Statement

The work in this exhibition embraces the potential of visual language to offer homing, to beckon us in that direction. It is a collection of voices that understand the velvet bridge we all wish to walk on. This work enables homing, supports it, and assists in its manifestation.

POP! Art with Mass Appeal. - an exciting upcoming show at Ann Marie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center - juror is Keri Towler (Director of Collections, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden).

Juror’s Statement

Juror's Statement:

"As an exhibition developer at a natural history museum and a frequent art museum goer, I am an enthusiastic advocate for the power of creativity and all forms of creative expression. Art feeds my personal and professional hunger to discover new ways of being human on a changing planet. Art helps us appreciate diverse, new perspectives and with new eyes come new ways of seeing and being the world. I accepted the invitation to jury Metamorphosis: Recycled, Repurposed, Reimagined because art museums including the Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Art Center have been inspiring trailblazers in engaging diverse audiences to critically reflect, discuss, and respond to challenging contemporary issues including climate change and our relationship with the environment.

The depth of impressive submissions made selecting the artworks for Metamorphosis both a difficult and wonderful opportunity. Pieces reflected the broad, complex emotional landscape evoked when we consider our individual and communal relationships to the material world, the natural world, and the climate crisis. From humor and love to grief and anger, the materiality, execution, and vision of the final selected pieces best exemplified the Metamorphosis call to act – to see this current moment of change as an opportunity and an invitation to live lighter and more sustainably. Like the call and response of birds, the selected pieces powerfully document artists responses to the question – how can we live better in a world overrun with too much stuff? I am grateful for their reminder that nature and art remain a constant source of possibility and hope even in times of profound change."

-Siobhan Starrs
Exhibition Developer and Sustainability Champion
National Museum of Natural History, The Smithsonian Institution

Press Release

"There is a human wildness held beneath the skin that finds all barriers brutishly unbearable." -Jim Harrison

In this world there is a tumbling of matter and spirit, which makes for wildness. This tumbling makes space for places thought carries us to, in consideration of the roiling change we live with.

There are many different ideas about what wildness is. Something untethered; irrationality, extreme emotional engagement. Letting loose. Stochastic. The implication is that something which is wild is untamed, and untamable.

Entering a woods that is untended we may pause as we try to pick out a pathway, or decide where our footsteps will permit forward motion. An abandoned garden may have that look, too: the wildness of 6' weeds interspersed with a delicate rose bloom, an impenetrable morass of growth. The wild creatures from tiny to big that inhabit this Earth are wary of us, as we are wary of them. Wildness has a thorough otherness to it that we rarely bring close.

Wildness is our own judgmental label for the otherness of the living world. As we study the plants and animals, bacteria, mycorrhizal networks, wildness is diffused, and we come to recognize, come to know wild things to the point of familiarity. If we could access our own gut systems and witness the wild biomes present there, digesting our food, sieving nutrients from fiber, we might recoil, or turn away in disbelief. Wildness is inside of us, deeply influencing our thoughts, choices, and daily routines.

Wildness often brings us to a sense of wonder. These works are meant to do that; to help us engage with our curiosity, and our imagination. In that way, wildness enables our renewed attachment to our physical presence within our world.

Join us June 22 – 25, 2023 for an Open Studio Event!

We will be open:

• Thursday, June 22, for a VIP preview, 6 – 8pm

• Thursday, June 22, for a VIP preview, 6 – 8pm

• Friday, June 23, 3 – 7pm

• Saturday, June 24, 11am – 7pm

• Sunday, June 25, 11am – 5pm

8 guest artists will be featured:

• Deborah Barlow

• Heather Cox

• John Cox

• Alison Cuomo

• Donnelly Marks

• Cinzia Meneghello

• Vicky Stein

• Linda Tharp

Exhibition will feature small works 5 boros of NYC in honor of a champion.

I will be part of 14C 4th Edition Art Fair with the exciting collective of artists of Spliced Connector. For the first time I will be showing five pieces from an ongoing 2022 project inspired by Art Brut: raw, expressive and tactile created from rough and ready crushed, corrugated, rock, concrete and paint. The intuitive process is powerful, producing a highly eclectic body of work.

Spliced Connector will be booth C15

Exhibition Date: THU, JUL 7 - SAT, JUL 30
OPENING RECEPTION: THU, JUL 7, 5-7 PM
Gallery Hours: Everyday, 12-5 PM
FREE ADMISSION
SALON SUNDAY: SUN, JUL 17, 2-4 PM public is invited for a Sunday salon where the exhibition artists will talk about their work, process and answer questions.