06May 2013 by Lab Chief No Comments

Announcing: DRAWING ON DESIRE – A Sensual, Creative Art Retreat in Italy

Art Retreat, News + Events, Travel
[caption id="attachment_891" align="alignright" width="300"] One of the rooms at Arcipelago[/caption] PIAZZAS VINEYARDS & FIGURE EIGHTS. . . Join Gabrielle Senza for DRAWING ON DESIRE, a sensual art retreat and experience-of-a-lifetime, to discover your true creative spirit! Together, you will travel to a gorgeous, artist-owned guest-house near Tuscany, complete with olive trees and an organic vineyard. Hospitality and creativity abound at Arcipelago di Arte et Agricoltura – it is truly, la dolce vita! Here you will have opportunities to harvest not only the ripening grapes from the vines (should you choose to), but your own, ripe creativity, sensuality, and verve as well. Our ten-day journey begins October 1st, 2013. “Rather than teach people how to paint, I want to teach people how to see. I want my art students to feel their…
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02Dec 2012 by Lab Chief No Comments

MIMOSAS, MUSIC & MUSINGS

Benefit Event, News + Events
*** HOLIDAY OPEN STUDIO *** WEEKENDS THROUGH DECEMBER Saturday 11:00 - 5:00 Sunday 11:00 - 3:00 And by appointment. 413.717.0031 You are invited to come by the studio to view a wonderful selection of intimate drawings, pastels, paintings, prints and photographs, all affordably priced (($5 & up)) and ready to go! Just perfect for that special someone who has always wanted to own a work of art by Gabrielle Senza! Free to attend - though donations are warmly welcomed. 20% of all proceeds will go towards Sandy Relief Efforts. Bring friends! Spread the word! This is a rare opportunity to buy directly from the artist AND help victims devastated by Hurricane Sandy. Fun and surprises guaranteed! Come to: ELEVEN 11 School Street Great Barrington, MA 01230 (Located in the same…
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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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11Nov 2011 by Lab Chief No Comments
PRESS: Gabrielle Senza Gets Her Hands Dirty

PRESS: Gabrielle Senza Gets Her Hands Dirty

Drawing, Eco Art, Installation, News + Events, Press Coverage, Temporary
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…
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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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18Nov 2010 by Lab Chief No Comments
8 Foot River at Micro Theater

8 Foot River at Micro Theater

Music, News + Events, Press Coverage
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
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