RVCA ANP QUARTERLY

10/22/08

noreply@blogger.com (Brendan Fowler) — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:33:00 +0000

And there will be a pretty good Frieze post in a day or two...

And if you are anywhere on the eastcoast this weekend, Printed Matter's UNREAL AMAZING annual New York Art Book Fair is this weekend... more on that here http://www.nyartbookfair.com/ http://www.nyartbookfair.com/ http://www.nyartbookfair.com/ http://www.nyartbookfair.com/ http://www.nyartbookfair.com/

ghost corpse b/w aaaahhhhhh!!

noreply@blogger.com (Brendan Fowler) — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:09:00 +0000

Ooga Booga going HUGE this weekend

noreply@blogger.com (Brendan Fowler) — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:58:00 +0000

Best store ever, Ooga Booga is going huge this weekend in LA—Mary Ping and Sharon Cheslow events... both are so so major!! I can't even begin to tell you how much we endorse both of these... if you are around... here is the word straight from the mouth of the... Wendy!!

Please join us Friday evening at a reception for designer Mary Ping of Slow and Steady Wins the Race. She has a special installation at Ooga Booga that will run from October 17-31! +Friday evening 7-10pm in Ooga Booga courtyard! Tunes by DJ Anh Do! For more info: www.slowandsteadywinstherace.com www.maryping.com +This event is part of Chinatown's fashion-themed night:

then....

++++++++++++INTERROBANG #5 LAUNCH!++++++++++++ Come out Saturday night for the launch of Sharon Cheslow's long-running publication, Interrobang?! Words & performances by Sharon Cheslow and Steve Touchton (of XBXRX, Snowsuit), and DJ Gabie Strong! Raw vegan snacks by Crops & Rawbers!! Interrobang #5 features contributions by: Liz Alibi, Erika Anderson, Bill Berkson, Sharon Cheslow, Cynthia Connolly, Shaila Dewan, Alan Licht, Ian MacKaye, Kevin Mattson, Pauline Oliveros, Anna Oxygen, Janet Sarbanes, Jean Smith, Matthew Wascovich, Sara Wintz. For more info: www.banginterro.com www.sharoncheslow.com

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noreply@blogger.com (Brendan Fowler) — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:05:00 +0000

this really happened

noreply@blogger.com (Brendan Fowler) — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:40:00 +0000

GZ?

noreply@blogger.com (Brendan Fowler) — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:05:00 +0000

Flourescent Createx Airbrush Colors 4 fl. oz. (120 ml.) Flouresent Red

noreply@blogger.com (Brendan Fowler) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:34:00 +0000

Tuesday Contest Way Won

noreply@blogger.com (Brendan Fowler) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:54:00 +0000

The Tuesday contest has been won... it was actually won way earlier in the day but this is my first time on the computer since I put it up... Again, I want to thank everyone who wrote in—there were so many great answers, and I'm actually gonna post some of them in the morning because our ANPQ#5 cover stars—the very very productive JD Samson and Emily Roysdon—have done so much stuff that I was reminded of some things I had forgotten... And since the whole thing was such a joy to do, we're going to have two winners this time!
BOOM!
More in the morning!

New Contest Tuesday

noreply@blogger.com (Brendan Fowler) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:42:00 +0000

So, in honor of the fact the our new site is still not up yet, we bring you another cover question... but this one is a little trickier... winner gets to pick any one organic cotton cut-and-sew RVCA/ANPQuarterly shirt of his or her choosing (choices available HERE Please email your answers to info@rvcaanpq.com along with your shirt choice, size, and mailing address.
Question: Who appeared on the cover on ANPQ#5 and name at least two projects for which they are often known (ie, art works, bands, zines, literary journals, political contexts, etc.).

FYI

noreply@blogger.com (Brendan Fowler) — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:54:00 +0000

You've probably seen this already, but if not, two very special people just started a weekly blog in a very major space...
Their Bios
First Entry
Art and fashion, sure.
Politics and style, yes.

Whoah that was so fast!

noreply@blogger.com (Brendan Fowler) — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:49:00 +0000

I posted the contest blog post at 3:02 pm (see below) and the winning answer came in at 4:19 pm... it was the second response, and it was sent from Anacortes, Washington. The correct answer was ANPQ #2, Raymond Pettibon ANPQ #4, Larry Clark Thank you so so much to everyone who answered! This was really fun and I think we'll do another one of these on Tuesday, so please check back...

First ANPQ contest

noreply@blogger.com (Brendan Fowler) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:02:00 +0000

...so, when the shirts got made we set a bunch of them aside to give away to our readers in contests... well, I fully forgot! I'm sorry.
BUT, I just remembered, so lets get this cooking! We're going to have a few of these contests and they'll each appear randomly on this blog, so make sure you check back for more chances if you don't win this time. Okay, first question:

Since the main site is under construction and you can't view the back issues, please tell us who graced the covers of ANPQ's #2 and #4... Email your answers to info@rvcaanpq.com and please include your choice of 1 ANPQ artist or logo shirt (see your choices HERE), your tshirt size, your physical mailing address (prize will ship via ups or fedex, so no POBoxes), and write ANPQ SHIRT ANSWER in the email header... Winner will be notified via email...
Goodluck!

(also, side note, I just noticed that the shirts got $20 cheaper in the RVCA webstore... RVCA is our loving parent company, and they produced our fancy organic cotton ANPQ limited edition artist shirts, but they also set the prices in the beginning, and suddenly just decided to lower them without warning... Which we're excited about! The printing is super super nice and, as I said, they are printed on extra soft RVCA organic cotton cut-and-sew TShirts... and they are available HERE.

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noreply@blogger.com (Brendan Fowler) — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:21:00 +0000

REGISTER TO VOTE IMMEDIATELY

noreply@blogger.com (Brendan Fowler) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:21:00 +0000

please, it only takes one second and they don't ask your email or name....

noreply@blogger.com (Brendan Fowler) — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:38:00 +0000

Granted, it is kind of fishy that they don't ask your name or email, but hopefully they only take one count per computer/ip address? At any rate, please just click it and say "NO FUCKING WAY!!!!!!!!!!!" http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html

the Chris Johanson show up right now

noreply@blogger.com (Brendan Fowler) — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:46:00 +0000

I can't. Truth be told, I have been trying to figure out how to talk about this show for a few weeks now—luckily it is up for another month plus, so my deliberations can't have wrecked all chances to see it for anyone that didn't know about it already. But I still don't want to do it the injustice of trying to describe it. If you can go see it, please please please do. It is at Deitch Projects, 18 Wooster St, NY until October 25th. If you can't make it there, there are images below on the Deitch site I linked or you could google "chris johanson totalities deitch" and look through the vast quantity of images and videos out there. My relationship to it is weirdly close; Chris was one of my favorite artists, then my boss, my mentor, still one of my best friends. But unlike his last major solo show at Deitch in 2002, which I helped to build and saw develop first hand, I had nothing to do with this show. He was in New York for a year and a half working on it, painting and accumulating scrap wood the entire time (the show consists of I don't know how many paintings, and several houses worth of wood, all of which is found/scrapped/recycled), but I had no idea what it was going to be, for the most part, until the opening. And then there it was, this absolutely heroic art gesture, incredibly sensitive, generous and absolutely successfully/functionally/ beautifully political. Even the smallest works on paper are so incredibly evolved in the scheme of his oeuvre, and then to consider the context of the entire thing... Really, this show... Chris Johanson, Totalities Chris Johanson, Totalities Chris Johanson, Totalities Chris Johanson, Totalities Chris Johanson, Totalities Chris Johanson, Totalities Chris Johanson, Totalities Chris Johanson, Totalities Chris Johanson, Totalities

NewSiteSoSoon!

noreply@blogger.com (Brendan Fowler) — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:16:00 +0000

It was even done, but we had to do some tweaking... so soon!!

You're not gonna want to miss this!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Rose) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:31:00 +0000

RAYMOND PETTIBON PART 1: Seminal Early Work (1978-1988) September 13 - October 18, 2008 Regen Projects is pleased to announce an exhibition in two parts by Los Angeles based artist, Raymond Pettibon. Opening in September, Part I will feature seminal works from the 1980s, and will be his 7th solo exhibition at the gallery. This segment will highlight a range of topics including film noir, politics, hippie culture, religion, and music. Drawn in Pettibon's signature style, many of the assembled drawings were featured in Pettibon's early 'zines. The linear India ink drawings demonstrate a fluidity that nods both to comic influences as well as an overreaching exploration of American culture. The selected drawings in Part I assembled from private collections as well as the artist's and the gallery's archives. In December Part II of the exhibition will feature a selection of recent work, generally more densely layered and extremely worked, addressing topical issues of the day. REGEN PROJECTS 633 North Almont Drive Los Angeles, CA 90069 t 310-276-5424 f 310-276-7430 www.regenprojects.com REGEN PROJECTS II 9016 Santa Monica Boulevard (at Almont Drive)

FYI

noreply@blogger.com (Brendan Fowler) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:03:00 +0000

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ESPO in Milano

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Rose) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:25:00 +0000

Steve Powers Separating Light from Dark September 10 - October 31, 2008 Opening: Wednesday, September 10th at 6:30 PM Galleria Patricia Armocida via Bazzini 17, 20131 - Milano +39 339 7291034 info@galleriapatriciaarmocida.com. Galleria Patricia Armocida is proud to present Separating Light from Dark, the first solo exhibition in Italy by the artist Steve Powers, aka ESPO (Philadelphia, 1968), opening on Wednesday September 10, 2008 at 6:30 PM. After participating in the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001, Powers returns to Italy to present his most recent work: 25 never-before-seen enamel on aluminum paintings and the series 8 Day Week from his solo exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia in 2007. His is an unmistakable style reminiscent of the graphic esthetics of 1950s hand-painted advertising signs combined with a raw, sharp visual language, and ironically pungent texts. In his most recent works, the artist plays with the concept of sacred and profane, the amazing and the mundane. Separating Light from Dark is not only a reference to a biblical passage from Genesis where God, on the first day of Creation, separates the light from the darkness; but also a reference to the most ordinary, banal, and earthly act of separating the lights from darks when doing laundry. The combination of all the works on display adds up to 25/8, which implies an impossible work rhythm: 25 hours a day, 8 days a week as opposed to 24/7. An extra hour a day, an extra day a week, extra time that does not exist which links the Stakhanovism of New York, the city that never sleeps, to the biblical story of Creation. Through a clever and humorous wordplay, the days of the week aren't Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday; but rather Mundane, Duesday, Whensday, Thirsty, Frieday, Sadderday, and Someday. Steve Powers' work addresses the trials and tribulations of contemporary lived experience: love, hate, frustration, desire, insecurity, jealousy, rage, struggle, and the confusion of human experience. In Studio Gangster, the catalog for his solo exhibition in Philadelphia, the artist writes: "The result are maps of the emotions that guides us toward divinity and doom. For all the cynicism that is on display in my paintings, there is an equal amount of faith and love. I believe the work depicts both sides of humanity; We' re capable of greatness, but we usually just screw things up". Stephen Powers was born and raised in Philadelphia, then moved to New York City in 1994. After publishing On the Go Magazine, authoring the book The Art Of Getting Over, and being a full-time graffiti writer, Powers opened his studio practice in January of 1998. Since then he has shown at The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Deitch Projects, The 49th Venice Biennale, and The Luggage Store in San Francisco. In 2003, he founded the Dreamland Artist Club and partnered with Creative Time to commission over 45 artists to paint signs and rides in Coney Island. His book of pop art short stories, First And Fifteenth, was published by Villard in 2005. As a 2008 Fulbright Scholar, Powers painted a love story in the streets of Dublin and Belfast. He lives and works in Manhattan.

early sept

noreply@blogger.com (Brendan Fowler) — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:19:00 +0000

If anyone happens to be in NY tomorrow, tuesday sept 9, 2008, and wants to see the first show of the new raddest band, here is your chance... Silk Flowers is 2 thirds of Soiled Mattress and The Springs and 1 fourth of Emergency/1 half Corpse Kisser/ 1 half of car clutch (not the BF half)... anyways, I am really honored to have any sense that I am announcing their arrival into this world. City Center is Fred Thomas' newer AMAZING band and Hard Bop shreds, literally, and Katie E was in Young People, who you liked.

this thursday in Nashville, TN

noreply@blogger.com (Brendan Fowler) — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:14:00 +0000

08/22/08

noreply@blogger.com (Brendan Fowler) — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:33:00 +0000

today, this friday, today

noreply@blogger.com (Brendan Fowler) — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:59:00 +0000

If you're in New York. www.newmuseum.org www.newmuseum.org www.newmuseum.org www.newmuseum.org www.newmuseum.org www.newmuseum.org www.newmuseum.org www.newmuseum.org

08/17/08

noreply@blogger.com (Brendan Fowler) — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:50:00 +0000