Gabrielle Senza

Kasten Fine Art Gallery
At the Train Station | 46 Castle Street | Great Barrington | MA | 01230
Tel: 413.528.3300 | Web: www.KastenFineArt.com
Email: jane@kastenfineart.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Great Barrington, MA

August 11th marks the premier showing of the newest painting in Gabrielle Senza’s “Promise of Light” series at the Kasten Fine Art Gallery in Great Barrington, MA. On view through October 1, “The Promise of Light, X” will be unveiled August 11th, with a public reception on Saturday from 4 – 6pm.

The 6 x 10 foot oil painting was recently completed by the Berkshire based artist in her Read the rest of this entry »

Drawn to Nature from a very early age,

I traced raccoon tracks in the sand along the water’s edge

And drank colors from the sky.

Nature has been my mother and my teacher.

Through Nature I found Art.

Through Art, I found Salvation.

- Gabrielle Senza

© 2005

We are diligently amassing information and images of Gabrielle Senza’s paintings, drawings, installations, multiples and sculptural pieces from the mid-eighties to the present for inclusion in the online Catalogue Raisonné.

If you have any visuals or information of the artist’s work, we urge you to contact us at 413.528.3917 or email us at ecoartgirl@mac.com.

The public is invited to an opening reception and artist talk by Gabrielle Senza on Thursday, February 1st, 4 – 6pm in the Simon’s Rock Atrium Library. Ms. Senza will speak informally about the work featured in the exhibition: MEDITATIONS WITH FIRE, created in the early 1990’s with a propane torch and soldering flux.

Great Barrington, MA

Simon’s Rock College of Bard will host “MEDITATIONS WITH FIRE: The Torched Linen Paintings of Gabrielle Senza” at the Library Atrium Gallery from 22 January through 17 March, 2007. Featuring work created in the early 1990’s, Ms. Senza states, “The torched linen series was started as a counterpoint to the series of highly representational industrial landscape paintings I was in the process of creating for a solo show near Detroit back in 1993. Rendering architectural structures in oil paint on steel was very demanding, and the need for a looser form of creative expression was great.

“Experimenting with the basic tools of a plumber (propane torch, stiff aluminum brush and a tin of soldering flux), I blindly engaged in intuitive mark making on torn bits of raw linen. The flux is colorless. The brush is stiff. The image comes to life under the torch. Verging on instant annihilation, the flames give little latitude for deliberation.

“Working with fire gave me an experience unlike anything I’d ever done before. Fire is ultra-life; Alchemy, magic, source, transmutation, destruction, regeneration, life and death. It created a realm of exploration that felt tribal, primitive, primordial: a place for inner exploration and release.”