July THird

The idea for the tittyshow hatched in the hours following its predecessor (like most great kitschmobile themes); also like most great km themes, it is markedly crude (enter own risk). First off, Golden Scissor award to Billy Guess. Not only did he conceive the ball show, his grandfather invented a lap size topographical sheet of breastisus. For real, he showed us the picture, which struck me as oddly nostalgic. SO here it is, the thanks-for-the-mammories show, the not rough trade but walls-of-chest show; the ('your momma' show).

 location tbd

The breast is yet to come.

heydy yalls in the ether,

  A recent study found that women who sniffed men's boxer shorts were later more likely to make risky financial decisions. So many of us can't make it to New York this season to catch Neue Galerie's reexamining of the 1937 Degenerate Art Exhibit, or the Sigmar Polke retrospective at MoMA. On Main street, May 1st, The Kitsch Mobile (running diminished capacity) salutes our German sybarite forebearers. In the "air" of 1920s Berlin, and in the wake of Woody Allen, we present for your delectation morally compromised art.  We need your help to cover all forms of perversion. If debauchery isn't in your modus operandi, then come delight in hurling insults(or ricocheting glow in the dark bouncy balls) at art or artists you find insulting. Once you are down conflating Michael Jackson with modernism, we can delve into how much of humanity is depravity. Only some of us can pronounce neue sachlichkeit, but we can all go balls to the wall.

Show IV: Ritual

     Our fourth show was held on April 4th 2013; the theme was Ritual.  Sarah G. had dreams of a giant truck with individual altars.  Each person could perform his or her most sacred ritual in complete privacy- provided that one of the artists featured something that was relevant to each attendant.  Then, over pizza and beers one night, Sarah B. mentioned a man who disciplined himself to only draw lines- not really lines, but a particular line... for years.  Ritual gained new meaning as more than a eucharist, a mantra, a prayer, or a tradition.  It is purposeful discipline, and it is probably so popular because that kind of discipline has to be good for us.

We continued to use the genius of flyers to advertise our comings and goings. 

Design thanks to Sarah Bethea

       Sarah B. went for it intensely, creating several giant cardboard flats of imitation Turkish tiles using graphite and turquoise oil paint.  Daily she would wander out to the front yard with hair tied up and re-create, re-create, re-create until we were able to fill 128 square feet with the tiles. These were the foundation for the theme.  Another ritual that Sarah B. engages in daily is the collection and sublimation of compost.

The most beautiful compost in the world

     Our artists understood the theme intuitively and created lovely and relevant works of art.  Nina Dugan-Heydt  painted the zodiac- that addictive ritual tied to time and birth.

Nina's neon zodiac

For months our dear friend and neighbor Pat Mitchum had been serenading us with his saxophone practice from across the hall, and we were able to convince him to bring the wine of his labors to our show.  He made real magic causing strangers and lovers to stop and dance in the streets to the sweet swill of "The Girl From Ipanema".

This was his space... U-hauls have surprisingly good acoustics

John D. Monteith contributed his beautiful salvaged photo collages and his fascinating book of webcam images.  It provided an exciting perspective on the fairly recent preoccupation with "selfies" and the (unintentional?) intimacy of webcam photography.

A sampling of John's salvaged photo collages

John's books were a bestseller at the show

     Julianne Goddard took a tribal perspective and contributed painted masks that bordered on the talismanic.

And Sarah G. decided that her Pez collection was the closest thing to ritual in her life, and made a mosaic out of it, it took so long to make it was her only contribution. (1 million hours)



The weather was terrible, but the show was lovely.  And we were invited to make a  Ritual of the show on April 6th at the Art Bar, so we did it all over again!

Friends of The Kitsch Mobile perusing

Sarah Bethea's paintings and collections

A view of the whole truck with Sarah B.