Jade Townsend and I will be selling lemonade at the NADA County Affair this Saturday from noon till 6pm on 27th Street between 11th and 12th Ave. In order to facilitate the sale of lemonade, Jade and I will be offering hand drawn cups, free art career advice, and whatever else strikes us as necessary to move our product. Please ask us about the lemonade special. Our mobile art crate lemonade stand will be located outside Schroeder Romero Gallery, or the most advantageous place to push lemonade on the public. Please come by and help us earn enough money to recover our investment and perhaps a little extra so we can get drunk Saturday night. It’s been a very long, hot summer and everyone could use a little lemonade.
See the Press Release below for more reasons to come out Saturday and make fun of art.
The New Art Dealer’s Alliance (NADA) is organizing an event for 27th street that follows the theme of an art oriented county fair, and will be called “NADA’s County Affair”. It will consist of artist run game booths, swap meet, tag sales, live entertainment, DJs and a benefit raffle! The goal of this event is to create a fun “block party” type event, which both NADA members and their artists will be invited to participate in, as well as engage the general art-going public. We thought that this would be a great first time NADA summer public event. The event will occupy approximately half the block, sidewalk, and one lane of 27th street between 11th and 12th Avenues.
Participants include:
John Connelly Presents - Tag Sale, and Mungo Thomson’s Bouncy House
Matt Bua ( Derek Eller Gallery )- The Architectural Cribbage Design Table
Martha Friedman ( Wallspace )
Jeffrey Tranchell - YouTube curated playlists
Kim Holleman - “Trailer Park”
BoBo’s on 27th Street ( Foxy Productions )
William Powhida and Jade Townsend ( Schroeder Romero ) - “Lemonade Stand”
Schroeder Romero - Armchair Quarterback
Sweet Tooth of the Tiger - Renegade Bake Sale and Face Painting
Sara VanDerBeek and Anya Kielar ( Guild & Greyshkul Gallery ) - Jewelry, postcards, friendship pins
Justin Tripp, Ryan Foerster and Shawn Kuruneru - Zines
Andrea Smith ( Zieher and Smith ) - Tag sale
Nicelle Beauchene Gallery - Make your own Shrinky Dink crafts
Elizabeth Lovero and Jesse Bransford - Tarot Card Readings
Scott Hug/K48 - Tag sale, K48’s and Merch
The Gamble of Life by Jacques Louis Ramon Vidal ( Sunday
Jerry Bibby ( Cleopatra’s )
Little Cakes
Zak Kitnick - Oriental Trader
Liz Luisada ( Klaus von Nichssagend )
Ronna Lebo - Tag sale
Color Wheel
Alexia Lewis and Peggy Jo
Pabustan from the performance group “Vos”
Bob Linder - DJ
Ceci Moss - DJ
Joshua Smith and Jennifer Teets - Advice for a Quarter. Like Lucy in the Peanuts.
This is copy from my Craigslist ad. Please forward this to your friends in obscure, unknown, emerging, experimental (crazy) bands or your friends with old vinyl they’ve been meaning to get rid of.
Bands Wanted
Artist William Powhida is seeking bands to record songs for a meta-tribute album for his upcoming art show at Platform Gallery in Seattle in September. The show concerns the artist’s attempts to form a band and become a rock star through a series of fictional album covers, paintings, drawings, and installation in order to escape the art world. While the artist doesn’t actually have a ‘band’ or musical ability, he has written lyrics for two albums “The Bastard” and “Sell Out”. Interested bands are encouraged to conspire with the artist to fuck with people’s heads and record whatever the song title or lyrics inspire within their own practice. All genres and styles are encouraged to submit a track for the album. All bands will be credited and promoted within the show and the artist will provide participating bands with original artwork for the record.
Please help Powhida create a participatory exhibition about the often difficult nature of creating anything. Songs must be submitted by August 8th for inclusion on the record. A limited edition of the album will be available at the gallery if this works out on any level.
For information about the artist, please visit www.williampowhida.com, www.platformgallery.com, and www.schroederromero.com. You can also Google him and see what type of artist you are dealing with. Please direct all inquires to powhidaprojects@gmail.com.
Records Wanted
Artist William Powhida is looking for individuals to bring their unwanted, beloved, despised, forgotten, and/or trashy vinyl records to Platform Gallery in Seattle to create a record store within the gallery. All records must include a sale price, which will be marked up at the whim of the artist based on his own, bizarre internal criteria and be placed on consignment for the duration of the six-week exhibition. Sellers will receive their asking price at any time following the sale of the record. Effectively, the artist is seeking to turn his art dealers, Stephen and Blake, into record store attendants for six-weeks while drawing on the vast cultural wasteland of album artwork to inform his own show of music world detritus.
Please help the artist accomplish his goal of turning the art gallery into something more like a pawnshop/swap meet and a place where people can browse. Please deliver all records to Platform Gallery in Seattle. Sellers can drop off albums at any point during the show, but display space will be limited. Sellers outside of Seattle are responsible for their own shipping fees, but you are welcome to send them on, especially if you don’t care if you ever get them back.
For information about the artist, please visit www.williampowhida.com, www.platformgallery.com, and www.schroederromero.com. You can also Google him and see what type of artist you are dealing with. Please direct all inquires to powhidaprojects@gmail.com.
Well now you can see me and Don from Jack the Pelican square off through the power of editing over the future of Williamsburg. I think they came to me looking for a verbal ass-kicking of the ‘burg, but there’s none really to be had. I made my satirical peace with my changing relationship with the art scene a few years ago with my personal eulogy and monument to the dearly and not-so-dearly departed. I tend to agree with Don that Chelsea has indeed chewed up and spit out some of those that jumped the pond, but many have succeeded. Galleries are definitely closing, but not just the ones from the ‘burg. As Becky Bellwether said, Williamsburg is ‘just lower-risk’.
There’s really not much to argue about, and Williamsburg may look more appealing to the Chelsea crowd when their leases come up for renewal. The Lower East Side offers store fronts, not the large commercial spaces still lingering in Williamsburg. It wouldn’t be surprising to see some galleries relocate here out of necessity, not the tsunami of hype that threatened to drown everyone a few years ago. James Kalm has a far more in-depth look at the trajectory of Williamsburg in this month’s Brooklyn Rail, and again, I’m never going to live that fucking eulogy down. I hope not, it’s actually embedded in people’s consciousness, which is sort of awesome.
Anyway, you can check out the edited sparring, Williamsburg is Dead, or maybe not?, moderated by Keith Wagstaff on A Walk Around the Blog. Sadly, despite my chops, I look like a douche bag. What was I thinking? Nice button down loser. Also, I don’t stand around my studio moving panels. I sit and stare at the wall until I’m motivated to paint something.
Things got a little out of control last night in Greenpoint. My assistant Thomas finally got some competent musicians to assist me in my transformation into an international rock genius. The art world is tanking, and I need a way out. Thankfully, classicfuneralparlorpunkrock is going to shatter the foundations of contemporary music and save me from the art world. I can’t take anymore of this shit. We were working on I Met You in Miami, Theory Head, and our power ballad inspired by Elton John and William Shatner, Bitches and Ho’s when things got a little crazy. The bassist disagreed with the direction of my piano solo and hit me in the head with a PBR. I’ve got nothing after that, but apparently I’ll hear the results of the recording session when Thomas is done trying to digitally alter my voice. I think it sounds great, but what the fuck do I know about music.
The annual Momenta Benefit Auction at White Columns is only three days away. The auction and raffle of works starts at 5 pm, and this year I donated an AP of my mystery print done in conjunction with the LES Print Shop. If you are looking to try and acquire a cheap Powhida, tickets for the event are only $225. It’s a relatively inexpensive way to start collecting contemporary art. There are still 45 tickets left for the raffle, which will guarantee you an art work from a list including Joe Amrhein, Sari Carel, Joy Garnett, Kate Gilmore, Larry Krone, Emily Noelle Lambert, Thomas Lendvai, Carl Pope, Ryan Schneider, and Javier Pinon to mention a few artists whose work I admire. So, if you haven’t a bought a ticket yet, please help support one of the most vital n0n-profit spaces in New York. Momenta continues to provide an alternative venue for underrepresented artists and a platform for thought-provoking exhibitions. This is an important opportunity to help keep the art world honest, after all art isn’t all about careerism and money. It’s a philosophy, and Momenta asks the difficult questions. Call it a conscience.
