“IN TIE ONE WE TRUST”… Installation And Exhibition in Progress
Posted by jocelyn superstar on 29 Jul 2007 at 01:00 am | Tagged as: Graffiti, PRO POP ART, Mixed Media/Collage Paintings, Collaboration Art, Installation, Urban Art |
For the last month or so I have been working on my upcoming installation and exhibition entitled “IN TIE ONE WE TRUST” to be held at the bluedahlia’s Studio gallery, 3435 Cesar Chavez, #315 in San Francisco, and opening on August 19th, 2007, 4 - 9 pm. The exhibition is on view through August 31st by appointment only. For more information call 415.828.4418. Here are photos documenting my progress as i create the installation almost all from scratch and mostly using recycled materials. Thanks to the Sanitary Fill/Norcal Company, the SF Garbage Dump for the Spectator newspaper rack, the fake flowers, the Christmas lights, some of the wood, and most of the spray paint i used. A special thank you also goes out to Paula Goodman and Express Service Signs in Cincinatti for all of her wonderful recycled sticker vinyl scraps. And of course, I want to thank the anonymous donor who made all the copies of the “TIE warning” stickers from the original TIE made so long ago. Thank you. You know who you are, my other hero. A final thanks goes to Julie Blankenship of bluedahlia’s Studio gallery for hosting my show. I love you, Julie!
For months, the parking lot outside my apartment remained empty… preceding the new p.c. raza mural (also now in progress since these photos have been taken) and revamped parking lot, so i decided to make use of the space and spend some time making art outside in the nice weather and the urban landscape.
Painting green boards for my “IN TIE ONE WE TRUST SIGNS”.
Recycled cans of spray paint from the garbage dump.
Behind the McDonalds at Mission and 24th Streets.
24th Street @ Lilac Street.
Lucky and Pop.
Lucky.
Fluf Tag by Mad Sex Addict (MSA).
Me painting the Spectator Newspaper Rack i brought back from my residency at the garbage dump in 2003 with recycled primer.
Sign Shop Sticker Vinyl Scraps from Paula.
Tie Warning Stickers Reproduced from Tie’s Original by anonymous donor.
Gold mica flake border portrait of “Tie Painting a Throw Up” (stolen from Barry McGee catalogue).
Silver Pearl Mica Flake portrait of Jonathan Lim (stolen from cover of Black Crown Magazine).
Jonathan TIE SEO SHAE HIS Lim R.I.P. was murdered at age 18 while doing graffiti in the Tenderloin in San Francisco in 1998. He was killed by a photographer who was also a Vietnam vet.
“IN TIE ONE WE TRUST”
Still in progress…
All are invited to the reception 8.19.07.
(Partially inspired by the money work of Ray Beldner, my former professor and friend.)
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nicole,
could you talk about your relationship to Tie? how you two met? what you two did together? what was it like working with tie?
isis
also, here’s the url for the grant i was telling you about:
http://www.cciarts.org/funding#
Tie was my teacher of bombing and of graffiti, in general, although i had a few other teachers whom i do not really like to credit because they were jerks. That being said though, i did learn a lot of things on my own, as well. I started my graffiti journey on my own, and then i met my teachers who were kind of laizez-faire until i met tie who was directly hands on. i mean this in the sence that my other teachers taught me stuff, but refused to paint with me, but Tie was the first one who took me bombing with him and taught me strategic bombing tactics and techniques.
We met kind of fighting on the wall. I would side bust him to get his goat. He was really reactive because he was so young. He was 17 then and he always had to have the upper hand in graffiti. He loved to battle everyone, even his friends. Graffiti was a game to him and he wanted to play all day and night. I think he slept 2 hours a night and barely ate. It was all about graffiti with him. He was very hyper and perhaps manic… but he constantly was working. He had to King the town and he did. 1,000 times over.
We met face to face after he came back from his trip to NYC. I was painting some supposed legal graffiti across from Southern Exposure on Florida Street, during the day. He rode his bike up to me, with his hands on his hips and said ” JOSH-A-LYN SUPERSTAR!” (with his chinese accent) like he was going to beat me up or something. I think he threatened me for awhile for side-busting him and i was kind of laughing at him cuz he was so cute and i said i was his fan, that’s why i did it… it was a prop. he was arguing it was a dis and we went back and forth for awhile, till we became friends. then he disappeared for a bit, went home, got a couple crudely rolled joints and kind of threw them at me shyly. it was really cute. i said, you should smoke these with me and he refused saying he only smoked out of a bong (i think he said that, because later the story would change to i only smoke bluntz). needless to say, we ended up smoking lots of pot together in the months that followed, but i don’t think we ever once drank together cuz he was under 21 and i wouldn’t buy it for him plus i don’t think he even cared about alcohol. it was weird. Tie was SUCH a little boy.
what was it like working with tie?… electric. a once in a lifetime chance. looking back, i feel so fortunate to have lived that time, to have had him as a teacher. he was an amazing artist. more dedicated than anyone i have ever met i the field of art. he loved and lived what he did. he had no fear and pure energy. he was a brilliant teacher. i realized after he died that i was in love with him. i was 8.5 years older and he was this little boy. it was such a great loss when he was gone.
gosh,
your experience with tie is similar to our experience the first time we went to do our first graffiti piece in that parking lot back in 1997. i think the best collaboration is like you said “electric”. i think its a tribal thing: to feel something strong with another person, that strong thing is called connecting. making art and smoking pot is a communal thing that many artists have done together…
isis
oh, i forgot to mention that i had a blast with you and kim and kim’s friend (what is her name?) at your art opening at the new Julie Blankenship gallery. your work really stood out and i wished that i could have engaged more with it, but there was alot of people standing in its way. i like the commemorative aspect of it. will you please post it on NIM as I would really like to comment on its meaning more in depth?
thanks,
isis
Ruby Ray is her name (Kim’s friend), although i’m not sure about the spelling of her last name. maybe i will have to google her. She was great! I will post images from the show, but later on. Donovan (Snyder) took a lot of great ones. Most on my camera were weird and blurry except those ones of me, you, and Richard Newirth. Those came out perfect. But even the weird and blurry ones are interesting. Julie was telling me yesterday how tony labat came in up to her before he saw me and was going on and on about how much he adores me and my work. It’s nice to have those blue chip artists backing you up, even if you ain’t sellin shit. Man, i love tony labat back. Also i got a really good feeling from catharine clark when she was there (i sort of clung to her and ray beldner’s side the whole time they were there cuz i love them too) and it seems like she is looking forward to our studio visit in september. i think i will get the solo show i want… maybe not the two rooms that i dream about, but i would be kind of surprised if i don’t get at least one room. we’ll see what happens in september, but i’m feeling better about it all. i need her so bad so i can start selling this crap (i mean art… cough… cough).