CURRENT EXHIBITION

Legacy

Feb 24–Apr 9

Future Exhibitions

Feb 24 – April 9 Legacy—Susan Denniston, Kelly Knight, Anne Plaisance, Lorraine Sullivan

Mar 19 Exhibition Program: Legacy Day • Artists' Talk, 2 pm

(Click here for a link to Anne Plaisance's short video)

Legacy, in this exhibition, is anything handed down from the past, as from our ancestors or our predecessors. It is our woven lives and stories heard, discovered, lived, remembered and imagined. We are all shaped by our unique history and genetic legacy. These four female artists keenly recognize and share a reverence for this inheritance along with their imagined one, their dreamed one and their experienced one. This legacy forms the very character of a person and these women use it to inform their work. They use tools and craft associated with women’s work and objects associated with home, children and motherhood. Their art reaches inside themselves and then beautifully and sensitively stretches out across time and space to contemplate the universal inheritance of others. Each woman, in her own way, makes art that dignifies life and lives, giving recognition to the untold, hidden secrets and forgotten memories, as pure material for storytelling and transmission.

Susan Denniston

Susan Denniston

I Remember Her (Sewing Machine), 2016
Oil on canvas, 36 x 12
$600

Susan Denniston

I Remember Her (Scissors), 2016
Oil on canvas, 36 x 12
$600

The Ledger: 1,130 Lives Lost, 2014

Paint on paper scroll, 65 feet long when fully open, 18 inches wide, installation variable

$1130

Susan Denniston

Building Legacy (detail on right), 2016

Spools of thread, wire, nails, homasote, paper, 81” x 53” x 1”

$1800

Denniston

Falling | Dreaming (detail), 2013
            Monotypes on newsprint, masking tape, individual prints are 36 x 24,
            Installation variable, could be displayed in one tall strip – 27 ft x 2 ft
            $1200

Denniston

Unconscious Echoes
Etching and chine colle,
27.5 x 19.5 in
$500

Denniston

Witness Across Time and Space, 2014
Sewing machine tools and velvet shirt,

12.5 x 12.5 x 2 (on pedestal or shelf)
NFS

Denniston

Were You There, 2016
Oil on paper on panel, 30 x 22 x 2
$700

Kelly Knight

Kelly Knight

Homestead, 2014
Wool sweater, paper, thread, branches, wire, ink, graphite,

62” x 42”
$2,000

Winter Stores, 2016
Cotton dress, seed pods, bark, fishing line, linen
NFS

Harvest the Fields, 2015

Linen, wire, grape vine, thread, paper, 24” x 12”

$700

Kelly Knight

Hannah’s Child
cotton dress, linen, wire, book, tree nut hulls, branches

When Uncle Josiah Was a Boy, Detail

Knight

Eunice in Ohio, 2016
Linen, thread, ink, wire, paper, bark

Knight

Mended, 2016
Child’s shoes, tree root
NFS

Knight

Hepzibah, 1704-1719
Linen, embroidery floss, ink, bark, charcoal, thread, pastel, 72” x 36”

Anne Plaisance

Born to die, 2012

oil and acrylics, collage on canvas (Louis Vuitton bag stripe), 59 1/16” x 39 3/8”

NFS

Born to suffer, 2015

oil on canvas and collage, 19,70” x 15,74 “

$16,000

Born to survive, 2015

oil on canvas and collage, 19,70” x 15,74 “

$16,000

Plaisance

The tears collection, (2011), mixed media installation: wooden cupboard, glass jars, fabrics, water,

51 7/8 x 40 2/8 x 11 7/8

NFS

Born to cry (triptique nr 1/3 ), 2014, acrylics and collage on canvas,

39 3/8” x 27 9/16”

price for the triptique: $40,000

Plaisance

Born to cry (triptique nr 2/3 ), 2014, acrylics and collage on canvas, 39 3/8” x 27 9/16”

price for the triptique: $40,000

Anne Plaisance

Born to cry (triptique nr 3/3 ), 2014, acrylics and collage on canvas, 39 3/8” x 27 9/16”

price for the triptique: $40,000

Badrooms serie: mixed media in wooden box (doll, fabrics, painting, hand writing, nails,
wooden pearls, paperclay, wooden sticks, ink, papers, plexiglas). each box is 19,7” x 13” x 3,54”, NFS. There will be around 30 in total) Note: The installation of badrooms will be made on the wall.

Plaisance