NYC Trip

I found a way to squeeze myself on to this years packed bus trip to NYC, It was a day of long walks and high art. I managed to wander the Chelsea district with some mighty fine people, Professor Salvator, Professor Godeke, Nemi Moyer, Mike Iannatto and special guest and resident awesome artist/tour guide Rebecca Morgan (RebeccaMorganArt.com).

The bus ride wasn't so bad but still travel is never fun when packed into a metal can like sardines, yet I digress. Once in NYC we took the subway to Chelsea and began our Gallery entering and exiting.

I saw so much it was a little hard to keep track. I do have some photo's below that will help explain somethings. The majority of what I saw I felt to be pompous high art that made me stuff up in the somewhat cold and windy streets. However there were a few shows that made me feel welcome to view.. I saw this because a lot of the art seemed extremely unapproachable thus leading me to believe that the artists were as arrogant as their art. There were even a few shows that made me question who the artist had to sleep with to even get their work seen in such a hub of fine art.

I'll admit, a lot of the work bummed me out, not because it wasn't well done, not because it was hung badly not even because I didn't like it, but because it was so .. high art... If that makes any sense.

I did learn some things about what I want from my art like how people should be comfortable to look at it even if they get uncomfortable after standing there for a while.. They should never get worried about how close they are to it.

After a long day of gallery hopping we sat down and had some korean food and good beer.. part of me would have rather gone to a few galleries and then got drunk, but All in all I was quite happy with the trip.



Rebecca Morgan had a collaborative show which I found somewhat interesting, however her art blows my mind and makes me amped to make more gruesome and awesome art. Her lifelike drawings are incredible but her more recent push into these somewhat disgusting cartoons really pumps me up. I got a chance to see some of her works in the galleries flat files and holy shit were they awesome.. too awesome for the public.



Jose Parla had a really nice show that displayed some killer work. His work is derivative of graffiti aesthetics. He brings the street into the gallery with striking textures and scale. The context change makes these seemingly gross images very beautiful.




Tara Donovan did this epic installation at the pace gallery, it's made entirely with mylar and hot glue (what a daunting task). This thing is enormous and quite beautiful. The effects of light hitting off it gives it a lot of texture but when you get closer to it you can tell it is all very smooth. This thing really wow'd me and made me question the idea of space.