Now Showing: Mitchell Schorr, James Beard House

April 5, 2010 10:31 am

Now Showing: Mitchell Schorr, James Beard House

This month, Behind the Burner artist fave Mitchell Schorr presents his ongoing food-themed paintings on a highly coveted stage: The James Beard House. On view through the end of April in the famed institution's Greenhouse Gallery (where guests can mingle and meet before meals), Schorr's ongoing oil painting series—It Comes from the Crate— uses deconstructed, wooden produce crates--cum-canvases to showcase vibrantly hued food stuffs (peppers, olives, oranges, fish, cheese and more).

Schorr, a native New Yorker, is probably best known for his dynamic, colorful murals (often placed in public spaces) and for a style and content consistently inspired by city life. And the James Beard show is one in a long line of culinary themed work— his paintings hang on the walls of multiple restaurants, including a David Burke hotspot. Coincidentally, Burke himself is the featured chef at the James Beard House this evening. Tip: James Beard House invites several guests to strut their culinary stuffs at the foundation— which was actually famed chef James Beard's home at one point—throughout the year.

The new show is just the latest addition to a pretty exciting 2010 for Schorr. He's just completed an exciting international tour that included stints at the American Academy in Rome and Galleria Ferranti in collaboration with American shoe designer Lincoln Brown.

To learn more about Schorr's work, visit mschorr.com. And to check out this and other exciting happenings at the foundation, visit jamesbeard.org.

The Greenhouse at the Beard House
167 West 12th Street
New York, NY 10011
212.675.4984