Patti Grabel is an artist, writer, and producer based in New York City and Water Mill, NY. As an artist, she works in a range of mediums including painting, drawing, photography, assemblage, and found-object sculpture to explore imagery that reveals narratives that are at once personal and universal, whimsical and poignant, intimate and public. Grabel began working with spoons as her primary artistic medium in 2015, earning her the moniker, "The Spoon Lady."
Grabel was selected for the group ‘Ffound’ group show at Woolff Gallery, in London, England. She has had solo exhibitions at Chase Edwards Contemporary in Bridgehampton, NY, and her prints have been featured in a monographic presentation at Artiz gallery and Galleria Ca’ D’Oro in New York City. Her work has been showcased at Bloomingdale's New York flagship store three times; she created three iconic oversized perfume bottles for the cosmetics store launch; Grabelwas one of eight artists chosen to create a signature pairs of jeans; and, in 2020, her “Spoonfully Yours,” exhibit displayed 20 original prints to help raise money for City Harvest. The sales of her works have benefitted numerous charities, including Breast Cancer Research Foundation, the Museum of Arts and Design and Michael Bolton Charities. In 2022, she was commissioned, along with a select group of prominent New York City-based artists, to produce a piece for the new City Harvest Food Rescue Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Most recently, Grabel was the artist in residence at the JCC in Miami Beach during the winter of 2023, when her solo exhibition “Causing a Stir” of 18 works was a centerpiece for the center’s event programming. Her work is now part of the permanent JCC collection.
In the summer of 2023, Grabel’s “I Am My Answer” surfboard installation was featured at the Hamptons Holiday House event benefitting the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
Also in 2023, her “I Am My Answer” neon light and “Note to Self” installations were unveiled in the lobby of The Phillips Family Cancer Treatment Center in Southampton, New York. And she capped off a busy season with a new show at Southampton’s Oscar Molina Gallery, where she introduced a series of installations with a bilingual joint reading of her original poem, “Love Has No Boundaries.”
Grabel's book, In Love With Spoons, in which she pays tribute to the symbolic, spiritual and very real value of spoons through her writing, art and contributions from a host of culinary and thought leaders, including Eric Ripert, Deepak Chopra and Divya Alter, will be published in 2024.
