"Bang A Gong" Paintings by Nancy Drew Opening Saturday in Freddy's "Silver Room"

Artichoke - 2010

Freddy's Bar is extremely proud to announce the launch of its art space "The Silver Room" with an exhibition of paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Nancy Drew, entitled "Bang A Gong".

I have to personally add to this official press release that Nancy's glitter fabulous paintings are a beautiful sight to behold in Freddy's new silver backroom. Nancy Drew's medium is GLITTER and FLOCKING. What is flocking, you may ask? Flocking is soft and fuzzy, sort of like velvet but more like the stuff that carnival prizes are made of. Ms. Drew has also has contributed much to the allover design of the new Freddy's, in addition to this exhibit, she has done a glittering "erotic" wallpaper installation in the back vestibule of the bar as well as many other flourishes in different areas allover the bar and backroom.

Anyway read on about this show from Freddy's press release.

"A group of paintings from both her "Artists Series" and "Porn Series" will be included in this mini-retrospective. Spanning the last ten years of Nancy Drew's production, each year is represented by a single painting. Painted in her signature materials of flock and glitter, imagery culled from 20th Century Ab-Ex masterpieces and contemporary video porn boxes is feminized and beautified beyond easy recognition, into levels of high camp and cultural relevance. The resulting artistic transpositions can't help but turn the aims of their sources on their ear. Rendered in plush flocking and sparkly glitter, the original meanings have been entirely recast and transformed in Drew's works, with equal doses of humor and reverence. Ms. Drew is a veteran of the NY art scene, as well as a few controversies concerning her highly-regarded 'cover versions' of abstract expressionist masterworks.

Drew's artwork has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at many venues both locally and internationally, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Chelsea Museum of Art, Artists Space, Exit Art, Roebling Hall, White Box, NYC; as well as Real Art Ways, Hartford CT; Albright College, Reading, PA; and the Kyrgyzstan National Fine Arts Museum, Kyrgyzstan Republic."

Opening: Saturday, February 12th, 7 to 9 pm
Show will be upFebruary 12th thru March 28th

WHERE: The Silver Room at Freddy's Bar
627 Fifth Avenue (between 17th & 18th Streets)
South Slope, Brooklyn

"You snooze, you lose, buddy!"

The ecstatically happy Markowitz's.
The other night a friend invited me to what I thought was just a regular Brooklyn style house party. Little did I know that hosts of the party Director/Cinematographer Steve and the fabulous wardrobe lady Sabine seduced it's attendees with food and alcohol and then cast us to act in an episode of the "Brooklyn vs. Bush Television Comedy Hour". Yup that's how it happened (to me anyway!). This photo is a little teaser from an upcoming episode where Jamie Markowitz's infamous Takashi Murakami placemat stealing incident at the Brooklyn Museum Ratner Gala is reenacted. Elliot plays Marty and Nancy gives a command performance as Jamie Markowitz. F.I.B makes her acting debut in this episode as the "Rich Lady" who becomes so livid with Jamie for taking her placemat swag that she morphs into a Murakami type super heroine! Wrestling and hair pulling ensues! I can't WAIT to see it!!!!

Check out Brooklyn vs. Bush T.V here.
On regular TV you can watch the show in Brooklyn and Manhattan on MONDAY NIGHTS.
BKLYN Mon at 11:30 pm on BCAT ch. 3 Time Warner ch. 56 CVision ch 69, no box: 10.
MANHATTAN mon/tues midnight MNN1/Time War 34 RCN 110.

Nancy Drew

Fresh Meat
Nancy Drew is one of the artists that has participated in the "Found in Brooklyn" Group Show at Freddy's Backroom.

Nancy Drew's medium is GLITTER and FLOCKING. What is flocking, you may ask? Flocking is soft and fuzzy, sort of like velvet but more like the stuff that carnival prizes are made of. This piece is part of her “Porn” series, entitled “Fresh Meat”. From a few feet away it looks like a colorful, sparkly abstract but up close it is much more complex. Composed of the women and words from VHS porn boxes and rendered in candy colors, Nancy Drew makes the women on the boxes look as comical as the copy in a brilliant way.

Click on this link here to see much more of this series.

Nancy Drew’s glitter fabulous paintings have been in many group shows throughout NYC and she is represented by Roebling Hall Gallery in NYC where she will be having her third solo show this year.

I’ll let you know when!

In the meantime, check out Nancy's work and others (many who I will be featuring, so stay tuned) this month at Freddy's Backroom from 11am to 4am, 7 days a week!

Freddy's Bar & Backroom
located at:
485 Dean Street Brooklyn, NY 11215
phone: 718.622.7035
That's the corner of Dean Street and 6th Avenue in Brooklyn.

"Meet Qute" Art Show with Brooklyn Babe, Nancy Drew, opens tonight!

One of my best Brooklyn friends, Nancy Drew, who makes gorgeous glittery paintings is in this group show which opens tonight. There are some excellent artists in this one! I command you to check it out whether you can make it to the opening or not!

MEET QUTE
NOVEMBER 15 - DECEMBER 15, 2007
CURATED BY ELIZABETH HESKIN & MARCY BRAFMAN
The Artists:
MICHAEL BEVILACQUA * MAHOMI KUNIKATA *MARCY BRAFMAN *CHANG-JIN LEE * IONA ROZEAL BROWN*
YOSHITOMO NARA * SANH-AH CHOI* LEAH OATES * PAUL CLAY* ASUKA OHSAWA *NANCY DREW * LEE QUINONES
INKA ESSENHIGH * GAE SAVANNAH * JEFF FELD* LISA STEFANELLI * JOEL GIBB * GINNA TRIPLETT

Heskin Contemporary
94 Prince Street
opening from 6 to 9
*The gallery is located above Franelli's Bar in Soho.