some portraits from my DC3200 that have been sitting in a folder for too long….
See if you can spot me, Ed Zipco, Bill Dunleavy, and Joshua Allen in this group of portraits from Jesse Untracht-Oakner!
Today we installed Anne Emond’s solo gallery show COMIQUES, which opens to the public tomorrow and has its opening reception this Saturday, March 30th, 7-10pm! Special thanks to Anne, guest curator Emma Zurer, and our indefatigable gallery foreman Joshua Allen for a great hang!
Emma Zurer, as is the Next Level practice around here, made a Tumblr for her group show featuring herself, Christine Shan Shan Hou, Kate Reeder, and Leah Moskowitz…we’re excited for the opening tomorrow!
Interview: Picture Day Curator Emma Zurer
Picture Day: A Group Art Show
Superchief Gallery at Culturefix, 9 Clinton Street, LES
March 11th -March 17th, 2013
Opening Party March 15th, 7-10pm
Thick Tongue: A Reading Series
March 16th, 7:30-10pm
An Interview with the Curator by Elizabeth Daley :
STILL DEAD by Elliot Goldstein
Interview: Elliot Goldstein Solo Exhibition
An interview with the artist Elliot Goldstein:
Under the auspices of the one-week residency of the one and only Ventiko, Genevieve Belleveau orchestrated a really fun satirical-performative Day Spa at Culturefix last week and then Rebecca Smeyne photographed it for Paper, aka Next Level Bizness! Also featured/in the house were Labanna Babalon, Ariele Max, Angelina Dreem, Brian Whateverer, Mind Dynamics, Clara Carter of Beauty Today Magazine, Lindsey Leonard, Seva Granik, and Palmtrees Caprisun Citrusblast!
The current rage, our House Of Ladosha show at Superchief Gallery At Culturefix, curated by Chris Udemezue: http://thewholehouseeats.tumblr.com/
This is a Special Request to my homegirl Jessica Trueblood Riddle, with whom I did the Real Girlz Expo 2012 at Culturefix in October-November 2012, immortalized on Tumblr here: http://beingrealishard.tumblr.com/.
Pierre Bernard Francillon: Urban Archetypes, January 29-February 3, 2013
Pierre Bernard Francillon: Urban Archetypes
Superchief Gallery at Culturefix, 9 Clinton Street, LES
January 29-February 3, 2013
Do you have a title for this exhibition?
I’m thinking of calling it Urban Archetypes…
I love that!
Okay? Um, the reason being…is that a lot of people who look at my art, um, they could see, like, a historic connection…to where, you know…how old I am, and things that I like, and people that I’ve known. And…maybe that’s what art is about: I think art can be depictive of, um…the person—itself—
Yeah…
—and the person’s character. A lot of artists that we consider great artists had…distinct personalities.
And it was reflected in their art. Um, I think that’s also what makes a person’s art, like, um…theirs.
Yeah…
You know? Ah, I…I mean I, I’ve been in contact with people who have had strong visual presence artistically, um, through the form of painting and sculpture. I prefer sculpture—I like sculptural form. As you see, all of my…even my, even my paintings, they’re…they have, they have a sculptural quality to them. You know, um…
Absolutely.
My…I, I, I’ve had people, like, just describe them as “artifacts,” and…I like that description. You know, I…, ah my “geeky” side is that I’m a…I’m a, um…archivist.
Yes.
Okay? And…I love that. Like, I’ve always…I’ve always liked the, uh, the…I’ve always liked keeping things by…ah, I like categories. I like describing new categories.
Yes!
I like coming up with protocols for new categories. So…that’s reflected in my style of painting right now. And, I mean, I touch on a lot of things, you know?
So, that being said, maybe in the future, a thousand years from now, somebody might stumble upon a work of mine, and try to decipher it.
Yes!
You know?
And there’s something there to be deciphered, there’s a story being told. We were describing it as “Still Movies”—
Right, right. I mean, like, I—
—earlier.
I have a concept for another show where…it’s gonna be some really large drawings— and I do really beautiful drawings. And they…there’s an animated quality to it.
Also, from my Haitian culture, my Haitian heritage, their magic—the dominant magic, there’s an element of animation to it, and it’s also…in the form of their symbols…
Symbols and graphics…
…it’s like their, their shui, in, um—
Chinese.
You know, when you talk about feng shui, the flow, their shui, ah…ah, is…strongly dependent on…linear form, and giving direction. You know, that’s in the form of veves.
Yes.
So, veves occur by…a veve can occur by, um…direction from a human, like human interaction, or veves…sometimes they occur in nature. You know? I mean like, um…like, uh, a nautilus shell—
Yes.
RIght? That’s a veve. Right there.
Yes!
And it’s also…a recurring pattern, in art, and it’s that image, that archetype,—
Yes!
—as it translates into different forms by various means. But it’s an archetype. I would love to create art, but what I’m going for is creating new archetypes, new things, new pure visual sources where people could source from, and they can interpret it.
You know,…
Absolutely.
…maybe it’s something vain in me, but I…it’s a genuine—
I think it’s the opposite of vain!
Yeah…
It’s to be attuned…to…
It’s to inspire!
…what’s around you, and to who is around you. And to be able to relate to…people…
You know, feeling inspired…
…in…
Feeling inspired and inspiring people? I mean, that’s, like…I think…that’s a great way to reciprocate the…the emotion or the process of being inspired, is that…you know, you’re so inspired that you go and inspire others. That’s what I try to look for.
Well, and symbol and communication…and inspiration…are…perhaps three modern… archetypes…three modern…archetypes…that…need to be enshrined as muses of our time.
Right…The Muses…those are archetypes too, the goddesses—I always refer to them, these goddesses—
Right, especially when a lot of the specificity of cultures begins to fall away, and the specificity of individuals and personalities…begins to emerge…
New Yorker Screenshot by Armando
