ISSUE NUMBER 39
ISSUE NUMBER 39
Carpazine Art Magazine Issue Number 39 Featuring Lana Gentry! More: Jeffrey Wengrofsky, Abdul Vas, Danny Licul, Akira Usagi, Ductape "Echo Drama", Fear at Brooklyn Monarch, Interview with Dar Stellabota, Perfect 10 at The Long Island Museum , 14th Annual Figurative Art Exhibition at Lore Degensten Gallery, and more!
This national, juried visual art competition and exhibition is open to two-dimensional figurative artists (referencing the human figure), working in painting, drawing and printmaking, who are over the age of 18. This year’s juror is Nicole M. Santiago, professor of art at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. Santiago will give remarks and award prizes at the opening reception. More:
The Long Island Museum and LIMarts are pleased to present the 10th annual members-only exhibition, Perfect 10, celebrating a decade of enhancing and supporting the rich artistic talent on Long Island. The artwork was created by 128 LIMarts members. All artwork was created within the last three years. More:
Abdul Vas has painted Brian Johnson again and again, using very basic techniques, with bold strokes containing a very narrow range of colors. The trick is how he creates different shades of the same color, making his palette unique. Vas has created his own vision of what art and rock´n´roll are, fusing the two in a very original way, unlike anything we are used to seeing within the expanded world of contemporary art. More:
The first sentence of my art statement is a good overview: My paintings, like childhood, are colorful, playful, chaotic, exploratory spaces that are prone to changes while trying to make sense of how I and we relate to the wider world. It’s been an invigorating, strange trip, one that I live for. I look forward to finishing some large paintings in process, and to embarking on new ones. More:
Akira Usagi is a Japanese American artist born and based in Los Angeles, CA. His work is displayed in Miami, Atlanta, Chicago. As a trained chemist and high school chemistry teacher, he believes art, like chemistry, to be an honest pursuit of truth through observation, experimentation, and imagination. More:
11 years ago, Carpazine was there, visiting the Brooklyn Waterworks. Here are some pictures of the Brooklyn Waterworks, which at the time of its completion was considered "Long Island's most ambitious Romanesque Revival design." It was designed by Frank Freeman, and built in 1890 in Freeport. More:
Because I write more than I draw, I ruminate for a while, sometimes months, moving things around in my head with my art. Other times I’m urgent. But once I’ve made the decision to do a certain work, that’s solid. There are no floating ideas I won’t get to, no matter how long it takes.
"I had NO INTENTION to write this book, but I surely couldn’t stop it from happening. It all started during the lockdown. Eugene Robinson (Whipping Boy, OxBow) was then an editor at Ozy. He liked “The Beat Down at CBGB,” an article I wrote about the hardcore scene of the 1980s, and invited me to write first person narratives for Ozy. While initially reluctant, the world was under house arrest, so there was nothing else to do. I submitted what became the Wolfboy chapter about getting hung out a window in 8th grade English class, which Eugene loved and immediately published. I also got a nice little bounce in my checking account. He then asked, “How often can you churn these out?” As it was during lockdown, I pledged to submitting once a week. The next story I sent him – the story about the wolfboy – he also liked as well. Though I didn’t get paid for it and it didn’t appear on the Ozy site. While waiting for him to get back to me with a link and payment, I wrote what became another chapter – the stories about vampires – but he ghosted me. Six months later, he re-emerged to explain that Ozy’s editors, greedy bastards, owed a lot of people money. They ended up going to federal prison for trying to defraud Goldman Sachs out of $30 million or so. Check this out: one of their editors called in to an investor meeting with Goldman, impersonating someone from Google and attesting that Ozy was attracting enough web traffic to make it a very sound investment. While intrigued, such a sum was a bit much, even for Goldman, who decided to take some time to think it over. " More:
"I feel like blues. It's very generic nowadays, like anyone can learn how to play the blues. If I was just covering blues songs, making generic blues songs, and stuff like that. I probably wouldn’t be as well liked as I am if I played blues. What I play now, it's different, my lyrics fit better with this style of music.
And there's only so much you can do with blues music. I mean, you can do A LOT but it all basically boils down to the basic progression" More:
"The people in underground are just more down to earth, more interesting people. Mainstream people and union people think they’re this special breed of people when 99.9% of them are narcissistic mediocre assholes. Some of the stories I could tell you about ‘actors’ and their smug, entitled behaviors would make you sick. Underground and punk folks aren’t like that. They just do what they want to do because they have to do it. There is no fucking hierarchy agenda other than release and having a good time. Everything on film is fake in mainstream of course. In my earlier films I’ve used real vomit, real urine, real blood. I’ve carved my entire body up with razorblades in a movie once. That would never happen on a mainstream set. For one, the union wouldn’t allow it". More
"The band started in 1991 in the shadows of Tompkins Square Park's tent city and the 3bc Squat pUnx during the social upheaval of the neighborhood during those riots. The lineup stabilized by ‘92 for Pot Parade and GG ALLIN's final concert performance, but people always had things going on and when drugs took over some people's lives. I had to move on to other members for the Spike Lee filming of the SUMMER OF SAM and the album released through Tower Records and Cocoanuts Record stores. The next album had former members return to record and play shows as well". More:
"I was a latch key kid by 8 years-old (meaning that I had my own keys to our apartment and went to and from school by myself as a child). It was the crazy violent and heroin filled Lower East Side of New York City of the late 1970s. It looks nothing like it does today. Just search for Lower East Side 1970s on Google and you'll see what I mean. It was nuts, but a lot of us kids then traveled from school to home by ourselves. This wouldn't happen today but then it was just different". More
"I find the thing that is most upsetting is the world’s total absorption into social media. We are no longer free thinking and living. We have allowed ourselves to compare our relationships to memes on Facebook and are too worried with building an Internet life instead of a real one. We have become too obsessed with how many "likes" we get on a repost of an article we didn't even truly read; instead of living our lives". More
"I started White Trash Debutantes as a fun party band.. My pal Joey Ramone became an instant supporter of the band and he put us on some shows that he was promoting along with touring with The Ramones. I will always be grateful for the support he sowed us. Billy Gould produced our first record that we released on Alternative Tentacles.. Jello Biafra also supported the band and Faith No More has also been very kind to us". More
"The coolest thing I saw was during our set when we played with The Mob and Minor Threat at CBGB's in Dec. 1982. I believe it was during the song “Ignorant”. I went from looking at my guitar, to looking at the circle pit. All I could see was a blur of bodies going around and around, and I really couldn’t believe what I was seeing. It looked like butter being churned, a smooth blurry circular motion, couldn’t tell who was who, but everyone was in sync with each other which looked really cool!" More
"Just do it, but first and foremost educate yourself for the sake of your music and your bandmates. Also very important!! Don’t be a douche, be nice to everybody. I believe tha’s the first stage of anarchism! Be an excellent fella to everybody except a fucking nazi!! Fuck those guys!! Big time!!" More
"The original Defects met when we were all kids in the same neighborhood and into the same kind of music; mainly The Clash and The Damned, etc... 1st wave punk. I met the Exploited when we were in London in January of ‘82. Joined them in the studio and did backing vocals on “Germs”... great times. The world is fucked and the people in control need to wise up". More
The Truth About Aliens. Collector's edition. Interview with the paranormal Alexandre William. "My body is human but my essence or spirit is extraterrestrial. Everything I experience here on earth will be added to the essence of the Being. The Being often acts more than Alexandre William." More
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Carpazine Art Magazine Issue Number 39 Featuring Lana Gentry! More: Jeffrey Wengrofsky, Abdul Vas, Danny Licul, Akira Usagi, Ductape "Echo Drama", Fear at Brooklyn Monarch, Interview with Dar Stellabota, Perfect 10 at The Long Island Museum , 14th Annual Figurative Art Exhibition at Lore Degensten Gallery, and more!