Marilyn Monroe chocolate painting/Sid Chidiac [1]
Chocolate Art Festival!
Australian artist Sid Chidiac invites you to the first annual Chocolates Art Festival!!!! Includes:
– Chocolate Fashion
– Chocalate Body Painting
– Edible Body Paintings
– Furniture Covered in Chocolates
– Chocolates Sculptures
There will be fashion shows everyday! 100% of proceeds are going to a local charity, God’s Love And We Deliver,
helping people with HIV/AIDS and other life-altering illnesses.
May 17-20, 2007
Festival Hours: Thursday, 6pm – 9pm Admission is $10
Saturday, 10am- 9pm
Sunday, 10am – 7pm
FREE Entry on The Weekend !!!
Location: St. Anthony’s Church at 154 Sullivan St. (near Houston) in the lower level.
For more info please visit www.chocolatepainter.com [2]
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Soho20 Gallery [4] in Chelsea (511 W 25th, ste 605) is presenting a solo exhibition of the work of Mariángeles Soto-DÃaz.
“The Divine Geometry of Chocolate” [5] is a series of abstract oil paintings inspired by Soto-DÃaz’s love of chocolate, Soto-DÃaz works with the emblems of abstraction, using grids, the drip, squares, geometry and color-fields to address the principle of pleasure. These luscious paintings do not illustrate chocolate so much as evoke anticipation of an exquisite sensory experience. In her words, these paintings delight in “parallels between the sensual materiality of chocolate and that of oil paint.”
As in her prior series using spices, Soto-DÃaz also unsettles geometric abstraction with post-colonial perspectives. From its use in pre-Columbian civilizations as both currency and medicine, its seduction of Europe and role within the slave-driven history of cacao production, to the modern struggle to create sustainable cacao production standards, chocolate’s semi-bitter history is nothing but rich.
A native of delicious cacao-producing land of Venezuela, Soto-DÃaz uses a blend of Latin American and North American traditions of abstraction, and while infusing them with a dose of conceptualism, she crafts her own brand of neo-modern painting. Soto-DÃaz has exhibited internationally and her work is in many public and private collections. She holds an MFA from Claremont Graduate University, where she studied with Karl Benjamin, a central figure in the Hard Edge Abstraction movement.
“The Divine Geometry of Chocolate” runs from May 22nd to June 16th. Reception:Thurs., May 24, 5-7 pm
Soho20Chelsea Gallery is located on 511 West 25th Street, #605, NY, 10001, NY. Tues-Sat 12-6pm. Tel (212) 367-8994.
-Thanks to Clay Gordon of the NY Metro Chocolate Meetup [6] group (and author of the forthcoming Discover Chocolate [7]) for the chocolate listings.
Free Ice Cream
Häagen-Dazs [8] ice cream shops will give out free cones of its new flavors, Cinnamon Dulce de Leche and Sticky Toffee Pudding, on Tuesday, May 15, 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., at any participating Häagen-Dazs location. – Thanks to The Food Section [9]