NYC: Smut II @ Brooklyn Fireproof

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Friday, June 25, 2010

Brooklyn Fire Proof
119 Ingraham St (at Porter Ave)
7:00pm–4:00am

Join the Lowbrow Society for The Arts at Brooklyn Fire Proof
for a night of art, drinks, dancing, debauchery, and SMUT!

Featuring a gallery full of photography, installation, video and illustration to feast your lascivious eyes upon.

Throughout the evening we’ll be featuring:

- Burlesque performances
- Live body-painting on a supple young subject
- A bevy of barely-dressed go-go boys for your amusement (if you’re lucky)
- Make a splash and show it off at the Gerrification Wet T Shirt Contest. We’re all winners!

Featuring artwork by:

Lenora Jayne
Gwynn Galitzer
Annie Sprinkle
Gerry Visco
Lorna Gaddis
James Matthews
Tamara Porras
Kelly Macario
Russell Harris

Live video mixing by Joshua Sophrin
Featuring videos by Jennifer Blowdryer & Irie

The Gerrification Wet T Shirt Contest & Burlesque performance by Ariel Wolf

DJ’s TBA

Free entry from 7-9pm
$5 after 9pm
$10 after 12am

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NYC Events: May

Well, hello there!
Long time, no Lowbrow!

So, we’re finally rubbing our eyes and coming out of winter hibernation, and we have a lot of wonderful things in store for you!

First things, first:

Congratulations to Gwynn Galitzer, winner of the SVA 2010 Rhodes Family Award
and the 2010 Fine Arts Thesis Grant for her Senior Thesis project We Love You New York, But There Are Some Things That Need Fixing ! The show featured three of her whimsical, handcrafted costumes and a short film of her creations in current day NYC, juxtaposed with footage of a grimier New York from her youth. You can see (and purchase!) polaroids from her show here, and you can watch the film The White Queen, here, if you missed it. Congratulations, Gwynn!

Now, here’s what we’re up to this month:


Desire: A Group Art Exhibition
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 // 11am-7pm
The Chelsea Hotel, Suite 1024
222 West 23rd St.

Curator Laura Sheedy, brings together a wildly talented and eclectic group of artists to give their unique and thought provoking perspectives on desire. We will converge upon a swanky red suite in the Chelsea Hotel and transform it into a luscious rich jungle of art. Expect to be moved, dazzled, inspired, and in awe by what they present to you at this show. The work will be informed by their unique and diverse set of influences and backgrounds spanning taxidermy, sculpture, fashion, film, architecture, photography, installation, performance art, and graphic design.

Artists include Lowbrow Society’s Lenora Jayne, and quite a few our creative collaborators, including our favorite sequined seamstress (and sculptress!) Tara McManus, as well as costumer/curator, Laura Sheedy, who you may remember from her sexy leg skirt at MOVE!

For more information and full list of artists, see:
desiregroupshow.blogspot.com

RSVP on Facebook.

Some other notable events that we’re not throwing, but definitely will not be missing:

TURRBOTAX® Business Edition w/ HOT CITY
Friday, May 7, 2010 // 10pm-4am
The Cove
106 N. 6th St. Brooklyn, NY
5 Before 11, $7 After • 21+
Full lineup here.

Trouble & Bass presents NO ESCAPE FROM NY w/ Deathface & Mumdance
Wednesday, May 12nd, 2010 // 10pm-4am
The Studio at Webster Hall
125 E. 11th St. (bet. 3rd & 4th Ave)
RSVP on Facebook

Score! Pop-Up Swap
Saturday, May 29, 2010 // 12pm-6pm
BKYLN Yard
400 Carroll St btw Bond & Nevins
$3 with RSVP
Get rid of your extra stuff! Get new stuff! Profit! More info here: ScoredatScore.com

Also, summer sneak peek:

  • A crazy, costumed art parade on the streets of Manhattan
  • DANCE PARTIES
  • Pinup Show, revived!

Can’t wait to see you out!

Stay Lowbrow,
Lenora & Najy

PS: Know of something we should list? Got a space for us to hold a show or dance party? Let us know!

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Ho-down Blog Roll!

Courtney, my co-curator, as well as another lovely visitor to Urban Ho-Down wrote some nice words about us on the interweb.

Courtney “Fruit Fly” Nichols (The Eye that Writes)

Becky Pederson (The Tuna Slot/ Broke Ass Stuart)

My favorite quote?

“These exhibitions are so much better than your average art show: they’re loud, drunk, colorful, and the people in attendance aren’t all graduates from MICA with a degree in basket weaving.”

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Ho-Down a Success!

If you missed it, Ho-down was barrel of fun. The cider was potent, the hay-rides scary, the art brilliant, and the music fun as all hell.

It was quite the project cleaning all the hay out of the garage though!

Special thanks to:
-Mission Arts and Performance Project
-Bike Kitchen

Till next time!
-N

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San Francisco Upcoming Show: Feb 6th-”Urban Ho-Down!”

San Francisco-

Come to the first West Coast Lowbrow Society Event!

Urban Ho-Down! Flyer

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San Francisco- Call for artists/performers/musicians/volunteers

Lowbrow Society of the Arts is curating a “County Fair” themed show through the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) (http://www.sfmapp.com/live/).
About the show: A general urban ho-down- there will be art on the walls, clowns running around, bobbing for apples, and lots of treats!
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About MAPP: MAPP is a bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural community event that takes place in the Mission at various alternative venues.
What we are looking for:
Artists in any medium who have work pertaining to the themes of
- Circus
- Sideshow / Freakshow
- County fair
- Americana
- American political themes (Uncle Sam, urban sprawl, Sailor Jerry, Rosie the Riveter)
- Maps, Urban landscapes
Deadline for submission: January 15th
Date of show: February 6th

Info for participants: MAPP was started by a non-profit, and the show will be volunteer based. However, any art sold will be commission-free and it’s a great opportunity for networking, not to mention working with a neighborhood initiative.
Submission Information: Please email lowbrowsociety@gmail.com with either jpgs of artwork, website, or date and location to view your artwork. Please include all necessary contact information and reason why you would like to be included in the show.

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NYC Events: December 6-13

Hey there, lovers!
We’ve got just the cure for your winter doldrums, so before you succumb to the siren call of the couch, check out what’s coming up this week.

We’ve got a down-and-dirty dance party and an open studio by one of our Lowbrow artists, Gwynn Galitzer!

Lose Your Shit
Saturday, December 12th
Warehouse // 49 North 3rd St (Williamsburg)
$5 all night (Tell ‘em you’re on the Lowbrow Society list!)
10pm-Late!

w/ DJ Smallchange, Eli Escobar, Dub War DJs, and Dirty South Joe

It’s back and we need it — Lose Your Shit — the dance party that mashes up NYC nightlife.

Lose Your Shit (the lovechild of DJ Smallchange and MeanRed productions) is a loft party series for the music-obsessed.

The party was created to be a showcase of NYC’s finest DJs, and the goal was to feature a wide range of musical genres in the course of one night. Those who attend never know for sure if they’ll hear Dubstep, Baltimore Club, Glitch-Hop, R&B classics, Funk 45s or Electro-Disco anthems, but they are always guaranteed to lose their shit.

Eli Escobar
The DJ’s DJ. He’s talked about amongst the record bins like a god in the heavens, the disco heavens. Well known on the bottle service circuit by the glitterati but as his career surges ahead, this New Yorker is known for his supreme understanding of disco. Tonight he’ll play a set that most clubs will not allow, but at Lose Your Shit we beg for.

Dave Q & Incyde, Dub War DJs
Every month kids from states around New York City craving bass like a drug and darkness like a carnal need. They migrate towards the Dub War dancefloor and find themselves in the illuminating DJ lineups that make up Dub War. Tonight we’re making sure we have enough bass for them to feel at home.

Dirty South Joe
This DC native went from growing up and partying at the infamous 9:30 Club to DJing there. He’s a music afficionado that is known for working the scene of the Holler board with an unparallelled finesse. Don’t forget, that tastemaker haven started from a passion for music, ie depth (believe it or not), and the dancefloor. Tonight he plays whatever he wants and we’re hoping for techno to punk rock. We know he’s got knowledge, we’re looking forward to the DJ who resides in the city of brotherly love to bring his eclectic influences to the LYS stage.

SVA Senior Sculpture Open Studios
Monday, December 14
335 West 16 Street
FREE!
6-9PM

Gwynn Galitzer (studio 2-06)  (gwynngalitzer.carbonmade.com)
Gwynn, who is known for her interactive performances, invites you to step into her world and question the line between fantasy and reality, the past and the present, and the age old struggle between the balance of good and evil. Like all fairy-tales, looks can be deceiving – is a flower just a flower, does a rainbow really bring happiness or are they just disguises for something more sinister?

Lewis Allen (studio 0-17)
Lewis’s installation Hierophant uses fur, bone and feathers symbiotically with plastic replicas to emulate ritual and worship in the post industrial world. His signature large scale graphite drawings will be on view as well.

Kelly Macario (studio 2-11)
Kelly is known for her sewn mixed media installations about hair pulling and the childhood events which led to her obsessive compulsive behavior.

Soohee Koo (studio 2-04)
Soohee uses transparent materials to reveal the ‘truth’ of ourselves, while also looking at the relationship between plastics and mankind.

Stephanie Psarros (studio 2-13)
Stephanie works with found objects using aspects from them as a drawing tool, making alterations to emphasize the beauty in the ordinary and give new meaning to something once considered worthless.

Alex DeCosta (studio 2-10 and front entrance)
Ale uses childhood iconography to create a world entirely inhabited by squids, who have some adult tendencies.

Can’t wait to see you out!

Stay Lowbrow,
Lenora & Najy

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Currently planning *Pinup* themed show in November, look in the tabs for more information!

Stay Naughty,

Najy + Lenora

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