HomeGallery Tour: Chelsea’s Honey Space Gallery
02. Jun, 2009 
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As much as New York’s pace, culture and architecture energized me, it was the welcoming people who made me fall in love with the city. Nearly everybody I met, whether the purpose was an interview, a home tour or a business discussion, invited me to meet again for lunch or a cocktail. Future Open House star Cady was no exception; she and her kind fellow Frank invited me on a little walkabout of their favorite Chelsea art galleries, many of which I’ll post more about during the next few weeks. One of the most unusual galleries we visited was the Honey Space Gallery, which we discovered accidentally when we saw a doorway cut into a building sans any actual door. According to the gallery’s website:
Honey Space is an independent exhibition space dedicated to presenting compelling work by contemporary artists in a non-commercial setting. Situated in a former warehouse that has intentionally been left raw, Honey Space presents exhibitions that are by necessity site-specific, and that are designed such that the space can operate without any staff. Metal security gates open in the morning, go down at night, and throughout the day the space is open to the public.
Honey Space is a cool, dark, contemplative space; it feels almost holy in an odd way, like the air is cleaner and charged. With energy? Creativity? Who knows? But upon entering, the three of us stopped yapping, and when we did speak, we whispered in a kind of unconscious reverence.
Artist John Wells “Ave Lux” is on exhibit through June 13th, and I highly recommend stopping in to check out his work. Visit the Honey Space website for more information. Also, check out Randy Kennedy’s New York Times article, “No Windows, No Heat, No Staff, No Rent. This is a Gallery?”
Click here to see past Gallery Tours and Artist Spotlights.
Honey Space Gallery founder Thomas Beale
Hi, T8, how’d you get that Google link attached to the top shelf of Strange Closets?
The Honey Gallery is very unusual that’s for sure. I gather everything is fully nailed down, glued on or whatever so the exhibit in its entirety doesn’t disappear during open access hours every day. How kind of Cady and Frank to take you wandering there.I look forward to more.
Remember, too, it’s OK to rest a bit after your working holiday. We won’t abandon you if for one day this week we don’t get an e-mail issue.
I won’t abandon you, but I DO want my Strange Closets everyday, if not more often. I have it in the mornings with my coffee. I was disoriented and confused when you went to NYC and didn’t post as often.
Cool gallery, by the way.