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Member Statements for "Sanctuary" Please click on images for large, print-quality photographs.
Muriel Angelil Beehive, a place to hide Our lives are made up of fragments, some joyful and some painful. We hide these pieces of our lives in the beehive of our memories to take out once in a while and share with another. Bees store their honey and eggs in the chambers of a beehive hidden safely from others. A beehive is a place to hide in safety. Muriel Angelil is an installation and performance artist. She has an M.F.A. from VermontCollege in Montpelier, Vt. She has created installations at LarzAndersonPark, TopsfieldState Park, the Franklin Park Zoo, the MuddyRiver, The ArtComplexMuseum, NewburyCollege and with the Reclamation artists. She is a professor in the Fashion Department of Newbury College. Brookline, MA. mmangelil@yahoo.com
Myrna Balk Invitation A chance
to recapture the beauty of bamboo and leaves blown down in the snow storms
of winter.
Jaime Belkind Intensive Care In addition to making art, I am a physician. My life experiences and often what I see and feel as an MD is reflected or experienced through my art. Recently I lived an intensely violent period in my natal Mexico due to the drug wars. Throughout the city where I lived, one can often see white outlines where bodies laid. This work is based on some of those experiences, both in taking care of the ill and as someone who experienced the threat and danger of the violence.
Louise Farrell Camouflage Three figures are biding their time. They remain camouflaged until they can safely show themselves. Louise Farrell's website: http://www.louisefarrell.com/. She can be contacted at: farrellstudio@gmail.com
Jeremy Kinball Ascension The group of four figures made of wood, plaster and hemp cord is comprised of a tall figure engaged in pulling another up the tree towards the outstretched arms of two kneeling figures. The work alludes to the notion of the safety and sanctuary of the collective.
Karen Klein ForeclosureAn oak root in which an actual bird’s nest sits, contains or has nearby stick figures symbolizing humans who have lost their home. This deeply ironic piece comments on the current social ill that while birds still have nests, humans are part of the increasingly large population of the homeless.
Milan Klic Phoenix Birds are testimonies that we are still alive, that we haven’t overheated the planet irreversibly as yet. May this glowing bird be seen as potential looming agony to all living creatures.
Bette Ann Libby Lanterns John Singer Sargent’s painting of three young girls holding Chinese lanterns reminds me of simpler days when candle and natural light alone illuminated our environment. These “lanterns,” made of MRI film, are illuminated by solar lights by night as well as the shadows cast by the sun during the day. Bette
Ann Libby, has worked in clay since 1972 and has been
inspired by her sojourn in Samoa, South Asia, India and the Mid-east.
She is the founding mother of Studios Without Walls
wrote the collaborative’s first four grants that won funding from
the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Brookline Council for the
Arts and Humanities. Bette Ann’s work is widely shown. She has
won regional prizes including a 1997 award from the Cambridge Art Association,
juried by Maud Morgan and the 1995 winter juried exhibition at the DuxburyArtComplexMuseum.
Last year she received first prize in the MassachusettsState of Clay
Exhibition, juried by Peter Beeseaker, for her mosaic sculpture "Gargoyle
with Butterfly Wings." She will be showing shard mosaic sculptures.
Lyn MacDonald Microcosm Made of 100+ copper scrubbies, pipe cleaners, and pumpkin stems. This piece represents the micro-world of moss or coral.
Joan Schwartz Chrysalis In this world fraught with suffering, danger, and dis-ease, we offer a chrysalis as a place of safety, refuge, and transformation for all we cherish. This chrysalis incorporates words of protection and love from people around the world for those suffering in mind, body and spirit, as well as for endangered animals and plants, and for our beautiful mother earth. Joan’s work has been commissioned by the Boston and Milton Arts Lottery Commissions, the Cambridge Arts Council, and First Night Boston. She has exhibited with Studios Without Walls, Jamaica Plain Open Studios at Loring Greenough House, the Gallery at Innovative Moves, and at Lynn Arts. Her work includes quits, helium balloon-filled floating sculptures, painting, artbikes, and ceramic sculpture, as well as site-responsive installation. Joan co-founded the Loon & Heron Theatre for Children for which she designed masks, puppets, sets, and costumes for award-winning productions of fantasy and fable. She performed professionally with the dance companies of Kei Takei, Meredith Monk, Barbara Roan, and Frances Allenikoff. Contact Joan at joans.chyrsalis.project@gmail.com, http://studioswithoutwalls.org/joans
Barbara Vogelsang Tree Talk Grass chairs on branches with light figures in conversation. Barbara Vogelsang, is currently working as a free-lance artist and decorator in Brookline/Mass. After receiving a degree in fashion design from the Modeschule Düsseldorf (Germany) in 1965 she worked as a fashion designer in Heidelberg, Berlin, Porto Cervo/Italy and Hamburg. In 1971, she started working in art in Germany. She subsequently studied sculpture at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1978/79 and 1981/82, and took surface design at Boston University in 1983, followed in 1984 by papermaking with Bernie Toale in Allston/Mass. In recent years she has worked extensively in soft sculpture and in handmade paper. She has participated in group shows in Bonn, Heidelberg, Cambridge/Mass. (Mobilia, Van Buren), Portsmouth/N.H. (Gallery 33), Arlington/Mass. (Tufts University Paper Show), Lincoln/Mass. (Clark Gallery), Duxbury/Mass. (Duxbury Museum and Art Complex), Los Angeles (Art Expo), Boston (Northeastern University) and Santa Monica (Art Options). She has shown at Rugg Road Gallery in Allston/Mass., at Studio DuMont in Cologne, at Gruner & Jahr in Hamburg and at New England Institute of Art in Brookline. In recent years Barbara has created room-size environments in handmade paper for the March of Dimes (Mariott Hotel, Boston), for the SomervilleHistoricalMuseum, for the Starr Gallery (Newton) and for the DeCordovaMuseum. She did a permanent installation for the LakeFarmparkMuseum (Kirtland, Ohio). Articles about my work appeared in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, Kölner Stadtanzeiger, Express, and Ambiente. She was interviewed and portrayed by Studio 7, Channel 7, in Boston as well as Vox TV in Germany. Barbara can be contacted at vogelsan@bu.edu |
