2022  ART FAIR 14C

2021 JCAST Billboards, Holland Tunnel

2021 JCAST, Logo winner!

Maggie Allen.

Artwork in cover image: Erin Kuhn's "Peach Love," Jennifer Willoughby's "Dystopia," and Phoebe Legere's "Holy Clitoral Scroll" Womyn’s Werq at Studio Montclair 2021.

Artists featured in our windows: Liz Collins, Megan Dyer, Modern Fossils:Judith Marchand and David P Horowitz, Karen Heagle, Katie Hovencamp, Elizabeth Insogna, Anne Q McKeown, Gail G. Slockett, and Kay Turner.

Click here to go to our virtual exhibit that includes audio from the artists. Click here to go to our interactive 3D walk through.

Curator talk and artists discussion of Womyn’s Werq with Donna Kessinger at Studio Montclair, 2021. 

“Womyn’s Werq”, described by curator Donna Kessinger as an “old school,” LGBTQIA-friendly, radical feminist art exhibition, features over 60 pieces of artwork including videos, sculpture, and two-dimensional creations in a great variety of mediums, there will also be special installations in the gallery windows. A virtual exhibit that will include audio from the artists will be on the Studio Montclair website.

ChaShaMa Matawan Gallery and Studios, 2021.  Dreaming of Bees, Brian Hallas and

Stephanie Sommerlad Bello. 

ChaShaMa Matawan Gallery and Studios 

 

Headspace Junction
Campbell Grade and Kelly Benning

The two-person exhibition Headspace Junction revolves around feelings and thoughts one is left with when left alone, while at the same time linking together each moment of pause, each station, each mood interconnected like a railway system. At this junction, seemingly isolated thoughts and feelings are connected by shape and size in the artists’ works entitled “May I Have 100 Moments of Your Time?” and “It’s My Quarantine and I Can Cry If I Want To”, which are tied together literally by fibers, woven together like fate. The connection within each series and to each other illustrates the adage that “no (wo)man is an island unto themselves”.

About the Artists:

Campbell Grade studied painting at Elmira College where she earned a BA in Studio Art and Anthropology. Despite dabbling in other media such as printmaking and wood sculpture, oil painting was by far her favorite form of expression though it has taken her another 3 years after graduation to learn how to do it well. She has shown her artwork at Superfine in DUMBO in the group show “Bubbles, Butts, and Neandra-zons” and at the Gannett-Tripp Library in Elmira in the solo exhibition of “Jag Tycker Om Kaffe” which consisted of six paintings made, unsurprisingly, of coffee on paper.

For more information on Campbell and her work, visit her website here or follow her on Instagram.

Kelly Benning studied English, the only language she knows, at Montclair State University, where she also took one course each in painting and book arts. Her fruitless journey in gouache freed her from the burden of leaving her comfort zone in watercolors and acrylics, both of which served her well when she painted many a pet portrait for friends in exchange for beer money. She previously displayed her work during Trenton’s virtual Art All Night in 2020, making Headspace Junction her first “in-person” exhibition.

ChaShaMa 11 at Atlantic Highlands Arts Council.  Featuring the studio artists who work at ChaShaMa Matawan. 

chamatawangalleryandstudios

Monmouth Museum

2020, The Decade That Rocked, Photography by

Mark Weiss.

ChaShaMa Matawan Gallery and Studios 

Transform: Moving Past Fear Towards Beauty
Ellen Hanauer‘a exhibition of projected images and neon sculpture depicts the emotional balance of fear and desire for joy. The human condition of loss leaves scars behind — scars that produce fear of returning to the darkness. Through this exhibition, Hanauer teeters between fear and the universal desire for joyfulness, discovery and creative potential.
Possibilities of future implosion inspire the images projected on the wall, and allude to the importance of focusing on the beauty of each moment. Fear paves the way to appreciate life’s wonders, illuminated under black light. This duality is both terrifying and comforting. Hanauer reminds us of the cyclical nature of life and how deconstruction and reconstruction brings personal evolution and enlightenment.
This exhibition is part of a large body of work that explores transformation — from falling into the abyss and emerging from the darkness, to the multiple emotions that follow.

About Ellen Hanauer
Ellen Hanauer is a sculptor and installation artist who has focused much of her work on interior spatial relationships of the natural world. In the past four years, she has worked primarily in fiber.
Hanauer has exhibited nationally and internationally in museums, universities and galleries in many solo and group exhibitions. Her work has been included at the Australian Science Communicators 2018 conference at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia and also at Queensland College of Art, Brisbane Australia; at the 3rd BioMedical Conference in Sophia, Bulgaria; in a solo exhibition at Montsalvat in Eltham Victoria; and at Oxford University, UK, where she was awarded their First Theoretical Prize.
She has received many national commissions and her work is in museum, collections.
https://www.ellenhanauer.com/.
Mar 3 —
Mar 27, 2019

ChaShaMa Matawan Gallery and Studios

Chashama Matawan

Better Homes and Gardens

Jason Lee
The work in Better Homes and Gardens reflects on the suburban landscape of Jason Lee’s childhood. The constructed environment mimics elements and color schemes of the skateboard pseudo-culture that was sold to the rabid youth of the 1980s by pop media. This pristine wonderland of suburbia did not reflect his experience or the real underground suburban punk rock that was growing right under it’s nose.
About the Artist
Jason Lee is currently an Associate Professor of Sculpture and Foundations Coordinator at the School of Art and Design at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. Lee spent the 80s skateboarding the desolate streets of Akron and going to all-ages shows at the infamous JB’s Down in Kent, Ohio. Through the late 80s and early 90s, he became a part of the vibrant local music scene, making flyers, organizing house shows for out of town bands, and as a general purveyor of chaos. Lee’s current body of work reflects upon these formative experiences and manifests them in carefully crafted, multimedia constructions. Lee was born in 1969 in Goldsboro, NC. He received his BFA from Kent State University in 1993 and his MFA from University of Wisconsin Madison in 1998.
For more information, please contact Jason at jason.lee@mail.wvu.edu May 19 — Jun 16, 2018 He may also be followed on Instagram. #chashama #chamatawan #chamatawangalleryandstudios

P.S.1 WACK! Open Studio  February 18, 2008 

2 - 6 pm

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, the first comprehensive, historical exhibition to examine the international foundations and legacy of feminist art.

The presentation of WACK! at P.S.1 offers a timely opportunity to tour the studios of some of the featured artists. View70s and current work while gaining a deeper understanding of the depth of production of these artists within their own environment. SoHo is where the feminist revolution in New York City began and flourished, and eventually became a magnet for feminists around the world.

Please click on selections on the map to view images and video from the tour.

STUDIOS:

Camille Billops

Joan Jonas

Mary Beth Edelson

Joan Semmel

Mimi Smith

Joyce Kozloff

Nancy Spero

Produced by: Donna Rae Kessinger with Doris Cacoilo with gaia [gaiastudio.org]

Volunteers

Pollie Barden | Juliana Cope | Amie Figueiredo | Mary Jeys | Rachael Serbinski | Agnes Wsolkowski | Gina Riano | Sherrard Bostwick | Sarah NelsonWright | Joanna Rose White | Jennifer Carpenter | Evonne Davis | Amanda Thackray

ARTWALKING BEDFORD AVE. 2009 curated by Eyewash Gallery and Independent Curator, Donna Kessinger. 

Artist and Artwork Locations

Thomas Broadbent @ The Bagel Store, Tom Brumley @ Bedford Fruits & Vegetables, Peter Fox @ Earwax, Asha Ganpat @ Blackbird Parlour, Linda Ganjian @ Catbird, David Kramer @ Trojanowski Liquors, Peter Krieder @ Bedford Cheese Shop, Hiroshi Kumagi @ Bliss, Yuliya Lanina @ Mini Mart, Jeesoo Lee @ Kings Pharmacy, Lisa Levy @ The Health Food Store, Nora Ligorano & Marshall Reese @ Reel Life, Rebecca Major @ Peters since 1969, Ben Marxen @ Northside Pharmacy, Sebastian Masuelli @ Spike Hill, Ondi McMaster @ Ella's, Shari Mendelson @ Uva Wines, Vikki Michalios @ Angelicas Beauty Shop, Jonas Mekas @ Spoonbill, MTAA @ Amarcord, Diane Nerwen @ Ugly Luggage, Rune Olsen @ Victoria's Coffee Shop, Catya Plate @ Eyeco Vision, Bob Seng & Lisa Hein @ NYC Pet, Amanda Thackray @ Bagelsmith, Ishmael Randall Weeks @ Oculus 20/20, Sante Scardillo @ Kasia's, Tamika Kawata @ N7 Deli, Gandalf Gavan @ Brooklyn Industries.

Tom Brumley, East River Blues Band 

ARTWALKING BEDFORD AVE. 2009 curated by Eyewash Gallery and Independent Curator, Donna Kessinger.

Larry Walczak

ARTWALKING: Bedford Ave was curated by Eyewash founder and director Larry Walczak and independent curator Donna Kessinger. This exhibition, considered the largest public art installation of its kind in the borough of Brooklyn, ran from April 27 through June 8 and featured 30 artist installations in storefronts on Bedford Avenue, running from North 3rd to North 9th Streets in the north side of the community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

The exhibition was sponsored by Eyewash (www.eyewashart.com), a migratory gallery celebrating its tenth anniversary creating exhibitions in Williamsburg and abroad. Eyewash was one of several “Williamsburg second-wave” galleries such as Pierogi, Momenta, Roebling Hall, and Sideshow, that put the neighborhood on the international art world map. Unfortunately, since the late 90s Williamsburg has detoured into a gallery scene that features quantity over quality and consequently has lost the attention of the New York art world press.

ARTWALKING: Bedford Ave was designed as a union of art and commerce in hopes of inspiring the spirit of a once-great art neighborhood that had featured many ad hoc-style exhibitions throughout the community. It was hoped that collaboration with many of the new merchants in the north side of Williamsburg could provide a showcase on the much traveled Bedford Avenue for several Brooklyn-based artists, many of whom had exhibited with Eyewash over the years. Another goal was to create a springtime warm-weather exhibition that could be viewed simply by walking up and down the avenue without actually having to enter any given space. This appealed to many in the community-at-large who rarely go to museums or galleries.
There were several successful window installations that stood out, namely Peter Fox’s curtains of candy-like paint drips at Earwax, Linda Ganjian’s elegant miniature tower for Catbird, Catya Plate’s visual tour-de-force of dozens of minatures at Eyeco, David Kramer’s hilarious scene of Brooklyn going Hollywood in the windows of Trojanowski Liquors, Yuliya Lanina’s world of weird dolls at MiniMart, Diane Nerwen’s heartbreaking video loop of a changing neighborhood at Ugly Luggage, Tom Broadbent’s inflated sculptures of bagel-shaped flying saucers, complete with eerie lighting, at The Bagel Store, and Gandalf Gavan’s twisted neon light sculpture at Brooklyn Industries.

Other notable window-storefront favorites were by artists Tamika Kawata, Jonas Mekas, Vikki Michalios, Asha Ganpat, Lisa Levy, Nora Ligorano & Marshall Reese, Ben Marxen, Shari Mendelson, and Rebecca Major.

A conceptual connection to the respective store’s inventory was encouraged. However, some artists departed from that notion and responded to factors like space and lighting. The thirty window installations were viewed by hundreds of people given their terrific location on Bedford Ave. Even many of the 20- and 30-something yuppies who migrated to Williamsburg over the last decade took time away from staring at their Blackberries to take notice of the windows. The local press coverage was quite good and there was much encouragement to make ARTWALKING an annual event of the Williamsburg, Brooklyn neighborhood.

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Cathedral Arts Festival, Jersey City, 2003.

Selected Artists From Cathedral Arts Festival 2007 (out of 90 +):

Sebastian Masuelli, Video: Julia's last dream will adopt the form of a site-specific interactive video installation, and it will be staged in the belltower of Grace Van Vorst Church in Jersey City, NJ. Amanda Thackray, Asha Ganpat, Hiroshi Kumagi, Rebecca Major, Mary Jeys, Doris Caçoilo, Joel Edwards, Norm Francoeur, Henry Sanchez, Sara Wolfe, Alysoun Mehan, Barbara Landes, Donald Gallagher, Lauretta Maldanado, Chi Modu, Ibou Ndoye, Elmira Wade.