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Self-Portraits:
Inside and Out
Artists
Kathleen Cammarata
Shane Crabtree
Linda Dunn
Pamela Flynn
Laura Gawlinski
Norma Greenwood
Eva Henneberry
Mira Hnatyshyn
Elizabeth Kellogg
Kathleen A. Kneeland
Un Jung Lee
Jennifer Loshaw
Lynne M. Medsker
Rosemary O'Carroll
Yvonne Parma
Hyundoo Park
Monique Perreault
Christina Pettersson
Nancy Roberts
Sharon Sawyer
Charlotte Trim
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Kathleen
Cammarata
"Recurrance"
Monotype
22"x30"
$750 |
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"This house is a composite of many house parts. It is
slightly askew representing those moments in family life that
are not predictable nor comfortable. The people in the print
are my sister, my brother, and me as young children."
Kathleen Cammarata lives and works in Lowell, Massachusetts,
USA. She teaches at the Worcester Art Museum. She teaches
printmaking in her studio called X/O Studio and teaches drawing
and painting at the Worcester Art Museum.
Find
out more about this artist at:
http://kcammarata.com/
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Shane Crabtree
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http://www.mhl.org/art/crabtree.htm |
"Expectant - Self-Portrait"
Acrylic on canvas
13"x11"
$350
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"Bitterness - Self-Portrait"
Pencil on paper
7"x6"
$150
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Linda Dunn
"Oceans"
Mixed media on cloth
14 5/8" x 10-3/8"
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"I
look for abandoned women's work: old linens, laces, tea towels.
These I over-dye, print on, and combine with fabric, photographs
and words. In this piece, my sister and I stand at the center
in our Easter finest. Those children are long gone. Oceans of
time, oceans of love, oceans of memory that we travel through
and on." |
| Pamela
Flynn
"Bound to the Body"
Mixed media on paper
25"x20"
$300
"Empty
Self/Starving for Identity"
Thread on paper
24"x19"
$200
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These
pieces "are part of a series 'Searching for Self.' The
works in this series are an attempt to go beyond my physical
reality. These works look at the essence of my self. 'Bound
to the Body' is a self body tracing on paper - isolating body
- giving power to body. 'Empty Self's' hanging thread and
pierced paper evoke the visual of an empty cavity. Loss, sorrow,
emptiness are remembered."
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Laura
Gawlinski
"A Is for Artist"
9"x12"
Thread and photo transfer on cloth
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"I
have been an artist all of my life. Yet it took me until my
late thirties and the birth of my son to find my preferred
medium of fiber art. The comfort and nurturing I receive from
the cloth supports me as I venture out; pushing what I know
and discovering what I don't...Moving beyond the pages of
my written journal, I am communicating through cloth. My current
path is strong and clear. I have found piece wihin myself."
See another of Gawlinski's pieces among the journal pages
at:
http://www.quiltart.com/journals/journals4.html
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Norma
Greenwood
"Outside-In"
Oil on canvas
26"x38"
$2000 |
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"The
self-portrait...inteprets the relationship between interior
and exterior. The act of putting on makeup is unquestionably
about self examination and designing an appearance for encountering
the outside world. This self-portrait is about the consciously
planned act of "making-up" while being photographed
(by my daughter). I am looking at myself and the mirror-twice
or three times, if you count the camera lens as a mirror. Of
course, reinterpreting the photograph as a painting is entirely
about self-examination."
Find out more about this artist at: http://www.newyorkartists.net/greenwood/norma.html |
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Eva
Henneberry
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"Whaky
60 in the Year of the Monkey: where is all this clarity coming
from? (the veil having been lifted)"
Quilt - fabric collage
32"x30"
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"In
my fiber work I use fabric collage, raw-edge applique as well
as piecing a wide variety of cloth. My highest bliss is sitting
in my studio with an idea in my head, listening to beautiful
music on my radio, the sewing machine humming away, and scraps
of wonderful, colorful fabric all around me in the disarray
of creative passion!"
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Mira Hnatyshyn
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Oil on panel
16"x20"
$900 |
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"My
work is an emotional response to a complex and chaotic world:
often beautiful, sometimes harsh, and always changing. I am
fascinated by boundaries, whether they be physical, mental
or cultural. In their most basic sense, boundaries are containers
meant to create order. People construct boxes to contain objects,
and in the process, they create a new group of objects. Societies
construct belief systems to contain people, and these systems
become more important than the people themselves. The result
is a world crowded with conflicting definitions. By exploring
these conflicts, I hope to capture a universal basis for communication.
In
my paintings on canvas and panel, I use acrylics, oils, enamel,
crayons, glue, soil and other natural and man-made objects
I find during my everyday travels. By using gesture lines,
polymorphous shapes and varying textures, I go beyond the
boundaries of realism and encourage the viewer to participate
in the painting."
Mira Hnatyshyn (Ha-nah-ti-shin) is
an artist living in San Antonio, Texas.
Her painting "Voyage Home"
can be seen at http://zar.co.za/baartman.htm
(scroll down the page) and her painting "Lada" is
the featured artwork when you click "Postcard design
ideas" under "Getting Started" at Modern Postcard.
She also is featured in the Robot Gallery gift shop at http://www.cafepress.com/robotartgallery/217985.
Send her email at miracall
<at> hotmail.com
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Elizabeth Kellogg
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Massachusetts native formally trained in photography and jewelry-making,
Kellogg describes her work, an amalgamation of collage and sculpture
using found objects and personal images and relics, as a hueristic
journey into the psyche. |
"Forgiveness"
Mixed media
5 1/4" x 7 1/2" x 1 1/2"
$250
Kathleen A. Kneeland
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"Self-Portrait"
1989
Oil on canvas
16"x16"
NFS
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Un Jung Lee
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Born
in South Korea, Lee was interested about both Korean traditional
painting technique and Western painting technique to make her
own creation. In 2002, she moved to the U.S. in order to help
toward that goal of combining techniques and ideas.
View another of her pieces among the winners of the Soho-Chelsea
International Art Competition at: http://www.agora-gallery.com/siacWinners2004.asp
(in the Soho group) |
"Me and Myselves II"
Pencil on paper
66"x53"
$1000 |
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Jennifer
Loshaw
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"Finding Self-Love"
Digital giclee print
Edition nr 3/25
11"x14" (without frame)
$250 (unframed)
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Jennifer
Loshaw was born in 1972 in Mount Clements, Michigan. Her Childhood
years were spent in Michigan, Belgium and finally ALabama.
On February 28, 1974, Jennifer was severely burned by hot
water. Being a burn survivor taught her that we, as a society,
create physical beauty believing it will identify us, however,
Jennifer strongly believes that our spirit makes up our identity;
"We cannot decorate this spirit; we cannot illuminate
it in any other way than through personality and activity."
As
a young student, Jennifer fell in love with photography. As
a result of her passion for the medium, and its ability to
communicate, she went on to earn her Bachelor of Fine Arts
in Photography in 1999 from the University of Montevallo in
Montevallo, Alabama. Follwing her graduation, Jennifer moved
to Denver, Colorado where she immersed herself in the beauty
of the landscape. Beginning in 2001, she spent the winter
months in Savannah Georgia where she completed her Master
of Fine Arts in PHotography at Savvanah College of Art and
Design in April 2004. With her photography, Jennifer is working
to make changes in our social and physical environment. Her
aim os to increase understanding of the psychological healing
power of the arts and concepts of beauty in all things. Jennifer
is an activist working with a visual voice.
This
image is part of a larger series/installation titled"In
My Skin."
Find out more about this artist at: http://www.jenniferloshaw.com/ |
Lynne
M. Medsker
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"Lady
in the Leaf"
Polaroid Transfer
11"x12"
$225 |
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"My journey into the field of photography/art was founded
on a lifelong interest and enjoyment of the subject. I began
a more serious pursuit of photography in the late 1990's including
attending a variety of classes at IUPUI Indianapolis, self-directed
study and countless hours of practice and experimentation.
By the end of 1999 I began exploring alternate photo processes,
photographic enhancements and digital manipulation. In 2003
I was awarded a grant from the Indiana Arts Commission to
learn to create and teach Polaroid Art. I have participated
in numerous competitions and displayed my work at a mixture
of exhibits, galleries, art shows, and fairs. Along with my
interest in photography and photographic art I enjoy exploring
digital art, creating collage pieces, painting, poetry and
jewelry making....This [piece for the Self-Portrait show]
is a polaroid transfer made by double exposing images prior
to the transfer process."
Find
out more about this artist at: http://www.nebsnow.com/lynnemedsker |
Rosemary O'Carroll
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"My
Fourth Decade, Just an
Old
Shoe, I Am the Paper
Bag"
Oil paint, decoupaged drawings, mosaic tile,
string and doll shoes on
canvas
40"x48"
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Rosemary
Kavanaugh O'Carroll started painting on paper bags from the
supermarket when she was four years old. Later she graduated
to using the floppy cardboard slipped out of her father's
stiff shirts from the cleaners. At the age of 12, she painted
a sort of self portrait on a sheet of sand paper because it
was the only thing she could find in the house, and won 1st
prize for this rendition in the 6th grade. This began a series
of awards and scholarships that ultimately landed her at Pratt
Institute. While a senior at Pratt she visited Ireland where
she met her husband, an Irish Tenor, at Kilkea Castle. She
lived and painted in Ireland for 8 years, had a one woman
show once a year at The Siamsa Tiere Art Gallery in Tralee,
County Kerry, and taught art to the children who would ride
their bicycles from their farms to her cottage by the sea.
When Rosemary and her family moved back to America, she went
back to school and received her degree in painting from Central
Connecticut State University and continued to have a one woman
show every year. Over the last few years, she has had exhibitions
at the Creole Gallery on Child Labor and on Afghanistan. She
has recently been accepted into two art galleries in New York
City.
This painting is the 4th in a series that began with 'My First
Decade, Drawing on Paper Bags' which portayed "the humiliating
experience I had as a child of having to go grocery shopping
every night with my sister for 10 siblings and pushing the
bags home in a shopping cart with socks on my hands instead
of mittens. I allowed this because I stacked the paper bags
and used them for drawing paper....'My Fourth Decade, Just
an Old Shoe, I Am the Paper Bag' portrays me as I am now -
as I see myself at this time in my life. I think about art
all day long, look at people and nature all day and night
and think about drawing them and painting them. I paint in
my sleep....I see my hand in one corner in the dream, and
can hear the pencil scratching the surface of the paper. And
it still is a paper bag. But now I see my face with folds
and lines and colors that were not there before, like the
paper bags I drew on so long ago. I am the Paper Bag."
Find out more about this artist at: http://www.ocarrollpaintings.com |
Yvonne
Parma
"Self-Portrait"
Oil on canvas
16"x20"
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"My
approach to painting seems to be nomadic:
I wander back and forth incessantly from the realistic, closely
observed representations in still life, portrait, and landscape
to more loosely painted imaginary figures, landscapes, and
other mysterias, to strcitly abstract shapes and graphic dynamics
on the canvas. My fascination with color, shape and texture
is basic: I keep being in awe about how, as the painting emerges,
meaning emerges. It is all about LOOKING and staying open
and fully engaged as both creator and receptor." - January
13, 2005
Yvonne
Parma was originally an elementary school teacher in Switzerland.
She studied art at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
and the Kunstgewerbeschule Zurich. She completed training
in classical pantomime and in mime theater in Switzerland,
then worked in the theater as a performer, teacher, and director
in New York and Boston. In 1977, she earned her Masters Degree
in Expressive Arts Therapy at Lesley University, then joined
the faculty to teach in that program for nine years. Today,
she is still an international trainer for therapeutic theater,
a Massachusetts Licensed Mental Health Counselor, psychotherapist
and expressive arts therapist in private practice in Medford.
In the last ten years, she has returned to her original love
of painting in oil.
Find out more about this artist at:
http://www.wmos.org/parma.php
http://www.wmaastudios.org/artist.asp?artist=72 |
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"Goodbye
Stranger 3"
C-print
Edition nr 1/12
40"x50"
$1500 |
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"When
I came abroad for the first time, I was a stranger in my new
surroundings. Since then, I have continued to feel discomfort
and vulnerability almost everywhere - walking on a city street,
resting on a public bench, or looking in a shop window. No
matter where I am the cultural differences between Korea and
America are extreme. I am a stranger here. I don't even fully
understand who the strangers are, but I know I am one of them.
There are exact rules, codes of conduct in Korea that define
proper behavior. There, I know how to perceive or recognize
myself. There are fewer rules in AMerica. Thus, I feel extremely
vulnerable here. This anxiety, paranoia, and delusionary [sic]
thinking made me begin a series of self-portraits.
I integrated myself into Surroundings, or backgrounds of the
self-portraits. WIthin these portraits, I can recognize a
deeper level of my identity. My pictures reveal an incongruity
between my natural character and this foreign, or alien environment.
I strongly want to assimilate myself, to be part of this city
where I live. I,therefore, placed myself within the cityscape
or landscape.
I've tried to find the relationship between me and my alien
enviroment. In this attempt, I recognize myself as a stranger
escaping from a stranger.
See more of Park's work at: http://www.artocracy.org/buy/?artist=29
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Monique
Perreault
Christina
Pettersson
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"Norway"
Graphite and ink on paper
27.5" x 39.5"
On Request
Nancy
Roberts
"Self-Portrait"
silver print
11" x 14"
$175 |
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Sharon Sawyer
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"I've
been making art since I could hold crayons. I have been a
judo teacher, lawyer, professor, mother, wife, cat-lover.
I have been working in fiber for just over a year....This
portrait, based on the Book of Kells, shows me as a mother,
wife, mediator, and a saint." |
"St. Rose of Sharon"
Mixed media on fiber (quilting, glass beads, clay, metallic
paint, and other materials)
16"x23"
$500
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Charlotte Trim
"Self-portrait I"
Oil on canvas
9" x 9"
$800 |
Originally from Britain, Charlotte Trim studied painting in
Paris, Seville, and Winchester, UK. She currently lives in New
England with her family and horse, and has exhibited work at
the MFA in 2003 and in Lincoln, MA in 2004.
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