Just finished painting the mural and hanging the show. Feeling good.
Click HERE to check out FOE Gallery
Sunday, August 14, 2011
FOE Gallery Online Store
Just finished painting the mural and hanging the show. Feeling good.
Click HERE to check out FOE Gallery
Monday, August 8, 2011
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
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.)
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Monday, May 9, 2011
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.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
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)
Monday, April 4, 2011
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."
Monday, March 14, 2011
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!
Sunday, February 27, 2011
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
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
Monday, February 21, 2011
Monday, January 31, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
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
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
No Man is an Island
8x14 Ink, Micron and Collage
Private Collection
detail (these little guys are tattooed on my arm).
Shows
EXPOSED - Top 100 Secret Artists of 2009
Friday, October 22, 5:30-7:30, show open through Thanksgiving: ArtWorks Project Space (20 E. Central Pkwy, entrance on Jackson Street)
Secret ArtWorks 2010
Friday, November 19 at the Westin Hotel
Doors open at 6 p.m.
For tickets go to www.ArtWorksCincinnati.org
Essex "Open Studio"
December 3 and 4, 6:00-11:00: The Essex Studios (2511 Essex Place, Cincinnati, OH 45206)
Hard Knocks: Art without Art School (June 24, 2011 – August 12, 2011) Co-curated by Antonio Adams, Ran Barnaclo and Spencer van der Zee. A group show featuring artists who could not go, did not go, and/or chose not to go to art school; the level playing field provides ample space to see that “self-taught artists” produce an amazingly diverse spectrum of styles and subject-matters. Opens with a reception June 24, 2011 6 to 9 pm
Gypsy Cafe Hookah Bar Solo Show, January 1, 2011. Calhoun St. Cincinnati, OH.
"Loft Series" Solo Show, February 18, 2011. Main St. Cincinnati, OH. Across from MOTR Pub
The Taft Museum of Art, "Art in the Garden"
May 11th, 2011 (Time TBA) 316 Pike Street Cincinnati, OH 45202-4214
FOE Gallery, Northampton MA. August 12, 2011 *First solo gallery show of the year*
Friday, October 22, 5:30-7:30, show open through Thanksgiving: ArtWorks Project Space (20 E. Central Pkwy, entrance on Jackson Street)
Secret ArtWorks 2010
Friday, November 19 at the Westin Hotel
Doors open at 6 p.m.
For tickets go to www.ArtWorksCincinnati.org
Essex "Open Studio"
December 3 and 4, 6:00-11:00: The Essex Studios (2511 Essex Place, Cincinnati, OH 45206)
Hard Knocks: Art without Art School (June 24, 2011 – August 12, 2011) Co-curated by Antonio Adams, Ran Barnaclo and Spencer van der Zee. A group show featuring artists who could not go, did not go, and/or chose not to go to art school; the level playing field provides ample space to see that “self-taught artists” produce an amazingly diverse spectrum of styles and subject-matters. Opens with a reception June 24, 2011 6 to 9 pm
Gypsy Cafe Hookah Bar Solo Show, January 1, 2011. Calhoun St. Cincinnati, OH.
"Loft Series" Solo Show, February 18, 2011. Main St. Cincinnati, OH. Across from MOTR Pub
The Taft Museum of Art, "Art in the Garden"
May 11th, 2011 (Time TBA) 316 Pike Street Cincinnati, OH 45202-4214
FOE Gallery, Northampton MA. August 12, 2011 *First solo gallery show of the year*
Monday, September 27, 2010
Argos and his Brother Debate the Fates
20x16 Ink, Pastel, Spray Paint, Marker, Colored Pencil, Gouache on Paper
Private Collection
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Cabin Fever
I fell asleep and woke up in the Space Station a few weeks ago. Serious, deadly cabin fever runs rampant! Bed, Lab, Hyper-Chamber, repeat into infinity!
12x12 Micron, Spray Paint, Pastel, Colored Pencil, Ink
Private Collection
Thursday, September 23, 2010
ArtWorks Cincinnati "SECRETS" 2010
Cincinnati ArtWorks annual "Secrets" show was huge! Now that the secret's out...this one was mine.
"Secrets" gets better every year. See you in 2011!
"Secrets" gets better every year. See you in 2011!
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
MISSING!
I took some art downtown, spread out a blanket, and tried to sell enough to pay my rent. Did this little drawing while I sat there. For whatever reason I was thinking about Jesus and Lord of the Flies and E.T. and this came out.
Anyway, someone has since stolen this drawing.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Reviews
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Reviews from The Malton Gallery show. Check it out.
AEQAI
http://www.adumbrationes.com/2010/08/inside-or-out-spencer-van-der-zee-at.html
2+2=5
http://twoplustwoequalsfive-tskyinc.blogspot.com/
"Like Max Ernst and Fritz Lang and Cy Twombley and R. Crumb got together and played Exquisite Corpse one afternoon." - Keith Banner, Thunder-Sky Gallery
New Studio!
I moved into a new studio at the Essex in Cincinnati (203 A). Email to spencervanderzee@gmail.com if you're in the area and want to stop by.
“Eyes”, a hypnotizing short video by Koichiro Tsujikawa. Found it on http://www.booooooom.com/
THUNDER-SKY Carnival and other shows
Excited to be a part of the first annual Raymond Thunder-Sky Folk Art Festival. Check it out this September 25th and 26th in Northside, Cincinnati.
Also coming up: I currently have drawings at The Drake Center, will have work at the Marburg Collective Space and ArtWorks Galleries in October. Check back for updates!
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Future Flash: Is It Hipnotyzing, is Dracor rising?
New drawing for a show with The Marburg Collective at the ArtWorks Gallery in Cincinnati OH.
8x8 Micron, Colored Pencil, Gouache, Ink, Spray Paint, Pastel, Red Wine, Marker on Archival Paper
Private Collection
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