Posts in Artists In the Studio
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
The Digital and the Natural: Devra Freelander in the Studio
Jan 10, 2019
Devra Freelander thinks of her sculptures as “2.5-dimensional.” She deftly plans and renders works in digital space before executing them in three dimensions, typically through the processes of resin casting, dyeing, and sanding. Preferring crisp edges and bright, even colors to hand-drawn lines or brushstrokes, Freelander uses Photoshop as her sketchbook to express a “digital-spatial… View Article
Rivers and Tides: Lucy Holtsnider in the Studio
Jan 04, 2019
In a canal in Moorehaven, Florida, the engine of Lucy Holtsnider’s sailboat broke down. It was a 34’ homemade wooden catamaran, a little over twenty years old, with no insulation or windows. Holtsnider and her partner, Zion Klos, whose family had built and lived on the sailboat when he was in middle school, had been… View Article
The Shape of Yes and Other Musings: Malin Abrahamsson in the Studio
Dec 13, 2018
The week prior to Malin Abrahamsson’s arrival I listened to a TED Radio hour podcast featuring designer Ingrid Fetell Lee, author of the Aesthetics of Joy. In the episode, Lee poses the question “what does joy look like?” Malin’s work is a suitable response to this question: it is an embodiment of joy, and it… View Article
Enter Laughing: Flannery Cashill at WSW
Dec 05, 2018
Artist and writer Flannery Cashill is a world-maker. Her work pops with color and patterns, flowers and women, aliens and animals. Finding inspiration from an array of consumer branding and cultural phenomena, including “comics, cereal boxes, jokes on popsicle sticks, emojis, infographics, petroglyphs, Skymall, etc.” she incorporates these elements into her work asking “how much… View Article
Fabric of Daily Life: Padma Rajendran in the Studio
Nov 09, 2018
Artist Padma Rajendren’s work delivers themes of migration, women, labor, and the narratives of domesticity by grounding us in earthly, bodily experiences. Despite the aesthetic lightness, she delivers bright and playful forms that hold weight with meaning, “I’m trying to communicate ideas that are not always lighthearted, but it’s harder to ignore the lovely things.”… View Article
Taking Care: Yasmina Karli Malmsten
Nov 02, 2018
Malmo based artist Yasmina Karli Malmsten’s prints are tender and intimate. Figures lounge in pools, stretch, or recline against one another. And notably these figures are all female. Throughout her work the body takes precedence, its shape held solid with blocks of color. The depiction of women at rest and being vulnerable with one another… View Article
#FirstFriday: November Exhibitions We Love
Nov 01, 2018
Highlighting exhibitions that feature the work of WSW artists, we share the shows near and far that make up our monthly must-see list. Carol Flueckiger (Studio Workspace Resident ’17) is exhibiting Solitude of Selfie in Women’s Right National Historical Park in Senica Falls, NY. Finger Lake Times has an article on Flueckiger and the exhibition. Show on view September… View Article
In Her Words: Martie Geiger-Ho Reflects on Her Residency
Oct 26, 2018
Standing the test of time itself, the charming rural building that houses Women Studio Workshop (WSW) is both a testament to the ethos of this institute, and a haven for artistic exploration and community education. There is a comforting feeling of permanence and security at WSW, which is reinforced firstly by its location in New… View Article