Planting an idea: ‘Buds, Blooms & Berries’ exhibit focuses on environment at Everhart Museum

Artist Gabrielle Senza shows the powdered graphite she has applied to her hand to create a wall drawing called “Terra Temporalis” for the Everhart Museum’s latest exhibition.

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THE ABINGTON JOURNAL
August 10

By Don McGlynn 
Reporter / Photographer

SCRANTON - It is common for an artist’s work to be brought into the Everhart Museum, but for its new exhibit, Gabrielle Senza is doing something special, letting her work’s life cycle begin and end at the Scranton museum.

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I plan to create something of this nature on the 11 x 17 foot wall at the Everhart Museum in Scranton. I begin tomorrow…

The wall colors flanking my “canvas” of Honey Moth will be Asparagus and Celery Sprig.

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This is the new series of pastels created this spring on recycled newspaper from some journals made long ago by the John Rossi Paper Co.  There are in fact, little flecks of recycled newspapers – stock quotes, words, etc.  Due to the transient nature of all things – especially news and newspaper – these works have been incorporated into the “Terra Temporalis” lineage of creative pieces that were begun in 2011.

Woman: Self Portrait | June 1st  – July 1st 2006

Shirin Aliabadi, Michal Chelbin, Christina Dallas, Dalit Gurevich, Naomi Harris, Erika Harrsch, Tiina Itkonen, Adela Leibowitz, Lynne Marie, Leemour Pelli, Astari Rasjid, Julieta Schildknecht, Ginna Triplett, Patricia Von Ah, Sonja Wyss, Amanda Seelye-Salzman, Gabrielle Senza (Red Collaborative)

Dalit Anolik – Curator

Woman: Self Portrait is a group exhibition composed of seventeen local and international women artists; offering a multi-cultural view of the contemporary female experience.  As the title suggests, the artwork provides an insight into how women perceive themselves as artists, professionals, children, parents and members of society. In addition, it comments on how those self-perceptions might clash with their surrounding social and political environments.

This exhibition hopes to raise questions regarding roles, identity, responsibility and expectations related to gender, and most importantly — raise alertness to gender based violence. Above all, it hopes to welcome the viewer into one moment within the cycle of a woman’s life.

Although each artwork represents a personal and intimate experience of an individual artist, the issues raised here are very much universal. Whether the artist is from Iran, Indonesia, Israel, Mexico or the US — concepts such as female identity, sexuality, body image and sexual abuse (among others) are all translated into the language of art.  Many of the participating artists have used art not only as a tool to express themselves, but also as an essential source of healing.

Woman: Self Portrait is a benefit exhibition to raise awareness and funds for the non-profit corporation V-Day (The ‘V’ stands for Victory, Valentine and Vagina). This organization distributes funds to grassroots, national, and international organizations and programs that work to stop violence against women and girls. This exhibition is part of UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS: NYC, a festival of theater, spoken word, performance and community events created to bring the issue of violence against women and girls front and center in the culture and the community.   The festival will take place during June 12 – 27.

FREE Special Event — June 15th, 6:30pm:

In collaboration with V-Day’s campaign “Until the violence stops” —
Artist talk by Erika Harrsch followed by Dr. Danielle Knafo, a psychoanalyst who will give a lecture entitled: “Revelations and Rage — Violence against women in the work of female artists.”

*10% of all sales will be donated to V-Day

For more information on V-Day and complete schedule of festival events please visit vday.org

Sitting at a small table nestled in the back of the bustling Fuel Coffee Shop in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, artist/activist Gabrielle Senza’s short hair—currently a deep, vibrant auburn—complements her lightly flushed cheeks and burnt-rose-tinted lips. Her dark blue nail polish matches the ink of her pen as she alternates between doodling and carefully illustrating components of her past and upcoming art projects while she talks about her life. She runs the pen back over the lines of an upside-down bud shape she drew moments before, a shape she says originated with her son, Matteo, describing how it made its way into her series of Survival Drawings and that it will be at the heart of a new series of sculptures she is working on now.

At just forty-three years old, Senza has already had a life full of experiences: a widely popular gallery, a successful painting career, and two intimate activism projects, but at the moment she’s slowing down to make more time for her art. Senza’s roster of projects is as lengthy as it is passionate.   Read more…

RURAL INTELLIGENCE
Thursday, November 18 @ 8 p.m.

Enterprising artist Gabrielle Senza has been on a two-year hiatus from painting, but that does not mean she has been without creative outlets. One of those as been creating a new band, 8 Foot River, in which she plays cello and keyboard with fellow local musicians-with-day-jobs Glenn Gieger, Steven Dietemann, and Steve Praus. Expect original indie-rock tunes with the occasional cover a la Yo La Tengo, Wilco, or Liz Phair thrown in.

Outspoken! @ Micro Theatre
Pittsfield, MA

Here’s a nice profile written by Blair Benjamin, Founder of the Assets for Artists Program.

There are people you think must secretly be twins or triplets living as one person because they seem to accomplish too much and appear in too many places for a single human being. Great Barrington-based artist Gabrielle Senza (who joined Assets for Artists in 2009) is such a person. . . [Read more here.]