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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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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