Last weekend in East Hampton, a man in a gorilla suit rallied support for an art movement and exhibition as colorful, unique and out of place as its conspicuous mascot.
The internet-born brainchild of East End artists Eric Ernst and David Gamble, the Artists Secret Society (ASS) opened its first show in the former Town and Country Photo store on Park Place on Saturday. Their mascot—crouching, jumping and generally behaving like a gorilla—directed people inside the impromptu gallery where the shuttered shop’s torn and stained rugs, mirrored plexiglass walls and general disrepair played second fiddle to an array of arresting images and sculpture by successful and lesser known East End artists.
“I was a little worried people wouldn’t be able to see through the funky space,” the show’s curator, Catamount Mayhugh, said... more
The internet-born brainchild of East End artists Eric Ernst and David Gamble, the Artists Secret Society (ASS) opened its first show in the former Town and Country Photo store on Park Place on Saturday. Their mascot—crouching, jumping and generally behaving like a gorilla—directed people inside the impromptu gallery where the shuttered shop’s torn and stained rugs, mirrored plexiglass walls and general disrepair played second fiddle to an array of arresting images and sculpture by successful and lesser known East End artists.
“I was a little worried people wouldn’t be able to see through the funky space,” the show’s curator, Catamount Mayhugh, said... more
