fltgc: tony style

fltgc celeb planner: tony, this week's fltgc orchestrator. linda and i followed this gallery crawl. first up was gavin brown's enterprise and was welcomed with this.

doh! no biggie more art to see and i will catch you next week gbe. next up was deitch's last show (sniff sniff) - shepard fairey's may day. saw the mural a few weeks back. it's also in the wooster space amongst this below.

ms. harry

love me some cornel west!

this made me miss the left coast

down the street to the drawing center, where unfortunately they don't allow photos. tony highlighted the leon golub show, live & die like a lion, but i was more enthralled by the exhibit across the street by dorothea tanning. her sketches of costumes for the famed choreographer george balanchine are whimsical with a touch of mutant qualities.

last up was a fav of fltgc, team gallery for the latest show by norwegian gardar eide einarsson's large scale black and white paintings.

fltgc: ryan mcginley at team and jules de balincourt at deitch

must duo: ryan mcginley at team gallery + jules de balincourt at deitch. shar missed fltgc in soho, so this was an all star pairing. ryan's everybody knows this is nowhere presents a ton of black and white portraits of youths. in addition there are large scale color pieces juxtaposing stark landscape and the individual. catch it before it close april 17 or you'll be sorry.

can you see? there's someone sitting in the middle.

owl butt

jules de balincourt was a new artist to me. his vibrant colors and crazy swirl of shapes drew me in. reading up on him i found out he started starr space in bushwick. wow! expiration date: april 24.

fltgc: gallery hanahou, deitch and drawing center

best return to neighborhood fltgc: gallery hanahou, deitch and drawing center trifecta. shar feels like she's been neglecting the crawl in the hood. i was on art overload last week with the whitney biennial, pulse and armory. i'm happy to be back to the stomping grounds albeit a solo effort. first up was gallery hanahou's owls have more fun exhibit. i really wanted to make the reception to meet the danish artist lisa grue. shar loves owls and danes. plates, prints and a rug.

my wrapped free print

next up was the recently opened rosson crow large scale exhibit, bowery boys. her paintings are bold, loud and free flowing. she apparently moved here to research the spaces that she intended to capture in these large oil paintings. the theme = bad boys and how they shaped the big apple. it is a perfect thesis for oil on canvas.



last up was the drawing center's sea marks show. this group show of artists agnes barley. jerome marshak and peter matthews tackled the volatile nature of waves. shar's a fan of waves whether catching them or watching them.

agnes barley

jerome marshak

fltgc: haring at deitch

catch it now fltgc: keith haring mural at deitch. shar's already heard from the grapevine about jeffrey deitch's departure for the west coast. jac and i headed over to get in some deitch. i never saw the mural when i was in sf. this kindergartner didn't have the opportunity to hang in south of market children center. i went to grandma's. wish i knew about haring at 5. i think we would have been friends

this dude was my fav

fltgc: stages

best "group show" for a cause: stages. since my cohort was busy at another event, shar headed out on this solo effort. it was a treasure chest of a lot of my favs, such as os gemeos, yoshitomo nara, kaws and richard prince. there's a little video room in the back with cushy chairs to watch artist vignettes. i only got through one on tom sachs, but i'll prolly be back to see the exhibit again. the vid above does a good job describing the project and my pics of my favs.

kaws, the end

yoshitomo nara, fire

eric white, foyer

cai guo-qiang, tree with yellow blossoms

richard prince, i'm not coming home

os gemeos, o coletor de cabecas

tom sachs, lance's tequila bike for girls

ed ruscha, vital to the core

geoff mcfertridge, even the simplest shapes wish to become legos on day

fltgc: team gallery, artist's space, deitch, 92ytribeca

belated fltgc: team gallery and artist's space. jac and i were sidetracked last week, so we hit up what we intended on last week. first up was team with mutean/rosenblum's untitled. both jac and i were interested when we saw the write up and pic in tony. we both were taken by the notes attached to the paintings.

when one's heart has been broken into, all sorts of weakness are free to enter, shame, anger, stupid indignation, stupid fears - stupid laughter, too

the best way to take people is to to take them for what they think they are. then leave them alone.

because there is no escape from what does not exist.

my fav was the later. the note and the image kinda suits how i'm feeling lately.

next up was marc camille chaimowicz's enough tiranny recalled, 1972-2009. this was our first venture back to the newly renovated artists space, which is now much more open. we dreamed of how awesome it would be to live in the space. chaimowicz has turned the space into a den of lights, found objects and pools of fishes.

we threw in a few more galleries for good measure. at deitch wooster, kristin baker has a vibrant exhibit up entitled splitting twilight. it just opened yesterday and going on until december 19.



last up was 92ytribeca, jac has been walking by the exhibit everyday. jessica dressner has an exhibit up on chinese astrology. dude, we had to support our people. her's her take on mine and jac's sign. isn't it cute?

she and denny renshaw collab with sufjan steven's ablum art and the BQE film.