BENEATH THE SURFACE

Tuesday, September 11, 2012.  Walking down 9th Avenue to the barber I came upon the open steel sidewalk doors to the basement of an old tenement.  They've never been open before, and I have trod over this work countless times.  I wonder who left these there?  Was it someone from the current gallery or someone from the previous, Giant Robot?  I'm happy enough with either.  The neon colors dripping over with white paint - I like how it looks - snow falling on a mountain burnished orange by the setting sun.  And the other - love rising out of the depths.  I like that idea too.

130 FACES

February 14, 2010. It’s St. Valentine’s Day, and what better way to celebrate than with friends seeing art? I had brunch with friends, Philip & Parker, at the Salmagundi Club, looked at what art we could, and then headed off to the LGBT Center to see a show called “Comfort of Men” by Branden Wallace. As we left The Center and turned north on 7th, we came across this art, which my friend Keith had been telling me about. Felix Morelo has been creating these ephemeral exhibitions around the neighborhood, and what a wonderful sight. All of these faces, so many of them, each individual and still familiar, stretching ahead of you, beckoning you on, speaking to you as you walk along, keeping you company. They might be leading you somewhere, but maybe not. Maybe they are just being there, counting off, and announcing their existence.