Venture to the New York Armory Show

So day before yesterday Chris Miller took the class to New York to see the Armory show. My day started at 6am getting ready to go and get to the bus by 7. I didn't sleep at all on the way down but I hijacked my roommates ipod and uploaded some new music. I had downloaded Digitalism's album Idealism and I am really feeling it. I listened to that the whole way down. When we got to the Armory show I began exploring on my own. Over all I found more stuff with interesting construction methods that were worth noting more so than the work.

Photo of elegantly discrete wire neon tie
Photo of nylon(?) tube suspension
Beautiful C bend
Nice 90° tube bending
This was likely one of the most skill dependent sculptures at the show which is why I took so many images of it. Of course blogger wont flip my images around...

Pretty arm joint.


We did a project EXACTLY like this in neon, I guess were all big time artists...
This was awesome, bent nails to spell out a phrase.


I love modern black men in classical poses, it is a beautiful juxtaposition. Again the image is on its side.

Nothing special about this piece but the neon was very dim which was interesting, they likely didn't pump it with neon.
Into making chandeliers right now, interesting find. I found a more interesting one at the Whitney but there were no pictures there =(.
Interesting similarly to the modern black male

Of interest , maybe one of the most interesting stand alone sculptures at the show.
I took a picture of this because the bending was BEAUTIFUL and it raised the question of whether or not these artists were benders or had their bending commissioned by neon sign benders. Tracy Emin is the name of the artist and I looked her up online and she is in fact a bender (I believe). That was very cool to figure out.Wim Botha with a bust made of books, quite interesting.

Same artist, wooden pelican.
Grayson Perry, I love texture and I love the red orange yellow color of rust. Interesting design, lovely patina, very cool piece.
Matt Keegan, simple construction, interesting design. I should have taken a picture of the supporting structure in the back.
Nice use of neon and reflection, piece not too exciting. Miri Segal
Cool use of neon, freehand neon bending or the appearances of that. Peter Friedl

After the armory show I went to my favorite place to eat in the city, Rickshaw Dumpling Bar!
I wanted a picture of me in front, my friend didn't realize the sign should have been in the picture...
We tried again and people were waiting to cross in front, he decided it was a good time to snap the picture as i was berating him.
Across the street we ran into a Jesus lover. He wanted to make sure my thumb was up

Once it was confirmed I was thumbs up for Jesus we got his signature white toothed smile.
Once we had lunch it was off to the Whitney. This was outside, a huge birds nest.

Charles Simonds - Dwellings, Interesting concept present in the stairwell of the Whitney.


Thats it for the art, no more pictures could be taken in the Whitney, although there wasn't too much there to see worth photographing.

On the way back we told jokes and scary stories, the red light was the one used for scary stories, we had a blue light for jokes. Some one got in the way but that is Max Davis telling a scary story.
We got back pretty late and I just passed out when I got home.