law of falling bodies

A video by David Moskow

Art show, FIGURE ONE in DUMBO for first THs this week - See me at Giacobetti Paul Gallery

I have a handful of paintings and a few drawings at the show.  I'll show a couple that I've had, but a few of the paintings are so new they're sticky.  I'm totally geeking out that I'm having a show in NYC.  I helped take down the last show, UNDERGROWTH, when I dropped off the stuff last night to hang for the opening this Thursday.  I loved standing on the loading dock across from the enormous Brooklyn Bridge strut moving a big art installation.  That neighborhood is spectacular.  I know people bag on DUMBO, I can see the pure bred spensive dogs and shit too, but it's so pretty I love it.   If you can make it to the show, we'll be heading out for drinks after somewhere around the corner.  I'll tweet where we are.

FIGURE ONE
Giacobetti Paul Gallery
111 Front St., Brooklyn

OPENING RECEPTION
Thursday, February 4th, 5:30 - 9:00
(in conjunction with 1st Thursdays DUMBO Gallery Walk)

Sam Bornstein 
E. K. Buckley 
Katharyn Laranger 
Brian Smith

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St. Ursula, oil on door panel, c. 2010 (mine)
If you look at the painting in the show, I've taken out one of the hands. 

FIGURE 1 at the Giacobetti Paul Gallery opens for DUMBO's First Thursdays, Feb. 4th

I'll have several paintings and (I hope) a handful of drawings on show at 111 Front St. (the big building with all the gallerys), BK in February.  Here's the postcard for the exhibition, with my image the first on the left.

 

Moskow comes to Brooklyn

Venus Zine back online! Watch for my articles covering the NYC music scene.

I got an email from Venus Zine editor, Selena Fragassi, yesterday with the news that it's is back in business after a short hiatus.  I'm back on the list for NYC music writers and couldn't be happier!   A friend of mine in Chicago hooked us this past summer when a writer flaked on covering Animal Collective in Prospect Park.That led to covering an september performance by Mono at the Bowery Ballroom.  

Chaotic evil forEVer!!! Nerd-chic to embrace the dark, previously pan-mortifying world of RPGs!!!!!!!!

The Dungeon Masters (HD) from Dungeon Masters Movie on Vimeo.

Some video I put together from the Giacobetti Paul Gallery opening in DUMBO last night

Vincent Moon's blog of musicians playing in strange places

I'm digging through film maker, Vincent Moon's, blog of video shorts called the "Take-Away Shows". 

THE WOMBATS - LET'S DANCE TO JOY DIVISION
by lablogotheque

TONIGHT visit me @Giacobetti Paul Gallery for the first THs in DUMBO at 111 Front St

Tonight's opening is

UNDERGROWTH

OPENING RECEPTION
Thursday, January 7th, 5:30 - 9:00
(in conjunction with 1st Thursdays DUMBO Gallery Walk) 
January 7 - January 31, 2009

A group exhibition featuring the work of Daniel Clapp, Gretchen Kraus, Katerina Marcelja and Stephen Paul

Giacobetti Paul Gallery 
 111 Front street, Dumbo, brooklyn, nyc

MAP  /  giacobettipaul.com

I'm bringing me Flip camera to shoot the event, so take advantage of your chance to appear on the madarts BLOG.  You're welcome.

The Giacobetti Paul gallery director stopped by my studio today to review work for a show I'm in next month, and surprised me by choosing one of my works to display in the preview window outside of the gallery space during the opening tonight & through the run of the show.  Yay!  This one will be there:

 

Christmas woodblock prints - last day in Union Square

Today might be my last day in Union Square until spring. I wanted to get out one more time to show the little dog prints, which I printed in black, magenta, slate-ish blue and my favorite, lavender. I printed one of each. The little red dog is still my favorite, but black is a close second. I post on twitter when I get there with a picture of where I set up the table.

Multimedia message

All set up at Union Square at USW and E 16th st.

Here are my first wood block prints

These are all on Esty

http://www.etsy.com/shop/ekbuckley

here's a detail:

 

First woodcuts- Madonna and child #1

I went to Gennadi Barbush's studio last night with my woodcuts and he helped my get the first few pressings.  We made five or six proofs on a couple of kinds of paper and the prints came out well. We pressed two woodblocks, the first two I've tried making.  The image below is on non-print quality sketch paper.  The ones we made on the handmade Japanese paper are really beautiful, but too tacky to move after an hour drying. 

I'm heading to Gennadi's Friday to pick up the other proofs, and will be pressing these through Christmas.

AP Madonna and Child #1

 

Two woodblocks I finished cutting- printing a short run tonight

Madonna and child #1, poplar woodblock

 

Madonna and child #2, pine woodblock

 
 

I made these two woodcuts to show for the holidays here.  I've got a few sheets of beautiful paper from NY Central Art Supply to see how the blocks work out.  If I like them I'll post them tonight or tomorrow and put them up on either Etsy or an Amazon.com store and link to it.

Because Bill loved the shit out of Swedish Fish

I found this guy named William who asked for a micro loan to buy candies for his grocery store.  So, in memory of one of the funniest guys I ever knew- sugar candies for your shop, Mr. William.

Buffalo Bill's defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what i want to know is how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death

07/24/68-11/18/98-WFB.

What's the last thing the sardine heard?

New Drawings from this week- Art show on Nov 14th in Williamsburg at HICHRISTINA!

Chris and I plan on going to this opening- a few of my little crows are in it >>>

SharkMother presents RECESSION PROOF: A one-day affordable art gallery
All art less than $200.
Saturday, Nov 14th * 8pm reception* at HICHRISTINA!
632 Grand St., Williamsburg, BK
The one day exhibition runs from 10AM til midnight
This is one of the drawings that'll be up.  >

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I did this pastel today as study for a painting series I want to do called "An Island of Pretenders"

New paintings -

woman and crescent moon, c. 2009 oil on canvas

St. Ursula, oil on wood panel c. 2009

Seat figure in Blue, oil on canvas c.2005

Missing lover, oil on board c. 2009

Fear of Moths. oil on canvas c. 2005

Here are the new paintings I thought were good to show for day of the dead tommorrow

I'll be at Union Square park by ten in the morning, tomorrow Nov 1st for Day of the Dead.

Here are new new ones I'm bringing along especially for my favorite day in the year-
A little yellow figure, oil on wood panel c. 2009, 12"x12"
Selling it at the park for 150

little king, 10"x14", oil on canvas c. Oct 2009
This guy is 375

Figure in dark blue, 10"x 24"oil on wood panelc. Sept 2009
This one is 495

the drawings and crows range from $5 up.

I'll be in Union Square tomorrow- bringing new oil paintings and drawings for Day of the Dead

Here are a couple of the works on paper I'll bring- I have about a dozen made.

Shots from a walk today in Green-Wood Cemetery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and on the street-

Phone pic from Prospect Park

Showing "Gerty MacDowell loves the boy who has the bicycle" in Union Square Monday Oct 26th

I'll show in Union Square tomorrow, Monday, until about sunset. I'll post to twitter where I set up my table to sell the drawings.  I'll have about a dozen ink crows on hand and a two or three large works on paper. 

from the "Love loves to love love" series, c. 2004 based on Joyce's Ulysses
framed 91/2" x 11" framed and mounted

More Bear Mountain pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drove up to Bear Mountain and hiked at Mineral Springs, NY with Zora

We headed north to Bear Mountain yesterday and met an interstate highway driver while looking for a place to hike .  He had us tail his truck to his favorite path with a waterfall.
Chris and Zora at the trail head-

 

 

 

An Evening with Califone: All My Friends Are Funeral Singers , A Multimedia Event - 92nd Street Y - New York, NY

I'll be there- If you haven't heard Califone yet, check out the music here:http://www.myspace.com/califonemusic

An Evening with Califone: All My Friends Are Funeral Singers , A Multimedia Event - 92nd Street Y - New York, NY.

New drawings and crows - Showing outside in Union Square tomorrow

I'll be in Union Square tomorrow, TU Oct. 20th and plan on being there WED and TH, too.  Pretty weather.  I'm showing pen and ink crows and a few figurative works. 

The next drawing I made based on showing in Union Square, and it's part of the series of that same name.  The first few in this series were made with reds in answer to the Polish lady who told me my work would be prettier if I used color.  She was the first person to come up to my table of drawings on my first morning showing stuff there.  She talked me into selling her a drawing for just over half price, because, she explained, I was charging way too much.  She told me when I handed her change that she only bought the drawing to make change for her larger bill, anyway, but it was alright for the price she got.  The red I used is pretty close to my memory of her hair color.

Union Square drawing #6- portrait of a future producer
I met a student from NYU at Union Square last time I showed my drawings. She asked to visit my studio in Brooklyn for her homework project.  She shot with another film student and Lynch fan, Kevin.  This is pretty much based off of Natalie, the film student who wants to be a producer.    She plans to make a documentary based on an Armenian priest in NYC who was killed for preaching that his congregation forgive the Turkish people for the genocide.

I'm obsessed with pretenders to the throne.  I was looking for an article about the Armenian priest that the film student told me about, but found this instead.  I think she said the other murdered Armenian priest was alive up through the fifties.  That's not a job I would have thought to be dangerous or with tattoos. 

Here's another figure I'm going to show tomorrow

It's so beautiful out- I'm going to Union Square to set up my pen and ink crows this afternoon til sunset...

I'm leaving South Slope right now, should be there in about 30-40 minutes.  I'll have my tiny table and a homemade ink sign that reads: ORIGINAL PEN & INK in black letters in a drippy red background.  If you're in the neighborhood, stop by!  I'll be enjoying the sun until it sets.

Next Union Square days next week

Wednesday and Friday, Oct 14th and 16th, look like the best weather days- my plan is to set up my table of drawings in Union Square unless the weather changes.  It usually does, but I'll post if plans change. 

I don't know if 6am will be early enough to see the people starting to throw down milk crates to save their spots, but that's when I'm getting there.  I have no idea when the squatting begins, but the two times I've set up a table of drawings at the park, there are crates and tables blocking off spots where vendors never came. I thought that was obnoxious.

Here are my first handful of drawings for the Union Square series

  I've made them this week for my table at Union Square selling art with about a hundred other artists.  This one's about 9" x 11", all are India ink and watercolor on archival paper

here's a little detail from it:    This next one is part of my current obsession with Eastern European Orthodox Catholic Church imagery (also 9" x 11")

I'm kind of leaning toward lots and lots of crows and blackbirds, but this next one's call a cowbird.  The cowbird is a fucking weird, horrible animal.  I reminds me a a couple of people I've met here in New York and this drawing if for them, really:

and another blackbird in red leaves
I'll have these with me and a bunch of my Murder of crows this TH Oct 8th at Union Square.

No Union Square tomorrow. I'll set up my drawings the day after, this Thursday, Oct 8th and have a new series just for the park.

I'm not going to show at Union Square tomorrow- false alarm.  It looks like rain on and off, but it clears up for a warm and sunny day this Thursday, Oct 8th.  I'm taking the cue from the weather and waiting a day for dry autumn sun.  I'll have my little original crows and the next handful of drawing from my new series: The Union Square Drawings.  I'll post images of those later today.

I'm considering showing an oil painting along with the drawings.  I'm working out a way to show this one, Moth Dust, first.

Showing at Union Square

I set up a table in Union Square on Friday with my pen and ink crow drawings to sell.  People were surprised that I had real drawings, not prints.  It worked out much better than I'd hoped.

I'm going out on Wednesday this week, so if you're going to the Green Market or passing by Union Square Wednesday, visit me!  I'll try to be near the Market, but some a-holes pay off homeless dudes to squat and save the "good" spots.  When I went on Friday, I ended up setting up my table on the SE corner across from the former Virgin Mega-store, way around the corner from the green market.  I got there relatively early, too- well before 8AM, to try to set up closer to the farmers.  No luck.  Maybe Wednesday will be less primal with the street vendors.  I'm discovering a entirely new social ecosystem of NYC.  The 'artists' who sell on the street. 

I wanted to make a good impression on my new business peers, so I approached one of the people setting up work and asked if the milk crates meant STAY OUT, or if I could set up my 24" table between two strewn crates RIGHT next to the market.  The man stood dumb for a minute or so staring at me, and then slowing rolled his (her?) eyes.  Wrong person to ask for help.  Billy, who looks like a failed female-tranny of Iggy Pop, ushered me off his domain.  He sells Napoleon-dynamite-meets-Japanese-Noh theater-imagery if you'd like to pop in on him.  He's quite lovely for a bag of cunts.

I've started a new series of drawings specifically for showing in the park: my Union Square series.  The first three are drying in the studio.  I'll post them tomorrow night and will have them on hand on Wednesday if you'd like to see them in person. 

I'm one of the only people there selling real, hand drawn, NOT A PRINT artwork.  I'll have this little crow drawing there with me, too, if you want it.  I won't post how much I'm charging.  It's a good deal.

A video of John Vanderslice singing at the NPR studio

Animal Collective, faux-crock and scent of puberty

Well before the August 14-15 shows, Brooklyn erupted with AC chatter.  The whole town buzzed with juicy rumors (is Panda bear REALLY leaving the BAND?!? rumor dispelled here and here).  People sought tickets on craigslist.  Others flaunted tickets on facebook.  Still more were eager to post about the Friday night show and gush over the VERY popular Brooklyn Band to those of us who held tickets for Saturday. 

Saturday afternoon on my way out the door, I did a quick twitter search on ANIMAL COLLECTIVE and I noted a few things: the lines were forming early and getting long, people should just say marijuana since their code words are more conspicuous, and, judging by posts on twitter, the crowd may turn out to be fuckwits.  My last suspicion came from this gem posted Saturday evening 5:24pm, and please note username: HopefulHumanist: "On line for Animal Collective... Totally cut like half the line ^_^"  That's with a hand crafted emoticon.  Way to go, Hopeful Humanist.

Prospect Park shows are generally free or REALLY affordable.  For example, the big summer-opener at the Bandshell this year was David Byrne  Free.  Animal Collective?  $30.  I balked. (THIRTY?!? It's Prospect PARK, you assholes - even David Byrne played here free.  Don't you LIVE in Brooklyn?)    I did a little research and see the MGMT charged $30 dollars, too.  Fine.  Animal Collective DID do one nice neighborhoody thing- AC band members DJed an afterparty at the Bellhouse with free admission to ticket stub holders, but I'm guessing most had to be home before bedtime.

I walked up to the park. While the rest of the world suffered the blight of August at 100 degrees, the happy fans (aww, that IS baby fat,) appeared entirely unaffected.  They poured out in a stream from the F train staircase and giggled their way to the Park Entrance immune to the wet heat by what I gathered to be a pleasant intoxication.   AC fans are happy people, I though to myself (again, aww).  That got ugly later in the evening when a good portion of the youngsters misjudged the amount of things they can manage in one night of play.

Enjoying a dizzying peak of indy cred and local fame, the musicians of Animal Collective, Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox, and also, I don't know about you, but I kinda wanna punch this guy for that nickname), Deakin (Josh Dibb) and Geologist (Brian Weitz) put on a show that, judging by the crowd's reaction, delighted and delivered.  Wheeling a giant shark to the stage sparked a firestorm of cheers and applause in a hazey smog of dope smoke, axe for men and puberty.   Fans swooned to the endless output of sound.  During the Saturday night performance Ryan from Indy Giant PitchforkMedia, tweeted "Encore blowing minds.  Just played Comfy in Nautica. Best band EVAR?" 

I don't know Ryan, I don't know.  If by EVAR you mean not in my reality, then yes.  They suck.  They have a parking lot full of soft drugs and fourteen year olds, and since the Dead and Phish don't tour regularly, they'll be propped up until the next noodling swath of endless sound gush that passes for music usurps their narcotic ticket sales foundation.

This chestnut I pulled from the comments section on Brooklynvegan sums it up:
What's fifty-feet long with no pubes?
The front row at an Animal Collective show.
Posted by Regular reader | August 16, 2009 12:55 PM
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/08/animal_collecti_23.html

Zora in her pretty hat

My sister posted a shot from this car ride.  Now, by popular demand: Zora in her pretty hat, the VIDEO

Rebecca Benedict posted a new animation short: Bethany Pritchard Hits Puberty

I HATE IT!!! Oh, oh wait, no- it's actually my favorite album.

If Chris says I'll like a band, I end up obsessing over them, listening to the album or a particular song over and over for up to weeks at a time, and it will become one of my favorite things.  Not before I dismiss them entirely, however.  Chris will say: "Hey baby - you'd really like so and so here" and pass me the headphones to the computer.  My response is usually like "It's annoying." or "I can't stand that guy's voice." or "It's boring."  Then, something magical happens.  Whatever backwards shitty snarl I have in my mind unwinds and dissipates, and I listen to the music again.  And, JEEZ, fuck, oh WEIRD- Chris was totally right.  And then I fucking obsess over this newly introduced music and put my Ipod on repeat for that band at the painting studio for about a month. 

It's gotta be so incredibly frustrating for Chris.  This happens once every couple of weeks.  We always collect music.  Nine years to take note of his recommendations and I still haven't been able to take pause to forestall my immediate dismissal by considering the probability that I am broken in some way here.  EVERY BAND or composer or whatever thing the recording is, like the freakish recordings of WWII Numbers Stations, I will take a quick listen and I will claim I do not like it.  Sadly, I can't think of a time he steered me wrong.  I end up liking it.   I not only end up liking it, I take up the mantel like a sick zealot.  I'm so fucking annoying. 

A few months back, Chris HAD to download Pet Sounds.  I was surprised that he'd want a Beach Boys album.   I hated them.  He advised me to give it a listen.  no WAY! I responded.  I continued on it forEVER, refusing to believe I'd like ANY Beach Boys, but also refusing to listen to it.   Months.  I lumped them in with the Eagles. 

But I'm converted.  Again.  

I've been obsessed with Okkerville River.  Chris downloaded an album of theirs recently, and, in line with my music dyslexia, I said I didn't like it at all.  I listen to it all the time now.  They did a song integrating John B Sails from Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys, and that led me to re-listen to them.  I might be the last person to notice that Pet Sounds great album, and the Beach Boys are a great band.

Here's a stripped down version of John B from the Beach Boys- It's eerie and beautiful:

Mud Siren, Io, White Goddess

mudsiren, originally uploaded by ekbuckley.

I gave this one to Rebecca Rounds and Aaron Benedict for their wedding. I used to called her Io, sometimes White Goddess.

It's Christmas!!! Terry Gilliam, Tom Waits, Johnny Depp: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

the next four are (crappy phone) shots from the studio today

This sketch looks like girl practising making-out faces with herself in the mirror to me and it made me laugh.