Lazy Susan Gallery

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This unofficial book is finally here, celebrating 2010 to 2015 of the Con Artist Collective. Limited to only 200 copies in this first edition, there are only 50 available for sale.

“A brilliant collective building it the old-fashioned way, out of themselves, inspired by vision, passion, smarts and skill. Electric!” - Jerry Saltz
 Senior Art Critic; New York Magazine

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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 2nd, 2pm to 8pm
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A SPECIAL NOTE FROM BRIAN SHEVLN

From the bottom of my heart, I humbly thank you for your gracious patience with this massively delayed and overdue book. I could write an entire book filled with the stories that contributed to this book being so incredibly far behind schedule. Still, I am happy with how this unofficial book, “Five Years Inside A New York City Lower East Side Art Collective, 2010 to 2015” turned out.

The book still isn’t perfect, and there are many artists, artworks, moments, and more that just didn’t make it into the final version, often because the images were lost or worse. Due to numerous restraints that guided this final book, there just were some things that didn’t make it. Perhaps one day we’ll get the chance to make a book covering all 10 years the collective existed.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN THAT THIS BOOK IS UNOFFICIAL?

Well, basically I was unable to get legal permission to use copyrighted material for this book from the new company that owns the intellectual property that is the Con Artist Collective. I do not know if the Con Artist Collective ever plans to print an official book, but please consider accepting this book as a personal thank you from me for your support.

Thank you again to our two sponsors that financially supported the actual making of this book, from the printing to the costs of getting it into each of your hands.

I hope you enjoy this book as much as we enjoyed living it.

Order and reserve your copy now at https://mailchi.mp/bad2ae413fe0/5-years-book

Gizem Vural “Talking Lines”

On View: December 17th - December 22nd, 2018
Opening Party: December 18th 6pm - 10pm
Hours: Tuesday thru Sunday, 11am - 6pm

Gizem Vural creates her own language of lines that talk.  

Through her editorial illustrations, she explores abstract storytelling. Seeming almost impulsively drawn, Gizem translates her story into layers of lines, carefully composed on paper. “I intended to create and experiment the interaction between lines and shapes to create visually and aesthetically pleasing compositions for the viewer.”  

She works mainly with colored pencil on paper, and expresses the pleasure of creating textures and gradients solely by using her hand’s pressure. Her technique and high craftsmanship make Talking Lines possible. This is her first solo exhibition as an artist and all works including prints and original sketches are shown exclusively at Lazy Susan Gallery.  

About the Artist
Gizem Vural is an award-winning illustrator based in New York. Born in Istanbul, Turkey, she studied graphic design at Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts. After dropping out in 2012 she moved to New York, and established herself as an illustrator. Her work has been featured in many publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times and The Atlantic, and she has been recognized by American Illustration, the prestigious competition in the US, and awarded three medals from Society of Illustrators. In 2018 she took a break from drawing for editorial pieces and focus on creating abstract work on paper.

https://www.gizemvural.net

Bree Chapin “Anxiety Descending”

One Day Only: November 5th, 2019 7pm-10pm

Bree Chapin’s first solo show, scheduled the same day as National election. Bring in your “I Voted” for a special limited edition print.

Chapin is a New York City-based visual artist working in painting, collage, and mixed media. Her work is known for its use of bright, aggressive colors, metallics, and feverish imagery. She experiments with materials including paint, metallic foils, collage, silkscreen, and plastic throughout her process. Bree’s work appears regularly in galleries and other art spaces primarily around New York City.

https://breemakesart.com

Thomas Nickles Project Presents: Sandra Cordero’s “Planet Sandra”

On View: October 10th – 13th, 2019
Opening Party: Thursday, October 10th, 6pm-8pm
Hours: Friday & Saturday, 10am-8pm; Sunday, 11am-6pm

Thomas Nickles Project with the support of the Cuban Artists Fund presents the first New York solo exhibition by Cuban artist Sandra Cordero, (b. Havana, Cuba 1979), Planeta Sandra. This will be the first solo exhibition of the artist’s work in New York City. The artist will be present.

We join the artist on a journey of discovery to a world where precision cut, multi-layered and dimensional paper collages spring to life as the whimsical personalities that make up the thriving inhabitants of Planeta Sandra. With an explorer’s eye and a botanist’s discipline, Sandra meticulously catalogs each specimen by genus and species with invented scientific names. “In these collages, I deconstruct everyday forms to create new narratives. Through the use of nature, science and whimsy, I invent new landscapes and environments in a visual language that is uniquely my own.”

https://www.thomasnickles.com/sandra-cordero

“As Solid As Fog” Group Show

Reception: September 26th 6pm-9pm

“The mountain is as solid as fog, as translucent as the undertow, as possessed as the ocean”
– Etel Adnan in “Journey to Tamalpais” 1986

This exhibition of the work of artists Ana Calzavara, Benjamin Lankton and Sara Woster, features their shared focus on landscapes that convey enormous depth and meaning. The imagery is ambiguous, transporting us to real or imagined places, in scenes that can suggest dreams or memories, at once particular while also universal. What we can recognize is a landscape and a melancholy. They invite us to contemplate and find our place within them.

When I look at the works of Benjamin Lankton, Sara Woster and Ana Calzavara I remember walks I’ve taken and places I’ve visited. We can also imagine the places where we would like to go, or places we long to return to.
– Gisela Gueiros, September 2019

“ITZYBITZY” curated by Christine Mottau

On View: September 13th-19th 12pm-7pm
Opening Reception: September 14th 4-7pm

We all know that big is easy to view. It demands attention. The concept of scale vs. size, and what determines what is important in contemporary art, has been an on going discussion.

But smaller does not mean less relevant. Small can suggest intimacy, introspection, and requires the viewer to focus, drawing them in a quiet and refined way. Likened to listening to a whisper, it requires your active participation. Smaller works require the viewer to look closely. What becomes relational scale, and how we often interpret importance based on size, can be reconsidered if the work is complete in all of its forms.

The largest work in this exhibition is sized 6” x 8”

Cover image “Flea Circus “by Nicole Heinze. Wikipedia defines a flea circus as, “a circus sideshow attraction in which fleas are attached (or appear to be attached) to miniature carts and other items, and encouraged to perform circus acts within a small housing.”

Sanpo Matsumoto “URBAN SPIRIT(S)”

On View: August 30th 1pm-10pm
Opening Reception: August 30th 7pm-10pm

Summoning URBAN SPIRIT(S) from an ordinary street corner, URBAN SPIRIT(S) are supernatural beings, spiritual entities, and they are living next to our dairy life. URBAN SPIRIT(S) are called “gods” or sometime called “devil” by humans. Humans judge their category with the usefulness for the human’s life.

URBAN SPIRIT(S) are born from various invisible phenomena and live on human’s emotions. Faith makes them to highest being, while lower level SPIRIT(S) are similar like mischievous children. But higher level SPIRIT(S) have high intelligence and affectionate heart.

One day pop up exhibition by film maker, fine artist, electronic musician, and multimedia artist, Sanpo Matsumoto.

http://sanpo.yu-yake.com/
https://www.instagram.com/sanpo_matsumoto/

Russell Murphy’s “Fine Art Show”

On View: August 13th - August 16th, 2018 daily 11am to 6pm

Opening Party: August 14th 6pm - 9pm

Lazy Susan Gallery is pleased to present “Russell Murphy’s Fine Art Show.” A selection of studio work spanning the past decade. Born in Buffalo New York, Murphy has earned legitimacy and respect as a graffiti artist “writing” Cash4 since the mid aughts. Around that same time, he also began showing his artwork in galleries under a variety of names, from Cash4 to Cassius Fowler, and now Russell Murphy. This exhibition features work traversing an even wider assortment of mediums, from paintings on canvas, paper and poster board, to drawings, sculptural collages, painted bottles and found objects, to public installations, including his iconic “Cash4 signs.” Mixing acrylic and oil paint with the tools commonly found in the streets, from spray cans and fire extinguishers, to paint pens and markers, Murphy layers media and image chaotically, partial to capturing the intensity of an instinctive stroke.


After studying as an architect at Syracuse University, Russell Murphy has explored the fusion of highbrow and lowbrow, a theme that can be traced throughout his work. Murphy abstracts anything to it’s character, from portraits to landscape paintings, often portraying the New York City urban environment in a postmodern Superflat style. Employing the marketing language of political campaigns and protest posters, the viewer is coerced to expect a moral statement or message. “I’m an apathist” is how Murphy depicts himself, a classic vandal attitude, preferring the label of playful anarchist or messianic messenger. Yet it’s clear that 15 plus years of passionate and determined work both in and out of the studio have honed his talent and technique.

Vice Magazine by Ray Mock https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3b4vdb/writers-block-cash4-mock-the-vote-2016

Cash4 at Pandemic Gallery https://untappedcities.com/2014/02/10/from-the-street-to-the-studio-nyc-graffiti-artist-cash-4-at-pandemic-gallery-in-brooklyn/

Gothamist “The Daily News Kissing Photo” https://gothamist.com/2012/09/08/graffiti_artist_cash_4_gets_unwante.php#photo-1

"Last Kiss Graffiti Artist Busted Again” https://nypost.com/2014/01/29/cops-net-last-kiss-tagger-4-others-in-graffiti-bust/

Justin Aversano Twin Flames ”Enter-Mission”

On View: July 11th - July 18th, 2018 daily 12pm to 6pm
Opening Party: July 11th 7pm - 10pm

Made in the honor of Justin’s mother and fraternal twin, Twin Flames survey’s 100 portraits of twins from around the world presented as a photographic exploration of the phenomenology of twins.

 This new collection of photographs explores Aversano’s eclectically-recorded stories about 100 pairs of twins. Twin Flames is an immaculate journey, pushing the boundaries of sociopolitical agenda, culture, tradition, and art by exposing the beauty, comedies, tragedies and all-around humanity of ‘twinhood’.

Justin Aversano, b. 1992, is an artist and curator based in New York, NY. Aversano studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York graduating in 2014 with a concentration in photography. Aversano has exhibited work in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

There will be a secret art show gathering in a public space from 11am-6pm, before the exhibition launches at Lazy Susan Gallery at 7pm. To participate in the secret event, please contact TwinxFlames@gmail.com for location.