Swoon, Elbow Toe, Kelly Burns, Stikman in the Meat Packing District of Manhattan. Does anyone know if the painted face is by Cost?
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This is one of three Swoon pieces being auctioned at an incredible art show at ABC No Rio. This seedy, hot, little art and performance space is on the Lower East Side. The art is spectacular. The show continues tonight. Don’t miss it. It must be cooler tonight than it was last night.
All proceeds from the show will benefit the legal fund of local
environmental and social justice activist Daniel McGowan, who
currently faces life plus 335 years in prison on federal charges of
arson, property destruction, and conspiracy. Daniel was arrested
during Operation Backfire, a multi-state sweep of environmental
activists who have now been charged with virtually every unsolved
earth and animal liberation case in the Northwest. Daniel has pled not
guilty to all charges.

ABC No Rio
156 Rivington Street, Manhattan
5-10p; $free
Continues FRIDAY, JULY 28
visual.resistance@gmail.com
visualresistance.org/mcgowan

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Margaret and Adam – Two beautiful crisp prints by Elbow Toe.
Read my recent interview with Elbow Toe.

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I’ve been spelling it “stikman” but the plaques say “stickman.”

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“Stop Bloomberg” In rusty spray paint cans.

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Gore B with Dark Clouds above.

Some art is being sold for as little as $5.

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Doorways are good. I like alcove spaces.

GB: A frame?

ET: A frame and a little privacy for doing something, and
maybe you don’t notice the piece right away. I don’t
know how other people choose their spaces. I certainly
don’t go hunt for them in relation to a piece. Once I get
a piece, I ride around and it’s usually a gut feeling,
this piece just feels right in this area.

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Elbow Toe in DUMBO. Brooklyn, NYC.

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Her Beautiful Hands – Red Hook, Brooklyn

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I find a lot of theater directors inspiring. And dancers like Pina Bausch (images), her gestures, she takes a whole moment and compresses it into this one space.

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I like to draw a lot more than I like to carve the wood. But when it’s all carved out and you have the charcoal against the wood it’s so beautiful. The charcoal has so much more
variation, the ink makes it flat, your line quality is the only thing. I like the charcoal better now. I like to constantly be playing with the image and pushing it around.

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GB: Name some artists whose work excites you.

ET: A lot of them are older…dead… Chaim Soutine, he’s
a Jewish Lithuanian artist, De Kooning and Bacon looked at
him, he for some reason decided that you could take a
figure and twist it and turn it.

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Brooklyn, NY — Beginning June 10th and continuing through June 30th the Garage Gallery in Park Slope, Brooklyn will present ArtCollision’s NYSF (New York/San Francisco) Coastal Salon 2006. ArtCollisionis a non-profit affiliation of international visual artists that promote new and emerging talents in a revolutionary salon tour. Last seen in San Francisco, the current exhibition includes 17 artists from the USA, South America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. ArtCollision has been collectively arranging exhibitions in the US and Europe since 2003.

Highlights of the exhibition include a striking meditative text based piece by Evan Crane, co-founder of ArtCollision who had a solo exhibition at the Garage last fall; the elegant digital cityscapes of Bernard Bolter, co-founder of Art Collision; and breathtaking woodcuts and collage works from artist ELBOW-TOE. Opening reception is tonight, Saturday, June 10 from 7 to Midnight Galley hours are Monday – Thursday (11 – 4 pm), Sunday
(1 – 5 pm). The Garage is located at 291 8th street in Park Slope Brooklyn. It is accessible by the F train 20 4th Avenue or the R/M trains to 9th Street. For more information call 718.909.1935 or visit the website www.thegarage-gallery.com. For more information on ArtCollision visit www.artcollision.org.

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Got to the gallery unfashionably early, and left before Elbow Toe made an appearance. But the piece looks great.

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