Our friends at Park Life have put together a much anticipated show.. by me, mostly, but it will be rad. Curated by Don, it includes new works by these emerging artists including some by one of my faves Ben Jones (paperrad?).
I was once invited to go with Taylor and Misaki Kawai during Art Basel Miami to one of her collector's homes far out with another awesome Japanese artist, whose shoes I bought at the Mori Museum earlier that year in Japan... it was pretty memorable as we drove out with a tailgate party of artist friends into a gated community ended up having a black out and the host showed me her collection by candlelight. She had this awesome Kawai piece in her living room which was like a Pee Wee's Playhouse meets early George Lucas Chewbacca tree house type sculpture with vidoes in the consoles of the spaceship mountain. Later on that evening we cosied up in the guesthouse. While the collector was giving me the dish on her divorce, I looked around and all this miniature art was hanging by this knockoff artist that I was having a dilemma with at Aqua Fair - Christopher Wool's, and I can't remember what else but a few in the room. But whenever I go to Miami, I always want to buy something at Aqua and this year, it was a tiny Elizabeth Peyton painting.. but it was a knockoff. I knew I loved her work and I think I had heard of this guy being like yelled at at Chelsea openings for being a total con... but thinking I could never afford the original and feeling like Miami is a foreign country I tried to compare it to like buying some weird knockoff in Nam or something like an Aphlex Trin record or something. Was this unethical? Complimentary? Anyway, I didnt get it because the work was covered in gel medium, which was kinda funny, but I thought I could do better.
Back to the show..., good folks, good artists. And the notorious Kathy G. will be in town wreaking havoc no less! Kathy is a curator at Deitch, whose got a competitive edge.. but I guess in NYC, who doesn't? Congrats to PL on this show and I think they are making a catalog to go along with it. CHECK IT OUT!! THEY ARE TOTAL FP FAMILY...fpxbn.
