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PIECING, CONNECTING, RE-CALLING
MARIANNE CONNOLLY ROCHELLE SHICOFF September 7-30, 2023 Opening Reception Thursday, September 7, 5-7:00 pm Art Forum on Zoom: Thursday, September 21 at 7:30 pm (Click for video) |
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PIECING, CONNECTING, RE-CALLING
MARIANNE CONNOLLY AND ROCHELLE SHICOFF
In PIECING, CONNECTING, RE-CALLING, Marianne Connolly weaves a narrative thread through collage and mixed media art while Rochelle Shicoff exhibits a mixed media series that combines painted images, hand-stitched fabrics, and various artifacts of clay, wood, and other materials.
MARIANNE CONNOLLY AND ROCHELLE SHICOFF
In PIECING, CONNECTING, RE-CALLING, Marianne Connolly weaves a narrative thread through collage and mixed media art while Rochelle Shicoff exhibits a mixed media series that combines painted images, hand-stitched fabrics, and various artifacts of clay, wood, and other materials.
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MARIANNE CONNOLLY
Narrative in Language and Image Marianne Connolly explores storytelling, narrative, and the connections between language and image in her visual art of collage and mixed-media work and in her written work in fantasy fiction. "Rapunzel’s Diary (Revised)," for example, is a mixed-media work pairing an iconic Olivetti Valentine typewriter with a 20-foot scroll of typed narrative. Like the fairy-tale character of Rapunzel, trapped in a high tower and pouring her long hair out the window to connect with the world (and her fairy-tale prince), the typewriter is suspended on the wall above us and a hand-typed story flows down to the floor, from the “window” of an elegantly designed placket. Also revealing the artist’s long-term interest in narrative, "Ophelia's Dive" is a hand-cut-and-pasted collage imaging an alternative turn in the story of Ophelia, from the Shakespearean tragedy Hamlet. The artwork revels in aspects of collage technique, with the convincing incongruity of Ophelia’s feathery boa conjured from meticulously-snipped photographs of octopus eggs. |
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ROCHELLE SHICOFF
Lost and Found: To Make Whole Rochelle Shicoff connects with her maternal grandparents, who were tailors, by the repetitive gesture of sewing fabrics, and with her late mother, who was a master knitter and painter, by using her yarn for the wrapped pieces. The painted images in Lost and Found: To Make Whole, which are enclosed by embroidery hoops and surrounded by pieced fabrics, evoke both the ancient Mimbres culture and the Ewe, which are carved wooden female protector figures. Shicoff uses acrylic paint to create flat areas of color with sharp edges that vibrate with interactive hues, building on a palette of complementary colors and a balance of asymmetrical shapes. The color combinations draw the viewer in, to look and then to look again, making their own interpretation. “Making art, for me, is solving a puzzle,” says Shicoff. “How to organize all of the elements to fit together to result in a cohesive whole.” |
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ART FORUM ONLINE
In an Art Forum Online on Thursday, September 21 at 7:30 pm, Connolly and Shicoff will discuss their work, and welcome questions, comments, and stories from the audience. Click here to register for this online event, which is free and open to the public. This Art in Community outreach program is supported in part by grants from the Amherst Cultural Council, Pelham Cultural Council, and Springfield Cultural Council, all local agencies, which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
In an Art Forum Online on Thursday, September 21 at 7:30 pm, Connolly and Shicoff will discuss their work, and welcome questions, comments, and stories from the audience. Click here to register for this online event, which is free and open to the public. This Art in Community outreach program is supported in part by grants from the Amherst Cultural Council, Pelham Cultural Council, and Springfield Cultural Council, all local agencies, which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
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DRAGON MOON DREAMING
Online Reading Nina Kiriki Hoffman and Marianne Xenos Tuesday, September 26 at 7:30 pm ET (Watch video) In September, Gallery A3 offers a bonus Art Forum. Writers Nina Kiriki Hoffman and Marianne Xenos will read speculative stories and talk about their work at an online event. Over the past four decades, Nina Kiriki Hoffman has sold novels and more than 350 short stories. Her works have been finalists for the World Fantasy, Mythopoeic, Sturgeon, Philip K. Dick, and Endeavour awards. Her fiction has won a Horror Writers Association Stoker Award and a Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America Nebula She teaches writing classes through Wordcrafters in Eugene and Fairfield County Writers’ Studio. She lives in Eugene, Oregon. Marianne Xenos is a writer and visual artist living in western Massachusetts working with photography, collage and stories. She writes about shapeshifters, urban dragons, and disco, and is at work on a full-length fantasy novel set in Boston in the 1980s. Last year she was a first-prize winner in the Writers of the Future Contest, and her publications include Orion's Belt Magazine, The Fantastic Other, and The Underdogs Rise. Nina's Wikipedia Page Marianne's website |