This just in from my friends at Pizza Island:

Open Studios at the Morgan Fine Arts Building

Its open studio time at the Morgan Fine Arts Building where our shared comics (and one photographer/poet) studio, Pizza Island, resides. The management is promising many fantastic things for the event such as:

“free Limousine Service between both the “L” at Bedford and the “G” at Nassau and The Building. For Pick-up call – 646 363 8923″

and

” A free Wine Bar in the Lower Level”

Does this mean our landlord will come pick you up from the subway in a 1997 Honda Accord and there will be several bottles of Charles Shaw Merlot on a card table in the basement? Maybe. But we would love to have you at Pizza Island to show you what we’re up to. We will provide snacks.

Also we are kind of looking forward to meeting our neighbors. Here’s some of them:
http://morganfineartsbldg.com/b/

We are:

Julia Wertz
http://www.fartparty.org

Domitille Collardey
http://www.domitille-collardey.com/ink.html

Karen Sneider
http://www.metromonster.com/

Jibade-Khalil Huffman
http://www.jibadekhalilhuffman.com/

Sarah Glidden
http://www.smallnoises.com

So come visit us!

facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=117734414907474

website: http://morganfineartsbldg.com/b/

LOREN DEAN & KATYA DELUCA

Work by Loren Kramar and Katya Tepper

Opening on March 23, 2010
Whine and cheese will be served at 6 pm
Performances begin at 7 pm

Cooper Union
41 Cooper Sq.
NY NY 10003

from facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=341878787395#!/event.php?eid=341878787395

LOREN DEAN & KATYA DELUCA

Work by Loren Kramar and Katya Tepper

Opening on March 23, 2010
Whine and cheese will be served at 6 pm
Performances begin at 7 pm

Cooper Union
41 Cooper Sq.
NY NY 10003

from facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=341878787395#!/event.php?eid=341878787395

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Douglas Kolk
Rustik
March 18th – May 1st 2010
Opening reception March 18th from 6 – 8pm

Fredericks & Freiser is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Douglas Kolk. Known for his channel-surfing aesthetic, Kolk splices together familiar imagery and furious gesture to create large-scale collage and deviant sculpture. Whereas his early line drawings depict a stark and fragile youth culture, his recent work illustrates a manic utterance of contemporary life. This will be the artist’s second solo exhibition at Fredericks & Freiser.

Kolk vehemently portrays his world with fluctuating notions of the self. Edged with an almost child-like imagination, he identifies his fragmented musings with an amalgamation of images. Combining media clippings, delicate drawing and untamed abstraction, Kolk delineates this intrinsic language. Whether he depicts the introduction of a man and a woman scrawled across pages of newspaper circulars or myriad impressions of rural life as experienced from a speeding car, Kolk takes gentle ideas and electrifies them.

About the Artist
Douglas Kolk (born 1963, Newark, NJ) grew up near a nursing home headed by his father, a Baptist preacher. In the mid-90’s he had solo exhibitions at David Zwirner, New York; and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. He ceased his artistic work in 1999 as a result of excessive drug consumption and started working again only in 2004. Since then he has been included in group shows at Kunsthalle Manheim; galerie du jour agnès b., Paris; and The Royal Academy of Arts, London. He has had solo shows with Arndt & Partner, Berlin and Zurich (who began showing his work in 1994) and the Kunstlerverein Malkasten, Dusseldorf. He is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the subject of a monograph published by Hatje Cantz. This is his second solo exhibition at Fredericks & Freiser.

Upcoming
John Wesley May I Cut In? Paintings from the Early 1970’s May/June

Got invited to an art show. You should come too:

For the first months at the start of this decade, Artists Wanted mounted an international search for the worlds most compelling Self Portraits. What was discovered is phenomenal. Artists from over 70 countries submitted work ranging from painting, to sculpture to performance to photographs. The range and depth of work was phenomenal and we are pleased to present the best of that process.

Friday, March 12th, from 7pm through 10pm,
you are invited to:

Self : Expressed
Open House Gallery
201 Mulberry St. in Manhattan.

For a map, click here.

rsvp: info@artistswanted.org

While in Iceland, I spent some time contributing artwork for a mural for the local Squatter’s House in Reykjavik.

Apparently, a local blogger, MARIA ALVA ROFF, captured me unbeknownst as I worked.

(via: http://www.icelandeyes.blogspot.com/2009/08/squat.html)

Valkyrie (photo: Ute Binder)

(via: mbl.is http://www.mbl.is/mm/frettir/innlent/2009/10/18/slokkvistarfi_ad_ljuka/)

I would encourage anyone to check out the spot if they happened to be in town, however the House burned down! Oh, those silly squatters.

Courtesy of Spread Art, at 104 Meserole Street, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11206:

The Love Show  – July 17th, 18th, 19th

Opening: Friday July 17th 6pm – 11pm

The show is about Love. Love as a force of good, bad, movement, height, hate, God, passion, destruction, construction, oppression. etc.

20 artists working in a variety of mediums including oil, acrylic, wood, photography and more.

Music by Knight & Gale and Eastern Sweats

Opens: July 17th 6pm
on view: July 18th & 19th 12pm – 6pm

See you there.

3rd Ward Sweatshop Social:

Bags for the People and 3rd Ward have partnered up to bring you “Sweatshop Socials” every last Monday of each month. You bring the fun and the fabric; we’ll provide the sewing machines, instruction, drinks ($1 if you bring a cup, $3 if you don’t), snacks and live music. ‘Cause everybody knows plastic is passe.

RSVP events@3rdward.com

More info http://www.3rdward.com/sweatshop-social/

Art VS Design:

For the past six weeks hundreds of artists and designers participated in Artists Wanted’s competition that asked the eternal question: “What moves the world more – Art or Design?”  Wednesday, June 24th you are invited to participate in the answer.

Artists Wanted received submissions from over 60 countries with an incredible array of style and talent.  We couldn’t be more pleased to announce the winners.

Join us in the announcement and party:

Wednesday, June 24th 8pm
At the New Museum (235 Bowery, NY, New York)

AFTER PARTY: Katra Lounge, with free mojitos, projections of the top selected work from the competition and jump up dance music from dj Kimyon.
All absolutely free.

For details http://www.artistswanted.org/