Thursday, March 31, 2016

LARGE STORIES

I am presenting six mixed media oil paintings at 
Artworks Gallery, Winston Salem, 
March 30-April 30, 2016.

Still Life for a Guerrilla Girl
mixed media oil painting
36" x 50"

Still Life with Waffle
mixed media oil painting
39" x 50"

Bo Times for Betti
mixed media oil painting
39.25" x 50"

Courtship
mixed media oil painting
38" x 41"

Still Life for an Italian American
mixed media oil painting
37" x 49.25"

Pie=Life
mixed media oil painting
37.5" x 50.5"


Large Stories Artist Statement:

These mixed media oil paintings explore the relationship between everyday objects and a cultural identity through personal belongings and experience.  Juxtaposed is play with both traditional and contemporary painting and mixed media composition and technique.

With influences as diverse as Audrey Flack and Jim Dine, new variations are crafted from both opaque and transparent layers.

Ever since being a young adult artist, the traditional understanding of the human condition has fascinated the artist.  Still life conveys a story through subject matter reflective of the time and culture we live in. Random historical information on each subject is gathered from the Internet, and a personal memory interwoven.  What starts out as vision soon becomes corroded into a carnival of interpretation, leaving only a sense of what could have been and the possibility of a new understanding, morphed from the irony of older aesthetic values.

As wavering political correctness becomes transformed through emergent and repetitive practice, through words, objects and logos, the viewer is left with clues to the edges of our era, location and heritage.

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

LARGE STORIES

Come visit Chris Flory and I at the Gallery Hop on Friday, April 1st, 7-9 pm, Artworks Gallery, 6th and Trade Streets.

I am presenting 6 large mixed media oil paintings.

Large Stories Artist Statement:
These mixed media oil paintings explore the relationship between everyday objects and a cultural identity through personal belongings and experience.  Juxtaposed is play with both traditional and contemporary painting and mixed media composition and technique.
With influences as diverse as Audrey Flack and Jim Dine, new variations are crafted from both opaque and transparent layers.
Ever since being a young adult artist, the traditional understanding of the human condition has fascinated the artist.  Still life conveys a story through subject matter reflective of the time and culture we live in. Random historical information on each subject is gathered from the Internet, and a personal memory interwoven.  What starts out as vision soon becomes corroded into a carnival of interpretation, leaving only a sense of what could have been and the possibility of a new understanding, morphed from the irony of older aesthetic values.
As wavering political correctness becomes transformed through emergent and repetitive practice, through words, objects and logos, the viewer is left with clues to the edges of our era, location and heritage.


Wednesday, June 24, 2015

2015 A.I.R. Gallery Postcard Show

Wish You Were Here 14
July 1- 26, 2015
A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, NY

Excited to be participating in this International postcard show with 
300+ women from all over!

My postcard entry renders an image from a recent mixed media oil painting, 
Still Life for a Guerrilla Girl.

Still Life for a Guerrilla Girl
4 " x 6" Postcard- Mixed media under glass

The actual postcard is similar to a technique 
that I utilize for some of my Art O Mat pieces.

The A.I.R. Gallery- Advocating for women in the visual arts since 1972.

See the press release at: (Scroll down to the P's to see my name!)
http://airgallery.org/exhibitions/wish-you-were-here-14/









Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Re:Classified: 2015 LUCAD Alumni Biennial


The Lesley University College of Art and Design Announces the Third Alumni Biennial at Warehouse XI in Somerville June 20-28, 2015

My piece in this exhibition:

Eye of Goddess: Camille Claudel
10" diameter
Vitreous painting on glass rondel
The show will run from June 20th to June 28th, 2015. The opening reception will be held on Saturday, June 20th at Warehouse XI, 11 Sanborn Court, Somerville, MA at 7:30pm. A catalogue of the exhibition will be available.


Disappointed not to be there, but proud to be participating 
in this exhibition with my LUCAD Alumni colleagues!

The exhibition catalogue has been published.  My piece is on page 53:

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

deLIGHTed

deLIGHTed

A Piedmont Craftsmen exhibition,
Piedmont Craftsmen Gallery,
May 1-30, 2015

Sister Moon on a Starry Night
Fused Glass Hurricane
6"x6"x10"
Piedmont Craftsmen is proud to host this special group exhibit featuring work that generates light, work that represents light, or work where light is an integral part of the creating process.
Sunlight, Moonlight, Lamplight, Candlelight.  
Certain to be a deLIGHT for everyone to see.


This piece now in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Waring, Roanoke, Va.

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Small Stories

Artworks Gallery, Winston Salem

March 4-28, 2015


See a slideshow of my works, mixed media oil paintings, in this exhibition at: 



My Artist Statement:


With a desire to re-explore painting from observational study, this body of work began to take shape.  Matched with an intrigue to work further by allowing the works to evolve into a mixed media realm, a conceptual thread was conceived. Thus, Small Stories shares a body of conceptual still life, mixed media oil-based, paintings associating parallel experiences and the artist’s life as a muse, with a seduction of homage to other artists:  Contemporary artist, Jeff Barnum states it best, “Every artist is in dialogue”. I have a relationship with certain artists that have taught and influenced my own work, which I cannot explain.  Learning about them has opened up a new world for me.  Mentor artists, although they have died, are always in front of me.

Still life as a subject matter within this day and age seems somewhat out of place.  However, painting still life items for their symbolic meaning reveals a hidden story. Still life provides a platform for artists to explore their relationship to the objects that inhabit their world.  Working directly from observation embraces the concept of beauty in our everyday lives, through objects that have an important place in our heart.

With the conception of each still life, there is contemplation for understanding of what makes particular objects symbolic and important in a story and, more specifically, understanding the meaning of symbolic objects in the composition.  My own projections of overlapping personal symbolic objects as a votive to others- artists also connect from their biographical writing or document. Questioning further whether old traditions and new conceptions can reveal an untold mutation.  Conveying issues of creation, life, death, brokenness and loss are indeed potent issues for the subject of still life.

Finally, this body of work allows the practice of re-exploring the pleasure of observation and learning ‘how to see’ when creating directly from life… something that Cézanne taught me.  It saddens me to think it may be a dying practice.

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Sawtooth Faculty Exhibition, March 2015


Gabriele Münter
Charcoal Drawing, 22" x 28" 

Brunch with Gabriele
Stained Glass Assemblage, 20"x 40"



These two pieces are currently in the 2015 Sawtooth Faculty Exhibition through March 14, 2015.




Sunday, September 7, 2014

Blind Power, Tactile Wall, WS Industries for the Blind



IFB Tactile Wall/ Left-side
IFB Tactile Wall/ Center
IFB Tactile Wall/ Right-side


Excited to announce that the Tactile Wall, "Blind Power", 54' x 8' 8" for the Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind is finally complete! Design work for this installation began in September of 2013 and went through 3 revisions prior to its approval. The contract was settled in mid-December of 2013; materials were ordered in January 2014 and my residency at IFB to begin fabrication began in early March.




My Artist Team:

I was fortunate to have an outstanding intern through Salem College, Courtney DeBerry and she later served as a paid assistant. Courtney was then a senior and is now in grad school at New York University.




Another major assistant for this project was, Nancy David. Nancy had apprenticed with me years ago in stained glass, and I am pleased she was able to assist with this installation. It was great working with her again on a sustained and site specific project!




My daughter Katie Longinotti, and her fiancé, Jack Wooten assisted as well. Katie primarily with fabrication and cleaning the wall after installed, and Jack with installation. Jack's brother, Jesse, also assisted on several days through the installation of the right-side of the mural and the Pfefferkorn cloud.




My husband Bob, assists with every project, commission and installation I take on. He got us started with this installation, trained Jack, and came back in to help us to its completion.

Other major assistants that volunteered significant time with this project: Jane Webster, Calan Charlton and Barb Robless

The work through its fabrication was collaborative and many groups lent a hand along the way. It was a wonderful experience working with a special population in creating a project that I hope they will enjoy for many years to come!

If you are on Facebook, check out the photo album which depicts the project through phases, start to finish:


 https://www.facebook.com/plstudioart/media_set?set=a.10202689955143564.1039203120&type=3

Meet my Art and Installation Team: http://animoto.com/play/ql3DVN2hsr1qxLtONZiyBA

An article written on the tactile wall by Margaret Seay, Arts Council of WSFC:  http://intothearts.org/public-art-highlight-tactile-wall-at-industries-for-the-blind/

An article written on the tactile wall by Martha Murphy for the Forsyth Tech Magazine at (see pg. 5):
http://www.forsythtech.edu/discover/e-catalog-publications/forsyth-tech-magazine-winter-2015/

A feature on the tactile wall on WXII:
http://www.wxii12.com/news/special-art-exhibit-for-the-blind/31243408



Sunday, August 17, 2014

Mediating Relevance: The Politics of Gender

Honored to be invited to show in this exhibition-

Mediating Relevance: The Politics of Gender

August 22-October 18, 2014
~
The Ellington-White Contemporary
Cumberland County Arts Council
Fayetteville, NC

Showing my

Uomini Famosi: Archive of Women Artists

Installation of 60 vitreous paintings on glass, each 8" x 10"


Sunday, February 16, 2014

An introduction as an artist and art educator

So now that I am retired from teaching full time in the public schools, and out of seclusion for the 6 month period, from interaction with state organizations, I am taking a course to teach online for the NC Virtual Public Schools.  As an introductory assignment I made my first Animoto video:



http://animoto.com/play/k0T1kB0GUMG8ijVGUHA99w

It was fun to make.