[su_dropcap style=”flat” size=”4″]P[/su_dropcap]roducers Sound Remedy and Illenium teamed up for a new track called “Spirals.” Written by King Deco and Kinetics, “Spiral” is a smooth, rhythmic tune that embodies the magic of the summer.
King Deco. | Tigris EP.
Jordanian singer King Deco just released her long awaited EP, Tigris. Containing three solid tracks, including the popular song “One” (feat. Kinetics), Tigris is giving listeners exactly what they have been waiting for. Although Tigris is already garnering some positive reviews, Deco revealed to us that this EP is just the beginning. We strongly advise that you keep your ears open. Until then, get …
The Painstakingly Pleasant Task of Emoting Emotions: An Interview with Sophie-Yen Bretez.
Originally starting out in the business forum, Bretez ultimately came to the decision that she was in the wrong field. Although this is an oft encountered epiphany that is not specific only to her, Bretez did what many fail to do and eventually took on the daunting task of changing her life direction and focus.
Deco is On One.
King Deco recently delivered the highly anticipated visuals for her well received single, “One.” Directed by Nick Wiesner, the video is a kaleidoscopic climax of color, patterns, and cinematic excerpts. Rumored to be releasing some new material this year, Deco is looking to build an already intriguing buzz.
The One True King.
Producer Felix Snow has been steadily putting his fingerprints on everything this year. This time around, Snow collaborates with New York artist, King Deco. Simply titled “One”, the song is a sultry walk along the beach, with waves of aggressive drums lapping at your feet. King Deco is also making quite the name for herself, her delicate vocals, Jordanian influence, …
Taking A Stab At It.
Afro Samurai doesn’t really seem like one to settle down, but if he did, he would probably decorate his abode with these Katana Bookends from Mustard. If you’re not in the business of idolizing fictional cartoon characters, then think of how kickassly intellectual these bookends will look to anyone who spots them on your shelf. Unfortunately, these bookends won’t be …
Ben Giles: Making Life Work(s).
Perusing through the gallery of Ben Giles, a Pop artist from Suffolk, England, one cannot help but to be blown away. Specifically speaking of his collage work, the imagery is abstract, surreal, & appealing. He utilizes choice images with mixed medias to assemble his masterpieces. His manner of collectively unifying these elements to emote his artistic train of thought is …
Three The Hard Way | The Lost Tape. (VIDEO)
On the night of September 11th 2013, King Deco, Avidya and The Kleshas, and Cakes Da Killa treated partygoers and art enthusiast to a late summer show that made the season one to remember. Featuring dream pop, folk jazz, and hip-hop, Three the Hard Way was a bubbling cauldron of tunes and everyone with an appetite that night got served. In all, …
Quiet Lunch on the ROX: THREE THE HARD WAY | Be There!
For those of you who have yet to catch wind, Quiet Lunch on the ROX is returning with a brilliant trifecta of Pop, Jazz and Rap. On Wednesday September 11th, music lovers will unite under one roof for live performances by King Deco, Avidya and the Kleshas, and Cakes Da Killa. JOIN US! ↓Get ADVANCE TICKETS! ↓
Quiet Lunch on the ROX present THREE THE HARD WAY.
After the success of our previous installment, the second installment of Quiet Lunch on the ROX follows up with a trifecta of pop, jazz, and rap. Featuring King Deco, Avidya and the Kleshas, and Cakes Da Killa, THREE THE HARD WAY will showcase three different genres under one glorious roof. This installment of Quiet Lunch on the ROX seeks to …
Blood On the Palm Trees.
Felix Snow, who has been tied to a slew of new artists including SZA and King Deco, recently collaborated with Various Cruelties for his new single “This Pool Party Feels Like a Funeral”. Snow proves to have a dark sense of humor with this catchy tune. Various Cruelties also lends some awesome vocals, fitting in perfectly with song’s charmingly dour …
Can I Kick It? Sculptor Shawn Farrow Laces Up.
Although Farrow utilizes some highly accurate design features, he also incorporates certain subtleties that makes his work more than just replicas.
Adebunmi Gbadebo Displays Remains at Claire Oliver.
Remains from Adebunmi Gbadebo takes us on a journey of knowing. When you walk into Claire Oliver Gallery, a certain gravitas greets you at the door.
Interview: The Last Days of A Few Good Men.
There is something familiar about Patty Horing’s latest solo exhibition, A Few Good Men. Hosted by Anna Zorina Gallery, the exhibition greets you with a certain warmth.
The Standout Booths at Spring Break Art Show 2022 and Their Artists/Curators.
Summer is well on its way out and fall is nigh but Spring Break Art Fair is in full bloom.
Ricardo Brey’s Doble Existencia/Double Existence at Alexander Gray Associates.
A brooding and covertly confrontational exhibition, Ricardo Brey’s Doble Existencia/Double Existence sits with you well after you leave the gallery. The exhibition is rich with symbolism and plunges its audience into a murky reservoir of poignant pigments, fragmented literature and found objects. The audience either willfully drowns or threads lightly. Brey is no stranger to evoking emotion and addressing life’s innerworkings. The …
Constance Edwards Scopelitis Embraces The “Tech Effect”
“I have returned to the scene of the crime, as I call it… That’s Indianapolis, Indiana. But I’ve lived in New York, California, London… I’ve ventured out a lot.” Constance Edwards Scopelitis. Though Scopelitis finds the political climate in Indiana, where she grew up (“I mean hello, we gave you Pence”) really interesting to “rub up against,” especially from, as …
A Good Boy and a Wall of Sound at Olsen Gruin Gallery
There isn’t much time left to catch one of the best two-person shows on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, or more accurately, two unique, but not so disparate exhibitions; Kevin Bourgeois’ Wall of Sound and Rhys Lee’s Good Boy, both seamlessly coexisting inside Olsen Gruin Gallery and coming down Sunday, November 18th. Each body of work; Bourgeois’ angular, colorfully remixed, square (but …
The Existential Journey of Joanne Leah.
Art is an outward articulation but it is also an inward journey of growth and painstaking self exploration. Joanne Leah’s work is a raw, beautiful, candid blossoming of the artist. Although she no longer uses herself as a subject, Leah manages to weave an existential narrative that is relatable but still intimately her own. When you gaze upon her work …
Martin Maloney shows his series “Field Workers” for the first time at JGM, London
Last night, the London based artist Martin Maloney feted for his large scale “social observation paintings” exhibited his landmark series ‘Field Workers,’ at JGM Gallery, London. Created in 2013, this series of ten paintings conceived from ten related drawings, shows a different woman standing in an abstract landscape of rhythmic pattern and euphoric colour. Often created in a single session, …
Klea McKenna Steps Into The Light With Bicoastal Art Exhibitions
It’s not surprising that the San Francisco-based artist Klea McKenna’s earliest memory is filled, not only with various visceral, almost tactile sensory messages from the past, but with humor and drama as well. More so than this, it involves each of her parents, who, depending on the reader, may also occupy a certain chamber in their hearts and minds. (adsbygoogle …
Donkey Days & Donkey Nights: Aaron Fowler Seizes The Moment
“Basically, I’m an artist, so I make to figure out things,” claims the mixed-media artist Aaron Fowler less than three hours before his show, Donkey Nights (June 27 – August 10, 2018), is set to open on Bowery. Fowler expresses this notion through his enormous, oceanic eyes; sensitive two-way mirrors which convey a completely justifiable exhaustion and a blissful meta-fugue state, …
Musing on the Impossible: The Holographic Worlds of M.C. Escher at Industry City, Brooklyn NY
Yesterday my brain melted. At ESCHER. The Exhibition & Experience, one of New York’s 2018 must-see exhibitions, the Dutch artist’s perspective-mangling worlds sent my mind spinning. Because of my passion for Op and Kinetic art, I was a kid in a candy store. Thanks to the clever, interactive installations that pepper a flawlessly curated selection of Escher’s works, I got …
Defining The Demiurge With Artist Justin Orvis Steimer
Almost a decade ago, in my earliest days living in New York City proper (I’m a Long Island boy), I met a tall, quiet, slightly shy, longhaired artist at the coolest annual improvisational jazz-meets-blues jam on the Upper East Side. This was Justin Orvis Steimer. The party, thrown every year on jazz legend “Duke” Ellington’s birthday (April 29th), took place …
Last Chance: The Orchid Show at The New York Botanical Garden, Through Sunday April 22, 2018
THE ORCHID SHOW Saturday, March 3, 2018 – Sunday, April 22, 2018 at The New York Botanical Garden Installations by Belgian Floral Artist Daniel Ost The long, chilly winter might not have brought much snow this year, but it’s a safe bet that everyone’s ready for some horticultural eye candy. Luckily, the New York Botanical Garden’s annual Orchid Show is …
Leaning into the Wind
There are more than a few ways to go about making a documentary about an artist. There’s the dead artist documentary, the living artist documentary and what he (and maybe every once in a while, she) has done thus far with his life—either pre-success or post and then there’s the slice-of-life look. The beauty of the latter is that context …
McSorley’s Old Ale House, New York & The Ashcan School
“McSorley sold his ale across the bar at two mugs for a quarter. A tired man could go in, buy his mug, sit down and rest until his weariness passed. It was a meeting-place for artists, writers and musicians of the quieter kind. It was quiet there, and blue clouds of smoke from pipes and cigars were rarely disturbed. Conversation was quiet, earnest …
The Big Picture | Faces Places (Review)
Faces Places is the little documentary that could. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the filmmakers transform the quotidian into objects of fascination. There’s an inherent narcissism about making a film about the process of making art yet the subjects are so lacking in ego yet charming that it’s a delight to watch. JR and Agnès Varda …
Rita McBride, Particulates and Douglas Gordon, back and forth and forth and back
Simultaneous installations in Chelsea this winter warrant our attention and consideration. At D.I.A.:Chelsea a work by Rita McBride and at Gagosian, Douglas Gordon’s environment of projections and video objects. Both are set in darkness which in itself alters the viewer’s consciousness and introduces a subtle effect of entering a semi-conscious state. Inside 541 West 22nd Street behind a sign that …
Spotlight on: Sydney Cash – A Meditation on Movement
The first time I saw Sydney Cash’s latest series of paintings depicting wavy lines jutting out of dark surfaces, I immediately visualized brain waves, a heartbeat, and DNA links twisting and unfolding. These vibrating, orderly patterns of wavy, intersecting lines gave me an immediate sense of calm which then shifted into a kind of vertigo, a feeling of elated disorientation. …
Miami Art Basel 2017. | Art Miami. | Day 3.
After a long night partying at Carsten Höller’s Prada Double Club Miami, I mustered the strength to tackle the other Miami Art’s Week’s behemoth, Art Miami. After a fulfilling and highly rewarding day perusing stunning modern and contemporary art at the fair, I quickly changed into a retro Pucci outfit and went straight to one of the very best restaurants in Miami Beach. It’s simply called “27” …
Neil Grayson x Book N°5 Private Launch party at the Box.
The issue No. 5 launch party at the Box last weekend was huge. Cover artist Neil Grayson was toasted by the editors, Beccs moved the audience with her signature velvet voice and Dice Soho’s rap performance brought the crowd into the rest of the night. The line was out the door and the party went well after the scheduled cut-off …
Computer Virus 1.0 and the Return of Lazarus.
Galerie Richard – 121 Orchard Street – New York November 8th – December 10th 2017 A retrospective view of Joseph Nechvatal’s sensual works is at Jean-Luc Richard’s gallery on Orchard Street, located just above Kenmare in the LES. These soft richly textured surfaces and images are not hand made but conceived visually in digital territory. Three works from 2017 are …
Rashaad Newsome. | Running. | Park Avenue Armory.
n Tuesday night, November 7th, multi-media artist Rashaad Newsome unveiled the fruits of his Artists Studio residency at The Park Avenue Armory in back to back presentations of his stripped down and yet most emotionally evocative performance series yet: Running. Taking place inside the newly restored Veterans Room, “a monument of late 19th-century decorative arts” that combines multi-ethnic architectural influences …
Robot Lamp. | The Clever Raven.
If you’re looking to put an industrial touch on your surroundings then this Robot Lamp is a perfect find. Handmade by Brit Sigh of The Clever Raven, this Robot Lamp has an innovative charm.
Q&A. | Lessons Learned: Victor Corona’s Night Class.
eing a sociologist means being a professional voyeur, a professional people watcher,” Victor Corona told my fellow young, naïve know-it-alls assembled in our “Sexuality and Society” class at Columbia University. It’s there where we spent time thinking deeply about the identities we construct and the ways in which we police and perform those identities through the stories we tell ourselves …
Music Review. | Hello Abyss | Nehedar.
uckle up and get ready for a smooth trip through time. With the crisp cadence of Emilia Cataldo — and nostalgic, yet refreshing production of Craig Levy — New York’s Nehedar propels its latest release, Hello Abyss to a bubbling, cult acclaim. Traveling from the ’60’s to the present, Hello Abyss, is a contemplative account of being in love and everything in between. Beginning with …
Op art is back! Interferences: Contemporary Op and Kinetic Art at GR gallery
ast week, GR gallery unveiled its fourth exhibition dedicated entirely to Op and Kinetic art. The exhibition, Interferences: Contemporary Op and Kinetic Art, pulsates as its artworks electrify the gallery’s atmosphere. The show’s opening night brought together an eclectic array of artists, curators, and art lovers, including the likes of rock photographer Bob Gruen, his wife, artist Elizabeth Gregory Gruen, …
Artists We Know: Catching up with Melanie Hoff.
MELANIE HOFF For the first column of our bi-weekly feature here at Quiet Lunch we caught up to date with Melanie Hoff, a digital artist who currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. J+A: Hi Melanie, it’s good to see you. Can you tell us what is exciting to you as a working artist right now? MH: I have begun to see my …
The Non-Creative. | Steve Kim.
don’t like to create,” says artist Steve Kim, cushioning his statement with an ironic chuckle. But oddly enough, Kim’s reluctance to create is what fuels his unique aesthetic. For Kim, the act of creating—or at least the overwrought version of creating—is a burden. After all, plenty of artists want to be free. Free to make, free to erase, free to …
Trienna Table. | Ilmari Tapiovaara.
f you’re looking to add some sharp, geometric angles to home decor, the Trienna Table is worth a look. Designed by Ilmari Tapiovaara, the Trienna Table is made from bent birch wood and comes in stained black, lacquered white, oak and walnut.
The WHiT of Gordon Holden.
[su_dropcap]O[/su_dropcap]ne of our favorite artist, Gordon Holden, has teamed up with WHiT to create some great wearable art. The tee is decorated with an excerpt from a new series of paintings Holden has been working on. We had the pleasure of seeing those paintings up close and the Gordon Tee is a perfect manifestation of the works.
Atlas Sits. | Canvas Globe Pouf.
[su_dropcap style=”flat” size=”4″]A[/su_dropcap]tlas has had his fair share of shrugs. It’s high time that he kicked back and took a load off. The Canvas Globe Pouf, both studious looking and comfortable, plays nice with others; blending in with almost any interior design scheme.
“THE HOLE PUNCHER” | HAYLEY MCCULLOCH.
he hole puncher was a heavy steel manually operated thing, lacquered in flashy red enamel. I sometimes preferred it to toys. Maybe it was reminiscent of a mini Ferrari, a glossy candy apple, the made up lips of a Hollywood starlet. Cast ergonomically, it provided a satisfying fit in the palm when cradled in the hand. It was made to remove two small …
The BLOSSOM Before Spring.
Aleksandra Kingo deconstructs the concept of masculinity with her photographic series, BLOSSOM. BLOSSOM is a comparative series that features tatted skinheads adorned in fresh floral arrangements, wearing soft stares. Creating a stark contrast between the perceived manliness of her subjects and the “emasculating” effect of the flowers, Kingo is questioning our interpretation of masculinity and what makes a man a “man.” “A man’s …
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