19Jun 2012 by Lab Chief No Comments

BLOG: An Explosively Creative Year

Art Retreat, BLOG, Drawing, Eco Art, Exhibition, Gallery, Installation, museum, Music, News + Events, Painting, Public Art, Temporary
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…
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01Oct 2011 by Lab Chief No Comments

Terra Temporalis: Ethereal Art at the Everhart Museum in Scranton, PA

Drawing, Installation, museum, News + Events
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.
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11Aug 2011 by Lab Chief No Comments
Planting an Idea – Feature article in the Times-Tribune

Planting an Idea – Feature article in the Times-Tribune

Drawing, Exhibition, Installation, museum, News + Events, Press Coverage, Public Art
Planting an idea: 'Buds, Blooms & Berries' exhibit focuses on environment at Everhart MuseumBY CAITLIN HEANEY (STAFF WRITER)Published: August 11, 2011  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.        Image Gallery for Planting an idea: 'Buds, Blooms & Berries' exhibit focuses on environment at Everhart MuseumGabrielle Senza has created a landscape with her fingertips.Blackened with powdered graphite, her hands swept across a white wall at the Everhart Museum on a recent afternoon, leaving behind gray streaks and blots she would shape into images of trees and plants.Ms. Senza, of Great Barrington, Mass., spent several days earlier this month producing "Terra Temporalis," a piece that will be featured in the museum's latest exhibition, "Buds,…
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