SDA NY Member News December 13, 2009

Exhibitions

Conversations by Berenice Pliskin

Berenice Pliskin will be showing her silk painting “Conversation” in the exhibit "Interiors", a group show of area artists.

Dates: December 10 – January 31, 2010

Location: Paramount Center for the Arts, 1008 Brown Street, Peekskill, NY (914-739-2333)

Introducing SDA Member Linda Van Alstyne

Pietroglyphs by Linda Van Alstyne

Linda, who has been an SDA member for four years, has been exploring the “endless possibilities of handmade felt” since 1994. Working with felt allows her to sculpt wearable masks and other artful objects. Prior to that she worked with on and off loom weaving, including basket weaving, natural dyeing and spinning.

The Pietroglyph series developed in response to a theme, “What’s out is IN” for the NEFG ‘08 exhibit season. Layered immersion dyeing using reverse stenciling creates the various images, which are then hand stitched together. Shibori dye techniques as well as surface stitching develop further textural contrast and interest.

Linda is the president of the Northeast Feltmakers Guild (NEFG). Linda exhibits her work with NEFG and by invitation to galleries throughout the United States. She also teaches in her home studio and upon request. She will be teaching the FUNdamentals of Feltmaking at Augusta Heritage Center at David Elkins College in the summer, 2010.

Linda is also a doctor of physical therapy who provides specialized treatment for individuals experiencing pelvic pain and dysfunction.

SDA NY Member News November 29, 2009

HOLIDAY EXHIBIT & SALE

Jewelry by Joanne Espinosa, Painting on Silk by Suzanne Punch and Pottery by Sylvia March

Location: Manhattan -- 119 West 85th St Apt #1 between Columbus and Amsterdam

Dates: December 4-6 and December 11-13

Hours: Friday 4-8 PM, Saturday 1-7 PM, Sunday 1-7 PM and Appointments through December 22, 212-721-4930

Join us at Joanne’s for a festive gather of beautiful objects and wonderful gifts to celebrate the season. REFRESHMENTS AND HOLIDAY CHEER!

A-MAZE-ING HUNGERFORD OPEN STUDIOS DECEMBER 4-5

You're invited to visit Jeanne Beck's studio, #366 (third floor), during A-Maze-Ing Hungerford, a building wide open house and holiday sale.

Dates: Friday, December 4, 5-9 PM and Saturday, 10-5 PM

Location: Hungerford Building, 1115 East Main Street, Rochester, NY.

Enter door #2 or door #5 to get a map that will guide you through the building. Twenty-five artists will open their studios.

Jeanne will be selling original cards and matted works, along with special "Inspiration Packs", clear bags each filled with one pound of fat quarters and half yard pieces of dyed , painted and surface designed silks or cottons to inspire new creations-- or give to a fiber-loving friend! There will also be some bags of sheers and synthetics for sale for those who love glitz and shimmer!

While you stroll, you can listen to musicians playing on each floor and have a bite to eat at the Red Osier booth inside door #2. Play the A-Maze-Ing Hungerford Game (it’s a challenge to find your way through three floors in three buildings to the artists’ studios) and you can enter to win one of a number of door prizes.

Hope you can come join us for A-Maze-Ing Hungerford!

CAROL ANN RICE RAFFERTY

Carol Ann has an art dress in the front window of Luke & Eloy Gallery in Pittsburgh, Pa. Here is the link:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/ae/museums/s_652704.html
Carol Ann’s Devore Scarves as well as other items of apparel are now available on her Facebook page and at:

ShopSCAD Savannah
Burchfield Penny Art Center Store
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts Shop

SDA Member News November 16, 2009

 

Raylene Marasco, Dyenamix

Dyenamix has been collaborating on a long term project for Guillermo Kuitca. It has been a journey spanning more than a year resulting in one of the pieces (a series of 3, 10ft x 13ft scrim panels, shown above) being featured in his mid-career Retrospective beginning in Miami, traveling to the Walker, the Albright Knox, and ending at the Hirshhorn Museum in DC.

Additionally, Dyenamix printed and Raylene hand painted 25 images that were hand sewn and constructed into a book. This book portion was mentioned in the November issue of W Magazine, sighting Dyenamix as the printers for the "exquisite silk book" based on his drawings.

Dyenamix also printed and painted a Wall Suite comprised of a selection of the book images, at a larger scale and shown framed for the wall.

Check out the November issue of W and look for Dyenamix mention in the article about Guillermo Kuitca. He is truly an artist to watch and Dyenamix is proud to have been able to collaborate with him on these works.

Jeanne Raffer Beck

Jeanne’s piece, “Seeds of Compassion”, has been accepted into Fiberart International 2010.

Jurors Mary Ruth Smith, Rebecca Stevens and Vibeke Riisberg met in mid-September to evaluate over 1,600 works by 703 artists from 30 countries. The jurors chose 87 pieces.

The opening reception will be held on Friday evening, April 16, 2010. Juror Rebecca Stevens will present a talk that evening. There will also be a symposium on April 17 where a number of the selected artists will speak about their work.

 

SDA NY Member News October 25, 2009

LARRY SCHULTE

“ Larry Schulte: Pattern and Order” will be at the Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, Iowa, December 8, 2009 through March 28, 2010.

Opening Reception, Friday, December 11, 5:30-7:30 PM

Artist's Talk, Saturday, December 12, 1:30 PM

This exhibition contains three bodies of works. The first are 34"x34" woven painted paper pieces based on the Fibonacci Sequence. The second are 12"x12" unique screenprints from the Chaos Series. The third are 30"x22" unique screenprints from the Web/Net/Veil Series.

Flag 3 by Larry Schulte

WNV-16 by Larry Schulte

Barbara L. Kuhnman Foundation, Inc. Fiber Arts and Wearable Arts Scholars Exhibition

The Barbara L. Kuhlman Foundation, Inc. provides annual scholarships to students in the Fiber Arts and Apparel Design programs at Cornell University’s Fiber Science & Apparel Design Human Ecology Department. Here is a sampling of the student scholarship winner pieces that were on display in October at Cornell:

“Monsters Under My Bed”, by Nhu-Thu Nguyen

“Red Skies” by Nicole Castelli

Innovative work by these students – you would have enjoying seeing the creativity and craftsmanship in these pieces.

SDA Member News October 11, 2009

Sharon Bottle Souva had two pieces chosen for RUDE AND BOLD WOMEN, which was held October 2&3 at 81 State Street (5th floor), Binghamton, NY.

Urban Pathways 2: Curbside, by Sharon Bottle Souva

This annual art show highlights visual and performance women artists from the region and beyond.

See www.rudeandboldwomen.com or find it on facebook.
Two of Sharon’s quilted wallhangings, Moonseed and Urban Pathways 2: Curbside were chosen for the show this year.

Jeanne Raffer Beck will present a lecture, “Written: Word as Image” at SOFA Chicago on Saturday, November 7, at 10:30 AM. In her talk, she'll discuss how combining fragments of contemporary and ancient texts and letterforms with invented language has become a rich source of inspiration for her work.

Phoenix Gallery Reviewing Artists for Membership:

PHOENIX GALLERY, CELEBRATING ITS 51^st YEAR, 210 Eleventh Avenue @ 25^th St., Chelsea, New York, NY 10001, is accepting applications for ACTIVE, INACTIVE or ASSOCIATE membership. Download info from Website: www.phoenix-gallery.com or Send SASE for membership application/or Email: info@phoenix-gallery.com

SDA Member News September 27, 2009

Cornell University College of Human Ecology Student Exhibition

The Mann Library at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY is currently displaying the Barbara L. Kuhlman Scholars' Fiber Arts & Wearable Arts Exhibition, which  runs through October 17th. 
Gallery Hours:
Mon through Thurs 8am to midnight.  Friday 8am to 6pm.  Saturday Noon 6pm.  Sunday 10am to midnight.

Patricia Hickman

Eye Chart by Patricia Hickman

Pat Hickman is exhibiting art work in an invitational group show entitled “Designing Women” at the Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY, Sept. 12-Oct. 24. She is part of an invitational exhibition, “Knitted, Knotted, Netted” at the Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ, Oct. 11, 2009-Jan. 24, 2010. Other artists in that group exhibition, funded by the Coby Foundation, Ltd., include Karen Ciaramella, Abigail Doan, Kazue Honma, Ed Bing Lee, Norma Minkowitz, Ruth Marshall, Leslie Pontz, Ann Coddington Rast, Hisako Sekijima, Noriko Takamiya, and Carol Westfall.

Pat will teach a workshop, “OPENINGS: Knotted and Knotless Netting” at the Hunterdon on Nov. 15.

She is also participating in “Garnerworld”, Oct. 16-Nov. 15, an exhibition celebrating the history of the Garnerville Arts and Industrial Center, an old calico factory built in 1838, where she has her studio.

“Through the Eyes”, her solo exhibition, will be at the Phoenix Gallery, NY, Nov. 4-28, 2009.

Patricia Spillane, Barbara Vanseloe, Kris G. Moss, Diane Evans and Joanna Monroe Exhibiting in ARTTA show

As part of the Hyde Museum's "A Season of Degas", the Adirondack Regional Textile Artists' Alliance (ARTAA), has just opened a show at Kris and Joanna’s shared studio in the Shirt Factory, 21 Cooper Street in Glens Falls, NY.  All the work in this exhibition is inspired by Degas' "Dancer with Red Stockings", a piece from the Hyde collection.

This show will be up through October 18: Wed - Sat, 10 - 4, and Sun, !2 - 4. More info is available from the Hyde Museum. Participating SDA members are Patricia Spillane, Barbara Vanseloe and Joanna Monroe.

 

"Grace", 25.5" W x 15" H. Acrylic painted image on satin, commercial cottons, machine quilted using cotton & metallic threads.

 

Deux Danseuses: Hommage a Edgar Degas, by Diane Evans.

Rouge et Noir, by Joanna Monroe

Ballerina I, by Barbara Vanseloe

Marilyn Henrion

 

Disturbances 7 by Marilyn Henrion

In conjunction with their major quilt exhibition, “Full Spectrum: Quilts & The Textile Arts”, Binghamton University Art Museum presents internationally recognized quilt artist, Marilyn Henrion, giving a trunk show-lecture chronicling over 30 years of her life and work. Date and Time: October 10, 3-5 PM. Admission: $5. For further information, contact Jack Braunstein, (607) 777-2911.

SDA Member News September 13, 2009

Suzanne Punch


Liberty House display window featuring work by Suzanne Punch

This month, Suzanne Punch will be featured in articles in both the SDA Newsletter and in the Silkworm, an international journal for silk painters.

Both articles focus on the relationship between Suzanne and Liberty House, a boutique in Manhattan near Columbia University. This store shows both fine art and hand-painted wearables by Suzanne. Often there is one of her large silk paintings in the window, along with BoHo clothing, local artisan-made jewelry, African carvings, folk art furniture and hand-woven rugs.

Mary Hertert is the author of a monthly column in the SDA Newletter. This month’s article is “Business Bites: Marketing- Two Artists’ Perspective”.

She interviews Nelda Warkentin and Suzanne Punch about how they are getting through this economic downturn. Liberty House integrates fine art with the every day life of the store, for the enrichment of all.

Betty Vera

Four of Betty’s Jacquard weavings will be exhibited in “Environs,” a group show at the Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, Oregon, October 2–30, 2009. Opening reception will be Friday, October 2, 6-8 PM. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 11AM - 4PM.

Nest by Betty Vera

“Nest,” Jacquard tapesty, 47 x 46 inches, cotton, 2008, shown on this image, is one of the pieces that Betty will have in the exhibit. Further details of the exhibition are available at www.eou.edu/art.

Kathy Velis Turan

Day Becomes Electric, K. Velis Turan

KATHY VELIS TURAN solo show
September 2nd- September 27th, 2009
Opening: Sunday, September 13th -
2-4pm
Wellington’s Herbs &Spices
649 Rickard Hill Road • Schoharie, NY 12157
518-295-7366 —
Gallery Hours:
Wed-Sat—10am-4pm , Sun—11:30am-4pm
For more information please
contact Kathy Velis Turan
@ 518-731-8615 or
kvelisturan@hotmail.com

Jeanne Raffer Beck

List, Jeanne Raffer Beck, 30” x 30” framed

Three of Jeanne’s pieces will be part of the Empire State College 4th annual art exhibition September 14-30, 2009

Location: Lower Link Gallery, Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County, 115 South Ave., Rochester, NY. 14604

Reception: October 1, 2009, 5:30 PM Artist Reception, 6:00 PM Discussion with the Artists

Barbara Hillery Van Elsen

Teaching New Class September 26 – FreeForm Knitting and Crochet

"Swirls, Twirls and Spirals", is a three-hour knitting and crochet class that can be used as an introduction to freeform. You’ll learn patterns and routines that will enable you to play with the colors and textures of different types of yarn and learn how to combine them.

Date: September 26 in the afternoon in Plainview, NY. People can email anjanette.s.cooper@hofstra.edu for a copy of the registration form and more information.

There is also a gallery of some of the class models that can be seen here: http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/7189493