Saturday, June 25, 2011
Bruce McCandles
Bruce doesn't do bios or cv's. He is showing this year at the Erpf in the wood and craft shows. The range of prices would be between 200 for the smaller ones..up to 1800 for the 6' pieces..
Annie Hayes
"Coverlet"
Dimensions: 10” x 7”
Price (unframed): $250
Engraving on copper, chine collé (oriental papers)
"Flag"
Dimensions: 6.75” x 6.75”
Price (unframed): $250
Engraving on copper, chine collé (oriental papers, wood veneer)
"Heartland"
Dimensions: 10” x 10”
Price (unframed): $250
Engraving on copper, soft ground, chine collé (oriental papers)
Annie Hayes
annie@anniehayesrugs.com
Annie spent her childhood in the country near Columbus, Ohio and then in the country near Buffalo, New York, the daughter of a homemaker and an anatomist. As a child, she was fortunate enough to have a continuing menagerie of animals – all pets. They included ponies and horses, a sheep, a goat, chickens, a duck, geese, a rabbit, dogs and cats, and a turtle. She wanted a cow but her parents declined her request. There was never any question about what she wanted to do with her life: she drew all the time, loved making things, and felt most comfortable in art classes at the University.
Annie attended the University of Buffalo for two and a half years, and then transferred to the University of Iowa where she studied drawing, painting, and printmaking. During a brief time away from college, she taught herself weaving. After graduating with a B.F.A., she moved to St. Paul, MN and worked at a variety of jobs, most notably as an artist-in-residence in an NEA/HEW pilot program joining senior citizens with practicing artists. It was a good lesson in naïve art making and finding solutions to the complex task of presenting one’s life in visual terms.
She lived on the Bowery in New York City for nearly fifteen years, working as an artist and as a graphic designer specializing in consulting about and producing courtroom demonstratives. During this time, she made drawings and engravings, some of which were exhibited in two of the NYU Small Works shows.
In 1992, she moved upstate with her family. Living in an old farmhouse, it seemed the historically appropriate thing to do to make one traditional hooked rug. She always assumed it would depict her Black Labrador, but it turned out to be of a rooster standing on a log, which she made and remade, tearing it all out several times as her skills and ideas improved. Her process deepened as she learned to dye wool.
In 2006 she entered a competition to be included in a respected directory of high quality traditional craftspeople – and was accepted. An acquaintance saw her work displayed in a local frame shop and spoke to an editor at the New York Times, who featured her work in the Home & Garden section on Valentine’s Day of 2008. She was accepted into the directory for a second time in 2008. These events created an opportunity for establishing a growing list of clients who frequently commission rugs from her.
In addition to the article in the NY Times, Annie’s work has been featured in periodicals such as Old-House Interiors, Early Homes, and Early American Life.
Annie realizes the potential that making rugs has for personal expression and teaches rug making to students on both a local and national level. Her main focus when teaching is to give her students the tools – technical and aesthetic – to create rugs using their own images.
Presently Annie is working on incorporating Shaker textile techniques into her work.
Dimensions: 10” x 7”
Price (unframed): $250
Engraving on copper, chine collé (oriental papers)
"Flag"
Dimensions: 6.75” x 6.75”
Price (unframed): $250
Engraving on copper, chine collé (oriental papers, wood veneer)
"Heartland"
Dimensions: 10” x 10”
Price (unframed): $250
Engraving on copper, soft ground, chine collé (oriental papers)
Annie Hayes
annie@anniehayesrugs.com
Annie spent her childhood in the country near Columbus, Ohio and then in the country near Buffalo, New York, the daughter of a homemaker and an anatomist. As a child, she was fortunate enough to have a continuing menagerie of animals – all pets. They included ponies and horses, a sheep, a goat, chickens, a duck, geese, a rabbit, dogs and cats, and a turtle. She wanted a cow but her parents declined her request. There was never any question about what she wanted to do with her life: she drew all the time, loved making things, and felt most comfortable in art classes at the University.
Annie attended the University of Buffalo for two and a half years, and then transferred to the University of Iowa where she studied drawing, painting, and printmaking. During a brief time away from college, she taught herself weaving. After graduating with a B.F.A., she moved to St. Paul, MN and worked at a variety of jobs, most notably as an artist-in-residence in an NEA/HEW pilot program joining senior citizens with practicing artists. It was a good lesson in naïve art making and finding solutions to the complex task of presenting one’s life in visual terms.
She lived on the Bowery in New York City for nearly fifteen years, working as an artist and as a graphic designer specializing in consulting about and producing courtroom demonstratives. During this time, she made drawings and engravings, some of which were exhibited in two of the NYU Small Works shows.
In 1992, she moved upstate with her family. Living in an old farmhouse, it seemed the historically appropriate thing to do to make one traditional hooked rug. She always assumed it would depict her Black Labrador, but it turned out to be of a rooster standing on a log, which she made and remade, tearing it all out several times as her skills and ideas improved. Her process deepened as she learned to dye wool.
In 2006 she entered a competition to be included in a respected directory of high quality traditional craftspeople – and was accepted. An acquaintance saw her work displayed in a local frame shop and spoke to an editor at the New York Times, who featured her work in the Home & Garden section on Valentine’s Day of 2008. She was accepted into the directory for a second time in 2008. These events created an opportunity for establishing a growing list of clients who frequently commission rugs from her.
In addition to the article in the NY Times, Annie’s work has been featured in periodicals such as Old-House Interiors, Early Homes, and Early American Life.
Annie realizes the potential that making rugs has for personal expression and teaches rug making to students on both a local and national level. Her main focus when teaching is to give her students the tools – technical and aesthetic – to create rugs using their own images.
Presently Annie is working on incorporating Shaker textile techniques into her work.
Ann Parker
Photographs by Ann Parker and Derek Jecxz are highly recommended for a 2-person photography exhibit for the Erpf on the theme of “WATER”.
Sizes 87 X 190 through 11 X 14, $65 - $85 each
Silver Creek - Photograph
Letchworth, Small Falls - Photograph
Willoughby Grasses - Grapes Lake - Photograph
Route 90 and Lake - Photograph
End of March - Photograph
Artist Statement
With any photo captured by the camera, I believe the eye of the photographer should always be aware of that particular space in time when an unbelievable vision is waiting to be caught. Fragmented moments, an infusion of light, patterns and textures taken from unusual sources, or a passing glance or sudden movement – all are opportunities for a photograph to be taken, made eternal and infinite by the click of a shutter and the image recorded in the lens. Photos are meant to invoke the imagination of the viewer. Some photos are ethereal and other-worldly; others are gritty and stark. If the viewer catches his breath, emits a sigh, or has that contemplative look on her face, the photographer has succeeded in truly capturing the essence of the subject.
Resume’/Bio
Experience: 35mm SLR and viewfinder manual camera use, digital camera applications including Canon, Sony, Nikon. Dark-room film and print processing; digital photo manipulation and printing using various programs
Works:
● 2009 Men of Machias Calendar; 2010 Machias Ladies Calendar; 2011 Natural Machias Calendar
● photo selected for exhibition at Lakeside-Statewide Juried Art Exhibition
(Oswego, NY, 2009)
● five photos selected for juried exhibitions at Vermont Photographer’s Workshop
(2009-2010)
● photo selected for juried exhibition “Artists Revealed” – Sierra Arts Trails, CA (2009)
● finalist in Photographer’s Forum Annual Spring Photo Contest (2009)
● photo selected for juried exhibition The Center for Fine Art Photography,
Ft Collins, CO (2009)
● honorable mention 2009 River to Well Photo Contest;
● five photos selected for 2010 Garden Visions Photography Contest, Wisconsin (2010)
● two photos selected for Show Us Some Love Exhibition, Lightbox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR (2010)
● photo selected for Conceal and Reveal Exhibition at Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA
● 2010 national juried exhibition Appalachia! - photo selected
● two photos selected for 2011 Cattaraugus County Arts Council Calendar by jury
●solo exhibition August 2010 at Wellsville, NY
Creative Center for the Arts
● photo chosen for “Black and White” Minneapolis Photo Center,
August 2010
● participation in Visual Arts of Chautauqua Institution Member’s Show, August 2010
● participation in Cattaraugus County Arts Council Member’s Show, September 2010
● Photo Center NW selection for annual publication book, November 2010
● solo exhibition at Ellicottville Memorial Library, Ellicottville, NY December 2010
● “Romance” selection at A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas., January 2011
● “Simplicity” selection at A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas., February 2011; awarded Creativity Award at Exhibit
● selection of photograph, “An Afternoon in January” at the Shoe Factory Art Co-op
Gallery, Rochester, NY, February 2011
● “Photo of the Day” website selection, Terabella Media, February, 2011
● participation in the Priceless Planet Exhibition Earthstewards Coalition II,
Binghampton, NY, seven photos selected, March 2011
● solo exhibition slated for July 2011, The Fountain Art Gallery, Belmont, NY
Friday, June 17, 2011
Paula Gabriel
Gusty, 44 x 48’’, acrylic and ink on wood, $2500
Atmosphere, 44 x 70’’, acrylic and ink on wood, $3000
Brush 1, 16 x 20’’, acrylic on wood, $600
Brush 2, 16 x 20’’, acrylic on wood, $600
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2009 – Recent Works, Atticus, New Haven, CT
2008 – River Street Gallery, with Connie Pfeiffer, New Haven, CT
2007 - The Blue Beam and Recent Works. Keyes Gallery, Stony Creek, CT
2004 - Sky, Water, Wind, Birds, GalleriUrbane, Silver City, NM
2002 - Inventing Nature, with Connie Pfeiffer, Creative Arts Gallery, New Haven, CT
2000 - Nature Within, Noelle Spa, Stamford, CT
1999 - Khaki & Black, Madison, CT
1992 - Akus Gallery, Willimantic, CT
1992 -101 Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
1992 - Galerie Lupke, Frankfurt, Germany
1988 - Maison des Expositions de Genas, with Paul Collins, Lyons, France
1988 – Galerie Bama, Paris, France
1987 - Galerie Lupke, Frankfurt, Germany
1986 - Galerie Bama, Paris, France
1983 - Galerie Bama, Paris, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 – Sandra Phillips Gallery, Denver, CO
2009 – Sandra Phillips Gallery, Denver, CO
2008 – Touring Connecticut, Connecticut Commission on Culture, Hartford, CT
2007 – C L Pfeiffer Studio, Chester, CT
2006 - Sandra Phillips Gallery, Denver, CO
2005 - Night & Day, Quick Center for the Arts, Fairfield, CT
2005 - Englewood National Juried Art Show, Englewood Museum, CO
2004 - GalleriUrbane, Marfa, TX
2003 - Another View, GalleriUrbane, Silver City, NM
2003 - Art Summertime, Wall Street Gallery, Madison, CT
2003 - Women, Art and Memory, Arts + Literature Gallery, New Haven, CT
2002 - Art Walk, GalleriUrbane, Silver City, NM
2001 - Open Studios 2001 New Haven, CT
2000 - A Retrospective and Beyond, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT
2000 - Open Studios 2000 New Haven, CT
2000 - Fellowship Artist Exhibition, CT Commission on the Arts, Hartford, CT
1999 - Open Studios 1999 New Haven
1998 - Women in the Visual Arts, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven
1998 - New Art Annual ’98, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, CT
1997 - Objects of Desire, The Mill Gallery, Guilford, CT
1997 - New Art Annual ’97, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, CT
1993 - Connecticut Invitational, The John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT
1993 - Connecticut Women Artists, The John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT
1992 - Art Space, New Haven, CT
1990 - Connecticut Vision, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
1989 – Galerie Lupke, Frankfurt, Germany
1985 - Salon de Monterouge, Monterouge, France
1983 - Portraiits de l’artiste…Galerie d’Art et Essai, Rennes, France
1983 - La Nouvelle Peinture en France, Musee de Bourbon-Lancy, France
1983 - Forderprogramm Junger Kunstler, Cologne Art Fair ’83, Germany
1982 - Galerie Bama, Paris, France
1982 - Perspective ’82, Basel Art 13, Switzerland
Awards
Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowship in Painting, January 2000
Artist Award, Connecticut Vision, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
Interview
WNPR. Faith Middleton Show. January 26, 2007
Selected Publications
Modern Day Modernism. Paula Gabriel: New Works. Leah Lopez Schmalz. The Source: February 8, 2007
Two Local Artists Invent Nature. Amy Barry. The Source: March 14, 2002
Time Capsule. A concise Encyclopedia by Women Artists. New York. 1995
Monochromatic Canvasses Show Austere Vision. Jude Schwendenwien.
The Hartford Courant: Sunday, July 5, 1992
Paul Collins et Paula Gabriel Contruite. Stani Chaine. Lyon Pouse: 4 Avril 1988
Art Review. Kunstforum. Gisland Nabacowski. Mai-June 1987.
Vogelfrei und Ausgeliefert. Frankfurt Allgemeine Zetiung. Montag 2 Mars, 1987.
Art Press. Francoise Batallion. Fevrier 1996.
Art Press. Anne Dagbert. Avril 1983.
Info
1979, BFA, University of California, Berkeley
Resided in Paris, France 1981-1989
Lives and works in Madison, CT
Atmosphere, 44 x 70’’, acrylic and ink on wood, $3000
Brush 1, 16 x 20’’, acrylic on wood, $600
Brush 2, 16 x 20’’, acrylic on wood, $600
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2009 – Recent Works, Atticus, New Haven, CT
2008 – River Street Gallery, with Connie Pfeiffer, New Haven, CT
2007 - The Blue Beam and Recent Works. Keyes Gallery, Stony Creek, CT
2004 - Sky, Water, Wind, Birds, GalleriUrbane, Silver City, NM
2002 - Inventing Nature, with Connie Pfeiffer, Creative Arts Gallery, New Haven, CT
2000 - Nature Within, Noelle Spa, Stamford, CT
1999 - Khaki & Black, Madison, CT
1992 - Akus Gallery, Willimantic, CT
1992 -101 Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
1992 - Galerie Lupke, Frankfurt, Germany
1988 - Maison des Expositions de Genas, with Paul Collins, Lyons, France
1988 – Galerie Bama, Paris, France
1987 - Galerie Lupke, Frankfurt, Germany
1986 - Galerie Bama, Paris, France
1983 - Galerie Bama, Paris, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 – Sandra Phillips Gallery, Denver, CO
2009 – Sandra Phillips Gallery, Denver, CO
2008 – Touring Connecticut, Connecticut Commission on Culture, Hartford, CT
2007 – C L Pfeiffer Studio, Chester, CT
2006 - Sandra Phillips Gallery, Denver, CO
2005 - Night & Day, Quick Center for the Arts, Fairfield, CT
2005 - Englewood National Juried Art Show, Englewood Museum, CO
2004 - GalleriUrbane, Marfa, TX
2003 - Another View, GalleriUrbane, Silver City, NM
2003 - Art Summertime, Wall Street Gallery, Madison, CT
2003 - Women, Art and Memory, Arts + Literature Gallery, New Haven, CT
2002 - Art Walk, GalleriUrbane, Silver City, NM
2001 - Open Studios 2001 New Haven, CT
2000 - A Retrospective and Beyond, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT
2000 - Open Studios 2000 New Haven, CT
2000 - Fellowship Artist Exhibition, CT Commission on the Arts, Hartford, CT
1999 - Open Studios 1999 New Haven
1998 - Women in the Visual Arts, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven
1998 - New Art Annual ’98, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, CT
1997 - Objects of Desire, The Mill Gallery, Guilford, CT
1997 - New Art Annual ’97, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, CT
1993 - Connecticut Invitational, The John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT
1993 - Connecticut Women Artists, The John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT
1992 - Art Space, New Haven, CT
1990 - Connecticut Vision, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
1989 – Galerie Lupke, Frankfurt, Germany
1985 - Salon de Monterouge, Monterouge, France
1983 - Portraiits de l’artiste…Galerie d’Art et Essai, Rennes, France
1983 - La Nouvelle Peinture en France, Musee de Bourbon-Lancy, France
1983 - Forderprogramm Junger Kunstler, Cologne Art Fair ’83, Germany
1982 - Galerie Bama, Paris, France
1982 - Perspective ’82, Basel Art 13, Switzerland
Awards
Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowship in Painting, January 2000
Artist Award, Connecticut Vision, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
Interview
WNPR. Faith Middleton Show. January 26, 2007
Selected Publications
Modern Day Modernism. Paula Gabriel: New Works. Leah Lopez Schmalz. The Source: February 8, 2007
Two Local Artists Invent Nature. Amy Barry. The Source: March 14, 2002
Time Capsule. A concise Encyclopedia by Women Artists. New York. 1995
Monochromatic Canvasses Show Austere Vision. Jude Schwendenwien.
The Hartford Courant: Sunday, July 5, 1992
Paul Collins et Paula Gabriel Contruite. Stani Chaine. Lyon Pouse: 4 Avril 1988
Art Review. Kunstforum. Gisland Nabacowski. Mai-June 1987.
Vogelfrei und Ausgeliefert. Frankfurt Allgemeine Zetiung. Montag 2 Mars, 1987.
Art Press. Francoise Batallion. Fevrier 1996.
Art Press. Anne Dagbert. Avril 1983.
Info
1979, BFA, University of California, Berkeley
Resided in Paris, France 1981-1989
Lives and works in Madison, CT
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Barbara Nark
Frank Burnap Series #1 - Photograph
Barbara Nark is a photographer who grew up on a two family farm in Schoharie County, New York. She started taking photos at the age of five after receiving an Eastman Kodak Brownie as a gift from her parents. Growing up on a farm Barbara gained many skills, namely: mechanics, carpentry, soldering, painting and eventually stone masonry. Each has added a new dimension to her creativity. She also attributes her great appreciation and deep connection to her surroundings from hours spent in the fields. Barbara Nark now resides in Fulton, New York.
Photography
Awards:
Third place, Catskill Mountain Guide photo contest, “Amish Boy at Farm Auction”, 2009
Second place, Catskill Mountain Guide photo contest, “D&H Workers”, 2002
Published:
Catskill Mountain Guide Magazine, “Briars at Sawyer Hollow” 2009, “Amish Boy at Farm Auction”, 2009, “Corn” 2008, “D&H Workers”, 2002
Education:
Associates of Art, Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, New York, 1979
Events:
Roxbury Arts Group Community Photography Show, September 2010
Sharon Springs Harvest Festival, October 2010
Blenheim Bridge Art Walk, July 2009
Tri County Arts Side Walk Art, September 2008
Commissioned:
Michael Sellers, Jazz instrument collection, 2008-2010, (ongoing)
Projects:
Reproduction work, Neil Driscoll, 2005-2010, (ongoing)
Album-promotional work, Horseshoe Lounge Playboys, 2010
Album-promotional work, John Scarpulla, “Blue Ruin”, 2009
Promotional headshots, The Theater project of Schoharie County, 2008-2009
Other interests:
Musician, fiddler
Art, Worked in pastels, watercolor, and stone
Crosscountry skiing, kayaking
Artist statement:
As a photographer my interests are engulfed in and endless number of subjects. Many visuals draw me towards them for numerous reasons. Whether it is light, shadows, color, forms, line, pattern, movement or raw emotion, I am instinctively pulled, inspired and driven.
A large body of my work is of water. Water’s spirit and energy constantly changes allowing for shooting to be continually interesting and the outcome often puzzling. I am also interested in working with extremes, through which depth can be given to otherwise flat images. It brings a new clarity to subjects, thus creating interesting abstracts.
Bringing about the uniqueness in subjects is individual to the artist. Whether it is taking pieces of photos and creating something so far from its original, or capturing a still life with the essence of soul, my creative desire is continually driven by inspiration.
Barbara Nark is a photographer who grew up on a two family farm in Schoharie County, New York. She started taking photos at the age of five after receiving an Eastman Kodak Brownie as a gift from her parents. Growing up on a farm Barbara gained many skills, namely: mechanics, carpentry, soldering, painting and eventually stone masonry. Each has added a new dimension to her creativity. She also attributes her great appreciation and deep connection to her surroundings from hours spent in the fields. Barbara Nark now resides in Fulton, New York.
Photography
Awards:
Third place, Catskill Mountain Guide photo contest, “Amish Boy at Farm Auction”, 2009
Second place, Catskill Mountain Guide photo contest, “D&H Workers”, 2002
Published:
Catskill Mountain Guide Magazine, “Briars at Sawyer Hollow” 2009, “Amish Boy at Farm Auction”, 2009, “Corn” 2008, “D&H Workers”, 2002
Education:
Associates of Art, Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, New York, 1979
Events:
Roxbury Arts Group Community Photography Show, September 2010
Sharon Springs Harvest Festival, October 2010
Blenheim Bridge Art Walk, July 2009
Tri County Arts Side Walk Art, September 2008
Commissioned:
Michael Sellers, Jazz instrument collection, 2008-2010, (ongoing)
Projects:
Reproduction work, Neil Driscoll, 2005-2010, (ongoing)
Album-promotional work, Horseshoe Lounge Playboys, 2010
Album-promotional work, John Scarpulla, “Blue Ruin”, 2009
Promotional headshots, The Theater project of Schoharie County, 2008-2009
Other interests:
Musician, fiddler
Art, Worked in pastels, watercolor, and stone
Crosscountry skiing, kayaking
Artist statement:
As a photographer my interests are engulfed in and endless number of subjects. Many visuals draw me towards them for numerous reasons. Whether it is light, shadows, color, forms, line, pattern, movement or raw emotion, I am instinctively pulled, inspired and driven.
A large body of my work is of water. Water’s spirit and energy constantly changes allowing for shooting to be continually interesting and the outcome often puzzling. I am also interested in working with extremes, through which depth can be given to otherwise flat images. It brings a new clarity to subjects, thus creating interesting abstracts.
Bringing about the uniqueness in subjects is individual to the artist. Whether it is taking pieces of photos and creating something so far from its original, or capturing a still life with the essence of soul, my creative desire is continually driven by inspiration.
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