Coverage of the Ackers

photo by Robert Butcher for The Village Sun

There were articles about the Acker Awards ceremony in both the Village Sun and AMNY.  Here they are! 

https://thevillagesun.com/avant-garde-artists-honored-at-ny-acker-awards

https://www.amny.com/entertainment/arts-entertainment/acker-awards-avant-garde-art-2022/

photo by Bob Krasner for AMNY

 

2022 Acker Awards

This year both Eric and I were honored to receive Acker Awards, amongst many other creative, talented people. Thank you Clayton!

Named for writer Kathy Acker, the Ackers celebrate NYCs bohemian zeitgeist, particularly the LES.

Fri, Dec 2nd: Holiday Group Art Show at Hekate

I'm in a marginally more Solstice-y mood than I 've been in a while this season, and I 'm also part of Hekate's holiday art show and art market, opening this Friday. Details can be found here: 

https://facebook.com/events/s/holiday-group-show-opening-art/3317800675160689/

Easton Book Festival Friday

Easton Book Festival

This Friday October 28th the Easton Book Festival in Easton, PA will be hosting an evening of World War 3 Illustrated artists performing slideshows of their work, including me. Eric will be there providing music with Continuity Of Struggle, along with Andy Laties (the book fest founder) and John Wagner.

  Also, while these are not ready to go, some sneak peek images of what I'm doing for the upcoming issue of WW3:

Artist Meet And Greet tonight!

Friday Oct 21st (tonight) at Hekate, come meet the artists who are part of the Halloween group show. Ask me anything (about the artwork) and have some herbal elixirs 🌿🌸

https://facebook.com/events/s/meet-the-artists/487522420083956/

Spoken Word At KGB Bar

Join us tomorrow night at KGB Bar for Notes From The Rock Underground. I'll be bringing my Tillary diaries and stream of consciousness to the table so it promises not to bore.

Hekate Group Halloween Show

Friday September 30th I'll be showing two new paintings in the Halloween Group Show at Hekate on Ave B, the witchy elixir themed sober bar that's been making a splash downtown. You don't need to be an occultist to enjoy the concoctions and events at Hekate. You don't even need to be sober... proprietress Abby Ehmann also owns Lucky, the bar across the street. 

The show will be up for a month. 167 Ave. B NY NY 10009 

www.hekatenyc.com

Angry Pro-Choice Bitch T-Shirt!

New shirt at #teepublic! Show them how you REALLY feel while aiding and abetting abortion at every turn! Linktree in bio or https://www.teepublic.com/user/jblitz

"Become Ungovernable" Rat T-shirt Design!

The "Become Ungovernable" BaphoRAT is now available on an array of tees, tanks, sweatshirts, and other gear!

   It's on my TeePublic shop at https://www.teepublic.com/user/jblitz , along with some of weird and creepycute original designs.

For the 100th Anniversary of Kurt Schwitters "Ur Sonate", recording Urchestra in Woodstock

 

Around 2008, Eric and our friend Andy Laties founded Urchestra, a freeform experimental band dedicated to interpreting Kurt Schwitters tone poem, Ur Sonate (or Sonata In Primeval Sounds). They both share a love of jazz and dada, so this seemed natural. Rebecca Migdal, Andy's wife, joined on vocals. Over the years, a number of artists and musicians have participated. There's also been some of the participants who have passed. Valerie Caris- Blitz, Eric's first wife. Pronoblem. John Landino. So it seemed like the moment should be seized to do a definitive Urchestra recording. Though Glove, (aka Josh Selman) was not able to make it due to being across the country at his wife Alison Knowles retrospective . 

However we were joined by Clubhouse Studio owners Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso (who's vocal work I'm now getting into as a result of this.) I would have loved to spend some time checking out Woodstock, but maybe another day.

Head Peddlers Record Release

NYC folk-punk duo The Head Peddlers are having a record release at Hekate on August 14, and me and Eric will be helping on the live show with drums and vocal harmonies (as will another talented singer named Laura Thomas). You can get more info on Hekate's site here:

https://www.hekatenyc.com/events/head-peddlers-album-release-party

...and also get some healthy herbal elixirs at their sober bar.

Revamping My Artist Blog

But because Weebly software is annoying as hell to work with, click this link to read about Ayin Halliday's Small Potato Manifesto, Too Tough To Die from Birdcage Bottom Books, and Jon Allen's Pop Wasteland magazine, all of which I contributed to late last year after a go round with the NYC shelter system. 

https://jgonzalezblitzblog.weebly.com/