950 Hart Gallery: A History
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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 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
What’s so funny ‘bout a little peace, love and art battling?
There is no valid reason to miss what’s going to happen tomorrow.
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The mind behind numerous art shows has brought us a solo exhibit.
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You must have heard of him: the photographer, the video artist, the art director, the experimental musician.
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Worm Carnevale will let us live every dream in one night.
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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.
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His work can make us recall a contemporary Pavlov that brings the innate and conditioned reflex to the art world.
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We are doing nothing but inhabiting an automatic body. Everything else is a dream.
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Eat, shit, smoke, fuck. Repeat. Be prepared for your nervous system to be drilled.
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I hope to see every moving body and mind tomorrow, from 7 until 10PM at 950 Hart Gallery.
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-Raquel Echanique
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.
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.
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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.
1. An artist should be thoughtful when hanging their own artwork. Some should probably never hang their own work.
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-Antoinette hung Mikki’s paintings in a beautiful arrangement. At Mikki’s request, she arranged flowers, framed paintings on paper, canvasses, and religious idols that one may purchase at many bodegas in Brooklyn. He could see the larger picture, but only with vision.
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“Switch that one canvas with the framed piece, it will balance out the wall.” I said.
What caused this art gallery to come into existence? What would we do with it?
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First there were three artists: Antoinette Johnson, Mikki Nylund, and Michael Kronenberg.
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We started asking friends and people we’d met on the street if they wanted to show art in the premiere exhibition of an art gallery. “Where?”
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“950 Hart Gallery.” We decided to take advantage of the sign the landlord had attached above the door at the entrance. What else can you do when you see an opportunity?
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We borrowed Naked Paul’s ladder, hung lights, hung our friends’ artworks, and invited them to invite their friends.
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There were small breakthroughs in knowledge I learned and relearned again. These will be chronicled in 5 lessons over the next five blogs.
Resident artist, co-founder, lover, fighter, master painter, Michael Kronenberg discusses why he finds the 950 Hart Gallery community so profound in our world.
About 950 Hart Gallery: A History
