Tuesday, August 11, 2015

In Our News: Artists of Sol Print Studio


 
       
  • Michelle La Perriere  , For a month this summer, from 15 May - 13 June, I was a resident at the Jentel Artists residency in Banner, Wyoming. 
           I was given the Printmaker's Studio (which I had exactly 10 years before in 2005).
  • Gloria Askin has recently displayed prints in Pyramid Atlantic’s “Juried Members Exhibition” in Washington D.C., as well as “Intaglio,” a group exhibit juried by Ruth Lingen of Pace Prints, traveling between St. Louis and New York City. 

  • Oletha DeVane was sponsored by the U.S.Embassy and Unite Arab Emirates, at a month long artist residency. The Abu Dhabi Art Hub in the United Arab Emirates invites up to five artists a month from different parts of the world to come together to create, live and experience an intercultural relationship. At the end of the residency artist showcased their works in a one person exhibitions to guest representatives from the UAE and the US Embassy.  It was the first showcasing at the Art Hub of African American artists.
    Some of the images inspired by that trip will be displayed in '
    INSIDE/OUTSIDE' at the Creative Alliance starting October 10th .
    The Banneker-Douglass Museum in Annapolis will be creating “wall murals” from work created by DeVane and several artists from Maryland and D.C. area.  The exhibition is curated by artist, Lillian Thomas Burwell.
  •  Helen Frederick, recent exhibitions: ART AND POLITICS, Strohl Gallery, Chautauqua Art Institute, Chautauqua New York, June 2015, during a residency and faculty appointment at the Summer Art Institute. PERSONAL PATTERNS, curated by Claudia Rousseau, King Street Gallery, Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationArt Center, Takoma Park, MD, October - November, 2015. SELFIES: 50 AT 50, Southwest School of Art celebrates 50 Years, San Antonio, TX, National Invitational, May-July, 2015. ACTS OF SILENCE , Intersections Exhibition, curated by Vesela Stretenovic,Curator of Contemporary Art, at the Phillips Collection, Washington DC, February to May, 2016


  • Alan Grabelsky is working on a series of silkscreen prints at the Fredericton Makerspace, in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada where he and Irene Apostoleris are spending the summer. During the week of August 24, Alan and Irene will be collaborating with master printer, Robert Van de Peer at the Sunbury Shores Print Studios in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada, on a series of etchings.
  • Alan Grabelsky & Irene Apostoleris were in the November Printmaker's Showcase at Sunbury Shores Art and Nature Center in St Andrews, New Brunswick where they also participated in a summer residency.

  • Joe Kabriel's drawings were recently featured in a group exhibition at Tag Gallery at Bergamot Arts Center in Santa Monica, California. Kabriel recently moved to a canyon community in the Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California

  • Katherine Kavanaugh has an upcoming collaborative exhibition, Cartographies of Loss with poet Soheila Ghaussy. The show will be on view from September 1st – 13th at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Decker Gallery. The opening reception is September 3rd from 5:00 - 7:00 pm. Kavanaugh also received a three month 'Keyholder' residency at Pyramid Atlantic in Silver Spring, Maryland.
  • For a month this summer, from 15 May - 13 June, Michelle LaPerriere was a resident at the Jentel Artist Residency in Banner, Wyoming.
  • Christine Neill had a solo exhibition, “Metaphors of Light and Night,” at Goya Contemporary Gallery. She has also recently exhibited her work at the Adkins Arboretum Gallery and the Art Museum Complex in Duxbury, MA.

  • Randi Reiss-McCormack’s edition Looking for a Herd was featured under Selected New Editions in “Art in Print” Vol. 5 No. 1 in April 2015.

  • Ruby Yunis' work has been selected to represent the poem “Between Jupiter and Mars" in a "Book of Poems by Antonio Skarmeta”  The work and the book,will be exhibited in ExpoArte Santo Domingo, Chile, during January and February 2016. She is permanently exhibiting her work in “Fondo y Forma" a new art space in Santiago, Chile, from March 2015. She also has a solo exhibition "Cosmovision of a Parallel World “ Faculty of Engineering,Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, from June 5 to September 15 2015.

  • Soledad Salamé was nominated for the Davidoff International Residency at Altos de Chavon in the Dominican Republic. 

  • Deutsche Bank in New York has acquired two of Soledad Salamé’s prints for their exhibit entitled “Herland.”  The bank has been collecting cutting-edge, contemporary art for over 35 years.