New York artist Patti Grabel’s new Hamptons gallery exhibit, “Causing a Stir, a new collection of works all featuring wooden spoons, will be on view at Chase Edwards Contemporary in Bridgehampton from Saturday, July 21st through Saturday, August 4th. A portion of the proceeds will benefit City Harvest.
For this exhibition, Grabel has combined her love of food and art into the central theme of her work as embodied by the spoon. The works feature photographic compositions printed on both paper and glass depicting wooden spoons. The narrative threads in each work embrace a variety of themes such as nourishment, sensuality, creative expression, aspirations and the liberating act of taking chances.
Pictured:
Nature and Nuture by Patti Grabel, a multi-media installation comprising wooden spoons dipped in paint and hung from a clothesline. Patti describes the installation as a collaboration with Mother Nature—the sun baking the spoons and the wind drying them. Another traditional symbol of a women’s work, the artist has subverted its original purpose by making it serve as a kind of outdoor studio. As the spoons dry, some bubble and crack. Patti doesn’t alter them to create artificially smooth surfaces. “We accept ourselves for the beauty we embody. The spoons drip with paint and I imagine some are tears of joy, elation, and liberation.”
Chase Edwards Contemporary is located at 2462 Main Street Bridgehampton, New York 11932 and you can learn more about the exhibition here http://www.