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

Tonight, Friday 5, 2010:

The Backwards Step + The Stepchildren

Dear Sir or Madam -

You are cordially invited to attend Sights Beyond Seeing, a gala art opening and party at The Backwards Step, on Friday, February 5th, 2010, beginning at 8 o’clock in the evening. Refreshments and drinks will be served. Attire is Brooklyn casual.

8 PM-10 PM: Art Opening

Food by Callahan, Turntables by The Fleece

David Acevedo – photographs, Callahan – mixed media, Perry England – sculpture, Chul Hee Kim – drawings, Mu Gadu – video art and paintings, Alex Seel – video art and photographs, Jack Semple – paintings, Mitch Steinlicht – performance art

10 PM-1 AM: Live Musical Acts, 1 AM-Morning: see what happens

Cavalier Cavski, Pastel Group, Bangladeafy, Free Advice

Hope to see you there.

Peace & Love,
The Stepchildren

59 Jefferson Street #302 – Bushwick and Jefferson

Also tonight:

Drink-N-Draw-Overdrive // A Party for People who Love to Draw

February 5, 8 p to 2 a, $20, Admission includes Colt 45 & Live Music

Everyone’s favorite weekly figure drawing event goes big for the new year!  For the first time, we’re opening up 7,000 sq. ft. on our 2nd floor for a 6-hour Drink-n-Draw extravaganza.  As always we’ll provide the models and the beers, but this time there will be 10 models (costumed & nude), long & short drawing sessions, music from DJ Tanner, DJ Trent, The Fieros, Ego Puppets, War Cubs and more, complimentary Colt 45 and a cash bar.

Bring your drawing tools, creativity and a friend or a date. 

RSVP events@3rdward.com

Tomorrow Night, Saturday, February 6th, 2010:

Saturday February 6 2009. 10 pm. $ 5.

Free beer all night, sponsored by Colt 45, courtesy of VICE Magazine

100 Thames St +Knickerbocker (Off the Morgan L)

Opening night of the LOOM’s month long art installation, brought to you by many fabulous artistic talents from NYC and beyond.

presented by SARAH TAMAR, NORA ALEK, SARAH DEVI, DUNX of  BEAUTY MASSACRE NYC with THE DARDYS (www.thedardys.com) + DANCES WITH WHITE GIRLS + MATT SHADETEK of DUTTY ARTZ + HIRO THA JAP  SKITSNYGG of RADICALOUTING! + ZAKEE KUDURO + JESSE JAMZ + GORDON GARTRELL + KID ROYALE

Special thanks to: Stephanie Dunx, Anton Glam of RadicalOuting! Zalmen Labin, Julien Othneil Richardson, Kevon Sterling, BarrelHouseNYC (http://barrelhousenyc.blogspot.com/2010/01/loomnyc.html), Hannah Rad (www.sheenabeaston.com), Kristina Marino (www.thedowntowndiaries.com)

The Loom

Art, Music, Fashion, Marketplace, Exhibition

JANUARY 29 – FEBRUARY 28

OPENING NIGHT SATURDAY FEBRUARY 6

RSVP  to sarahplaysnyc@gmail.com

Finally:

Art Show #1 at 567 Onderdonk ave this weekend in Ridgewood NYC. Sat Feb 06, 6-10pm…maybe later. Tons of art and music by The London Souls, Daddy Long Legs, Trouble & Strife. DJ Avi Spivak!

Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 6:00pm. RSVP: (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=283721026567&index=1)

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 9:00 p.m. at 538 Johnson Ave Apt 210, Brooklyn, NY 11237:

Please join us for a fund raiser benefiting local cartoonists—Mollie Goldstrom and Nate Doyle! Both cartoonists have major new comics in the works—Goldstrom with “1883″ and Doyle with “Crooked Teeth #5.”

This is a fund raiser for upstart publisher Sweetheart books to gather some start up funds to put out Mollie’s work in the format and volume it deserves….and for Nate to self-publish the latest issue of his beloved comic.

And it’ll also be a really fun party! Live music! Cheap drinks! Original art for sale! Supporting the local arts community! How could you miss something like this? Isn’t this the reason you live in New York in the first place?? OK we will see you there right? OK cool!

Starts at 9pm on December 4th (that’s right…the night before Desert Island/Picturebox’s Brooklyn Comix Fest)! $5-10 suggested donation. Yeah, you can come for free but c’moonnnnnn….

take the L train to the jefferson stop. The party will be at:
538 Johnson Ave, Apt. #210

write to
austin.robertson.english@gmail.com
for more info/if you wanna help out

See you there!

ART EXHIBITION 11/7/09 – 11/21/09

Opening Reception: 11/7/09. 1717 Troutman St. Brooklyn, NY.  4pm-8pm

Celebrating the breadth and depth of video possibilities through art. A plethora of live video editors, electronic and interactive artists, video and installation artists who use the moving image outside the “box”. Coming from as far as Italy, Switzerland and Germany these artists showcase their work with the video community in New York City. For two weeks and in two different locations the festival hosts an array of projects. Projects include, Katja Loher’s video planets, a ¾ ton “ice-stallation” by Raphael DiLuzio, a demonstration by Berlin based Modul8 software representative and performer, Ilan Katin and a night of performance featuring video artist and collaborator, Alison Childs, the Spanish AV(Audio/Video) perfomer, *Rafaël*. Please join us for these exciting, free events.

http://playwithfirefestival.wordpress.com/

A FOUR-DAY EXHIBITION OF INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART

Open Studios present works by the 36 artists, artist groups and curators currently in residence at ISCP. Residents of ISCP employ a refreshingly diverse range of styles in the mediums of painting, drawing, photography, video, performance, sculpture and installation, all of which will be on view in their individual studios. Presented twice a year, ISCP Open Studios offer the public, art professionals and other enthusiasts access to cutting-edge contemporary art practices from around the world. These free events provide an exclusive peek into the production, process and personal archives of celebrated artists with global reputations, many of whom are showing their work in New York for the first time.

Opening Reception: Friday, November 6, 7 – 9PM
(shuttle to ISCP available at the Grand St stop, off the L train)

Opening Hours: Saturday, November 7, 2 – 6PM
Sunday, November 8, 2 – 6PM
Monday, November 9, 12 – 8PM

http://www.iscp-nyc.org/

Just back from SPXPO and I’m exhausted.  Had a great time and wish I could have stayed longer. Thanks to everyone who made it possible. TONIGHT you can come to a celebration of John Porcellino and his works, starting at 7:00 p.m. at Desert Island, 540 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211:

Help Julia pay her hospital bill this Friday, September 18, 2009. 8:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. Buy her stuff at 282 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11211:

so, I have this insanely high hospital bill, because as some of ya’all might know, America hates giving affordable insurance to people like me. The Brooklyn Hospital can suck if they even think I’m paying that whole thing, but I do have to pay most of it so I thought hey, might as well get some fun out of all this. So please join me on Sep. 18th for a night of fart party art on display, medical horror story readings and free cookies. The event is free but if you’re so inclined, all the artwork on display will be for sale.

wanna help but can’t attend? you can always buy something from the store
don’t want goofy comics drawings muckin’ up your walls donations are appreciated as well, click the donation box on the top right corner
I’m also accepting comics panel/art work commissions (no paintings at the moment though) inquires can be sent to juliawertz(at)gmail(dot)com

If the details of the party are too small to read on your screen, go here

and of course, the facebook invite.

(from fartparty.org)

Release party for Smoke Signal #2. Saturday, August 29th at Death By Audio, 49 S. 2nd st, Brooklyn.

Featuring new and unseen work by Dash Shaw, Michael Kupperman, Gabrielle Bell, Shoboshobo, Leslie Stein, John Brodowski, Matthew Thurber, Marc Bell, and many others!

Smoke Signal is a free all-comics newspaper published by Desert Island to help expose the work of local and international artists. We aim for a mix of established independent artists and up-and-coming unknowns. Copies are available for free at our shop, through the mail, and at a few locations around Brooklyn.

At Rocket Ship this Saturday, August 15h 8:00 p.m. – ? (208 Smith St., Brooklyn, New York 11201):

Join us as we host a book signing and mildly-delayed release party with Julia Wertz (The Fart Party), and a host of cartoonists from Indie Spinner Rack’s AWESOMER anthology, including Charlito and Mister Phil, Liz Baillie, Chris Duffy, Ryan Dunlavey, Sean Ford, Jesse Post, Fred Van Lente, and MK Reed!

At Rocket Ship (208 Smith St., Brooklyn, New York 11201):

Rocketship is proud to present CARTOON BROOKLYN V, a group art show with Mike Dawson (FREDDIE AND ME, ACE-FACE), Ryan Dunlavey (ACTION PHILOSOPHERS, COMIC BOOK COMICS), and Sarah Glidden (HOW TO UNDERSTAND ISRAEL IN 60 DAYS OR LESS).

The opening reception is this Friday, July 31st!