A great friend Martha Rich opens at SFA Projects

Martha Rich

"Nuts, Charm & Rejection"

@ CultureFix, 9 Clinton Street, NYC

Opening Reception: Friday, January 14th, 7-9pm

Show runs through February 6th.

Manned gallery hours are Friday through Sunday, Noon to 6.

View the entire show online at:http://www.sfaprojects.com/11RichCF.html 

I wrote the introduction for my friend marion Peck's monograph.

"Animal Love Summer"
A new exhibition book by Marion Peck.
Forward essay by Aaron Smith

Marion will be signing copies of her new exhibition book "Animal Love Summer" during her upcoming exhibition at Alix Sloan Fine Art in New York, NY.

Booksigning: Saturday, December 18th, 3 to 5 pm

Sloan Fine Art
128 Rivington Street
New York, NY 10002
212.477.1140
Sloan Fine Art
info@sloanfineart.com

Marion Peck News

Friends with Cursors

The Lower East Side's most visible gallery, Sloan Fine Art is a clean, well-lit mecca of contemporary art in Manhattan's epicenter of all things trending. Truth-be-told, Alix Sloan is not only my art dealer, but she has long been a best-friend-in-all-the-world to me. So with rampant self interest, and a shameless insider's point-of-view, I encourage all readers to follow the gallery's new blog. It promises to give a nice picture of Lower Manhattan's artistic life.

http://sloanfineart.blogspot.com/

Pictured above:
Kristen Schiele
"Sin With Me"
2010
38" x 45"
silkscreen, airbrush & oil on canvas

The Danger of Teaching at an Art School

Every so often I'll be lecturing in class, and I'll look down and notice one of my students using me as a drawing model. It's an occupational hazard. Drawings like this help me to maintain a realistic perception of my appearance. These CARICATURES are by the talented and buff David Patel.

Nolan Hendrickson paints with riotous humor.

There is a giddy irreverence at play in the large canvases of New York artist Nolan Hendrickson. Queer culture seems equally celebrated and lampooned as swishy/butch men pose lasciviously together and alone. Hendrickson's keen color sense and daring graphic approach captivate as he hilariously gooses good taste with raunchiness. While these paintings must inevitably be seen against a background of social and political change, their impish ambivalence keeps them from being either didactic or merely decorative. We are charmed and challenged. This is gutsy stuff.
Nolan Hendrickson's website can be found in my list of links. nolanhendrickson.com