Shari's Favorite Museum Collections: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (esp. Jason Jacques Gallery in NYC "Smoke" a benefit for The Lost Prisoner Project Tibor de Nagy Gallery in NYC - Upcoming solo show 2023 Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson, NY "Greetings and Offerings" The Renwick Gallery in WDC at The Smithsonian American Art Museum "This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World" Shari's website and IG: and and Upcoming Exhibitions: They range in size from 12 to 36 in (aprx). The resulting sculptures can look translucent like ancient glass in greens, grays, blues, whites & yellows - and she often adds mica & resin to the surface to add a silvery or opaque finish to parts. She makes human & animal figures & vessels made up of cut-up plastic bottles that riff on stone, clay & glass forms from ancient antiquity.
She is represented in New York by Tibor de Nagy Gallery and has won many prestigious grants, including 4 NYFA-NYSCA Fellowship awards, a Pollock-Krasner grant and most recently a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017. Shari lives and works in Brooklyn and Upstate NY. Sculptor, Shari Mendelson joined me this week to discuss her work. Thank you for listening, rating, reviewing & donating! Who is there? Ah good: let in the infinite." Oh magnificent Dream, in the pale morning of buildings, leaning on your elbows on chalk cornices, merging your pure, mobile features with the miraculous immobility of statues, don’t ever leave again enticed by dawn’s deliberate lies. Dreams, dreams, dreams, nothing but dreams where the wind wanders and barking dogs are out on the roads. Dreams, dreams, dreams on the lips of love, on the numbers of happiness, on the teardrops of carefulness, on the signals of hope, on building sites where a whole nation submits to the authority of pickaxes. Dreams, dreams, dreams, at last the blue sun of dreams forces the steel-eyed beasts back to their lairs. "Dreams, dreams, dreams, with each step the domain of dreams expands. Translated from French by Susan de Muth (2003) Louis Aragon's Poem "Une Vague de Rêves" (A Wave of Dreams) 1924 In the talk, Catherine Murphy reveals that 2 of the paintings in her most recent show ("Flight" & "Begin Again") were made from real dreams that she had had (her discussion of this occurs about 1hr into the talk).Īrtists and artworks mentioned: "Dream Vision" by Albrecht Durer, "Dream Vision" c 1880 (x 2) by Odilon Rédon, "Gradiva" by André Masson, Jasper Johns "Flag," "Flight" & "Begin Again" by Catherine MurphyĪuthors/Poets and pieces mentioned: "Painting the Dream" book by Daniel Bergez, "The Gradiva: The Woman Who Walks" novella by Wilhelm Hermann Jensen, "Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva" essay by Sigmund Freud, "La Révolution Surréaliste" literary journal pub by Paul Eluard, Antonin Artaud, Andre Breton, Michel Leiris & Louis Aragon, "Une Vague de Rêves" poem by Louis Aragon This episode was inspired by 2 main sources: 1) The book "Painting the Dream" by Daniel Bergez and also 2) An online artists' talk between 3 painters: Chie Fueki, Alexi Worth and Catherine Murphy called "Painting Table: Catherine Murphy talks with Chie Fueki and Alexi Worth" 1/21/22 hosted by DC Moore Gallery: Watch here.
I began in 1525 with Albrecht Durer, then moved to France with Odilon Rédon in the 1800's, the Surrealists and André Masson in the 1920's, and then shot over and up to the US in the 50's to Jasper Johns, and finally landed back at modern day with the exquisitely-observed representational paintings of Catherine Murphy. Ĭome along on a ~~Dream Quest~~ with me to discover works of art that show real dreams.not just images of sleepers or "dream-like" paintings. She has had her work exhibited in many group shows in NY and beyond.įollow Pep Talks on IG: & Donate to the Peps. We talked about her work, her roots in Cape Cod, and the challenges / advantages of being an artist parent.Ĭatch her work in person this summer at her solo show at Gold Gallery: and website and IG: and Capasso studied art at NYU and Brooklyn College and has had recent solo shows at Sweet Lorriane Gallery in Brooklyn and Gold Gallery in Montclair, NJ. She invents her subjects in her mind while walking and thinks of her work as a kind of visual novel. Lucia and Catholic icons, vision, blindness, and the vanitas.all in a wavy gestural style with vibrant color or primal black and white.
Melissa makes charcoal drawings and oil and acrylic paintings that explore themes of mother and child, St.
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I was so excited to have painter, Melissa Capasso, whose visionary style is inspired by daydreaming, join me this week to continue my series on the Dream in Art.