Tag: Group show

ICE ICE MAYBE / Never Can Say Goodbye

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No Longer Empty is putting on a show called Never Can Say Goodbye at the (now defunct) flagship location of Tower Records at East 4th street and Broadway in money earnin’ Manhattan. I am excited to be collaborating with Brent Birnbaum in the show, as part of Ted Reiderer’s NEVER RECORDS installation.

Ted will be realizing a grand, multi-artist installation in which he will create a simulation of a long forgotten relic of the 20th Century: the record store. Ted’s project, called NEVER RECORDS, will include work and merch from a whole bunch of artists:

Richard Hambleton | Ted Riederer | Josh Shaddock | Stephanie Syjuko | Brent Birnbaum | Shane Caffrey | Nicholas Brooks | Ryan Sullivan | Doug McQueen | Allison Hester | James Rubio | Richard Barnes | Ted O’Sullivan/Rebecca Potts | Michelle Matson | Brendan Carney | Arturo Vega | Tom Sanford | Johnny T. Yerington | Chris Yerington | Jay Ivcevich

Where I come in is in collaboration with Brent Birnbaum. During the opening reception for the show, Brent will appear dressed as Vanilla Ice (c. 1990 of course) and do a performance which he calls ICE ICE MAYBE. The performance will resemble an “in store appearance,” where Brent will assume the character of Rob Van Winkle’s 1990’s cross-over hip hop villain/scapegoat Vanilla Ice, and he will autograph some ICE ICE MAYBE merchandise, which I had a hand in creating. I am not exactly sure whether or not he will spit some white-boy flava, but I guess there is a chance, depending on how “full of 8-ball” he is. Either way, I know for a fact that Brent has a full array of V.I.P. Posse dance moves.

For my part, I have made a couple of my poster paintings in support of Brent’s vanilla vision. One of the posters is to publicize the performance (pictured above) the other will be reproduced in 8X10 form and autographed for fans willing to wait in line and thus “participate” in Brent’s Rob Van Winkle re-awakening.

Never Can Say Goodbye will open on January 15th from 6-8PM, and be open for at least a month. No firm end date has been established as of now. The show will be in the old Tower Records location on the northeast corner of East 4th street & Broadway.

In addition to the artists participating in NEVER RECORDS, the following other artists are also contributing to Never Can Say Goodbye:

Tom Sanford

“I LIKE THE WORK, BUT MY WIFE IS STILL CONCERN. PLEASE KEEP ME INFORM ABOUT NEW WORKS.”

GARDAR EIDE EINARSSON / MARIUS ENGH / MATIAS FALDBAKKEN

“I LIKE THE WORK, BUT MY WIFE IS STILL CONCERN. PLEASE KEEP ME INFORM ABOUT NEW WORKS.”

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“When the question is raised, of writing an introduction to a book of a creative order, I always feel that the few books worth introducing are exactly those which it is an impertinence to introduce. I have already committed two such impertinences; this is the third, and if it is not the last no one will be more surprised than myself. I can justify this preface only in the following way. One is liable to expect other people to see, on their first reading of a book, all that one has come to perceive in the course of a developing intimacy with it.”



– T. S. Eliot: “Introduction”, Preface to Djuna Barnes: Nightwood, Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York, 1937

“As my admiration for the book has not diminished, and my only motive for revision would be to remove or conceal evidences of my own immaturity at the time of writing – a temptation which may present itself to any critic reviewing his own words at twelve year’s distance – I have thought best to leave unaltered a preface which may still, I hope, serve its original purpose of indicating an approach helpful for the new reader.”



– T. S. Eliot: “Note to Second Edition”, Preface to Djuna Barnes: Nightwood, Faber and Faber, London, 1949


Throughout the course of the exhibition works by the artists can be seen in exhibitions such as:

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FLY BY’S

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Galleri Christoffer Egelund is proud to present the group exhibition Fly By’s. The exhibition was curated in cooperation with Anders Brinch and Morten Steen Hebsgaard and presents an international line-up of nine progressive artists, who all individually reflect the contemporary art scene of today. Consequently, visitors can see new works by: Sören Hüttel (DK), Ghost of a Dream (US), Gudrun Hasle (DK), Andreas Schulenburg (DE/DK), Helgi Thorsson (IS), Tom Fruin (US), Mats Adelman (SE), Jesper Dalgaard (DK) and Matt Franks (UK). Each of these nine artists incorporate their own unique style into sculptural, light or wall works. They come together from different parts of the world and converge in the same space, ready for a Fly By at Galleri Christoffer Egelund, where they will have room for everything from quiet passages to wilder excesses.

Sören Hüttel (DK) graduated from Funen Art Academy and Glasgow School of Art. He has exhibited in, amongst other places, Latvia, China, Scotland, the US and most recently at Gentofte Library’s Trane exhibition with ”Disco Volante”. Ghost of a Dream consists of the artist couple Adam Eckstrom and Lauren Was (MFA Painting with Honors and MFA Sculpture with Honors, respectively, from Rhode Island School of Design). They have recently participated in the Young Masters exhibition in London, VOLTA 5 Artist Project in Basel, and Talent Preview ’09 at White Box Gallery in New York. Gudrun Hasle (DK), who graduated from Funen Art Academy and the Royal Danish Academy of Art, has presented solo exhibitions at, for instance, Funen Art Museum and, in the US, West Chicago City Museum. Andreas Schulenburg (DK/DE), who graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Art, has exhibited at, for instance, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art and Malmö Kunsthal and is represented at ARoS Art Museum, the New Carlsberg Foundation and the US Penny McCall Foundation and others. Helgi Thorsson (IS) is an MA in Fine Art from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam with solo exhibitions at, for instance, Fries Museum (Holland), and most recently he participated in ’Momentum Festival – 5th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art’ in Norway. Tom Fruin (US), who graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, has exhibited at such museums as Haifa Museum (Israel), Museum of Contemporary Art (Denver, Colorado), Austin Museum of Art (Austin, Texas), and Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt. Moreover, he is represented in several collections. Mats Adelman (SE), who graduated from Malmö Art Academy, is represented in the permanent collections of Malmö Art Museum and Lund Art Museum, amongst others. Jesper Dalgaard (DK), who graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Art, has exhibited at Aarhus Art Museum, Skive Art Museum and the National Gallery of Denmark, amongst others, and has received the biennial scholarship of Statens Kunstfond (Denmark’s national art foundation). Matt Franks (UK) has an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmith College of Art in London. He has exhibited at, for instance, Birmingham Museum of Modern Art, Tate Britain in London and the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut, USA, and received the British Council’s Individual Artists Award in 2001.

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