Like The Spice
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Phone: (718) 388-5388
- Cross Street:
- S 2nd Street
- Hours:
- Mon (By appointment only), Tue-Sat 12pm-9pm , Sun 11am-7:30pm
Message from Like The Spice
The power to make art is within us all.
- Mixed Media Art
- Digital Art Classes
- Monthly Exhibits
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Editorial Description for Like The Spice
With various exhibitions and classes offered, Brooklyn gallery is a hot spot for local art lovers.
User Reviews for Like The Spice
04/19/2008 Posted by marisais
Force Against Force: Eric LoPresti May 16th – June 8th 2008 Opening Reception Friday May 16th 6:30-10:00pm Like The Spice is proud to present Force Against Force featuring Eric LoPresti’s eloquent diptychs composed of photorealistic renderings and airbrushed gradients. Each binary pairing, executed in either graphite or oil and acrylic, alludes to uncontrollable forces and the universality of conflict and catastrophic loss. The precisely realized images of destruction, danger and chaos on one panel are set against the contemplative psychological space of color field painting, thereby combining two schools of painting historically seen as antagonistic to each other. Based on dramatic and sometimes harrowing photographs of contemporary battlegrounds in Iraq and the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as sites of danger and turmoil --- shark filled waters, melting icebergs and refugee camps --- these paintings and drawings express the inadequacy of human perception to grasp the vast, shapeless complexities of powerful forces. Opposing each landscape is an abstract gradient, where multiple colors or tones fade into one another in atmospheric, emotionally charged fields. With no indication of scale and lacking any solid form, the gradients provide open space into which the viewer can project their reactions and emotions. About the diptychs, “I think of them as visual equations, where the resulting experience is very different than the sum of the parts. Each side transforms the other by its proximity,” says Eric. Born in 1971, Eric LoPresti grew up in the remote desert of southeastern Washington State. He received his BA in Cognitive Science from the University of Rochester in 1993, and his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002. His work has been exhibited internationally, including solo shows at Jan Larson Fine Art and Miami University. This will be his first solo show at Like the Spice.
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