Posts in Artists In the Studio

One Hundred and Seventy-Six Days

Apr 02, 2019

In the first week of October three new interns arrived at Women’s Studio Workshop: Hannah Berman, Julia Schrecengost, and Darcy Palys. Hannah and Julia joined Ashleigh Pillay (who arrived three months prior) as Studio Interns while I joined the office staff as the Nonprofit Management Intern. As the nonprofit intern, I worked closely with the… View Article

Voice and Vision: WSW Announces Full Subsidization for All Residencies

Mar 29, 2019

For centuries, the great majority of women-identified artists had access only to domestic spaces —the kitchens, dining rooms, bedrooms and laundry rooms they lived and worked in—to think, dream, imagine and create their artwork. In the mid 1970’s—when Women’s Studio Workshop (WSW) was founded— little had changed. Linda Nochlin’s now famous 1971 essay entitled “Why… View Article

Transformed Spaces – Sharon Lindenfeld in the Studio

Mar 26, 2019

To see the world through Sharon Lindenfeld’s eyes is to be immersed in abstract and dreamlike landscapes: airy, vaguely familiar, and expansive. Over the past 12 years Sharon has worked primarily as a printmaker ruminating over the motif of stylized landscapes as a way to connect to the natural world in altered, flattened, and distilled… View Article

Face me por favor – Victoria Eidelsztein In the Studio

Mar 19, 2019

Vacant walls lining the streets of Buenos Aires form the canvas for Victoria Eidelsztein’s large stylized portraits. In 2017, Victoria and her partner Matt initiated a street-art project titled Face me por favor (Face me please) which utilizes portraiture as a tool to celebrate difference, foster community, and share stories with the goal of connecting… View Article

In the Studio: Sparking joy with Eleanor Anderson

Mar 01, 2019

In the WSW ceramics studios, Eleanor Anderson is rolling strips of clay, pinching and arranging them into grid-like patterns loosely in square and rectangular shapes. She then glazes these objects in bright and unexpected colors, fires them and dreams up the different possibilities for their installation in space. Unlike functional ceramics that have a clear… View Article

The Book as Sculpture: In the Studio with Eygló Harðardóttir

Feb 22, 2019

When Eygló Harðardóttir is in the studio, she thinks up a question as a departure point then organically seeks to answer it without a preconceived endpoint. Applying this same approach during her six-week residency, Eygló worked in the silkscreen studios exploring color, color functions and structures for changeable artist’s book forms. At the beginning of her… View Article

Chili Bowl Intern Profile: Laura Casas

Feb 14, 2019

Our annual Chili Bowl fundraiser is right around the corner and we’re getting pretty excited! As always, the Chili Bowl Intern has played a big part in getting ready for this event. Laura Casas came to WSW after graduating with her BFA in December, and got straight to work in our ceramics studio. Her work… View Article

What’s Left: Tracey Bullington in the Studio

Jan 31, 2019

From the onset, the openness of the unpunctuated title to the artist’s book, What’s Left conjures a double meaning. Is it a question? Is it a statement? Does it need to be either? Less ambiguous however is the nostalgia, longing and memory embedded in these two words, What’s Left, inviting viewers into the narrative within… View Article

What Remains: Vanessa Hall-Patch

Jan 18, 2019

“Through photography and printmaking I form a system of research” says artist Vanessa Hall-Patch. Her subject is a dwindling group of abandoned cabins located in a rural part of Bowen Island, British Columbia, where Hall-Patch lives. She has been observing and documenting the transformation of these structures and others like them over the years, considering… View Article