What's up comarades and cadets? How is everyone out there in the audience? It's dark out there- I can't see all of your faces but I can bet you're all grinning from ear to ear.
This is the best time of year! September is on the rising, cooler air is pushing in, and we're thinking about when we're going to get over to Beacon's Closet (or your vintage clothing store of choice) to sell all of our winter clothes from last year that we're tired of but may be some other girl's sunken treasure! With this in mind, I used the rest of my birthday money and allowance to buy a navy blue wool poncho from Built by Wendy yesterday. It has wolf toggels. Guys! I'm steppin in style!
Ok, ok. I'll stop waving my arms around talking about the weather and my newest fashions. But I will wave my arms around to tell you about my newest and bestest yet PROJECTS on the horizon! See below:
I was recently invited to curate a series of exhibitions and programming for chashama's newly acquired space on Avenue C and 10th street! chashama is a superly great non-profit arts organization that uses donated real estate and turns it into opportunities for artists to show their stuff- they have exhibition space, subsidized artist studios in Brooklyn, performance space, film screening space, and window exhibition spaces where artists get to create in front of passersby. Here's the link to their site- seriously artists, look into it- www.chashama.org
The space will be called EXPLOSIVO/chashama, kind of a perfect marriage between chashama's smarts and goodwill and Explosivo's smooth moves. It's really a great space too- it's a storefront in a great neighborhood. I've met some of the residents in the building above and they're incredibly sweet and want to be involved! It just goes along with Explosivo's mission to engage the public in considering art not as a discussion saved for the aristocratic elite, but as a statement of what our hearts and minds are communicating as a whole.
So the first exhibition, "Meta-Majesty," will be opening on September 28th. All of the important info will be on my website very soon. The show is going to be really super great, some artists I've worked with before and some are brand new! I can't wait!
Also, I'm starting grad school next week at NYU. I'm really so thrilled that I have the opportunity to dip my pinky finger into the wealth of knowledge there at the university. Very excited!
So keep checking back because I'll be blogging more often with more details.
Have a breezy labor day weekend and I'll see you when you get back!
Tracy
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Monday, June 11, 2007
Summer School
Howdy,
You know how your very curious brain is always begging you for more super exciting/rad-tastic/d.i.y. projects to consume? Well, luckily, here at the explosivo factory, I am constantly churning out the rad-tastic! This summer, you will be able to participate in TWO fantastically awesome workshops that yours truely will be leading at Like the Spice gallery in good ol' Williamsburg. The first one is an Independent Curating Workshop (natch) that is like the fat kid on the see-saw, except we're weighing FUN here instead of too many cheetos and caffeine free cokes in front of the TV. The workshop will happen once in July and once in August- each workshop consists of three Saturdays, from 1:00-4:00pm. Exact dates are on my website. We'll totally cover the basic steps to organizing a rad exhibition, as well as discuss how to enrich your cultural community by infusing it with spunky arts events!
The other workshop is just as rad- it's called Marketing and Publicity for the Creative Professional, and it's Wednesday evenings, two in July and two in August. Exact dates will be on my website soon, or you can go to http://www.likethespice.com for more info. Being an Indie Curator of interdisciplinary exhibitions, I'm always facilitating smart marketing through online campaigns, guerrilla marketing, and fundraisers. We'll go over all the good stuff- press releases, press kits, visual materials, etc. This workshop will be filled with tons of other d.i.y. profesh types, you're sure to get some good feedback on your materials and approach to the press from your creative community!
I love spending summer Saturdays with an Omelet breakfast and an espresso coffee at my fav cuban cafe with Andrew, stopping off at the thrift store, and then heading to a workshop for the afternoon. The Indie Curating workshop at Like the Spice ends just in time to head to the market to pick up some fresh goodies for dinner, and then chat about what your workshop-filled day was like with your best friend!
Dude, if your brainwaves are shooting off the charts- fear not! I know you're excited- just email info@likethespice.com to register for either workshop, or visit their website for more details and then register.
Really looking forward to seeing you this summer!
You know how your very curious brain is always begging you for more super exciting/rad-tastic/d.i.y. projects to consume? Well, luckily, here at the explosivo factory, I am constantly churning out the rad-tastic! This summer, you will be able to participate in TWO fantastically awesome workshops that yours truely will be leading at Like the Spice gallery in good ol' Williamsburg. The first one is an Independent Curating Workshop (natch) that is like the fat kid on the see-saw, except we're weighing FUN here instead of too many cheetos and caffeine free cokes in front of the TV. The workshop will happen once in July and once in August- each workshop consists of three Saturdays, from 1:00-4:00pm. Exact dates are on my website. We'll totally cover the basic steps to organizing a rad exhibition, as well as discuss how to enrich your cultural community by infusing it with spunky arts events!
The other workshop is just as rad- it's called Marketing and Publicity for the Creative Professional, and it's Wednesday evenings, two in July and two in August. Exact dates will be on my website soon, or you can go to http://www.likethespice.com for more info. Being an Indie Curator of interdisciplinary exhibitions, I'm always facilitating smart marketing through online campaigns, guerrilla marketing, and fundraisers. We'll go over all the good stuff- press releases, press kits, visual materials, etc. This workshop will be filled with tons of other d.i.y. profesh types, you're sure to get some good feedback on your materials and approach to the press from your creative community!
I love spending summer Saturdays with an Omelet breakfast and an espresso coffee at my fav cuban cafe with Andrew, stopping off at the thrift store, and then heading to a workshop for the afternoon. The Indie Curating workshop at Like the Spice ends just in time to head to the market to pick up some fresh goodies for dinner, and then chat about what your workshop-filled day was like with your best friend!
Dude, if your brainwaves are shooting off the charts- fear not! I know you're excited- just email info@likethespice.com to register for either workshop, or visit their website for more details and then register.
Really looking forward to seeing you this summer!
Friday, March 30, 2007
Fruit
Hello there,
I figured it was time for an update. Things are super sweet right now, like a ripe piece of fruit. Our Dark Heroes has closed, and although I'm sad to see it end, I'm ready to move on. The interdisciplinary exhibition had bascially taken me a year to accomplish, between brainstorming ideas, researching artists, writing the proposal, finding a venue for the exhibition, studio visits, programming events, exhibition and visuals design... as a one woman band, all of this can be very overwhelming. I've been called a busy bee, and have often fallen asleep at night wishing that there were more hours in the day or more money in my wallet. However, I believe right now this is the only way I want to work, and the only way it feels rewarding. Power to the ladies in charge! I swear there is a place in my heart sectioned off and labeled "motivation!" that is fuled by some renewable energy source (um, besides blood). What I mean is, I can get downhearted, down in the dirt, and bummed out about some element of the show not working right, or the way I want it to, and that actual bit of frustration just reddens the flame under my bottom and makes me work that much harder. It feels really good. Like the ache of a day on a farm.
And as perfect timing would have it, as I close Our Dark Heroes, another door opens up.. and the door is at NYU! I was accepted to Grad School a few days ago, and I'll be attending the Steinhardt School of Education this fall, and will be working towards a Masters in Visual Culture. So excited about this.
Also, I'll be jurying the painting/drawing submissions for the RIATS fest, an annual summer arts festival in Williamsburg that incorporates gallery shows, live music, and a competitive short film festival, now in its fourth year. RIATS is an acronym for Rabbit in a Turtle Shell, which is their new name. You may remember them when they were called the BillyBurg Film Festival. Anyway, this super great interdisciplinary festival will be on June 2nd at 3rd Ward. Marin Tockman is another amazing lady in charge, as she is the runner of all things for RIATS. So inspriational. When I met with her, she had her nose in this huge book on whales with like 1,300 sticky tabs marking important info. She has a full time job at a doc film company, and does RIATS. Tipping my easter bonnet, Marin..
Andrew and I have finally moved to our new apartment, which we love to death, and eat meals in our huge white kitchen with incredible light spilling in through the big windows facing the backyard. The girls that lived in here before us left some of their good vibes to help us get a head start, and its safe to say that the good vibes are abundant!
Summer is coming, new projects and ideas for exhibitions are on the horizon, I feel fine.
I figured it was time for an update. Things are super sweet right now, like a ripe piece of fruit. Our Dark Heroes has closed, and although I'm sad to see it end, I'm ready to move on. The interdisciplinary exhibition had bascially taken me a year to accomplish, between brainstorming ideas, researching artists, writing the proposal, finding a venue for the exhibition, studio visits, programming events, exhibition and visuals design... as a one woman band, all of this can be very overwhelming. I've been called a busy bee, and have often fallen asleep at night wishing that there were more hours in the day or more money in my wallet. However, I believe right now this is the only way I want to work, and the only way it feels rewarding. Power to the ladies in charge! I swear there is a place in my heart sectioned off and labeled "motivation!" that is fuled by some renewable energy source (um, besides blood). What I mean is, I can get downhearted, down in the dirt, and bummed out about some element of the show not working right, or the way I want it to, and that actual bit of frustration just reddens the flame under my bottom and makes me work that much harder. It feels really good. Like the ache of a day on a farm.
And as perfect timing would have it, as I close Our Dark Heroes, another door opens up.. and the door is at NYU! I was accepted to Grad School a few days ago, and I'll be attending the Steinhardt School of Education this fall, and will be working towards a Masters in Visual Culture. So excited about this.
Also, I'll be jurying the painting/drawing submissions for the RIATS fest, an annual summer arts festival in Williamsburg that incorporates gallery shows, live music, and a competitive short film festival, now in its fourth year. RIATS is an acronym for Rabbit in a Turtle Shell, which is their new name. You may remember them when they were called the BillyBurg Film Festival. Anyway, this super great interdisciplinary festival will be on June 2nd at 3rd Ward. Marin Tockman is another amazing lady in charge, as she is the runner of all things for RIATS. So inspriational. When I met with her, she had her nose in this huge book on whales with like 1,300 sticky tabs marking important info. She has a full time job at a doc film company, and does RIATS. Tipping my easter bonnet, Marin..
Andrew and I have finally moved to our new apartment, which we love to death, and eat meals in our huge white kitchen with incredible light spilling in through the big windows facing the backyard. The girls that lived in here before us left some of their good vibes to help us get a head start, and its safe to say that the good vibes are abundant!
Summer is coming, new projects and ideas for exhibitions are on the horizon, I feel fine.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Saturday- Feb 24th, 8pm: "Curious Absurdity," vaudeville performance salon
Hello!
I have become a café junkie. The Flying Saucer on Atlantic Avenue has become my office.. if you're looking for a really unpretentious coffee shop to hole up in for a full work day, this is the place.. it's worth treking to.
Anyway, I've been working like a pup. We just wrapped up a beautiful performance by Edison Woods at Secret Project Robot last weekend. There was a great crowd, everyone really enjoyed themselves. I got to visit with dear friends that I haven't seen in 6 months or so. Lovely!
Pictures from the opening and images of artwork in Our Dark Heroes are HERE.
Also working on an another event that I'm really really excited about.. it's called "Curious Absurdity," and its a performance salon that features puppet theater, shadow performances, and avant-garde video ventriloquism by Evan O'Television, Emmy Bean, Carole D'Agostino, and Puppetkabob (Sarah Frechette). The event is at 8pm this Saturday, February 24th at Secret Project Robot, part of the interdisciplinary exhibition, Our Dark Heroes. There's only a $5 donation at the door, with free cupcakes and champagne (as always) and a cozy wood-burning stove/fireplace, and a really lovely feeling of community and culture. If you haven't been to any of the events at Secret Project Robot yet, I suggest this one as one not to miss. PLUS, alot of the WIlliamsburg galleries are staying open late over the weekend, especially on Saturday, so be sure to make Secret Project Robot a stop on your journey through the mystic caves of Brooklyn! Secret Project Robot is located at 210 Kent Avenue at Metropolitan, entrance around back on River Street. Take the L to Lormier or the G to Metropolitan, and walk a few blocks to Kent. The B61 also goes right to Driggs and Metropolitan.
I will be attending the Armory Show and Scope (and possibly Fountain, if time allows) with my friend Emily, in from Portland, on Friday. I'm excited and extremely curious.. it has been a long time since I have just visited the fairs without any relation to a gallery in Chelsea, and I can just take a deep breath and talk about my exhibition at SPR and be an independent curator for once! I've always felt very conflicted about chatting people up about my own shows when I was working for another gallery. Not to mention that if I was at an art fair, I was either working or had a badge with the other gallery's name on it. It feels really good to just be independent and let things unfold, and meet people on my own terms. And I'm excited to see Emily!
On another note, Andrew and I are moving on Saturday. I am actually not helping to move everything because of the exhibition event, and I feel so thankful that Andrew has such great friends to help him! I'm really excited to be moving, we will have an actual kitchen with walls and a regular sized oven, with a non-working fireplace to sit in front of! I'm going to pick up a kitchen island in the Bronx, of all places, later tonight. Housewarming brunches! yay!
That's my update for today. Hope to see everyone on Saturday evening!
I have become a café junkie. The Flying Saucer on Atlantic Avenue has become my office.. if you're looking for a really unpretentious coffee shop to hole up in for a full work day, this is the place.. it's worth treking to.
Anyway, I've been working like a pup. We just wrapped up a beautiful performance by Edison Woods at Secret Project Robot last weekend. There was a great crowd, everyone really enjoyed themselves. I got to visit with dear friends that I haven't seen in 6 months or so. Lovely!
Pictures from the opening and images of artwork in Our Dark Heroes are HERE.
Also working on an another event that I'm really really excited about.. it's called "Curious Absurdity," and its a performance salon that features puppet theater, shadow performances, and avant-garde video ventriloquism by Evan O'Television, Emmy Bean, Carole D'Agostino, and Puppetkabob (Sarah Frechette). The event is at 8pm this Saturday, February 24th at Secret Project Robot, part of the interdisciplinary exhibition, Our Dark Heroes. There's only a $5 donation at the door, with free cupcakes and champagne (as always) and a cozy wood-burning stove/fireplace, and a really lovely feeling of community and culture. If you haven't been to any of the events at Secret Project Robot yet, I suggest this one as one not to miss. PLUS, alot of the WIlliamsburg galleries are staying open late over the weekend, especially on Saturday, so be sure to make Secret Project Robot a stop on your journey through the mystic caves of Brooklyn! Secret Project Robot is located at 210 Kent Avenue at Metropolitan, entrance around back on River Street. Take the L to Lormier or the G to Metropolitan, and walk a few blocks to Kent. The B61 also goes right to Driggs and Metropolitan.
I will be attending the Armory Show and Scope (and possibly Fountain, if time allows) with my friend Emily, in from Portland, on Friday. I'm excited and extremely curious.. it has been a long time since I have just visited the fairs without any relation to a gallery in Chelsea, and I can just take a deep breath and talk about my exhibition at SPR and be an independent curator for once! I've always felt very conflicted about chatting people up about my own shows when I was working for another gallery. Not to mention that if I was at an art fair, I was either working or had a badge with the other gallery's name on it. It feels really good to just be independent and let things unfold, and meet people on my own terms. And I'm excited to see Emily!
On another note, Andrew and I are moving on Saturday. I am actually not helping to move everything because of the exhibition event, and I feel so thankful that Andrew has such great friends to help him! I'm really excited to be moving, we will have an actual kitchen with walls and a regular sized oven, with a non-working fireplace to sit in front of! I'm going to pick up a kitchen island in the Bronx, of all places, later tonight. Housewarming brunches! yay!
That's my update for today. Hope to see everyone on Saturday evening!
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Opening night at Our Dark Heroes!
Saturday marked the opening of Our Dark Heroes, my newest curatorial endeavor at Secret Project Robot in Williamsburg featuring Jodi Brown, Paul Brainard, Dana Carlson, Kate Clark, Rachel Frank, Ryan Kitson, Phil Knoll, Scott Roberts, and Barnaby Whitfield. Despite the freezing cold, we hosted about 200 people over the course of the evening! Everyone had a swinging time listening to Frances perform, getting close to Kate Clark's antelope sculpture, 
. and watching the hilariously scary film screening, The Discerning Eye, curated by Lisa Kletjian
Visitors not only loved the artwork and their relationship to eachother, but lots of comments were floating around about the feeling of the evening, how much of a positive arts community was being represented and how there needs to be more of that. I'm glad I could help! Pictures of the art work will be up here very soon.
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Our Dark Heroes
Hi there.
It's 10:20pm on Sunday night. Superchunk is playing on my ipod.. this is a good one- Animated Airplanes over Germany. "He thought he saw his life flash between his knees on an animated airplane over Germany.." How appropriate that I'm listening to a song that, even though in the smallest of ways, is referencing Germany. My next curatorial endeavor, Our Dark Heroes at Secret Project Robot, frames contemporary art in the light of a genre of German Expressionist art, comic grotesque. I've spent about a year (oh goodness) on the whole process, from jotting down notes to sending out proposals to hoping around from studio to studio, to finally writing the press release and preparing for installation. I have been so busy preparing for this show that I haven't been able to document it, which is something I promised myself I would start doing and which is why I started this blog. I am now being nuzzled by Andrew. Ok sorry, back to what I was saying.. as least I can just write a little update.
I've been spending a lot of time at the Flying Saucer cafe on Atlantic Avenue in my new neighborhood. Somewhere in the ballpark of 7 or 8 hours a day hunched over my laptop with a continuous cup of coffee and a bagel that I take a full work day to eat, painted in the backdrop of the revolving door of people coming in to get some joe and a scone. Headphones are a must, and the Beatles and Brian Eno have been taking precedence. And Bjork, come to think of it.. perhaps I was too "in the zone" to think about rolling my thumb all the way around the ipod wheel to find something at the end of the alphabet.
Our Dark Heroes is fiercly interdisciplinary and addresses the idea of a small scale exhibition including a wide range of media, from high to low art. I'm intrigued by the polemics of art movements and how they are a direct reference of culture. But since our present society favors diversity and individualism over a collective movement, I'm into supporting the notion of having several different platforms illustrate one idea.
So in response to that statement, the exhibition is having four special events over the course of its run, including the opening night on February 3rd, which includes time for a cozy artists' reception (Secret Project Robot has a wood burning fireplace!!) with cupcakes and champagne, a live music performance by Frances, and a film screening curated by a great gal, my friend and colleague, Lisa Kletjian. There will also be a live music performance by Edison Woods on the 17th, a vaudeville performance salon including Evan O' Television on the 24th, and a closing screening of my girl Lisa's film program on the last day of the exhibition, March 3rd.
Needless to say, there's a lot of work to be done by this little soldier. But literally every couple of hours, when I pry my eyeballs off of the computer screen and I turn my brain on simmer and I stretch and feel the ache of hard work, I feel this spark inside of me dancing around.. I'm so ecstatic about how the show is turning out and how excited all of the artists are. Almost all of them are making new work just for the exhibition and putting lots and lots of faith in me. They are all so incredible and so very talented.
On a personal note, I'm getting lasik eye surgery this week (I never even thought I was a candidate because of financial limitations, but this year family members decided I was worthy of the gift that keeps on giving). This is also part of the reason why I have been working like a pup, because I wont be able to really stare and stare at a computer for a couple of days. I'm not even looking at my surgery day as the day I will be able to see perfectly forever, I'm viewing it as the day I dont have to wear my glasses anymore. For those of you that know me personally, I'm strictly a contacts girl, and I just cant hang ten with the specs. My best friend saw me with glasses on and she said I looked just like I did when I was 10. I just want to run in the other direction (and luckily that is the direction of lazers cutting my eyes).
Ok, its time to retire. I hope I see you at the show! Check my website, explosivoartshow.com for more details on Our Dark Heroes. You can sign up for the mailing list there if you're curious about attending any (or all!) of the events. See you soon!
xo Tracy
It's 10:20pm on Sunday night. Superchunk is playing on my ipod.. this is a good one- Animated Airplanes over Germany. "He thought he saw his life flash between his knees on an animated airplane over Germany.." How appropriate that I'm listening to a song that, even though in the smallest of ways, is referencing Germany. My next curatorial endeavor, Our Dark Heroes at Secret Project Robot, frames contemporary art in the light of a genre of German Expressionist art, comic grotesque. I've spent about a year (oh goodness) on the whole process, from jotting down notes to sending out proposals to hoping around from studio to studio, to finally writing the press release and preparing for installation. I have been so busy preparing for this show that I haven't been able to document it, which is something I promised myself I would start doing and which is why I started this blog. I am now being nuzzled by Andrew. Ok sorry, back to what I was saying.. as least I can just write a little update.
I've been spending a lot of time at the Flying Saucer cafe on Atlantic Avenue in my new neighborhood. Somewhere in the ballpark of 7 or 8 hours a day hunched over my laptop with a continuous cup of coffee and a bagel that I take a full work day to eat, painted in the backdrop of the revolving door of people coming in to get some joe and a scone. Headphones are a must, and the Beatles and Brian Eno have been taking precedence. And Bjork, come to think of it.. perhaps I was too "in the zone" to think about rolling my thumb all the way around the ipod wheel to find something at the end of the alphabet.
Our Dark Heroes is fiercly interdisciplinary and addresses the idea of a small scale exhibition including a wide range of media, from high to low art. I'm intrigued by the polemics of art movements and how they are a direct reference of culture. But since our present society favors diversity and individualism over a collective movement, I'm into supporting the notion of having several different platforms illustrate one idea.
So in response to that statement, the exhibition is having four special events over the course of its run, including the opening night on February 3rd, which includes time for a cozy artists' reception (Secret Project Robot has a wood burning fireplace!!) with cupcakes and champagne, a live music performance by Frances, and a film screening curated by a great gal, my friend and colleague, Lisa Kletjian. There will also be a live music performance by Edison Woods on the 17th, a vaudeville performance salon including Evan O' Television on the 24th, and a closing screening of my girl Lisa's film program on the last day of the exhibition, March 3rd.
Needless to say, there's a lot of work to be done by this little soldier. But literally every couple of hours, when I pry my eyeballs off of the computer screen and I turn my brain on simmer and I stretch and feel the ache of hard work, I feel this spark inside of me dancing around.. I'm so ecstatic about how the show is turning out and how excited all of the artists are. Almost all of them are making new work just for the exhibition and putting lots and lots of faith in me. They are all so incredible and so very talented.
On a personal note, I'm getting lasik eye surgery this week (I never even thought I was a candidate because of financial limitations, but this year family members decided I was worthy of the gift that keeps on giving). This is also part of the reason why I have been working like a pup, because I wont be able to really stare and stare at a computer for a couple of days. I'm not even looking at my surgery day as the day I will be able to see perfectly forever, I'm viewing it as the day I dont have to wear my glasses anymore. For those of you that know me personally, I'm strictly a contacts girl, and I just cant hang ten with the specs. My best friend saw me with glasses on and she said I looked just like I did when I was 10. I just want to run in the other direction (and luckily that is the direction of lazers cutting my eyes).
Ok, its time to retire. I hope I see you at the show! Check my website, explosivoartshow.com for more details on Our Dark Heroes. You can sign up for the mailing list there if you're curious about attending any (or all!) of the events. See you soon!
xo Tracy
Thursday, December 14, 2006
frazzle dazzle me
This past week I was with Team LEGION at the NADA art fair in Miami. We talked (and joked and giggled) about having a Mime in our booth (Mime-ami, anyone?) and not until the last day did the salty stars align and land one on our mirrored floor. We DID have a mirrored floor, the rumors are true, and Lisa and I wore skirts almost everyday. If you weren't there, you missed out on some smokin panty action!
Highlights of Miami (besides the white lines floor and the hobo mime) were most def's the late night chicken empanadas and friend plantains Andrew(Mr. Explosivo) and I shared after some partying and before some more partying. I really loved bumping into the people I saw scowling and sweating during the day shaking their booties and screaming Journey songs in front of a crowd of people high on drugs at night. Loved that!! I went swimming with Ryan Kitson and co. (just one of the fab artists in explosivo's next art show in February at Secret Project Robot called Our Dark Heroes), saw lovely miss Leslie Miller almost every day, and got to float in the ocean once or twice with Andrew. Oh oh! AND I was introduced to Jessie Vala, a very talented artist who creates a dichotomy with easy breezy folklore and obsessive/meticulous paper cutting. Perhaps I will be introducing her to you one day soon!
I realized that attending the Miami art fairs, as a young bright eyed curator, is essential. They're stressful, often times relationship altering, and exhausting, but because everyone you're down there with feels the same way, it's a generous bonding experience. Especially when you've just drank a whole lot of coors light and have to pee really badly so you jump in line with the boys and squat over the bowl while some dude ("don't worry, I'm gay") holds his weiner and pees right next to you.
So now we're hurting and cranky and not quite ourselves yet. The flash and glitter behind my eye is slowly returning...
Highlights of Miami (besides the white lines floor and the hobo mime) were most def's the late night chicken empanadas and friend plantains Andrew(Mr. Explosivo) and I shared after some partying and before some more partying. I really loved bumping into the people I saw scowling and sweating during the day shaking their booties and screaming Journey songs in front of a crowd of people high on drugs at night. Loved that!! I went swimming with Ryan Kitson and co. (just one of the fab artists in explosivo's next art show in February at Secret Project Robot called Our Dark Heroes), saw lovely miss Leslie Miller almost every day, and got to float in the ocean once or twice with Andrew. Oh oh! AND I was introduced to Jessie Vala, a very talented artist who creates a dichotomy with easy breezy folklore and obsessive/meticulous paper cutting. Perhaps I will be introducing her to you one day soon!
I realized that attending the Miami art fairs, as a young bright eyed curator, is essential. They're stressful, often times relationship altering, and exhausting, but because everyone you're down there with feels the same way, it's a generous bonding experience. Especially when you've just drank a whole lot of coors light and have to pee really badly so you jump in line with the boys and squat over the bowl while some dude ("don't worry, I'm gay") holds his weiner and pees right next to you.
So now we're hurting and cranky and not quite ourselves yet. The flash and glitter behind my eye is slowly returning...
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