Ace Artist in Residence Exhibition | Now THIS I LIKE by Margot DeMarco

Now This is Like by Margot DeMarco
Presented with Fort Makers for Ace Artist in Residence

Exhibition on view: February 10 – April 25 | Opening Reception: February 15 – 7 to 9pm

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“Now This I Like” is a collection of drawings and found-object paper mache vases created entirely within Ace Hotel Brooklyn during the month of January, where Margot DeMarco has resided. 

As an artist, DeMarco draws from the world around her, often incorporating found objects such as beach trash and scrap wood into her sculptures and furniture. Now This I Like is a collection of two bodies of work: sculpture and drawings. The found objects in these drawings are interpreted through observation and rebuilt with simple linework. Each drawing is a world within itself, intricately constructed into a zany but plausible illustrated reality. These subtle moments were captured by sneaking, snooping, and lurking through the less glamorous but integral areas of the hotel. Dumpsters, loading docks, coat checks, and storage rooms are the areas DeMarco has chosen to appreciate in these images. 

Paired with the drawings are a series of 10 unique vases. Each vase is made from plastic bottles, packaging, cardboard, and other detritus collected by DeMarco during her residency as well as her explorations around the city. These vases reference classic forms but are decidedly contemporary, giving new life to the invisible, ever-present disposable objects surrounding us. 

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Margot DeMarco is an artist, designer and educator based in New York City. Her work exists in many forms, including: sculpture, furniture, housewares, video, puppetry, photography, window displays, props, illustration and writing. Despite working across disparate mediums, Margot’s art contains a consistent thread of shrewd irreverence towards the world of objects.

FORT MAKERS は、現代アート、家具、舞台および製品デザインに学際的なアプローチを取り、ニューヨーク市を拠点とするスタジオです。FORT MAKERS は、家具、照明、アクセサリーのユニークなコレクションに加え、アーティストとのコラボレーション、デザインパートナーシップ、ステージ、インテリアを提供しています。FORT MAKERS は、分野の境界を越えてクリエイターを結びつけ、それぞれの活動において精選された共通点を探すことで、参加者が予期せぬものを発見できる雰囲気を作り出します。FORT MAKERS は、Nana Spears、Noah Spencer、Naomi Clark によって2008年に設立されました。

Ace Hotel’s Artist in Residence program is the embodiment of our deep conviction that artists deliver us a critical lens through which to understand the world and ourselves. On a quarterly basis, and curated in partnership with creative collectives and art institutions that inspire us, we invite artists across the globe to turn one of our hotel rooms into their studio for a month. Given time and space to create, the artist’s resultant body of work is then exhibited or showcased at Ace and shared with the public.