Abrazos Press is a professional printmaking studio founded by Annie
Silverman, Sandra Butler, and Nina Wishnok. We will participate in
open studios this year -see our individual profiles on this website.
We have a 30x60 Takach press in a beautiful 650sf space. In addition
to making our own artwork we offer classes in woodcut, monotype, book
arts, and computer skills for artists. Please visit
www.AbrazosPress.com for information about current and upcoming
special print projects and class offerings.
Sandra Allik, a painter, is new to Miller Street this year. She arrived from her studio in Ibiza, Spain, where she spent most of her time for 13 years. On that island she fell in love with the brilliant light and colors of the Mediterranean, and the sun and scenery saturate her work from that time. She is currently working on a series of paintings based on drawings she did while in Newfoundland, Canada. Her work has been shown in Paris, Ibiza, and in the United States (New York, Portsmouth, NH and Rockport & Ogonquit, ME, and at Brickbottom here in Somerville). She has sold paintings to collectors in Brussels, Ibiza, and London, as well as those here at home.
Karen
Aqua's new film "Twist of Fate" (which she has been working on since 2004) will have its world premiere screenings at the Institute of Contemporary Art on May 3 & 7, 2009. Her film "Sensorium" premiered there in October 2007.
As part of The MacDowell Colony's Centennial Celebration in 2007, she & composer Ken Field were selected to create one of eight Peterborough Projects.
During a 5-week residency, they worked with students to create the film "In the Shadows of Monadnock," and also worked on their own projects. Karen also had artist residencies at the MacNamara Foundation (Maine) and the Wurlitzer Foundation (Taos, NM), as well as teaching residencies in Roswell, NM and Sheridan, Wyoming. In 2008, her work (pastel drawings and animation) was included in 2 group exhibitions at the Nave Gallery in Somerville. One of her large "animated quilt" pieces was purchased by the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art in Roswell, NM, where it now hangs in the permanent collection.
Peggy
Badenhausen is a painter and printmaker. In both media, she
explores the connection between architectural language and the
notations used for dance and music. She has recently participated in
"Seven Printmakers" at the Soprafina Gallery in Boston, and is
looking forward to showing her paintings this summer at the SRISA
gallery in Florence, Italy.http://www.peggybadenhausen.net
Sandra Butler is a painter/printmaker who uses an abstract vocabulary to express internal thoughts and ideas. She is affiliated with Abrazos Press here at 11 Miller St. and the Eclipse Mill Artists Association in North Adams, MA. She recently received a Visual Artists Grant from the Somerville Arts Council and has held residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Penland School of Arts and Crafts in North Carolina. She is currently is a member of the art faculty at Milton Academy and has taught at the Massachusetts College of Art as well. Exhibitions include the 50th Annual National Print Exhibition at the Hunterdon Museum of Art in Clinton, N.J., the 29th Bradley National Print and Drawing Exhibition in Peoria, IL, The Cambridge Art Association’s National Prize show, and The Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven, CT. Her work is in many private and public collections in the New England area.
The
energy of the lines, the evocative shapes, the gracefulness,
and sometimes, awkwardness of the landscape becomes the material
for Jane Bernstein's drawings, monoprints and oil paintings. This past year her work was exhibited in two juried shows - A
National Drawing Show at the South Shore Art Center in Cohasset, Ma.
and in Mythological Renderings at Brickbottom Gallery in Somerville,
Ma.
Michael Compton's paintings, rendered in a realist manner, express a sense of
place and time, as if a memory had been captured on canvas or paper. An accomplished
colorist, Compton's work, set in the commonplace, is washed in the light of true
insight.
Using a conceptual approach, manifested from personal interactions, which
connect to the larger world, Ruth R. Compton fabricates common trends in a modern,
artistic language. Her works are a combination of computer generated, and
traditional media.
Vicki
Citron established her violin studio in 1988 to create
a learning environment where students could develop a passion
for music, and experience the joy of making music with others.
She has received national and local recognition for her teaching. www.citronmusic.com
Ira F. Cummings is a printmaker and graphic designer. A native of
northern Vermont, he has just recently joined the Somerville art
community. His work explores a wide range of subjects, utilizing bold
shapes and subtle textures to create compositions. He is passionate
about exploring new techniques and incorporating them into this work
to create prints that are often a melding of different disciplines. www.iracummings.com.
Barbara Halporn shares space with six other book workers in the Bindery at 11
Miller St. Her work includes custom binding, book repair, protective enclosures,
and book boxes which can be seen at www.bookbindingandrepair.com.
Kata Hull currently teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, and Tufts University, and leads drawing and collage workshops
and retreats for individuals and organizations. Her recent work has
been exhibited in various juried shows including Experiencing the War
in Iraq, a multi-media show at Machines with Magnets, Pawtucket, RI,
and the Narrows Gallery, Fall River, MA, 2008; Finalist, A-
Politic, group show at Gallery XIV, Boston, MA; the Essex Art Center's
13th Annual Juried Show, 2006; Blue, 2006 - '07 at the Cambridge Art
Association; Everything Begins in the Water, a juried group exhibition
inaugurating the Mayyim Hayyim Gallery, Newton, MA; and the Essex Art
Center's 10th Annual Juried Show, Lawrence, where her work received an
award.
Sarah Hulsey makes prints, textiles, and artist’s books. She has a (currently nameless)
letterpress shop at 11 Miller Street. Her work has been in shows at Soulard Art Market in
Saint Louis, Missouri; the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale
University; and the Fourth International Book and Paper Triennial and the Center for
Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College, Chicago Illinois.
She also teaches letterpress and bookbinding at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly and
Linguistics at Northeastern University in Boston.
Steve Imrich is a practicing architect and painter. Steve’s current work experiments with ways of seeing day-to-day environments from partially abstracted and detached overhead vantage points. Recent paintings relate to his studio locale in Somerville, Massachusetts and have been inspired from pieces of aerial photos taken by friend and colleague Alex MacLean (‘Landslides’). Steve’s background as a pilot and designer has influenced the foundation for this investigation as it delves into the ways that distance and vantage affect our perception of environmental character.
Window reflection is a major theme that stands out in all of Kathryn Lloyd's artwork. The ability to express subtle changes in light and color with a meticulous
application of paint, forges a gradual path to the canvas surface.
Gail Martin has exhibited locally, regionally and nationally since 1995, at venues including the Tufts University Gallery, Towne Gallery at Wheelock College, The Clark Gallery in Lincoln, MA, and the Holter Museum of Art in Helena MT. The Holter exhibit was juried by Peter Schjeldahl, art critic for the New Yorker. You may have seen the Boston Globe article on her October 2007 exhibit at the Bromfield Gallery in Boston. Titled “precious, a year of looking at my stuff”, the exhibit consisted of 365 paintings completed in 2006 of her possessions. She has been using images of her own home as the basis for work that investigates mutability, impermanence and attachment. Her work is influenced by her interest in Buddhist philosophy and meditation practice. Her next solo exhibition at Bromfield will be in October 2009. You can see more of her work on her website: www.gailmartinart.com.
We
are happy to welcome Alessandra Mariano, an Italian-born
artist, to our building. Her vocabulary of portraits, animals,
& the human figure is expressed in oil paintings, drawings,
& printmaking. Last summer she worked in Italy on 2 commissioned
murals.
Dana Mueller is the recipient of the 2008 Faculty Development Grant from the Art
Institute of Boston, the 2007 St. Botolph Club Foundation Grant/ St. Botolph Club,
Boston and her work has been shown in exhibitions at Art Raw Gallery, NY,
ArtBridgeFair, Miami, FL, St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA, Photographic Resource
Center, Boston, MA, The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, Boston, MA,
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA, among others. Mueller's work
was recently featured in the German contemporary art magazine artlout in July 2008.
Mueller received her BFA at the Art Institute of Boston in 2001 and her MFA at the
Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2007. She has been teaching at the
photography and art history departments at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley
University since 2001.
Website: www.danamueller.net.
Amanda Nelsen maintains Tapwater studios in Somerville and produces new work, bound or printed, out of fine materials as well as from recycled goods. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University and is a graduate of the North Bennet Street School bookbinding program. Following employment at Harcourt Bindery and Quercus Press, she began teaching at AIB and the New England School of Art and Design. Amanda is a 2008 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant and resides in Cambridge.
Diane Novetsky is an abstract painter and printmaker. Her work is suggestive of intimate landscapes and is built up in highly textured, atmospheric layers of paint or ink. At Miller Street, Diane uses an etching press to create very intuitive, painterly monotypes. They are unique, one-of-a-kind prints where accidental elements often come into play. She is a founding member of the Brickbottom Artists Building in Somerville and regularly participates in both the Brickbottom and Somerville Open Studios. View her work at www.dianenovetsky.com.
Andrea
Oseas's mixed media works have been exhibited at the Herbert
Johnson Museum of Art, the Berkshire Museum, the DeCordova
Museum, the Pratt Institute, the Elvira Museum, and numerous
galleries. She has taught at Cornell University, the DeCordona
Museum, and Harvard University.
Jeanée
Redmond has received numerous grants, shown locally and nationally, and is
represented in the collections of Meditech Inc., Fidelity Investments, Putnum
Investments, and the Currier Museum of Art. Her work has long been concerned with
narrative content, often applying the graphic languages of science and nature -
fingerprint whorls, geometry figures, diagrams of genetic structure, Einstein?s theorems,
and the Periodic Chart - as decorative patterns. One series, “ Cow Rorschachs “, is
based on the psychological ink blot test. What the subject “sees” in the ink blot may
provide clues in evaluating his inner attitudes and motives.
Visual art may sometimes perform the same function. But, often, a cow is just a cow.
In April, her work will be included in the invitational show “Spoon it up, Fork it up” at the
Baltimore Clay Works.
To view more of her work, please visit her website: http://www.jeaneeredmond.com
Inventor/artist
David Durlach's TechnoFrolics melds art & science
into performance sculptures & interactive educational
exhibits. They created Dancing BannersTM choreographed fabric for shows in Las Vegas,
Phoenix, & the country of Cyprus. Installations
of their Spin BrowserTM video explorer include: the Newseum in
Arlington, VA (60's Newsreels), Los Alamos Bradbury Science
Center (nuclear blast tests), & Boston Museum of Science
(Big Dig footage).
Mia Rosenblatt Tinkjian received her MFA in Photography from the School of the
Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 2000. She examines and dissects 8mm films to
create still images. When put into sequences with images from other films, her
images suggest new formal and literary narratives and evoke the notion of distant
and unknowable memories. Mia also works in other media including paint and clay.
Ted Todd has exhibited paintings, drawings, and mixed media work in juried shows at the DeCordova Museum and the Cambridge Art Association.
The
Bindery at Miller Street is a cooperative of 6 hand bookbinders. They provide a
full range of services in the book arts including book repair; box making; custom
photo albums; blank journals; letterpress and artists’ books. Some recent work
can be viewed at: www.thethreeringbinders.com.
Annie Silverman
considers herself part of the international and
historic network of wood block carvers and printmakers that began
hundreds of years ago in China, Japan and Europe, stemming from the
human need to reproduce and disseminate images and written
information. This all seems perhaps charmingly obsolete in the
digital age, but carving itself can be its own reward.
For over 20 years Annie has experimented with relief printmaking, and
has created installations and Toy Theaters with her prints, most
recently VANISHING POLLINATORS at the Brickbottom Artist Gallery in
2007, and theaters that were exhibited as part of the Temporary Toy
Theater Museum at the Toy theater Festival in DUMBO, Brooklyn in
2008. She has exhibited her prints and artist books nationally and
internationally, in places as Denmark, Cuba, Iowa and Florida.
Annie teaches at Mass College of Art and at ABRAZOS Press, and loves
collaborating on projects.
Nina Wishnok prints at Abrazos Press where she mixes techniques such
as woodcut and paper lithography, intaglio, trace monotype, and
encaustic. She has been awarded a Mass Cultural Council Artist Grant,
and fellowships from the St. Botolph Club Foundation and Anderson
Ranch in Colorado, where she's been a resident artist. Her work has
recently been included in "New England Impressions: Exploring the
Woodcut" at the Concord Art Association, and in the Boston
Printmakers' "Field Report" at Brickbottom Gallery in Somerville.
This summer she will be included in "The Alphabet Show" at the Essex
Art Center in Lawrence MA. Please visit her website: www.ninawishnok.com.
Sculptor
Nancy Webb's commissions included a bronze bas-relief
for the Architectural Heritage Foundation at Boston's Old
City Hall, & bronze tiles, light switches, & faucets
for the Maud Morgan Visual Arts Center in Cambridge. She
exhibited drawings & prints at Helen Bumpus Gallery, Duxbury.
Nyia
Yannatos' work includes collagraphs, monotype and mixed
media.
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