Wine tasting today!
Entrance will host an outdoor installation by Pat McCarthy, in which five different wines (with and without alcohol) from five vessels will be uncorked and offered for free. Each wine is held in a unique porcelain amphora sculpted by the artist. Each amphora is glazed with a series of photographs narrating the artist's experiences. The works attempt to capture and celebrate the multi-sensorial experience of farming in the lush upstate New York micro-climate.
Join in with @pigeon_pat
Thursday December 5, 4pm – 5pm
Friday December 6, 4pm – 5pm
Ice Palace Studios
1400 N Miami Ave, Miami, FL 33136
‘Using a modified black and white copy machine, McCarthy photocopies images, but removes the prints before they go through the “dryer”. The wet photocopies are stamped onto wet porcelain slabs.
Carefully, the vessels are constructed, slab by slab, taking care not to smear the wet toner images. When hi-fired in a kiln, the black carbon in the toner burns off, but the iron powder present in the toner burns into the clay body, as a permanent red vitrified glaze.
Each amphorae holds a wine that’s been harvested, crushed, fermented, pressed, and cellared by the artist on his farm. The presentation in Miami will offer a Riesling, a Noiret, a Concord, and two apple juices from two separate orchards that the artist farms.
These wines are classic expressions of New York terroir. New York is the oldest wine region in North America, although the wines produced there are near entirely consumed within the state...'
-from 'The Mountain Wine Bar' by Pat McCarthy
Pat McCarthy (b. 1987) lives and works in Brooklyn and Andes, New York.McCarthy works primarily in sculpture, zines, and video, as well as staging social happenings, many of which include street food. McCarthy’s work deliberately traverses many mediums and disciplines to explore methods of storytelling. Since 2012, much of his work is executed on his Brooklyn rooftop, engaging with the hundreds of domestic pigeons he is raising and flying.
@pigeon_pat
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