Sunday, January 20, 2013

Upstate...At the Esther Massry Gallery, College of Saint Rose--Bi POLAR




BiPOLAR /Journeys to the Ends of the Earth




Today, Sunday January 20, the exhibition BiPOLAR/ Journeys to the Ends of the Earth, opens in Albany. Curated and installed by the amazing Jeanne Flanagan, Saint Rose's long time gallery director, the show includes the work of Itty Neuhaus, Janet Biggs and Elise Engler. All three of us have made work as the result of journeys to the "top and bottom" of the Earth. Biggs has videos based on her time in the Arctic Circle, Neuhaus has a sculpture installation with videos as well as a large drawing/collage in the front window about Newfoundland, and my drawings paintings , books and video refer to time spent in Antarctica.

There will be a gallery reception on February 1 from 5 till 7 PM and then an artist's panel across the street at the Saint Joseph Auditorium, 985 Madison Avenue, at 7PM.

Invite
http://www.strose.edu/about_saint_rose/massry_center_for_the_arts/esther_massry_gallery



The work I have in this show includes the large painted mural installation Unpacking Antarctica with 30 small oil paint panels, the 10 -drawing series Ninety-Degree Draft, and a related text drawing. In addition there are 2 accordion books drawn and painted onsite--one at Lake Hoare field camp in the Antarctic Dry Valleys and the other at research center, McMurdo Station. There are also 2 large gouache landscapes done onsite that have color pencil drawings of significant objects drawn on the surface.
Two color pencil scrolls -one of my suitcase contents going and the other of the return contents (including depictions of all art made while there) are also part of the show as is an 18 minute video edited from hours of footage taken while in Antarctica.

The work is the result of the two months spent in two month trip to Antarctica with the National Science Foundation’s Antarctica Artist’s and Writers Program. I spent time at McMurdo Station, the penguin colonies at Cape Royds and Cape Crozier, at the Dry Valley’s field camp at Lake Hoare and and at the South Pole. Some of the art was made onsite and the rest since returning.






Here are some installation shots ---of the install, creating the giant mural (see--I am not only a miniaturist!) and the show--just before the installation was complete (I left before the extra garbage pails, carts, etc. were removed.


Saint Rose students helped with the install and I thank them--especially Kayley.

Work by Biggs and Neuhaus will be posted later....





Unpacking Antarctica , 11 x 14', house paint on wall with 30 oil panels on wood


Projection of photo taken at Cape Royds, Ross Island,  Antarctica





Starting......


Continues....
Another angle



pre -hanging --- book printed in Amsterdam top right


Wall finished--paintings on the floor








Art student/gallery  assistant Kayley hangs last painting
Close-ups





My muse Gumby--of course--is on every journey....





Everything I Took To Antarctica
2009
color pencil on paper
49 x 12"
Everything I Brought Back from Antarctica
2010
color pencil on paper
60 x 12"


Everything I Brought Back from Antarctica
2010
color pencil on paper
60 x 12"









Ninety-Degree Draft Text Drawing
2012
gouache, color pencil, ink on paper
29.5 x 41.5"










Ninety-Degree Draft
2009-2011
gouache, color pencil on paper
29.5 x 41.5"




Ninety-Degree Draft #5
2010
gouache, color pencil on paper
29.5 x 41.5"

Lake Hoare Field Camp                     McMurdo Station Inventory
2010
gouache, color pencil on paper
29.5 x 41.5"

Installation view with McMurdo Station Accordion Book
Original gouache and color pencil book back to back with digital print





Installation with Lake Hoare Accordion Book

Original gouache and color pencil book back to back with digital print 




Installation 















also check out.....

Travel/Log at Robert Henry Contemporary-- January 11 through February 10 http://www.roberthenrycontemporary.com/exhibitions/20130111-travellog

Friday, January 18, 2013

The shows are up--Upstate and Downstate...NEW YORK

Invertebrate Lab, Darwin Foundation, Galapagos
2008
color pencil on paper
41.5 x 12"




Last Friday Jan. 11, the show Travel/Log opened at Robert Henry Contemporary...there till February 10
http://www.roberthenrycontemporary.com/exhibitions/20130111-travellog

Press in the Brooklyn paper
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/36/2/24_travellogart_2013_1_11_bk_36_2.html


L train to Morgan stop----- Thursday through Sunday.


Drawings from trips to China; Ecuador mainland; the Galapagos Islands; Jamaica;  Umbria, Italy; Sicily and Antarctica. There are drawings of the contents of my suitcases coming and going plus the watercolors/ gouache paintings and drawings done while traveling. Those on-site drawings are depicted in the return suitcases.

Robert Walden did a fabulous job hanging this show that contains 85 works!


opening night




Henry Chung of Robert Henry looks at drawings

Antarctica wall--drawings done on site and prints of suitcases

Jamaica, China and Ecuador
Sicilian gouache diptych
4 x 12
2012
 Sicily wall with Sicilian accordion book, suitcases and landscapes


a few pages of the accordion book of windows of a Sicilian farm, gouache, color pencil on book


Everything I Brought Back from Sicily
2012
color pencil on paper
60 x 12"


Everything I Brought Back from Sicily
2012
color pencil on paper
60 x 12"
detail


 Photographs courtesy of Reinier Gerritsen, photographer--Amsterdam/NY
Images from Upstate coming next.......

Thursday, January 10, 2013


Reinier Gerritsen has arrived from Amsterdam and we have bee printing my three drawn accordion books--two from Antarctica, one from Sicily. They will all be at my show at Robert Henry Contemporary in Bushwick, opening tomorrow. I will be making editions of all 3 books. Still have to make covers for tomorrow and also for the show in Albany that opens Feb1 (more on that later.)

http://www.roberthenrycontemporary.com/exhibitions/20130111-travellog

Printing Lake Hoare Accordion book--photo by Reinier Gerritsen

Hot off the press
So here is the printer at work....