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Did you know that Spice Monkey has a beautiful art space? Our upstairs loft features artwork monthly. If you are an artist and would like us to check out your work, please shoot us an email at: spicemonkeycafe@gmail.com - including your website and other relevant links. InstallationsThe art opening for "Jazz On Glass" Paintings By: Milan "BeatsMe" Hawthorne ( Showing at Spice Monkey from Friday, July 2, 2010 - Monday, July 26, 2010 ) Exercise your body, stimulate your senses, and feed your creative spirit at the First Friday Mid-Town Art Walk! Local artist Milan Hawthorne will be showcasing his series, "Jazz on Glass" at the Spice Monkey Loft. Join us for an evening of food, drinks, live DJs, free giveaways, and most importantly--local art!
About the artist: Milan Hawthorne's "Jazz on Glass" series uses a Lost and Found aesthetic where he transforms scavenged windowpanes into portraits of African American musical icons. His subjects appear like stained glass in the church that Black music built. These simple snapshots are a window into the type of musical genius that we can study and reflect upon, but never again touch. As a whole Hawthorne's work varies in form and presentation, from recycled wood and glass, to canvas and guerilla-style graffiti. Yet consistent in every medium is a collage of the African American psyche with its constant negotiation of time and space while under attack in an ever futuristic present. His use of shadow, silhouette, saturated color, and recurring graffiti character (Beats Me) speak to his influences: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kara Walker, Romare Bearden and graffiti artists past and present. Milan Hawthorne's unique stylistic rhythms are a mash up of the Jazz and Funk influences of his parents and the 80's baby child of Hip Hop that he is. He weaves music, history and the collective dreams and nightmares embedded into his DNA, all with a playful wink. And always present, like a message in a bottle across his creative unconscious, there is the eternal note: All roads lead to (Mama) Africa.
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