DRAWING CHALLENGE XXIII
We would like to congratulate Karen Abada, Lois Bender, Colleen Blackard, Shelley Haven, Michele Montalbano, Aga Ousseinov, Dee Shapiro, Joan Zalenski and Alice Zinnes for being the featured contestants of our Drawing Challenge XXIII, which was inspired by the following words from Wislawa Szymborska's Poems New and Collected, which was first published in 1998 and collects poems written between 1957 and 1998.
“When I pronounce the word future,
the first syllable already belongs in the past.
When I pronounce the word silence,
I destroy it.”
We are pleased to present a larger selection of submissions in the accompanying virtual exhibition
When I pronounce the word silence, I destroy it.
September 15 - October 29, 2021
Shelley Haven, Bash Bish Falls II, pastel on paper, 15 x 22 inches
Lois Bender, Future is Past (Diptych), 2017, wax-dipped ink on paper, 26 1/2 x 40 1/2 inches
Michele Montalbano, Kintsukuroi (conceivable yet mysterious), intaglio, letterpress, and gold leaf on paper, 22 x 14 1/2 inches
"This print is part of my “Babel" series which is a comment on the language barrier and how it divides us. In today’s world, communication across the globe can happen with a click of a button. We speak many different languages (literally and figuratively), not hearing each other, and most notably, not necessarily wanting to hear each other."
- Michele Montalbano, 2021
www.michelemontalbano.com
Karen Abada, The Yearning Curve, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 inches
Aga Ousseinov, In the Light of Lightning, 2015, gesso, gouache and charcoal on paper, 22 x 30 inches
Colleen Blackard, Moonstones, 2020, monotype on paper, 8 x 10 inches
”This monotype is from my series “Eventide,” based on memories of my residency at Cill Rialaig Artist Retreat in Co. Kerry, Ireland. Created during lockdown, I envisioned a moonlit return to the monastic ruins of Kildreelig using a reduced palette of colors available to the Irish monks of the 8th century. This series is a contemplation on those who have come before and the space that is found in their wake.”
- Colleen Blackard, 2021
www.colleenblackard.com
Dee Shapiro, Accidental Beginning, 2019, ink on paper, 9 x 12 inches
https://deeshapiro.art/
Alice Zinnes, Silent Whispers, charcoal on tinted archival paper, 27 1/2 x 35 inches
Joan Zalenski, Silent Night, archival pigment print (photograph) on cotton rag, 8 x 10 inches
Debra Ramsay
”The caption under the color field is from the photo of the same size/location on the NY Times front page: The Toll: America Approaches Half a Million Covid Deaths. 2.21.21”
www.debraramsay.com
Yvette Cohen, SQUARE Defamed? Fold 2, Acrylic on Canvas, 33 x 33 inches
www.yvettecohen.com
Mary McFerran, SisterSister, 2021, watercolor, ink, fabric, on Arches paper, 30 x 40 inches
marymcferran.com
Norma Greenwood, CONTAINING THE ETHEREAL, oil on canvas, 18 x 18 x 1 inches
Marsha Nouritza Odabashian, 2021, When I Pronounce the Word Blue, the Color Orange Overshadows, 2021, acrylic and onionskin dye on canvas, 16 x 20 inches.
marshaodabashian.com
Philip Gerstein, Lover Be Blue, 2019-20, acrylic & glass beads on birchwood panel, 24 x 36 inches
www.PhilipGerstein.com
Carol Radsprecher, Looking Back, 2018, inkjet print drawn and colored in Photoshop, 12 x 12 inches
Shira Toren, Bantu Knot #1, venetian plaster, pigment, graphite on canvas attached to panel, 5 x 7 inches
www.shiratoren.com
Eveline Luppi, Flamenco Sky Dance, 2021, acrylic, 24 x 24 inches
www.evelineluppi.com
Deanna Sirlin, Laid, 2021, mixed media on panel, 10 x 8 inches
www.deannasirlin.com
Dane Goodman, forth & back, 2017, ink and colored pencil on paper, 8 1/2 x 11 inches
www.estradafineart.com
Gerri Rachins, Untitled 0072, 2017, mixed media painting with Flashe paint on Arches paper, 12 x 9 inches
www.gerrirachins.com
Julie Shapiro, Next, 2021, colored pencil, graphite, acrylgouache on collaged monoprints, 22 x 30 inches
www.julieshapiroart.com
KiP Walker, Inference Of Time: Evolving #2, 2017, archival digital print, 20 x 27 inches
kipwalkerart.com
Frank Webster, Goðafoss V, 2020, watercolor and graphite on paper, 9 x 12 inches
fwebster.com
”The quote from Wislawa Szymborska makes me think of the impermanence of rushing water.”
Jane Sangerman, Revolve D121, 2021, mixed media on Arches paper, 10 x 10 inches
www.janesangerman.com
Nina Meledandri, dream of the void, 2018, archival inkjet print, 18 x 42 inches
gallery.meledandri.com
”For me, this quote embodies the essence of why I make diptychs: to evoke the psychological (often subliminal) space that exists outside of time, that is suspended between before and after; whether that may involve hearing an utterance or the experience of one’s eye traveling between two images that have been placed side by side.
For my ongoing series “Somewhere in Between”, I pair a photograph from my digital archives with an oil painting (8 x 8" on wood panel), treating both images as raw material with which to form one work, with the primary intent of bringing the viewer to an interior realization, be it a reminder of the familiar or the discovery of the unknown.”
Lisa Hess Hesselgrave, Daniela Waits
www.lisahesselgrave.com/
Julia Bloom, July 26, 2021, compressed charcoal on black typewriter ink on handmade Kitikata paper, 17 x 21 inches
www.juliabloom.net
Leon Steinmetz
www.leonsteinmetz.com
Julia Coash, Strata 1, 2021, oil and mixed media on paper, 5 1/2 x 15 inches
juliaacoash.com
Nancy Berlin, What’s Left, 2021, mixed media on wood panel, 20 x 16 inches
nancyberlinart.com
Amy Bassin, Civil Atrocities, archival inkjet print, 14 x 14 inches
”Civil Atrocities was inspired by the events leading up to the 2020 election, the January 6 Insurrection, and the American Civil War where I explore social injustices, power struggles, survival, and personal history in relation to socio-political current events.
As an adult living through the horrors of a powerful embracing of fascism, a fight for democracy, gun violence, climate crisis, feminism, and a global pandemic, my work represents the destruction, chaos, and fear that threatens my survival and destroys any comfort in a safe future.”
Maya Ciarrocchi, Super Outbreak, 2021, watercolor, gouache, ink and emergency rescue blanket on paper, 18 x 24 inches
www.mayaciarrocchi.com
”After the isolation, grief, and anxiety experienced over the last year and a half, New Yorkers are longing to break free. We know, however, we can not return to the ways of the past. With one foot in the old world and one in the new, what are our visions of the future?
Super Outbreak, composed of lines, abstract forms, and bright colors, describes a fantastical city belonging to an imagined future.”
Ute Hoffritz, Soft Landscape (“Suwalszczyzna“), 2012, concrete, edition of 7, 1 1/2 x 5 x 4 1/3 inches
www.ute-hoffritz.de
Lynn Bernstein, Don & Lazar, 2021, oil pastel on paper with pencil, 14 x 10 inches
Barbara Slitkin, Outspeak, 2020, ceramic, 6 1/2 x 7 x 5 1/2 inches
www.myluckyart.com
Elizabeth Riley, Untitled Orange-Yellow #26, 2020, Video stills inkjet-printed on paper, 22 1/2 x 29 1/2 inches
ElizabethRileyProjects.com
Tony Moore, Neolithic II, 2020, wood-fired ceramic, 22 x 21 1/4 x 9 inches
www.TonyMooreArt.com
Friederike Oeser, EIN AUGENBLICK (IN A MOMENT), original hand-finished silkscreen on digital collage on Buetten, 30 x 22 inches
www.friederike-oeser.de
Sam Marroquin, Equal Justice, 2021, acrylic, charcoal, tags, paper, image transfers, mesh and metal collage on canvas, 18 x 36 inches
www.smarroquin.com
Arleen Joseph, The Deep, 2021, oil, encaustic, gold on cradled wood, 12 x 12 inches
https://arleenjoseph.com
John McDevitt King, La Entrada Moment, 2021, colored pencil on handmade paper, 20 x 16 inches
www.johnmcdevittking.com
Carol Warner, Stay, 2020, acrylic on paper, 23 x 30 inches
”This work on paper, titled “Stay" is from my ongoing series of prayer beads. Like Wislawa Szymborska’s prose, the series speaks to the passage of time and the fragility of silence.”