Jest Another Art Show

Jest Another Art Show

Catalog | April 2015

Smith&Jones

Smith&Jones

April 2015 Jest Another Art Show

Joseph Barral Samm Cohen Julie Goldberg Prudence Groube Anthony Haden-Guest Amy Kurzweil Lisa Levy Neila Mezynski Barbara Rosenthal Blake Sandberg Eryk Wenziak

Organized by Joseph A.W. Quintela Cover Photo by Lisa Levy

Sales and Inquiries | sales@smithandjonesart.com

Jest Another Art Show

Outside of a museum, art is man's best friend. Inside of a museum there's too much art to see.

-Joseph A. W. Quintela

Smith&Jones

Smith&Jones

Joseph Barral

Any fin is possible, 2014 Acrylic on wood 12� x 12� $250

Sales and Inquiries | sales@smithandjonesart.com

Jest Another Art Show

Smith&Jones

Smith&Jones

Samm Cohen

RuPaul Steals the Sun, 2015 mixed media with all recycled materials 13" x 16.5" $256

Sales and Inquiries | sales@smithandjonesart.com

Jest Another Art Show

Smith&Jones

Smith&Jones

Julie Goldberg

Ready for Rain, 2015 acrylic on gesso board 10� x 8�

$200

Sales and Inquiries | sales@smithandjonesart.com

Jest Another Art Show

Smith&Jones

Smith&Jones

Prudence Groube

Andy Warhol Stole My Cell Phone (Use), 2014 inkjet print on matte 18� x 24� $250

Sales and Inquiries | sales@smithandjonesart.com

Jest Another Art Show

Smith&Jones

Smith&Jones

Prudence Groube

Andy Warhol Stole My Cell Phone (detail), 2014 inkjet print on matte 18� x 24� $250

Sales and Inquiries | sales@smithandjonesart.com

Jest Another Art Show

Smith&Jones

Smith&Jones

Anthony Haden-Guest

Hello Dali 11" x 9" framed black ink on paper $350

Sales and Inquiries | sales@smithandjonesart.com

Jest Another Art Show

Smith&Jones

Smith&Jones

Amy Kurzweil

Employees Must Wash Hands, 2015 C-print 20” x 16”, edition of 9 $300 10” x 8”, edition of 100 $100

Sales and Inquiries | sales@smithandjonesart.com

Jest Another Art Show

Smith&Jones

Smith&Jones

Lisa Levy

The Thoughts in My Head #25 Curators oil on canvas 20” x 16” $1500

Sales and Inquiries | sales@smithandjonesart.com

Jest Another Art Show

Smith&Jones

Smith&Jones

Neila Mezynski

Eeyore felt, string, wire 6" x 3" x 3� $200

Sales and Inquiries | sales@smithandjonesart.com

Jest Another Art Show

Smith&Jones

Smith&Jones

Barbara Rosenthal

Caveman Cartoon: Lascaux, 2007 Electronic-HandOnMouseDrawing & Photo Collage as Digital Print 13� x 19� $685

Sales and Inquiries | sales@smithandjonesart.com

Jest Another Art Show

Smith&Jones

Smith&Jones

Blake Sandberg

Direct Line To A Jersey Milk Cow collage and ink on paper 9.5� x 11� $600

Sales and Inquiries | sales@smithandjonesart.com

Jest Another Art Show

Smith&Jones

Smith&Jones

Blake Sandberg

Direct Line To A Jersey Cow plastic cow, telephone, cardboard and acrylic paint in shadowbox 9.5” x 11” x 3.5” $1500

Sales and Inquiries | sales@smithandjonesart.com

Jest Another Art Show

Smith&Jones

Smith&Jones

Eryk Wenziak

destination will be on the right, 2014 typewriter ink on paper 11� x 8.5� $100

Sales and Inquiries | sales@smithandjonesart.com

Jest Another Art Show

Smith&Jones

Smith&Jones About the Artists: Joseph Barral is a painter and graphic artist. His Brooklyn studio / darkroom is where he creates his pieces. Working back and forth between several pieces, Joseph’s work combines, and sometimes blurs, the lines between his two passions; painting and photography. Each piece influences the outcome of the other. Most recently experimenting with sculpture, collage, photo emulsion, chemical painting and cameras, Joseph’s work is driven by both curiosity and patience.

Samm Cohen, born in New York, began making intense, passionate artwork before she could write. With painting and photography from a young age and the influence of the study of psychology, her voice has been growing for over 30 years in multiple mediums; whatever feels right and seems pertinent to the message being aesthetically conveyed. The raw and honest quality of the work demonstrates devotion to her art. Samm has shown in over 30 various art exhibitions, (both solo and group), and has published/interviewed in a number of different journals. (sammcohen.com)

Sales and Inquiries | sales@smithandjonesart.com

Jest Another Art Show Julie Goldberg is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work exposes layers of human consciousness and material anomalies. Her artistic practice is rooted in the body and includes movement, colors, sound, video, and performance. Julie moved to NYC after receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Dance from the University of Oregon. She has since performed and shown work in galleries, theaters, house parties and public spaces all over the city. In addition to developing her own solo performance work, Julie currently dances for Emily Smith/ Not for reTAIL, contributes to the online journal Invisible Artists, and shows work of various mediums through Smith&Jones.

Australian born artist Prudence Groube’s world of MIMACHAN inhabits the space between the seen and unseen, inviting the viewer to view through the candy colored lens of a pop culture drifter.

The world of MIMACHAN does not have to make sense. There is no earth, no sky, no boundaries. In this place a new language, a new way of being becomes possible. Prudence’s work is in private collections both domestically and internationally. She has shown in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Miami in both solo and group shows. She is the founder and curator of COLLECTnyc - dedicated to the support and continuing education of emerging artists, creating events and programs that allow artists to interact with the community whom they seek to serve through their cultural contribution. (mimasuchan.blogspot.com/)

Smith&Jones

Smith&Jones Anthony Haden-Guest is a writer, reporter and cartoonist. He was born in Paris and lives in New York and London.

He has published in leading magazines in Britain and America, most recently in Esquire and GQ (UK) and Britain’s Observer Magazine. In 1979 he was awarded a New York Emmy for writing and narrating a documentary, The Affluent Immigrants (sometimes less politely known as Eurotrash) for PBS. His most recent books are True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World (Grove Atlantic), The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco and the Culture of the Night (William Morrow & Co,) and a book of cartoons, The Chronicles of Now (The Allworth Press), as well as the latest: In The Mean Time (Frieght Volume). (www.anthonyhadenguest.com/) Amy Kurzweil

(amykurzweil.com/)

Sales and Inquiries | sales@smithandjonesart.com

Jest Another Art Show

Lisa Levy is a conceptual artist, painter, performer, comedian and (selfproclaimed) psychotherapist. Before devoting herself full time to her art, she had a career as an art director in advertising. Her visual art has been widely exhibited at many venues including White Columns, Artists Space, Printed Matter, The New Museum, The Bronx Museum, Schroeder and Romero and Auxiliary Projects. Recently, Lisa completed a psychological investigation of extraordinary people for a multimedia project at The Brooklyn Academy of Music. She also performs live; her most popular character is Dr. Lisa, S.P. (self-proclaimed) who psychoanalyzes people on stage and on the street. Lisa has performed at The Brooklyn Museum, Joe’s Pub, The Woolly Mammoth Theater and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Dr. Lisa is currently doing a show called, “Stand Up. Lie Down.” where she does live psychoanalysis on comedians, based on their sets. (www.lisalevyindustries.com/) Neila Mezynski was a dancer / choreographer, is a painter / installation / found object artist and author.

Smith&Jones

Smith&Jones

Barbara Rosenthal A native New Yorker, Barbara Rosenthal is a prolific, idiosyncratic, highly original Media and Performance artist, referred to in print as a "Media Poet" by The Village Voice and elsewhere since the 1980s. She produced her first Performance/Installation in 1968, and Photography/Video in 1976, often mixing text with surreal photographic imagery, and such works are in the collections of MoMA, Whitney, Tate, etc. Her major books are "Clues to Myself", "Sensations", "Homo Futurus" and "Soul & Psyche" and the next, the novel “Wish for Amnesia� is just out now from Deadly Chaps Press, NYC. (www.emedialoft.org/artistspages/barbararosenthal.htm)

Blake Sandberg has shown a remarkable interest in art since he was a child, painting and drawing almost constantly. His parents supported his artistic habits, allowing him to turn their laundry room into a studio. While a teenager, he attended the San Antonio Art Institute founded by Linda Pace and then The University of Texas at Austin.

There, Blake studied with Peter Saul and Michael Ray Charles. In 1997, Blake moved to the East Village and began showing in New York. His works have been seen alongside Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, George Condo, Christo, Philip Guston, Keith Haring, and Salvador Dali. (www.blakesandberg.com)

Sales and Inquiries | sales@smithandjonesart.com

Jest Another Art Show

Eryk Wenziak is Editor-in-Chief of rIgor mort.US, art editor at A-minor Magazine, and art director at A-minor Press. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including elimae, Used Furniture Review, HOUSEFIRE, Connotation Press, Psychic Meatloaf, and Short, Fast, and Deadly. He has published four chapbooks: 4am, a visual poetry collection published

by No Press (Canada); 1975, an experimental poem published by Deadly Chaps (US) which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize; Status Programs | Some Rules For Us To Break, a collaborative writing effort which utilizes Facebook to generate the output of poetry; and You are my anti-spam hero, a collection of spam-email subject headings published by Twenty-four Hours Press (US), also nominated for a Pushcart Prize. (www.erykwenziak.com)

Smith&Jones

Smith&Jones

About the Organizer:

Joseph A. W. Quintela is a poet, artist, publisher, and art-organizer working at the fault lines emergent in the face of post-textual and post-productive modes of living. With a particular interest in material excess, systemic collapse, and generative revitalization, his practice harnesses a fluency in a variety of media including paint, light, books, text, and culinary ingredrients. Solo exhibitions in New York have included Portrait of the Cast of You in Eye (Dumbo Sky, 2013) and FOOT | KNOTS (Project Space Envelope, 2012). He has organized exhibitions for Undercurrent Projects (Books Without Words, 2014), Terrazzo Art Projects (Se Cayo Todo, 2014), and the Brooklyn-based Pop-Up initiative Smith&Jones. Ongoing displays of his work are housed at The Strand, Central Booking (LES), and Salina’s Restaurant (Chelsea). (www.josephquintela.com)

Sales and Inquiries | sales@smithandjonesart.com

Jest Another Art Show

www.smithandjonesart.com

Smith&Jones