Museum of TEENY Art presents Face to Flash: NickyDigital, Fall 2006

Museum of TEENY Art is pleased to announce Face to Flash, its inaugural exhibition. Twelve photographs by NickyDigital (Nicholas Rhodes), documenting New York nightlife during the autumn of 2006.

At Here BK the twelve hang as 20 x 30 inch prints, and are also sold as miniatures from the museum's vending machine, for $2 in eight quarters.

The works feature the era's weekly downtown nightlife circuit, all that have since closed: M at the Darkroom on Mondays, Susanne Bartsch and Kenny Kenny's Tuesdays at Room Service, High Voltage at Sutra on Wednesdays, Cheeky Bastard at Hiro Ballroom on Thursdays, Ruff Club at the Annex on Fridays, and Motherfucker's Hell Night at the Roxy on Halloween. The photographs capture a culture in the early days of the internet, before the iPhone, when having your portrait taken and shared online was considered the reason to go out and not part of everyday life.

From an archive of nearly 1.5 million images, NickyDigital selected 12 from the 5,737 he made twenty years ago this month. One of the twelve was made on November 13, 2006, twenty years to the day before the opening reception.

"So many of the moments we shared were ephemeral," says Rhodes. "The camera flash became part of the party lighting, and posing for a portrait became part of the night itself."

The exhibition is also an invitation. The opening reception doubles as the NickyDigital Reunion. It is an evening for the people in the pictures, the people who were there, and those no longer with us. An OutSnapped.com photo booth will make new portraits through the night. DJs who played NickyDigital parties will play bloghouse from the era all evening. The bar will offer a drink-and-shot special at 2006 prices ($6).