Alice’s descent down the rabbit hole came to mind as I stepped onto the basement stairs and a gold emblem caught my eye, like a promising flash of tail. Spray painted on the wall above me was the image of a grasshopper, the moniker of Gresham’s Ghost, the nomadic gallery that is hiding for the [...]
Tag Archives: Bob Nickas
Cave Painting at Gresham’s Ghost
October 1, 2009 – 4:36 pm
Tomorrow night, the pop-up gallery Gresham’s Ghost will be having an opening reception for Cave Painting, a new show organized by curator and critic Bob Nickas. Visit their website for more information.
A Companion Painting: Nickas on Nickas
April 15, 2009 – 3:21 pm
In an interview with independent art writer, curator and index Magazine founder Bob Nickas, Neo-Victorian time traveler David McDermott pictured himself and collaborator Peter McGough as “decorative oddities” — not so much accepted as tolerated in the art world of the 1980s. McDermott’s description said something about Nickas himself, whose admitted attraction to periphery genius [...]
