Exquisite Corpse in Deerfield filmed and reviewed

a video of the opening by Freddie Wiss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQH7xZ25jn4

and a review in the  Amherst Bulletin and Hampshire Gazette by Steve Pfarrer http://www.gazettenet.com/2011/10/21/039exquisite-corpse039

Alternative Printmaking Workshop at Two Rivers Printmakers, VT

Deconstruct and Reconstruct

Come join a workshop where we will make rubber stamps, e-z cut prints, and photo transfers and use old prints and stitching in collage.

Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011, White River Junction, VT

Prototype 7, stencil, transfers on stitched paper and canvas
in Boston Printmakers National Traveling Show, thINK

24 Solo Shows at Bromfield Gallery

Installation of my work at the Bromfield Gallery, 450 Harrison Ave., Boston in the Gallery Artists Show. The assemblage at the bottom is called Deion Branch Rocks.

And read Joanne Mattera's comments about the show in her blog, joannemattera.blogspot.com
9/16/2011 Critical Mass., Part 8: The Last Roundup

Work for the show, Exquisite Corpse

The work that's going to Deerfield Academy for the Exquisite Corpse show. Inspired by ceramic Staffordshire dogs seen in my travels. In a fishing village in Denmark they can be seen in almost every window. Turned out they mean 'Daddy's at sea.' Turned in, it's 'Daddy's home.'

Here are some window views...

2 Fall Shows

A five person show at Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, MA

Exquisite Corpse will be on view at the Russell Gallery at the Memorial Building of Deerfield Academy from September 22 through November 17. There will be an opening reception at the gallery from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, October 2.

The show will run the gamut from realism to minimalism. Sally Curcio, a Northampton artist who works in a wide variety of experimental media, will be exhibiting conceptual paintings. Amherst artist Rachel Folsom’s contributions will include an assortment of oddly shaped panels and funny self-portraits. Ashfield artist, Jane Lund, known for her highly realized, large portraits and still life paintings in pastel, will be showing small watercolors, that she calls her recreational paintings. Betsy Stone of Florence will show her anthropomorphic still life pastel paintings of gourds. And Ellen Wineberg of Watertown will be displaying large, whimsical oil-stick paintings of Staffordshire dogs and teddy bears.

The title of the show, Exquisite Corpse, reflects the artists’ wide differences in style. The original Exquisite Corpse was a collaborative game of folded paper played by the Surrealist writers and painters in Paris in the 1920’s where each player writes or draws in turn without being able to see the preceding contribution. When the paper is unfolded a surprising result is revealed. The famous first example of this result was “The- Exquisite- Corpse- Shall- Drink- The- Young -Wine.”

And

Gallery members each have 4 feet of wall space for 24 solo shows.

I will be showing 2 paintings with found red-work embroidery and one assemblage called "Folk Artist.

A trip to Scandinavia

Scandinavia sketchbook






















Norway, August 2010
On a trip through Scandinavia with an alumni group from the University of Washington, Seattle with professor Terje Leiren (pictured, Terje Leiren@blogspot.com.)












An opportunity to travel through a spectacular landscape of fjords, glaciers, lakes, waterfalls and mountains.


Seen at the Art and Design Museum in Bergen

















a show about taste and the marketplace. Contemporary
jewelry, sculpture and textile pieces made from ephemeral and unconventional materials like rubber and concrete were shown with ancient works from the collection such as fine ceramics and silver. A telling essay on the wall, for a museum show, about the influence of the marketplace on taste and the origins of taste-making and the interconnectedness of the market with the museum world. On the way in, at the top of a marble staircase, there was a classic figurative stained glass window, but wait, it had a red neon shape superimposed on it. Huh? It looked familiar, I stared for awhile, a star with a tail? No, a baby with a crown? OH I GET IT the Simpson's baby, Maggie. I couldn't find the artist's name or a card anywhere, and I can't read Norwegian but I thought it was terrific; a classic assumption piece with a contemporary baby, both powerful symbols in their time.
This was a brave show for a museum to host. The questions of what is art, what is beauty and who decides were answered, sort of.

Discovery of the monumental, knitted work of Heidi Kennedy Skjerve (www.heidi-kennedy-skjerve.com) about 10’ x 50’, Agnes Martin/fishnet–like
on a wall of the Fine Art Museum in Bergen.






















She also does drawings on graph paper that look like weavings.



















And the outside of the museum had a side wall that looked like this...


















which was kind of like a wall in a village outside of Copenhagen that looked like this...













Where there were faces on the wall (electric outlets?) in the hotel like this...













and on the door at Carl Larsson's w.c. like this...

















and a face on a street in Stockholm...














which was a very walkable city.

Gallery Henoch, NYC Still Life Show

http://www.galleryhenoch.com

By Kathy Erskine Jenkins
Ellen Wineberg is in a group show called "Still Lifes" at the prestigious Gallery Henoch in the super-trendy Chelsea area of NYC .  This past Saturday was the opening party and I was lucky enough to attend.  Ellen's work is fabulous! Colorful, warm and witty like the artist. She is in very good company, too, with painters such as Steve Smulka, Janet Rickus, and Robert Jackson.  
 Gallery Henoch, 555 West 25th Street, NY 10001 917.305.0003 or at galleryhenoch.com. October 3-31