...To Focus on Alternative Materials. In conjunction with its Emil Lukas: 'Moment of Process' exhibition, Kidspace will hold a family workshop called 'Dirt, Chocolate & Spaghetti Sauce'. Artist Gabrielle Senza will lead the workshop. After a kid-friendly tour of the Lukas exhibition, children and adults will join Senza in making drawings with alternative materials and exploring the properties of those materials.
...To Focus on Alternative Materials
(North Adams, Massachusetts) In conjunction with its Emil Lukas: Moment of
Process exhibition, Kidspace at MASS MoCA will hold a family workshop called
Dirt, Chocolate & Spaghetti Sauce on Saturday, November 17, from 10:30 A.M.
to noon.
New Marlborough, Massachusetts, artist Gabrielle Senza will lead
the workshop.
After a kid-friendly tour of the Lukas exhibition, children
and adults will join Senza in making drawings with alternative materials
such as dirt, chocolate, and spaghetti sauce and exploring the properties of
those materials.
Reservations are required, and space is limited.
"We are very excited that Gabrielle is teaching this workshop. Many local
students visit Kidspace and see the Lukas exhibition, and this workshop
creates a further opportunity for children to explore the art-making process
with an artist who, like Lukas, works with unconventional materials. We're
also looking forward to greeting many parents and providing the materials
for them to have some fun making art with their kids!" commented Molly Polk,
associate curator of Kidspace.
American born Gabrielle Senza works in traditional and unorthodox materials.
Her oeuvre includes paintings and drawings as well as artist books,
multiples, photography, and sculpture. She has been exhibiting since 1989
and has had shows in New York at O.K. Harris, Kim Foster Gallery, and
Nicolas Davies & Co. She has also had solo shows at the David Klein Gallery
in Birmingham, Michigan, the Elaine Baker Gallery in Boca Raton, Florida,
and Bachelier-Cardonsky in Kent, Connecticut. From 1990 to 1997, Senza
co-owned and directed an alternative exhibition space known as SPAZI
Contemporary Art in Housatonic, Massachusetts. Senza is currently working on
a book about artists who use non-traditional materials to create their work.
Senza's workshop complements the current Emil Lukas exhibition in Kidspace.
Lukas works with a variety of organic and inorganic materials, including
plants, insects, plaster, canvas, paint, and found objects to produce
abstract paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures. His works in Moment of
Process focus on the process of creating artwork and the inherent properties
of the materials he uses. His experiments with materials and processes are
often informed by the phenomena in the natural world. For example, for his
Larva Painting, Lukas coated larvae with paint and let them crawl across the
surface of a large canvas leaving a dense network of interlacing trails.
By
giving control of the work to the materials themselves, he weds the
art-making process to the life cycles of the insects.
Reservations for the Dirt, Chocolate & Spaghetti Sauce workshop on November
17 can be made by calling Kidspace at 413 664 4481 x8131.
A materials fee
of $3 per person will be charged and can be paid on the day of the workshop.
Kidspace at MASS MoCA is a collaboration of the Sterling & Francine Clark
Art Institute, the Williams College Museum of Art, and MASS MoCA.
Additional
funding has been provided in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council (a
state agency), the James and Robert Hardman Fund for North Adams of the
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, the GE Fund, the Cherkis family, and
the Brownrigg Charitable Trust in memory of Lynn Laitman.
Admission to
Kidspace is free; the gallery is open to the public on Thursdays, 3-5 P.M.,
and on Saturdays and Sundays, 12-4 P.M.
MASS MoCA, housed on a 13-acre campus of restored 19th-century factory
buildings, is the largest center for contemporary art in the country.
Beginning November 1, MASS MoCA's galleries are open 11 A.M. - 5 P.M.,
closed Tuesdays.
Admission is $7 for adults, $5 for seniors and students,
$2 for children 6-16, free for children under 6 and free for members at all
times.
For additional information call 413 662 2111
Lenora Farrington
Marketing Assistant
MASS MoCA
1040 MASS MoCA Way
North Adams, MA 01247
413-664-4481 ext. 8111
FX: 413-663-8548
http://www.massmoca.org/performing_arts/index.html