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.
[slideshow] 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.
Drawing on the wall By Jeremy D. Goodwin, Special to the Eagle, Thursday November 10, 2011 PITTSFIELD -- Fine art is often seen as an attempt -- even if a vain one -- to achieve permanence, a contribution to the artistic tradition that will influence and inspire future generations. But for Housatonic artist Gabrielle Senza, much of the meaning in her latest work is derived directly from its impermanence. "Terra Temporalis," Senza's new installation at Y Bar in Pittsfield, is a drawing of a natural landscape that will exist in the world for exactly one year, before the artist paints over it and replaces it with another site-specific piece concerning a similar theme. In fact, Y Bar proprietor Jim Benson has commissioned Senza to create three successive artworks on the…
