Sketchbook Shenanigans

The best thing about sketchbook pages are I don’t have to give a fuck about what it looks like or who might be offended - it provides an important freedom that assists all areas of my studio practice. If it makes me laugh, it’s golden. I think it’s even funnier when I use my 30+ years of drawingskills ( #humblebrag ) to spend hours on something so incredibly stupid. #glazedglizzy #anthroproscrotum

Shoe crash + new version in works for watercolor

2022 pen & ink 14” x 14'“

5 November 2022 until 11 February 2023

The Schuh Show: The Van der Grinten Galerie

The shoe. A fascinating, fetching, adored and also disturbing, even polarizing object. An object of daily life with remarkable historical and socio-political relevance, and an eminently inspiring artistic motif, the shoe has been the linchpin of our research, inquiries and discoveries of the past twelve months.

Ruth Marten ignited the initial spark of inspiration to create a work on this subject. Her own enthusiasm soon spread like wildfire throughout a broad international network of fellow artist friends, bringing them on board for the project. Many collectors were also intrigued by the proposal and eager to contribute ideas, impulses and suggestions along the way. We were thus able to enrich the presentation with some choice exhibits on loan from private collections, and we also made a few special contributions from our own existing gallery program.

The result is an exhibition with installation character featuring over 60 works by 37 artists, which can now be explored in our gallery space. It is a many-faceted thematic ensemble of paintings, drawings, photographs, video and three-dimensional works, and found objects.

with works by:

Max Blagg, Harlan Hue, Sasha Brodsky, Sidney Cash, Henrik Drescher,

Yvetta Fedorova, Y. Fongi, Robert Fontanelli, Alexander Gorlizki, Natasha Gornik & Jason Robinette, Gustav Kluge, Timothy Horn, Michelle Jaffé, chmölz+Huth, Justen Ladda, Deborah Luster, Antonio Lopez, Ruth Marten, Marilyn Minter, Pierre Molinier, Aiga Müller, Barry Ratoff, Colette Robbins, Richard Saja, Rudolf Schlichter, Mary Joy Scott, Heather Sheehan, Laurie Simmons, Janet Stein, Emma Tapley, Scott Teplin, Roger Thomas, Andy Warhol, Leigh Wells, Wu Wing Yee