3/29/12

Final Friday

It’s almost Final Friday. Stop by the Pendleton Center between 6 and 10, Cincinnati. I'm Showing new drawings, paintings, sculpture.

I’m showing with Andrey Kozakov and Keith Chrapliwy.

Also, I’m taking over the “Window Gallery” on Main Street this April. Pretty psyched about that one.

Next time you’re on Main, staggering from bar to bar, look up – you’ll see my stuff.

New Prints..

Cryptogram Ink working on a 3-color edition of prints.

See them at The Pendleton Art Center on 'Final Friday,' March 30, 2012.

Missed 'Year of the Dragon' at FOE?

Make sure to check out the other work while you're there.

Congratulations to FOE Shop and Gallery and all of the participating artists!

Mad Hubble

Mad Hubble
Collage

Sound Museum

I did some photography for The Sound Museum (working on a logo, pictured above). They're the house band at MOTR Pub this March. I'm running lights next Monday night (the 12th) -

FOE Shop and Gallery presents...

I am showing new work in 'Year of the Dragon' at FOE Shop and Gallery, in Northampton, MA.

Lots of great artists in this show. Always something going on at FOE!

Friends in New England - be there this Friday, March 9!

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


FOE Shop & Gallery

Sunday Continued...

More pictures from today.


Photo shoot.


Time to refuel at Dutch's Pony Keg. Jolly Pumpkin and Hitachino keep these gears lubricated.


Leaving Andrey's studio...



A wooden goat full of beer. Thank you Christian Moerlein and thank you Bock Fest.

Sunday

Sunday


Pendleton, Gallery 303 - showing new work next 'Final Friday
Friday, March 30, 6-10 PM.



Stopped by my friends Andrey Kozakov and Keith Chrapliwy's studio to check out a collage we're collaborating on. showing new work at the Pendleton Center next month.



Working on a 'saucer full of secrets' light show for my brother's band, THE SOUND MUSEUM. Lots of shows coming up. I'll be there selling posters, shirts and working the projector.



Cincinnati Bock Fest Congratulations Sausage Mary



Paid a visit to my new friends at YES! Gallery. Be on the lookout for limited edition prints very soon.

NEW WEBSITE

www.SPENCERVANDERZEE.com





WWW.SPENCERVANDERZEE.COM




*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)