Well, tonight you will find me blinking in the light like a bear newly emerged from a season of hibernation. I’ve been hunkered down preparing for my solo show, “Water Works: Surface Tension,” which opens at 6pm tonight (until 8pm), February 5th, a few short hours from now. If you are awaiting a personal, virtually-engraved invitation to the show, this is it! Please stop by and see it if you can, between now and March 5th, at June Kelly Gallery, 166 Mercer Street, Floor 3, New York, NY. As far as experiencing art, you know there ain’t nothing like the real thing!
The gallery is open Tuesdays through Saturdays, 11-6pm. In addition to the opening, I’ll be stopping by the gallery now and again during the run of the exhibition. I don’t know my precise schedule yet, but I will post times on the home page of my website, so please check there if you’d like to connect in person, or you can email your plans and I’ll see whether we can coordinate.
Thank you for looking and reading and cheering me up and onward with your comments, messages, kindness, humor, intelligence, and generosity of spirit. It’s with the utmost gratitude and appreciation that I find myself surrounded by such talented and wonderful people. And you’re all really good looking and sexy too.
And now to go get gussied up myself. It’s showtime!
[above image: Sky Pape, Cocktail, 2009, ink on paper, 37"h x 25-1/4"w, courtesy June Kelly Gallery, photo: Jean Vong, copyright Sky Pape, all rights reserved.]
P.S. I am no fan of the persistent idea of the “starving artist” and think art is better viewed with a satisfied stomach! No sooner did I post this than I learned that the masterful gourmet chef Viviane Bauquet Farre of Food and Style has invented a special recipe and wine pairing in honor of this show (and my love of mushrooms). I couldn’t be more flattered!
Sky, I so wish I could be there tonight! You and V are such a perfect match for each other: both of you so brilliant and effervescent and open-hearted. But it’s the rest of us, who get to bask in your brilliance, that really benefit.
So go gussy thyself, woman. And drink in all the love and adulation you so richly deserve. The artist’s path can be a lonely one, mostly conducted in thick woods, and those moments of drinking love like cocktails in a clearing are rare and special indeed…
XOXO
Marc
Best of luck on your opening, Sky! Your work is absolutely stunning. And thank you for the food blog link, on my blog, it’s fabulous!
Kayla
Hey Sky,
Your piece “Cocktail” is just out of this world! The Cosmopolitan color, the dizzying spiral…is just gorgeous. I wish I had been able to come to the opening.
I think we may be able to see in in early March, but sadly without seeing you in “high gussy.”
Congratulations!!!
Nancy
Sky,
forgive me for being so late in sending this note…I enjoyed seeing you and your show last weekend. The work is truly beautiful, each connected to the other yet strong on its own. Sorry we didn’t have more of a chance to talk…you were in demand.
all my best.
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