Shoebox Arts
Kristine Schomaker
KRISTINE’S SWEET SHOPPE OF LIBERATION
Step right up to the most unusual candy store you’ve ever encountered! Behind the vintage charm and sweet facade of Kristine’s Sweet Shoppe of Liberation lies 52 years of carefully curated chaos – shredded, sorted, and packaged for your revolutionary pleasure.
What’s on the shelves? Delightful 3x3x3 acrylic cubes filled with “liberation blends” – shredded CD inserts from a collection lost 15 years ago, painted Yogurtland spoons from an eating disorder recovery journey, fragments of cut-up wigs, transparencies, and documents that no longer serve their original purpose. Each cube is a tiny time capsule of transformation, a confection of controlled destruction. The walls themselves become part of the installation – a POW of pattern and color that turns the space into a virtual candy store where memory, identity, and letting go are the main ingredients.
This isn’t your grandmother’s sweet shop (though she’d recognize the aesthetic). This is where Fluxus meets confectionery, where Piero Manzoni’s spirit runs the register, and where buying a $20 cube makes you a collaborator in radical liberation. Each purchase doesn’t just sweeten your collection – it actively participates in dismantling barriers, taking up space, and proving that what we destroy can become more precious than what we keep.
Come for the nostalgia. Stay for the revolution. Leave with a piece of freedom you can hold in your hands.
10% of proceeds benefit eating disorder recovery
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Shoebox Arts
Let Me Eat Cake, Please!
Warning: This exhibition may cause sudden cravings for dessert and an uncontrollable urge to lick gallery walls.
“Let Me Eat Cake, Please!” serves up 80+ food-focused artworks that transform Shoebox into a confectionery fever dream. Every surface is covered salon-style with chocolate drips, abstract candy explosions, and birthday cake nostalgia that hits harder than your third espresso.
What started as curator Kristine Schomaker’s obsession with Baroque excess has evolved into something tastier – a space where art creates conversations about comfort, memory, and our deliciously complicated relationships with food. Working through her own experience with disordered eating, Schomaker has curated a show that understands sweetness as both pleasure and politics, that dessert can be rebellion.
Come hungry. Leave satisfied. And maybe with chocolate paintings you can’t actually eat but definitely want to own.
A portion of proceeds benefits the National Alliance for Eating Disorders. Online store live at https://www.shoeboxarts.com/