{"id":36595,"date":"2018-03-24T10:20:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T15:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=36595"},"modified":"2018-03-24T13:03:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T18:03:01","slug":"nick-poe-sophie-stone-safe-gallery-opening-pix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2018\/03\/24\/nick-poe-sophie-stone-safe-gallery-opening-pix\/","title":{"rendered":"~NICK POE & SOPHIE STONE . . SAFE GALLERY \/ OPENING PIX !!"},"content":{"rendered":"

NICK POE \/ SOPHIE STONE
\nOPENED FRI MARCH 23, 2018
\nthe show runs thru . . APRIL 22, 2018
\nSAFE GALLERY<\/a>, 1004 METROPOLITAN AVE, BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN 11211
\nHRS: SAT & SUN \/ 12 – 6 PM<\/p>\n

read more: SOPHIE STONE & NICK POE – SAFE GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n

SO . . .
\nI came for the ‘tapestries’, and left . . with a pencil-toned drawing of flowers in a vase, embroidered on my heart.<\/p>\n

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\nSOPHIE STONE . . .
\nI had admired her re-purposed, orange-toned, hand-worked ‘rug’, done so painterly . . it was<\/em> a ‘tapestry’ !!
\nwhen I first caught sight of it, at the Safe Gallery booth at this year’s recent NADA.
\nSophie Stone received her BFA from RISD \/ Rhode Island School of Design in 2009.
\nShe lives & works in New York.<\/p>\n

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\ndetail, SOPHIE STONE, ‘Piano Rug’.<\/p>\n

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\nSOPHIE STONE, ‘Piano Rug’, 2018.
\nCotton, plastic, sisal, paint. 48 x 48 in.
\nre-storing \/ re-claiming . . old & worn-out household objects – that<\/strong> was a big topic at the ESSEX FLOWERS collective, last month.
\nthat’s definitely the way to go. honoring both old & new skills \/ sustaining resources. bringing the depth of diverse cultural life, and a sense history home. and most importantly, giving a wonderful old, yet newly functional object . . another 100 years of joyfully spinning . . on the dance floor !!
\nall the while admiring . . the new vision, creative repairs & art-worthy embellishments – that brought new life.
\nand spirit.<\/p>\n

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\nSOPHIE STONE, ‘Untitled (Two Hammocks)’, 2017.
\nCotton, sisal, wire, house paint, 78 x 120 in.<\/p>\n

textile repair . . is so fascinating, beyond just the sustainable \/ renewed \/ skills \/ innovation aspect . . and, of course renewed . . function.
\nas someone who hand-stitches old quilts back to life, myself, I know . . part of the attraction, is just getting to understand, in a real<\/strong> hands-on way – how things were made. and thus, understanding how lives were lived.
\n . . through the materials, whether they be woven or patchwork, whole cloth, or industrial dye-jobs, and as well, the level of craftsmanship that went into each piece.<\/p>\n

conceptually, as you work on these projects, you get a real sense of what. . random<\/strong>, and infinite<\/strong> mean.
\nrandom, in the random, worn-out & very varied ‘pieces’ . . that come your way \/ as if by fate.
\ninfinite, with regard . . to the infinite creative possibilities \/ ceaseless innovation that goes onto making each one – first strong<\/strong>, according to it’s needs, and then . . lively<\/strong> . . according to your mood !!
\nthe only given is this: it is worn-out \/ fix it. <\/p>\n

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\ndetail, ‘Two Hammocks’ . . .
\nsetting to work on a lowly, worn textile . . for a craftsman \/ artisan \/ artist . . is a total delight \/ a never-ending potential, for self-expression. <\/p>\n

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\nSOPHIE STONE, ‘Pee Stains’. 2018.
\ncotton, acrylic, plastic, sisal, ink. 131 x 77 in.
\ntrying to hide a hole, or a stain – gives new meaning to the term: turn a lemon into . . lemonade !!
\nit’s such a creative . . jumping-off-point.<\/p>\n

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\ndetail, ‘Pee Stains’.
\nit’s like a game \/ of real skill, and . . courage.
\nhow to . . hide the damage, esp the bio-stains, lol.<\/p>\n

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\ndetail, border, ‘Pee Stains’.
\nand, then once the piece is shored up, strengthened, and made . . presentable !!
\nit’s time for the real games – to begin.
\nthe joy is – self-evident.
\nand very much – a part of the contemporary art \/ cutting edge – canon.<\/p>\n

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\nNICK POE, with his framed pencil drawings.
\na native New Yorker, born & breed on Great Jones St., in Lower Manhattan.
\n“his work captures the subtlety of architectural elements and magnifies these details to compose new experiential occasions.” ~gallery <\/p>\n

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\nNICK POE, ‘Pool Table (with Flowers)’, 2018.
\nGandy 8 foot pool table, custom printed billiard felt, pool balls, pool cues, and hanging lamp.
\n58.5 x 105 x 31 in.<\/p>\n

pairing Sophie Stone’s colorfully jubilant work with Nick Poe’s tapped-down, grey-toned minimalism, was such an interesting contrast \/ concept.
\neach artist’s work was in effect, brought to ‘greater’ life . . by the contrast. <\/p>\n

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\nNICK POE . . was all about new<\/em> things, new infrastructures, new functional \/ house-hold objects; most of which he designed & built himself, the bookshelf, the bar \/ he designed the custom felt on the pool table.<\/p>\n

EXCEPT<\/strong>, for one very important non-variable<\/strong>: the classical \/ truly retro, catalog illustration of a still-life, the vase & flowers scene, which inspired and anchored his new house-hold ‘objects’.<\/p>\n

though, here again, there was that still<\/strong> that sense of a random . . jumping-off-point \/ something seen, an illustration . . in an old publication . . made new, again.
\njust flipping . . pages, and zooming in.
\nan old illustration, and a very low-contrast one at that, in terms of tonality & subject matter . . . gets a second dance !!
\nand, a whole new . . lifetime of enchanting a new gen of viewers.
\nthe work is also obviously about . . skills \/ craftsmanship.
\nand, vision.<\/p>\n

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\ndetail, NICK POE, ‘Bookshelf (with Flowers)’, 2018.
\nlatex on wood, painted frame with flatbed print on dibond, bouquet wrapping paper, white oak, wax.
\n70 x 96 x 12.5 in.<\/p>\n

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\ndetail, NICK POE, ‘Bookshelf (with Flowers)’.<\/p>\n

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\nNICK POE, ‘Bar (with Bar Back)’, 2018.
\nlatex on wood with tempered glass and mirror, Duralex drinking glasses,
\n41 x 39 x 24 in (bar) \/ 48 x 96 x 11 in. (bar back)<\/p>\n

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\nNICK POE, ‘Drawing (with Flowers)’, 1,2,3, 2018.
\nPainted frame, with pencil on paper, uv plexi, bouquet wrapping paper, white oak, wax.
\n21 x 24 x 1.25 in.<\/p>\n

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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