last chance to check out my new show..."Urban Sprawl" at Trenton social up until the first friday in october.....

The Great and Terrible artist collective new show

Passion Pit - Sleepyhead

Video Served Three Ways – Little Berlin, Great and Terrible Collective and Rebekah Templeton

Great and Terrible Collective’s “I Got Rosacea Just for this Party” presents a completely different approach to video and display. The show, curated by Dana M. Osburn, is set in a Kensington living room where each TV has a chair in front of it so viewers can sit and watch the videos with the intensity of a Saturday morning. “Wipe Outlet” by Sarah Mooney features cartoon dinosaurs heading out to a big box store to buy a selection of wipes that range from butt wipes to anti-aging, cholesterol, and lobster wipes. My notes from watching Mooney’s next video, “Hello,” read “Clay people and a paper guy in a boat, in a nut, painting trees. Cheese on a toothbrush. We were angels.” I think that’s a pretty accurate recap.



Kristina Centore’s “Pup” shows a claymation girl begging her parents for a dog. After a mildly frightening tantrum they relent and give her a dog that proceeds to eat her. The out of tune and hostile version of Fur Elise on the soundtrack is particularly apropos for anyone forced into piano lessons at a certain age. Centore’s “Young Lives” is even more blood thirsty with two golum-like children in a fight that escalates through decapitation and dismemberment and just continues into a fade out with the boys’ skeletons still fighting and a soft voice saying “blood, blood, blood.” These vignettes perfectly mimic the Sunday cartoons that had lower production values and higher morality content than the much more loved Saturday fare. Except, of course, for their intense and remorseless outcomes.

Unconditional surrender goes to times square

A peice from the johnson atelier in hamilton new jersey goes to times square for the annual celebration a v-day....a kiss off will be held. (i workd on this peice yay)

Meraviglia at Great and Terrible Collective

Come this new Exhibit Meraviglia at the Great and Terrible Artists collective tonight at 5pm....located at w montgomery and hancockstreet. its a bbq so bring ur favorite snack and come enjoy some great company and some great art!

new itunes app: check out the article on artblog

Fruit basket upset – John Baldessari’s iPhone app lets you re-arrange a Dutch masterpiece
By roberta | June 25, 2010
Jori Finkel’s story on Culture Monster tells only half the story, namely that courtesy of John Baldessari’s new iPhone app (previewable online here), you can re-arrange the 17th Century still life to suit your own fancy. What it doesn’t say is how much fun it is. Quick, go play with your food!

The free app will be at iTunes next week. The app cost $35,000 and was produced by For Your Art. The whole project is in conjunction with Baldessari’s show, Pure Beauty, at LACMA. The painting featured in the app is the 1667 oil Banquet Still Life by Dutch master, Abraham van Beyeren, which is part of LACMA’s collection. This is Baldessari’s second foray into computer-re-arrangement of art. The last time, in 2001, he used the same painting and viewers would manipulate the painting at a computer set up in the gallery. The conceptual artist has been reconfiguring human heads and bodies for quite a while in his work, which never struck me before as humorous. Maybe, given this whimsical art project, I’ll have to reconsider.