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Art Auction at CHOP CHOP on Thursday!
From Ms. Ashley of Chop Chop:
This Thursday! 6-9pm!
Craig and I are celebrating. We are thankful for our art space, and especially thankful for the artists we know who have truly inspired us to build this joint. yes, we are kinda doing all this for fame and fortune…(see sunday’s Dispatch article on us in the arts section for proof that we’re famous), but we’re also doing this because it’s fun and challenging and we are now surrounded by beautiful art. lots of art. SO please try and stop in this thursday and say hello, have a glass of wine, check out our new sound system, and bid on some art! You can take it home
that night! To check out the artists involved visit our website…
www.chopchopgallery.com
Chop Chop
78 Parsons Avenue
New space a creative one-stop
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Aaron Beck
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
You could easily drive down Parsons Avenue without suspecting that you’re whizzing past an innovative gallery.
Inside what looks like a humble storefront (and what used to be a soft-drink bottling company) is a lime-green reception room, which opens to larger spaces — 6,000 square feet in all — that serve as a self-sufficient art factory.
A silk-screen machine occupies one room. In another, Daniel McKewen sews canvas bicycle-messenger bags. Elsewhere are strewn supplies for frames and a multitude of art projects. Power tools and lumber, steel and scrap metal — most of it donated or retrieved from trash bins — join the mix.
In a garage with a high ceiling awaits a 30-by-30-foot skateboard ramp. More than 20 overhauled bicycles hang from hooks bolted to the concrete-block walls.
Welcome to the Chop Chop Gallery, opened in June by artists and partners Ashley Puckett, 28, and Craig Dransfield, 33.
The gallery, operated as a loose collective, also makes room for a few full-time artists, who contribute to the monthly rent and sometimes join in the rehabbing.
This week, on Thursday, Chop Chop will host a silent auction of art from 6 to 9 p.m.
Works by about 30 artists from central Ohio and throughout the United States — including photographs, oil paintings, sketches, postcards, T-shirts and messenger bags — will be sold.
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