Terra Temporalis
TERRA TEMPORALIS, SCRANTON PA Site-specific temporary wall drawing created for the Everhart Museum in Scranton, PA. 2011 © Gabrielle Senza
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Walk Unafraid Chelsea
Physical, sexual and emotional abuse are difficult topics to talk about, and up until recently, a cultural taboo to address publicly. In 2001 we began breaking the silence on these topics through a variety of initiatives, including the Collaborative Scroll and the series of Walk Unafraid public interventions that incorporate the words of abuse survivors, family, friends, social workers, artists, and law enforcement professionals.
BLOG: An Explosively Creative Year
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It's been an explosively creative year! Here’s a quick rundown of what’s been going on. . . The year saw me stretch into new areas of creative expression – blasting into totally new territory for me – in addition to creating installations, drawings and paintings, I pushed myself to explore performance, video, music, spoken word, sound and dance - combining many of these disciplines with the intent to create more experiential expressions of my ideas. I’ll give you a quick rundown. . . Just over a year ago, I put Matteo on a plane for Paris and used the two weeks he was away as a self-imposed Artist Residency @ Chez Moi. During that time I created several new pastels, prints and drawings. In July I premiered my very first…
Fingertips are raw…
After 6 days of rubbing graphite powder onto the wall - I guess that's to be expected.[gallery]
Terra Temporalis 3
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.
Terra Temporalis 2
[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.
PRESS: Gabrielle Senza Gets Her Hands Dirty
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…