Congratulations To Our “My Internet Self” Artists

By LowbrowSociety | Published: February 8, 2011

{copyright Tamara Porras}

Thank you again to everyone who submitted to My Internet Self! After the arduous task of sorting through all the work, we have finally chosen the artists to be included in the project. Drumroll please…

Congratulations to:

Ashley Percival
Kira Scarlet
Tamara Porras
Deanna Wardin
Amanda Harris
Buzz Slutzky
Shnay Mclellan
Jennifer Blowdryer
Jordana LaRosa

We’ll be posting regular updates regarding the printing and the gallery opening, it’s going to be a fantastic show full of participation and the unexpected.

Congratulations again to our chosen artists! <3

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NYC: Grace Kalambay’s Sunday Confession at The Bowery Poetry Club

By LowbrowSociety | Published: February 7, 2011

Join us Sunday, February 20th at 9pm for an amazing night of music and cheap drinks with some of NYC’s best underground singer/songwriters at Grace Kalambay’s Sunday Confession.

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San Francisco: FruitFlyLife.com Website Re-Launch Party

By LowbrowSociety | Published: February 3, 2011

Our friends over at FRUITFLYLIFE.com are having a website re-launch party Saturday, Feb. 19th at the Treehouse Gallery and if you miss it, you will never forgive yourself.   We’ll be there photographing the debauchery and ogling the artwork, including that of our very own Najva Sol!   DJ Carnita and DJ Phonecies will be bumping your favorite jams, and best of all…proceeds from the event are being donated to LYRIC: Building Community & Inspiring Social Change for LGBTQQ Youth.

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My Internet Self Update

By LowbrowSociety | Published: February 1, 2011

Chosen submissions for My Internet Self will be announced this week!  Stay tuned <3

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My Internet Self

By LowbrowSociety | Published: January 16, 2011

{copyright Ashley Percival}

Thank you to everyone who submitted to our open call! We’re so thrilled with the response and all of the new artists who have contacted us. We now have the difficult process of sorting through all the submissions. Updates on the project will be posted as it develops.
<3

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NYC: Sunday Confession @ The Bowery Poetry Club

By LowbrowSociety | Published: January 4, 2011

UPDATE: This show has been canceled and will be moved to a future date.  Stay tuned for new dates and venue info.

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Open Call: My Internet Self

By LowbrowSociety | Published: November 18, 2010

Attention All Creative Individuals:

New York City and San Francisco-based art collective, The Lowbrow Society for The Arts, is holding an open call for submissions to our next project, “My Internet Self”.

Participants will explore the differences between their online persona and how they present themselves in real life.

The internet allows us a certain amount of anonymity, putting the user in control of how we are viewed by others, and allows us to speak our mind without having to deal directly with the consequences of our actions.
How do others view you online?
How is this different than people in your day to day life?
How has the fantasy character that we present, taken on a life of its own?

The final product will include a limited edition printed book along with a NYC gallery show to exhibit the books and original art.
Here’s your chance to be part of the NYC art scene (whether or not you consider yourself an artist)!

  • Submission deadline is January 15, 2011
  • Each participant is allowed up to six 8.5″ x 7″ pages
    (including 1 cover page).
  • Submissions must be 8.5″x 7″ (legal size paper folded in half), 300dpi PDF files.
  • Please format your submissions to these specifications;
    .jpg, .indd and .eps files will not be accepted.
  • All media that can take to the printed form is accepted: art, writing, cocktail napkins, movie scores, origami, etc.
  • Multiple submissions are allowed. Split internet personalities? Send them all!
  • Preference will be given to submissions including all six pages,
    but exceptions will be made for standout work.

Any and all content is allowed, as are anonymous submissions.
All contributors will receive credit (unless stated they wish to remain anonymous) and a copy of the final project.

For submissions/questions or to learn more about our collective
and get involved, email: LowbrowSociety AT Gmail DOT com

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NYC: Smut II @ Brooklyn Fireproof

By LowbrowSociety | Published: June 20, 2010

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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

By LowbrowSociety | Published: May 7, 2010

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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SF: Ho-down Blog Roll!

By LowbrowSociety | Published: March 16, 2010

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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