ArtCall Diary - Entry 3/29/2001
Not Ready To Publish, Eddi!
For those of you tuning in late: Finished Webbittown stock certificates
were piling up. 85% were now completed. Some numbers have even been double
booked. We will see who gets theirs in first. The late entry can go into
the second round edition. Sorry, no rookie card for late submission, as
we have folks scouring the mountains of New Mexico and the Adirondacks
for their shares.
KatKitty(#99) has asked for space on the 91st floor of the world trade
center. Writing the proposal resulted in an impressive artistic resume
for Red Ed (#100), and it got even better in the proposal to LMCC
to continue the Coffee Cup financial performance art project. She also
continues work on The Fracture Points of Rage, exploring how energy
collects at fracture points. In the animated gif above, a live lobster
is being cooked by the energy of a Tesla coil discharge. The charred bit
of lobster where the plasma streamer becomes most intense could be part
of her work. This scene was the climax of the 'Sunday
Dinner with Gecko' performance at the Collective
Unconscious, mentioned in an earlier article. Kat may be looking into
some scary stuff here; the day after this meditation, a young geek high
school boy snapped, and killed seven at random. Pick a frame in the Tesla
coil scene, and count the fingers.
There is a 'Crime' wave over at ABC No
Rio (#5). On the 13th, 'Crime' moves over to the Trans Hudson Gallery
(Lowe Gallery at Hudson Guild -- 441. W. 26 St.) 'Crime' is at ABC No Rio
right now. Aren't you glad 'Crime' is not in your neighborhood? Anyway,
'Crime' is how a lot of folk have been referring to the Politics of
Racism exhibit.
Katkitty no longer wonders why nobody looks at the art, at art openings.
Our photo from Listen You Normals at Cynthia Broan shows how not
one person there is looking at the art. But if you talk about the art,
the art just might talk back! It took KatKitty almost three hours to understand
that Mr. Dennis Oppenheim's(#??) Upper Cut work at Dorfman Projects
was primarily about everyone else. Each perfectly silk screened book in
the jaw shown above is a pithy comment on another 'upper cut' artist. He
had made a lot of these jaws. My only critique is that he could have had
a few more missing teeth in the installation, for the few artists he does
not know of yet.
KatKitty missed Anna Lascari's(#19) The Flesh of The Dress opening,
and also could not make it to Elenor Ettinger(#no) that night. One day
late and one hour early, KatKitty rushed down Spring Street to visit both.
Anna Lascari's prickly wax breasts could be straight out of a Monique
Wittig vignette, and her sculptures of wire mesh dress forms with tongues
lapping over them could have been snap shots of a Sunday Dinner with
Gecko performance. To compare Sunday Dinner with Gecko to The
Flesh of The Dress, however, is to compare opposites. Where Gecko invites
tongues to be applied to flesh, Lascari suggests the experience may not
be particularly pleasant or welcome. KatKitty's suggested transposition
of a similar theme of thwarted techno-nurturance
in Minnesota seems to be borne out in Lascari's work. About the pre-opening
paintings at Elenor Ettinger, KatKitty says with a mischievous grin, "they
are almost digital in their painterliness". The confused perspective in
The
Writer serves to bring the zodiac like dial of the plaza into a more
astrological prominence, and apples at the seasonal points bring home a
wintry sense of deadlines to meet. It is a masterful piece, yet our first
impression was 'Photoshop'. Too much time in front of the computer, I guess.
We may have found a Sauruman for the LOTR theme in this painting; Fading
Oppressor by Jose Rios (#75), showing at Gelabert Studios until March
31. There was certainly a ferocious intensity to the oil on plywood painting,
and the detailed brilliant blue eyes executed by Mr. Rios conveys a malevolent
intelligence that might totally consume a person, if their will power is
not absolutely strong. Katkitty wanted to allude to another prisoner-artist,
Leonard Peltier, and his bear and eagle spirit drawings, but Red Ed told
her not to.
Jottings: Katherine Chrionis Collective Unconscious 145 Ludlow
3/30 10-12, Final Day of Donahue(#86)/Sosinski(#53)Art 560 B'way 12-6,
Deitch Projects 18 Wooster 3/31 6-8, Peggy Cyphers (#76) and Brian Gormley
(#55) Tribes Gallery 353 E. 3rd St 3/31 6-9, Momenta 72 Berry St. Willyburg
4/1 6-8, Marguerite Van Cook (#38) 80 Grand St 4/3 7-9, Denise Bibro 529
Art Building 4/5 6-8, Wide Open Cabaret (#40) ABC No Rio 156 Rivington
4/6 9-12, Diane Sbano (#36) 135 B'way Willyburg 4/7 4-6, Nicholas Bergery(#41)
Bullet Space 292 E. 3rd St. 4/7 5-8, Montserrat Gallery (#57) 4/19 6-8,
FLY(#66) Parsons School of Design 4/27 6-8, Survivor Finale 5/17 8-9.
photos ©red ed aka Carol Braddock, katkitty aka Bobbi
Bennett
artwork@jose riost, red ed aka Carol Braddock, anna lascari,
faulk, dennis oppenheim,
artwork courtesy©webbittown corporate collection,gekaber
studios, elinor ettinger gallery, anna lascari, cynthia broan gallery
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