This past Friday, February 24th, Like the Spice Gallery had our monthly Artist Dinner. Catered by The Starving Artist Bakery, we enjoyed a phenomenal meal and great conversations with Joseph Heidecker, Robert Raphael, Vadis Turner, Richard Saja, and Zoe Sheehan Saldana, all of whom discuss the specific works on display in our February show, Sutured. The intimate meal had Saldana discussing the weaving practice she employed in her work "TEKLA", a piece that she later 'shop dropped' back onto the shelves of IKEA. Heidecker shared the different processes he uses when choosing which pieces he decides to work with. Raphael told us about his destructive yet contained ceramic process he created to produce 'Vertical Garden' and 'Folly.'
Sutured has had a great run, as we prepare for Arts Not Fair which opens the weekend of Armory March 9th - March 11th. Come back on March 9th as we turn Like the Spice Gallery into Arts Not Fair, our personal take on art fairs, with original work from Like the Spice artists Chino Amobi, Brian LaRossa, Allie Rex, Nicki Stager, Eric LoPresti, Jenny Morgan, Reuben Negron, Hans + Gieves, Matt Stone, and new comers Kim Holleman, Sylva Dean and Me, and more.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Sutured Dinner
Monday, February 13, 2012
Fundraiser for Arts Not Fair
Like the Spice will be putting on a fundraiser this Wednesday from 7 PM- 9 PM. For more information and an invite to this event contact marisa@likethespice.com.
Arts Not Fair
Arts Not Fair: A Like the Spice
Gallery Art Fair. A special project created by Like the Spice will transform Like the Spice Gallery (224 Roebling Street
Brooklyn, NY), into a month long "art fair" highlighting special projects by the Like the Spice Gallery artists,
including Chino Amobi, Jenny Morgan, Hans + Gieves, and more.
"Arts Not Fair" will become the most important art event in New
York, taking place no where near Piers 92 & 94 in Manhattan. Like the Spice is re-establishing itself
as the most adventurous and dynamic contemporary art fair in New York City". (Line appropriated
from The Armory Show website)
This year, thousands of people will be hitting the art fairs. What do you do at art fairs? Try to steal a pass,
struggle to find the lounge, squeeze into the V.I.P. room and maybe, maybe manage to find a couple pieces
of art that don't make you want to roll your eyes. And then it's off to the after-party for handshakes and fun
and it's all forgotten until Miami. Doesn't it leave you wanting something a little more intimate? Something
different?
At last a fair that is a piece itself, "Arts Not Fair" has the badges, we've got the lounge, we'll even be
boasting the world's best V.I.P. room (no need to bribe the bouncer). Inside and outside the walls of
Like the Spice artists will present new projects as installation-based pieces created just for this
show. You'll be able to view each booth at a pace YOU set, not by being ordered around by some invisible
committee. The first twenty thousand guests will even be given a very special map of the exhibits, printed
out by our special guest, the Like the Spice HP Color Printer! Ticket prices are set at the cost of printing,
and press passes will be available for anyone who knows how to use Wordpress.
Come March 11th, those other art fairs will have packed up and left town but Like the Spice will still be
going strong, giving you a peak at what happens after the party ends when all that's left are white walls, flat
champagne, and unsold art. "Arts Not Fair" will ask the viewer to question what is a gallery? What is an art
fair? As viewers do we want to see or be seen? is ART FAIR?
Press Preview: Friday March 9th, 2012 4:00pm – 6:00pm
VIP Preview, benefiting the Arts Not Fair foundation: Friday March 9th, 2012 6:00-9:00pm
Opening reception: Saturday March 10th, 6-10pm with special performances, and panels during
Williamsburg Armory Night.
Regular Show hours: Saturday March 10th, 12-7pm.
Sunday March 11th, 2012 hours 12 – 7pm
After the show extend viewing exhibition – April 1st, 2012. (Normal Gallery Hours)
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Sutured Opening
Friday, December 16, 2011
Curate NYC: "Layer Current" is only up for three more days!
That's right folks, this fantastic Curate NYC show, "Layer Current," is only up for a few more days here at Like the Spice Gallery and it would be a shame if you weren't able to see all of these great pieces. We all know that the holiday season is a busy one and we promise to forgive all of those who do not make it out to the gallery before "Layer Current" closes and take your names off of the naughty list but we hope that you take a look at the images below and do not hesitate if you have any questions!
Erik Sommer"Red Lips and Ivory"
36"x36"
Mixed media on canvas (gessos, oils, acrylics, pastes, plasters, cement)
$4,000
Wayne Adams"ask Me No More Questions, Tell Me No More Lies"
48"x60", 2010
Acrylic on canvas
$2,500
Nicholas Horman"1000 Layers"
45"x24", 2011
Latex paint on wood
$3,000
Joe Banish"Nth Degree"
20"x16" (framed)
Edition 1 of 3
C-print, 2011
$350
Keira Kotler"August 9th to September 2, 2011 (I Look For Light)"
18"x18", 2011
Urethane and varnish over acrylic
$2,200
Rosemary Taylor"Untitled (On and Off)", 2011
Oil, spray paint, acrylic, ink on canvas and wall
$6,500
Ian Hall"Patterns of Science"
Mixed media collage, 2011
$325
Rachel Kohn"Beneath What We Know"
8"x8", 2011
Courtesy of Crossing Art Gallery
Watercolor, plaster, aqua resin, and wax on panel
$500
Rachel Kohn"Beneath What We Know 2"
8"x8", 2011
Watercolor, plaster, aqua resin, and wax on panel
$500
Dana McClureCuriosities Series (sold individually)
8"x10", 2011
Rice paper and screen printing
$300 ea.
Dana McClurePheasant Triptych No. 1
16"x20", 2011
Rice paper and screen printing
$750
Vadis Turner"Primrose Path Engulfed in Smoke"
Mixed Media
68"x63"x5", 2011
$12,000
Lael Marshall"Big Wig"
Oil, acrylic, thread, on various materials
117"x91", 2011
$7,000
Jay Paavonpera"Hubert St."
Machine oil, rust, household paint, spackling paste, on sheetrock
24"x24", 2011
$ 900
Christina Massey"Business and Pleasure 9"
Oil on canvas with collared shirt and khakis
42"x42", 2011
$4,500
Hannah Mishin"Untitled X"
Paper, rubber cement
31.5"x23.5"
$1,900
Mira Alibeck"FBLE :: Dreams"
Latex, urethane foam, aqua resin, acrylic, and pencil
approx. 50"x27"x27", 2011
$2,600
MaryKate Maher"Blackout (alluvia)"
50"x27"x30"
Resin, dirt, mirror, tree branch
$15,000
Tamiko Kawata"Secret Devourer: Final Stage"
Shredder, steel, paper
25"x26"x36", 2009
Price upon request
Saturday, December 10, 2011
We're Baaaaaaaaaack!
This past Friday was the perfect welcome back as it was the opening for the 2011 Curate NYC exhibition, "Layer Current." This beautiful show features works by Wayne Adams, Mira Alibek, Joe Banish, Ian Addison Hall, Nicholas Horman, Tamiko Kawata, Rachel Kohn, Keira Kotler, MaryKate Maher, Lael Marshall, Christina Massey, Dana McClure, Hannah Mishin, Jay Paavonpera, Erik Sommer, Rosemary Taylor, and Vadis Turner. Selected from over 1500 entries submitted by artists living or working in New York City, the exhibition showcases works built up in layers over time.
"Layering, as a strategy, takes on varying and multiple meanings and uses in each piece, some layers are there to hide or modify what's beneath, other layers combine to produce startling effects, some layers allude to geological stratifications and accumulations, others mark the slow, painstaking process of their intentional layer-by-layer creation. Colleage, decollage, collecting, accreting and composting are all in evidence," Click here to read the full press release!
This incredible show will only be up until Thursday, December 18th, so layer those sweaters up and come and visit us at Like the Spice! Or, better yet, join us for this month's artist dinner featuring many of the artists from "Layer Current." Dinner will be catered by the lovely and talented Neilie Meyer, owner and executive chef of The Starving Artist Bakery and if you have yet to taste her culinary masterpieces now is certainly the time to do it before you start filling up on all of those holiday sweets;) As always, our dinners are RSVP only, click here to get your tickets now. Doors are open at 7pm and dinner will be served promptly at 8pm, just enough time for you to choose your seat, enjoy a glass of wine, and meet our other wonderful guests. We hope to see you there!
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Layer Current, Curate NYC 2011 Exhibtion
"Red Lips and Ivory"December 8-18, 2011
Opening Reception:
Thursday, December 8th, 2011 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Like the Spice is proud to present the exhibition Layer Current, the Curate NYC 2011 live exhibition for Brooklyn, featuring works by Wayne Adams, Mira Alibek, Joe Banish, Ian Addison Hall, Nicholas Horman, Tamiko Kawata, Rachel Kohn, Keira Kotler, MaryKate Maher, Lael Marshall, Christina Massey, Dana McClure, Hannah Mishin, Jay Paavonpera, Erik Sommer, Rosemary Taylor, and Vadis Turner. Selected from over 1500 entries submitted by artists living or working in New York City, the exhibition showcases works built up in layers over time.
Layering, as a strategy, takes on varying and multiple meanings and uses in each piece, some layers are there to hide or modify what’s beneath, other layers combine to produce startling effects, some layers allude to geological stratification's and accumulations, others mark the slow, painstaking process of their intentional layer-by-layer creation. Collage, décollage, collecting, accreting and composting are all in evidence.
Often labor-intensive and obsessive by design, the works in this exhibition do not aspire to a unified cold glossy surface, seen in so much “Blue Chip” luxury art today, but revel in the handmade humanity of their production. Even the sensual surfaces are here the result of painstaking processes, not mechanized perfection.
Several works take up mundane experience as subject matter, transforming materials, though precise attention to detail and refined technique, into embodiments of the ridiculousness and subtle hidden meanings of the everyday. Other works have their own magical arbitrariness of process, becoming systems for living through work, rather than systems for producing works; the slow buildup of layers making art of slow, incremental, repetitive, obsessive actions that are more process than product, intense accumulations of time in material form.
There is something to this idea of surface upon surface upon surface, which is distinctly of our time. In Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time there is an anecdote, possibly invented, about an old woman who confronts a scientist after his public lecture on astronomy,
"What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!"
When it comes to contemporary society, unlike world-supporting turtles, we get the feeling that perhaps life really is just surface layers, all the way down.
Curate NYC is an online platform designed to heighten exposure and opportunities for New York City visual artists and promote New York as a vital cultural hub. This December, Curate NYC has selected one gallery in each borough of the city to curate exhibitions from the over 1500 works submitted online by open call. In addition, the top 150 works will be featured as postcard prints in an additional exhibition. Funding for Curate NYC is provided by the New York City Economic Development Corporation and Full Spectrum Experience, Inc. More information on Curate NYC can be found at www.curatenyc.org
Erik Sommer (Press release image)
"Red Lips and Ivory"
36"x36"
Mixed media on canvas (gessos, oils, acrylics, pastes, plasters, cement)
$4,000
Wayne Adams"ask Me No More Questions, Tell Me No More Lies"
48"x60", 2010
Acrylic on canvas
$2,500
Nicholas Horman"1000 Layers"
45"x24", 2011
Latex paint on wood
$3,000
Joe Banish"Nth Degree"
20"x16" (framed)
Edition 1 of 3
C-print, 2011
$350
Keira Kotler"August 9th to September 2, 2011 (I Look For Light)"
18"x18", 2011
Urethane and varnish over acrylic
$2,200
Rosemary Taylor"Untitled (On and Off)", 2011
Oil, spray paint, acrylic, ink on canvas and wall
$6,500
Ian Hall"Patterns of Science"
Mixed media collage, 2011
$325
Rachel Kohn"Beneath What We Know"
8"x8", 2011
Courtesy of Crossing Art Gallery
Watercolor, plaster, aqua resin, and wax on panel
$500
Rachel Kohn"Beneath What We Know 2"
8"x8", 2011
Watercolor, plaster, aqua resin, and wax on panel
$500
Dana McClureCuriosities Series (sold individually)
8"x10", 2011
Rice paper and screen printing
$300 ea.
Dana McClurePheasant Triptych No. 1
16"x20", 2011
Rice paper and screen printing
$750
Vadis Turner"Primrose Path Engulfed in Smoke"
Mixed Media
68"x63"x5", 2011
$12,000
Lael Marshall"Big Wig"
Oil, acrylic, thread, on various materials
117"x91", 2011
$7,000
Jay Paavonpera"Hubert St."
Machine oil, rust, household paint, spackling paste, on sheetrock
24"x24", 2011
$ 900
Christina Massey"Business and Pleasure 9"
Oil on canvas with collared shirt and khakis
42"x42", 2011
$4,500
Hannah Mishin"Untitled X"
Paper, rubber cement
31.5"x23.5"
$1,900
Mira Alibeck"FBLE :: Dreams"
Latex, urethane foam, aqua resin, acrylic, and pencil
approx. 50"x27"x27", 2011
$2,600
MaryKate Maher"Blackout (alluvia)"
50"x27"x30"
Resin, dirt, mirror, tree branch
$15,000
Tamiko Kawata"Secret Devourer: Final Stage"
Shredder, steel, paper
25"x26"x36", 2009
Price upon request
