gideon bok's new paintings

New LP paintings

2012-01-31T09:32:00.000-08:00

Space Gallery show-Portland, Maine

2011-11-03T06:04:00.000-07:00

http://space538.org/exhibit_details.php?id=118Funded by a generous grant from the Berkshire Taconic Artist's Resource Trust, Space Gallery presents 'Gideon Bok Wall Drawing/Covers,' a solo painting and drawing installation show. The show opens November 3 and will run until December 16. The show will be an installation of 188 record paintings in three arrangements, and a large ongoing perceptual wall drawing of Space Gallery.

Over the course of the show the drawing will progress and change according to what is happening in the space, as I will be drawing the people and objects in the gallery (which is also a music/performance venue.) There will be a public talk followed by a closing reception for the show on Friday, December 16 at 7:00 pm at the gallery. The wall drawing is temporary during the run of the show; it will continue to change from day to day and will be erased and painted over at the end of the show.

Space Gallery is a non-profit alternative music and arts venue located at 538 Congress St. in Portland, ME.

Born to Run

2011-09-21T18:10:00.000-07:00

"Record Store" show at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, 208 Forsyth St. NY, NY. The show is up until October 8.

2011-09-10T05:44:00.000-07:00

Top row: Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeny-Superwolf, Bob Dylan-Saved, T-Rex-The Slider, The Beatles-Revolver,. Big Star-#1 Record, Elliott Smith-Self-Titled, Bon Iver-For Emma, Forever Ago, The Beatles-Magical Mystery Tour
Middle Row: The Replacements-Let it Be, Bob Dylan-Blood on the Tracks, The Eurythmics-Savage, Bob Dylan-Self Portrait, P.J.Harvey-4 Track Demos, Liz Phair-Exile in Guyville, The Rolling Stones-Exile on Main St., Cat Power-What Would The Community Think?,
Bottom Row: Bob Dylan-Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, James Gang-Rides Again, Tom Waits-Rain Dogs, Sparklehorse-It's a Wonderful Life, Neil Young-Harvest, Sparklehorse-Good Morning Spider, Bruce Springsteen-Born in the U.S.A., The Pogues-Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash.

Black, White, Grey Albums.

2011-09-10T05:43:00.001-07:00

Top Row: AC/DC-Back in Black, Dangermouse and Sparklehorse-Dark Night of the Soul, Neil Young and Crazy Horse-Rust Never Sleeps, Black Mountain-In the Future
Middle Row: Jay-Z-The Black Album, Prince-The Black Album, The Beatles-The White Album, Dangermouse-The Grey Album
Bottom Row: Mike Ladd-Negrophilia, Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon, The Flaming Lips-Dark Side of the Moon, Nick Drake-Pink Moon

1982 (albums released in the year 1982)

2011-09-10T05:42:00.001-07:00

Top Row: Fear-The Record, Bruce Springsteen-Nebraska, Led Zeppelin-CODA, Pete Townshend-All the best cowboys have chinese eyes, Prince-1999, Willie Nelson-Always on my mind, Waylon Jennings-Black on Black
Middle Row: Pretenders-Pretenders II, The Clash-Combat Rock, Laurie Anderson-Big Science, J.J.Cale-Grasshopper, Adrian Belew-The Lone Rhino, Rolling Stones-Still Life, The Cure-Pornography
Bottom Row: Michael Jackson-Thriller, Kate Bush-The Dreaming, Talking Heads-Remain in Light, Van Halen-Diver Down, Talking Heads-The Name of this band is Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel-Peter Gabriel, Adam Ant-Friend or Foe

"Record Store" show at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, 208 Forsyth St. NY, NY. The show is up until October 8.

2011-09-10T05:41:00.001-07:00

Top Row: Pink Mountaintops-Pink Mountaintops, Pink Floyd-the Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here, Palace Brothers-There is no one what will take care of you, My Bloody Valentine-Loveless, The Magnetic Fields-Distortion, P.J.Harvey-Dry, Neil Young and Crazy Horse-Ragged Glory, Beastie Boys-Paul's Boutique, Bruce Springsteen-Darkness on the Edge of Town
Middle Row: R.E.M. Chronic Town, Dr. Dre-The Chronic, Beastie Boys-Hot Sauce Committee, Part II, OutKast-Aquemini, Public Enemy-It Takes a Nation of Millions to hold us back, Beastie Boys-License to Ill, Anti-Pop Consortium-Fluorescent Black, Mike Ladd-Welcome to the Afterfuture, Can-Ege Bamyasi Okraschoten, Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra-The Nubians of Plutonia, a Tribe Called Quest-The Low End Theory
Bottom Row: Anarchist Republic of BZZZ, OutKast-Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, The Last Poets-The Last Poets, Mike Ladd-Nostalgialator, OutKast-ATLiens, M.F. Doom-Mmm Food?, Infesticons-Gun Hill Road, Elliott Smith-Figure 8, Nas-Illmatic, Jimi Hendrix-Electric Ladyland, Johnny Cash-American IV: The Man Comes Around

"Record Store" show at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, 208 Forsyth St. NY, NY

2011-09-10T05:40:00.000-07:00

Top Row: Dandy Warhols-Welcome to the Monkey House, The Velvet Underground & Nico, The Rolling Stones-Sticky Fingers, The Brian Jonestown Massacre- Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request, The Rolling Stones-Their Satanic Majesties' Request, The Brian Jonestown Massacre-Methodrone, Dandy Warhols-Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia, Sparklehorse-Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot, Bob Dylan-Knocked Out Loaded, Big Black-Songs About Fucking
Middle Row: Company Flow-Funcrusher Plus, The Last Poets-This is Madness, The Majesticons-Beauty Party, Funkadelic-Maggot Brain, Motorhead-Motorhead, David Bowie-Aladdin Sane, David Bowie-Low, Can-Tago Mago, Joni Mitchell-Blue, Iggy and the Stooges-Fun House
Bottom Row: Rolling Stones-Flowers, Neil Young-On the Beach, Neil Young-Time Fades Away, Neil Young, Tonight's the Night, Neil Young and Crazy Horse-Sleeps with Angels, David Bowie-Heroes, David Bowie-Lodger, Dr. John the Night Tripper-Gris Gris, Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band-Trout Mask Replica, David Crosby-If I Could Only Remember My Name

'Record Store' at Steven Harvey's new space on the Lower East Side.

2011-08-27T05:47:00.000-07:00

This will be a show consisting entirely of record paintings. I think there will be about 200 of them in the show. There will also be a satellite show at 2A, which is a bar on Second and Avenue A. The show will run from September 7 until October 8, 2011. The opening reception is Wednesday, September 7, 6 - 8pm with an afterparty (with DJ) at 2A Bar on Second Street and Avenue A.

hrs: weds-sun, 12-6pm steven harvey fine art projects 208 forsyth street new york ny 10002 ph: 917-861-7312 info@shfap.com www.shfap.com

some still life (LP cover) paintings.

2011-07-28T19:04:00.000-07:00

2011-07-26T12:07:00.000-07:00

first 72.

2011-07-23T12:26:00.000-07:00

The first 36 paintings. Ultramega OK through Low.

2011-07-14T15:06:00.000-07:00

2011-07-01T05:06:00.000-07:00

2011-06-26T16:15:00.000-07:00

2011-06-20T19:39:00.000-07:00

Still life paintings of LPs released in 1982

2011-06-08T05:25:00.000-07:00

more from 1982

2011-06-05T18:38:00.000-07:00

LP Still life paintings

2011-06-01T04:59:00.000-07:00

More still life (LP cover) paintings

2011-05-19T17:42:00.000-07:00

Pink Moon show in NYC, curated by Steven Harvey.

2011-03-25T06:58:00.000-07:00

Press release for the show:
Pink Moon, a group exhibition inspired by Nick Drake’s album.
April 2 – April 31, 2011, opening reception, April 2nd, 5-7pm. SHFAP/steven harvey fine art projects - 24 east 73rd street, 2nd floor, NYC, 917-861-7312, info@shfap.com (www.shfap.com) Tuesday through Saturday, 11 to 5:30

SHFAP presents Pink Moon, a group exhibition inspired by the final album of the English folksinger Nick Drake (1948-1974.) The exhibition includes paintings by Gideon Bok, Duncan Hannah, Kurt Knobelsdorf, Sangram Majumdar, Keith Morris, Stephanie Pierce and Stuart Shils, sculpture by Paul Villinski, music by D.M. Stith and Arborea and film by Chris Wilcha. The exhibition will also include Michael Trevithick’s original painting used for the album design of Pink Moon. The exhibition is accompanied by a pdf/catalog with an essay by Richard Peabody about Nick Drake’s Pink Moon album.

Pink Moon, Nick Drake’s final bare bones masterpiece of voice and guitar was released in 1972, two years before his premature death from an overdose of antidepressants. Often considered to reflect the young singer’s increasingly fragile mental state, it is a pop masterpiece, blending exquisite open guitar tunings with Drakes ethereal singing and abstract word pictures. Pink Moon is an album that speaks volumes to artists.

This exhibition was realized with the cooperation of The Estate of Nick Drake, who have encouraged the possibility of contemporary artists having an ongoing dialog with Drake’s work. The Estate lent Michael Trevithick’s original surrealist inspired painting for the Pink Moon album to the exhibition, allowing us the opportunity to see the original art for a seventies album design icon.

Among the contemporary works in the exhibition, Gideon Bok’s perceptually based painting "From the Morning" depicts his studio in Maine with motorcycles, musical instruments and record player . Multiple images of a copy of the Pink Moon lp cascade across the studio floor.

In The Summer of Love, Duncan Hannah portrays an upper class English idyll with a white shirted couple holding hands strolling by a lake by a castle.

As in a fairy tale, a barely visible moon shines through a high window onto Stephanie Pierce’s small grey cell-like room with bed. Kurt Knobelsdorf’s small densely worked paintings allude to moments in Drake’s family history. Stuart Shils, deep green/blue forest glade Way to Blue takes its title from the song on Drake’s Five Leaves Left. Sangram Majumdar’s lonely urban fullmoon peeks through an industrial window frame.

Black butterflies emerge out of a burnt black hole in Paul Villinski’s elegiac sculpture of an electric guitar. The exhibition’s soundtrack includes original music composed by Asthmatic Kitty recording artist D.M. Stith and songs by Maine based “psyche folk” duo Arborea, who will also perform a house concert in the gallery. Emmy award winning documentary filmmaker Chris Wilcha focuses his personal documentary sensibility on Pink Moon.

Pink Moon, the exhibition, explores hidden dimensions of connectivity in between music and art, and while doing so seeks to reconsider the resonance of a pop masterwork in contemporary terms.

From the Morning

2011-03-15T17:10:00.000-07:00

Pink Moon Diptych (in progress)-left and right panels

2011-03-15T17:08:00.000-07:00

In progress (32"x70")

2011-02-21T19:06:00.000-08:00

in progress (48"x36")

2011-02-21T19:05:00.000-08:00

Leeper Harbor

2010-10-30T18:27:00.000-07:00

cider town Avignon

2010-10-30T18:26:00.000-07:00

Avignon Aqueduct.

2010-10-30T18:24:00.000-07:00

Avignon.

2010-10-30T18:22:00.000-07:00

264 (Metropolitan and Driggs.)

2010-10-30T18:20:00.000-07:00

Untitled

2010-10-30T18:11:00.000-07:00

scrub.

2010-07-10T21:46:00.000-07:00

Wall Drawing at Chase's Daily, wednesday July 7

2010-07-07T20:28:00.000-07:00

Wall Drawing at Chase's Daily, so far (work in progress, will continue until July 8)

2010-06-27T07:35:00.000-07:00

Portland Studio Drawing (north room)

2010-05-17T05:51:00.000-07:00

Portland Studio Drawing (south room)

2010-05-17T05:46:00.000-07:00

Perimeter Gallery Show- Belfast, ME

2010-05-16T15:13:00.000-07:00

I'm having a sort of unusual show in Belfast, Maine in June. The show will consist of two large drawings (about 48"x 15 or 20 feet), one large painting, and one large wall drawing. Since I will be spending my days working on the farm, I will be working in the gallery at night over the duration of the show. The drawing will develop during the month the show is up, and will be finished on the last day. There will be a closing reception at this point, after which I will wash off and paint over the drawing. I will try to post progress photos if my friend Leeper will let me use his camera during that time.

Time Fades Away

2010-05-16T15:08:00.000-07:00

Borrowed Tune (John Hull and Rolling Stones)

2010-05-16T15:05:00.000-07:00

Stephanie Pierce with Ma's Mango

2010-04-02T07:08:00.000-07:00

Alpha Gallery solo show

2010-03-27T05:21:00.000-07:00

There will be a show of recent paintings (posted below) from my Rockland, ME studio opening next saturday, April 3, (reception is from 3-5.) Alpha Gallery is at 38 Newbury St. in Boston, MA. Their website is www.alphagallery.com and their phone number is 617 536 4465. The show runs from April 3 to May 5. Most of the recent posts below will be in the show, the photos of which were taken by Luc Demers.

Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash of the Medusa

2010-03-27T05:13:00.000-07:00

Rockland Night Triptych, another configuration

2010-03-27T04:59:00.000-07:00

Rockland Night Triptych

2010-03-27T04:56:00.000-07:00

Rockland Day Triptych (another configuration)

2010-03-27T04:54:00.000-07:00

Rockland Day Triptych

2010-03-27T04:51:00.000-07:00

Rockland Diptych

2010-03-27T04:48:00.000-07:00

The King of Nails

2010-03-27T04:45:00.000-07:00

Jack Tarmy and the Electric Landlady

2010-03-26T19:04:00.000-07:00

re:re:stacks (garlic scapes)

2010-03-26T19:02:00.000-07:00

Long Face

2010-03-26T19:00:00.000-07:00

Does Not Suffice (Snorns)

2010-03-26T18:47:00.000-07:00

Schlesinger gallery show

2010-02-18T09:33:00.000-08:00

I have a solo show opening march 2 at Gallery Schlesinger in New york city. Schlesinger Gallery is at 24 East 73rd St. The show will consist of one painting, (re:stacks) with possibly one other small one. The show runs from March 2 to March 27th, and the gallery is open tuesday through saturday.

PS:

2009-12-03T08:00:00.000-08:00

Alpha Gallery will have a booth at the Aqua Winwood Art Fair in Miami this week. That show is up now and through the weekend.

Current Group Shows

2009-12-03T07:35:00.000-08:00

Belfast, ME: Small Works 2009 a group show at Perimeter Gallery. Other artists include Meghan Brady, Josh Ferry, Friedereieke Hamman, Nico Jenkins, Freddy Lafage and Meg Chase. Ninety six Main St., Belfast. Opening tonight (December 3) and runs through December.

Albuquerque, NM: FUCKHEADS: Portraiture for the Silicone Enlightenment; a group show curated by Angela Dufresne. Other artists include: Joe Wardwell, Nicole Eisenman, Vera Iliatova, Alexi Worth, among others. SCA Contemporary Gallery, 524 Haines NW Albuquerque, NM 87102
M-F 12-5 and by appointment Opening December 4 and running through December.

Re: Stacks (finished state, I think. At least for the time being.)

2009-09-08T19:18:00.000-07:00

Photo by Luc Demers. Two panels, one on top of the other. I forgot the dimensions, but it's aroud 70"x80" overall.

Rockland Studio- Right Panel of Diptych

2009-09-08T19:17:00.000-07:00

55"x57"
Photo by Luc Demers

Rockland Studio- Left Panel of diptych

2009-09-08T19:15:00.000-07:00

55"x57"
Photo by Luc Demers

Jams Gang Diptych

2009-09-08T19:12:00.000-07:00

2 panels, each one about 50" square, 50"x100" overall.
Photo by Luc Demers

six panel Rockland polyptych

2009-09-08T19:00:00.000-07:00

These are six panels of what will be a polyptych. I have been switching them around in various configurations and I am still working on them individually. They are all done from 3 different locations in my rockland studio. Each panel is about 40"x35", the six together is 40"x210" overall.

Untitled Diptych (work in progress)

2009-01-28T14:26:00.000-08:00

Unfinished state of diptych, each panel is about 50". Tentative title: Jams Gang diptych

detail of untitled diptych

2009-01-28T14:24:00.000-08:00

Re: Stacks (work in progress)

2009-01-28T14:21:00.000-08:00

This is a diptych. Note the top panel is slightly smaller than the bottom panel. Unfinished state.

work in progress

2009-01-28T14:20:00.000-08:00

Unfinished state, about 48"

work in progress

2009-01-28T14:13:00.000-08:00

This is one panel of what will be a triptych. Very early state. It's about 40"

2009-01-28T14:05:00.000-08:00

Reckon Ball

2009-01-28T14:02:00.000-08:00

Threnody for Maxine Witham

2009-01-15T19:43:00.000-08:00

either-or on vinyl

2009-01-15T16:53:00.000-08:00

Negrophilia (the painting is not as dark as this reproduction)

2009-01-15T16:46:00.000-08:00

Derek's Disco Nap

2009-01-15T16:43:00.000-08:00

Velvetdandynewpornstones

2009-01-15T16:38:00.000-08:00

Bent Ballroom at Eastland Park

2009-01-15T16:31:00.000-08:00

Sam Payne Waits Diptych

2009-01-15T16:23:00.000-08:00

G-Rage Triptych

2009-01-15T16:16:00.000-08:00

Everybody Knows This is Now Here

2009-01-15T16:01:00.000-08:00

Re: Stacks (work in progress)

2009-01-11T15:16:00.000-08:00

This is a diptych, about 7'x7', I think. It is very much in progress, and it's not a great reproduction, but I will have a better one shot when I'm closer to being done with it. Upper panel is an overlap painting. Click for larger image.

The Brief but Epic Battle Between the Great Jones and Little Bermuda.

2009-01-11T15:00:00.000-08:00

Oil on Linen 66 x 37 inches, 2005-2007

Mother's Little Helper (Sweater Weather Overlap)

2009-01-11T14:47:00.000-08:00

2005-2007
oil on linen, 35 x 22 inches