Gabrielle Senza

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.”

Red & White Water Tower
© Gabrielle Senza 1993
oil on oxidized steel
60 x 40 inches
Signed: Lower Right

Purchased from SPAZI Contemporary Art, Housatonic, MA
1996

JMW Consultants, Corporate Office, Stamford, CT
c93-04OV4800CV12500

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South of Chicago, North of Joliet
© Gabrielle Senza 1993
oil on oxidized steel
46 x 54 inches
Signed: Lower Right

Purchased from SPAZI Contemporary Art, Housatonic, MA
1996

JMW Consultants, Corporate Office, Stamford, CT
c93-02OV4800CV12500

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Sogni d’Italia
© Gabrielle Senza 1996
oil on prepared paper
36 x 26 inches
Signed: Lower Right

Purchased from SPAZI Contemporary Art, Housatonic, MA
1996

JMW Consultants, Corporate Office, Stamford, CT
c92-04OV1200CV2500

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Ste. Catherine Industrial Park
© Gabrielle Senza 1992
charcoal and mixed media on paper mounted to linen
40 x 78 inches
Signed: Lower Right

Purchased from OK Harris Gallery, New York
1992

Lifetime Entertainment, Corporate Office, New York, NY

c92-04OV4800CV12500

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Amore e Roma
© Gabrielle Senza 1998
Limited Edition Artist’s Book

9 x 12 inches, digitally printed on acetate interleaved with heavyweight paper and museum board covers, hand bound with satin ribbon
Signed and numbered by the artist
Edition: 30

Gift
1998

Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami, FL

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Amore e Roma
© Gabrielle Senza 1998
Limited Edition Artist’s Book

9 x 12 inches, digitally printed on acetate interleaved with heavyweight paper and museum board covers, hand bound with satin ribbon
Signed and numbered by the artist
Edition: 30

Gift
1998

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

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Secrets From the Self
© Gabrielle Senza
1990 oil on steel
6 x 4 inches

Purchased from OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1991

United Bank of Switzerland, Corporate Office, Hato Rey

c90-04OV950CV2150

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Amore e Roma
© Gabrielle Senza 1998
Limited Edition Artist’s Book

9 x 12 inches, digitally printed on acetate interleaved with heavyweight paper and museum board covers, hand bound with satin ribbon
Signed and numbered by the artist
Edition: 30

Gift of Richard Shack
1998

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

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