Current and upcoming shows, residencies, projects and events.
Happy to be jurying an Open Call All Media show for the South County Art Association in Kingston, RI. Here is a link to the prospectus on their website: https://www.southcountyart.org/cfe-all-media-1-2025.html
My dress collaboration with Anthropologie went live in November. It is called the Kirstin Lamb Thea Twofer Dress. I’m so happy with the dress, it is such a tribute to my painting. And the designers I worked with fulfilled my request to have extended sizes, so the dress is available in plus and petite too! Thank you to all the folks who have already supported me with their purchases and kind messages! It looks like it sold out online, so you will have to try to find it in stores. Thank you friends!
Here is the link to the former live sales portal: https://www.anthropologie.com/shop/the-thea-twofer-sweater-dress-kirstin-lamb-edition?category=SHOPBYBRAND&quantity=1
Suffolk University Gallery is pleased to present Dreaming Flora: Artists and Flowers.
June 11 – July 22, 2024
Opening Reception: June 13, 5:30 PM
Suffolk University Gallery
Sawyer Building, 6th Floor
8 Ashburton Place
Boston, MA 02108
Gallery Hours: Mon – Thurs, 11 am – 3 pm
Suffolk University Gallery is pleased to present Dreaming Flora: Artists and Flowers
June 11 – July 22, 2024.
Speaking of Flowers – Gallery talk with the artists about their love of flowers on June 13 at 5:30 PM followed by a reception at 6:00 PM
“Flowers are often seen as symbols of growth, transformation, and renewal. In dreams, they can represent the journey of self-discovery and personal development. Dreaming of flowers blooming or witnessing a garden in full bloom can signify a period of flourishing and expansion in one’s life.”
– a-z-animals.com
Flowers are evocative for cultures around the world. They remind us of both joy and mourning, of human frailty, of death. One thinks about the 17th century Dutch obsession with tulips, beautiful paintings of flowers as warnings of Vanitas. They have rich cultural history as symbols and motifs through many genres of art, including as still lifes and botanical studies. The artists in this exhibition work in a variety of medium and often evoke earlier response to the natural world.
Participating artists:
Mary Kocol
The Botanica series is a contemplative look at the garden, as a timeless place to dwell, refresh, and think about the profound yet fleeting beauty in the plants around us. Exquisite and luscious details instill wonder from simple garden flowers. I’m fascinated by the colors, scents, textures, and details of plants – they are fragile and ephemeral yet return year after year. I grew most of these myself, or they came from friends and family gardens. All of the plants have been grown in a typical New England garden. These images are Scan-o-grams, made without a traditional camera. Instead, the plants are scanned in high-resolution using a film scanner to capture high level of detail, evident in the large archival inkjet prints, revealing the shadows of something; the plant material is arranged on the glass scanner bed, the scanner’s beam gives even illumination, capturing the objects as they lay on the glass. My inspirations include the iconic floral still life paintings of the Dutch Masters; as well as the traditional Japanese tea hut wherein one blossom is displayed to contemplate the current season; and the Bird-and-Flower scrolls of Ito Jakuchu from the 1700s.
Vaughn Sills
When asked, I’ve said I understand the symbolism and the metaphors, and I can imagine stories – a young family torn from their homeland, crossing to a new place, brought in and nurtured (flowers on one stem, the vase, the sea, the shadowed stormy sky all so meaningful). A cluster of young women, dressed in their finery, the party ends, tragedy strikes (fluttery orange flowers, drooping petals, an elegant and fragile vase, a sweet sunset under dark clouds). But truthfully, for me, each photograph is not a story, there is no beginning or end. Each photograph is more like a poem – a moment, an image, metaphor. And in each one, I feel both joy and sorrow, intertwined – just as I do in my life.
Robin Reynolds
My work brings beauty to the table. Painting en plein-air, I create lush, luminous, layered
surfaces in my garden. My senses are heightened to color, texture, light, and smell. I dive into the tangled life cycles of plants and flowers with energetic mark-making, exuberant color and line, intuitive looking, layering, and wiping. It’s a meditative, spiritual process. I want people to experience that heightened awareness and see beauty in our vulnerable environment. I like my garden wild and unstructured, both flowers and the messy, jumbled parts. I start by planting for how I’ll want to paint: colors, heights, when things bloom, where my easel will be. My garden has become my subject and my sanctuary.
Kirstin Lamb
I call the gridded high-detail paintings on transparent acetate embroidery paintings. I began creating these paintings primarily for inclusion in my textile-influenced installations and the practice has grown to include stand-alone artworks and works influenced by my studio and installation. Many of the embroidery paintings I have placed in installations are images of floral wallpaper cropped from French wallpaper of the 17th, 18th and 19th century. Much of the other paintings in this group were made using vintage embroidery patterns from the 50s, 60s and 70s or generated from my own photography, primarily of landscapes and portraits. In order to paint the images that are not already patterns set on a grid, I generate a digitized grid and paint each gridded stitch by hand with acrylic and acrylic gouache on Durarlar (wet media acetate).
Amy Laskin
My paintings often focus on an anonymous nonrepresentational figure comprised of natural elements and unusual combinations. I am interested in decorative language and the assemblage of forms which are placed in situations existing in a natural worldly environment. Ostensibly, these combinations are of a surrealistic and mythical nature presented in a cogent way to suggest something phantasmagorical.
Providence Woods Walk, 2024, acrylic and acrylic gouache on duralar on panel, 8.5 x 8.5 in
Nexus, Echoes, and Connections - Stefano Caimi, Rachel Frank, Gayoung Jun, Kirstin Lamb
Opening: May 17, 6-8 PM
Exhibition: May 17 - June 29, 2024
SARAHCROWN is pleased to announce the group show Nexus, Echoes, and Connections, featuring existing and new works by Stefano Caimi, Rachel Frank, Gayoung Jun, Kirstin Lamb.
Stefano Caimi’s (b. 1991, Italian) artistry delves deep into the natural landscape, unraveling the complex web of ecological relationships and processes that sustain it. Through a custom made software, an algorithm processes the photogrammetric scan of plants and flowers, and a three-dimensional visualization of the scanned data is generated. The intent is to transcend the photographic image through superimpositions and transparencies of millions of data points that allow us to perceive three-dimensionality from a single vantage point. Photography is the generating and terminal element of the work, in a cyclical process of co-participation of man and machine. His artworks serve as fragments of an era where the human-environment relationship takes center stage, inviting viewers to contemplate the fundamental role of natural processes within our ecosystem.
Rachel Frank’s (b. 1980, American) practice transcends traditional boundaries, blending ceramics, fabric, glass, bronze and zip ties to explore humanity's evolving relationship with our damaged environment. Her brand new ceramics works are an intricate play made of static and dynamic elements, some of them bronze or glass casts held together by hand sewn fabric strings and neon zip ties. By delving into the liminality of nature – the threshold between air and land, ocean and shoreline – Frank advocates for the radical restoration of species and landscapes, emphasizing both the resiliency and fragility of ecosystems.
Gayoung Jun's (b. 1978, Korean) artistry is rooted in the exploration of order within the world, seeking to visually translate the inherent order found in objects. Her recent work delves into the concept of time within dreams, unraveling the multi-layered and multifaceted structure of dreamscapes. Through her meticulous process of disassembling and reassembling these structures, Jun creates artworks that encapsulate the fluidity and unpredictability of time and space.
Kirstin Lamb's (b. 1979, American) paintings bridge the gap between the digital and the natural world, as she translates digital patterns sourced from photographs onto Duralar (a wet media acetate). Her paintings blur the lines between Photorealism, digital pixelation, and abstract expressionism, capturing the essence of the natural world in its current state. Through her devotion to color and detail, Lamb creates artworks that serve as homage to the complexity and slow growth of the forest, inviting viewers to contemplate their connection to the environment.
"Nexus, Echoes, and Connections" promises to challenge perceptions, evoke emotions, and spark conversations about the symbiotic relationship between humanity and the environment. Through the diverse perspectives and artistic expressions of Stefano Caimi, Rachel Frank, Gayoung Jun, and Kirstin Lamb, this exhibition invites audiences to contemplate the interconnectedness of all living beings and the ecosystems they inhabit.
Join us for the opening reception on May 17, 2024 from 6 to 8 PM at SARAHCROWN Gallery. The exhibition will be on view until June 29, 2024. Cultural programming around the exhibition will be announced soon.
For more information, please visit www.sarahcrown.com or contact info@sarahcrown.com
Cate Pasquarelli, wonderful image of Wassaic in model form!!
May 18 to September 14, 2024
Saturdays and Sundays, 12–5 PM
Curated by:
Opening: May 18, 4–6 PM
Closing: September 14, 2–5 PM
Tall Shadows in Short Order, our 2024 Summer Exhibition, will feature 30 artists throughout all seven floors of Maxon Mills, with a focus on large, site-specific installations. These include an interactive site for rest and exchange of plant knowledge by Tiffany Smith, a thirty-language broadcast of the US national anthem by Daniel Shieh, a mountain range made from maps of the US and Argentina by Luciana Abait, a narrative wheel about psychic children in Vietnam by Petra Szilagyi, and, on the top floor, an alternate version of Wassaic in miniature from Cate Pasquarelli's Museum of Embellished History.
Luciana Abait
Sungho Bae
Anthony Bowers
Phoenix Brown
Rachelle Bussieres
Alison Chen
Kate Conlon
Robin Crookall
Jennifer Dalton
Erin Diebboll
LIZN'BOW
Matthew Gilbert
Jodie Mim Goodnough
Grace Hager
Lexy Ho-Tai
Kirstin Lamb
Beth Livensperger
Haley Darya Parsa
Cate Pasquarelli
Katie Peck
Vickie Pierre
Daniel Shieh
Tiffany Smith
Maria Stabio
Petra Szilagyi
Scott Walker
akelyah imani wellington
Jesse Walton
Laura Williams
I’m happy to say I’m returning to Jennifer Terzian Gallery in Litchfield, CT for another solo show. This time I will be bringing woods paintings to the gallery in April 27th - June 14th, 2024. Show opens Saturday April 27th, 3-5pm.
The Woods
I make labor intensive paintings of gridded dots. These paintings frequently document fabric, wallpaper and photo-based source material. My most recent body of work has turned to the woods as its lone subject and focus.
About four years ago I began working on an 8 foot tall image of Northeastern American wooded forest to use as a backdrop for some of my installation and painting. I took three years to finish the first large painting in the series, made from a snapshot taken in an afternoon. The slowness of the process forced me to look over and over at this one charmed and well-lit moment in time.
During the forced isolation of the pandemic I sat with this painting, and began another, as I had no woods to go to, nowhere to experience the slowness of nature. I like to consider it a contemporary way of documenting our extraordinary woodland spaces of North America, in the tradition of panoramic and scenic wallpaper. When I finished this painting, I installed it both alone and with other works as a backdrop. I found a demand and need for woods imagery every time I exhibited the work.
I'm currently developing a show comprised only of woods paintings of varying sizes, mostly composed of New England woods that I have walked through on foot. The works are made from digital patterns I make from photographs, which I then paint on a wet media acetate. The patterns are derived from the photographs, but also abstract and blur the photograph to a greater or lesser degree, depending upon scale and complexity of the image.
I'm looking for a painting whose marks land between textile stitch, Impressionist mark and digital pixel. The paintings I'm making blur between a focused Photorealism, a computer-generated pattern and a fetishized repetition of an acrylic paint mark. Much of what I do is mix and organize color. There is high labor behind each work, yet the effect is immediate and present.
I want the experience of my paintings to be much like walking in the woods. Surrounded by a fabric of green, an excess of detail, the labor of making the painting stands as a devotional homage to the complexity and slow growth of the forest.
The scale shifts of the paintings for me, function much like the jumps in time from walking in the woods to slowly experiencing a painting over days, weeks or months. The painting space both slows you down to a single greenspace and holds you within many particular and singular snapshots in time.
I hope to image the woods in its current state, as it exists now, near me. We have precious resources in both humble scrub brush or elegant old growth forests, all worth documenting as they are seen in our moment.
I’m happy to announce I will be having a solo show at Gallery NAGA in Boston in February, opening Friday February 2nd, 2024 from 5-7pm and running through March 2nd.
Some details about the work to be shown:
After French Wallpaper with Red Scribbles, 2022 Acrylic and Acrylic Gouache on Canvas on Panel, 50 x 38in
Floral Remix
I make labor-intensive images of labor-intensive textiles and wallpapers.
These paintings encompass hybrid embroidery, cross stitch, collage and digital mark-making. I make a layered digital collage, using current and past paintings and patterns, and I cut and chop them, drawing in new marks and scribbles. I feel these are the most expressive and abstract of the work I have made, allowing me to play with calligraphic mark-making and humor.
Though these paintings read as expressive, much of the work in making them is deeply tactical and repetitive. The paintings are made from an earlier body of work, my embroidery paintings, which were made using a printed gridded pattern. To make those works, some of which are included in this show, I paint images that are not already patterns by generating a digitized grid from which I paint each stitch by hand with acrylic and acrylic gouache on a wet media acetate. This is a simple process of re-painting a textile or pattern, sometimes an invented image-generated textile, sometimes an actual knit or textile pattern (cross stitch or embroidery). The brush creates a one-to-one relationship of mark to stitch; each mark stands in for a move of the needle.
For this new work, the embroidery paintings were photographed or scanned and used as a base for compositions, combined and remixed with vintage wallpapers, cross stitch patterns and digital drawings. Remix itself is defined as using a machine or computer to change, improve or recombine different parts of a musical composition or orchestration. I use remix in my visual context to signify the reuse of feminine lapcraft, decorative design and digital traces of my own past work. This digital collage leaves the computer when it is printed on canvas and I proceeded to paint the surface almost to completion, leaving a bit of the digital marks available on the surface. I am interested in reasserting the authorship of my paintings through the labor and failure of my hand over the perfection of the digital object.
Parts of this series are generated from images of French wall decoration made following the discovery of the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the late 1700s. These works were deliberately cropped from texts discussing the shift in pattern before and after the discovery of those ruins, and the elaborate color and design shifts that occurred after the unearthing of the frescos. I am interested in the power engendered by pointing back to antiquity in times of struggle or trouble, and what that means in decoration. I am curious about the relationship of later popular decoration to this earlier format and find that I mine a large range of textiles and wallpapers for my work, partially as I seek to tie together disparate influences in my visual history, to sort them through. The re-presenting of many of the motifs hopefully begins to suggest the darker uses of antiquity and decoration more broadly as a stand in for beauty and power.
I’m so excited to be going back to the Wassaic Project for the month of July! Hit me up for studio visits while I’m in residence in the fabulous Luther Barn with some of my favorite people!! Yay!
About the Wassaic Project Summer Residency:
Summer residents work out of 200–300 square foot studios in the Luther Barn: a historic livestock barn (built in 1875) in the heart of town. They have 24-hour access to their studios, our print shop, our wood shop, and our ceramics studio.
All residents live just a short walk away in one of our three residency houses, the Schoolhouse, the Lodge, and the HVA, where accommodations include a private bedroom, shared living room, dining room, kitchen, and bathrooms.
Fellow July Residents:
Madeleine Conover
Alexandria Deters
Liliana Farber
Suzanne Gold
Michael Hambouz
Padyn Humble
Kirstin Lamb
Deanna Mance
Sal Muñoz
Lena Schmid
Iren Tete
Kelly Worman
I’m so excited to announce that I will be in a summer show at Geary in Millerton, NY! Curated by Tara Foley and Dolly Geary, this show explore states of consciousness, I’m truly honored to be a part of this great group of artists! Opens June 10th!
Who’s To Say I Am Awake; Are You?
June 10th- July 30th
Who’s To Say I Am Awake; Are You? Asks the question about the state of consciousness today. What is currently rising to visibility from our unconscious minds?
For Carl Jung, consciousness is like a small island in the ocean of the unconscious, while the unconscious is part of the primordial condition of humankind. Jung explains various methods for uncovering the contents of the unconscious, talk therapy, dream analysis and art making.
The works of these 19 artists explore the conscious and unconscious mind, sleeping and waking states, inner and outer worlds, things we see and don't see, what we hide and what we show the world. Art holds the implicit power to awaken, stir and provoke through the innumerable ways that it charts the unknown; through representations of buried and hidden histories alongside meticulously mapped and dissected versions of reality. Artworks manifest slices of reality that are deliberately not at the forefront of consciousness in order to push the unforeseen forward.
Aisha Tandiwe Bell-Caldwell
Azikiwe Mohammed
Brigitta Varadi
Darn Sudio
Erik White
Henry Klimowicz
Jack Wood
Kat Ryls
Kirstin Lamb
KK Kozik
Loraine Lynn
Lucha Rodriguez
Mark Joshua Epstein
Marta Lee
Nikko Sedgwick
Paul Anagnostopoulos
Saki Sato
Tara Foley
Theresa Daddezio
Geary
34 Main Street
P.O. Box 412
Millerton, NY 12546
T. 732.838.4511
E. info@geary.nyc
www.geary.nyc
Join us live and in-person on Saturday, April 29th, 6-9pm for the exhibition and raffle of 100 (!) generously donated artworks, the unveiling of a limited-edition collaborative artwork by OyG co-directors, open bar and snacks!
Tickets are $250 each for the general public and $150 each for donating artists!
Each ticket includes:
your choice of one artwork in the raffle when your number is called
art packing service so your artwork is READY TO TAKE AWAY on the night of the event
one limited-edition collaborative artwork by OyG Co-Directors
open bar and snacks at the event
+ 1 guest
live entertainment with legendary NYC drag icon Linda Simpson
Reaching 10 years would not have been possible without the support of our beloved community. Through thick and thin, you’ve been there for us, and we thank you!
We hope you can join us for this once-in-a-lifetime occasion.
EXHIBITION PREVIEW of donated works is free and open to the public on Saturday, April 22 and Sunday April 23rd, 1-6pm both days.
FUNDRAISER RAFFLE begins at 6:30pm SHARP at the event on Saturday April 29th at: Ortega y Gasset Projects, 363 3rd Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11215
Ortega y Gasset Projects is thrilled to announce Ortega y Gasset Projects’ 10 Year Anniversary Fundraiser Event, taking place on Saturday, April 29th from 6-9pm. The event includes a live raffle of 100 donated artworks by artists within OyG’s extensive community, and the unveiling of a limited-edition exquisite corpse poster by current and former OyG co-directors. The event takes place at OyG Projects in Gowanus, Brooklyn and is hosted by New York City drag legend Linda Simpson. The exhibition of donated works is open to the public for a preview weekend of Saturday April 22nd and Sunday April 23rd, 1-6pm both days.
OyG Projects is a community-supported organization whose mission is to forge new connections between artists and viewers. The art raffle offers participants a chance to take home original artwork by an artist they have long admired, or have just discovered! Participants receive a number upon entry to the event. Art is selected as numbers are called at random. Selected art is professionally handled and packed at the event for immediate take-away. Surprise, discovery, and excitement are all part of the process as participants await their chance to select!
OyG Projects is an artist-run organization. In the spirit of collaboration and to commemorate 10 years, current and former OyG co-directors come together to produce a 21-century version of the celebrated Surrealist party game exquisite corpse. Historically, exquisite corpse is made by a group of artists drawing on different sections of a folded paper, blind to one another’s work. Surprising and unlikely connections between drawings are revealed when the paper is unfolded. OyG’s exquisite corpse is digitally made and printed as a foldable poster to be distributed at the event to all ticket-holders. OyG Projects Exquisite Corpse is directed by Eric Hibit with the participation of Lauren Frances Adams, Joshua Bienko, Leeza Meksin, Nickola Pottinger, Sheilah ReStack, Adam Liam Rose, Sarah Rushford, Zahar Vaks, Lauren Whearty, and Karla Wozniak.
Ortega y Gasset Projects was born in 2013 when a group of artists brainstormed how to embrace their circumstances and thrive as artists, curators, and community members. Working collaboratively, the founding members of Ortega y Gasset Projects embarked on an experimental venture to start an artist-run gallery and exhibit the work of their peers. The founding members of OyG Projects include Lauren Frances Adams, Joshua Bienko, Clare Britt, Carrie Hott, Jessica Langley, Leeza Meksin, Sheilah ReStack and Karla Wozniak.
Over the past 10 years, OyG Projects has grown from a humble start-up (funded mainly with Co-director dues) to a thriving institution on the forefront of the visual arts with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, NYC Cultural Development Fund, New York State Council on the Arts, The NYC Cultural Development Fund, Oregon Community Foundation, and Joseph Robert Foundation. With a program focused on emerging and under-represented artists, OyG Projects continues to create opportunities for scores of artists of diverse background, sensibility, exhibition experience, and vision.
OyG Projects’ 10 Year Anniversary Fundraiser Event is organized by Eric Hibit with assistance from Clare Britt, Catherine Haggarty, Will Hutnick, Leeza Meksin, Nickola Pottinger, Adam Liam Rose, Zahar Vaks, and Lauren Whearty. For press inquiries contact Eric Hibit at oygprojects@gmail.com or visit oygprojects.com.
Adam Liam Rose
Adam Linn
Adama Delphine Fawundu
Aidan Boyle
Alexis Granwell
Alyssa Gorelick
Amanda Nedham
Amelia Galgon
Amy Sacksteader
Andrew Prayzner
Anne Thompson
B. Wurtz
Bess Adler
Bryan McGinnis
Butt Johnson
Calvin Burton
Catherine Haggarty
Chris Bogia
Christina Graham
Clara Nulty
Clare Britt
Colleen McCubbin Stepanic
Corydon Cowansage
Dani Klebes
Darryl DeAngelo Terrell
David Humphrey
Dona Nelson
Dominic Nurre
EJ Hauser
Elise Ferguson
Eric Hibit
Eric Schnell
Forrest McGarvey
Fritz Horstman
George Boorujy
Gyan Shrosbree
Hannah Beerman
Heather Drayzen
Hong Hong
Jack Arthur Wood
Jackie Hoving
Jared Deery
Jen Shepard
Jenna Weiss
JJ Manford
Joshua Bienko
Joshua Drayzen
Julia Norton
Kari Cholnoky
Karsen Heagel
Kathleen Eastwood Riano
Kate Stone
Keisha Prioleau-Martin
Kelly Worman
Kirstin Lamb
Kit Warren
Lauren Michelle Peterson
Lauren Whearty
Lee Vanderpool
Leeza Meksin
Lisha Bai
Lucy Kim
Lydia Smith
Maia Palileo
Mark Joshua Epstein
Mary Laube
Mike Ambron
Monica Palma
Morgan Hobbs
Natessa Amin
Natalie Ortiz
Newton Pottinger
Nickola Pottinger
Norm Paris
Nuveen Barwari
Padma Rajendran
Pamela Sneed
Polly Shindler
Rachael Gorchov
Rachel Stern
Ralph Pugay
Raymond Hwang
Re McBride
Rick Briggs
Robert Hickerson
Robin Crookall
Rubens Ghenov
Sean Heiser
Sheilah and Dani ReStack
Shelley Smith
Sun You
Susan Klein
Tamar Ettun
Tatiana Florival
Theresa Bloise
Tommy Coleman
Vince Contarino
Wayne Koestenbaum
Wells Chandler
Will Hutnick
Winnie Sidharta Ambron
Xingze Li
Yevgeniya Baras
Zahar Vaks
FUNDRAISER RAFFLE begins at 6:30pm SHARP at the event on Saturday April 29th at: Ortega y Gasset Projects, 363 3rd Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11215
Kirstin Lamb, After Floral Cross Stitch Pattern with Poinsettas
Cool & Collected '23 will be curated by Lani Holloway, Associate Director.
Introducing Amanda Acker, Yayoi Asoma, Kirstin Lamb, and Mary Tooley Parker.
Cool & Collected is one of our most exciting exhibitions each year. This annual exhibition showcases work from new and emerging artists that have captured our attention and who we would like to introduce to our collectors. The 2023 edition focuses on four artists who we have been watching for some time. We are thrilled to be presenting these new artists and are confident that you will see why we love the work!
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I’m doing a small solo show at AS220 this January in their Project Room! More details to come soon. I would be honored if you all could mark your calendars for the show that runs Jan 7th - Jan 28th, 2023. Opening reception is Saturday Jan 7th, 2023 - save the date!
Nahcotta Gallery’s Enormous Tiny Art is back this September 2022! I am making some new woods paintings! More details soon on the opening date, but for now just get ready and bookmark their page or my artist page! :)
Floral Remix
Jennifer Terzian Gallery
Opening May 28 3-5pm
May 28 - July 9th, 2022
Berlin, Germany
Tiger Strikes Asteroid LA (TSA LA) and Axel Obeiger Galleries connect to create an unusual group show of work created through verbal description. I will be at the opening and helping to hang the show! :)
Opening May 13, 2022, 7-10pm
Details from Axel Obiger:
Artist reception: Friday, May 13, 6–10 pm
Exhibition: May 14 - May 28, 2022
Events accompanying the exhibition:
Artist Talk and Singalong: May 18, 7pm
Instagram Live Streaming via @axelobiger account
Guided tour to the exhibition By Ear
Saturday, May 21, 2022, 6 – 7 pm, free of charge
Properties of Illusion in the Candy Store
Kingston, NY
APRIL 30- MAY 29, 2022
Ellen Harvey, Suzanne Unrein, Vittoria Chierici, David Scher, Polly Shindler, David Soman, Kirstin Lamb, Stefan Saffer, Suzy Spence, Mary Ann Strandell, Emily Andrews, Danielle Klebes, Jenny Laden, Lowell Boyers, Lynn McCarty, Dave Bradford, Ruby Silvious and others
“The art of a great painting is not in any one idea, …but in the great network of relationships among its parts... What counts is what we make of them.” ― Marvin Minsky, from The Society of Mind
As painting is a direct communication for viewers’ consumption, “Properties of Illusion in the Candy Store” is a feast of visual delight. The exhibition references the range and power of painting as an artistic practice to express ideas and emotions with certain aesthetic qualities in a two-dimensional visual language. Painting captures a moment, that creates a feeling of a visual experience. A view with a message, an illusion is what the artist has created to connect to characteristics of the perceiver. Artworks are visual doors open for us to find properties within a field of carefully placed possibilities and thoughts. What makes us stop, look and discover? How do we match the painted illusion with our vast internal image bank? How do we navigate paintings to find our path of understanding or emotional journey?
Often an artistic journey begins for an artist in a personal space of exploration where a thought process evolves as a raw material of ideas. The individual painting style is a developed “voice” reduced to brushstroke, pigments choices, or gesture, engaging in a dialogue based in a language; figurative, conceptual, abstract, expressionism, documentary, narrative, or surrealism all depending on the artists’ communication. The goal is to capture a moment in time to depict an expressed thought.
“Properties of Illusion in the Candy Store” is an open invitation to explore the range of artists and styles – to find the magic. From dark intensity to bright and cheerful, the artists provide a spectrum of sensory experience for the viewer to process. Each painting is a path, a journey, or a quest. Unlike candy a great painting does not just provide a short sugar boost but it can refresh our system of believe and observation in reoccurring boosts of discovery and renewal.
The Cornell Steamboat Building, 108 East Strand, Kingston, NY 12401
Drive By Projects
Vignettes: Small Work by Twelve Women Artists
January 22 - March 5, 2022
Opening reception: Saturday, January 22 • 3-5pm
Gallery hours: by appointment
Drive By
81 Spring Street
Watertown, MA 02472
I’m excited to announce that I will be in a group show at Drive By Projects in Watertown! It is a show of small works, and I am sending 3-4 new little babies. Here is a preview below of one of the works! More info to come soon. Check out Drive By, they are the best!
After Floral Cross Stitch Pattern with Pointsettas 2021 Acrylic and Acrylic Gouache on Durarlar to be Mounted on Panel 8 x 10 in
I am excited to announce that my artwork has been used in some textile products at Anthropologie, starting with the launch of these fabulous pants! You can view the work and read more about it below!
Julia Jacquette, Julia Studio, 2019, gouache on paper, 12 x 16 inches, courtesy the artist
ARTISTS DRAW THEIR STUDIOS
Invited by artist Michelle Weinberg, and inspired by her practice of periodically drawing her own studio, approximately 50 artists will contribute drawings of their workplaces in a unique project that exposes the diverse ways that artists perceive their own creative work and lives.
Curated by Michelle Weinberg
Exhibition Dates: October 9 – November 21, 2021
Location: BYRDCLIFFE Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY
Traina Center at Clark University
Part I of Celebrating Visual Arts at Clark!
The exhibition will be open for viewing September 20 – November 7 in the Schiltkamp Gallery / Traina Center for the Arts. Gallery hours are Monday – Thursday, 9-9:00, Friday, 9-4:30, Saturday & Sunday 12 – 5:00.
Throughout the 2021/22 academic year (in three consecutive exhibitions), the Schiltkamp Gallery/Traina Center for the Arts will showcase the work of the many innovative visual arts faculty at Clark, while also introducing and welcoming those faculty joining us from the Becker School of Design and Technology – now part of Clark University. Each of the three exhibitions will feature about ten artists and offer several opportunities for students, the extended campus community, and off-campus friends to hear them speak about their work, as well as view it. The creative intertwining of teaching, research, and artistic practice at Clark will be surveyed and celebrated!
Exhibition: Celebrating Visual Arts at Clark (Part I)
o September 20 – November 7, 2021
o Lunchtime Gallery Talks: Wednesday, October 6, 12-1:15
Pizza served outdoors on plaza outside Razzo Hall / Melville Lobby at noon, followed by two exhibiting artists talking about their work in the Schiltkamp Gallery
o Evening Reception and Gallery Talks: Friday, October 22, 4-6:00, Talks 4:30-5:15
Exhibition: Celebrating Visual Arts at Clark (Part II)
o November 15, 2021 – February 13, 2022
o Evening Reception and gallery Talks: Thursday, November 18, 4-6:00, Talks 4:30-5:15
o Lunchtime Gallery Talks: Wednesday, February 2, 12-1:15
Note: Clark University requires masks to be worn indoors and for all visitors to be vaccinated for Covid-19.
Nahcotta Gallery
I’m so excited to be included in Nahcotta’s anniversary 30th Enormous Tiny Art Show, where every work measures under 10 x 10 x 10 inches, with framed measurements not exceeding 12 inches! There will be 40+ artists in the show, so it should be an enormous show of TINY work!! Definitely check it out! More details on the opening and visiting details coming soon! Show runs from September 3rd through September 26th, 2021, but all work will also be posted and available online.. definitely check it out!
Nahcotta
110 Congress Street
Portsmouth, NH 03801
603.433.1705
Excited to share that I’m in a group show at Cade Tompkins Projects opening on Saturday June 19th from 6-8pm. The opening will be outdoors with small groups entering to see the work. I look forward to seeing as many folks as can travel to make it. If you haven’t yet seen the big forest painting, I’m delighted to say that I’m showing it along with some other new work. Exciting details TBA, including other artists! :). Show runs June 19th through September 25th 2021.
I’m in the Wassaic Project Summer Catalog Show!! Here are the details:
The secret’s out.
In the spirit of Rex Brasher, painter of birds and Wassaic local, we’re excited to announce our second annual publication: Secret of the Friendly Woods. Designed by Studio Bueno and printed by Small Editions, this limited edition softcover book features an embossed wood grain cover, gatefolds for larger works, interviews with artists, and a few secrets: coloring book pages, a fortune teller, a cut-out paper rabbit, a map of Wassaic. (Try to find all 41 birds, too.)
The book is out now! Pick up your copy at Maxon Mills or have us ship it to you.
Excited to announce a one day only Pop Up exhibit with Doorway A Gallery at 144 Moody Street in Waltham, MA! Come on Tuesday February 9th at 6pm for an experimental installation of work in process! This space is a Covid response Micro Gallery I have been following, run by a couple of wonderful artists, worth a look if you can visit safely! Hope you can make it! Snow date is Tuesday February 16th!
So excited to announce that I will be launching my first print edition with Tiny Showcase, a local Rhode Island based print shop! They do wonderful work and are making a small affordable edition of one of my paintings from my last show!! More details soon!
Embroidery on Grid
2020, 8 x 10 in, Plucky Art Mail Art Initiative, Gouache and Acrylic on Canvas
Kirstin Lamb
ARTIST FEATURE: KIRSTIN LAMB: EMBROIDERY PAINTINGS
I call the gridded high-detail paintings on transparent acetate embroidery paintings. I generate a digitized grid and paint each gridded stitch by hand with acrylic or acrylic gouache on wet media acetate.
Many of the embroidery paintings I make are images of floral wallpaper cropped from French wallpaper of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The re-presenting of this particular decorative movement is for me an echoing of the darker uses of antiquity as a stand in for beauty and power.
Kirstin Lamb
Each original painting is 8" x 10" and $200 - an affordable way to own a work by a critically-acclaimed artist. Lamb has been featured in Art News, Hyperallergic, and Elle Decor among other publications.
Kirstin Lamb
Questions or want to more info?
Email ashley@pluckyart.com or call/text 917-657-5122
I have several paintings in an upcoming show at the Hope Horn Gallery at Scranton University to celebrate the second decade of the Soaring Gardens artist residency program run by the Ora Lerman Trust. The gallery will host a preview from November 13th - 20th, 2020 and then open the show with a printed catalog the following semester for the dates February 5th - March 12, 2021. More details coming soon.
So excited to announce my first solo show in Providence in a long time! We will be having a small and socially distanced opening the Saturday (November 7th 5-7PM) after the show opens to the public on November 4th, with no food but a small group outside! Though no food or drink can be served on site, we will be able to send folks to nearby bars and eateries, so that is fun.. I hope some of you lovely locals can come! I know at this moment being present is an absolute gift and not at all expected, so no pressure! You can enjoy online or make an appointment to visit with me or during store hours! I’m so happy to be presenting close to home in a space I really admire with a curatorial project I really admire. Gratefully acknowledging my grant in Painting for 2020 from RISCA that helped make the show happen. Thanks to all and looking forward. XO
I’m excited to have released my Wreath print with Julia Samuels over at Overpass Projects Press. In addition to a great press, this edition gives all proceeds to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Go over and check out her site and purchase through this link: https://www.overpassprojects.com/prints/wreath
WREATH - SCREENPRINT BY KIRSTIN LAMB
300.00
Wreath by Kirstin Lamb is a 6 color screen print, 16”x20” printed on Coventry Rag paper, printed in an edition of 50 with 5 artist’s proofs and 5 printer’s proofs, printed by Master Printer Julia Samuels. Each print is signed and dated by the artist.
In solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, Kirstin Lamb has illustrated the title slogan nestled within an elaborate floral wreath. Lamb typically repurposes Empirical Dutch motifs to beautify otherwise contentious social justice imagery. Profits from the sale of this print will be donated to the NAACP Legal Defense fund to support them in their mission to achieve racial justice.
For more information and to donate directly to the LDF, please visit https://www.naacpldf.org/
For more information and to donate directly to Black Lives Matter, please visit https://blacklivesmatter.com/
Spring Break Art Fair 2020! Come visit the two booths I’m participating in this year! I have wonderful curators Kate Bae, Victoria Udondian and Anna Cone and I’m so grateful!
