Gato Loco @ Joe's pub

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These photos are from the CD release performance of Gato Loco @ Joes Pub. For more info see Articles:[Gato Loco @ Joes pub]. To place an order: Kerwinares@yahoo.com or 347-328-7903

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This was another really
good shoot. Aside from capturing
the band, I tried to get across
the vibrant energy of the place,
and with the feel of it
through visual sitmulation.
All photos By K.KW   2/17/2011
Canon EOS AE 58mm lens
Walgreens 200 speed film.
please feel free to leave a comment.

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Cafe Madeline: Brooklyn Calling

Places to go in "BKLYN"

Cafe Madeline(1603 Courtelyou rd Bklyn, N.Y)
is one of the new spots to open up in the last 
few years in the Ditmas park area of Bklyn.
Serving up "Counter culture" coffee, 
organic chocolate(Taza) and almond croissants
(I've waited years to have that in the area), 
various muffins and wonderful baked goods.
The menu features breakfast/brunch,
sandwiches, and soups aplenty
(The pumpkin carrot soup is glorious).
All made at the cafe, and so very good for you.
The ham, cheese, and tomato croissant is a tasty, flaky, light
but filling treat. Pair that with a wide range of tea's, 
Pandora music stream and your bound to spend
a few hours enjoying yourself.
The cafe features a spacious and inviting atmosphere,
they will bring your food to the table if you choose to stay,
always with warmth an appreciation. 
Free Wi-Fi is always available and starting now 
Artwork from various up-and coming Artist, in a serious
manner of co-operation in supporting the Arts, as they can.
Hopefully you can stop in and enjoy. 

"The February Show" @ Ogilvy&Mather

Beyond just a month

The February show,
curated by Jun Lee
(www.jun.lee@ogilvy.com) 
&Heather Hart, in partnership
with Black Diaspora, 
is a multi-level 
sprawling concept 
of black history month, 
or rather what it could be.
The artists passionately project their
view's and critique (s) through stunning
works of art in various media and styles.
Bricks, clothes, paper, paint, video/audio, 
ink, photography, etc. It's all in part, 
a look at black history months 
effectiveness to make us think about 
black American culture, and to 
inspire us to reach beyond what we know as black American culture. 
And it is food for thought. 

From a historical standpoint 
black American culture /African American 
culture only began to gain wide-spread attention
after the civil war. Artists like Henry O. Tanner (1859-1937),
who studied with Thomas Eakins, were instrumental 

in turning the tide of this. The issue has come full circle,
though still there is opposition. Now it's a matter of changing 
the way people on all levels see, think, and feel about black American culture, which is American after all. 

These Artists are in their way at the forefront of  this great issue, 
inspiring people to look beyond the casual mainstream of thought.

Theirs is a mix of tangible symbolism,  post abstract expression, with an edge 
of deconstructivism, melded to critical thought. Visual enigmas created with the delight
of a mad, gifted child. Derrick Adams' (www.derrickadams.com)
work "combines a variety of media to highlight the performative and often duplicitous identities of urban objects, iconography, and architecture". Julia Browns (www.juilabrown.net) work "unpacks the histories and conflict of western culture, re-presenting emblematic images with critical humor in an art context". Ernest A. Bryant III (wwwernestbryant.com) "is propelled by his passion to create new ways of navigating and exploding traditional social structures and cultural forms".

Mike Cloud (www.meulensteen.com) "uses systematic painting to reexamine traditions 
of painting, resulting in works that are both beautiful and ugly, playful and academic, self-referential and narrative".Yashua Klos' (www.yashuaklos.net) "Large-scale print collages employ the graphic poignancy and reference the political history of woodblock printing to present a mural-sized combination of imagery". 

Simone Leigh (www.simoneleigh.com) "creates sculpture, video, and installations informed by her interest in African art, ethnographic research,
feminism and performance art". Kambui Olujimi (www.kambuiolujimi.com) 

was born in Bedford Stuyvesant, Bklyn. His photography has been presented in various publications, including The New York Times, The Village Voice, Sports Illustrated and Trace magazine". Jessica Ann Peavy (www.jessicaannpeavy.com) "is interested in the natural art of storytelling, especially where the lines between fact and fiction are blurred". 

Shinique Smith (www.yvon-lambert.com) "is inspired by the vast nature of 'things' we consume and discard that resonate on a personal and social scale". 

Paula Wilson's (www.saatchi-gallery.com)  "large-scale works are vibrant, layered, multimedia references to still life and landscape painting, print, graffiti, and video art that examine beauty and the complexity of contemporary identity". Devin Troy Strother's (www.devintroystrother.com) "mix-media works create narratives with paper cutting carefully composed and bursting with vibrant color and movement". William Ransom (www.artslant.com) "creates sculptures from scavenged wood that are characterized by their portrayal of regeneration, flux, and balance".  

Jeffery Sims (www.jeff-sims.com) "creates genre paintings in the vein of still life. The collection and juxtaposition of objects in his work is a means to present similarities and transitions between cultures and classes and to provoke viewers to examine their perceptions of self and the other".

Hank Willis Thomas (www.hankwillisthomas.com) "is a photo conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to identity,  history, advertising and popular culture".
Saya Woolfalk's (www.sayawoolfalk.com) works "considers the idea that symbolic and ideological systems can be activated and reimagined through collaboration, imaginative play, and masquerade". Loul Samater's (www.loulsamater.com) work "mixes materials, from balloons to vinyl, into vivid, tactile installations". 

Xaviera Simmons (www.ps1.org) "produces photographic, audio,
performative, sculptural. and video works". Jina Valentine (www.jinavalentine.com)
"creates sculptures using cut paper, and found objects read at once as intricate and dense, 

yet also visibly fragile and delicate". Heather Hart's work(www.heather-hart.com) 
"seeks to spark conversation and examination of our individual perceptions".
 
 

Party @ The Bulgarian Bar

The Bulgarian Bar:"Trip like I do"

T'was night of her birthday, and all through Bar, 

every creature was moving, but didn't see a mouse. 

Splendid lights shined here and there, while green harmless 

lazer lights gently moved across every face, body and pretty girls ass. 

Hookah's to left!, to the right!! Crisp clean, cold beer 

and tasty eats from the east of europe.

Welcome to the Mehanata Bulgarain bars

 Ethno-Balkan Trans-Global, Moustacho party,

hosted by Mishka. It seems every Thursday this event happens,

a strange gathering of Ethno-Trans global party seekers and 

any one curious to drop-in. @ the door there was no cover,

but you had to check your coat(rules)and that cost $3, clever, 

very clever. few people want to be bothered looking after a coat. 

I liked their style. Inside the place was awash
in splendid tones of color. 

DJ Mishto&Raphlex were spewing out a vibrant flow 

of ethnic sounds, Chalga, Bhangra, Russian festive, 

and Bergovic anthems. From the 2nd floor 

I saw a mistic chap from India 

pick up a chair with his mouth, hold it upright, 

and dance in a circle with out stretched arms.

The crowd went wild with drunken glee.

Philippa's Birthday was a night of strange joy,

I only wish I stayed longer:) 

The Bulgarian bar is located @ 113 Ludlow st, N.Y, N.Y.

For more info go to:www.burdeldali.com

Chriselle Tidrick at Streb Lab

Chriselle Tidrick: "Absentia"  
Graceful movements, 
timed to perfection,
full of so much feeling. 
Tidricks performance
radiated life and power 
so much so, she held the crowd in her trance. 
It surged with the promise of deeper things,
a story you saw and felt on an abstract plane of the mind.
Something emanating from her through you, and back again.
Warm, personal, thoughtful, and yes, somewhat sensual,
but it's warm and clean. Her movements are meant
to express longing, the loss of a lover, 
the crux of "Absentia", a visual expression 
of her dealing with this. The movements on 
and off the silk cloth melded together 
with a strange operatic beauty. 
Balancing with the ease of a bird taking flight, 
she moved with the silk cloth and her passion 
as if these three were one.
Her costume went perfectly with the cloth behind her 
and the floor mat, the shadows, and darkness surrounding her, 
She is spellbinding.
"Absentia, is an excerpt  from a much longer piece
about loss and longing. The experience of a female character
who wakes up to discover that her beloved is no longer
at her side". Mrs Tidricks' title (almost inadvertently)
references a wonderful piece of choreography by Janis Brenner,
titled 'Dancing in Absentia'. Streb lab for action mechanics, 
started by Elizabeth Streb, where the event took place
Williamsburg Bklyn,  showcases performances
in trapeze, aerial, and dance.
It's like going to the Circus and an abstract dance spectacle
at the same time. As Miss Streb puts it, "At this point in my career,
my vision for S.L.A.M is an open-access venue that models
a new kind of Artist-driven community institution.
The doors of S.L.A.M are never closed". 
Chriselle Tidrick is the Artistic director
of "Above and Beyond Dance", a performance company which
creates circus-infused dance, and greatly involved with Streb lab. 
She studied at George Washington University, 
and has performed at the Alice Farley Dance theater,
Catherine Gallant/dance, Jody Sperling/Time lapse
and the Metropolitan Opera. If you would like to know more please go to:www.aboveandbeyonddance.com


Studio-Phoenix & K.K.W would like to thank Streb Lab (www.streb.org), Chriselle Tidrick, 
and Bobby Hedglin-Taylor for the chance to cover the show.
Article & photo's by K.K.W

    

Gato Loco @ Joe's pub

Gato Loco: CD release show. 
As I walked briskly up Lafayette st 
to 425, late from the February show, 
I kept thinking how I've never seen 
a "Joe's pub" on Lafayette. 
The entrance was to the left of the main doors
to the Public theater @ 425. The collective heat
and energy was so thick you could feel it
flowing through the place right into you.
It was packed, all kittens and cats, drinks in hand.
Gato Loco was on, way on! Keyed up, decked-out,
spewing out a steady wave of experimental, hard,
kooky Jazz. Gato Loco's sound is a little harsh, yet smooth and soft, with a bit of Bossa Nova and Afro-Cuban undertones.
Some of their tracks you get the harder louder notes first,
but drifting in just where its needed is the softer, sleeker,
kooky notes just behind the major sounds you begin to hear.
On others like "Coconino",  your drawn in easy an toyed with
a sound that seems repeditive, then it begins to climb
and take you where they want you to go, Loco, Gato Loco.
The group incorparates Latin, Rock, and Jazz, "tightly written,
thrilling and confusing, killing boredam
with thought, with passion and power". The band was formed in
2006 by N.Y.C native Stefan Zeniuk. They have been working hard and playing harder. Aside from "Joe's pub"
they've played the BAM Brooklyn next festival(08), 
Residency:Bowery poetry club,(N.Y.C), and Artist in
Residence:Festival des Haut's Garronne(Bordeaux France 2010).
Gato Loco is Stefan Zeniuk:Tenor & Bass,
Jesse selengut: Trumpet,  Jackie Coleman: Trumpet,
Kevin Moehringer: Trumbone,
Ric Becker: Trumbone&bass trumbone, Joe Exley: Tuba,
Clifton H: Guitar&Baritone Guitar, French horn,
Ari folman-Cohen: Electric&upright basses,
Kevin Garcia:Drums, percussion,
Greg Stare: Congas and Rich Stein: Percussion.
The album "Coconino"can be purchased on Cdbaby.
If you would like to know more go to-www.gatolocomusica.com
Article&photos by K.K.W.