Like the Spice - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Like the Spice. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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"224: A Group Exhibition"
In the past few years we have learned that Arts Not Fair, one should never throw stones in This House of Glass or there will be Shards, 1+1=11 is not bad math, in a city of 8 million you can be One and...More »
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Hans Schmitt-Matzen, Gieves Anderson ''Cross-Reference''
Like the Spice gallery presents Cross-Reference, a collaborative of Nashville-based painter Hans Schmitt-Matzen and Brooklyn-based photographer Gieves Anderson. It’s fitting that Hans and Gieves begin...More »
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"Arts Not Fair" Exhibition
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"Sutured" Exhibition
Fabric cannot be disassociated from both its practicalities and its histories. It can be soft or course, rigid or supple, and its linkages to gender and status are unshakable. While the smallest fiber...More »
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"Look Out, Look Back" Exhibition
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"Layer Current" Exhibition
Layering, as a strategy, takes on varying and multiple meanings and uses in each piece, some layers are there to hide or modify what’s beneath, other layers combine to produce startling effects, some layers...More »
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Brian LaRossa and Allie Rex "1 + 1 = 11"
Like the Spice proudly presents “1 + 1 = 11” a new exhibition by artists Allie Rex and Brian LaRossa, two artists confronting time with layered processes and site-specific installations. Their individual...More »
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"Re/Deconstructing History" Exhibition
History, in the broadest sense, refers to a series of events in the past. Biased storytelling and embellishments that dominated the conferences of cavemen have been replaced by research and theory. Although...More »
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Reuben Negron "This House Of Glass"
Watercolor, Negron’s choice of medium for his second solo exhibition here at Like the Spice, is known for it’s fragile and unforgiving nature. This medium, a constant exercise in self-control and impending...More »
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Matt Stone "Tectonics "
Stone has affixed his gaze upon geological, geometric and botanic involution. His deeply layered sculptures are riddled with an expanse of materials, ranging from neon foam to cardboard florets, tendrils...More »
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Jenny Morgan "One and the Many"
In the past year Morgan has secured several portraiture commissions for the likes of The New York Times Magazine and New York Magazine, she was also featured on the cover of art ltd. magazine. Jenny Morgan...More »
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Eric LoPresti "Different Country"
The American landscapes that Eric LoPresti depicts in his new paintings and drawings is, despite the soft hues with which he often inflects it, one that consistently reflects this "dark center". Maintaining...More »
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Jason Bryant "Love's Labor Lost"
Jason's black-and-white oils recontextualize film stills and contemporary magazine photos, creating glamour while using pixels to skewer the idea of an individual self. Hand-made stretchers force the imagery...More »
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Jason Bard Yarmosky "Elder Kinder"
"Elder Kinder" addresses the innocence at both ends of the generational spectrum. Yarmonsky recruits his grandparents from upstate New York to pose for him in an assortment of playful costumes. Whimsical...More »
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"You Make Me Warm" Exhibition
Consistent improvements in technology and technique have not overwritten a desire for wayward juxtapositions in photography. Like the Spice Gallery is proud to present, You Make Me Warm: A Photography...More »
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Allison Edge "Wonderwall"
"Wonderwall" depicts male actors, models, and the artist's friends who fall under the category of the "pretty boy". The show raises questions pertaining to the act of drawing, and portraiture, as well...More »
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"Formal: A Dirty Word?" Exhibition
Like the outpouring of zombie cinema in recent years, formalism has been criticized for hovering between crass and unsophisticated, remaining impossibly flighty. Despite their outward simplicity, they...More »
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Chino Amobi "Pregnancy Pact"
Featuring all new work from this Richmond, Virginia artist, "PREGNANCY PACT" drops slick surfaced paintings and large scale digital photo collages; against our white walls lay pieces brimming with worldwide...More »
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Treasure Frey "Shards"
In this, her first solo show at Like the Spice, Treasure explores the boundaries of her paper works, offering assemblies that appear to have burst from their constraints, and then been carefully pieced...More »
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"Drifting Away" Exhibition
Our gallery's attended fairs both old and new, been represented in three different countries, gotten more press than ever before, and added several amazing new artists to our already impeccable roster....More »
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"Marked: A Show Of Figure" Exhibition
It is little wonder that interpretations of the figure have been and continue to be so admired. After all, the figure is perhaps the most archaic and explored of all styles of art. Yet, even today, our...More »
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Greg Haberny "The Homeless Boys Social Club"
Survival: the state or fact of continuing to live or exist, typically in spite of an accident, ordeal, or difficult circumstances. From the homeless man or woman utilizing their immediate surroundings...More »
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"The World We Live In, The Worlds We Create" Exhibition
It can be argued that any work of art, from modest scale to gargantuan sprawl, is employed by the action and participation of the viewer. But perhaps more than any other discipline, sculpture arrests the...More »
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Bennett Morris "Climate Untamed"
Like the Spice is pleased to announce Bennett Morris: Climate Untamed. This will be the artist's first solo show in New York highlighting twelve photographs made between 2006-2009 that diagram Morris's...More »
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Michelle Hinebrook and Nicki Stager "Exposure"
Michelle Hinebrook and Nicki Stager "Exposure" spotlights the separate works of the two artists. Both are wholly steeped in light, but each reaches a different, yet complementary, conclusion.More »
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Jenny Morgan and David Mramor "Civil Union"
Civil Union featurs the individual and collaborative works by Jenny Morgan and David Mramor. To someone encountering their individual works, Morgan's meticulously psychological portraits and Mramor's intuition...More »
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Dean Goelz "Beaded Curtain"
Dean Goelz "Beaded Curtain," an exhibition of the artist's works on paper and panel, composed of fractal accretions of meticulously placed shiny white dots and tightly rendered faces and hands. The figures...More »
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Eric LoPresti "Fade"
The works in Fade are predominated by the soft colors of the desert steppe - grays, ochres, pinks and dark blues. In contrast, the imagery is dramatic in scope and subject, including vast aerial views...More »
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"Off the Clock: The Artist Assistant Show" Exhibition
"Off the Clock" is a group exhibition of works by artists who work or have worked as studio assistants to other artists, featuring worksby Rachel Beach who has assisted Roxy Paine, Jason Bryant who assists...More »
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Reuben Negrón "Dirty Dirty Love"
Like the Spice presents Reuben Negrón "Dirty Dirty Love," an exhibition of the artist’s magically delicious watercolors. (Because who knows what magical realism is supposed to mean anymore?) Photorealism...More »
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Allison Edge "Crystal Days"
Like the Spice presents Allison Edge: Crystal Days, featuring Edge's hyper-nostalgic photo-based works. Inspired by family road trips and their back-of-the-station-wagon Walkman soundtrack, the paintings...More »
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Rachel Beach "Towers and Portals"
Situated firmly in the border between sculpture and painting, illusion and reality, masculine and feminine, representation, abstraction and decoration, Rachel Beach's wooden portals and towers are crafted...More »
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"Dubai Underground!" Exhibition
Dubai Underground explores contrasts as portrayed by this group of artists, some of which are Emirati (nationals of the United Arab Emirates), and others who represent the city's international complexion,...More »
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"First Fridays Silent Auction" Evening and Talk
If you're looking to find the best among the brightest, you need to be here the First Friday of every month when Like the Spice hosts a silent auction that spotlights new up-and-coming talents in the art...More »
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Jenny Morgan "Abrasions"
Like the Spice presents Jenny Morgan: Abrasions, a selection of the artist's recent figurative oil paintings, the artist's first solo show at Like the Spice and in New York. In her tensely psychological...More »
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"It's A Small World" Exhibition
This group show is our stocking-stuffer holiday gift to the world, and Like the Spice will be full of pieces measured not in length or width, but depth. With all of the works around or under 11" by 17",...More »
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Liz Brown "OMGWTF"
Like the Spice presents opening night of Liz Brown: OMGWTF, an exhibition of the artist's retro-futuristic paintings and drawings. Borrowing freely from the history, advertising, sarcasm, fantasy, banality...More »
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Nicole Stager "Synaesthesia"
Nicole Stager "Synaesthesia" is an exhibition of the artist's gloriously colorful abstract photograms. Taking literally the meaning of photography, drawing with light, Stager makes her elegant works in...More »
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Dean Goelz "Migrations"
Dean Goelz "Migrations," featuring the artist's socially astute drawings and sculptures, depict the slightly odd ways we interact with each other and our environment and the tenuous grip society and culture...More »
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"Forming Lines: Translations Between Drawing and Sculpture" Exhibition
Translations between two and three-dimensional space, the works in this show explore the relationship between line and form. Drawings are both reference and original; sculptures are end product or study...More »
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'My, How Time Flies..." Show & Raffle
Two Year Anniversary Show & Raffle! Come help Like the Spice celebrate two exciting years with a special one day auction! Nearly all of our artists are donating small works to be raffled off, so...More »
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"After Everything: Gay Directions in New Art" Exhibition
After Everything: Gay Directions in New Art, an exhibition examining the art of gay artists in the post-everything society. Curated by Dylan Peet, the show features a diverse selection of works. A queer...More »
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Eric LoPresti "Force Against Force"
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...More »
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"There There" Exhibition
Ross Racine and Peter Feigenbaum bring their architectural fantasies to life in this boundary-teasing show. Using the built environment as a takeoff point for exploration, the works in this exhibition...More »