Phyllis Ewen lives in Massachusetts and has studios in Somerville and Wellfleet. Her work is in public collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the DeCordova Museum, the Boston Public Library, Harvard University, the Reykjanes Museum of Art, and numerous corporate and private collections In 2017, Ewen’s work was in a well-received 3-artist exhibit at the Reykjanes Museum of Art in Iceland, Við Sjónarrönd/Above And Below The Horizon, a two-person show, Imprint, in York Maine and a solo, Land and Water, at the Lesley University Spotlight Gallery Ewen’s art about global warming has been written about recently by, among others, Jill Conner, Barbara O’Brien, Ellen Cantarow, Ragna Sigurðardóttir, Eric Taubert and Armando Fernando Soriano.

Water flows, seas rise, rivers flood or dry. Land is altered as a result of the natural movement of waters, wind, and seismic activity as well as the intervention of humankind. In my sculptural collages, I visually present the effects of climate change on our landscapes and waterscapes.

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For Terry Gips, subject matter and concept are more important than choice of media although she often uses photography directly or indirectly. She returns to some subjects, such as natural forms, repeatedly. She’s particularly interested in the intersections of land and water, the chaos of nature along with its orderly patterns, and environments altered by humans.

Her work has been shown throughout the US and in China and Germany. Solo exhibitions include Tweed Museum of Art in Duluth, Light Work Gallery in Syracuse, Troyer Fitzpatrick Lassman Gallery in Washington, DC, 112 Workshop in NYC, Harmony Hall Art Center in Maryland, Galatea Fine Arts in Boston, and Sarah Doyle Gallery at Brown University. Her work is collections at the National Museum of American Art and the National Women’s Museum in Washington as well as other public and private collections. Gips was awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts Sea Grant program at the University of Rhode Island. 

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In a landscape, the edges of the paper define a small, specific piece of the infinite space of the world, at a particular time, from my particular point of view. The space on the paper is a metaphor for existence: the image is a record of my physical experience of that place. Each piece of work, whether it is a painting, drawing, print, collage, or book, is a dialogue: an interaction between the physicality of materials, external experience, internal experience, observation, ideas, and memory.

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Kathleen Jacobs (b.1958) has painted outside from nature for over twenty-five years. She is a graduate of Lesley College of Art and Design (MFA) and the University of MA, Amherst, (BFA). She lives on her organic blueberry farm, Grounding Stone Farm in Hopkinton, New Hampshire. She travels to teach painting and drawing throughout the US and abroad, including upcoming workshops to Italy and Ireland. She is currently showing at the Mel Carr Gallery, in Essex, CT, the Off Main Gallery, Wellfleet, MA and at Concord Art Gallery, Concord, MA. Visit www.kathleendjacobs.com to see more about her work and teaching workshop schedule.

At this time my work is about showing up daily...

without intention or direction, rather, connecting with what lies within and bringing it into visual form.

I would say I respond to the psychological drama that is with us all... the human condition.

Susie Nielsen works across mediums to explore meaning and context. Her projects are made with the viewer in mind. How do we communicate without relying on what we know?

She brings disparate content together to make formal connections, while scraping away specifics. In painting and printmaking, Nielsen pulls language from science and foreign language books and signage that is imposed over layers, adding and subtracting to create new meaning. She leaves room for ambiguity, unfinished meaning. “We are always trying to know, part of what I am interested in is unknowing and not knowing, two different ways of being in the world”.

Susie Nielsen is an artist, designer and curator. She has a MFA from Rhode Island School of Design an undergraduate degree from Northeastern. Originally from New York, she lives in Wellfleet.

My life as an artist has been full of transitions and travels. My studies took me to the University of Wisconsin in the early 1950's to graduate school at Washington University in St. Louis and Syracuse University and the Corcoran School of Art where I studied and taught in the 1960's.

I joined the faculty of the American University Art Department in the l970's. I've been a studio artist in both ceramics and printmaking and for the last 12 years have spent summers at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown using printer's ink and handmade German and old Japanese papers for my monotypes.

My work is inspired by my travels...I have lived in Oslo, Norway and New Delhi, India and continue to make trips abroad to study and teach... but my current pieces are most influenced by the views of Cape Cod Bay from my home in Wellfleet. I have been in more than 40 regional and national competitions and have had one-woman shows in New Delhi, Washington, DC, Richmond, Boston, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Wellfleet, among others. My work is in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, and the Smithsonian Collection and in many private collections including the official residence of the Vice-President of the United States.

Narrative and making meaning have been at the center of all my artwork. This not only reflects my interest in this kind of representing through artmaking but also my previous work as an English professor. My fascination with printmaking is personal: as the son and grandson of printers, I feel that printmaking allows me to pay tribute to the craft my father and grandfather practiced; I am drawn to making art that is repeatable and historically tied to images in books, political posters, etc. The most compelling reason is the process it always experimental and holds an element of surprise.

My way of working is in series--producing prints that are thematically and technically related. Each series is informed by some theme and bits of poetry and combining new techniques. In many works, I combine drypoint and monoprint techniques. Newer works are screenprints, which allows for both graphic and painterly elements and the making screens that use text and/or photos.            

My MFA is from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Further study includes Penland School of Art (North Carolina), Zea Mays Printmaking (Florence, MA), Fine Arts Work Center (Provincetown, MA), Provincetown Art Association and Museum (Provincetown, MA).

I had an Artist Residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Newbliss, County Monaghan, Ireland in the summer of 2009; was Artist in Residence, Cambridge University, Homerton College, Cambridge, England in printmaking and bookmaking 1998. I taught at Art New England for two summers, 2001 and 2002.

I have been in many group shows including: Arts New England Faculty Show at the Plum Gallery in Williamstown, MA; Castle Hill Center for the Arts, Truro, MA, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, I have participated in members’ shows. Solo exhibits include: Cambridge University, Homerton College, the Monroe C. Gutman Library at Harvard University the Wellfleet Public Library Gallery in Wellfleet.

As a part of my work as an associate professor at Lesley University, I started established two galleries of which I was Director/Curator: the Marran Gallery, from 2001-2011 and the Atrium Gallery, Lesley University from 2007-2013, which both exhibited work of students, faculty, community artists.

Jon Verney’s (b. 1987, USA) creative process explores material transformation, and is based in haptic experimentation with the chemical interplay of painting and photography. Verney received a BFA with Distinction in Painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2010, after which he relocated to Florence, Italy where he lived and worked for close to three years at Studio Art Center International as a teaching assistant and darkroom technician. Upon returning to the United States, Verney earned an MFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan in 2016. He was recently a visiting artist at Adrian College, Hiram College, and Davidson College and has participated in residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Penland School of Crafts. He will be an artist in residence at the MASS MoCA Assets for Artists program in North Adams, MA.

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My interest in printmaking grew out of a long-standing fascination with the expressionist woodcuts of the Brücke and Blaue Reiter groups active in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. I began as a printmaker carving woodblocks and printing them and eventually moved on to include the many intaglio, relief, and monotype methods available to the contemporary printmaker.

My original training was not as a graphic artist, but as a musician and as a linguist. As such, I became accustomed to thinking abstractly. I am attracted to simple forms, and making abstract images on plates is a pleasing way of thinking for me. The challenge of trying to achieve in non-representational art the aesthetic clarity that is found in music is a constant, informing my efforts as a printmaker.

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