwirth.blogspot.com/2007/12/jens-brand.html