MICA MEN: Metamorphic Portraits

Chapter 2: The Great Schist of Manhattan

 Mica Man 10, 2011

4.25 x 6.5 inches

 Mica collage on found vintage photograph

 Mica Man 11, 2011

4.25 x 6.5 inches

 Mica collage on found vintage photograph

Mica Man 12, 2011

4.25 x 6.5 inches

 Mica collage on found vintage photograph

Mica Man 13, 2011

4.25 x 6.5 inches

 Mica collage on found vintage photograph

Mica Man 14, 2011

4.25 x 6.5 inches

 Mica collage on found vintage photograph

Mica Man 15, 2011

4.25 x 6.5 inches

 Mica collage on found vintage photograph

 Mica Man 16, 2011

4.25 x 6.5 inches

 Mica collage on found vintage photograph

 Mica Man 17, 2011

4.25 x 6.5 inches

 Mica collage on found vintage photograph

 Mica Man 18, 2011

4.25 x 6.5 inches

 Mica collage on found vintage photograph

 Mica Man 19, 2011

4.25 x 6.5 inches

 Mica collage on found vintage photograph

Mica Man 20, 2011

4.25 x 6.5 inches

 Mica collage on found vintage photograph

Mica Man 21, 2011

4.25 x 6.5 inches

 Mica collage on found vintage photograph

 

Mica Man 22, 2011

4.25 x 6.5 inches

 Mica collage on found vintage photograph

Mica Man 23, 2011

5 x 7 inches

 Mica collage on found vintage photograph

 Mica Man 24, 2011

4.25 x 6.5 inches

 Mica collage on found vintage photograph

 

 Mica Man 25, 2011

4.25 x 6.5 inches

 Mica collage on found vintage photograph

Mica Man 26, 2011

4.25 x 6.5 inches

 Mica collage on found vintage photograph

Mica Man 27, 2011

4.25 x 6.5 inches

 Mica collage on found vintage photograph

MICA MEN: Metamorphic Portraits

Chapter 1

SLAVA'S NEW WEBSITE!!!!

I'm proud to announce Slava has launched his beautiful new website! I helped him to design it and it features lots of new and previously unpublished photos and multimedia works. Please take a look and enjoy!

SLAVAMOGUTIN.COM

GIO BLACK PETER: What You See Is What You Get

Gio's got brand new solo show here in NYC this Thursday!

(exhibition press release):

In a world of “reality” shows about being a house wife, finding the perfect 27 million dollar apartment or being the next great art star one finds themselves at a crossroads.

Do we go the way of “reality” consuming an endless supply of gluttonous pleasures, blindly chasing a dangling top chef meal with the hopes of possibly gaining so much that we may someday achieve the biggest looser status?

Or do we choose a different path. A path that allows the magic of life back into our reality. A path that allows the dance of Purusha and Prakirti, Yin and Yang, to ebb and flow with organic precision. A path uninterrupted by commercial breaks that may have magic around the next corner instead of sponsorship, greed, and ego.

If one chooses the early path an endless supply of pre-planned and produced, simulated landscapes can be found. Yet if one chooses the latter the question of where to beginarises.

This question is not new but ancient. How does one navigate the path less travelled? If one looks to history for the answer one sees that inside all myth and legend the answer is the same, we find a guide. Someone who has set out on the path before us, who can now return with the lessons of his hero’s journey to help others navigate this mysterious and magic landscape. Dante had Virgil, Neo had Morpheus, and sometimes we are all blessed with the truth inside art to lead the way.

In the work of Gio Black Peter I see that truth, I see an artist reacting to the world of simulated reality by looking inward for answers. An artist asking himself within his work the hard questions in life we all come upon on our individual journeys.

With Gio’s authenticity and generosity set to paper and canvas, lyrics and video his role as guide into a new and mysterious landscape is clear.

Gio Black Peter (born Giovanni Andrade Paolo Guevara) is a New York-based performance and visual artist who examines text and subject, truth and fakery, rebellion and authority.

His subversive work has quickly earned him a name in the downtown New York scene of young emerging artists who participate in today’s dialogue about the deconstruction of high profile, white box presentation and the desire to raise art awareness. At the core of Black Peter’s thinking is the idea that the life of art depends on the viewer’s willingness to suspend his or her pre-programmed thoughts and play into the believability of magic. Truth and a masterful aesthetic draw the viewer deep into Black Peter’s art—a visceral exploration of vulnerability and self-reflection.

Since 2007, Gio Black Peter has performed and exhibited work worldwide, including: New York, Berlin, Madrid, Milan, Bergen, London, Antwerp, Tokyo, and Paris and now at BrianRiley1ProjectSpace.

We are honored by the opportunity to work with Gio and look forward to sharing the next two shows with you. Please join us on November 17, 2011 for the opening of “WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET, Drawings by Gio Black Peter.

Will will soon have the date set for Gio-the-PAINTINGS, in early 2012.

BrianRiley1ProjectSpace invites you to
“WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET” Drawings by Gio Black Peter.
Artist Reception: November 17, 6 to 8 PM
BrianRiley1ProjectSpace 368 Broadway Rm 405 New York, NY 10003 Between Franklin and White.

www.brianriley1projects.com

GIO BLACK PETER.COM

The Death Moon of Arthur RImbaud

 

-from TM and Liam Davy's gathering on the  11-10-11 to celebrate the full moon and the 120 year anniversary of Arthuir Rimbaud's death. Of course, the spirit of David Wojnarowicz was also in attendance.

KEEP ON LET GO

I can go on and on.

"KEEP ON bustin up man, he's havin fun back there, doesn't wanna LET GO"

The Post-Genderation: Slava's Brosephines

Slava's latest shoot for Vice Magazine and a validating tribute to Oscar De Hoya's feminine side.

BROSEPHINES

As below So above

Petroglyphs, Red Rock Canyon, Nevada, How, Does, It, Feel?

WRESTLE @ LAUNCH F18

Brian Kenny

Boys Never Fail (#3) (2010)

Ink on shooting target paper, framed in laminate glass and shot with a 9mm handgun.

25 x 25 inches

  

WRESTLE

Andrej Dubravsky, Brian Kenny, 

Frankie Rice, Elisabeth Smolarz.

A group exhibition curated by Tim Donovan

New York, NY. October 8, 2011 – October 31, 2011.

   Opening Reception: Saturday October 8 6-9pm

Launch F18

373 Broadway (between White and Franklin)

New York, NY 10013

(From the press release:)

Wrestle, whether voluntary on involuntary, physical or mental, positive or negative is an action.  We may wrestle with the result of a past dilemma, a projected decision, or current situation but the fret (or comfort) of this quandary takes place in the moment, often finding it’s not so much the finite content we wrestle with; it’s the strategy in how we’ll respond to it.  This exhibition focuses on the broad aspects of circumstance.  Brian Kenny sets the pace with the immediacy of the physical and strategic points necessary in the actual sport, projecting formality and beauty. He expands on that notion with Boys Never Fail, which affirms the winning aspect of boys as champions and their unique ability to hit the bulls-eye, as champions, on many different levels.  Andrej Dubravsky examines youth and fantastical identity in the arena of alter egoism where young gay men break free from restriction.  Frankie Rice demonstrates his ability to transform the containment of a medical solution to a social pandemic through the use of a visual a metaphor of hope and endurance, while Elizabeth Smolarz utilizes video to relay the stages of death in a banal setting of a Laundromat, with its delivery being both stunning and mundane.  These combined works may not leave us with the artists solution to the theme yet more effectively, demonstrates how they contemplate it.

Painting by Andrej Dubravsky

Sculpture by Frankie Rice

I will also be presenting:

 

 Wrestle Lift

Engraving on copper foil scratchboard

 5 x 7 inches

  Wrestlers (1)

Engraving on copper foil scratchboard

 5 x 7 inches

  Wrestlers (2)

Engraving on copper foil scratchboard

 5 x 7 inches

  Wrestlers (3)

Engraving on copper foil scratchboard

 5 x 7 inches

  Wrestlers (4)

Engraving on copper foil scratchboard

 5 x 7 inches

Wrestlers (5)

Engraving on copper foil scratchboard

 5 x 7 inches

 Wrestlers (6)

Engraving on copper foil scratchboard

 5 x 7 inches

LAUNCH F18

View of Outer Space from an Aquarium

poster image by Scott Hug

 View of Outer Space from an Aquarium

Curated by Billy Miller

October 1 – November 6

Opening: Saturday, October 1, 6-9pm

Famous Accountants
1673 Gates Avenue, Bushwick, Between St. Nicholas and Cypress
L or M train to Myrtle/Wyckoff
Open Sundays, 1-6pm

Robbie Acklen • D-L Alvarez • Jonathan Berger • Matt Borruso • Elijah Burgher • Matthew Burcaw • Luke Butler Brendan Carroll • Christophe Chemin • Wayne Coe • Ryan Cummings • Pia Dehne • Peter Eide • Carl Ferrero • Jonah Freeman • Janine Gordon • Tina Hejtmanek • Charles Hovland • Scott Hug • Kysa Johnson • Gregory Kaplowitz • Brian Kenny • Lewis Klahr • Kristian Kozul • Patrick Lee • Scooter LaForge • Noah Lyon • Robert MacDonald • Michael Magnan • Peter Maloney • Darrin Martin • Rachel Mason • Mike McLeod • Slava Mogutin • Mary Nicholson • Genesis P. Orridge • Gwenaël Rattke • Jason Rodgers • Jo-ey Tang • Margaret Tedesco • Tillie • Nickolaus Typaldos • Jan Wandrag • Joel Westendorf

Opening nite art demo by TILLIE: 8pm
http://tillog.tumblr.com/

Here are the two works I am presenting:

Brian Kenny
Mica Boy (2011) 

Mica collage on vintage  photograph.

4.25 x 6.5 inches

Brian Kenny 
Mica Man 8 (2011) 

Mica collage on vintage photograph.

5.25 x 7.38 inches

and Slava will be presenting:

 Slava Mogutin
Pray Yellow Prey (2001)
Unique chromogenic print
4" x 6"

Slava Mogutin
Repair Kid (2006)
Mixed media
10" diameter

= Knocks

 Form Align
As Below, So Above
Balance Buoyant

Make a Wish

for square

Today is the Autumnal Equinox

┴opɐʎ ıs ʇɥǝ ∀nʇnɯuɐl Ǝbnıuox

(Photos by Geoff Howell, Red Rock Canyon, Nevada)