CHOW at LABspace July 6-August 7, 2016

Tracy Miller "Milk Glass," 2016 and Elaine Tin Nyo "This Little Piggy Lasse Week One," 2016

Jennifer Coates "Pancakes," 2015 and "Nachos," 2015, Carl D'Alvia "Ziggy," 2013, "The Island," 2013 and "Untitled," 2016 and Tracy Miller, "Milk Glass," 2016

Tracy Miller "Honey, 2016", Steve DiBenedetto "Untitled" and Mike Geno "Seastack, 2016"

Carl D'Alvia "Ziggy," 2013, "The Island," 2013 and "Untitled," 2016 

Tracy Miller, "Milk Glass," 2016

Jennifer Coates "Strawberry Eclair Popsicle," 2015, "Pancakes," 2015 and "Nachos," 2015,

Mie Yim "Martha Stewart Paint Chip Food Pastel Series," 2015, Carl D'Alvia "Ziggy," 2013, "The Island," 2013 

DG Krueger "Homemade Chocolate Covered Sex Polaroids." 1997 and Compost #1 (Repurposed Pixels) 2016

DG Krueger "Homemade Chocolate Covered Sex Polaroids." 1997

Carl D'Alvia "Ziggy," 2013, "The Island," 2013 and Elaine Tin Nyo "This Little Piggy, Lasse Week One" 2016

Tracy Miller "Milk Glass," 2016, Carl D'Alvia "Ziggy," 2013, "The Island," 2013 and Elaine Tin Nyo "This Little Piggy, Lasse Week One" 2016

Tracy Miller "Honey," 2016

Steve DiBenedetto "Untitled"

DG Krueger "Fish in Three Parts," 1997

Michelle Segre from "Driftloaf" series, 2015 and 2016 and Tracy Miller "Milk Glass," 2016

Carl D'Alvia, all Untitled 2016

Laurie Simmons, "Walking Petit Four" 

Laurie Simmons "Walking Petit Four" and Elaine Tin Nyo "Je Fais un Voeu," 2016

Mike Geno "Seastack," "Eidolon," and "Simply Artisan Reserve Blue Cheese," all 2016

Jennifer Coates "Strawberry Eclair Popsicle," "Pancakes," 2015 and "Nachos," 2015, Carl D'Alvia "Ziggy," 2013, "The Island," 2013 and "Untitled," 2016 

Laurie Simmons, "Walking Petit Four" 

Mie Yim "Martha Stewart Paint Chip Food Pastel Series," 2015

CHOW

It is no surprise that artists are food lovers and, often, creative entertainers and chefs. Picasso and Monet were celebrated for their dinner parties full of color and flowing wines. Food and art go together like bread and chocolate, and artists who have mastered cooking are a very special breed of bon vivant. 

Jennifer Coates conflates paint with cooking sauces, Carl D’Alvia makes sculpture using a pasta making machine, Steve DiBenedetto's color pencil drawing of a crouton bag references ingredients used in the kitchen, Mike Geno exquisitely paints cheeses with oil paints so gorgeously that one nearly hallucinates cheese smells in place of the linseed oil of his paint. DGKrueger dips polaroids made during intimate times with his partner in chocolate, Tracy Miller paints luscious and celebratory scenes of cake-laden tabletops, Elaine Tin Nyo documents the raising, creating and sharing of food, Michelle Segre uses bread as a sculptural medium, and Mie Yim uses pastels to draw food on Martha Stewart paint chips. 

LABspace is located at 2463 NY Rt 23 in Hillsdale, NY just west of NY Rt 22. Hours are Thursday and Friday 1-5, Saturday 11-5 and by appointment via labspaceart@gmail.com.