“100 Records” by Sonny Smith

August 12th – September 5th 2010

Opening Reception Thursday August 12th 7-10pm

Music performance by Sonny Smith at 7pm

100 Records is the culmination of a massive year long project by artist and musician Sonny Smith, front man of the group Sonny & The Sunsets. Smith invited 100 artists to produce 100 7” record covers for fictional bands. Smith concocted the personas of these fictitious bands, then wrote and recorded one hundred songs to correspond with each 7” record. Recording with his band The Sunsets, as well as with members of notable bands such as the Sandwitches, Fresh N Only’s, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, and the Kelley Stoltz Band, each record stands on its own as a solid piece of music and spans a wide range from pop, concept ideas, spoken word, instrumentals, surf, garage, folk and rock n roll.

The record covers recall the type of limited edition packaging that would make any good record collector sweat, as well as more out there interpretations of what a record cover can be. These hand drawn and painted covers will be on display in addition to a homemade custom built working jukebox loaded with all 100 songs that will play during the show.

The artists:
Miguel Palma, Mark Todd, Jack Massing, Alika Cooper, Nathaniel Russell, Brion Nuda Rosch, Chris Johanson, Leslie Shows, Jim Long, Kyle Ranson, Matthew Hilshort, Reed Anderson, Fernando Renes, Ana Fernandez, Lara Allen, Laurent Impeduglia, Chris Duncan, Ed Ruscha, Paul Wackers, Kottie Polloma, William Wiley, Sasha Baguskas, Justin Goldwater, Grace Cooper, Kelley Stoltz, Emily Prince, Sonya Berman, John Dwyer, Mingering Mike, Jason Jagel, Jo Jackson, Juan Luna, Avin,Teppei Ando, Eric White, Rebecca Miller, Brittany Powell, Harrell Fletcher, Virgil Shaw, Mat O Brien, Ian Johnson, Jeffrey Lewis, Airika Rockefeller, Scot Velardo, Lisa Choinacky, Karla Wosniak, Alice Shaw, Matthew Rich, Micah Middaugh, Thomas Mozzarella, Ky Anderson, Sean McFarland, Eric Yahnker, Deb Sokolo, Ted Barron, Ryan Brown, Kyle Field, Sara Bright, Scott Hewicker, Joshua Abelow, Jason Jagel, Erica Magrey, Griff Williams, Daniel Green, Stephanie Syjuko, Nicholas Galanin, Ashia Lane, Maya Hayuk, John Chiara, Grant LaValley, Richard Hart, Kyle Knobel, Ray Halliday, Andrew Mckinley, Cliff Hengst, Souther Salazar, Abel Pineda, Christime Shields, Maria Forde, Esther Pearl Watson, Jovi Schnell, Nellei Nguyen, Veronica DeJesus, Rex Ray, Bill Donovan, Michael Swaney, Tucker Nichols, and Alicia McCarthy

100 Records ‘Volume 1’, a limited edition of 40 box sets including reproductions of 12 of the art covers, with a CD of 16 original songs inside, will be available.

link: http://blog.cindersgallery.com/2010/08/100-records-by-sonny-smith-opens-on-thursday/

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August 8 · 12:00pm – 6:00pm

The Rotunda

Will you?

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“…If joy was a cure for AIDS, these people would make big money by providing the world with just the right dose.” – ushotee

original link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocgbLkayfTE

Temple of Blooom
July 10 – August 8
Opening Saturday July 10th 7-10pm
Hisham Akira Bharoocha, Kelie Bowman, Sherri Hay, Mark Warren Jacques, John Orth, Hilary Pecis, STO, Jessie Rose Vala

The Temple of Blooom is an installation that combines paintings, drawings, collages, murals and sculpture to create our own type of a sonic-visual sanctuary as envisioned by each artist. Exploring places of worship, rituals, shrines, sacred objects and congregation, this place of spiritual assembly is based not on any religious faith but on the faith of our loose-knit community of artists, performers, experimenters, and musicians.

Each artist brings a different energy to the show from Hisham Bharoocha’s meditative mandala style mural painting to Hilary Pecis’ cavernous and intricate collages; paintings of people made entirely of wondrous flowers by Kelie Bowman and a golden paper mache shrine to the gods of plants by STO. Abstracted portraits recall ethereal masks in John Orth’s works on paper while Mark Warren Jacques explores cosmic patterns and forms in his paintings. Sherri Hay’s small, intimate sculptures of plant people lure you in to their majestic world and Jessie Rose Vala’s haunting black and white pencil drawings explore transformations between humans, animals, and the powers of nature.

During the course of the show, the temple will be a space for sonic and visual explorations by some of our favorite artists, including many from the show. Check our website for updates on these weekly intimate engagements of live music and performance.

CINDERS GALLERY
103 Havemeyer st.
Brooklyn, NY 11211
718-388-2311
www.cindersgallery.com
Wed-Sun 1-7pm

Friday, July 9, 2010
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Desert Island
540 Metropolitan Ave btwn Union and Lorimer:

A pioneer in underground comics and the founder of the CBLDF, Denis Kitchen is one of the most important figures in sequential art. Kitchen will be signing his new book from Dark Horse titled ‘The Oddly Compelling Art of Denis Kitchen’! In addition, Charles Brownstein, executive director of the CBLDF, will discuss Kitchen’s contribution to the history of comics. An important event you won’t want to miss!

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Issue #2 of Philadelphia-based FREE underground comics newspaper. Featured Artist: Benjamin Marra (NIGHT BUSINESS)

SECRET PRISON #2 will be available in various Philadelphia locations as well as alternative comics festivals such as Small Press Expo, and Philly Alternative Comic Con.

This issue features:

Pat Aulisio
Derik Badman
Art Baxter
Box Brown
Josh Burggraf
William Cardini
Simon Gärdenfors
Ian Harker
Kristoffer Kjølberg
Benjamin Marra (Featured Artist)
Jose Mochove & Rusty Rowley
Luke Pearson
Kelly Phillips
Cody Pickrodt
Bob Pistilli
Tommy Rudmose
Mike Sgier
Doug Slack
Steve Teare
Cyn Why

www.secretprisoncomics.blogspot.com

Project location: Philadelphia, PA

donate/get a copy: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1043760737/secret-prison-2?ref=email

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Art Show Opening Post-It Show 5 June 19 – July 7, 2009
Reception: Saturday, June 19, 6:30
Giant Robot Gallery 437 East 9th Street Between 1st Ave. & Ave. A, in the East Village New York, New York 10009
(212) 674-GRNY (4769) | grny.net

Giant Robot is proud to present Post-It Show 5 at GRNY. Curated by artists Mark Todd and Esther Pearl Watson, the show is slated to feature roughly 1,000 works by noted contributors for only $20. These pieces will be on standard-sized 3″ x 3″ Post-It notes. (Larger sizes of 4″ x 4″ and 6″ x 6″ will cost a bit more.) The pieces will be cash-and-carry.

Thus far, the ever-expanding list of contributors includes the following:

Trevor Alixopulos, APAK, Andrice Arp, Scott Bakal, Melinda Beck, Mike Bertino, Tim Biskup, Jon Boam, Pakito Bolino, Michelle Borok, Aaron Brown, Jude Buffum, Chris Buzelli, Christine Castro, Martin Cendreda, Kris Chau, Louise Chen, Marcos Chin, Chris Clayton, Tim Cochran, Eric Collins, Jen Corace, Matt Curtius, Kelsey Dake, Eleanor Davis, Vanessa Davis, Nathan Doyle, Seth Drenner, Susan Fang, Korin Faught, Nina Frenkel, Shannon Freshwater, Matt Furie, Nick Gazin, Frieda Gossett, Katherine Guillen, Peter Hamlin, Jon Han, Jaime Hernandez, Andrew Holder, David Horvath, Patrick Hruby, Rama Hughes, Mari Inukai, Yellena James, Hellen Jo, Nathan Jurevicius, Andrea Kang, Dan-ah Kim, Hawk Krall, Lamour Supreme, Travis Lampe, Blaise Larmee, Sarah Lavoie, Jesse LeDoux, Dongyun Lee, Eli Lehrhoff, Bill Main, Jacob Magraw-Mickelson, Ben Marra, Ted McGrath, Mark Allen Miller, Mike Miller, Brendan Monroe, Mark Murphy, Andrew Neyer, Tru Nguyen, Anders Nilsen, Saejean Oh, Saelee Oh, Martin Ontiveros, Sidney Pink, Luke Ramsey, Ron Rege, Jesse Reklaw, Martha Rich, Joe Rocco, Brooks Salzwedel, Anna See, Raymond Sohn, STO, Deth P. Sun, Gary Taxali, Team Macho, Gina Triplett, Twerps (Greg Mishka), Edwin Ushiro, Jing Wei, Steven Weissman, Gillian Wilson, Calvin Wong, Jaime Zollars

A reception for Todd, Watson, and many of the artists will be held from 6:30 – 10:00 on Saturday, June 19. For more information about the artists, the show, GR2, or Giant Robot magazine, please contact: Eric Nakamura Giant Robot Owner/Publisher eric@giantrobot.com (310) 479-7311