ArtCall Diary - Entry 5/11/2000
Content Technology Branding
Silicon Valley is moving to Silicon Alley or so the reports go. Content
is the reason why. Heck, it's the main reason for the ArtCall being in
New York and we usually stop and take care to document the content first.
However, sometimes it has to take a back seat to whatever you have planned
and getting Calmx's computer fixed comes first, as she is an ArtCall collaborator.
So at 5:00pm off we went to the Gaseteria on 2nd and B for a quick splash
of gas, and then off to Bay 29th and Bath in Bensonhurst, to get her new
30-gig hard drive installed (3D is demanding). Traffic was really light
for a Thursday, but we still couldn't get back to Stux
Gallery until just before 7pm, where we ran into Bob Dombrowski. It
was good to see Bob after a long layoff.
Stux Gallery specializes in 'provocative art presentation'. This being
their 20th Anniversary show nothing has changed much although the gallery
has moved a time or two. We love this gallery. We really liked the "Dead"
piece by the Mike & Doug Starn and Margi Geerlinks' "Mother" work also
had us in stitches. This is a must-see show.
We grabbed an orange juice from the bar, the passes for the SPA after-party
and.dashed upstairs to the Folin/Riva Gallery (not to be confused with
Follin Gallery) on the 11th floor and ran into Anna Lascari, the curator
of 'The Red Spot Outdoor Slide Theater' with her friend Barbara. Everyone
it seemed was running off to Robert Miller on 26th Street so off we went
to join the throng there. In attendance at Miller were Ray X. and Berndt
Naber and many opening regulars. We were not inspired at all and got back
on track to get to the Michele
Oka Donor show at Willoughby Sharp Gallery at 558 Broome Street in
west Soho.
Willoughby Sharp Gallery is
way over by Varick Street. We had no idea it was soooo far west. But find
the place we did and gosh darn we were glad we did! Miss Donor's work is
all over public spaces like the Federal Building in Philadelphia, and the
Miami International Airport. Paul Kostabi was moved to rework one of her
posters and put it up on Ebay. Bob of bluefly.com,
the fashion dot com was present along with with the ever effervescent Shobahn.
Back at 7th and Avenue A, Ray of Ray's Candy Store kept on serving the
'world's best hot dogs' w/just about anything you could want on them.
photos ©carol braddock aka red ed
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