{"id":75345,"date":"2016-05-04T00:02:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T04:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=75345"},"modified":"2016-05-04T00:20:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T04:20:19","slug":"amy-sedaris-hosts-super-8-motel-art-giveaway-ny-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/05\/04\/amy-sedaris-hosts-super-8-motel-art-giveaway-ny-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Sedaris hosts Super 8 motel art giveaway at NY gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the paintings from Super 8 motel’s rooms now hanging in a New York art gallery.
(Photo: Super 8’s official Facebook page<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NEW YORK \u2013 You don\u2019t expect to find paintings from motel rooms hanging in a New York art gallery. But Openhouse gallery will be showing art from Super 8 motels and giving it away with help from comedian and lifestyle guru Amy Sedaris.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me tell you something,\u201d Sedaris said in a phone interview Monday. \u201cThat art could not be uglier. The hardest thing I ever did in my life was to come up with names for it all. That was really hard. You\u2019re just looking at something, and I don\u2019t know what to call it \u2013 \u2018That (expletive) Duck\u2019 \u2013 mindless art.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sedaris was tasked with naming each of the artworks, about 100 of them. The Wednesday evening giveaway at Openhouse gallery is called \u201cWhen the Art Comes Down: Works from the Super 8 Collection.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cnot-so-super\u201d Super 8 artwork mostly consists of paintings, like \u201cyour very typical deer in a snowy field by a babbling brook,\u201d said Mike Mueller, senior vice-president of Super 8\u2019s brand operations.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmy appreciates imperfection with humour. We thought as co-host, she could bring some really interesting light to what could be perceived as very uninteresting art,\u201d said Mueller.<\/p>\n

Some of the works have hung in motel rooms for 40 years. They\u2019ll be given away to the public, first come, first served.<\/p>\n

Mueller said the send-off would help \u201chighlight the transformation\u201d of the Super 8 brand. The brand\u2019s new look includes \u201cdecluttering our guest rooms by taking down art that amounted to noise,\u201d Mueller said. Instead, oversize bed headboards will be decorated with black-and-white photos of local points of interest.<\/p>\n

Sedaris says she\u2019s familiar with the old Super 8s. \u201cWhen I was touring with Second City, we always stayed in Super 8s,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The brand modernization will encompass all 1,800 North American Super 8s by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

Super 8 and Sedaris will also make a donation to The Center for Arts Education to mark the redesign.<\/p>\n

The giveaway takes place during a week of high-end art fairs in New York City, but Sedaris noted that at the Super 8 event, \u201cthere won\u2019t be any security guards, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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