No. 06: Jack Platner

T Shirt Giveaway, Regal Pass, JBL Headphones, Neighborly Gifts, and the Honda Hobbit PA-50

Oct 05, 2023

Jack Platner is a brooklyn-based, malibu-born artist specializing in photography and sculpture. Last year Jack photographed over 500 staircases in malibu and released a book with many of them.. he so beautifully captures the charm, mystery, and uniqueness of each one. The first photo in the book of a large palm tree over a switchback staircase is one of my favorites. He also has many pieces that are photographed through a ceramic pinhole that he’s made himself – I love the motion in the photos he takes with it.

I. an act of kindness

I gave away a shirt that I loved and the person I gave it to lit up when she saw it. The graphic is dope, reminds me of a “Ken Price.” At that moment I knew I had to give her the “I survived the road to Hana” Tee. She actually did survive it and I’d never been so there’s that. My friend Pat gave me his old surfboard, a Stoker v-machine, which is an extraordinary thing for me to have as the amount of joy it will give me is insurmountable, and he said sure, have it, a true friend. He got these surfing feet off a soft top which I’d been riding for two years too long.

II. a regal pass

Regal Passes are $22 and you get unlimited movies. Something I’m still making a point to do is go see movies in the theatre where they are meant to be seen. There’s something to be said about watching a movie with a group of strangers.

III. a pair of wired headphones

Music with wired JBL headphones, sheesh, talk about noise canceling. I’ve never been more satisfied on a plane than watching a movie (definitely not regal) with my big cushy headphones. PS, buy a dongle for your phone :) I put wired in the title because my neurosis about bluetooth that close to my brain makes me a little weary. Cue answering a phone call and putting my phone up to my ear, whatever!

IV. a frame

An older woman with pink hair in Williamsburg saw us checking out some frames on the side of the street and they happened to be hers. She was them throwing out and we happened to catch her outside at that exact moment. She invited us up and we pulled more picture frames right off of her wall - big wooden frames, and some finer metal ones too. Who knew a frame for art with a little generosity from a neighbor and our walls start to sing.

V. a scooter

Oh man, where to begin, the Honda Hobbit PA-50 – scooter of dreams that I’ve never dreamt about. It goes fast, sounds like a lawn mower, gets me where I need to go in style and I don’t really need public transportation nor a bike, although I do love my bicycle. Navigating the New York streets can be sketchy but if done safely, there’s no corner of the city that won’t hear me rip roaring through it.

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los angeles

Open: Michael Berryhill’s Scenic Route at Night Gallery. James Goss’ Gates of Paradise at The Pit. Dike Blair and Maja Ruznic at Karma. Brittany Fanning’s Getting Away With Murder at The Lodge. Soumya Netrabile’s Between Past and Present/Between Appearance and Memory at Anat Ebgi. Shara Hughes’ Light the Dark at David Kordansky. Rose Wylie’s CLOSE, not too close at David Zwirner. Ellsworth Kelly’s An Exploration of Color at Gemini. Vanessa Beecroft’s Rules of Non-Engagement at Jeffrey Deitch. Rose Marcus’ Repro at Night Gallery. Manuel Lopez’s Stepping Into the Night at Charlie James.
October 12: Tirzah at The Echo.

new york

Open: Henry B Taylor’s B Side at The Whitney – I saw this show in LA at Moca and it was truly one of my favorites ever. A Glorious Bewilderment: Marie Menken’s ‘Visual Variations on Noguchi’ at the Noguchi Museum. Emme McIntyre’s an echo, a stain at David Zwirner (69th st). Wolfgang Tillmans’ Fold Me at David Zwirner (19th st). Dana Arbib’s show Vetro Orto at Tiwa Gallery. Ed Ruscha’s NOW THEN at MoMA featuring over 200 works. Ruth Asawa’s Through Line at the Whitney. Jules de Balincourt’s Midnight Movers at Pace. Chase Hall’s Melanoidin at Pace Prints and The Bathers at David Kordansky. Kelly Beeman’s Summer at Perrotin Gallery. Artist Joe Henry Baker’s NEW WORKS at IRL. Ed Clark’s The Big Sweep at Hauser & Wirth (22nd st). Group show Clairvoyance opens at SHRINE featuring Adrianne Rubenstein, Hayley Barker, Aglae Bassens and Gwen O’Neil. A special exhibition juxtaposing pioneering early 20th-century Swiss modernist Sophie Taeuber-Arp with works by three contemporary artists – Leonor Antunes, Ellen Lesperance and Nicolas Party – at Hauser & Wirth (69th st). Merrick Adams’s Soft Stars Hard Thunder at Turn.
October 7 - October 8: Tangerine / Nu Swim / COA sample sale at Tangerine.
October 23 - 25: Faye Webster at Brooklyn Steel.