Really good shew.....

 These images are of pieces of mine that are hanging on the wall at R.Pela Contemporary Art. A couple of the pieces are reconceptualizations of pieces formerly shown. i love being able to do this because it satisfies my inner dysfunctional Mom...Doing this to a piece that I have "let go" of already can be kind of like stuffing a child back into the womb with the express purpose of casting the dice again. If you have seen any of these before it should be instantly clear that they have been chopped apart and shocked back to life again.

 Robrt Pela, who curated the show, owns the eponymous gallery, picks the wine at the opening, builds gallery support teams that are incredibly skillful and dedicated, has a wickedly dry sense of humor...you get the picture. I met Robrt (although apparently both of us barely remember it) during the eighties when both of us lived self-defined charmed lives as record clerks. We met again when he was gracious enough to give me a two-man show at Willo North gallery. Record clerks are only slightly less persnickety and opinionated than artists. But Robrt is living proof that only sometimes they can grow up to be jovial, tolerant, classy human beings.

Two paintings are in the show, both stencil paintings, a process that I posted about earlier. They each are about completely separate ideas, but end up seeming connected to each other thematically.  This gallery, being in a very new space, seems stark and minimal. Music never seems to happen in galleries, at least not during openings, which to me seems a bit sad. If i could soundtrack this gallery i think the collaboration between Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto would be perfect. The echo-laden acoustics of the gallery would be ideal for these streamlined and minimally beautiful pieces.