This clip was nice to see for me because I finally get to see what this all looks like in context and from the train. Steve told me about this project about a year ago right before he was going to start it and he has shown me images and I've seen images on line ever since. I'd call him through out last year randomly and he would be on his way back and forth from Philly. He really was relentless "just going back to finish four more" "I'm trying to paint 35". In 2010 it's good to see Steve is still On The Go.

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Wes Lang: Smile, It’s a Grey Day March 25 – April 24, 2010 Reception for the Artist: Thursday, March 25, 6-8 pm Wes Lang’s latest exhibition “Smile, It’s a Grey Day” consists of 17 new paintings. Meditating on the recent loss of several loved ones, the artist professes a sometimes veiled reverence for life through his tattoo-inspired imagery. Combining the same deft maneuvers of brush as he has long-employed with the skin-artist’s needle, Lang translates masculine tattoo templates and works from within the confines of stylized graphics of flash art, continuing the tattoo tradition of valuing appropriation over unique imagery. The tattoo tropes and one percenter’s dismissal of social constraints is consistent with Lang’s approach to art and life. Unafraid of influence, Lang channels Philip Guston, Martin Kippenberger, Cy Twombly and Basil Wolverton — a celebration of disparate forebears, re-combined in an alternately cantankerous and nostalgic American stew. He also finds solace in sources as wide ranging as self-help manuals to country and rock song lyrics. In the end, Lang often expresses his outsized optimism openly in titles like “Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands,” “Don’t Tell Me There’s No Hope At All,” and “The River of Golden Dreams.” With the keenest eye toward our ephemeral fringe — Lang champions human faults, celebrating the patterns in our rapacity—a familiar vernacular comfort becomes the voice of longing for a world without anchor. This is Lang’s fourth solo exhibition at ZieherSmith and the first to feature solely painting on canvas. His work has also been seen in shows at Alexander and Bonin and Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York, Dealim Museum, Seoul; Peres Projects, Berlin, and V1 Gallery, Copenhagen among many others. He was named one of 2009’s top fifteen young artists by Interview Magazine. A new publication featuring the work of Lang and Donald Baechler, entitled Skulls and Shit , is available from Ajax Press. Image: Wes Lang, Let It Snow, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 72 x 108 inches ZieherSmith / 516 West 20th Street / New York, NY 10011 / 212-229-1088 / info@ziehersmith.com / www.ziehersmith.com

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NEW YORK—When Jeffrey Deitch was named director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art this January and declared he'd be closing his gallery in June, the news left the art world with more questions than answers. First and foremost, what would happen to his roster of more than 30 artists? Since Deitch’s announcement that he’ll dissolve his operation — a requirement to limit the myriad possible conflicts of interest when he takes over MoCA — the dealer has hinted that at least part of his mantle might pass down to one of his trusted deputies. Now this is indeed the case: Kathy Grayson, the 29-year-old director of Deitch’s Wooster Street space, plans to open her own gallery with a sizable chunk of her former employer’s stable. "There's no going back now," Grayson told ARTINFO Read on http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/34110/in-post-deitch-nyc-kathy-grayson-steps-in/?page=2