NEW LOOK AT THE SKY

Is the sky a sea with us at the bottom? I've heard it described as a sea. So I look up and think of fish instead of birds swimming in the sky-sea. First a sketch looking up through the trees. Then drawing an idea and starting. Then giving up. Change it. Add clouds, change the palette! Maybe its done. A view of a sky ocean.

SOLD! THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES..........

A wonderful painting that I made, sold! Wondrous wise people saw a photo of it on line. They contacted me and the sale was agreed on! Such an odd event. I love/hate/ selling a painting which of course is silly. I paint to get them out in the world. I do not...DO NOT...want to keep my babies at home. I DO want them to go out into the world!! I think it is sort of like when your child or some descendent marries. It's complicated. It is JOY and Loss. People are so odd and I am one!!

It is 40 Inches tall and 48 inches wide!

FAMILY PORTRAITS

Being an artist, I get to paint portraits of people I know and especially of my family. the child has grown and the grandchildren, too. People have changed, gone away and disappeared. The children lose their innocence so very evident in a 5 year old face. What a gift to have these slices of life.

LADYBUGS AND CADMIUM ORANGE

The cadmium pigments are bad for the environment, so I hear. But they are so very luminous and beautiful! Vermeer died young and he loved using that yellow! Magnificent paintings with that luminous poisenous yellow! So Wash your hands! Well, for me, the main thing to remember is don't put the paintbrush in my mouth!!

ONLINE CATALOG - WORDS AND PICTURES

In lieu of a catalog, we put up the website dontshutup2021.com

It has all the statements, images and links to artists websites.plus video interviews with a few of the artists.I suggest you put it on all communications about the show and on your website.

DON'T SHUT UP

Conceived in 2019 | Postponed in 2020 because of Covid | Finally coming to the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art | Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden | 1000 Richmond Terrace | Staten Island, NY August 21 - December 31, 2021 Opening reception Saturday, August 21, 2021 12-5 pm outdoors in Shinbone Alley Admission free for opening reception

Guest curated by Susan Grabel and Stefany Benson Through interruptions, censure, violence and threatening behavior — both in person and online — women are silenced every day. Don’t Shut Up 2021 provides a platform to ensure that women’s voices are heard and valued. For more informattion and upcoming programs go to dontshutup2021.com and https://snug-harbor.org/newhousecenter/ Artists: Audrey Frank Anastasi, Nancy Azara, Kyra Belan, Marcia Bernstein, Andrea Borsuk, Jo-Ann Brody, Pauline Chernichaw, Regina Corritore, Loren Dann, Anne Drager, Susan Duby, Sharyn Finnegan, Betsey Garand, Laura Gelsomini, Joan Giordano, Carol Goebel, Janet Goldner, Susan Grabel, Grace Graupe-Pillard, Zhen Guo, Melanie Hickerson, robin holder, Leigh Jerome, Carla Rae Johnson, Susan Kaplow, Tania Kravath, Barbara Lubliner, Cynthia Mailman, Virginia Maksymowicz, Ann Marie McDonnell, Marjorie Morrow, Vernita N’Cognita, Ruth Bauer Neustadter, Susan Newmark, Kristi Pfister, Helen Redman, Louise Reiner, Pam Shields, Clarissa Sligh, Linda Stein, Heather Topp, Audrey Ushenko, Doris Vila, Joyce Ellen Weinstein, Nancy Quin & Deborah Woodbridge $5 Gallery Admission | $4 Students/Seniors/Members Free for students grades 6-12 with student ID and for all for opening festivities Hours: Fri –Sat, 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM, Sun, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.

MONA CARON - ARTIVIST

Mona Caron does paintings of weeds. Of those common invasive plants and flowers that just won't give up. Except she paints them 30 stories tall. These marvelous wonders, made large and respectable.

HOW TO BUILD A PAINTING

 Draw out ideas. Like writing, the thought takes form in this 3-D world.

 

 

Then the hammering out the actual form needs editing and explorations. Each object becomes a teacher. Chasing information to make an image in the world.

 

Starting with thin watery paint, experiments with color are so very fun. Like musical notes of high and low.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 This is a fairy tale and absolutely real, inside and out.

LADYBUGS SYNCOPATION

 There are places in the world where lady bugs gather in masses, covering ground and trees. I've heard it is mostly in the mountains. New Mexico and other magical places. All of life is joined. It is all one piece.

 

 

 

LADY BUGS ARE FEROCIOUS

 

 

Lady bugs are fierce predators. They eat aphids!! Wonderful creatures. The caterpillar versions of the monarch butterfly devours lovely flowers and herbs. Wondrous dragonflies eat their own body weight each day in their fellow insects. Circle of life. Fierce Beauty.

DOGS

Dogs are amazing animals, the cleverest of all. With a profound understanding and compassion to confound the wisest of philosophers or kings. Below are some paintings of old friends.

CERES GALLERY AND THE BIG APPLE

 I have been accepted by Ceres Gallery!! This is a feminist, not for profit gallery walking distance from the Whitney Museum. That's at <https://ceresgallery.org>

 Recent exhibit has hit a nerve!

https://knowwhereyourfoodcomesfrom.com/2021/05/18/realistic-art-becomes-magical-with-paintings-of-natures-fruitful-return-to-the-urban-metropolis/ 

Elizabeth Downer Riker's exhibit is a Hit! She got mentioned in the NY Times, too.!

 

 Rooftop gardens and urban spaces for real food.

FLOWERS for ? SPRINGTIME TOO

 What a year, so far. Mother Nature or Mother Earth or Gaia is suffering. Record freeze in February, volcanoes and earthquakes around the world. But Still! Flowers bloom! 

 

SUNSET FLOWERS 16" x 20"

NARCISSUS 12" X 9"

AFTER GEORGIA O'KEEFE 12" x 24"

SUNFLOWER WITH BEE 6" x 6"