Configurations

Last week I attended the opening of Pat Smith’s first solo show in SoHo at the CVZ Contemporary Gallery. Pat and I met way back in college in Massachusetts and the idea of having our own show in NYC was just a dream at that time. One of the best classes we took together was Jerry Kearns “NYC Pop”. In that class we would visit working artists in their studios in NYC and were able to see first hand what it took to make it here. The biggest thing I took away from the class was that no two stories were the same, and there was no one way to make it. Some people survived on grants, others did commissioned works to survive, while still others would simply follow their own vision and things would happen for them. Pat is one of the latter people. He has had a distinct style of his own since the very early days. His latest work is yet another example of this. From the instant you see one of Pat’s films, to any of his paintings in the gallery, the work couldn’t be anyone else’s. Pat is one of the hardest working people I know and he does what only he can.

If you are around the Gallery at any time stop in and see it. The show “Configurations” is up through Oct 16th and Pat’s work can always be seen at www.patsmith.com. On Pat’s blog you can see a great time lapse clip of him painting one of the pieces for the show. Congratulations on the show.

Art O Mat

I saw one of there machines years ago when up in Northampton, Ma and thought they were very cool. Art-o-mat machines are retired cigarette vending machines that have been converted to vend art. There are 82 active machines in various locations throughout the country. There are around 400 contributing artists from 10 different countries currently involved in the Art*o*mat project. In the next few weeks I am going to submit some artwork to them and see if I can get my work in some of their machines. To find out more info for yourself about the machines go to www.artomat.org.

I came across this video when I was surfing around on youtube after I posted my last one, Button Boy. It was the second film I did there. I thought I would link it to my blog as well.

I recently posted one of the first ever films I made on youtube. Enjoy!!

3 feet high show

Here are some picts from the 3 Feet High show in Hoboken NJ; which I had the pleasure of being a part of. It was a great show with a lot of really talented artists:

gary ashley, linda beck, justin brancato, andrea breitman, kristen bronson, stephanie buscema, jared deal, giovanni estevez, josh frankel, thom glick, regino gonzales, rob harrigan, lisa hawke, dave heiss, chris jammal, danny kimanyen, fran krause, will krause, blake lemons, pat longo, ann marshall, marko metzinger, scott meyers, matt mignanelli, miss lotion, lynda nettleship, vincent di nguyen, mike overbeck, mitch papineau, yuliya parshina, mark pecoraro, jackie post, rob powers, thinkmule, brian raszka, jj rudisill, magie serpica, timmy shankweiler, justin simonich, josh taylor, chris thornley, chris timmons, shawn whisenant, john lytle wilson, aaron zisman, mike zod, and more!

For more information about the gallery/show please go to: http://www.maxwellsartshows.blogspot.com/