Urchestra at Fluxfest

We will be performing with Urchestra this Friday! Also Eric is playing drums for Tamara Wyndham 's performance. 

  This is happening at Westbeth Community Space and is part of the larger Fluxfest. 

Live Performance Friday at Shalom Neuman 's Art Show

Rivington School's Shalom Neuman returns to NYC for a solo exhibit at Van Der Plas Gallery, and we're giving a performance for the opening!

Friday September 15 5:30 PM - Van Der Plas Gallery, NYC!

From Rebecca Migdal:

The Third Reich of Dreams: Burning Down the Night (featuring Doll Hospital, Shalom Neuman and Ladi Kolsky)

In Nazi Germany a Jewish journalist, Charlotte Beradt, secretly recorded the dreams of guilt, fear, ambivalence, denial and resistance recounted to her by acquaintances suffering under the fascist totalitarian state. The dreams were later published in the book The Third Reich of Dreams. 

The potent and disturbing dream images Beradt collected serve as the textual component of The Third Reich of Dreams: Burning Down the Night, a sound experience weaving together spoken word, spontaneous vocals and music. With guttural catharsis, the work channels an apotheosis of evil, accompanying and culminating in the ultimate act of desecration, the burning of books, performed by Shalom Neuman. This performance functions as a symbolic, apotropaic redemption, defying censorship and hate through the re-appropriation of the destructive act into the chthonic realm of alchemical renewal. 

Doll Hospital is an experimental noise/art/poetry experience featuring Andy Laties, Rebecca Migdal, Eric Blitz and Jenny Gonzalez-Blitz. The ensemble will be joined by guitarist Ladi Kolsky. 

Doll Hospital have appeared at Otto’s Shrunken Head and The Pyramid Club, among other venues.

WW3 Review At Comics Grinder

Coming off the East Village Zine Fair this very lovely review in Comics Grinder!

 https://comicsgrinder.com/2023/07/05/my-body-our-rights-world-war-3-illustrated-53-review/?fbclid=IwAR3oT-Euk-98xPFJ7_7I_eGUpDl2eURtT_Wcz9MTnakrX6m4vbWc1zSMkl8

BeWitched! art show opening Friday night

flyer art by Slaughter DK

Be Witched !

ArtMakerNYC.org Group Art & Transformation Show

Opening Friday, June 16, 6pm-9pm

Hekate Café & Elixir Lounge

167 Avenue B, New York, NY 10009

Show runs June 16 through July 13th

See artmakernyc.org/bewitched to learn more ...

Be Witched is all about inspiring New Yorkers to cast spells and be part of the great transformation happening all around us ... Summer is the time for coming out, coming together and celebrating ... join the ArtMakers to create a little magic of your own. Enjoy the art, let it speak to you, say a few words with focus and intention, and who knows what may happen ... anything is possible ... it is all about transformation ...  

Artists:  Daniella D., Dina Levy, JenniferPodisDead, Jennylee Marcelin, J Gonzalez-Blitz, Maria Alekseev | OpticVoid, Slaughter DK, 

TonyaKnudsen.com

I'm showing some pieces I've done that I feel for with the theme of transformation Tonya picked. Divine Androgyne archetypes from alchemy and hermeticism navigating the modern world.

   So, two of the pieces I finally got back from storage. Glad to have them home and they're going out again

World War 3 Illustrated Release Party June 3rd

Taking it easy today after getting on stage with the Head Peddlers again, Eric's first outing on drums after his surgery! And in two weeks the latest issue of WW3 Illustrated drops, that's my artwork under Roberta Gregory's Bitchy Bitch 

Urchestra Bandcamp

I've been behind in updating my art blog, but that doesn't mean stuff isn't always going on Earlier this month the Urchestra Bandcamp launched featuring the recording done at the Clubhouse up in Woodstock this previous August . Sadly, within days of the site launch, Karl Berger passed. Karl and his wife Ingrid Sertso are/were both luminaries in the jazz and avant garde world and an incredible piece of the Ur Sonate recording and  additions to the list of musicians who have performed with Urchestra. 

https://urchestra.bandcamp.com/album/the-three-fates-sing-ur-sonata-by-kurt-schwitters-featuring-karl-berger-ingrid-sertso

CHARAS Mural in E.V. Grieve

       This article is from a few weeks ago, but there was also a story on the mural creation in

 E V Grieve

       Since then there's been a lot of progress on it! I added color to my bomba art, and here are some contributions from Sabrina Jones and Eileen Doster

CHARAS Murals and Protest Art News

It's good to see the murals attracting attention to the situation with CHARAS/El Bohio. People stop to ask us about the situation or compliment what we're doing each time we're out there. It seems clear they'd rather see CHARAS revived for the community than another fishtank glass high-rise or clusterfuck of bars there. 

Here's an article from The Village Sun:

https://thevillagesun.com/old-p-s-64-former-charas-gets-a-mural-on-its-other-side

And this is a report from NY1 Noticias with several shots of the mural as well as an amazing miniature recreation of the CHARAS building by Tom Manco.

https://www.ny1noticias.com/nyc/noticias/noticias/2023/03/16/vecinos-y-lideres-locales-piden-al-alcalde-devolver-local-de-charas-el-bohio-a-la-comunidad#

CHARAS Mural Continues

I added the Bomba dancers and drummer to this collaborative mural on the outside of CHARAS on 9th St. 

Cinema Schism Issue 3 -Nick Zedd Tribute

Cinema Schism is a zine about underground film and the newest issue is dedicated to our friend and Cinema of Transgression founder Nick Zedd. I did a piece of tribute art for it. Annie Sprinkle and Larry Schemel also contribute articles. Cinema Schism is available through their Etsy shop

me and Nick at the filming of "Why Do You Exist?"

Nick with his wife and stepdaughter Monica and Amanita and me with Eric at an art event 

Updates part 1- Fighting for Charas

January has been a busy month, starting on New Year 's Day! I didn't do anything for New Year 's Eve, partly due to Eric being laid up again with a hip pointer injury, and partly due to avoiding NYE like it was Disnified Times Square.

   But anyway, I 've been involved with the fight to save CHARAS and turn it back into a community center to benefit the people, possibly actual low-income housing/permanent housing for homeless people is something I'd like to see also. Sort of a combo like they did with the abandoned school up here, P.S. 109.

   So last fall a mural was created on the 10th Street side of CHARAS and after some people were all "What 9th St don't get know love?" We began a mural for the 9th street side. 

 

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.