The exhibition, Bridging Earth and Sky will open to the public
Saturday, March 31, 2:00 pm

Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro VT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE     

BFWW FEATURES ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY
MISS REPRESENTATION

Screening Followed by a Panel Discussion with Four Distinguished Women Leaders

(Lenox, MA – February 21, 2012) – The Berkshire Festival of Women Writers will feature a new documentary Miss Representation at the Simon’s Rock Lecture Center on Wednesday, March 14 at 7pm. The film will be followed by a panel discussion. Miss Representation is an expose on how American mainstream media contributes to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence, and the perception that women’s worth lies more in youth, beauty, and sexuality than in leadership capacity.

San Francisco-based director Jennifer Siebel Newsom comments, “We’re instigating and re-instigating a dialogue that needs to be raised because much of the media continues to send young people really dangerous messages.” Siebel Newsom who has a 16-month-old daughter continues, “I want my daughter to grow up in a world where there’s less violence towards women, more respect, equality.”

The movie features interviews with leading women in many fields including Condoleezza Rice, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, and Gloria Steinem; first-hand stories from teenagers and young women; and often surprising statistics on women in leadership positions in America today. After premiering at the 2011 Sundance Festival to great acclaim, Miss Representation was highlighted as one of the top 50 best things to happen to women in 2011 by the Huffington Post.    

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with four speakers:  Dr. Elizabeth Debold – a researcher and consultant specializing in higher order human development, cultural evolution, and gender. A founding member of the Harvard Project on Women’s Psychology and Girls’ Development, Dr. Debold is co-author of the bestselling book, Mother Daughter Revolution: From Good Girls to Great Women; Dr. Kristine Barnett – Assistant Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences and Director of Women as Empowered Learners and Leaders (WELL) at Bay Path College in Longmeadow, MA; Gabrielle Senza – Berkshire-based multi-media artist and activist, and former adjunct professor at Simon’s Rock, Cooper Union, IS183 and Mass MoCA. Senza is the founder of The Red Collaborative, a national grassroots organization empowering survivors of abuse through collaborative public art projects; and Maura R. O’Connor – freelance foreign correspondent and magazine journalist whose work has appeared in the Columbia Journalism Review, Guernica, Slate, NPR, The Daily, Miller-McCune, The New York Post and TIME.com. O’Connor is a graduate of Simon’s Rock.

The screening and panel discussion will be held at the Lecture Center at Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington on Wednesday, March 14 from 7-9:30pm. Suggested donation: $5.                                        

For more information:       www.berkshirewomenwriters.org          www.missrepresentation.org

Miss Representation Press

“This film is not a passive experience – it is visceral – it will shock you and disturb you, but ultimately awaken you and inspire you.”                                                                                      Marianne Schnall, Feminist.com

“The film’s message is unequivocal: the mainstream media has double standards for women leaders.”                                                                                                                               Politico

“A documentary that will spur questions and conversations, one that could inspire and change lives.”

                                                                                                                 HITFIX

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Opening Reception: March 17th, 4-6 pm  57 Main Street Chatham, NY.

Thompson Giroux Gallery is excited to announce a new exhibition featuring landscape painting by Gabrielle Senza, Frank Curran, Mark Howie, Christe Scheele and Sasha Chermayeff; paired with the outdoor constructivist sculpture of Roger Phillips. Roger’s clean geometry mirrors nature by not only reflecting the environment but ”they echo the most fundamental aspect of nature to replicate itself and create order.”  The order Sasha Chermayeff creates is of confident brushwork and color, capturing a moment and squeezing nature into a ten square inch painting.  Frank Curran making simple observations, Christie Scheele painting not just light but the air itself, Gabrielle Senza trusting her intuition to embrace the feeling of a scene and Mark Howie revealing the emotional potential of a landscape. Roger Phillips sculpture is designed for indoor or outdoor installation and provides the perfect combination to the paintings by providing a point of reference for us to respond to the energy of the natural world.

OUTSIDE/INSIDE runs from March 17th – April 29th, 2012

The gallery is open 11am – 5pm, Thursday through Monday . For more information visit www.thompsongirouxgallery.com or call the gallery at (518) 392-3336.

Here’s a peak at the 3rd Terra Temporalis installation. . . This one was commissioned by Jim Benson for his new wine bar in Pittsfield, MA and will be on view at the Y Bar for one year.  At the end of 2012 the drawing will be painted out and Gabrielle Senza will create another temporary installation in the space.

This is the second in the “Terra Temporalis” series of temporary wall drawings – on view at the Sanford Smith Gallery in Great Barrington, MA from October 13 through the end of December 2011.

October 13 – December 8, 2011

Featuring paintings, drawings, installations and a temporary wall drawing.

Sanford Smith Fine Art
13 Railroad Street
Great Barrington, MA 01230
413.528-6777
www.sanfordsmithfineart.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Sanford Smith Fine Art is pleased to present the work of Berkshire based artist Gabrielle Senza. Her ethereal landscapes and earthy installations will be featured in the gallery through December 8^th. The artist’s reception will be held October 15^th from 4-7 PM. The show “Terra Temporalis” includes a variety of themes and mediums that address a diverse range of topics from personal reflection to environmental change.

Gabrielle’s work has been shown internationally and is included in the collections of institutions such as the Whitney Museum, the MoMA (NYC) and Lifetime Entertainment among others. She has been particularly recognized for her work as an environmental artist. Gabrielle’s work was featured in a traveling group exhibition entitled “Toxic Landscapes: Artists Examine their Environment” which toured to international venues. She has taught classes for institutions such as Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Cooper Union and IS183 Art School of the Berkshires.

Gabrielle has applied her chameleonic creativity to works in a wide range of mediums including photography, painting, sculpture and installation. She explains “often an idea I need to express doesn’t work on canvas and needs to be created as an installation. The work within each series speaks the language required to convey what I’m after.” Within her wide range of medium her creative energy remains present. It is the fluidity and tenacity of the concepts she addresses that makes her pieces compelling. She addresses issues of loss, grief, reflection and always expresses a deep concern and connection with the world she lives in. In her exquisite landscapes effulgent rays of sun break through patterns of leaves to reveal a place that is safe, hopeful and somehow spiritual. As she says “the terrain I explore through my work is guided by intuition, deep listening and the connection to an emotional charge of place.” Her highly emotive work can be subtle, calming, arresting but it always remains intriguing. 

TERRA TEMPORALIS is a large-scale site-specific wall drawing created with graphite powder applied directly to the 11 x 17 foot wall with my bare hands over a 12 day period in August of 2011.

The drawing will be painted out at the end of December.  When informed, many museum visitors had strong visceral reactions to the idea that this work will be destroyed in a matter of months.

I ask:  How is my drawing any more important than the rivers, forests and lives that are being destroyed every single day by human hands?

Read more about the project here.