NEW WEBSITE

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*pictured above: Memory Palace 2 (Blue City Life)

Poured a glut of memories into this one. Just sold this past weekend - thanks Bromwell's Gallery! Off to a new home...

new website

New Website

www.spencervanderzee.com

*Pictured above: Small study for Memory Palace 2. I ended up trading this piece for a Santa costume. Drawings as currency...the way it should be.

Life in the Forest and Pushing and Pulling and Turning

*Ink, water, chalk, oil, and collage. The paper was taken from a 1961 'Physio-biology' text book and an old Time Life magazine.

Genetic Code Drawings

These drawings are made of India ink, water, gouache, oil, chalk, acrylic ink, and red string on Arches paper. They are drawings of energy.

Open the Green Throat of Earth

*Sketchbook page

Memory Palace 2.

Nearly finished.

See the completed piece, along with several others, at 'Direct Contact: Self-Made Pop' Saturday night, October 22nd at Bromwell's Gallery (117 W. 4th Street, Downtown Cincinnati, OH)

3 Small Drawings

Ink and collage on Arches paper. 3 covers to novels that don't exist (yet).
These pieces are available at ArtWorks Cincinnati.

FOE Gallery Online Store

Just finished painting the mural and hanging the show. Feeling good.

Click HERE to check out FOE Gallery

Memory Palace 1

Memory Palace 1
Ink, White-Out, Micron, Red Wine, Blood, Collage on Arches Paper

FOE Gallery Solo Show - August 12, 2011

EXQUISITE COPRSE:
New works by Spencer van der Zee
August 12th - August 20th, 2011

Foe Store & Gallery
28 Pleasant Street
Northampton, MA 01060
Tel: (413) 586-2320
info@shopfoe.com


“Exquisite Corpse” was a Surrealist parlor game initially instigated by Andre Breton and Marcel Duchamp, among others – a way to turn serendipity into a process that allows the drawings, words and pictures created by a group of people to merge into each other and become something else entirely. Spencer van der Zee takes that parlor game and turns it into solitaire: the disjointedness comes from within. He opens his mind and art to a concatenation of references and stimuli, including family photos, snippets of text from born again literature left on his car window, phrases he hears throughout the day, beer he’s drinking, social commentary from talk radio, his hopes and fears… All of this makes its way into his work, a disjointed but somehow cohesive universe of signs and symbols scrupulously sketched and melded into finished drawings that have both folk-art fever and street-art nuance.

“I like to think I’m using art to create a parallel world and a parallel self, a reflection of what I see inside myself,” the artist says. “I’m creating places I want to explore. My drawings are portals into those worlds, but I’m not removed from them. It’s like telepathy with a pencil.”

“Exquisite Corpse: New Works by Spencer van der Zee” surveys that telepathic territory, delivering lyrical, twitchy evidence of a universe far beyond reach but also somehow right there in front of you.

(Keith Banner, co-founder of Thunder-Sky, Inc.)

Around the studio

some of this...

and this...


Essex Studio 203(a)

The Taft Museum: Art In the Garden

I'll be showing new work at The Taft Museum this Wednseday night and Thursday afternoon. I'm tremendously honored to show alongside Whistler, Rembrandt and one of my favorite artists, Fransisco Goya.

Evening in the GardenWednesday, May 11, 6-9 p.m.

•Savor dinner-by-the-bite courtesy of Jeff Thomas Catering
•Purchase original works by well-known local artists
•Enjoy the music of the Steve Schmidt Trio
•View the fabulous tables designed by our talented hosts
•Find fashion, beauty, and travel tips from Saks Fifth Avenue
Complimentary valet parking. Purchase tickets to Evening in the Garden online.

Evening in the Garden and Day in the Garden artists: Wayne Bates, Meg Gates, Leslie Goshorn, Vernita Henderson, Teri Kern, Bruce Allen Neville, Nancy Neville, Jose Nunéz, Stacie Seuberling, Spencer van der Zee, Fran Watson, Trish Weeks, and Rebecca Weller

Proceeds benefit educational programs of the Taft Museum of Art.

Pics from bARTist Night @ Mainstay Rock Bar

A bunch of artists took over Mainstay Rock Bar for a live drawing (and live vodka drinking) demonstration. Missed this one? Not to worry! We're doing it again in a couple of months. Stay tuned for more info. Thanks to Ran Barnaclo and Carrie Farler for putting everything together!




Photos by Scott Beseler (www.taketheday.com)

Don't Look Up!

Don't Look Up
Acrylic, Metallic Ink, Pastel on Black Paper
Currently on display at The Art Academy of Cincinnati "S.O.S."

Scenes from my last trip to NYC

"Drivin' Fast and Loose"
24 inches by 18
Chalk on Paper
Private Collection

"Toke"
24 inches by 18
Chalk on Paper
Private Collection

Framed and headed to a new home!

Upcoming

ESSEX STUDIO ART WALK
March 4 and 5
Opens at 6pm

Essex Studios
2511 Essex Place
Cincinnati, OH

then...

SPRINGIN TO OTR

The Drinkery - Downtown Cincinnati
1150 Main Street
Cincinnati, OH

New Studio-mate

My pup, Reggie van der Zee and his celebrity twin, Steve "Crazy Eyes" Buscemi.

Photos from 'The Loft Series' show

Detail

Detail of a face. Roughly 1" x 1"

We'll Break Free Together, Comrade

6x8 Micron
Private Collection

Everything looks cooler through a fish-eye lense.

The Other World is Mine
Private Collection

This one was inspired by one of my favorite novels, Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury is my cousin!

Ghost Ship

48x36 Ink, Pastel, Spray Paint, Marker, Watercolor, Graphite, Collage, Micron, Gouache, Colored Pencil on Archival Paper

Private Collection

Death Over the Rhine

10x14 Pastel, Watercolor