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SleepNewYorkForums — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:04:33 +0000

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Comment on Elvis has a new therapist, his name is Dr. Faber-Castell by Dr. Faber-Castell’s quick fix « Elvis Lives… in Brooklyn

Dr. Faber-Castell’s quick fix « Elvis Lives… in Brooklyn — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:58:07 +0000

[...] a dour mood. Elvis illustrates the sentiment, although, much like the time when Emma Lee drew her disillusionment, the drawing—up until 3 last night drawing the tin can—helped a blue streak. Thank you, Dr. [...]

Comment on Elvis thinks Jesse McCloskey is, in some ways, better than Matisse by Donna Lethal

Donna Lethal — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:58:16 +0000

Jesse is a genius and his paintings just get better. As a fellow New Englander, his images of witches, drunks, pumpkins, devils, and beautiful evil are deeply affecting. Go Jesse!

Comment on Elvis has a new therapist, his name is Dr. Faber-Castell by Elvis talk to an Israeli almost as old as Moses, NYPL, and a new drawing « Elvis Lives… in Brooklyn

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:51:57 +0000

[...] “Self-Deprecation,” the latest in her “Pretty in Pink” drawings. (See the Dr. Faber-Castell sessions post from last [...]

Comment on Elvis thinks Jesse McCloskey is, in some ways, better than Matisse by carla bozulich

carla bozulich — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:38:33 +0000

Listen, Jesse McCloskey is the most free-thinking, evocative, uncompromising, fun, dark, maniacle artist I’ve ever seen. His works are slices in time, adventure stories, the lives of beasts and girls and birds and shoes and cocks and burial urns. Every one of them has a story. Death seems always to be a man here and he is very fucking aroused! Taking in one of Jesse’s works is immediatly stunning to the eye and the sense of mischief combined with the kid-like use of color and paint bring the images right to the funnest, most accessible part of the pleasure center in my brain—- an easy place where there is cheap, fast satisfaction. The woman are blatantly simple, teasing or riding bareback or gazing coyly into a mirror. But they’re drawn with such fierce indulgence that their complexity is all the more obvious. They are lovingly created and play with a certain traditional genre of perception in the world of storytelling—no more dimentional and no less compelling than the women in bible stories—-and no less loaded—layered with action and reaction. Instincts, myths, dislocated hope, rapture and frank symbolism are freely bandied about– ancient religious tales are explored with great mirth– yet you can see the seriousness in there creeping, a certain delectable cynicism, another scissored layer, a dark fucking mind. The layers. The raw, rough layers of paint and paper drive the themes of these paintings to their obviously unsortable, engrossed intricacy. He seems to let the world unfold with absolute freedom —hotly exploiting the curdled urge to morally conform. Here lie stories of creatures of the heavens and earth haunting and tickling their way into our soft underbellies in an dirty, audacious display of the subtle battles between higher and lower selves. And the bastard can paint. This work is going to burn and burn and instead of eventually burning to ash it will ultimately achieve perpetual ignition, much like, well, a really fun kind of hell… and outlive us all. Yay!! Cheers, Jesse.

Comment on A handful of J’s and K’s by krati

krati — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:40:10 +0000

great work

Comment on elvis likes art in williamsburg. day 9. by lisa marie

lisa marie — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:44:46 +0000

I was at DSG once! There was little redhead pawin me!

I told him: “You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog,
cryin’ all the time. Well, you ain’t never caught a rabbit and you ain’t no friend of mine.”

He backed off but not before stealin a kiss! So I said:

“When they said you was high classed, well, that was just a lie.”

When he walked away I saw the cutest butt I’d ever seen. Damn, I think I love that fool.