Robert Williams Art Show in NYC

While I was standing in the rain, zombie makeup melting off my face, waiting to be in the annual NYC Village Halloween Parade, thirty blocks north at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery is where I should have been. Much like the rest of October, I found out a week too late that the always bewitching art genius Robert Williams was having a Halloween opening night party at the gallery for his latest showing of work, "IN THE SERVICE OF THE HYPOTHETICAL".


See a preview of the show at Art Nouveau Magazine online.
I found out about the show from my always in the know (somehow) manfriend, Mark who stumbled upon the show on his lunch break just the other day (I'll have to post some pictures when he uploads them off his camera). He and his coworker stopped in and, while checking out the myriad of mindfucking paintings and nine foot tall sculptures, Mark realized that Williams himself happened to be in the gallery at the moment and he got to meet the artist who was integral in bringing together my love for absurdist, surrealist art and hot rods...a major part of how I self-identify today.

And then, I wept a little. (I mean, come on - when I found out I'd missed the Robert Williams opening for a less than perfect Halloween evening in the rain coupled with the fact that I was too sick to go to the Art of Rebellion show put on by Harley Davidson a few weeks earlier, I was, to say the least, pretty devastated.)

Anyway, lucky for me (and you!) the show will be open until January. You can visit the Tony Shafrazi Gallery at 544 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001 (Hours: Tues - Sat 10-6).