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May 26, 2009 - On Tuesday, June 9, 2009 from 6:30PM-8:30PM The Beehive’s co-owner and resident curator Jennifer Epstein and guest curator Evelyn Rydz will host the 5th installment in The Beehive's continuing art series entitled, Sting! 5: Pop Rocks.
The ongoing event signifies the launch of a new art installation at The Beehive and highlights an evening of great entertainment, great food along with amazing art.
The artists in Pop Rocks bring into play the visual language of consumer and popular culture in combination with personal visual vocabularies to form dynamic portraits and recreate their everyday. Exploring aesthetics and signs of visual culture, the artists extrapolate from a variety of sources including: Hollywood movies, mass production packaging, fashion photography, cartoons, digital interfaces, anime, and corporate identity logos.
The artists’ work not only incorporates the symbols of visual culture, but also the means by which they are made. The digital period we live in blurs lines between the hand and the machine made, leaving most things looking and feeling processed. The artists’ work included in Sting! 5 juxtaposes traditional approaches with digitally manipulated modes of creating, extending from sewing, painting, photography, and sculpture to installation.
Like the candy, the work in Pop Rocks initially offers a visual taste of sweetness and play, subsequently releasing pockets of more complex surprises.
At Sting! 5: Pop Rocks, The Beehive will proudly premier Kenwood Vineyard’s limited release Cabernet Sauvignon Artist Series 2004, with labeling created by artist Shephard Fairey (who currently has a solo exhibition at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art). In sync with one of the core motivations behind The Beehive’s art program, Fairey believes that art is not only intended for galleries and museums but should also be an integral part of the visual landscape. There will be bottles on exhibit at The Beehive and available for purchase for $150.00 a bottle, inviting guests to “consume their art”.
The Beehive will have great food, music and cocktails, like their special Pop Rocktail ($9) – (Pop Rock candy in a glass of Yulupa Cuvee Brut by Kenwood Vineyards) all night long! This is a not-to-be-missed evening of art, food and music! Dinner reservations always guarantee you a spot!
WHERE:
The Beehive, 541 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02116 | P. 617.423.0069
WHEN:
Tuesday, June 9, 2009, 6:30PM - 8:30PM
INFO:
No cover charge, Cash Bar, Dinner reservations recommended.
Sting! 5: FEATURING THE WORK OF:
Ben Sloat, Gina Dawson, Heidi Cody, Elisa Johns, Scott Listfield, Tanit
Sakakini, Jonathan Santos, Jeffu Warmouth, Jowhara AlSaud
About Curator Evelyn Rydz:
Curator of Sting! 5 Evelyn Rydz has an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University. She is an artist whose work has been exhibited internationally, most recently at La Otra Bogota, Colombia; Scope Art, Miami, FL; Rhys Gallery, Boston, MA; Berliner Liste, Berlin, Germany; and Red Dot, NY, NY. She has curated exhibitions at GASP, Gallery Artists Studio Projects, Brookline, MA and the Rhys Gallery, Boston, MA. Rydz teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, and Massachusetts College of Art.
The Beehive Sting! Series:
The Beehive Sting! Series is an on-going art series that presents the diversity of art now. The goal is to find work of the moment that is engaging, challenging and exciting, providing viewers with a broad exposure to contemporary art and providing artists a chance to get outside of the white box. Unlike a gallery or museum, The Beehive is not limited by the confines of an aesthetic agenda and can select a variety of innovative work. The Beehive recently received the award for The Best Non-Gallery Art Space from The Boston Phoenix.
About The Beehive:
The Beehive is an underground Bohemian bistro featuring amazing cuisine, libations, artwork and live music nightly. Nestled below the Boston Center for the Art’s historic Cyclorama in Boston’s South End, The Beehive serves the eclectic fare of Chef Rebecca Newell, rustic comfort foods infused with American, European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern influences. Open for dinner 5:30 pm to 1:00 am seven days a week, and with cocktails and live entertainment available nightly until 2:00 am; The Beehive is the perfect location for after-work cocktails, dinner, live music, events and more. Come to taste the cuisine, come to view the art, come to hear the music or simply come to share in the merriment. The Beehive is at 541 Tremont St., 617-423-0069; beehiveboston.com . Dinner 5:30 p.m. to 1 a.m., bar to 2 a.m., entertainment nightly. Brunch Served Saturday and Sunday from 10:30 am until 3:00 pm, bar menu 3:00pm to 5:00pm.
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