The Promise of Light, X
© Gabrielle Senza
2007 oil on canvas
72 x 120 inches
Signed: Lower Right and Verso

Available.

c106-PL10. OV40000CV42000

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The Promise of Light, III
© Gabrielle Senza
2007 oil on canvas
48 x 32 inches
Signed: Lower Right and Verso

Available.

c106-PL03. OV8000CV9200

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The Promise of Light, II
© Gabrielle Senza
2007 oil on canvas
48 x 96 inches
Signed: Lower Right and Verso

Available.

c106-PL02. OV24000CV24500

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American Icon Series, Roundhouse
© Gabrielle Senza
2002 oil pastel & graphite on mylar
11 x 8.5 inches
Signed: Lower Right

Available.

c102-AI01. OV900CV1200

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American Icon Series, Railroad Crossing
© Gabrielle Senza
2002 oil pastel & graphite on mylar
11 x 8.5 inches
Signed: Lower Right

Available.

c102-AI02. OV900CV1200

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American Icon Series, Storage Tank
© Gabrielle Senza
2002 oil pastel & graphite on mylar
11 x 8.5 inches
Signed: Lower Right

Available.

c102-AI03. OV900CV1200

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American Icon Series, Smokestack
© Gabrielle Senza
2002 oil pastel & graphite on mylar
11 x 8.5 inches
Signed: Lower Right

Available.

c102-AI04. OV900CV1200

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American Icon Series, Warehouses
© Gabrielle Senza
2002 oil pastel & graphite on mylar
11 x 8.5 inches
Signed: Lower Right

Available.

c102-AI05. OV900CV1200

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This series began in the early nineties as a multi-media visual journal of my travels through the Rust Belt of America. Documenting the declining industrial cities located throughout Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio, as well as Pennsylvania, I discovered some very ominous sites - some abandoned, some active and some protected by watchmen who had very little respect for anyone with a camera coming around the property. This is a selection of the large scale charcoal drawings I produced soon after my return to Housatonic.

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Ste. Catherine Industrial Park
© Gabrielle Senza 1991
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

c91-12. OV4800CV12500

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Housatonic Water Tower
© Gabrielle Senza 1991
charcoal and mixed media on paper mounted to linen
96 x 35.5 inches
Signed: Lower Right and Verso

Available.

c91-11. OV4800CV12500

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Fuel Oil Corporation
© Gabrielle Senza 1992
charcoal and mixed media on paper mounted to linen
56 x 85 inches
Signed: Lower Right and Verso

Available.

c92-02. OV4800CV12500

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Front Street, Detroit
© Gabrielle Senza 1992
charcoal and mixed media on paper mounted to linen
50 x 86 inches
Signed: Lower Right and Verso

Available.

c92-01. OV4800CV12500

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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 Great Barrington, Massachusetts studio. “Young trees reflecting in a crisp, calm pond are surrounded by a brilliant golden glow. The morning grove sits quietly just in front of a receding horizon of trees, behind which, the sun promises to warm its way through to a dazzling new day,” writes Senza of the tenth painting in the series of landscapes.

The Promise of Light series was started in 2006, when Senza was commissioned to create a 4 x 12 foot painting of the Catskill Mountains for the Philmont, NY restaurant, Local 111. “The quality of light and its effect on the distant views inspired a whole new realm to explore,” states Senza. “Mountains, rivers and trees all became actors in the play that came to life on the canvas, inspiring new compositions.”

The painting will be unveiled during a public reception on Saturday, August 11th at 4pm and will remain on view at the gallery through October 1. Gallery Hours are 11 - 4 Sunday thru Friday; 10 - 4 on Saturday; and by appointment.

Call 413.528.3300 for more information. To see more work by Gabrielle Senza visit www.kastenfineart.com

Recently touted as “The Best Young Artist in the Berkshires” in Alan Chartock’s “I Publius” Berkshire Eagle column, Gabrielle Senza, 39 was born in the southwest and raised in New Hampshire in a little town near Dartmouth College. “Although I started drawing when I was really little and was often praised for my ability, I was terrified to actually sign up for any real art classes.” Senza continues, “I had a disastrous experience when I first decided to try painting. I only had watercolors at the time, and when I attempted to do what I’d just watched an oil painter do, I completely failed. It was about the most excruciating experience I ever had. I swore I’d never touch paint again! It’s pretty ironic, isn’t it?”

Senza spent her senior year of high school as an exchange student in Denmark. After graduation, she decided to travel through Europe and “jump into life” instead of going to college. She landed in the Berkshires in 1985 and rented her first studio at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts in Pittsfield. Within a couple of years, Senza had learned how to manipulate paint for decorative and trompe l’oeil purposes. It wasn’t long before she ventured to find her own creative voice through paint. In 1991, at the age of 24 she had her first solo show in New York City at the OK Harris Gallery in SoHo and her professional career was launched.

Today, Gabrielle Senza is internationally recognized as an artist, educator, curator, and writer. She exhibits widely and has artwork in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, Fidelity Investments, JP Morgan Chase, Paine Webber, Lifetime Entertainment, and in private collections around the world. Known as one of the country’s preeminent environmental artists, Senza’s work has toured cities in the notable “Toxic Landscapes” exhibition organized in 2001 by the Puffin Foundation. She has designed and taught art courses at Mass MoCA, Cooper Union and Simon’s Rock College of Bard. She has been very active in community service and a pivotal figure in the artistic community, opening the first alternative contemporary art venue known as SPAZI Contemporary Art in 1989. In 1997 Senza took a year off to live in Rome Italy where she enjoyed a hiatus from her life and responsibilities in the Berkshires, and happened to meet Guido Baratta, the father of her eight year old son, Matteo Baratta-Senza. Gabrielle Senza is the founder and Executive Director of Red Collaborative, the creative public arts initiative that takes on important and often overlooked political and social issues both locally and nationally.

Senza has plans to release a limited edition giclée print featuring one of the earlier paintings from the series, “The Promise of Light II”. The prints will be available this month at Kasten Fine Art and online at www.gabriellesenza.blogspot.com. The artist is releasing the print in two sizes. A large print featuring a 20 x 40 inch image of the second painting in the series, in an edition of 20 prints, retailing for $2,500 each; and a smaller print, measuring 11 x 22 inches in an edition of 50, available for $1,000 each. Each print will be hand signed and numbered by the artist. Gabrielle Senza’s collaborators on the project are photographer Gregory Cherin and master printer Fred Collins of Berkshire Digital.

For more information, call 413.528.3300 or visit www.kastenfineart.com

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The Promise of Light II, limited edition print by Gabrielle Senza © 2007

We are pleased to announce the release of two limited edition prints by Gabrielle Senza this month. The archival pigment ink prints (also known as giclées) features a painting from the artist’s very popular “Promise of Light” series.

“The Promise of Light II” prints feature the second painting in the series - a striking golden river view featuring a distant range of the Berkshire hills and a cluster of trees standing along the embankment. With poetic wisps of grasses and river plants in the foreground, the scene offers a peaceful spot to both rest and meditate.

The artist is releasing the print in two sizes. A large print featuring a 20 x 40 inch image of the second painting in the series, in an edition of 20 prints, starting at $2,500 for the first 10; and a smaller print, measuring 11 x 22 inches in an edition of 50, starting at $1,000 for the first 10. Each print is hand signed and numbered by the artist, and the price per print increases as the edition sells out.

Gabrielle Senza is internationally recognized as an artist, educator, curator, and writer. She exhibits widely and has artwork in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, Fidelity Investments, JP Morgan Chase, Paine Webber, Lifetime Entertainment, and in private collections around the world. Known as one of the country’s preeminent environmental artists, Senza’s work has toured cities in the notable “Toxic Landscapes” exhibition organized in 2001 by the Puffin Foundation. She has designed and taught art courses at Mass MoCA, Cooper Union and Simon’s Rock College of Bard. She has been very active in community service and a pivotal figure in the artistic community, opening the first alternative contemporary art venue known as SPAZI Contemporary Art in 1989. In 1997 Senza took a year off to live in Rome Italy where she enjoyed a hiatus from her life and responsibilities in the Berkshires, and happened to meet Guido Baratta, the father of her eight year old son, Matteo Baratta-Senza. Gabrielle Senza is the founder and Executive Director of Red Collaborative, the creative public arts initiative that takes on important and often overlooked political and social issues both locally and nationally.

The prints will be available this month at Kasten Fine Art Gallery and online at www.gabriellesenza.blogspot.com. Gabrielle Senza’s collaborators on the project are photographer Gregory Cherin and master printer Fred Collins of Berkshire Digital.

For more information, call Kasten Fine Art at 413.528.3300.
Or email gsenza@mac.com

The much anticipated release of Gabrielle Senza’s giclée prints, has resulted in swift sales! As most print collectors know, the price per print will increase as the edition sells out.

The Promise of Light II Large Print
Image size: 20 x 40 inches
Edition size: 20 signed and numbered
Prints Currently Available: #8 - 20
Price for Prints:

• (#1 - #10) $2,500
• (#11 - #15) $3,000
• (#16 - #20) $TBD

The Promise of Light II Small Print
Image size: 11 x 22 inches
Edition size: 50 signed and numbered
Prints Currently Available: #4 - #50
Price for Prints:

• #1 - #10 $1,000
• #11 - #20 $1,250
• #21 - #30 $1,500
• #31 - #40 $TBD
• #41 - #50 $TBD

You may purchase your prints online through our secure PayPal account, or by calling 413.528.3917 or email us at ecoartgirl@mac.com.

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.”