The Woods at Jennifer Terzian Gallery
Apr
27
to Jun 15

The Woods at Jennifer Terzian Gallery

I’m happy to say I’m returning to Jennifer Terzian Gallery in Litchfield, CT for another solo show. This time I will be bringing woods paintings to the gallery in April 27th - June 14th, 2024. Show opens Saturday April 27th, 3-5pm.

The Woods

 

I make labor intensive paintings of gridded dots.  These paintings frequently document fabric, wallpaper and photo-based source material.  My most recent body of work has turned to the woods as its lone subject and focus.

 

About four years ago I began working on an 8 foot tall image of Northeastern American wooded forest to use as a backdrop for some of my installation and painting.  I took three years to finish the first large painting in the series, made from a snapshot taken in an afternoon. The slowness of the process forced me to look over and over at this one charmed and well-lit moment in time.

 

During the forced isolation of the pandemic I sat with this painting, and began another, as I had no woods to go to, nowhere to experience the slowness of nature. I like to consider it a contemporary way of documenting our extraordinary woodland spaces of North America, in the tradition of panoramic and scenic wallpaper.  When I finished this painting, I installed it both alone and with other works as a backdrop.  I found a demand and need for woods imagery every time I exhibited the work.

 

I'm currently developing a show comprised only of woods paintings of varying sizes, mostly composed of New England woods that I have walked through on foot.  The works are made from digital patterns I make from photographs, which I then paint on a wet media acetate.  The patterns are derived from the photographs, but also abstract and blur the photograph to a greater or lesser degree, depending upon scale and complexity of the image. 

 

I'm looking for a painting whose marks land between textile stitch, Impressionist mark and digital pixel.  The paintings I'm making blur between a focused Photorealism, a computer-generated pattern and a fetishized repetition of an acrylic paint mark.  Much of what I do is mix and organize color.  There is high labor behind each work, yet the effect is immediate and present.

 

I want the experience of my paintings to be much like walking in the woods.  Surrounded by a fabric of green, an excess of detail, the labor of making the painting stands as a devotional homage to the complexity and slow growth of the forest.

 

The scale shifts of the paintings for me, function much like the jumps in time from walking in the woods to slowly experiencing a painting over days, weeks or months.  The painting space both slows you down to a single greenspace and holds you within many particular and singular snapshots in time. 

 

I hope to image the woods in its current state, as it exists now, near me. We have precious resources in both humble scrub brush or elegant old growth forests, all worth documenting as they are seen in our moment.

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Floral Remix at Gallery NAGA
Feb
2
to Mar 2

Floral Remix at Gallery NAGA

I’m happy to announce I will be having a solo show at Gallery NAGA in Boston in February, opening Friday February 2nd, 2024 from 5-7pm and running through March 2nd.

Some details about the work to be shown:

After French Wallpaper with Red Scribbles, 2022 Acrylic and Acrylic Gouache on Canvas on Panel, 50 x 38in


Floral Remix

I make labor-intensive images of labor-intensive textiles and wallpapers.

These paintings encompass hybrid embroidery, cross stitch, collage and digital mark-making. I make a layered digital collage, using current and past paintings and patterns, and I cut and chop them, drawing in new marks and scribbles. I feel these are the most expressive and abstract of the work I have made, allowing me to play with calligraphic mark-making and humor.

Though these paintings read as expressive, much of the work in making them is deeply tactical and repetitive. The paintings are made from an earlier body of work, my embroidery paintings, which were made using a printed gridded pattern. To make those works, some of which are included in this show, I paint images that are not already patterns by generating a digitized grid from which I paint each stitch by hand with acrylic and acrylic gouache on a wet media acetate. This is a simple process of re-painting a textile or pattern, sometimes an invented image-generated textile, sometimes an actual knit or textile pattern (cross stitch or embroidery). The brush creates a one-to-one relationship of mark to stitch; each mark stands in for a move of the needle.

For this new work, the embroidery paintings were photographed or scanned and used as a base for compositions, combined and remixed with vintage wallpapers, cross stitch patterns and digital drawings. Remix itself is defined as using a machine or computer to change, improve or recombine different parts of a musical composition or orchestration. I use remix in my visual context to signify the reuse of feminine lapcraft, decorative design and digital traces of my own past work. This digital collage leaves the computer when it is printed on canvas and I proceeded to paint the surface almost to completion, leaving a bit of the digital marks available on the surface. I am interested in reasserting the authorship of my paintings through the labor and failure of my hand over the perfection of the digital object.

Parts of this series are generated from images of French wall decoration made following the discovery of the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the late 1700s. These works were deliberately cropped from texts discussing the shift in pattern before and after the discovery of those ruins, and the elaborate color and design shifts that occurred after the unearthing of the frescos. I am interested in the power engendered by pointing back to antiquity in times of struggle or trouble, and what that means in decoration. I am curious about the relationship of later popular decoration to this earlier format and find that I mine a large range of textiles and wallpapers for my work, partially as I seek to tie together disparate influences in my visual history, to sort them through. The re-presenting of many of the motifs hopefully begins to suggest the darker uses of antiquity and decoration more broadly as a stand in for beauty and power.

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July Residency at The Wassaic Project!!
Jul
30
6:00 PM18:00

July Residency at The Wassaic Project!!

I’m so excited to be going back to the Wassaic Project for the month of July! Hit me up for studio visits while I’m in residence in the fabulous Luther Barn with some of my favorite people!! Yay!

About the Wassaic Project Summer Residency:

Summer residents work out of 200–300 square foot studios in the Luther Barn: a historic livestock barn (built in 1875) in the heart of town. They have 24-hour access to their studios, our print shop, our wood shop, and our ceramics studio.

All residents live just a short walk away in one of our three residency houses, the Schoolhouse, the Lodge, and the HVA, where accommodations include a private bedroom, shared living room, dining room, kitchen, and bathrooms.

Fellow July Residents:
‍Madeleine Conover
Alexandria Deters
Liliana Farber
Suzanne Gold
Michael Hambouz
Padyn Humble
Kirstin Lamb
Deanna Mance
Sal Muñoz
Lena Schmid
Iren Tete
Kelly Worman

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Who's To Say I am Awake; Are You? at Geary in Millerton, NY
Jun
10
to Jul 30

Who's To Say I am Awake; Are You? at Geary in Millerton, NY

I’m so excited to announce that I will be in a summer show at Geary in Millerton, NY! Curated by Tara Foley and Dolly Geary, this show explore states of consciousness, I’m truly honored to be a part of this great group of artists! Opens June 10th!

Who’s To Say I Am Awake; Are You?

June 10th- July 30th

Who’s To Say I Am Awake; Are You? Asks the question about the state of consciousness today.  What is currently rising to visibility from our unconscious minds? 

For Carl Jung, consciousness is like a small island in the ocean of the unconscious, while the unconscious is part of the primordial condition of humankind. Jung explains various methods for uncovering the contents of the unconscious, talk therapy, dream analysis and art making.

The works of these 19 artists explore the conscious and unconscious mind, sleeping and waking states, inner and outer worlds, things we see and don't see, what we hide and what we show the world. Art holds the implicit power to awaken, stir and provoke through the innumerable ways that it charts the unknown; through representations of buried and hidden histories alongside meticulously mapped and dissected versions of reality. Artworks manifest slices of reality that are deliberately not at the forefront of consciousness in order to push the unforeseen forward. 

Aisha Tandiwe Bell-Caldwell

Azikiwe Mohammed

Brigitta Varadi

Darn Sudio

Erik White

Henry Klimowicz

Jack Wood

Kat Ryls

Kirstin Lamb

KK Kozik

Loraine Lynn

Lucha Rodriguez

Mark Joshua Epstein

Marta Lee

Nikko Sedgwick

Paul Anagnostopoulos

Saki Sato

Tara Foley

Theresa Daddezio

Geary

34 Main Street

P.O. Box 412
Millerton, NY 12546
T. 732.838.4511‬
E. info@geary.nyc
www.geary.nyc

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Ortega Y Gasset Projects Fundraiser!!
Apr
29
6:30 PM18:30

Ortega Y Gasset Projects Fundraiser!!

Ortega Y Gasset Projects Fundraiser April 29th

Join us live and in-person on Saturday, April 29th, 6-9pm for the exhibition and raffle of 100 (!) generously donated artworks, the unveiling of a limited-edition collaborative artwork by OyG co-directors, open bar and snacks! 

Tickets are $250 each for the general public and $150 each for donating artists! 

Each ticket includes:  

  • your choice of one artwork in the raffle when your number is called 

  • art packing service so your artwork is READY TO TAKE AWAY on the night of the event

  • one limited-edition collaborative artwork by OyG Co-Directors

  • open bar and snacks at the event 

  • + 1 guest

  • live entertainment with legendary NYC drag icon Linda Simpson 

Reaching 10 years would not have been possible without the support of our beloved community. Through thick and thin, you’ve been there for us, and we thank you! 

We hope you can join us for this once-in-a-lifetime occasion.

EXHIBITION PREVIEW of donated works is free and open to the public on Saturday, April 22 and Sunday April 23rd, 1-6pm both days. 

FUNDRAISER RAFFLE begins at 6:30pm SHARP at the event on Saturday April 29th at: Ortega y Gasset Projects, 363 3rd Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11215

Ortega y Gasset Projects is thrilled to announce Ortega y Gasset Projects’ 10 Year Anniversary Fundraiser Event, taking place on Saturday, April 29th from 6-9pm. The event includes a live raffle of 100 donated artworks by artists within OyG’s extensive community, and the unveiling of a limited-edition exquisite corpse poster by current and former OyG co-directors. The event takes place at OyG Projects in Gowanus, Brooklyn and is hosted by New York City drag legend Linda Simpson. The exhibition of donated works is open to the public for a preview weekend of Saturday April 22nd and Sunday April 23rd, 1-6pm both days. 

OyG Projects is a community-supported organization whose mission is to forge new connections between artists and viewers. The art raffle offers participants a chance to take home original artwork by an artist they have long admired, or have just discovered! Participants receive a number upon entry to the event. Art is selected as numbers are called at random. Selected art is professionally handled and packed at the event for immediate take-away. Surprise, discovery, and excitement are all part of the process as participants await their chance to select! 

OyG Projects is an artist-run organization. In the spirit of collaboration and to commemorate 10 years, current and former OyG co-directors come together to produce a 21-century version of the celebrated Surrealist party game exquisite corpse. Historically, exquisite corpse is made by a group of artists drawing on different sections of a folded paper, blind to one another’s work. Surprising and unlikely connections between drawings are revealed when the paper is unfolded. OyG’s exquisite corpse is digitally made and printed as a foldable poster to be distributed at the event to all ticket-holders.  OyG Projects Exquisite Corpse is directed by Eric Hibit with the participation of Lauren Frances Adams, Joshua Bienko, Leeza Meksin, Nickola Pottinger, Sheilah ReStack, Adam Liam Rose, Sarah Rushford, Zahar Vaks, Lauren Whearty, and Karla Wozniak. 

Ortega y Gasset Projects was born in 2013 when a group of artists brainstormed how to embrace their circumstances and thrive as artists, curators, and community members. Working collaboratively, the founding members of Ortega y Gasset Projects embarked on an experimental venture to start an artist-run gallery and exhibit the work of their peers. The founding members of OyG Projects include Lauren Frances Adams, Joshua Bienko, Clare Britt, Carrie Hott, Jessica Langley, Leeza Meksin, Sheilah ReStack and Karla Wozniak. 

Over the past 10 years, OyG Projects has grown from a humble start-up (funded mainly with Co-director dues) to a thriving institution on the forefront of the visual arts with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, NYC Cultural Development Fund, New York State Council on the Arts, The NYC Cultural Development Fund, Oregon Community Foundation, and Joseph Robert Foundation. With a program focused on emerging and under-represented artists, OyG Projects continues to create opportunities for scores of artists of diverse background, sensibility, exhibition experience, and vision. 

OyG Projects’ 10 Year Anniversary Fundraiser Event is organized by Eric Hibit with assistance from Clare Britt, Catherine Haggarty, Will Hutnick, Leeza Meksin, Nickola Pottinger, Adam Liam Rose, Zahar Vaks, and Lauren Whearty. For press inquiries contact Eric Hibit at oygprojects@gmail.com or visit oygprojects.com.  

Donating Artists:

Adam Liam Rose
Adam Linn 
Adama Delphine Fawundu
Aidan Boyle
Alexis Granwell
Alyssa Gorelick
Amanda Nedham
Amelia Galgon
Amy Sacksteader
Andrew Prayzner
Anne Thompson
B. Wurtz
Bess Adler
Bryan McGinnis
Butt Johnson
Calvin Burton
Catherine Haggarty
Chris Bogia
Christina Graham
Clara Nulty
Clare Britt
Colleen McCubbin Stepanic
Corydon Cowansage
Dani Klebes
Darryl DeAngelo Terrell
David Humphrey
Dona Nelson
Dominic Nurre
EJ Hauser
Elise Ferguson
Eric Hibit
Eric Schnell
Forrest McGarvey
Fritz Horstman
George Boorujy

Gyan Shrosbree
Hannah Beerman
Heather Drayzen
Hong Hong
Jack Arthur Wood
Jackie Hoving
Jared Deery
Jen Shepard
Jenna Weiss
JJ Manford
Joshua Bienko
Joshua Drayzen
Julia Norton
Kari Cholnoky
Karsen Heagel
Kathleen Eastwood Riano
Kate Stone
Keisha Prioleau-Martin
Kelly Worman
Kirstin Lamb
Kit Warren
Lauren Michelle Peterson
Lauren Whearty
Lee Vanderpool
Leeza Meksin
Lisha Bai
Lucy Kim
Lydia Smith
Maia Palileo
Mark Joshua Epstein
Mary Laube
Mike Ambron
Monica Palma
Morgan Hobbs
Natessa Amin

Natalie Ortiz
Newton Pottinger
Nickola Pottinger
Norm Paris
Nuveen Barwari
Padma Rajendran
Pamela Sneed
Polly Shindler
Rachael Gorchov
Rachel Stern
Ralph Pugay
Raymond Hwang
Re McBride
Rick Briggs
Robert Hickerson
Robin Crookall
Rubens Ghenov
Sean Heiser
Sheilah and Dani ReStack
Shelley Smith
Sun You
Susan Klein
Tamar Ettun
Tatiana Florival
Theresa Bloise
Tommy Coleman
Vince Contarino
Wayne Koestenbaum
Wells Chandler
Will Hutnick
Winnie Sidharta Ambron
Xingze Li
Yevgeniya Baras
Zahar Vaks

Only 100 tickets available! 

FUNDRAISER RAFFLE begins at 6:30pm SHARP at the event on Saturday April 29th at:  Ortega y Gasset Projects, 363 3rd Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11215

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Cool and Collected 2023 at Kenise Barnes Fine Art
Jan
21
to Mar 5

Cool and Collected 2023 at Kenise Barnes Fine Art

Floral Cross Stitch Painting

Kirstin Lamb, After Floral Cross Stitch Pattern with Poinsettas

Cool & Collected  '23 will be curated by Lani Holloway, Associate Director.

 

Introducing Amanda Acker, Yayoi Asoma, Kirstin Lamb, and Mary Tooley Parker.

 

Cool & Collected is one of our most exciting exhibitions each year. This annual exhibition showcases work from new and emerging artists that have captured our attention and who we would like to introduce to our collectors. The 2023 edition focuses on four artists who we have been watching for some time. We are thrilled to be presenting these new artists and are confident that you will see why we love the work! 

(text from KBFA website )

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May
13
to May 28

By Ear at Axel Obeiger Berlin / Postponed to MAY

By Ear at Axel Obeiger

Berlin, Germany

Tiger Strikes Asteroid LA (TSA LA) and Axel Obeiger Galleries connect to create an unusual group show of work created through verbal description. I will be at the opening and helping to hang the show! :)

Opening May 13, 2022, 7-10pm

Details from Axel Obiger:

BY EAR
Part 2:  BERLIN

Work by: Johanna Braun, Vanessa Chow, Vita Eruhimovitz, Jacob Feige, Laura Greengold, Kirstin Lamb, Michael Neimitz, Liz Nurenberg, Kari Reardon, Jackie Rines & Chris Ulivo

Artist reception: Friday, May 13, 6–10 pm 

Exhibition: May 14 - May 28, 2022

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Events accompanying the exhibition:

Artist Talk and Singalong: May 18, 7pm

Instagram Live Streaming via @axelobiger account

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Guided tour to the exhibition By Ear

Saturday, May 21, 2022, 6 – 7 pm, free of charge 

https://www.axelobiger.com/by-ear-berlin

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Apr
28
to May 29

ArtPort Kingston: Properties of Illusion in the Candy Store

ArtPort Kingston

Properties of Illusion in the Candy Store

Kingston, NY

APRIL 30- MAY 29, 2022

Ellen Harvey, Suzanne Unrein, Vittoria Chierici, David Scher, Polly Shindler, David Soman, Kirstin Lamb, Stefan Saffer, Suzy Spence, Mary Ann Strandell, Emily Andrews, Danielle Klebes, Jenny Laden, Lowell Boyers, Lynn McCarty, Dave Bradford, Ruby Silvious and others

 

“The art of a great painting is not in any one idea, …but in the great network of relationships among its parts... What counts is what we make of them.” ― Marvin Minsky, from The Society of Mind

 

As painting is a direct communication for viewers’ consumption, “Properties of Illusion in the Candy Store” is a feast of visual delight.  The exhibition references the range and power of painting as an artistic practice to express ideas and emotions with certain aesthetic qualities in a two-dimensional visual language. Painting captures a moment, that creates a feeling of a visual experience.  A view with a message, an illusion is what the artist has created to connect to characteristics of the perceiver.  Artworks are visual doors open for us to find properties within a field of carefully placed possibilities and thoughts. What makes us stop, look and discover? How do we match the painted illusion with our vast internal image bank? How do we navigate paintings to find our path of understanding or emotional journey?

 

Often an artistic journey begins for an artist in a personal space of exploration where a thought process evolves as a raw material of ideas. The individual painting style is a developed “voice” reduced to brushstroke, pigments choices, or gesture, engaging in a dialogue based in a language; figurative, conceptual, abstract, expressionism, documentary, narrative, or surrealism all depending on the artists’ communication.  The goal is to capture a moment in time to depict an expressed thought.

 

“Properties of Illusion in the Candy Store” is an open invitation to explore the range of artists and styles – to find the magic. From dark intensity to bright and cheerful, the artists provide a spectrum of sensory experience for the viewer to process. Each painting is a path, a journey, or a quest. Unlike candy a great painting does not just provide a short sugar boost but it can refresh our system of believe and observation in reoccurring boosts of discovery and renewal.

The Cornell Steamboat Building, 108 East Strand, Kingston, NY 12401

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Jan
22
to Mar 30

Small Works Show at Drive By Projects in Watertown

Drive By Projects

Vignettes: Small Work by Twelve Women Artists

Kirstin Lamb • Emily Pettigrew • Linda Nagaoka
Andrea Sherrill Evans • Lauren Cross • Elisa Hamilton
Candice Smith Corby • Helena Wurzel • Rebecca Doughty
Kate True • Celine MacDonald • Jenny Brown


January 22 - March 5, 2022

Opening reception: Saturday, January 22 • 3-5pm
Gallery hours: by appointment

Drive By

81 Spring Street

Watertown, MA 02472

I’m excited to announce that I will be in a group show at Drive By Projects in Watertown! It is a show of small works, and I am sending 3-4 new little babies. Here is a preview below of one of the works! More info to come soon. Check out Drive By, they are the best!

After Floral Cross Stitch Pattern with Pointsettas 2021 Acrylic and Acrylic Gouache on Durarlar to be Mounted on Panel 8 x 10 in

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Nov
10
to Jan 31

Textile Design at Anthropologie!

I am excited to announce that my artwork has been used in some textile products at Anthropologie, starting with the launch of these fabulous pants! You can view the work and read more about it below!

https://www.anthropologie.com/shop/kirstin-lamb-fringed-pajama-pants?category=SEARCHRESULTS&color=090&searchparams=q%3Dkirstin%2520lamb&type=STANDARD&quantity=1

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Oct
9
to Nov 21

Artists Draw Their Studios at Woodstock Byrdcliffe

Julia Jacquette, Julia Studio, 2019, gouache on paper, 12 x 16 inches, courtesy the artist

Julia Jacquette, Julia Studio, 2019, gouache on paper, 12 x 16 inches, courtesy the artist

ARTISTS DRAW THEIR STUDIOS

Invited by artist Michelle Weinberg, and inspired by her practice of periodically drawing her own studio, approximately 50 artists will contribute drawings of their workplaces in a unique project that exposes the diverse ways that artists perceive their own creative work and lives.

Curated by Michelle Weinberg

Exhibition Dates: October 9 – November 21, 2021
Location: BYRDCLIFFE Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY

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Sep
20
to Nov 7

Celebrating the Visual Arts at Clark: Faculty Show Part I at Clark University

Traina Center at Clark University

Traina Center at Clark University

Part I of Celebrating Visual Arts at Clark!

The exhibition will be open for viewing September 20 – November 7 in the Schiltkamp Gallery / Traina Center for the Arts.  Gallery hours are Monday – Thursday, 9-9:00, Friday, 9-4:30, Saturday & Sunday 12 – 5:00. 

Throughout the 2021/22 academic year (in three consecutive exhibitions), the Schiltkamp Gallery/Traina Center for the Arts will showcase the work of the many innovative visual arts faculty at Clark, while also introducing and welcoming those faculty joining us from the Becker School of Design and Technology – now part of Clark University.  Each of the three exhibitions will feature about ten artists and offer several opportunities for students, the extended campus community, and off-campus friends to hear them speak about their work, as well as view it.  The creative intertwining of teaching, research, and artistic practice at Clark will be surveyed and celebrated!

 

Exhibition: Celebrating Visual Arts at Clark (Part I)

o    September 20 – November 7, 2021

o    Lunchtime Gallery Talks: Wednesday, October 6, 12-1:15 

Pizza served outdoors on plaza outside Razzo Hall / Melville Lobby at noon, followed by two exhibiting artists talking about their work in the Schiltkamp Gallery 

o    Evening Reception and Gallery Talks: Friday, October 22, 4-6:00, Talks 4:30-5:15

Exhibition: Celebrating Visual Arts at Clark (Part II)

o    November 15, 2021 – February 13, 2022

o    Evening Reception and gallery Talks: Thursday, November 18, 4-6:00, Talks 4:30-5:15 

o    Lunchtime Gallery Talks: Wednesday, February 2, 12-1:15 

 

Note:  Clark University requires masks to be worn indoors and for all visitors to be vaccinated for Covid-19.

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Sep
3
to Sep 26

Enormous Tiny Art #30 at Nahcotta Gallery

Nahcotta Gallery

Nahcotta Gallery

I’m so excited to be included in Nahcotta’s anniversary 30th Enormous Tiny Art Show, where every work measures under 10 x 10 x 10 inches, with framed measurements not exceeding 12 inches! There will be 40+ artists in the show, so it should be an enormous show of TINY work!! Definitely check it out! More details on the opening and visiting details coming soon! Show runs from September 3rd through September 26th, 2021, but all work will also be posted and available online.. definitely check it out!

Nahcotta
110 Congress Street
Portsmouth, NH 03801
603.433.1705

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Jun
19
to Sep 1

Group Show "Voyage" at Cade Tompkins Projects

Excited to share that I’m in a group show at Cade Tompkins Projects opening on Saturday June 19th from 6-8pm. The opening will be outdoors with small groups entering to see the work. I look forward to seeing as many folks as can travel to make it. If you haven’t yet seen the big forest painting, I’m delighted to say that I’m showing it along with some other new work. Exciting details TBA, including other artists! :). Show runs June 19th through September 25th 2021.

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May
22
to Sep 1

Wassaic Project Catalog Secret of the Friendly Woods

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I’m in the Wassaic Project Summer Catalog Show!! Here are the details:

The secret’s out.

81 works, 29 artists, 41 birds / Available May 22, 2021

In the spirit of Rex Brasher, painter of birds and Wassaic local, we’re excited to announce our second annual publication: Secret of the Friendly Woods. Designed by Studio Bueno and printed by Small Editions, this limited edition softcover book features an embossed wood grain cover, gatefolds for larger works, interviews with artists, and a few secrets: coloring book pages, a fortune teller, a cut-out paper rabbit, a map of Wassaic. (Try to find all 41 birds, too.)

The book is out now! Pick up your copy at Maxon Mills or have us ship it to you.

SEE THE SHOW

BUY NOW



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Feb
9
6:00 PM18:00

Doorway A Gallery Pop Up Exhibition

Excited to announce a one day only Pop Up exhibit with Doorway A Gallery at 144 Moody Street in Waltham, MA! Come on Tuesday February 9th at 6pm for an experimental installation of work in process! This space is a Covid response Micro Gallery I have been following, run by a couple of wonderful artists, worth a look if you can visit safely! Hope you can make it! Snow date is Tuesday February 16th!

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Jan
25
to May 3

Plucky Art Mail Initiative

Embroidery on Grid2020, 8 x 10 in, Plucky Art Mail Art Initiative, Gouache and Acrylic on Canvas

Embroidery on Grid

2020, 8 x 10 in, Plucky Art Mail Art Initiative, Gouache and Acrylic on Canvas

Kirstin Lamb

ARTIST FEATURE: KIRSTIN LAMB: EMBROIDERY PAINTINGS

I call the gridded high-detail paintings on transparent acetate embroidery paintings. I generate a digitized grid and paint each gridded stitch by hand with acrylic or acrylic gouache on wet media acetate.

Many of the embroidery paintings I make are images of floral wallpaper cropped from French wallpaper of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The re-presenting of this particular decorative movement is for me an echoing of the darker uses of antiquity as a stand in for beauty and power.

 

Kirstin Lamb

Each original painting is 8" x 10" and $200 - an affordable way to own a work by a critically-acclaimed artist. Lamb has been featured in Art News, Hyperallergic, and Elle Decor among other publications.

Kirstin Lamb

Questions or want to more info?
Email ashley@pluckyart.com or call/text 917-657-5122

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Nov
13
to Mar 12

Upcoming Show / Soaring Gardens: The Second Decade

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I have several paintings in an upcoming show at the Hope Horn Gallery at Scranton University to celebrate the second decade of the Soaring Gardens artist residency program run by the Ora Lerman Trust. The gallery will host a preview from November 13th - 20th, 2020 and then open the show with a printed catalog the following semester for the dates February 5th - March 12, 2021. More details coming soon.

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Nov
4
to Jan 3

Upcoming Solo Show at Periphery Space @ Paper Nautilus in Providence!!

So excited to announce my first solo show in Providence in a long time! We will be having a small and socially distanced opening the Saturday (November 7th 5-7PM) after the show opens to the public on November 4th, with no food but a small group outside! Though no food or drink can be served on site, we will be able to send folks to nearby bars and eateries, so that is fun.. I hope some of you lovely locals can come! I know at this moment being present is an absolute gift and not at all expected, so no pressure! You can enjoy online or make an appointment to visit with me or during store hours! I’m so happy to be presenting close to home in a space I really admire with a curatorial project I really admire. Gratefully acknowledging my grant in Painting for 2020 from RISCA that helped make the show happen. Thanks to all and looking forward. XO

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Sep
1
to Dec 30

Print Released and For Sale with Overpass Projects

I’m excited to have released my Wreath print with Julia Samuels over at Overpass Projects Press. In addition to a great press, this edition gives all proceeds to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Go over and check out her site and purchase through this link: https://www.overpassprojects.com/prints/wreath

WREATH - SCREENPRINT BY KIRSTIN LAMB300.00Wreath by Kirstin Lamb is a 6 color screen print, 16”x20” printed on Coventry Rag paper, printed in an edition of 50 with 5 artist’s proofs and 5 printer’s proofs, printed by Master Printer Julia Samuels. Ea…

WREATH - SCREENPRINT BY KIRSTIN LAMB

300.00

Wreath by Kirstin Lamb is a 6 color screen print, 16”x20” printed on Coventry Rag paper, printed in an edition of 50 with 5 artist’s proofs and 5 printer’s proofs, printed by Master Printer Julia Samuels. Each print is signed and dated by the artist.

In solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, Kirstin Lamb has illustrated the title slogan nestled within an elaborate floral wreath. Lamb typically repurposes Empirical Dutch motifs to beautify otherwise contentious social justice imagery. Profits from the sale of this print will be donated to the NAACP Legal Defense fund to support them in their mission to achieve racial justice.

For more information and to donate directly to the LDF, please visit https://www.naacpldf.org/

For more information and to donate directly to Black Lives Matter, please visit https://blacklivesmatter.com/

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Jun
1
to Jun 30

Narrative Group Show Nahcotta Gallery June 2019

Details to come, but I’m thrilled to have been invited to the Nahcotta Gallery in Portsmouth, NH, for their summer group show centering on narrative. I’m making a special picture devoted to the woods and storytelling.. stay tuned for small excerpts, no reveal until the show opens. Come back here for details on the show. For now visit the Nahcotta Gallery website. :)

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Fruitlands Museum Drawing Project / Pioneering Collector Clara Sears
Apr
13
to Mar 22

Fruitlands Museum Drawing Project / Pioneering Collector Clara Sears

I’m currently working with curator Shana Dumont Garr at the Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, MA, as she puts together a striking exhibit chronicling the collection from which the museum grew its holdings. Clara Sears, a woman who lived to 97 and had an eclectic eye and diverse array of objects, is chronicled here as a way to talk about the story of the museum, the region and how a museum collection begins. As a visiting artist, I am helping to hang the exhibition salon style and chronicling the objects in drawings. I am allowed to include objects I am drawn to by color and pattern, associatively pairing baskets and portraits, much the way the original collector might have in her home. I will provide a map of the installation for exhibit brochure and paint from the installation on site once the work goes up. I look forward to drawing upon Shana’s considerable original research on Clara Sears and the Fruitands Museum to enhance my work.

Show opens Saturday April 13th, 2019.

Artist Talk tentatively scheduled for Saturday April 27th, 2019

VIP Opening Friday May 10th 6-8pm

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Jan
1
to Dec 31

RISCA 2019 Painting Merit Award Fellowship and RISCA Group Show

Gratefully acknowledging RISCA (The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts) for awarding me a 2019 Painting Merit Award Fellowship! So happy to be a part of this years’ group, there are many many wonderful artists included.

This year’s Fellowship Group Show will be at the Warwick Center for the Arts, opening February 28th and running until March 31st

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