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Explorations in Personal Cartography
A juried art exhibit curated by Exploded View
January 5-February 29, 2020
The Great Falls Discovery Center
Turners Falls, Massachusetts
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In the fall of 2019
Exploded View sent out a call for art,
asking these questions:
Where do you live?
Where are you from?
Where do you dream? How do you find your way? What takes you in and out of a place?
Where are your borders?
Who gets to make the map?
And who gets left out? Do maps lie?
This exhibition is the response.
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Mishael Coggeshall-Burr
Paris Alley
oil on canvas; $2,200
Rue Bonaparte
oil on canvas; $2,200
NYC cathedral alley
oil on canvas; $1,800
Mishael's three works investigate different resolutions of images of city landscapes under different lighting situations, two of Paris and one of NYC. With details obscured, we are left with optical essentials, introducing questions surrounding how we know where we are, what makes something identifiable, and do we really need to know what we think we need to know?
Mishael Coggeshall-Burr integrates the art of photography and oil painting to create novel and compelling images on canvas. Mishael studied painting at Middlebury College, The Glasgow School of Art, and the Art Student's League in New York. His studio is in Montague, MA where he lives with his wife and four children.
website: coggeshallburr.com | email:mishaelcb@gmail.com |
Instagram: @mishael.coggeshall.burr
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Nat Cohen
Dovecote
Plywood, wood, and oil paint, 30” long, 14” tall, 13” wide
This piece explores ideas of being settled and also moving. The grouping of small structures resembles dwellings rooted to an abstracted boat form-- a community of some kind. The title, ‘Dovecote’, was inspired by the bird houses made for doves that are set in the landscape or are incorporated into larger built structures.
My sculpture is a response to the landscape and waterways and the natural elements that are part of them. I look at how things grow and are recycled back into the organic world. I am also drawn to the structures that people build and how they relate to the landscape and become part of it over time. I work mostly with wood, often plywood, and some found objects.
Email: foothills94@comcast.net
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Trish Crapo
Havana, 2050
I grew up in Miami, FL, and spent all of my childhood on or near the sea. Finding myself landlocked in a Western Mass. hilltown, I escape to Cape Cod as often as I can. “Havana, 2050,” uses collage to express, with dark humor, my despair at the idea that all the places I love may someday be underwater.
Trish Crapo — I am a writer and visual artist who lives in Leyden, MA. My photography, collage, and altered books have been exhibited in Western Mass; Boston; Vermont; at The New School in New York City; in Moscow and Tula, Russia; and in Havana, Cuba.
Email:tcrapo@mac.com; website: trishcrapo.com
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Edite Cunhã
You Must Know
Mixed media, paper, gesso, paint, fabric, blood.
Our country, our democracy, our map is broken. But you must know that we can repair it We have the tools. Let's use them.
Edite Cunhā is a writer, artist, teacher and activist. Her fiction has been published both locally and nationally and won awards and fellowships including Smith’s Spencer Prize for Excellence in Writing, AWP’s Intro Writing Award and the Tara Fellowship for short fiction. She has been a fellow at the Vermont Studio Center, A Room of Her Own and the Disquiet Literary Program, and is a member of Exploded View. Cunhā has a BA from Smith College and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. She lives in Turners Falls, MA.
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Sheila Damkoehler
Estoy Aqui
was created outside on a beautiful sunny December day at my go-to place for escaping stress and restoring balance in Oaxaca, Mexico. I'm a museum professional working in history museums and a seasonal Park Interpreter here at the Great Falls Discovery Center.
The Japanese art of Suminagashi marbling uses inks on the tip of tiny brushes--typically two colors alternating to create concentric circles. The inks float on the surface of water. I was not even aware there was a breeze that day until the concentric circles started moving on their own. Soon, they began to look like the contours of an elevation map. Some blue ink added here or there and suddenly a winding river with inlets and a cove appeared. Home. Turners Falls, Barton Cove, the brook where I live in Bernardston . . . I was there in Oaxaca, but part of me was here--in this life.
The handmade paper came from a workshop in a huge textile factory complex converted into art studios and galleries in San Augustin Etla, a half-hour away from the city of Oaxaca.
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Laura Didyk
Passing Through
Have I Landed?
We Are Here and Here and Here …
All three of these pieces were created during last year’s 100-day project—I did one print a day for 100 days using Strathmore watercolor postcards, a gel printing plate, Golden high-flow acrylics, and additional media, such as ink, pencil, and colored marker.
Laura Didyk is a writer, editor, and teacher who began creating visual art in 2013 during a particularly trying winter. Since then her artwork has been featured at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, MA, and the Elusie Gallery in Easthampton, MA, as well as in numerous print and online publications, including Orion Magazine, No Tokens, Artful Mind, and Your Idea Starts Here(Storey Publishing), as well as on the covers of NELLE: A literary magazine, and evolve, out of Frankfurt, Germany. She lives in Great Barrington, MA.
email: lauradidyk@gmail.com | website: lauradidyk.com
Instagram: @lauradidyk
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Karen Evans
Bike Path with Signs
oil on canvas, 20 x 24
Based on a view in Turners Falls from 11th Street
Karen Evans resumed her painting practice after moving to Turners Falls in 2007. She received a BFA in painting from Philadelphia University of the Arts and is currently an active member of the UMass Hampden Gallery Critique Group, the Bernardston Meetinghouse painting group and a new member of Oxbow Gallery in Northampton.
website: karenevanspaintings.com |email: karenjevans@verizon.net
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Madge Evers
King Street Herbarium
Made with plants gathered on a rainy June day, close to the solstice, while walking on King Street in Northampton. The leaves of grapevine and tansy were in full furl. Wet conditions led me to fruiting mushrooms in nearby woods.
Treasure Map
Created in the summer of 2018, this image is one in a series that depicts an aftermath - a delicate climate-changed landscape, reduced to shadow and light. Dominating the series is the leaf, optimistic consumer of carbon dioxide and producer of oxygen.
She Sells Seashells
Wild carrot, wild grape and wild grasses are abundant in late summer. I collect them, just like the tiny shells I gathered in the Augusts of my youth.
Madge Evers lives and makes art in Haydenville. She began creating mushroom spore print imagery in 2015 and her work has been shown at galleries in New England and New York, including the International Print Center, the Vermont Center for Photography, and the Fitchburg Art Museum. She has been a teacher at Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School for many years and can be reached through her website madgeevers.com or in Instagram @_sporeplay
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Naya Gabriel
Both works "Come To Your River" and "The Embrace" are created using a mixed media technique that involves both acrylics & alcohol inks on recycled materials. They have a high level of abstraction but also suggest natural forms: water-based lifeforms in the former and humanoid lifeforms in the latter. Neither is for sale but prints are available upon request. Currently also accepting commissions.
Naya Gabriel (they/them) is a queer non-binary POC artivist who has been creating with acrylics and mixed media for the last three years with shows around the Valley. They grew up in South Hadley, studied chemistry and Asian Studies at Mount Holyoke College, and worked in pharmaceuticals before spending the last 15 years as a lab manager in the sciences at Hampshire College.
They also have years of experience with social justice and wellness facilitation, community building, science education and creative writing/editing. They use their own lived experiences with invisible disabilities and neurodiversity coupled with their artistic practice to create spaces to explore and expand our collective wellness and resilience, demonstrating the Audre Lorde-inspired notion that wellness itself is a radical political act and creative expression is key to healing and liberating ourselves.
Email: laughinglioness@gmail.com
Website: http://naya.myportfolio.com
Instagram @scifilens https://instagram.com/scifilens
Studio located in Paper City Studios at 80 Race Street, Holyoke - 3rd Floor (email or text for a studio visit)
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Jay Goldspinner
Free Harvest Supper
Pen and ink drawing of large-hearted community event held each August for many years, bringing together people from all over Franklin County and beyond.
Jay Goldspinner is a storyteller, artist, writer and old woman. Discovering the amazing and varied present-day comics, she drew some of her own, mostly set in the town of Greenfield, her long-time home.
Email rootworm@crocker.com
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Daniel Hales
Hello My Name Is Wonder
A collage made up of trash, flyers, handbills, etc., which I culled in Portland, Oregon, March 2019.
Balkan Bandwidth
A collage made up of trash, flyers, a candy bar wrapper, etc., which I culled/ate the contents of in Sofia, Bulgaria, July 2019.
Helios Manifesto
A collage made up of trash, flyers, the label of a retsina bottle, etc., which I culled/drank the contents of in Thessaloniki, Greece, July 2019.
These collages are part of a larger project called Travel Albums, which is comprised of site-specific collages on LP jackets.
Daniel Hales is a Greenfield-based writer, musician, and artist. He's the author of the hybrid-novel Run Story (Shape&Nature), three poetry chapbooks, and the forthcoming poetry collection ¿Cómo Hacer Preguntas? or, How To Make Questions (spring 2020, Frayed Edge). He rocks out with The Frost Heaves and Hales, The Ambiguities, and Umbral.
Websites: www.danielhales.com|www.thefrostheaves.com
Email: theambiguities@gmail.com
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Chaia Heller
The Return
A woman returns, in the spirit of tshuvah, to the land of her ancestors, to the Tree of Life that carries generations forth, and to the River Time that has no end. This piece invites us to dwell mindfully on three temporal planes: The deep past, an uncertain yet potentially abundant future, as well as the magnificent flow of the present.
While Chaia Heller's work depicts feminist and earth-positive worlds of Jewish Renewal, their universal themes extend beyond any particular spiritual or cultural perspective. Please visit Chaia at Paradise City Arts Festival in Northampton in May and October of each year. She is also represented by Concepts of Art in Lennox, MA. You will find a full gallery of work on her website, chaiaheller.com where you can order embellished prints, original pieces, and commissioned work.
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Laura Iveson
Of Two Minds
The collage, Of Two Minds, is part of a series of maps called The Atlas of Indecision, about the many points in my life that I have been rendered frozen by indecision. When I have been faced with big, life changing decisions I have found myself reflecting back on the security of the known and where I have been even as I peer into the unknown road in front of me.
I am a community artist working with The Art Garden on large public art events and co-directing the ARTeens program, I also run the Sets and Props workshops with Hilltown Youth Performing Arts Program. My studio is located in Shelburne Falls where I create my personal multi media art work.
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Trouble Mandeson
Wherever you go, there you are
An old shoe, paper map of California (my home state), glue and mini plastic people.
Inspired by travels where I find myself still myself wherever I go.
I use my creative and frenetic energy to transform discards and everyday objects into tiny tableau and humorous assemblages. Using little more than a glue gun and my fevered imagination, I transmogrify worn-out shoes into fun and thoughtful works of art.
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Robert Markey
The Peace and Love Mandala
This was inspired by what is happening now in our country and in the world. We need more peace, love, and compassion. It was also inspired by Peter, Paul and Mary's song "The Great Mandala" from the 60s.
Much of my artwork has focused on stopping violence against women, stopping wars, and showing the beauty of the world.
Website: robertmarkey.com
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Kristina McComb
Two Sides of Self #1
Two Sides of Self is inspired by my life experiences. The series aims to blend the two places that I consider my homes, Western Mass and Boston. While I currently reside in Boston, a part of me will always belong to Western Mass. Two Sides of Self displays the things I love about both places while comparing the physical similarities and differences between them.
Impassable Paths
Part of the series Latent Lenses, which examines little specks of dirt, grime, and unfortunate scratches and cracks on windows. These textures acted as filters through which to look at the world. The windows themselves acted as lenses focusing attention onto a limited visible space. Reflections became critical as they distorted perceptions of space creating illusions that would otherwise not exist. Each image frames shapes, colors, and visible textures. Occasionally recognizable elements ground the location of these abstract compositions.
Kristina McComb is an interdisciplinary artist from Western Mass. She received her Associate of Science Degree in Visual Art with a Photography Concentration from Greenfield Community College (GCC), where she graduated with distinction in art. While attending GCC she started an art practice merging photography and sculpture. Kristina transferred to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Her work has been exhibited since 2014, most notably at the Brattleboro Museum and Arts Center in Brattleboro, VT and the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA.
Email - Kristinamccomb25@gmail.com
Website - kristinamccomb.com
Instagram - @KristinaMcCombArt
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Barbara Milot
My work is about impermanence and the ephemeral nature of the many things we hope will be permanent.
BFA (UMass Amherst) and MFA (SUNY Albany) in studio art/printmaking
MA in art education (UMass Amherst)
Professor of Art at Framingham State University
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Julian Parker-Burns
Stairs is from 2014 when I was living and working in Kathmandu, Nepal. Nepal is 67 times smaller than the U.S. yet if you were to flatten all of Nepal's elevations they would cover the same area. Therefore stairs and the constant negotiation of elevation in Nepal is on everyone's mind, heart and feet.
Waiting for Rose is from 2015 when I was living and working in Kampala, Uganda. Waiting is an essential part of our human existence, however, in developing countries it is a way of life. That being said, most of us, developed or not, are still waiting for a rose.
Julian Parker-Burns is a painter, photographer, teacher, administrative assistant and disaster preparedness outreach coordinator who has migrated for 17 years through Taiwan, Ghana, Poland, Nepal, Uganda and the United States. Julian has studied at the Aegean School for Fine Art in Greece, Exeter Southwest Polytechnic in Devon, U.K., with Alex Grey at the Omega Institute and received a BFA in Painting from UMASS Amherst.
He is currently based in Easthampton, Massachusetts and his painting and photography work can be seen at www.juliaparkerburns.com as well as Facebook, Flickr, Instagram and ShootProof.
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Ginny Rockwood
Backyard
This mosaic conveys my love for all the trees that inhabit my backyard — the new, the elderly, the tall, the wise. It was made with stone and lustre glass. The stone was cut to accommodate the oval pieces of glass that are meant to bring some light, focus, and contrast to the stone. One piece of stone came with lichen from a fallen piece of slate from the roof of my 200-year-old home.
Leyden Landscape
A few years ago I fell back in love with printmaking, and I had the opportunity to explore collagraphs. This piece recalls my awe and inspiration when looking at the view of hills, sky, trees, and roads from the top of my land: the layers of colors and textures.
After high school I attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Tufts University. I trained to become an art teacher and have taught visual and digital arts to all grade levels for the past forty-two years.
Email: ginnyrockwood@gmail.com | Website: grockwood.weebly.com
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Ilaria Roma
Ilaria Roma is a mixed media artist who has participated in ARTeens, a program at The Art Garden in Shelburne Falls. She attends Four Rivers Charter School and lives in Turners Falls.
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Nina Rossi
You Are Here
My piece in this show combines a ceramic strata through which two miniature explorers wander surrounded by a soft sculpture frame with embedded chunks of black fire glass. Is it a journey to the center of the Earth, or a diorama for an observer?
I live and love in Turners falls. I’m part of Exploded View and have a little artgallery called Nina’s Nook on avenue a. Contact: nalerossi@gmail.com
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Stephen Schmidt
A.P.E.rture
Digital Photograph; Archival Inkjet Print
Garth Johnson, Lea Ved, Lilja Ruriksdottir, and Ingrid Kapteyn, dance students at the Juilliard School, performing a dance installation at the APE Center in Northampton. An immersive performance, the dancers interacted with the audience as well as the world outside. In this scene our gaze is drawn past the silhouetted dancers, through the glass window wall of the studio, to a view of Main Street.
Stephen Schmidt has studied with nationally-known photographers Larry Ulrich, Jeff Gnass, Harold Feinstein, Rose Eichenbaum, and Karin Rosenthal. His work has won prizes in Sierra and Earth magazines, and he has exhibited at the Merrill Lynch Corporate Gallery, the Arthur Griffin Center for Photographic Art, Arts and Architecture in Ottawa, Canada, and Nina’s Nook, Website: steveschmidt@crocker.com
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Barry Scott
Avenue A. May 7th, 2019
Turners Falls, Massachusetts
With mist rising from the warming earth after a spring shower, this image was captured moments after the lights on the bridge came on that connects Gill and Montague. The truck heading down the avenue with its headlights illuminating the wet road also represents industrious people bringing positive energy to town from outside and within.
Barry Scott is a local quality analyst for website developers who continues to share his creative perspective through pictures and video.
Barry is available for aerial drone photography and video projects.
Phone: 413-306-9647
Website: ithinkpictures.com (prints available)
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Anne LaPrade Seuthe
Minimal Shoreline/Quabbin Reservoir
Acrylic on Panel. 8 inches by 8 inches. 2017
$170
This piece distills the history and mystery of the Quabbin Reservoir in a detail of where water meets land.
You're So Far Away
Acrylic on Panel. 12 inches by 12 inches. 2017
$175
A view of "The Notch" obscured by fog, as viewed from Hadley, MA
Anne LaPrade Seuthe holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts. Her public/collaborative projects include X Marks the Spot, DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY, Intrude 366, Zendai MoMa in Shanghai, China, Physical Geography/Psychological Landscape, Goethe Institute, Dresden, Germany, SuperNatural, Art in the Orchard, and at the Distillery Gallery in Boston, MA. She has been a resident artist in the East/West Artist Residency, Carei, Romania and her work has been included in exhibits that include Mapping Heaven, Front Room Gallery, NY, The American Dream at Takt Projekt Raum, Berlin, Germany. She has been awarded the Strathmore Paper Award, a study-abroad Award from the Ministry of Culture, Germany, and a NEFA Presenters Award.
Website: annelapradeseuthe.com | email: anneseuthe@gmail.com
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Wednesday Sorokin, aka Nelena Soro
Map
Every painting is, for me, a dialogue with the unconscious. This painting began as a multi-layered palette monoprint onto which I added graphite drawing and brushed paint. I thought it was finished, but there was something that didn’t quite feel right. I started working on it again, simplifying, emphasizing, obscuring. In the end it felt like a map to a hidden treasure.
Finding Home
I looked forward to the opportunity of spending a year in California. The drive across the country was wonderful. The house my partner rented was great. I had time to paint. And yet, I had trouble settling in. I missed my funky wooden house; I missed my community; I missed my friends; I missed my land. My first Claremont painting became Finding Home.
Becket Dawn
One of my favorite things about where I live is the view from my bedroom window. My gaze stretches through the yard to the tall trees beyond the pasture. I pray that the old apple tree will last another year.
I received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Studio Art from Smith College and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from James Madison University. I’ve taught art for forty years, worked as an artist’s model in Western Massachusetts and New York City, and worked in human services in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and California. I’m currently on the faculty of IS183 Art School of the Berkshires and the Springfield Art Museum. I began exhibiting at thirteen. Primarily a painter, I’ve also done performance art, comedy, and worked with clay and other three-dimensional media. My enduring adventure with Jungian psychology is integral to my work.
nelenasoro.net
nelenasoro@gmail.com
wednesdaynelena on Instagram
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Timna Tarr
Mississippi Meander
Quilt is based on a 1944 map drawn by the Army Corps of Engineers which shows the ancient meanders of a ten-mile stretch of the Mississippi River. Each color represents a different time period of the river's life, dark green being the 1944 path. Yellow is the next oldest, then light blue, peach etc. The key is found in the binding of the quilt, on the left edge.
Timna Tarr comes from a long line of quilters but did not begin quilting until after studying art history in college. She bought her first longarm in 2001 and began quilting for clients shortly thereafter. Timna’s own nationally award-winning quilts are in private and corporate collections. They have also been seen in numerous exhibits, magazines, and books as well as on The Quilt ShowandQuilting Arts TV. She lives in South Hadley, MA and works out of her studio in Holyoke, MA.
Website: timnatarr.com
Social media: Instagram.com/timnatarr |facebook.com/timnatarrquilts
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Miriam E. Wells
Kokoman
Abbott Hotel
I am often afflicted with nostalgia and this feeling drives much of my artwork. Kokoman Liquors and the Abbott Hotel are real places, but take on an otherworldly quality when I put them on paper. Maybe it was that quality that attracted me to them in the first place. I primarily work in oils and ink, and I often find myself depicting people in isolated places, living their lives but unseen by others.
Miriam Wells is a carpenter and bookseller. She has an MA in history and an MS in historic preservation, and lives in South Deerfield, MA.
Email: mewsea@gmail.com
Website: miriamew.wordpress.com
Instagram: @seamewsea
Twitter: @mewsea
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Belinda Lyons Zucker
We Walked As One
About 600 centuries ago ancient homo sapiens began a journey across our planet.
Today, the world is on the move once again to pursue a safe place to work and raise a family.
This work is expresses my concern about 'US vs THEM'
I believe WE are entitled to the earth equally.
Belinda Lyons Zucker transforms her passions for fabric and clay into characters of anthropomorphic distinction. Her work expresses her ancestral connection with West African ritual, mythology and folklore. She has stretched the definition of dolls as playthings to figures that serve as art, mediums and ritual.
Belinda has created over 400 dolls and figures for galleries and commissions. Her work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions as wells as publications, including Art Doll Quarterly, Preview and Cloth Paper Scissors.
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Belinda Lyons Zucker transforms her passions for fabric and clay into characters of anthropomorphic distinction. Her work expresses her ancestral connection with West African ritual, mythology and folklore. She has stretched the definition of dolls as playthings to figures that serve as art, mediums and ritual.
Belinda has created over 400 dolls and figures for galleries and commissions. Her work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions as wells as publications, including Art Doll Quarterly, Preview and Cloth Paper Scissors.
etsy.com/shop/beezartdolls
picturetrail.com/beezdolls
beezartdolls@gmail.com
617-818-1970
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