I Am Still Alive

Nish used the new Artlog album slideshow viewer to put together a collection of Obama print images. Obama 08 by Lance Wyman is a favorite of mine.

Artog’s Collect SoHo art crawl is tonight in – wait for it – SoHo. We’ve put a lot of effort into organizing it and it’s really shaping up.

If you are free in the city this evening, come on by and check out the shows: the Dia installations Earth Room and Broken Kilometer recently re-opened and the participating galleries have a lot of great art from emerging and more established artists; also, notably, the Drawing Center is hosting an artist talk with Pat Steir and curator Joao Ribas in their Main Gallery at 6:30pm and a show of drawings by Rirkrit Tiravanija that I am looking forward to seeing.

I rebuilt the Artlog application over the past several weeks and we launched it yesterday. I am still adding features and bringing the portfolio sites back online with the new design, but it’s a major improvement as is, I reckon.

Have a look at the new user profiles and the new map guides if you’re interested.

Artlog/I Am Still Alive ran on fumes for the past several weeks, but at this point it looks like we made it through fine – better than fine. All four big Artlog events last week were awesome.

• We met lots of new folks and showed great work here in the studio over the course of two sweltering days during the Atlantic Ave Artwalk.

• We spread the gospel of Artlog a bit during the Affordable Art Fair where we were the media sponsor and where we presented a booth full of work by Artlog users

• Konrad’s Chelsea Art Museum performance on Thursday was a big success – we provided some organizational & marketing support

• Friday’s Artlog Collect LES art walk was huge. 1,200 folks came out to see work at 24 Lower East Side Galleries and the New Museum. People at the participating venues were jazzed across the board and attendees could be spotted exploring the LES pretty much all evening event maps in hand. Big thanks to the participating galleries, the New Museum, our sponsors – Radeberger Pilsner, Christiania Vodka, A Casa Fox, Moscot, the Sixth Ward, Doyle & Doyle, Gallery Bar & LES BID – and to press that got us out there and covered the event – TimeOut, Daily Candy, Associated Press, Mashable.

Now that Nish and I have a little breathing room, we are plotting our next moves – shifting focus back to the site itself and angling in to re-focus and refine the tools over there.

So Nish, Rebecca and I have been putting this event together for Artlog over the past few months. It’s tomorrow and it all seems to be coming together nicely. Collect LES is a collective gallery open house of sorts – it’s an event we put together to shine a brighter light on the art activity coming out of the Lower East Side these days.

Join Artlog for Collect LES, an art crawl through the Lower East Side’s burgeoning art community. Coordinated by Artlog in partnership with the LES Business Improvement District, Collect LES includes 24 galleries and the New Museum.

At Collect LES ‘08, discover new galleries, artists and art works as you walk through the Lower East Side. The event will bring more than a thousand art lovers together. From Bowery to East Broadway, there will be an array of painting, photography, video and installation art. Enjoy free wine, beer and liquor and special offers at local businesses.

For more info & to purchase tickets.

If you are in New York and going to the Affordable Art Fair, stop by Artlog’s booth (#505). We are presenting work by Dana Bell, Elizabeth Daggar, Camilla Fallon, Marlene Marino, Andrew Ti, and Lara Wechsler.

I am opening the studio here for the next two days as part of this year’s Atlantic Avenue Artwalk. Artlog had an open-call and several artists from the site will be exhibited here this weekend.

I’m doing a letterpress demo here at 3pm tomorrow and attendees will keep the prints we run off. Sunday at 3pm, Konrad Kaczmarek will be playing a concert here in the space as well.

So feel free to stop on in and tell me I sent you.

NB. Don’t forget to visit Axelle Fine Arts next door for amazing silkscreen and Cannonball Press down the road.