950 Hart Gallery: A History

A Truth

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:47:00 -0500

“Having sex is like getting old and young at the same time.”

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Here’s a painting by Jim Herbert from his solo show at English Kills.

http://englishkillsartgallery.com/artists/jim-herbert/

How Was Mushroom Universe?

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:56:58 -0500

How Was Mushroom Universe? :

Huge thanks to Katarina and Terri (the masterminds), Ken, Andrea and Matthew (the artists), jojoSoul (mix master), and everyone who joined us.

If y’all wanna party like we do…

bushwickgallery:

…. simply awesome! The art opening and the 90s dance party was crafted in the kitchen ofBushwickGallery.com, our artsy lil’ sister, and brought to life thanks to our dear friends 950 Hart Gallery. Last Friday night has proved once again that the power of creative collaboration is amazing.

I don’t know about them, but we’re havin’ a...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:46:45 -0500

Katarina and Sean intently stratagizing

The before picture

It's like unwrapping presents!

I don’t know about them, but we’re havin’ a ball.

bushwickgallery:

Getting Ready for Mushroom Universe!

With “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” coming up, we...

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:21:01 -0500

The Permanent Collection

A Midsummer Night's Dream

With “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” coming up, we decided to try something new with the gallery. The sudden departure of all of our roommates gave us the room to maneuver downstairs. So we threw away everything they left behind that wasn’t art.

Then Antoinette cleaned and painted the entire floor a solid black. She painted it with a brush. We hung some art by Raquel, Antoinette, Kronenberg, Grant, and Joe.

Teddi Rogers, Michael Noel, E.V. Svetova, and Irena Romendik dropped off some artwork. Then a mystery man named Eisig Frost created a projection room out of a bunk bed and some green fabric gifted to us by Bil Bond.

On the night of the exhibition Michael and I spoke with Oriana of the cool blog Brooklyn Spaces about the gallery.

http://brooklyn-spaces.com/2011/08/950-hart-gallery/

The Shimmies - Angels | 950 Hart Gallery My life was saved by...

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:47:24 -0500

The Shimmies - Angels | 950 Hart Gallery

My life was saved by Rock and Roll.

Before all of that came to pass, our friend Worm Carnevale...

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:52:24 -0400

Before all of that came to pass, our friend Worm Carnevale stopped by for a photo shoot with our dinosaur-girl. She makes tri-hawks out of her hair for special occasions. This one was for when Simon Pegg Came to town.

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Animation: Worm Carnevale

Model: Antoinette Johnson

About one week before we were set to hang that show at the Life...

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:49:20 -0400

Mikki Left Last

Mi Hermana

About one week before we were set to hang that show at the Life Cafe, we received a letter from someone that prompted most of the roommates from one section of our gallery to leave…

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So Antoinette and I moved our bed upstairs and lived alone together for a month. Until a painter by the name of Raquel Echanique moved in with us. She is my art sister.

July 2011 at the Life Cafe 983

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:19:08 -0400

July 2011 at the Life Cafe 983:

What’s so funny ‘bout a little peace, love and art battling?

There is no valid reason to miss what’s going to happen...

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:27:50 -0400

There is no valid reason to miss what’s going to happen tomorrow.

The mind behind numerous art shows has brought us a solo exhibit.

You must have heard of him: the photographer, the video artist, the art director, the experimental musician.

Worm Carnevale will let us live every dream in one night.

This is your opportunity to meet the person who has stayed behind the curtain. The one pulling down the strings of collage and mastering it into different art forms. He juxtaposes the most immediate elements that can bite the collective brain, underlining discomfort as a necessary feeling.

His work can make us recall a contemporary Pavlov that brings the innate and conditioned reflex to the art world.

We are doing nothing but inhabiting an automatic body. Everything else is a dream.

Eat, shit, smoke, fuck. Repeat. Be prepared for your nervous system to be drilled.

I hope to see every moving body and mind tomorrow, from 7 until 10PM at 950 Hart Gallery.

-Raquel Echanique

A taste of taste. **** Through the looking glass of Kave...

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:56:45 -0400

A taste of taste.

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Through the looking glass of Kave Drawings. A preview is available to see during “We Dream As We Live” the Solo Exhibition by Worm Carnevale at 950 Hart Gallery.

Moses in the Desert performed by Zachariah Scott and Sean Alday...

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:49:00 -0400

Moses in the Desert performed by Zachariah Scott and Sean Alday | 950 Hart Gallery

A slab of history from my high school days. -Sean

Veronica Isley - Naomi | 950 Hart Gallery New Neutral Milk Hotel...

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:05:00 -0400

Veronica Isley - Naomi | 950 Hart Gallery

New Neutral Milk Hotel cover by Veronica Isley.

Veronica Isley - Wicked Games (Electric) | 950 Hart Gallery...

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:02:39 -0400

Veronica Isley - Wicked Games (Electric) | 950 Hart Gallery

Veronica Isley on the electric guitar.

Sean Alday - Hurricane Mary Jane | 950 Hart Gallery 2 songs in...

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:05:04 -0400

Sean Alday - Hurricane Mary Jane | 950 Hart Gallery

2 songs in one.

Selling My Heart | 950 Hart Gallery From Sean’s album:...

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:53:33 -0400

Selling My Heart | 950 Hart Gallery

From Sean’s album: Diddle Doo.

6. Worm Carnevale is an exception to many, many rules. ****Rule...

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:10:05 -0400

Bushwick Open Studios 2011

Broken Harts

Post Broken Harts

Took that picture after hanging work.

6. Worm Carnevale is an exception to many, many rules.

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Rule 1: He hangs all of his own work.
Rule 2: He can pack a wall until it looks like the Milky Way.
Rule 3: Life Café? 9 pieces instead of 20.
Rule 4: No eyes know I. Glasses on.
Rule 5: Turn the camera on yourself.

Rule #5: Talk about your Fight Club

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:00:05 -0400

Rule #5: Talk about your Fight Club:

5. Document while others document.

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-This isn’t meta. This reminds you how much love you put into what you do.

4. It’s not superstition. **** -We’ve hung a particular...

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:01:06 -0400

4. It’s not superstition.

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-We’ve hung a particular piece by Grant Stoops in every show since the beginning of this art gallery.

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Can you spot this Waldo?

3. There’s a way around every wall. ****-To do well, we had to...

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:05:05 -0400

Bil Bond's Installation

Floating Fever Dream Paintings

They too make for good backdrops.

Cell Phone pic of Cell Culture.

3. There’s a way around every wall.

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-To do well, we had to become innovative and always work harder on the upcoming show. For our fifth show, it was the fifth year of Bushwick Open Studios. Bil Bond revamped his installation for the “Garden of Eve”. Inside the gallery Kronenberg and I hung track lights that our guardian angel had given to us. From there, Kronenberg put a bar up across the sprinklers. I climbed our borrowed ladder to suspend Raquel Echanique’s paintings from wires.

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950 Hart! Big D…………………….s!

2. Don’t pack the wall too tight. **** -Michael Alan was...

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:00:06 -0400

Breathing Life Into Soft Sculpture

Two Pieces by Michael Alan

Made for a good backdrop with Jarvis.

2. Don’t pack the wall too tight.

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-Michael Alan was sitting back, he had decided not to hang his own work, as is the privilege of having someone else curate a show. Myself and Kronenberg looked at the wall for imperfections to hide behind the paintings and drawings.

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“Give it room to breath.” he said.