tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13643166592063720022023-12-12T05:33:42.495-05:00Gwyneth's Full BrewArt and life in New York City, Cup in HandGwyneth Leechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599466297518036980noreply@blogger.comBlogger153125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1364316659206372002.post-19359829162522279192015-04-16T12:05:00.000-04:002015-10-22T11:20:45.326-04:00Spring News: Gwyneth Leech Solo Exhibition in Norwalk, CT<div style="text-align: left;">
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After an epically long and snowy winter it is fantastic to finally see flowers blooming and trees budding all over New York City! And it has been a pleasure to be traveling up to Norwalk CT, where Spring is coming on apace, to prepare for my upcoming solo exhibition, <a href="http://www.seaburynorwalk.org/?page_id=159"><b>Gwyneth Leech: Themes and Variations</b></a>, at ARTWorks on the Green gallery. The gallery is located at 60 East Avenue in a handsome house adjacent to Saint Paul's on the Green church where, with its abundance of flowering lawns and trees, the grounds look particularly lovely at this time of year. <br />
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The exhibition marks ten years since I completed a commission from Saint Paul's on the Green to paint the 14 stations of the cross. I am delighted to be showing paintings and works on paper representing several bodies of artwork from the intervening period, including an installation of cups hanging over four of the the floor-to-ceiling windows in the gallery.<br />
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The reception is next Tuesday, April 21st from 6:30-8:00PM. If you are in the neighborhood please join me, or tell any CT folk you know to come by!<br />
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For more information about the exhibition <a href="http://www.seaburynorwalk.org/?page_id=159">click here</a>.<br />
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unexpected development, rare prints by my grandfather, Michael J.
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Center for Contemporary Printmaking also in Norwalk CT! The CCP is located at 229 West Avenue and the exhibi<span style="font-family: inherit;">ti</span>on, WPA*JOBS, is open now through May 23<sup>rd.</sup></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">CCP website: <a href="http://contemprints.org/">http://contemprints.org/</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">For more about the prints of Michael Gallagher <a href="http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_art.pl?artist=gallagher">click here.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Commemorating
10 years since N<span style="font-family: inherit;">ew York City</span> artist, Gwyneth Leech completed her striking contemporary
stations of the cross for Saint Paul’s on the Green in Norwalk, CT, ARTWorks
Gallery on the Green will host a solo show of the artist’s paintings and works
on paper from April 21<sup>st</sup> – May 26<sup>th</sup>, 2015. The artist
will be showing selections from several bodies of work, representing a
decade of development since undertaking the commission in 2004. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">-A selection
from a series of oil portraits on canvas and wood panel called
<a href="http://gwynethleech.com/portfolios/perfect-families-paintings">"Perfect Families"</a>, 2006-2010.</span></div>
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from an ongoing series of oils on wood called <a href="http://gwynethleech.com/portfolios/reflected-city-paintings">"Reflected City"</a>,
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">-A suspended
cup installation from <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">her</span></span> ongoing <a href="http://gwynethleech.com/portfolios/cup-sets-and-installations">cup artwork series</a>, 2010-2015.</span></div>
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Gwyneth Leechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599466297518036980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1364316659206372002.post-5516994032539927712014-11-28T17:11:00.001-05:002014-11-28T17:11:22.252-05:00Good Things Come in Threes<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><span>First of all, thank you to everyone who has been to see my cup installations, </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><span>small sculptures and paintings in the Food for Thought exhibition </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><span>at the Hewitt Gallery, Marymount Manhattan College. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><span>There are three full days left to see the show this coming week:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><span>Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, December 1st, 2nd and 3rd. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><span>Additional good news is that the Hewitt Gallery is open 9am-9pm each day!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span><span>Food for Thought<br /> at the Hewitt Art Gallery<br /> Marymount Manhattan College<br /> 221 East 71st Street.</span><br /><span>Open 7 days a week, 9 AM - 9 PM<br /> November 6 - December 3</span>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><span>More information <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.mmm.edu/live/news/1028-food-for-thought-in-the-hewitt-gallery" href="http://www.mmm.edu/live/news/1028-food-for-thought-in-the-hewitt-gallery" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">click here.</a></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>The second item, is that I am showing brand new cup and painting pairs </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>based on the idea of the City as Coffee Cups. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>These are available for purchase at Admit to Bitter, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>a pop-up gallery and shop in the South Street Seaport, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>at 117 Beekman/Titanic Park, NYC,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>open 12-7PM daily through the middle of December.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>For pricing and purchase contact Admit to Bitter: </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="mailto:admittobitterinfo@gmail.com"><span>admittobitterinfo@gmail.com</span></a> <span>or call 212-514-6052</span>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.downtownmagazinenyc.com/admittobitter-five-years/" href="http://www.downtownmagazinenyc.com/admittobitter-five-years/">Click here</a> for a lovely interview with Jacqueline Joseph, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>creator of Admit to Bitter. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>Finally,
I am pleased to announce that my second collection of ceramic coffee
cups </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>for Anthropologie is now widely available in their USA and
Canadian </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>stores as well as online. <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/product/home-new2/30048045.jsp#/" href="http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/product/home-new2/30048045.jsp#/">Click here</a> to purchase online, international shipping available!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>Many thanks to you for following my ever-evolving cup journey!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>It continues to be an adventure filled with unexpected twists and turns.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>Wishing you all the best for the upcoming season of celebrations.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>Warm regards,</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>Gwyneth</span></span>Gwyneth Leechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599466297518036980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1364316659206372002.post-16163233891309278592014-09-23T15:48:00.000-04:002014-09-23T16:00:15.200-04:00Harris Building for ArtPrize 2014<br>
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here I am at ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, Michigan! My venue is the Harris
Building, 111 South Division, with its charmingly rusted sign left over
from the building's old days as a fine furniture showroom and upstairs Masonic
meeting hall. Now converted to an event and exhibition space, the Harris
building is hosting 37 artists for ArtPrize 2014, making it one of the
denser venues and a great place to see lots of art under one roof.<br>
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I was delighted to have several students assisting with the installation
of my 1001 cup artworks, and pleased to find we were done in just a day
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The view from the street affords a changing impression as the light shifts during the day.<br>
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From inside, the cups create a veritable kaleidoscope of color and pattern.<br>
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And this is the morning view from my drawing table, where I will be in residence for the next five days, September 24-28th, drawing on cups and adding them to the installation. Bring me a paper coffee cup, have a conversation and maybe I will invite you to draw a cup of your own to take home!<br>
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For more details and my drawing schedule, click here: <a href="http://www.artprize.org/gwyneth-leech/2014/1001-coffee-cup-stories"> http://www.artprize.org/gwyneth-leech</a><br>
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I am delighted to be taking part in ArtPrize, a city-wide visual arts festival and </div>
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competition in Grand Rapids, Michigan that runs from September 24-October 12.<br />
I will be in Grand Rapids for a week, installing 1001 coffee cup artworks,<br />
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It turns out that prepping 1001 cups, not to mention just counting them all, is a big job! </div>
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You can visit my window installation any time between 9/24 and 10/12,<br />
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Harris Building, 111 South Division Avenue in Downtown, Grand Rapids.<br />
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My drawing sessions:<br />
12 - 2 PM, 9/24, 9/25. 9/26, 9/27 and 9/28,<br />
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Here's the link to my ArtPrize page with more information:<br />
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<br />Gwyneth Leechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599466297518036980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1364316659206372002.post-63490475387289867462014-07-23T21:32:00.001-04:002014-07-24T16:34:31.323-04:00Summer Art Stroll<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Summer dog days are upon us. It seems like everyone is headed out of town, following art fairs to the Hamptons or just seeking sea breezes. But for those of us still in the city, there is plenty of art activity to enjoy. If you don't fancy Jeff Koons at the Whitney, or the vast air-conditioned vaults of the Met and MoMA, lots of shows are still open in Chelsea and the Lower East Side. In fact, this Thursday, July 24th is the 5th annual <a href="http://artwalkchelsea.com/">Chelsea Art Walk</a> from, 5-8PM.<br />
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Dozens of galleries are taking part, too numerous to mention them all, but be sure to see Redefined Existence at <a href="http://jcacciolagallery.com/a-redefined-existence">J. Cacciola Gallery</a> at 537 West 23rd Street. It features a good selection of new work by China Marks. Her sewn drawings are a perennial favorite of mine. I do have to declare special interest, having made videos of ten of her sewn books, but I never tire of losing myself in her intricate, processs-driven pieces. She is showing alongside Rick Newton and Sally Curcio and the show continues through Friday, July 25th.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">"A Foreign Affair", Sewn drawing by China Marks </span></b><br />
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At <a href="http://www.michaelrosenfeldart.com/exhibitions">Michael Rosenfeld Gallery</a> over on 11th Avenue and 19th Street, Edge of Always is an amazing solo exhibit of constructions by Nancy Grossman from the 1960s, made with recycled leather from a prodigious variety of sources. And her ink drawings are terrific. This show is up for just a few more days, through Friday July 25th.<br />
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For a full list of galleries participating in Art Walk <a href="http://artwalkchelsea.com/galleries/">click here</a>, but finish up with a stroll on the Highline, which is open into the evening and illuminated, or check out <a href="http://underlinecoffee.com/">Under Line</a>, a literally cool new coffee bar on 20th Street between 10th and 11th.<br />
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Nicholas Cohn has curated <a href="http://www.wholmangallery.com/exhibitions/gatekeeper-liene-bosque-sinta-tantra-kate-gilmore">Gatekeepers</a> at Holman Gallery, 65 Ludlow Street, featuring arresting large scale photos by Kate Gilmore, delicate cast cityscapes by Liene Bosquê and striking geometerical paintings by Sinta Tantra; visual pleasure unerpinned by social engagement. Open through August 2nd.<br />
<a href="http://www.mckenziefineart.com/exhib/colorstructure2014exhb.html">Color as Structure</a> runs through August 2nd at McKenzie Fine Art, 55 Orchard Street - a very strong show featuring numerous wonderful artists bridging painting and sculpture. <br />
And check out the interesting group show of gallery artists at Marc Straus at 299 Grand Street. Just don't trip over <a href="http://www.marcstraus.com/jong-oh-exhibitions">Jong Oh's</a> nearly invisible but elegant spatial drawing. The show is up through August 22nd. <br />
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To wrap up, head to the Doughnut Plant at 399 Grand Street. They have a most unusual variety of flavors, freshly baked on site. Please make mine a Coconut Lime Yeast with an iced Americano to go. Who says we need to leave town in the summer to stay cool! <br />
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New York City has been in the grip of a prolonged and flowery Spring. The days have been cool and showery with long spells of settled clear weather. As a result, the succession of tree blossoming and garden flowering has unfolded slowly. No sudden leap from Winter to Summer this year. I have been revelling in this situation and have spent many days outdoors in Clinton Community Garden, Central Park, and on the High Line - blank coffee cups at the ready and a box of fresh pens at my side - trying to capture these all-too-fleeting moments of unfurling, freshness and brilliant color. </div>
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Here is a portfolio of some of my favorite new cups and Spring photos.</div>
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These recent cup drawings will be incorporated into my next 365 Cup installation, as part of "Time Frames Marking Time", a group show curated by Elisa Decker and Barbara Lubliner at the Westbeth Gallery, 55 Bethune Street in Greenwich Village. The show opens this Saturday, May 24th 12-6 PM and runs through June 15th with a reception on June 4th from 6-9 pm. There are lots of special events scheduled, including two afternoons where I will be drawing on cups in the gallery, and I will be blogging my progress here. Scroll to the bottom of this post for all the details!</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Central Park at West 90th Street and the reservoir</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Reconfigured Cup by Gwyneth Leech</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This winter just doesn't quit! Who can remember so many snow storms and icy days in Manhattan? Certainly not my children, aged 18 and 10, as they trudge off to school through yet another blizzard. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have been pretty much in hibernation since the New Year, not really venturing further from home than my art studio on West 39th Street, 8 blocks away. Actually, this studio-bound period has been a boon, resulting in a push forward into new ideas, tying some cup artworks back to paintings even as I open others up and reconfigure them into sculptural forms. Are they maquettes for monumental works to come, or will they exist as the kind of small scale artwork that draws the viewer close and fills a whole field of vision?</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Finally last week, a break in the weather inspired me to head by subway to what is, hands down, my favorite art destination in Manhattan: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchard_Street_%28Manhattan%29">Orchard Street</a> on the Lower East Side. Orchard Street has traditionally been known as a place to buy coats or men's hats, but it has been in transition for years now. You can still get the coat, or even work uniforms, but from Canal to Houston Street it has become a mecca for those in search of intriguing art exhibitions and awesome coffee. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On this particular day, I hopped between coffee bars and galleries the length of the street and had some great conversations along the way. Lesley Heller, of <a href="http://www.lesleyheller.com/">Lesley Heller Workspace</a> at #54, talked to me for some time about Deborah Brown's exciting and vibrant new painting show, "Outer Limits", These riveting reinterpretations of classic French portraits executed in an explosive abstracting tangle of deft lines are so recent that many came into the gallery with the paint still wet. Lesley also made some excellent coffee suggestions: Lost Weekend at #45 for bracing, locally roasted coffee, as well as Roasting Plant, #81. She proposed I check out Whynot, a new open at #175, which was to be my last stop of the day. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At #55, <a href="http://www.mckenziefineart.com/index.html">McKenzie Fine Art</a>, I was thrilled with Lori Ellison's current exhibition, which runs for just a few more days, through Sunday February 16th. I have been a fan for a number of years. As well as the mesmerizing pen and notebook paper drawings and small paintings lining the walls, owner Valerie McKenzie opened the flat files at the back to let me study several dozen additional works. I was delighted to add the blue circle drawing pictured below to my personal art collection, in one of my intermittent breathless moments of artist buying art. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At #83, <a href="http://www.murielguepingallery.com/">Muriel Guepin Gallery</a>, I was pleased to see several works by Iviva Olenick, whose quirky narrative embroideries are effectively displayed as light boxes. In this gallery, the main spaces are currently given over to the exquisite artwork of Esther Taugot in a show called "Nurtured Nature". The artist has adorned a wide range of small natural objects with seamless, crocheted encasements of yellow cotton thread or bamboo yarn. I was awed by an installation called "Huddle", of found honey bees, each one belted in golden yellow. This extraordinary and beautiful show is up through March 9th. These truly are the kind of small-scale artworks that draw you in and become monumental in effect, despite or because of their small size! </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.lesleyheller.com/">Lesley Heller Workspace,</a> #54 Orchard Street.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> in "Nurtured Nature" at<a href="http://www.murielguepingallery.com/"> Muriel Guepin Gallery </a></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Admittedly, three latttes in one day is a lot.</span></b><br>
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Lori Ellison, at <a href="http://www.mckenziefineart.com/index.html">McKenzie Fine Art</a>, 55 Orchard Street, through February 16. </div>
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Deborah Brown, "Outer Limits", at <a href="http://www.lesleyheller.com/">Lesley Heller Workspace,</a> 54 Orchard Street, through March 9.</div>
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Esther Traugot, "Nurtured Nature", at <a href="http://www.murielguepingallery.com/">Muriel Guepin</a>, 83 Orchard Street, through March 9.<br>
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Gwyneth Leechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599466297518036980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1364316659206372002.post-81124118526039241232013-12-03T12:09:00.000-05:002013-12-03T12:18:41.021-05:00The Cups Take Off At Anthropologie Harvard Square<br />
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<span class="fbPhotoCaptionText">From November 21st - 23rd, I had great fun in residence in the window of Anthroplogie's store at 48 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. This event launched my porcelain cup line in the USA, with an installation of 365 of the original hand-drawn and painted cups and three days of live art-making. Here are my favorite photos of the drawing sessions - two during the day and one in the evening. I was pleased to meet up with old friends there and to make new ones of all ages. The denizens of Cambridge ask great questions! </span><br />
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- A year in Cups - an installation of hand drawn and painted cups, plus
the artist, Gwyneth Leech, who was at work in the window of <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=107418161415&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/Anthropologie?directed_target_id=0">Anthropologie</a> Harvard Square from November 21st-23rd.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="fbPhotoCaptionText">I am thrilled that the porcelain cups are now available for purchase from Anthropologie stores around the USA! </span><br />
<span class="fbPhotoCaptionText">I recommend you phone your local store before you go to make sure they are in stock. </span><br />
<span class="fbPhotoCaptionText">You can also purchase easily online at this <a href="http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/product/home-tabletop-dinnerware/30048045.jsp">link</a> (click on the colors to see all eight designs).</span><br />
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<span class="fbPhotoCaptionText">Next adventure: Miami for <a href="http://art-collecting.com/miami_art_fairs.htm">art fair week</a>. I will be drawing on cups at various locations around the fairs. </span><span class="fbPhotoCaptionText"><span class="fbPhotoCaptionText">I promise to post a full report here when I get back. In the meantime</span>, I will be revealing my coordinates daily on <a href="https://twitter.com/gwynethleech">Twitter</a> #gwynethleech), Instagram (#gwynethleech) and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gwyneths-Full-Brew/116036925082289">Facebook</a> pages. </span><br />
<span class="fbPhotoCaptionText">Follow me there, or catch up with me if you are in Miami this week!</span><br />
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November 23rd, the final Day. Quick! Sketch this one before he walks on!</div>
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I had some fun with drawing a cup of cups. Meta!<br />
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Watching the artist draw</div>
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Gwyneth Leechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599466297518036980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1364316659206372002.post-88113001556352125532013-11-19T09:30:00.001-05:002013-11-19T09:30:43.079-05:00Indian Summer + Boston Bound <br />
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Indian Summer has enveloped New York City, with golden trees brilliant against blue skies. I captured this season on a cup about a year ago, and it was fun to see the imagery reiterated as I walked through the West Village yesterday. Click <a href="http://www.gwynethsfullbrew.com/2012/12/how-to-take-cab-in-new-york-city.html">here</a> to read the original story. As chance would have it, this Indian Summer cup is one of the eight reproduced in a limited edition by <a href="http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/index.jsp">Anthropologie</a>, and it will be on sale in the their stores soon. To read about the preview of the cups during the London Design Festival this past September click <a href="http://www.gwynethsfullbrew.com/2013/11/the-cups-in-london-highlights-from.html">here</a> and <a href="http://www.gwynethsfullbrew.com/2013/09/report-from-regent-street-eve-of-london.html">here.</a><br />
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Later today I am heading by train to Boston, carrying with me a large duffel containing 365 cup artworks to be installed in the window of Anthropologie's store in Cambridge, at 48 Brattle Street, just off Harvard Square. I will be on site Wednesday through Saturday this week, first hanging the cups and then drawing in public for three days. See the schedule and read the official press release below. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><b>Event Details:</b><br /><br /><i>Anthropologie <br />48 Brattle Street<br />Cambridge, MA<br /><br />November 21st, 12 – 3 pm<br />November 22nd, 4 – 7 pm<br />November 23rd, 12 -3 pm</i><br /><br /><i>The window exhibition will be on view 24/7 from November 21st – 30th </i><br /><br />Anthropologie is pleased to announce a special live art event and window exhibition to celebrate the work of fine artist Gwyneth Leech. The artist will be on site November 21st, 22nd and 23rd drawing in the window of our Cambridge location. The exhibition, which will remain on view through November 30th, will showcase her passion for public art and her love of drawing and painting on paper coffee cups.<br /><br />Leech’s expressive artwork will delight and inspire all those passing by. The process behind her hand-drawn cups is highly personal and observational, imparting new meaning and value on what is considered a disposable object. She explains, "I like my hot coffee or tea in a paper take-out cup, like millions of my fellow New Yorkers. Even better than the contents, I like the used cup as a surface on which to draw and paint. And before I begin, I write on the bottom the date, location, occasion and the beverage consumed so that every cup becomes the record of a social moment.”<br /><br />Leech began working in this uncommon way while attending meetings over coffee in 2009. Quickly consumed by the practice, she soon created enough cup artworks to display in public art spaces and galleries around New York City. Her largest installation, at the Sprint Flatiron Prow Artspace in New York City in 2012, featured more than 850 of her pieces. Leech’s most recent exhibition, in Anthropologie’s Regent Street location during the London Design Festival in September 2013, garnered public and critical acclaim, including coverage in Selvedge, The Financial Times, The Observer and The Telegraph.<br /><br />Anthropologie has partnered with Leech to transform her artwork into ceramic versions that can be enjoyed by a larger audience. The eight designs, in limited edition reproductions, are inspired by her life in New York and capture everyday moments, from taking a walk in Central Park to rushing through the city in a rain shower. They will be available just in time for the holidays on Anthropologie’s website and in all store locations.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">My regular New York City life has resumed, but recently I have been enjoying again the photos taken while I was drawing in public for the 2013 London Design Festival in September. A riot of umbrellas dominates the scene, as does the parade of red double-decker buses and a constant throng of international visitors engaging me though the plate glass windows of Anthropologie's Regent Street store. It is an additional pleasure to see the faces of friends from other UK cities who came to London and surprised me as I worked! I savor anew the several spectacular afternoon teas I manged to squeeze in, most notably at the Dorcehster and the Charlotte Street Hotel. Many thanks to the friends who braved those multi-tiered cake trays with me!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">My line of porcelain cups, produced in collaboration with Anthropologie and previewed at the London Design Festival, is due to come out in the USA in just a few short weeks. Launch date and details of some special events will follow shortly! I the meantime, one more look at London...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Into the window to draw. This was my temporary studio for five days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">from Kuwait who stepped in to purchase an original cup drawing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> People are surprised and delighted to see a live artist at work in the window.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I am happy to engage them through the plate glass</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">and converse with everyone who comes into the store.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> People racing through torrents of rain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And yet more rain!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Am delighted by a sumptuous afternoon tea at the Dorchester. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Note the raspberries tipped with gold!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And on another afternoon, take tea with friends at the Charlotte Street Hotel.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Mine is a "Bloomsbury tea", hence the amazing color of the cakes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back at Anthropologie, the reproduction cups were selling briskly.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And I meet some of the purchasers. Here is Rosalba visiting from Rome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">On my last afternoon, as a viewer puzzles over the cups, I enjoy the reflection </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">of Regent Street curving down towards Picadilly Circus. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">All too soon, the week was over. I was very sorry to vacate my chair and leave the window studio behind. The cup installation stayed up for several more weeks after the end of the Design Festival, but is now safely back in my NYC studio awaiting the next exhibition!</span><br />
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Gwyneth Leechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599466297518036980noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1364316659206372002.post-29729046021071338152013-10-02T10:38:00.003-04:002013-11-08T15:08:25.637-05:00365 - A Year In Cups: The Movie<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Drawing on cups in London, September 2013</span></div>
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Well, London was amazing! Now I am back in New York City sorting through photos and I will be posting a wrap-up soon. In the meantime, many thanks to NYC photographer <a href="http://sarakerensphotography.com/#1">Sara Kerens</a> for her gorgeous photos, and to British film-maker, <a href="http://www.chrisfloyd.com/gwyneth-leech-anthropologie/">Chris Floyd</a>, for this delightful short film. It was shot and edited just a few weeks ago while I was actually working in the window of Anthropologie in Regent Street during the London Design Festival. It really captures the moment for me. And the filming was a lot of fun. <br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/75008828">Gwyneth Leech 365 - A Year in Cups</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/anthropologieeu">Anthropologie Europe</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cup Artwork by Gwyneth Leech, mixed media on used paper coffee cups</span></b></div>
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I am actually here, treading the stones of Regent Street which curves gracefully down from Oxford Circus, its domes and handsome facades washed by light rain this morning and people hurrying by with umbrellas or jumping on red double-decker buses. This is London of the imagination!<br />
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I spent the day yesterday unpacking and hanging the cups, assisted by Anna and Heather, two delightful young women who work at Anthropologie. Before we knew it, 365 cups appeared to be free floating in the window space and crowds were already gathering outside to take photos. Tomorrow, the Design Festival begins and I will take up residence in the window to draw for five days. See the schedule below.<br />
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I was relieved to see that the porcelain cups in eight of my designs have arrived in-store. After many months of imagining this, how fascinating to see my drawings so multiplied on rows and stacks of cups! At the moment, the porcelain cups are available exclusively in the Regent Street store. Details of a wider launch will follow.<br />
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Heather directed me to several local coffee bars, just around the corner in Golden Square. I was especially taken with <a href="http://www.nordicbakery.com/">Nordic Cafe</a>, not just the coffee but the cinnamon rolls! An additional treat was watching the games of municipal ping pong and large-scale chess going forward in the square itself. Definitely enjoying some dolce vita in the calm before the festival gets underway.<br />
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Here are some recent articles and blog posts about the cups in London, and Anthropologie's festival activities:<br />
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1364316659206372002#editor/target=post;postID=2882654086148657636">The Telepragh: Gwyneth Leech - the Art of Paper Cups</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.vogueliving.com.au/2013/09/12/things-to-see-and-do-at-london-design-week-2013/">Vogue Living: Things to Do and See at London Design Week 2013</a><br />
<a href="http://www.molliemakes.com/places/event-anthropologie-celebrates-the-london-design-festival/">Mollie Makes: Anthropologie Celebrates the London Design Festival</a><br />
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For the festival program click here:<br />
<a href="http://www.londondesignfestival.com/events/365-%E2%80%93-year-cups-gwyneth-leech">London Design Festival Program</a><br />
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During the Festival I will be drawing on site on the following schedule:</div>
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Saturday 14th Sep: 12-3pm<br />
Sunday 15th September: 12-3pm<br />
Monday 16th Sep: 11am – 2pm<br />
Tuesday 17th Sep: 4-7pm<br />
Wednesday 18th Sep: 4-7pm</div>
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I will also be returning to Edinburgh where I studied art, and will be doing a live drawing event in Anthropologie's George Street store <span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">on Saturday, 21st September</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> from 12-3 pm, with a talk at 2 p.m. </span></div>
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I am delighted to announce a collaboration with Anthropologie that will launch during the London Design Festival, which begins next week, September 14th, with an exhibition of 365 of my original cup artworks in the window of Anthropologie's store at 158 Regent Street. Below is the text of the official press release:<br />
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"Anthropologie is delighted to announce that to celebrate London Design Festival 2013, we will be hosting two inspirational exhibitions by the celebrated international artists Molly Hatch and Gwyneth Leech. Art and creativity are at the heart of the Anthropologie ethos, meaning that London Design Festival is always an important and exciting time of year for our customers and staff, and we are proud to be bringing work by Molly and Gwyneth to London to coincide with LDF.<br />
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At our King’s Road Gallery, the artist-designer and Massachusetts resident, Molly Hatch, will be presenting a collection of her celebrated ‘plate paintings’. Entitled Render, the work will take inspiration from the vintage textiles and ceramic archives Molly has been unearthing in the collections of the V&A. Molly will discuss her influences and artistic career in an interview with Polly Leonard, of Selvedge magazine, in our King’s Road store on Tuesday, 17th September from 6 – 8 p.m.<br />
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Meanwhile, our Regent Street store windows will be handed over to the New York City artist Gwyneth Leech, who will create a spectacular installation comprising of expressively hand-drawn and painted paper coffee cups – her signature artistic medium. Gwyneth’s passion for public art and drawing will be combined as she spends five days working in the store windows, making art on dozens of coffee cups inspired by the street scene set before her.<br />
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Both Molly and Gwyneth’s work sells for considerable sums to collectors worldwide, but Anthropologie is proud to announce that as part of our collaboration with these artists we will be carrying a limited edition range of specially created porcelain mugs, plates and vases for sale in our London stores.<br />
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MOLLY HATCH - RENDER<br />
In an effort to claim the functional surface as a painting surface, RENDER is a new collection of plate paintings and vases made sourcing the textile and ceramic collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum.<br />
In the translation and re-working of historic fabric patterns to the ceramic surface of a group of plates, Render becomes an exploration of the relationship between the historic and the contemporary with artworks crossing over categories of decorative art, design and fine art. Through shift in scale, color and context, the compositions of plates both abstract and highlight aspects of the textile patterns, encouraging a new dialogue in pattern.<br />
The pair of vases have also been rendered in a new way—scrambling the expected through the creation of multiple planes and an overall rearranging and collaging of historically sourced surface pattern and decoration. Again, encouraging a new experience of the familiar.<br />
Fascinated by how we live with objects, how and why we acquire objects and what happens to them throughout history, I see this exhibition as a reflection of the life of surface pattern through the decorative art continuum.<br />
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GWYNETH LEECH - 365<br />
I like my hot coffee or tea in a paper take-out cup, like millions of my fellow New Yorkers. Even better than the contents, I like the used cup as a surface on which to draw and paint. And before I begin, I write on the bottom the date, location, occasion and the beverage consumed so that every cup becomes the record of a social moment.<br />
For Anthropologie in London’s Regent Street I am showing 365 of my original cup artworks, each representing a daily caffeine break. The installation makes visible largely unconscious patterns of consumption; this is what one simple take-away purchase looks like over the course of a year, this is what would usually be thrown away. It can be seen as a measure of time gone by, of money spent, of space to be taken up in a landfill.<br />
But as I upcycle each used cup into an artwork, it becomes the measure of other things as well: an artist’s regular habit of generating new ideas, a diary of time spent with friends and colleagues, and the cumulative positive effect of doing something small and manageable every day.<br />
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Gwyneth will be painting in the window of Regent Street at the following times:<br />
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Saturday 14th Sep: 12-3pm<br />
Sunday 15th September: 12-3pm<br />
Monday 16th Sep: 11am – 2pm<br />
Tuesday 17th Sep: 4-7pm<br />
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Gwyneth will also be returning to Edinburgh on Saturday, 21st September (12 – 3 p.m.) where she studied art, to give a talk in our store at 2 p.m. explaining her artistic life and career and will create a special work of art on the day taking inspiration from the Scottish location." <br />
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Gwyneth Leechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599466297518036980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1364316659206372002.post-68009600211135790602013-08-28T23:15:00.002-04:002013-11-04T17:47:46.039-05:00Here for Real: The New PS 51 Set to Open on West 44th Street<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Needed for over 20 years, discussed and planned for 12, under construction for 3 - and now it is here! </div>
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New York City Public School 51, a.k.a. PS 51, a.k.a. the Elias Howe School, a.k.a. "the Pride of the West Side" will open to elementary students on September 9th, 2013 in a brand new building on 44th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues. </div>
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This Wednesday morning I had the privilege of an early walk-through with members of the Task Force, a group comprised of the many stake-holders in the new school construction effort: parent, teacher, school administration, community, construction and political representatives. I myself am a PS 51 parent rep. Until now, I had only ever seen the liaison from the School Construction Authority standing in front of an architect's rendering of the new school. And here we were, entering the actual front doors! After so many years of talk, effort and struggle, not to mention the stresses of a two-year relocation to a temporary building on East 91st Street, it was hard to believe it was real. Yet administration and teachers have already taken possession and are busy unpacking and setting up classrooms and offices on every floor, even as teams of workers continue to make their way down the list of finishing items.</div>
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Picture if you will the old Elias Howe building - an erstwhile sewing machine factory on 45th Street which housed PS 51 from 1940 until 2011. For gym, auditorium and cafeteria we had one single room, which, by the way was also the local polling station! In the new building there are large, airy and light-filled spaces at every turn: five floors of generously proportioned classrooms with state-of-the-art technology, wide hallways and stairs, a pristine library filled with over 4000 new books, specialized science, art and music rooms, a health clinic, and not one, but two gyms. The second, a gymnatorium houses a fully kitted out theatrical stage. Behind the school is a surprisingly large play-yard filled with light and ringed by sizable trees, and atop the school is a roof playground covered with silver netting. Finally, there is a large separate cafeteria with adequate sound-proofing and a beautiful kitchen for on-site cooking! </div>
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What follows are some preview shots of the new spaces, leading off with Principal Nancy Sing-Bock in her office. I am delighted that our family will be returning for fifth grade and we look forward to joining a reinvigorated school community in celebrating our magnificent home. This new school is a great example of the whole Hell's Kitchen community coming together to make things better for our kids. We extend our warmest congratulations to all who worked so long and so hard and overcame so many hurdles to make it a reality!!</div>
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Principal Nancy Sing-Bock in her brand new office on the ground floor.</div>
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The only work item on her desk so far: floor plan for the new school!</div>
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Christine Keskemeti setting up her 4th grade classroom on the 4th floor.</div>
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In awe as we discover the double size gymnasium on the 3rd floor.</div>
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Play equipment lacking for nothing but the arrival of students on Monday, September 9th.<br />
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PS 51 is a zoned, neighborhood Pre-K through 5th elementary school with a strong and resourceful principal, a dedicated administration, an energetic and creative teaching staff, and a diverse and genuinely inclusive student body. For more information and to find out how to register, visit <a href="http://ps51manhattan.com/">http://ps51manhattan.com</a></div>
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Gwyneth Leechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599466297518036980noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1364316659206372002.post-64531259706256459872013-08-11T21:53:00.000-04:002013-08-11T23:30:18.708-04:00Ode to a Citibike - A Fan Tells All<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cup of the Day #124 - City Bikes</span></b></div>
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It has been just a few months since I saw my first <a href="http://citibikenyc.com/">Citibike</a> rider and hailed him on 10th Avenue in Hell's Kitchen. He was exhilarated by his outing, a rapid run up from 14th Street on Memorial Day, and he declared himself perfectly satisfied with the sturdy blue three-speed. My husband and I were early adopters. For a $100 annual fee we would be able to use any Citibike for 45 minutes free of charge. As soon as we got our keys in the mail we were out on the streets during the preview week exploring new bike lanes and the quirkiness of the solar-power-operated docking stations that sprang up all over Manhattan below 59th Street and in parts of Brooklyn. Everywhere we rode, people quizzed us about the experience. In no time we became diehard fans.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">First sighting - bike share rider on 10th Avenue at 47th Street, on Memorial Day, 2013</span></b></div>
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Do I have complaints? Well, since you ask - we kind of wish the program wasn't so popular! At peak times - mornings and on beautiful summer evenings - it is hard to find a bike in our neighborhood. It is a sad feeling to arrive, helmet in hand, at a completely empty docking station, or one with two or three bikes remaining. On most occasions those few bikes will show the accursed red light and sport a flat tire or seat swiveled backwards to denote a mechanical problem. But by using the map on the <a href="http://citibikenyc.com/get-the-app">cellphone app</a> we usually find bikes and get underway. Conversely, when it comes to returning after a night out, it is a blow to find every single docking spot taken! Again, a walk ensues to find a less frequented station.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Empty bike docking station at Spring and Lafayette. </span></b></div>
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But quibbles out of the way, I have to say I love this shared bike thing. <a href="http://www.hudsonriverpark.org/explore-the-park/activities/bicycling">The Hudson River Park </a>is a top favorite route to anywhere, even if it means a detour. Nothing beats the long stretches of open pathway with few traffic lights to interrupt a journey. What can be better than whizzing to your destination while leaving rush hour traffic jams behind you, feeling a summer breeze on your face instead of sweltering on the subway or sitting in a cab watching the meter climb?<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Minerva of <a href="http://www.springstudiosoho.com/">Spring Street Studio</a> stages a "draw-in" </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">on the corner of Spring and Lafayette Street last Spring, </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">to protest the loss of public art space to a bike station</span></b></div>
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This weekend I decided to take a Citibike to the Lower East Side on a sunny afternoon following a rehearsal in Midtown East. It was a straight shot down Third Avenue, dodging some bike traffic coming the wrong way (mostly deliveries) and an array of left turning motor vehicles (they were yielding to bikes, but I always were a helmet). <span style="font-size: small;">T</span>he greatest hazard of all was the unpredictable appearance of texting pedestrians (please look both ways before stepping off the sidewalk!!)<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Riding an Avenue in the bike lane. Photo Credit: <a href="http://instagram.com/p/bPXLAvQvk5/#">Dimtiri Gudov</a></b></span></div>
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Once on the Lower East Side it was a delightful ramble through the shady streets along designated bike-lanes. And on arrival at Suffolk Street, my chosen destination, all I had to do was dock the bike firmly, get the green light and walk away. No need to worry whether it would be stolen within thirty minutes of parking it outside, as happened with the only bike I ever owned in NYC!<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cup of the Day #124 - City Bikes</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Verso - Bikes chained to a street sign, the old fashioned way</span></b></div>
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My intention was to visit some of the <a href="http://www.lesgalleriesnyc.com/">many art galleries</a> that have sprung up on the Lower East Side in the last few years. Some can feel like a longish walk from subways, but the bike share gets you there with ease. So I did a tour, albeit somewhat sweaty and disheveled and carrying a bike helmet, which made for some interesting reactions when I entered galleries. For warm reception, despite how I looked, I have to give a shout-out to Leah Oates, director at <a href="http://www.stationindependent.com/gallery.php">Station Independent</a> on Suffolk, John Baber at <a href="http://www.lesleyheller.com/">Lesly Heller Workspace</a> and Valerie McKenzie at <a href="http://mckenziefineart.com/contact/contact.htm">McKenzie Fine Art</a>, both on Orchard Street. I have already decided what I am going to do with all the money I am saving by not using the MTA and taxis so much - I am going to buy art! And to start, I have my eye on something by one of the artists in <a href="http://mckenziefineart.com/exhib/Reticulate2013exhb.html">Reticulate</a> at Mackenzie Fine Art. Talk about a transportation revolution!<br />
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Gwyneth Leechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599466297518036980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1364316659206372002.post-868329171289138982013-07-19T11:44:00.001-04:002013-07-19T20:10:29.147-04:00Do or Die Painting: Summer In New York City<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Cups of the Day #123, by Gwyneth Leech</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ink and White-out on Colored Cups</span></b></div>
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I have been sweltering in the studio for the past few weeks, reconnecting with a series of oil paintings about tidal marshes begun in 2009/2010, all of them unfinished. Why did I leave off when each one was only an unresolved passage or two from completion?<br />
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Sometimes it can take years to see what is needed to finish a composition. In one case, the painting called for a major reanimation and I had a glorious time reworking it, so much so that I couldn't sleep that night for the skeins of bright colors undulating in my head. As is often the case, the results were suspect the next day, but pointed to a whole new possible series of paintings. Would that I had stacks and stacks of blank canvases and no concerns about where to store them all! Then I would make my marks and let them lie.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Gwyneth Leech, Blue Green Tidal Marsh Pools</span></b></div>
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Interestingly, five artists currently in a show called "Dying On Stage: New Painting in New York" at Garis and Hahn Gallery do precisely that on large expanses of canvas: make the mark once and commit to it, succeed or fail. No corrections, no revisions. Do it and move on. The results are fresh and breezy abstractions, full of the heat of summer sun and the cool of deep arboreal shadow. A sizable group gathered last night to hear the artists talk about their work and then take part in a group discussion led by the curator, <a href="http://hyperallergic.com/author/kyle/">Kyle Chayka</a>, and artist/blogger, <a href="http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/">Sharon Butler</a>. Sharon's <a href="http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/06/artseen/abstract-painting-the-new-casualists#">2011 article</a> for the Brooklyn Rail naming this tendency in New York painting as Casualism, was a lynchpin of the conversation.<br />
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<span class="child"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="child">Tatiana Berg, Wide Sargasso Tent, 2013<br />
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Some of the artists seemed uncomfortable with the term Casualism, since the risk inherent in their process is the opposite of casual. The do or die of an uncorrected mark is not an easy thing. As Sharon Butler said, it is very, very hard to stop painting. Yes, indeed! Once begun, who wants to let go? The terror of the blank canvas is the hardest moment of any painting session for me. I will do much to avoid it. <br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span class="child">Ariel Dill, Glyph, 2013<br />
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And that reminded me why most of my large oil paintings have been unfinished for so long. My generative impulse is truly hampered by the expense of the canvas support, the time it takes to make the painting, the space needed to store it. A number of years ago I realized this was holding me back. I needed a different kind of surface, readily available, one that could be a fail and not matter, one where I could keep the focus on generating visual ideas. The solution was the paper coffee cup, as I discovered back in 2009 and which rapidly became my perfect vessel, literally and figuratively, for an explosion of imagery and a multiplicity of new directions.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="child">Kristina Lee, Double Trouble, 2013<br />
Oil on Canvas, 48 x 50 inches</span></span></b></div>
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So I admired the bravura of the painters in "Dying on Stage: New Painting in New York" and I hope to keep that freshness going in my own studio as I continue to grapple with my dormant canvases. As for my paper coffee cups - it's almost all iced coffee in plastic cups right now, and I have yet to figure out what to do with those!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="child">Clare Grill, Game, 2012<br />
Oil on Linen, 16 x 15 inches</span></b></span></div>
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<a href="http://garisandhahn.com/">Garis and Hahn</a> opened just as few months ago at 263 Bowery and "Dying on Stage: New Painting in New York" is project #007. The exhibition closes Saturday July 20th so don't delay! If you miss it, there is a handsome catalogue with introductory essays by the curator, Kyle Chayka and by Sharon Butler. The artists are: <a href="http://arieldill.com/">Ariel Dill</a>, <a href="http://www.claregrill.com/">Clare Grill</a>, <a href="http://www.kristinaleestudio.com/">Kristina Lee</a>, <a href="http://sarahfaux.net/faux/new.html">Sarah Faux</a>, <a href="http://tatianaberg.com/">Tatiana Berg</a>.<br />
For more information <a href="http://garisandhahn.com/portfolio/dying-on-stage-new-painting-in-new-york/">click here</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="child">Sarah Faux, Tangle, 2013<br />
Oil, Dye and Bleach on Canvas<br />
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The next outing for my cup artworks will be an installation called "365: A Year in Cups" in the window of Anthropologie's store in Regent Street during the London Design Festival in September. More details about my collaboration with Anthropologie to come, but in the meantime <a href="http://www.londondesignfestival.com/events/365-%E2%80%93-year-cups-gwyneth-leech">click here</a> for information about the London exhibition. And I am looking forward to cooler weather on the other side of the pond!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>will be at the <a href="http://www.londondesignfestival.com/events/365-%E2%80%93-year-cups-gwyneth-leech">2013 London Design Festival </a>in September</b></span></div>
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Gwyneth Leechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599466297518036980noreply@blogger.com1Lower East Side, New York, NY, USA40.7135097 -73.985941440.6894392 -74.0262819 40.737580200000004 -73.9456009tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1364316659206372002.post-37821596009840080632013-05-24T13:49:00.000-04:002013-08-28T22:59:29.623-04:00Last Chance to See Families/Cities SHIFT at Susan Teller Gallery<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Mixed Media on upcycled paper coffee cups </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>at Susan T<span style="font-size: x-small;">eller Gallery, For Ideas Cit<span style="font-size: x-small;">y Festival 2013</span></span></b></span></div>
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It was an exciting week in New York City. The New Museum's <a href="http://www.ideas-city.org/about">Ideas City festival</a> took over Lower Manhattan and the Lower East Side from May 1st - 4th with an extensive program of events, including a conference, workshops, art exhibitions, special projects, public art installations and a large, offbeat <a href="http://www.solar1.org/come-see-us-at-the-new-museums-ideas-city-streetfest-on-saturday-may-4/">StreetFest</a> on the Bowery on Saturday.<br />
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My particular contribution to the festival was at Susan Teller Gallery, 568 Broadway, #502, as part of her current exhibition <a href="http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_ExhList.pl">Families/Cities <i>SHIFT</i></a>, which includes artwork by five members of the Leech/Gallagher family and four members of the Pinto family. My sister, Kitty Leech and I were on hand from 1-5 PM for <span itemprop="description"><span class="fsl">informal discussion of life in a multi-generational art family. There are lots of stories to share! Anna Pinto, calligrapher was also there for part of the afternoon.</span></span><br />
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The Gallagher-Leech & Pinto Families, <br />
Philadelphia and New York<br />
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On view: April 5 - May 11, 2013<br />
Open: Tuesdays - Saturdays, 11-6<br />
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568 Broadway (Room 502)<br />
New York, NY 10012<br />
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"This is a show about two families making significant contributions to Philadelphia and New York, the cities in which they live, including and beyond the form of individual works of art.<br />
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In the 1930s, Michael Gallagher, an administrator on the WPA, recruited impoverished artists including previously ignored African-Americans. (There, Dox Thrash helped invent carborundum printmaking, a technique that at once repurposed the material while compensating for meager supplies). Angelo Pinto taught at the Barnes Foundation for decades and in the late ’30s developed location photography techniques that freed the process from the studio.<br />
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The current generation inherited a Depression-Era ability to make do, reinvent, and inspire, especially regarding venues, resources, and people. They respond to urban conditions and they work collaboratively.<br />
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Jody Pinto, environmental artist, Anna Pinto, calligrapher, and Kitty Leech, costume designer, are teachers; Jody and Gwyneth Leech are community activists." <br />
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Gwyneth Leechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599466297518036980noreply@blogger.com0Susan Tellery Gallery, 568 Broadway, New York, NY 10012, USA40.724364 -73.99745815.202329500000001 -115.306052 66.2463985 -32.688863999999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1364316659206372002.post-67928449247097747422013-04-22T21:55:00.000-04:002013-04-23T09:06:52.639-04:00On Pop Art, Anti-Pop and Eco-Pop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cup(s) of the Day #121:<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>Cup Cascade<span style="font-size: x-small;"> (detail)</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">An installation of 365 drawings by Gwyneth Leech</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">City Without Walls Gallery, Newark</span></b></div>
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I was in Newark at City Without Walls Gallery the other day, studying the artwork in a group show which included a large installation of my cup drawings. It was the last day of "Diptychs, Triptychs and Multiples, curated by Shira Toren, and I had made a final trek out from Manhattan on the train.<br />
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The gallery is a beautiful, airy space, surrounded by some very transitional real estate, and reached by a short taxi ride from the the station or a brisk walk down Broad Street. On that recent April day, the Newark mean streets were softened by flowering trees. Outside the gallery, cherry blossoms framed the startlingly pink facade of the "Word Power Foundation Ministry Pentecostal Church" across the street, setting the tone for a consideration of pop art raised by Dan Bischoff in a recent article about the exhibition.<br />
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It started me thinking about the first pop art show I ever saw, which was at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia in the late 60's or early 70's. It was called Really Real, the New Real, or some such. I was a kid accompanying my artist mother, and I vividly remember my bewildered disappointment. Realism for me back then was a painting that looked just like its subject. None of that was in the ICA show. I was most struck by Andy Warhol's Brillo box sculptures and Campbell soup can paintings. They were not virtuoso feats of representation, but flat, schematic replications of common things. To my youthful eyes, these art objects were banal and charmless.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Replicated Andy Warhol Brillo <span style="font-size: x-small;">b</span>ox<span style="font-size: x-small;"> sculpture</span> in cardboard </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">The original Brillo <span style="font-size: x-small;">bo</span>x dated 1964, was synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on wood</span></b></div>
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Decades later, I am now fascinated by the artifacts of my contemporary culture and have been particularly engaged with commercial paper coffee cups for some years. The Newark exhibition included a columnar installation of 365 of my coffee cup drawings, 16 feet high and suspended from the ceiling. In his review, Bischoff pinpointed the take-out cup as an iconic cultural object and read my installation as pop art revisited. The Starbucks cup and logo definitely outstrip Campbell's soup cans for recognition these days!<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cup Cascade, by G<span style="font-size: x-small;">wyneth Leech, </span>an installation of 365 drawings</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">in Diptychs, Triptychs and Multiples<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">at City Without Walls Gallery, Newark</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></b>As I see it, my project differs from pop art in several regards. Whereas the pop artists faithfully replicated the logos and packaging details of their favored objects, evoking and sometimes engaging in industrial processes, I strive to make the logos disappear entirely, returning the cups to a purer archetypal form. In the process, the surface has become a canvas on which to exercise the artist's right to endless, unrepeating pictorial invention and variation. Thus, the project might actually be anti-pop, with it emphasis on the unique and hand made.<br />
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Also, despite the large number of cups that have accumulated during my cup-drawing years, each one is like a devotional object, dedicated to a social moment, raising up and enshrining an endless supply of a material otherwise bound for the waste-stream. So in fact, I would call it eco-pop rather than anti-pop.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Claes Oldenburg, <a href="http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_ExhList.pl">The Store and the Street</a>, MOMA</span></b></div>
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I had an opportunity to test this conclusion a few days ago when I visited the Claes Oldenburg exhibit just opened at MOMA, a master pop artist if ever there was one. Here are all the recognizable artifacts of his daily life in New York back in the 50s and 60s: clothes, furniture, logos, diner food, including a giant fabric hamburger and a large sandwich made of vinyl. But what is truly striking in this group of artwork is the rawness of the execution, its stridently handmade quality - ragged edges and dripping paint. This is not the cool and slick finish that has come to be most thought of as pop, or even of Oldenburg in his immaculately executed collaborations with <a href="http://www.oldenburgvanbruggen.com/">Coosje Van Bruggen</a>. This early Oldenburg artwork is a real melding of painting and sculpture. And his upcycling of corrugated cardboard into sculpture in the first gallery could just signal him as a founder eco-pop artist as well!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> Claes Oldenburg, The Store and the Street, MOMA</b></span></div>
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Finally, I have to report that my nine year old daughter, who accompanied her own artist mother to see the Oldenburg show, was much more appreciative than I was of my first pop art encounter all those decades ago. But then, she is a sophisticated New Yorker and MOMA is her second home.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Grace, age 9, April 2013, on our weekly visit to MOMA </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">She gave the Claes Oldenburg show two thumbs up</span></b></div>
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<b>Diptychs, Triptychs and Multiples</b>, curated by <a href="http://shiratoren.com/Site/Home.html">Shira Toren</a>, was on view at City Without Walls in Newark from<br />
March 2 - April 13th. It included works by <a href="http://lathoriel.com/">La Thoriel Badenhausen</a>, <a href="http://mariannebarcellona.com/">Marianne Barcellona</a>, <a href="http://yvettecohen.com/home.html">Yvette Cohen</a>, Bill Dilworth, <a href="http://www.rodolfoedwards.com/">Rodolfo Edwards</a>, <a href="http://judyglasserstudio.com/about.html">Judy Glasser</a>, <a href="http://bernardklevickas.com/">Bernard Klevickas</a>, <a href="http://www.gwynethleech.com/">Gwyneth Leech</a>, <a href="http://www.robertlobe.com/">Robert Lobe</a>, <a href="http://www.janiemilstein.com/">Janie Milstein</a>, <a href="http://www.paulaoverbay.com/">Paula Overbay</a>, <a href="http://www.joanreutershan.com/">Joan Reutershan</a> and Lili Sheer. For more details <a href="http://www.cwow.org/event/diptych-triptych-multiples">click here.</a><br />
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Claes Oldenburg, <b>the Store and the Street</b> is now open at MOMA until August 14, 201. More information <a href="http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1320">here</a>.<br />
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Although the Newark show has closed, an installation of my coffee cup drawings is currently on view at Susan Teller Gallery, 568 Broadway in NYC, as part of <b>Families / Cities SHIFT</b>, though May 11, 2013. For more information, <a href="http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_ExhList.pl">click here</a>.<br />
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Gwyneth Leechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599466297518036980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1364316659206372002.post-30846518691910869212013-04-07T21:55:00.002-04:002013-08-16T10:54:36.219-04:00Openings and Closings: Cups on the Move<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>"Across the Street", by Gwyneth Leech</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>India ink on upcycled paper coffee cups, 2013 </b></span></div>
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It has been a big week of transitions: <b>Gathering Place</b>, No Longer Empty's exhibit in a disused storefront on West 8th Street, was not extended as had been hoped and my cup installation came down on Monday. (The space was leased by a commercial tenant. Ah, the gentrifying power of art!) <b>Diptychs, Triptychs and Multiples</b> at City Without Walls in Newark, entered its final week and <b>Families/Cities Shift</b> opened at Susan Teller Gallery in SoHo. For this third exhibit, I am showing a new installation of cups drawn in Ecuador and in New York City, with the underlying narrative of an immigrant's shifting idea of home.<br />
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I am especially excited about the exhibition at Susan Teller Gallery, because it is not often that I get to exhibit my artwork alongside that of my sister <a href="http://www.gwynethsfullbrew.com/2012/05/potted-palms-and-sand-tarts-bookish-tea.html">Kitty Leech</a> (costume designer), mother <a href="http://www.gwynethsfullbrew.com/2011/02/fear-of-shopping-upstairs-at-bergdorfs.html">Louise Leech</a> (painter) and maternal grandparents <a href="http://www.gwynethsfullbrew.com/2011/02/mrs-edith-eshleman-peacock-comes-to-tea.html">Katharine McCollum Gallagher</a> (poet/illustrator) and <a href="http://www.gwynethsfullbrew.com/2010/11/pitmen-painter-in-family.html">Michael J. Gallagher</a> (WPA print-maker). Grandma K. and Grandpa Mike met at art school in Philadelphia in the 1920s. She was a flapper. He was a rough diamond from a Pennsylvania coal town.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> "Sunday Evening", by Michael J. Gallagher</span></b></div>
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In this iteration of the family show, Susan Teller has paired us with the Pinto family: <a href="http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_art.pl?artist=pinto">Angelo Pinto</a> and his wife Gertrude Dwyer Pinto (print-makers and painters), and their daughters, <a href="http://www.annapintocalligraphy.com/">Anna Pinto</a> (calligrapher) and <a href="http://www.jodypinto.com/JodyPinto/Jody_Pinto.html">Jody Pinto</a> (environmental and public artist). It was a pleasure to meet Jody and Anna in the run-up to the show and to discover that our family stories crisscross and intersect through both New York City and Philadelphia, going back as far as the Philadelphia WPA print project in the 1940s where Michael and Angelo are thought to have met, and to the Barnes foundation where Angelo taught and my mother studied.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Cup Cascade by Gwyneth Leech</span></b><br />
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Along with this idea of shifting homes, I have been interested by the way my cup artworks keep changing context in each of these recent shows. In <b>Diptychs, Triptychs and Multiples</b>, a group show curated by Shira Toren, they are part of a larger idea about compounding and changing meaning through repetition. There I have hung a cascade of 365 cups, representing a year's accumulation, that spills down from the ceiling and makes visible a habit of consumption as well as a personal habit of idea generation. There are 12 other artists in this handsome show which is still up through next Saturday, April 13th. <br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Cup Cascade by Gwyneth Leech</span></b></div>
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In <b>Gathering Place</b> the cups were part of yet another context emphasizing culture and commerce. Curated by Katherine Gressel and Jessica Whallen, the idea of community transformation was in the foreground. Neighborhood families as well those from far-flung parts of the boroughs gravitated to the space to sit with me and turn trash into art while sharing stories about a changing city. </div>
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All the artists in <b>Gathering Place</b> shared an interest in community and site: from Jennifer Maravillas' map of changing land use in the Village, to Micki Spiller's temporary library of books by city authors and about the neighborhood, to Luisa Caldwell's shopping bag installation featuring ghostly glow-in-the dark drawings of shoes, evoking the departed shoe stores that so recently characterized the street. I had plenty of time to muse on change as I sat for hours in the window of #24. Whereas my cup drawings are often abstract, there I found myself depicting very specific architectural details: fire escapes, roof lines, wrought iron lamp posts, ornate shop fronts and doorways across the street. </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">along West 8th Street in Greenwich Village, 2013</span></b></div>
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After awhile, I no longer saw West 8th Street as a parade of failed businesses, but appreciated it as a place with good bones and a long history. I relished the tales local residents shared. And going back and forth along the block, I especially loved looking up at the many artists' studio windows still visible, telling a story about the neighborhood that goes back many generations. It is good to be reminded that our perceptions of architecture, artifacts and even personal history are mutable, all part of a constantly changing kaleidoscope of meaning in this most kaleidoscopic of cities.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">West 8th Street in the 1950s. From an album <a href="http://gothamist.com/2013/03/22/photos_of_greenwich_village_in_the.php#photo-1">on the Gothamist</a></span></b></div>
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<b>Families/Cities Shift</b> is open Tuesdays - Saturdays 11-6pm at 568 Broadway,
#502. Curated by Susan Teller, it is a special project for the New Museum's 2013 City Ideas
Festival. <br />
Artworks by <a href="http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_art.pl?artist=gallagher">Michael J. Gallagher</a>, Katharine McCollum Gallagher, <a href="http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_art.pl?artist=leech_l">Louise Leech</a>, <a href="http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_art.pl?artist=leech_k">Kitty Leech</a> and <a href="http://www.gwynethleech.com/">Gwyneth Leech</a>, <a href="http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_art.pl?artist=pinto">Angelo Pinto</a>, Gertrude Dwyer Pinto, <a href="http://www.jodypinto.com/JodyPinto/Jody_Pinto.html">Jody Pinto</a> and <a href="http://www.annapintocalligraphy.com/">Anna Pinto</a>.<br />
For more details <a href="http://www.ideas-city.org/view/family-city-shift?fb_action_ids=10151488470079718&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582">click here</a>.<br />
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<b>Diptychs, Triptychs and Multiples</b>, curated by <a href="http://shiratoren.com/Site/Home.html">Shira Toren</a>, is on view at City Without Walls in Newark through Saturday April 13th. Including works by <a href="http://lathoriel.com/">La Thoriel Badenhausen</a>, <a href="http://mariannebarcellona.com/">Marianne Barcellona</a>, <a href="http://yvettecohen.com/home.html">Yvette Cohen</a>, Bill
Dilworth, <a href="http://www.rodolfoedwards.com/">Rodolfo Edwards</a>, <a href="http://judyglasserstudio.com/about.html">Judy Glasser</a>, <a href="http://bernardklevickas.com/">Bernard Klevickas</a>, <a href="http://www.gwynethleech.com/">Gwyneth Leech</a>, <a href="http://www.robertlobe.com/">Robert Lobe</a>, <a href="http://www.janiemilstein.com/">Janie Milstein</a>, <a href="http://www.paulaoverbay.com/">Paula Overbay</a>, <a href="http://www.joanreutershan.com/">Joan Reutershan</a> and Lili
Sheer.<br />
For more details <a href="http://www.cwow.org/event/diptych-triptych-multiples">click here.</a><br />
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<b>Gathering Place</b> ran from Feb 22 - March 22. Curated by Katherine Gressel and Jessica Whallen, it was No Longer Empty's inaugural Curatorial Lab Project. More information about the curators and artists<a href="http://www.nolongerempty.org/nc/home/events/event/program-nle-curatorial-lab/"> here</a>. NLE hope to continue doing exhibitions in unused retail spaces on West 8th Street. <br />
Gwyneth Leechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599466297518036980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1364316659206372002.post-73145311447506521222013-03-08T12:17:00.000-05:002013-03-09T07:31:53.135-05:00Gathering at 24 West 8th Street with No Longer Empty<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cup(s) of the Day #119</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">The view from #24 </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">By Gwyneth Leech</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">India ink on upcycled paper coffee cups</span></b></div>
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For the last few weeks I have been spending a lot of time on West 8th street in Greenwich village. <br />
Not long ago, when my teenage daughter wanted to buy new boots I sent her to this particular block between 5th and 6th to do some comparison shopping. When she came home she said, "there was nothing to see". Fickle youth. How could she fail to find what she wanted in the dozens of shoe stores on that block?<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Window Drawing by Simonetta Moro</span></b></div>
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Now I know! All but two of those shoe stores are gone, fallen victim to new online shopping patterns and high rents, gone the way of the 8th Street record stores before them. It is still a mutli-faceted block laden with Greenwich Village history. The studio school continues to thrive at #8 West 8th. I like to think of the early days of the art salons in that house, where visitors perused Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's outstanding private art collection before it became a museum and moved uptown. And until recently, the Barnes and Noble on the corner of 6th and 8th was one of my regular destinations. However, I have to admit that I browsed more than I bought. I guess everyone else did the same, since the bookstore just closed also. In all, there are over 20 vacant shops along this one block and the local community is asking itself what will become of a once famous thoroughfare of culture and commerce? <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Studying the view from #24</b></span></div>
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So what have I been doing down here? Why, sitting in the window of a vacant shop drawing on cups, of course. <b><a href="http://www.nolongerempty.org/home/">No Longer Empty</a></b>, champion of the artistic potential of empty and history-laden real estate, has been granted the use of an unrented property at 24 West 8th Street where they have launched a new Curatorial Lab program. The result is <a href="http://www.nolongerempty.org/nc/home/events/event/program-nle-curatorial-lab/"><b>Gathering Place</b></a>, a month-long exhibition pulled together in record time by Katherine Gressel (Smack Mellon) and Jessica Whallen (MTA Arts in Transit) with a roster of 9 artists who have created spite specific installations referencing aspects of Greenwich Village history and future. Possible evolutions of 8th Street are a subtext. <br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Wall of Cups by Gwyneth Leech 2013</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mixed media on upcycled paper coffee cups, fishing line and magnets</span></b></div>
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The exhibition opened in late February with a terrific turn-out. Drawing on cups was a big hit and I am pleased to have put my collection of personally-collected coffee cup empties at the disposal of the public, young and old, who want to try their hand at drawing on a conical surface. For the next three weeks I will be there Friday, Saturday and Monday from 1-4pm. Take a walk around the Village, buy a cuppa from a coffee bar and then stop by with your empty to draw or donate the cup. The show runs through Saturday March 23rd so don't miss this opportunity to see some fresh art and to join us in envisioning a new and revitalized future for a famous Greenwich Village artery.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Cup drawing at the opening of "Gathering Place"</span></b></div>
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<b>Gathering Place</b> is located at 24 West 8th Street,<br />
between 5th and 6th Avenues in Greenwich Village, NYC. <br />
Open Friday - Monday 1-7pm<br />
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Artists:<br />
<a href="http://luisacaldwell.com/" target="_blank">Luisa Caldwell</a> / <a href="http://www.rebeccahackemann.com/" target="_blank">Rebecca Hackemann</a> / <a class="external-link-new-window" href="http://www.jonesginzel.com/" target="_blank">Kristen Jones and Andrew Ginzel</a> / <a href="http://www.gwynethleech.com/" target="_blank">Gwyneth Leech</a> / <a href="http://jenmaravillas.com/" target="_blank">Jennifer Maravillas</a> /<a href="http://www.simonettamoro.com/" target="_blank"> Simonetta Moro</a> / <a href="http://eleanorkray.com/home.html" target="_blank">Eleanor Ray</a> / <a href="http://www.lastaddress.org/" target="_blank">Ira Sachs</a> / <a href="http://www.mickispiller.com/" target="_blank">Micki Watanabe Spiller</a> / <a class="external-link-new-window" href="http://gailthacker.com/" target="_blank">Gail Thacker</a> / <a href="http://www.seldonyuan.com/" target="_blank">Seldon Yuan</a> <br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Cup drawing at the opening of "Gathering Place"</span></b></div>
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For more information about Gathering Place, the curators and artists <a href="http://www.nolongerempty.org/nc/home/events/event/program-nle-curatorial-lab/">click here.</a><br />
For more about No Longer Empty programs <a href="http://www.nolongerempty.org/home/who-we-are/about-nle/">click here</a>.<br />
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Gwyneth Leechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599466297518036980noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1364316659206372002.post-52865237344622975992013-02-21T23:02:00.001-05:002013-03-08T11:28:06.943-05:00Falling and Reflecting: the Art of Fran Beallor<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cup of the Day #118</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Flying, <span style="font-size: x-small;">Not Falling", </span>by Gwyneth Leech</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">India ink on upcycled paper coffee cup</span></b></div>
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In the "better late than never" category, I would like to give a shout-out to <a href="http://www.franbeallor.com/Art/Home.html">Fran Beallor </a>whose lovely exhibition, <a href="http://www.franbeallor.com/Art/Paintings/Pages/Accidental_Encounters.html">Accidental Encounters</a> has its last day at the <a href="http://hudsonguild.org/index.php/programs-a-services/arts">Hudson Guild Gallery</a> this Saturday, February 24th. Join her that day for a closing party from 1 to 4 pm.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Fran Beallor</span></b></div>
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For those interested in community and how to get more people looking and thinking about art, the Hudson Guild Gallery program is one to follow. For many years, <a href="http://hudsonguild.org/index.php/about-us/leadership/seniorstaff">Jim Furlong</a> has been bringing high caliber shows to Chelsea residents who would never dream of venturing a few blocks further west to the gallery district: seniors, after school groups and the folk who live in the public housing projects surrounding the Guild buildings.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Fran Beallor </b></span></div>
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A series of talks accompanies each show and I was pleased to hear Fran speak about her work at one such event. Fran is a deft painter with a long history of exhibiting around the realist painting scene in New York City. She has rather hair raising stories to tell of how 57th Street art dealers treated young artists in the 1980s, as well as inspiring stories of learning to paint from her mother, also an artist, and in the studios of a variety of New York artists. The elderly audience was astute and appreciative of both the artist and the curator, who acted as interviewer.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Fran Beallor</span></b></div>
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I was especially taken with Fran's falling figures and also with the reflected interiors seen in the shiny surfaces of vases and pots in some of her still lives. And I was delighted to discover an interior of my own lurking in the curved surface of our Brown Betty teapot when I got home!</div>
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The Hudson Guild Gallery is located at 119 9th Avenue (between 17th and 18th street) in NYC.<br />
Visit their website <a href="http://hudsonguild.org/">here</a>.<br />
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See more of Fran's artwork<span class="style_12"> from March 8 - 10 when she exhibits with the <a href="http://hullaballoocollective.org/">Hullaballoo Collective</a> at the Fountain Art Fair, at the 69th Regiment Armory on</span> Lexington Ave & 25th St, NYC. </div>
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More information <a href="http://hullaballoocollective.org/">here. </a></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cup of the Day #117 by Gwyneth Leech, 2013</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">daffodil and fire vine flowers + colored pencil</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It was harder than it looked. Twelve of us sat around tables in Wavehill's elegant Glyndor House<span style="font-size: small;"> where the galleries are turned into art studio<span style="font-size: small;">s during the winter. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">It was a chill, weekday morning <span style="font-size: small;">a<span style="font-size: small;">nd<span style="font-size: small;"> a mix of plant<span style="font-size: small;">-</span>lovers, gardeners, artists, retired seni<span style="font-size: small;">ors</span> and one home<span style="font-size: small;">-schooled child were taking Linda Stillman<span style="font-size: small;">'s workshop, "Preserving Flowers <span style="font-size: small;">t</span>hrough Art". We </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>struggl<span style="font-size: small;">ed</span> with blue plastic tweezers, toothpicks dipped in glue, and the frailest of dried flower petals. Linda, artist in res<span style="font-size: small;">idence</span>, had described the process in detail and we had studied her flower collages just moments before. Now, trying it for ourselves, we<span style="font-size: small;"> discovered that<span style="font-size: small;"> we were</span></span> all thumbs.<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> Snow dusted Beech Tree, Wavehill Garden, Febuary 5th, 2013</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Outside the windows of the warm studio, t</span>he lawns, trees and Adirondack chairs of Waveh<span style="font-size: small;">ill, a public <span style="font-size: small;">garden and cultural center<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> in <span style="font-size: small;">the Bronx</span>, </span></span></span></span>were stark <span style="font-size: small;">grey and white</span> after a light snow. </span></span></span></span></span></span>The Hudson <span style="font-size: small;">river was a strip of steel in the distance<span style="font-size: small;">, <span style="font-size: small;">with the snow<span style="font-size: small;">-</span>sieved P<span style="font-size: small;">a</span>lisade cliffs <span style="font-size: small;">ris<span style="font-size: small;">ing beyond.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> Once we had completed our own rough attempts at collag<span style="font-size: small;">e</span> with pressed and dried<span style="font-size: small;"> plant ma<span style="font-size: small;">terial, we bundled<span style="font-size: small;"> into c<span style="font-size: small;">oats and </span></span>Linda walked us across <span style="font-size: small;">the<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">dormant</span></span> g<span style="font-size: small;">arden to visit the glasshouses. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">We were delighted<span style="font-size: small;"> by the brilliantly chromatic and steamy greenhouses. Here were the blooming plants<span style="font-size: small;"> whose fallen petals we<span style="font-size: small;"> would use in the second part of the works<span style="font-size: small;">hop<span style="font-size: small;"> - stain painting with flowers.</span> Having picked up the pot of windfall blossoms gathered for her each day by the garde<span style="font-size: small;">ners,<span style="font-size: small;"> Linda <span style="font-size: small;">took us back to her studio to learn how to cut stencils.<span style="font-size: small;"> Then</span> <span style="font-size: small;">we <span style="font-size: small;">began applying<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">the rich pigments <span style="font-size: small;">of <span style="font-size: small;">hy<span style="font-size: small;">drang<span style="font-size: small;">ea, fire v<span style="font-size: small;">ine blossom, rose<span style="font-size: small;"> and</span> <span style="font-size: small;">d</span>affodil by rubbing and crushing <span style="font-size: small;">the <span style="font-size: small;">fresh petals </span>dire<span style="font-size: small;">c<span style="font-size: small;">tly</span> onto <span style="font-size: small;">watercolo<span style="font-size: small;">r paper<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> Ruined flowers from my experiment with flower stain painting </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Linda's workshop was one of a dozen offered during each session of the Wavehill W<span style="font-size: small;">inter W<span style="font-size: small;">or</span>kspace residencies. <span style="font-size: small;">Advance registration is highly recom<span style="font-size: small;">mended. <span style="font-size: small;">For more information, <a href="http://www.wavehill.org/events/categories/art-workshops/">cl</a><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.wavehill.org/events/categories/art-workshops/">ick here</a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">To see Linda Stillman's botanical artworks and daily sky paintings, visit Wavehill's Glyndor House this Sunday February 10th. Her studio, along with five others will be open to the public from 1:30 - 3:00 PM. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Wavehill, a public garden and cultural center, is located West 249th Street and Independence Avenue in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. View <a href="http://www.wavehill.org/visit/directions/" target="_self">directions</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The mantelpiece in Linda Stillman's Winter Workspace studio, Glyndor House, Wavehill</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Flower stain studies by Linda Stillman, 2013</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Cups of the Day #116, by Gwyneth Leech</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Mixed media on upcycled paper coffee cups</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The artwork of Nigerian artist<span style="font-size: small;">, </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">El Anatsui boggles the imagination - how does he do it? Working with tens of thousands of recycled<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>liqu<span style="font-size: small;">o</span>r bottle tops, colored metal foils and similar detritus, he uses snippets of copper wire to assemble magnific<span style="font-size: small;">e</span>nt, abstract, undulating wall-hung scu<span style="font-size: small;">lptures</span>. Often map-like, they also reference Kente cloth and other cultural and histori<span style="font-size: small;">cal </span>traditions of his native Ghana and<span style="font-size: small;"> West Africa</span>, but in a wholly contemporary way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">In January, I was able to get very close to these <span style="font-size: small;">astonishing</span> pieces wh<span style="font-size: small;">en they were </span>on view at Jack Shainman gallery <span style="font-size: small;">i</span>n Chelsea - an impulse to proximity which all visitors seem to share.<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">That show has closed, but there is a new opportunity to study his <span style="font-size: small;">artwork </span>up close w<span style="font-size: small;">i</span>th the opening of <a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/el_anatsui/">Gravity and Grace:</a><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/el_anatsui/"> the Monumental Art of El Anatsui</a> at the Brooklyn Museum, <span style="font-size: small;">February 8th</span> through August 14th, 2013<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">By contrast, another El Anatsui piece, presented by High Line Art, is designed to not be approachable at all. This vast installation covers the entire end wall of a block-wide building <span style="font-size: small;">overlooking the High Line <span style="font-size: small;">P<span style="font-size: small;">a</span>rk </span></span>between West 21 and 22nd Streets. It can only been seen through a screen of shrubbery, and its ample use of mirrors bamboozles the eye. Has the wall been fractured? Whole sections, covered in rusted metal panels seem to become unmoored and float into the air. Called "Broken Bridge II", it is on view until summer 2013, also courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery. Make sure to go see this spectacular public artwork from the Emperor of Upcycle!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"Gra<span style="font-size: small;">vity and Grace: Monu<span style="font-size: small;">mental Works by El Anatusi" opens February 8th at the <a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/el_anatsui/">Brooklyn Museum </a>and runs through August 14, 2013. Read Holland Cotter's review, A Million Pieces of Home" <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/arts/design/a-million-pieces-of-home-el-anatsui-at-brooklyn-museum.html?ref=arts&_r=1&">here.</a></span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">El Anatsui, <span style="font-size: small;">"Pot of Wisdom"</span> at Jack Shainman<span style="font-size: small;">, 513 </span>West 20th Street, NYC ran through Saturday, January 19th. For more information <a href="http://www.jackshainman.com/exhibitions.html">click here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">To read more about "Broken Bridge II", on view at the High Line Park until summer 2013, and to see a video of the High Line Project in progress <a href="http://www.thehighline.org/about/public-art/anatsui">click here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">To learn more about El Anatsui's working process and the team of young male assistants he employs in Nigeria <a href="http://www.art21.org/videos/short-el-anatsui-studio-process">click here</a>. This is an excellent 4 minute video from Art21.</span><br />
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In the crush of fame and adulation which hems in the rapper Jay-Z at every turn in his new video "Where I'm From", there is an unexpected oasis moment. Traveling by subway - along with a crowd of screaming fans, roadies, bodyguards, and a film crew - to the Barclays Center for the last of eight shows, he sits down next to Ellen Grossman, a friendly New Yorker who has no idea who he is.<br />
"Are you famous?" she asks mildly, with an encouraging smile.<br />
"Not very famous, you don't know me," he replies without a hint of irony.<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBvyEGQeHnk&feature=youtu.be">"Where I'm From"</a> Jay-Z Barclays Center Documentary<br />
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The dialogue could just as easily have gone the other way! <br />
Ellen Grossman is a dedicated and accomplished visual artist with some fame of her own, who deserves to be more widely known. I admit I am biased, since Ellen is a friend. However, I have the greatest respect and admiration for her artwork. Her studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is an Alladin's cave of wall reliefs, sculpture and maquettes for public artworks made from undulating layers of wire and chain link mesh. Her flat files are full of exquisite, method-based line drawings which chart long passages of time. Visit her website, <a href="http://www.ellengrossman.com/">ellengrossman.com</a> and read more about her process on the blog <a href="http://recessionartshows.com/2012/10/prolonged-exposure-artist-ellen-grossman/">Recession Art</a>.<br />
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Ellen commends Jay-Z for taking the subway to his gig; "I'm proud of you," she says.<br />
Then exchanging names, they shake hands. When she finally realizes who she is sitting next to, her face beams with unaffected delight.<br />
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<a href="http://gawker.com/5965706/jay+z-rides-the-subway-adorably-explains-who-he-is-to-an-adorable-old-lady?fb_action_ids=10151246327399718&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582">Gawker</a> describes her as an adorable old lady. Adorable, yes. Old - not at all. Ellen is full of life and working in her prime. She is getting a tidal wave of positive attention right now for her cheerful and unassuming conversation with the mystery man of music. Here's hoping that Jay-Z gets to know her better by collecting her art, and by helping her get those public sculptures realized!<br />
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This tale just goes to prove my personal theory: in New York City, to have an adventure, you just need to leave the house!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4-2 Over Roll (detail), by Ellen Grossman, 28” x 40”, Aluminum gel pen ink on black paper, 2009</td></tr>
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Several of Ellen's gorgeous drawings are currently on view in Chelsea, at <a href="http://www.denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/workview/2395/19713">Denise Bibro Gallery</a>, 529 West 20th Street, 4W, as part of "Artists from the Boros" which runs through January 5th, 2013.<br />
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The full video of Jay Z's "Where I'm From" is available online <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBvyEGQeHnk&feature=youtu.be">here</a>. <br />
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