This Thursday, July 9, from 6 to 9 PM, Opening Ceremony at Ace Hotel will host an artist signing for a new line of prints from art publishing company The Posters.
Below, we catch up with The Posters artist Simone Shubuck about her unusual career path, artistic inspirations, and experience working with The Posters. Check out our interview with fellow The Posters artist Marc Hundley here, and check back later this week for stories on other artists including Wyatt Kahn and Sara VanDerBeek.
These days, Simone Shubuck might be famous for her complex, colorful art, but her former go-to medium smelled a little more sweetly than spraypaint and acrylic. Shubuck’s previous stint as a florist for some of NYC’s most notable restaurants, such as Mario Batali’s Babbo, not only gave her a dedicated following upon her transition to art—a piece of her early work appears on the walls of former client Little Park—but a trove of technical and artistic experience to draw from in her current work.
The piece Shubuck chose to be reproduced by The Posters, entitled Mini Future Shoob, is a multimedia collage assembled with the precision only a former celebrity florist could supply. The subject of the piece also draws into Shubuck’s past. Says the artist, “The piece the poster is from is an idea vaguely based on this notion I had of myself as a 22 year old, and what I expected I would be like as an adult. It was both a joke and sincere—a sincere joke. Recently, I recalled this notion and [realized] it was now the present and I should attend to it, and made this piece.”
Having a piece printed by The Posters, Shubuck feels, is a welcome throwback to an art world in which print media was fully utilised. “I think it's exciting and also important to have things accessible to all levels now more than ever in a digital era when most galleries are not printing small cards or fliers for shows anymore,” she told us. “I have my own collection of old show announcements from peers and artists I love and treasure these as much as a special book or even an actual piece of art.”![]()
Simone Shubuck, Mini Future Shoob
Below, we catch up with The Posters artist Simone Shubuck about her unusual career path, artistic inspirations, and experience working with The Posters. Check out our interview with fellow The Posters artist Marc Hundley here, and check back later this week for stories on other artists including Wyatt Kahn and Sara VanDerBeek.
These days, Simone Shubuck might be famous for her complex, colorful art, but her former go-to medium smelled a little more sweetly than spraypaint and acrylic. Shubuck’s previous stint as a florist for some of NYC’s most notable restaurants, such as Mario Batali’s Babbo, not only gave her a dedicated following upon her transition to art—a piece of her early work appears on the walls of former client Little Park—but a trove of technical and artistic experience to draw from in her current work.
The piece Shubuck chose to be reproduced by The Posters, entitled Mini Future Shoob, is a multimedia collage assembled with the precision only a former celebrity florist could supply. The subject of the piece also draws into Shubuck’s past. Says the artist, “The piece the poster is from is an idea vaguely based on this notion I had of myself as a 22 year old, and what I expected I would be like as an adult. It was both a joke and sincere—a sincere joke. Recently, I recalled this notion and [realized] it was now the present and I should attend to it, and made this piece.”
Having a piece printed by The Posters, Shubuck feels, is a welcome throwback to an art world in which print media was fully utilised. “I think it's exciting and also important to have things accessible to all levels now more than ever in a digital era when most galleries are not printing small cards or fliers for shows anymore,” she told us. “I have my own collection of old show announcements from peers and artists I love and treasure these as much as a special book or even an actual piece of art.”
Simone Shubuck, Mini Future Shoob