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Men, Women,
Feminine, Masculine
Artists
Melinda Bruno
Shane Crabtree
Linda Dunn
Lynne Guimond Findlay
Celia Gilbert
Hannah Hammond-Hagman
Dian Hosmer
Christine Theo Hungate
Dan McCormack
Tacita O. Morway
Sheree Rensel
Lauren Simone
Marcella Stasa
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Melinda Bruno
"Amore"
Color photograph burnished on dry wall
16"x20"
$300 |
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Melinda Bruno is a freelance photographer and educator. She
has exhibited her work in Italy, New York, and the Boston
vicinity.
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Shane Crabtree
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Find out more about the artist at:
http://www.mhl.org/art/crabtree.htm |
"Venus of Willendorf #4"
Acrylic
14"x14"
$500
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"Happy Survivor"
Egg yolk and pure pigment
15"x12"
$350 |
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Linda Dunn
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"Mother/Daughter"
Mixed media on cloth
18" x 22"
$600 |
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"Memory and cloth intertwine for me. I look for abandoned
textiles: linens, laces, dresses, and embroidery. I over-dye
these and combine the results with other fabric, photographs and
words. My work documents the moment lived, and invokes the
moments gone….[This piece is about how] personality layers
experience and memory. Are we what we do, what we want, or what
we remember?" |
Lynne Guimond Findlay
"The Offerings - Earth"
Photography
16"x20" (framed)
$249
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A New England native, award-winning photographer Findlay has
captured memorable images in the most distant reaches of the
world. Her work has been displayed in area galleries, published
internationally, and has received national recognition and
awards.
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Celia Gilbert
"Me/Max"
40"x30"
(This painting
is one
panel of
a diptych called "Me and Max.")
Oil on canvas
Price upon request
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Celia Gilbert is a printmaker, painter, and
prize-winning poet, author of three books of poetry: An Ark
of Sorts, Bonfire, and Queen of Darkness. Her
artwork can be viewed at
http://celiagilbert.artspan.com.
About “Me/Max,” part of her diptych, “Me
and Max”, she writes,
“I have always been fascinated by issues of gender and
women’s lives. What painter looking at Max Beckmann’s
self-portrait in the Fogg Museum hasn’t wanted to appropriate
that assured insolent stance, the tux, the half-smoked cigarette
and the brilliant swift painterly strokes? In this homage to his
work what fun it is to be my feminine/masculine to his
masculine/masculine.
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Hannah Hammond-Hagman
"Straight Match, Repeat Pattern (Red)"
Wallpaper
43"x50"
$300 |
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Artist's
statement:
I expand the
discourse around issues of gender, sexuality, and identity by
using the body as a site and stage for the performance of gender
identity. I am interested in moments of time and space where the
body is confronted by an excess of gender performance, and I
visually exploit those stereotypes to create a opportunity where
gender is less defined or less crystallized; where a body can
inhabit an in-between and more slippery definition of what it
means to be a man or a woman…or whatever.
I
interrogate machismo in the domain of sports culture with my
recent project, The Straight Match, Repeat Pattern
series. The series consists of several life-size cutout
silhouettes of Greco-Roman wrestlers from the frilliest of
floral patterns. The bodies intertwine to appear as lovers or
even conjoined twins.
In my
continued play with the location and implementation of a gender
identity, I am committed to using visual triggers, which move
beyond the banality of stereotypes and the obvious.
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Dian Hosmer
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"Cover Up"
Yarn
Life size
$500
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Christine Theo Hungate
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"She Egg, He Egg"
Bronze
7
3/4"w x 5 3/4"h x 2 3/4"d
$350
"Untitled Walking Woman"
Woodblock print
18"x12"
$300
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"The
'She Egg' is a representation of the center of feminineness. This center is a
non-tangible state of mind. It’s condition is unique to each individual. The
perceived purity and value of this center are compellingly scrutinized by the
society in which it exists as well as by the person to whom it belongs."
"Working
for many years as a technician for other sculptors has allowed me the
opportunity to reflect on a variety of sculptural expressions. I find myself
emerging into a new chapter of my life with the desire to express sociological
phenomenon through my artwork. I am fascinated with the evolution of human
thought and social norms in any society, especially in regards to the
relationships between men and women. Many of the ideas I want to explore deal in
some way with social issues and inequities between the sexes. I hope to find
ways to cause people to contemplate why things are the way they are and to
question whether or not those things should change."
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Dan McCormack
"Amy G 5-26-04 – 1BE "
digital print of pinhole camera image
12.83"x11" each
$750 (signed on print)
"Kelly W 5-28-03 – 1BF"
digital print of pinhole camera image
11.96"x11" each
$750 (signed on print)
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In 1998 I began to work with
pinhole photography. I use an oatmeal box pinhole camera to make
8x10 inch B&W negatives. With its extreme wide angle and
distortion, the camera gives me results that are constantly a
surprise.
I develop the B&W negatives, scan them into Photoshop, and then
colorize the images by pulling curves in each of the channels.
These images are rooted in 16th Century pinhole optics
juxtaposed with 21st Century digital print manipulations.
These images step away from the literal reality choosing instead
to speak with a Jungian expressionism. Objects and places
juxtaposed with the model trigger a response that I react to
while colorizing each image. Through successive pulling of
curves, B&W values are replaced with color that ultimately
connect with the dreamlike state of the finished image.
Dan McCormack February 2006
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Tacita O. Morway
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Tacita is a painter as well as a landscape
designer, construction worker, computer programmer, and heavy
machinery operator, all of which inform her art. She recently
completed her second degree at the Art Institute of Chicago. She
enjoys exploring color, light, and space through painting and
drawing. Her work can be seen at
www.tacitaom.com.
"I have taken on many roles and
occupations in life in which I have not fit the conventional
standards. This self-portrait tells of my experience and
explores the tension between others’ perceptions and
expectations of me and my own self-understanding." |
"Self-Portrait"
Pastel on paper
22"x30" (framed)
$750
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Sheree Rensel
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"Big Hair"
Mixed media on canvas
16"x12"
$350
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Sheree Rensel is an artist and art educator in St. Petersburg,
Florida. Holding a BFA and MFA in painting from Wayne State
University, and one year toward a Ph.D. in Educational
Technology at Walden University, she strives to juggle the
demands of teaching and working as an artist. "One of the
wonderful things about getting older is that you start to see
patterns and cycles, which have occurred in your life. As an
artist, I have gone through numerous stages. In my teen years, I
was mesmerized by the challenge of trying to paint something to
look “real.” When I went to the university, the challenge was
pleasing the professors by emulating the contemporary artists of
the decade. Then there were the years when I had an identifiable
style and at times became locked in a genre. Colleagues and
patrons would fuss if a strayed. Now, right now, this minute, I
am in the most wonderful time and place ever. I make my art for
me. I am my own audience, critic, and patron. I really don’t
have to answer to anyone. My art is intensely personal, yet
others can glean a meaning of their own. That is fine with me.
We all have our way to find value in everything we encounter in
our lives and that includes the art we behold." |
Lauren Simone
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"Espalda"
Watercolor and conte
5"x10"
$225 |
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"Each one of my works originates from a simple desire to
make people aware of their surroundings." - Maya Lin
Lauren Simone lives in Rhode Island and is consumed by
drawing. She stumbled upon the arts unexpectedly while
studying Elementary Education and Spanish at Roger Williams
University, and has been fortunate enough to combine her
passions into her profession as an art teacher at a local
museum.
Simone's artwork tends to focus on architecture, anatomy,
and the process of truly looking. Her artwork focuses on
concepts or ideas that normally go overlooked or are
forgotten about. In this way, some of her art has a ghostly
look to it, and many of the pieces go into strange detail.
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Marcella Stasa
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"The Match"
Mixed natural materials
12"x6"x2"
$98 |
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