Mezzanine Launch Show

Name: Mezzanine Launch
Start: 2023-09-22
End: 2023-10-29
Location: Spud Lane Gallery

22 Sep - 29 Oct 2022

Spud Lane Galleries Presents:

The Mezzanine

The funkiest art space in the Highlands just got BIGGER and better. Allow us to present the long-awaited mezzanine addition to our laneway gallery!

Kicking off the Mezz, is a show with a nod to Andy Warhol. Warhol's second studio on 47th St. NY, nicknamed The (Silver) Factory, was a shining silver space covered in Aluminium foil and silver spray paint designed by Billy Linich.

Like Warhol's factory, the Mezz has a shining silver roof, just a short distance above your head, and gallery co-director and resident artist Ric Abel has hung grids of his flat images referencing Warhol's love of repetition.

The floor is painted with artwork that references Ric's restauranteur past, with the same motif that adorned the musician's alcove of the Artichoke Gallery Cafe in Sydney's Manly.

The Mezz is decked out with seating for you to engage with the artwork, sculpture by Highlands artist Lucinda McDonald, plus a sneak preview of Ric Abel's long-awaited Triffids exhibition.

We can't wait to welcome you to our mezzanine and continue our shared passion for contemporary art.

Suspend, Lucinda McDonald, 2016, Welded steel, epoxy enamel paint, H 69 cm x L 40cm x D 25cm

Mother and Child, Ric Abel, c1993, Oil on canvas, 122 x 91cm

Colin 10, Ric Abel, 2021, Acrylic on Watercolour Paper mounted on aluminium, 76 x 56cm

Colin 7, Ric Abel, 2021, Acrylic on Watercolour Paper mounted on aluminium, 76 x 56cm

Colin 3, Ric Abel, 2021, Acrylic on Watercolour Paper mounted on aluminium, 76 x 56cm

Colin 11, Ric Abel, 2021, Acrylic on Watercolour Paper mounted on aluminium, 76 x 56cm

Colin 5, Ric Abel, 2021, Acrylic on Watercolour Paper mounted on aluminium, 76 x 56cm

InstaCat 3, Ric Abel, 2021, Acrylic on Watercolour Paper mounted on aluminium, 76 x 56cm

InstaCat 5, Ric Abel, 2021, Acrylic on Watercolour Paper mounted on aluminium, 76 x 56cm

InstaCat 6, Ric Abel, 2021, Acrylic on Watercolour Paper mounted on aluminium, 76 x 56cm

Le Chevalet d’Artiste, Ric Abel, 2022, Acrylic on Watercolour Paper mounted on aluminium, 95.5 x 75cm

Colin 6, Ric Abel, 2021, Acrylic on Watercolour Paper mounted on aluminium, 76 x 56cm

InstaCat 2, Ric Abel, 2021, Acrylic on Watercolour Paper mounted on aluminium, 76 x 56cm

Nature Morte à la Bouteille II, Ric Abel, 2022, Acrylic on Watercolour Paper mounted on aluminium, 95.5 x 75cm

Colin 4, Ric Abel, 2021, Acrylic on Watercolour Paper mounted on aluminium, 76 x 56cm

InstaCat 1, Ric Abel, 2021, Acrylic on Watercolour Paper mounted on aluminium, 76 x 56cm

Nature Morte au Bocal de Poissons, Ric Abel, 2022, Acrylic on Watercolour Paper mounted on aluminium, 95.5 x 75cm

Robespierre (triffid), Ric Abel, 2022, Acrylic on Watercolour Paper mounted on aluminium, 95.5 x 75cm

Triffids Taking Account, Ric Abel, 2022, Acrylic on Watercolour Paper mounted on aluminium, 141 x 150cm

The Artists Jacket, Ric Abel, 2020, Oil & acrylic on Spanish handmade paper, 198 x 195cm

THE MEZZANINE IS AT:
Spud Lane Galleries, U1/74-76 Hoddle Street, Robertson NSW 2577
Rear of Highlands Hive (Westside), access via Burrawang Lane
Friday to Monday, 10am–4pm

More exhibitions by Ric Abel at Spud Lane Gallery: WTF Cubist Still Life | Triffids (upcoming) | Colins and the Cats