There weren't as many people at this year's opening in general. I remember by 6.15pm last year it was PACKED. Well, I did invite everyone that I knew plus their mom (and one baby). But still.
Here's some photos-
Jackie and Jordan!
Rose and Jackie
Peter and Alexis (sorry B)
Yes, that IS Brandon's back and Jessica next to Elliot.
Anyway, show, some awful white wine, blah blah. There was a supposed "after party" at some lounge called the Guest Room after the opening. It was one block over on 27th street.
So Jackie, Rosemary, Justine, Jessica Dupree and I left the gallery around 7.45pm and headed over. We were obviously the first ones there. The bouncer (or just door guy) had no clue what the fuck we were asking when we said "art opening/after party/ free drink ticket". After a few minutes of miscommunication he said we could go up and see. So we did, and there were just a bunch of black people lounging and drinking, like straight out of Dave Chappelle's show clips when they are set in a lounge. We go up to the bartender and show him the card (invite thing from Kathleen Culleen) and he has no clue what it is and is all "no.".
So we just leave. Went to have dinner at this place called TRAILER PARK on 23rd street. Guess what they serve. Jackie called Chelsea to find out what the deal was and it turns out that Chelsea went with Joy after the opening to the lounge and THERE WAS NO SUCH AFTER PARTY. All I know was that money was exchanged between Alfred University to Kathleen Culleen to set up a after party and she DIDN'T DO IT. So she still has the money? We were like, "did she just print up some fake invitations?"
Joy got super pissed and started yelling and shit. Well, that's what I heard. But that really doesn't surprise me about Kathleen Culleen. When we left the lounge all puzzled, I was joking to Jackie about it. And it actually happened. oh emm gee.
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I get the feeling that this show did not get talked about at all in Alfred, because most of the '07s didn't know this was happening or no one told them or something. That and the negativity from the have nots has got to stop. This shit is fucking childish. This stupid show did not "further" anyone's art "career" in anyway. You get to say "I was in a show in Chelsea" but thats it. The grass is always greener.
Alfred is still very much a bubble and it was so apparent at this show. Just being in a Chelsea show does not mean random people is coming to your opening. I don't think there was anyone there that wasn't somehow tied to Alfred or a friend of Alfred in some way. I think that is a reason why there were not as many people at this opening, because there was no curator or outside influence. No Anat. No sources to get outsiders to see this. This is what happened at the MFA opening last year. Not many people there, and I knew the faces of 90% of the people there.
I guess I can't really say much since I was in the show last year, so I don't have a sour taste in my mouth about not being chosen. What is so bad about having an outside source choose the work that gets put in anyway? Yeah some people didn't "deserve" to be chosen last year, but we're looking at it from a distorted view. We knew how these people worked and the effort (or lack of) that they put in. But it was a unbiased view. I realized that it was one of the very, very rare occasions that someone NOT from Alfred was critiquing our work, and a lot of people had a problem with the way Anat did it and talk shit about her. But she is where she is for a reason. If she really sucked at it that much, she wouldn't have gotten as far as she did curating.
6 comments:
well...you didnt post up any photos of the gallery stuff. was it really THAT bad? i love art school, but yeah, they dont prepare us for whats next. thats why we have to seek out there ourselves. we all dont have the same aspirations nor can we define what we all want.
You already saw the work! I didn't even take photos of the work last year. I was really unmotivated to take photos period, but pulled it out for literally only 3 minutes right before I left for the blog because I knew I'd regret it otherwise.
Look at Kathleen's website and the headline for this show and tell me you wouldn't be insulted if you were part of it.
Ug, maybe If I'm not lazy I'll get around to drafting up a post about the whole Alfred/Real World issue I talk about sometimes.
i think everyone should just do their own shit that makes them happy and "successful" (whatever it may be)...AND make new friends that have no association with alfred. yay.
I wish I could forget some fucking people from Alfred.
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