Agnieszka Woznicka - BIRDY

Allison Schulnik - FOREST

Pixies

I was swimmin' in the Caribbean
Animals were hiding behind the rocks
Except the little fish
But they told me, he swears
Tryin' to talk to me, coy koi.

Hitchcock's Definition of Happiness

Kusama

Fiction/Non-Fiction at Adam Baumgold

My drawing "Sisters" (post below) will be included in the exhibition Fiction/Non-Fiction at Adam Baumgold Gallery opening next week

...FICTION/NON-FICTION...

March 16 - April , 2012

For Immediate Release: . . Adam Baumgold Gallery presents Fiction/Nonfiction from March 16 - April 21, 2012. This exhibition explores different types of narrative in drawings, paintings, and sculpture from the ambiguous and open-ended to the fully realized. Artists included in the exhibition are Rafael Ferrer, Saul Steinberg, George Grosz, Robin Tewes, Mark Tansey, Chris Ware, Julie Doucet, Charles Burns, Robert Crumb, Seth, Renée French,Tony Fitzpatrick, Barbara Kruger Ed Ruscha, Alison Elizabeth Taylor, Glen Baxter, Marc Bell, Marcel Dzama, John Borowicz, Aline Kominsky Crumb, Mark Kostabi, Adam Dant, Elisheva Biernoff, Ruth Marten, Jules Feiffer, Huston Ripley, Bette Blank, Ellen Lanyon, Scott Teplin, Emilie Selden, and Anton van Dalen. . . .Featured in the exhibition is Saul Steinberg's drawing Allegory, 1963, which combines symbols for beauty, justice, progress, and death to create an absurdist pastiche. In his double-sided drawing Der Dichter am Schreibtisch (At the Writing Table) 1921, George Grosz bemoans the failure of the literary scene with his image of a writer struggling to put pen to the page, and a coffin looming behind him. Tony Fitzpatrick's drawing collage Juarez Beast, 2011 metaphorically tells of the harsh realities of the Mexican drug trade and its brutal consequences, especially on women. . . .Mark Tansey's cut-out painting, Untitled 1982, depicts a man methodically arranging stone tiles into a floor as if it were a jigsaw puzzle. In an unsettlingly serene and warm scene, Robin Tewes's painting 911, 2002 makes a symbolic reference to the tragedy using her own surrealist vocabulary, without affecting false sentimentality. Elisheva Biernoff's lifelike paintings of postcards memorialize the final journeys of lost explorers. Bette Blank's romantic painting Starlight Drive-In 2012 transports us back to a simpler time. . . .Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Robert Crumb, and Julie Doucet draw quasi-autobiographical comic tales that are funny and poignant in their honesty. Chris Ware's drawing Jordan Lint: Age 58 & 59 (Childbirth and Stepdaughter Bikini) approximates Lint's inner life through a muddled stream of overlaid thoughts, personal symbols and mislaid memories. In The Green Ghost & Co., 2011 Seth assembles an unlikely cast of comic characters, invented for his book The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists. Charles Burns's drawing El Borbah: Title Page: Love in Vein, 1999 evokes pulp fiction, heavy metal, and noir film. . . .The large ink and watercolor drawing by Adam Dant, The Coliseum: Culture vs. Transit, 2012, unites quotidian drama and high art as a series of commuter trains rudely interrupts a performance of Swan Lake at the Coliseum Theatre in London. A man is unceremoniously tied up in the center of a room while four other men consult maps and plans in an undefined, ritualistic game in Glen Baxter's Untitled, 1973.

Sisters

graphite on paper with collage, 14" x 11", 2011

Woman With Apple

Woman With Apple

graphite on paper

10" x 5 1/2"

2012

Breathing Woman

Breathing Woman

graphite on paper

7 1/2" x 6"

2012

Woman With Magic

Woman With Magic

graphite on paper

7 1/2" x 6"

2012

Cardboard Robots - Kaz and Maks on Halloween

Terry Gilliam

Ogunquit Museum of American Art - Opening

Here's a piece by Justin Richel - who I had the pleasure of meeting at the opening.

Justin had a few pieces in the show which

were really incredible.

Both he and his wife are super nice people and extraordinary artists

Links to their work:

Justin Richel

Shannon Rankin

Kiki Smith, Ramirez, Widener

Bill Traylor

Bill Traylor

Martin Ramirez

George Widener

My drawing next to a really nice piece by Julie Mehretu

Two New Drawings at Adam Baumgold Gallery - DRAWN Exhibition

One Continuous Mistake
6" x 4 1/2"
graphite on paper
2011

Early the Next Morning
6" x 4 1/2"
graphite on paper
2011

Both at Adam Baumgold Gallery
DRAWN Exhibition
June 29 - August 5 2011

Upcoming Group Shows - Adam Baumgold Gallery, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, and Dedee Shattuck Gallery

I'll be in three group shows this summer.
DRAWN at Adam Baumgold Gallery

DRAWN

JUNE 29 - AUGUST 5, 2011

ALICE ATTIE OLIVE AYHENS MARC BELL BETTE BLANK REBECCA BIRD JOHN BOROWICZ JOE BRAINARD CHARLES BURNS GENVIEVE CASTREE CHUCK CLOSE GEORGE CONDO ALINE KOMINSKY CRUMB ROBERT CRUMB ANTON VAN DALEN ADAM DANT MARCEL DZAMA

MARTIN EDER ELVIS STUDIO JULES FEIFFER RAFAEL FERRER TONY FITZPATRICK RENEE FRENCH EWAN GIBBS ALEXANDER GORLIZKI JUSTIN GREEN GEORGE GROSZ JACOB EL HANANI ANNIE KEVANS VIVIENNE KOORLAND DAVID KORTY CORINNE VON LEBUSA RUTH MARTEN

CYRILLA MOZENTER PAUL NOBLE JIM NUTT HUSTON RIPLEY LAUREN SEIDEN EMILIE SELDEN SETH GEO SIPP ANNA SOMMER WILLIAM STEIG SAUL STEINBERG SCOTT TEPLIN ROBIN TEWES CHRIS WARE KARL WIRSUM DAN ZELLER

60 EAST 66TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10065

and

The Question of Drawing

at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art

and

the Inaugural Exhibition

at DEDEE SHATTUCK GALLERY

George Widener Film from Systemb

GEORGE WIDENER LINK AT SYSTEMB

Philip Guston on Painting

CLICK HERE
for video from SFMOMA

Anselm Kiefer

Karel Appel

Picasso

Meese

LINK

Tal R

Hans Memling

Limbourg Brothers

Versus Magazine UK

Karina Borowicz - Winner of the 2011 Marick Press Poetry Prize

My sister has just won the 2011 Marick Press Poetry Prize for her collection -

The Bees are Waiting

Marick Press will be publishing the book sometime next year.

Karina Borowicz - link

Peter Stankiewicz

link

Buckminster Fuller 1933 Dymaxion

The Dymaxion car was a concept car designed by American architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller. The word Dymaxion is a brand that Fuller gave to several of his inventions, to emphasize that he considered this as just part of a wider project to improve the living conditions of everyone. This car could hold 11 passengers and up to a speed of 140 km

from Garage Car

link

Escape Into Life

This was so nice of the lovely people at Escape into Life.

Lots of great things at this site

Thanks guys!

link here

Lamono Magazine

From the nice folks in Spain at Lamono Magazine

john borowicz, recolector de detalles

link

Redefine Magazine

Redefine Magazine did a nice piece on my Sprawling Conglomerates drawings

link

"they’re a veritable Where’s Waldo of trip-outs for the eyeballs"

Versus Magazine UK

The guys over at Versus Magazine in the UK were kind enough to put a few of my drawings in their current issue. I'm honored - great magazine and really nice guys that run it.

versus link

Gugging - Art Brut Center

LINK

Francois Burland - Atomik Submarine

LINK - ATOMIK SUBMARINE

The Quay Brothers - The Calligrapher

Ivan Maximov

Dark Side

Jimenez

Guz

Guzzi

The Creation of Eve

graphite on paper, 7" x 10", 2010

NH

By the time I get to Arizona

Carolyn Swiszcz

link

JOHNBOROWICZ.COM is up and running

johnborowicz.com

New Website Coming Soon

Man with Beard

pencil on paper, 8.5x11, 2008

courtesy Adam Baumgold Gallery

Man In a Striped Shirt

Man in a Striped Shirt

graphite on paper, 12 x 9, 2010

courtest Adam Baumgold Gallery

untitled, graphite on paper, 9.25 x 7.25, 2010

courtesy Adam Baumgold Gallery

Sprawling Conglomerates at Adam Baumgold Gallery

JOHN BOROWICZ

SPRAWLING CONGLOMERATES

JUNE 17 - AUGUST 4, 2010
OPENING RECEPTION JUNE 17, 6 - 8PM

60 EAST 66TH STREET

A Plausible Result of Sustained Spontaneity, 2010: Graphite on paper: 49 3/4" x 37 3/4"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JOHN BOROWICZ "Sprawling Conglomerates" June 17 - August 4, 2010 .......Adam Baumgold Gallery .presents. an. exhibition. of. graphite drawings by John Borowicz, "Sprawling Conglomerates," from June 17 through August 4, 2010.. In .his first New York solo exhibition, John Borowicz uses a vocabulary of deceptively simple. shapes.to .construct. saturated fields of architectural forms, completely filling the drawing surface. In other drawings, single .structures .stand .alone .on .an .otherwise. blank. page.. One. is. never. certain .if the forms are man-made, naturally occurring, or some bizarre combination of the two - a crop of modernist cave dwellings run amok. .......In the large drawing titled "A Plausible Result of Sustained Spontaneity", 2010, the artist obsessively stacks layer upon layer .of .seemingly. infeasible.architecture .upon. the .page. without. the. space. ever. receding.. In .a sea of undulation, the specificity .of .each .form .is. neutralized. like .snowflakes .in .a .blizzard. The terrain itself, although filled with a multitude of dimensional shapes, is flipped upward before us, reconciling the opposition between volume and flatness. At close range the units. are. at. once. generative. and. parasitic,. growing .out .of. and .into the environment they themselves are creating. At a distance the overall busy quality of the piece seems to quiet and reassert itself in a more minimal way - as a constant layer of static or white noise. .......Also. included .in. the .exhibition .is. the. drawing ."The Tower of Babel", 2010, .one. massive .structure,. composed .of thousands of painstakingly drawn blocks, is presented in the middle of the paper. The tower is surrounded by what seems to be. much .smaller. outbuildings. and detritus from the construction process which in turn imply a more normal spatial plane. The same simple building blocks used in "A Plausible Result of Sustained Spontaneity" are employed here but to a radically different end.. One of the many pieces of architecture from the horror vacui field drawings has been plucked from the context of .flattened. infinity. and. dropped into a void. Here, the building's chaotic framework and massive volume are on full display. Along with the obvious nod to Bruegel, other references would be the real life examples of the walled city of Kowloon and the Brazilian favela of Rocinha. .......A suite. of .self portraits will also be exhibited. If the architectural drawings become meditative as acts of repetition and endurance, these figurative works are also, but as slow observations. The artist stares straight at the viewer, the intensity of his gaze and distortion of his face are the cumulative result of many hours of close looking. .......John .Borowicz. .was. born. in. New. Bedford,.. Massachusetts. in .1968.. .He. studied. painting. at .The. University. of Massachusetts. at. Amherst..His. work. has been included in several previous group exhibitions at the gallery and has been featured .in .the .periodicals .New. American. Paintings .and .Tema. Celeste. .......Summer hours are Tuesday through Saturday 11:00 - 5:30 P.M. during June, Tuesday through Friday 11:00 - 5:30 P.M. during. July. and. August.. A. preview .of. the. exhibition. can.be. seen .at .www.adambaumgoldgallery.com.. For. additional information please contact Adam Baumgold at (212)861-7338 or abaumgold@aol.com.

TimeOut NY

Aqueous Interval

Aqueous Interval, 9.25 x 7.25, graphite on paper, 2010

courtesy Adam Baumgold Gallery

Grisaille Self Portrait

Self Portrait in Grisaille, 14 x 11, oil on linen, 2010

Tower of Babel at Adam Baumgold Gallery

Tower of Babel

graphite on paper, 38x50 ,2010

Sprawling Conglomerates at Adam Baumgold Gallery