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Plastic Bag Happening 2: Turku

Ming — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:41:34 +0000

Looks like Jason’s Plastic Bag Happening 2 has been quite a success! They really have beautiful bags over there. Look at that Rambo bag!!!

Plastic Bag Happening in Finland!

Ming — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:23:44 +0000

Jason has been invited to do a Plastic Bag Happening in Finland! Stop by if you happen to be in the neighborhood

Jason Rosenberg
Plastic Bag Happening
June 22, 2009
B-Butik, B-Galleria
Turku, Finland

Mini #12: Ken Brown’s Postcards

Marco — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:32:23 +0000

We are proud to show this longtime idol of ours. Ken Brown, the creator of all those postcards that so inspired us to this day. Seldom did we feel as dumbfounded as when we realized all these pictures we had littered our walls with (oh, and I had a few wicked rubber stamps too) came from one and the same source — Ken Brown’s imagination. A very influential imagination indeed…

Postcards from Ken Brown, a retrospective of sorts… after reading Ken’s answers to our questions I think you will understand exactly why we invited him to KIOSK.

Opening Party June 11 from 7 –9 pm, the show will be on view from June 11 — June 20th. Postcards for looking, postcards for buying.

Background:
“My first experience as a practicing artist was as a film maker. During the late 60’s I created dozens of short experimental films that became part of a New England based light show which for over 2 and a half years played with everyone from Jimi Hendrix to the Velvet Underground, the Who etc.”

Reason:
“I’ve always loved postcards. They are the original populist medium, affordable, accessible and abundant and, as an artist interested in skirting the gallery system, they seemed like an ideal way to get work out to a larger audience. I admit that I had no idea what I was doing and had no business plan, but in 1975, I took what little savings I had and invested in a print run of 2000 each of 12 different photographic postcards.”

Development:
“In 1985, in another feet first production, we moved to NYC. I continue to juggle design work as an active art/entrepreneurial enterprise while also producing regular spots for MTV and Sesame St. Also in 1985, Harper and Row (now Harper Collins) publish a collection of my cartoons– Notes from the Nervous Breakdown Lane”

Influences:
I have a long standing love of American pop culture and it remains a constant theme throughout my work.

How many cards:
Over 34 years and close to 700 different designs, a rough guess would be about 2 to 3 million cards littering the landscape.

Summation:
“I love living in New York and thrive on the culture and general visual vibrancy of the place. uh oh, … starting to ramble”

soho sand witch

Marco — Sat, 02 May 2009 19:39:18 +0000

So today kind of started so-so when walking over to the store with a coffee in hand I got bumped by a large Scandinavian tourist who were swirling around in Washington Square Park, getting half my very expensive coffee spilled all over my very inexpensive blazer. To console myself I went to Grandaisy Bakery to pick up something yummy to up my mood. And what do they have there if not a Scandinavian “lyxrågmacka” — they call it Il Scandinavio or so. It’s sliced eggs, sliced cucumber, capers and red onion on seven grain dark bread. I meant to take a picture, but after passing the sandwich too close to my mouth it disappeared, leaving but the wrapping as evidence of it’s existence. Why am I telling you? Two things: One is of course they are damned good sandwiches. Get them when you are in soho next time. Come by us too for that matter! Secondly, I have been daydreaming of opening a Swedish sandwicheria for years! I even got myself sent a whole load of Swedish crispbread to do a smörgås-mini-exhibition one of these days in the store. Seeing Grandaisy beat me to it of course make me want to hurry up with my exhibition.

Mini #11– Sara Isaksson From

Marco — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:48:15 +0000

You are walking through the forest, imagine that as you normally live in a city, and suddenly you are hit on the head by a large object. It hurts. You want to start crying but you realize that’s the way it goes in the wild, no pain no gain, it’s survival of the fittest. The weird thing is you look down and realize what hit you on the head is not from nature, it is not stone or any type of flora. What hit you looks like a tree growth but it’s made of ceramic. Where are you? Is this forest inhabited by little creatures making pottery all day long? We are happy to host Sara Isaksson From, the Swedish ceramicist from the forest called Scandinavia to KIOSK March 26 — April 11th. On Saturday the 28th Sara will be at us from 2 — 6pm to have a chat with you. We hope you will brave the Soho crowds and stop by for a beer or just to look at the work and say HI.

This show was possible with the help of - Thanks!

Mini#10 — Slow and Steady Wins the Race

Marco — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:44:25 +0000

Fashion at a kiosk? - KIOSK - clothing can be as everyday and as essential as a vegetable peeler, think general store and think about what you need… Slow and Steady Wins the Race is a clothing label by Mary Ping, presented as a quarterly clothing diary: past editions: sunglasses, shoes, sweats, pockets, etc (you need it). Beginning on February 13th for one week, Slow and Steady Wins the Race presents ‘Birthday’ for its 21st collection. Piñata’s, birthday cakes and even some bubbly, very fun and very brilliant. Fashion has never been our thing but the process of making has always been our interest. We are excited to check it out and hope you will be too. Opening party February 13th between 7 –9pm at KIOSK, 95 Spring Street, 2nd floor. The show will be on view until February 20th. Hope you can make it!.

Mini #9: SRI

Marco — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:22:17 +0000

Somehow bags of all kinds, particularly fancy handbags, have become ALL THE RAGE over the past few years. Just like people on the American frontier would have their portraits taken with their prized music box, images of women today include themselves and their prized bag. Doodles and doddles and bibs and bobs, snazzy. We like to offer alternatives. Stephen, of the textile gallery SRI, is coming to KIOSK to share with us and you some very special, very simple and most beautiful vintage Japanese textile bags. Komebukuro, Imon-bukuro, Sakabukuro– exquisite, everyday, decadence, such a nice ASSORTMENT. I like it. He will also show some vintage Japanese objects including Zokin, beautiful hand-stitched pieces of cloth that were in fact made as dust rags. Whether you come to buy or just admire please do stop by. Join us for a beer at the opening on January 29th from 7 — 9pm. The show is on view thru February 7th. We are located at 95 Spring Street on the second floor. Look for our pink neon arrow on the street!

Updater: Ref Lib on line.

Marco — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:15:11 +0000

Not all images are there yet and we are still editing some texts / measuring the things etc. but the exhibition is *largely* up and is a gorgeous addition to our site. We are potaters, Andy’s things are the meat!

Mini #8: Reference Library

Alisa — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:11:38 +0000

It’s all about having a store. For the last mini-exhibition of 2008 Andy Beach of REFERENCE LIBRARY will bring his blog into the 3rd dimension with a 10-day-long shop at KIOSK that appropriately opens on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and the most notorious retailing day of the year. Let the holiday shoppers rejoice! We know we are! In addition to some fifty vintage and non-vintage odds and ends he has selected to sell here, he has commissioned WORKERS to produce an APRON (update: it sold out very quickly, sorry) of selvedge denim, made in Japan and offered in a limited edition of 5. Please come to the opening this Friday November 28th from 7 — 10pm at KIOSK, 95 Spring Street on the 2nd floor where there will be pretzels and beer from Philly. It will be fun to swap Thanksgiving stories and nosh together.

Mini #7: UGLYCUTE: Experiments in Dakota Burl

Marco — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:05:28 +0000

Mini #7 will be UGLYCUTE with “Experiments in Dakota Burl” — November 18th — 26th. There is a opening party from 7pm to 10pm on Tuesday the 18th.

Experiments in Dakota Burl? When we sat down and thought about making our own products we first thought about who we would like to work with, then we thought about what we feel the world needs and then we called the Swedish design office UGLYCUTE. We met them in 2003 and have been wanting to work with them ever since. Can you imagine bringing together the humanistic touch with something so contemporary it blows you mind? It’s about opening the door and daring to go through it to begin again rather than peeking in or touching the handle and going home to comfort. Sometimes you have to go against your own beliefs, what is familiar, to find something new. Not because NEW is necessarily a positive but because to continue to look at form and to
re-examine and to create is utterly essential. Humanistic + Intrinsic + Futuristic = UGLYCUTE = LAMP + A STOOL + A TABLE. Each object requires the user to participate and be involved in the creative process of making an object. Each object is made with environmental materials.

These are the first products we are producing under the KIOSK name. They are things we feel are needed in a world loaded with objects. We hope to produce 3 — 4 items a year.

From UGLYCUTE:

“Popular is what most consumers like. They like what they already know and find comfort in — the old. Consumerism becomes synonymous with conformism. Popular rules — the open market is closing its gates to the different. Uglycute reaches into the unrecognizable and unfamiliar in order to treat design as a way to visualize and communicate something new and different. The new is vital since this system is in such a bad need for change to cope with the problems our way of life is confronting. Uglycute believes that new ideas need different visuals to make people understand this important change”

Many thanks to the INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS STUDIO PROGRAM IN SWEDEN:

Without them you would not get to see this here in New York!