"B-B-B-BAD"

Anna Kustera Gallery
520 West 21st Street NYC

June 30 - August 12
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 30, 6-8PM

Featuring:
Adam Axel • Mattia Biagi • Keith Boadwee • Matt Borruso • Charles Browning • Elijah Burgher • Luke Butler • Wayne Coe • Steve Davis • Peter Eide • Scott Ewalt • Glen Fogel • Jonah Freeman • Martha Friedman • Paul Gabrielli • John Wayne Gacy • Joe Graham-Felsen • Gregory Green • Adam Helms • Lisa Kirk • Kristian Kozul • Scooter LaForge • Wes Lang • Karine Laval • Patrick Lee • Michael Magnan • Paul McCarthy • Adam McEwen • Bob Mizer • John Monteith • John Ensor Parker & Johnny Moreno • Luc Sante • Ryan Schneider • Jeff Shagawat • Tara Sinn • HankWillisThomas • Wolfgang Tillmans • John Waters • Karlheinz Weinberger • Eric Yahnker

Curated by: Doug McClemont & Billy Miller

INFO:
http://newyork.timeout.com/arts-culture/art/1747433/review-“b-b-b-bad”


(Above: sculpture by Gregory Green)

Channeling

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it.

It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others."

-Martha Graham

Dumb No More

“The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men’s rights nor women’s rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.”

—Helen Keller, 1911

INFO:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller
http://www.nndb.com/people/074/000046933/

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."*

*-Michelangelo