space 1026

05.25 2007

1026 @ Bravin Lee

Indexiphilia an installation on paper featuring Space 1026 and friends
July 20 – August 10, 2007
BravinLee programs
526 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001
212-462-4404
www.bravinlee.com

05.23 2007

American Sneakers NEEDS YOUR HELP

Help us bring folk music back to those who have folk to talk about. iTunes put the American Sneakers album up on the front page of the folk section, next to Meg Baird’s new album (which is amazing, and you should buy it) Maybe not the best section to be in but at least its funny. SO PLEASE POST A REVIEW OF 5 STARS FOR AMERICAN SNEAKERS SO THE PEOPLE KNOW that they are an pretty OK group of people. go to itunes and type in “American Sneakers”

thanks, MGNT

also, shameless plug but you can buy the silkscreened cover, picture disk 7 inch (artwork by Jim Houser) with cd at www.freenewsprojects.com

05.22 2007

Glad To See You

Teamlump is Lump Lipshitz, Jerstin Crosby, Stewart Sineath, Tory
Wright, Allyson Mellberg, Gary Smith, K Whole, Josh Rickards, and
Jeremy Taylor.

We join together around the Raleigh-based Project
space Lump Gallery founded by Bill Thelen aka Lump Lipshitz, but not
everyone lives in Raleigh or North Carolina. We put together
collaborative group shows that allow our individual voices to remain
sticky, gooey, sexy, robotic, bleeding, redneck, bald, diseased,
beautiful, and campy.

‘Glad To See You’ embodies a sense of nihilistic transience. For
Space 1026, Teamlump is creating a big country squater environment,
complete with full size truck camper like those on sale at Zervs but constructed from cardboard and wood scraps. Behind the camper will be a small crop of marijuana
plants and coming from the corner is a infinite highway that stretches
across the gallery floor.

This atmosphere along with all the other
great work going into the show, creates an omni-present loner and
celebrates those who exist ‘off the grid’, and live off the land.
www.teamlump.org

04.27 2007

WHITE TROUBLE

Andrew Jeffrey Wright solo show at Community Outreach Gallery in London, Ontario, Canada.
show runs to June 2, 2007.
www.communityoutreachgallery.com

04.25 2007

DISHWASHER: One Man’s Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States

Most people would love to travel the country, work at unique places, see beautiful and renowned cities and landmarks, and preferably not spend a lot. But who has the money or the time? Pete Jordan had the time, didn’t have the money, but he made it happen—by washing dishes.

Pete Jordan, a college drop-out and self-proclaimed slacker who was always looking for free grub or a place to crash, had the desire to travel and explore. As a result, he became a man with a mission: to wash dishes in all 50 states. After chronicling some of his experiences in his self-published ’zine called Dishwasher, which erupted into a cult following of 10,000 subscribers, contributing numerous times to public radio’s This American Life, playing an infamous prank on David Letterman, and being approached by countless publishers, Pete finally decided to immortalize his outrageous 12-year journey through the kitchens of America’s food joints in the paperback original, DISHWASHER: One Man’s Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States (Harper Perennial; May 1, 2007; $13.95).

After following a girl to Alaska where he took up a dishing job at a mess hall for fisherman, he realized dishwashing could quite possibly be the perfect job. Pete ended up losing the girl, but he had found his calling.

In DISHWASHER, “Dishwasher Pete” writes about the adventures he experienced on his crusade to wash dishes in every American state. He learned about a “three day soaker,” and the best places to get a “bus tub buffet.” Whether it was an oil rig, a ski resort, a hippie natural food joint, a strict kosher restaurant, or a casino in Reno, Pete never knew where his next job would be or how much he would get paid (or if he would get paid,) which makes his story and the cast of characters he meets along the way all the more intriguing.

Irreverent, literate, entertaining, enlightening, and sometimes a little disgusting, DISHWASHER is one man’s journey to the elusive happily-ever-after.

Now, out of seclusion, Pete will be touring the U.S. to promote the book.

Bindlestiff Books and Space 1026 are sponsoring his Philly appearance on Friday, May 18, 7pm, at Space 1026, 1026 Arch Street. Books will be available at the event.

This event is FREE and open to the public

04.20 2007

Scab on My Brain

Jordin Isip curates Space 1026!

Space 1026 presents:
Scab on My Brain!
(to view the show click here)? A group exhibition curated by New York artist Jordin Isip. This assembled group of twelve artists use their own unique and personal visual vocabulary to create figurative narratives that are both allegorical and psychological. In some works humans can be beastial, weak, imperfect, and vulnerable as they journey through imagined lands, in others, the protagonists may be quietly heroic in seemingly mundane and everyday environments. But whether these images (drawings, paintings, silkscreens, and sculpture) are multi-layered, oozing, cacophonous, and hyperbolic or understated, minimal, reserved and poetic we are compelled to enter realms devised by artists with distinct sensibilities.

Jordan Awan, Gregory Benton, Kiersten Essenpreis, Jordin Isip, Aya Kakeda and Liz Lee are based in
New York City.While Carl Dunn and Evah Fan also have strong New York roots they now live in
Providence and Los Angeles respectively. Mariano Ching and Louie Cordero live in the Philippines,
James Kirkpatrick in Canada, and Nate Williams in Argentina.

Contact:

Damian Weinkrantz simplesemantics@yahoo.com

04.14 2007

PEOPLE ARE EVERYWHERE

Boontling Gallery at 4224 Telegraph Avenue in Oakland, California presentsPEOPLE ARE EVERYWHERE
Friday, May 4th: 7-10 PM
Featuring Jordin Isip, Rich Jacobs, James Kirkpatrick, Matt Leines, William Buzzell, Alex Lukas, and others……………………………….
www.boontlinggallery.com
pictured: crUSAder by William Buzzell

04.13 2007

Free Counselor Assisted Tax Filing

Help is available for all of you last minute tax filers. Stop by Space 1026 on Monday April 16th to file your taxes online with a counselor from The Benefit Bank.

Space is limited!

Event runs from noon to 5pm in the gallery.

RSVP to Aryon as soon as possible.

More information about The Benefit Bank available here:
The Benefit Bank

04.12 2007

You Got The Touch

crystal lee kovacs and andrew jeffrey wright, two person art show in philadelphia! live massage at the opening!

04.11 2007

Pumping Kill Mud Down the Drill Pipe

Pumping Kill Mud Down the Drill Pipe a collaborative printmaking mess at Space 1026 with a delicious sampling of collaborative printed works.

In this corner, Cannonball Press and Howling Print Studios are brewing up a highly caffeinated giant relief print mash up, served strong and black, of course.

The Broadside Battle will be raging on the big wall! It’s gonna be chock full of broadsides, wanted posters, public notices, gig posters – and then the competition begins…a public printoff, kind of like the NFL playoffs, but no pads or mouth guards required. Each week the best printed matter will advance until a winner is declared.

And in the opposite corner, facing off against the stark black world of Cannonball and Howling Print will be the tie dye musings of hippie love, featuring an evolving oversize screenprint featuring image casualties from the summer of love, also known as the “collaborative print wall.”

And, Drive By Press will be cranking out the prints, in the gutter outside Space 1026 all night long, and Saturday, too.

These fine print projects are brought to you by your friendly neighborhood space 1026ers.

For more information, email: Aryon

Cannonball Press
Howling Print Studio
Broadside Battle
Drive By Press