FRESH PAINT2017-12-05T16:08:52-05:00

FRESH PAINT

 

NAWA is happy to introduce a new column for our member readers, featuring young women artists. It is entitled – FRESH PAINT.

They are all recent graduates and have responded with answers to questions given to them by the PR committee. Please enjoy their thoughts.

MARIANNA PERAGALLO

I have always liked making things but I didn't really know what it meant to be an artist until my early 20's. I had an amazing professor at the University of the Arts named Jeanne Jaffe. She interviewed me for the program and at the end of our interview, she said "you really want to be an artist," which was the first time I felt someone taking me seriously...[...]

MELANIE LUNA

I have come to terms with my inability to understand object permanence and welcome my awkward stages as learning curbs. I went from working vertically to working flat on the floor, paintbrush to ketchup bottles, finger paintings to airbrush, and finally the biggest jump in my opinion is working with reflective materials that distracts and pushes back the viewer... [...]

MADELINE RUPARD

I always drew. When I was a child, drawing was motivated by escapism; it was a way of imagining and creating an illusion of new worlds, stories, and characters. As I began painting in my teenage years, I looked at the colors and shapes of the world we live in as a means of trying to be present within it. [...]

LAURA WEIL

My work involves use of oil paint, acrylic paint, pastel, and unconventional materials on paper and canvas. It has changed over my life but I hope still invokes my desire to connect with people and my excitement of discovery...[...]

JENNIFER HALLI

The objects I create are made of clay, paper, ink, sugar, metal, and fiber. I find fascination in the transformation of materials as they become metaphors for disruption caused by loss, travel, time and memory. Materials as they relate to history and my place within it are determined as I engage with imagery that represents my experience... [...]

HANNAH MARIE FINKBOHNER

My passion for art began when I was a sophomore in high school. I spent a significant amount of time drawing tattoos all over my body during class. I got in trouble for drawing on my body almost every day, but my photography and painting teachers viewed my love for drawing in a positive light... [...]

GABRIELLE DIPIETRO

My love for art and design started at home and was cultivated by my mom. Her and I would do crafts together daily and she inspired me to draw, paint, and use the computer as a tool for art (yes Microsoft Paint). [...]

DANA ROBINSON

Art has always been a major part of my life. I remember flipping through my Mom’s huge coffee table books of impressionist paintings, and asking her to draw me ladies that I could later color in. [...]

NANCY O’HARA

My largest canvas and finest artistic expression – my own life – continues to be a work in progress. Moving to the Hudson Valley from New York City in 2015 added a thrilling new dimension to my life’s artistic adventure: a playground filled with beauty and the opportunity to express with pencils, ink, pastels, crayons and paint on various surfaces what cannot be expressed with words.[...]

JILL FINSEN

I began making art as a photographer, using both large and medium format cameras. Immersive learning was critical to advancing not only my skills but also my daily practice and personal vision. [...]

ELLA WHITTEMORE HILL

I feel very tied to the materials in my art. I feel like I am both defined by the medium and try to hide the process and materials. I love when I have used a material in a way that it may read as another material at a distance and then at closer inspection you see the details and the hidden pieces to it all. [...]

ALEXANDRA CIARDULLO

I was constantly making things as a child. Drawing, painting, sculpting. I would always sign up for art classes outside of school. Luckily for me, my family supported and nurtured my artistic efforts... [...]

KERI HALLORAN

My passion for creating started with my mother. She was constantly crafting, whether it was crocheting or making her own holiday decorations. She taught me the value of creating something for yourself and being proud of that. [...]

HAGAR SHUR FLETCHER

I started as a news photographer but always wanted to work and make things with my hands. That took me to Paris, where I studied at the École des Arts Appliqués and the École des Arts Déco. There I first began truly to appreciate and understand the sculptures of Picasso. [...]

ROCHELLE SCHAEVITZ

Art has always been a part of my life. My parents told me that at three I was explaining to other visitors at MOMA what to look for in the paintings. My formal education in art began at Cornell University in the 70’s and has continued through my recently earned master’s degree from the New York Academy of Art. [...]

KATHRYN SINCLAIR

I attribute my passion for art to an immense appreciation and curiosity for all life. I have to keep my hands moving! Test materials, ideas, and assumptions about history, science, how things work, how they are made, how things live, and the cycles attributed to these ideas. [...]

STEPHANIE SCHWIEDEREK

My primary medium lies in the snapshot photograph, and its attempt in documenting reality.  During my time at Mason Gross School of the Arts my work has slowly evolved into the exploration of found photographs and ephemera my family saved through the years. [...]

KERRY MOSKOWITZ

Currently my impulse is with abstraction and the exploration of gestural organic forms which have the transformative quality of light and movement of a living entity. By overlapping colors for their illuminative and transparent effect, I integrate illusionistic space. [...]

LISA BRYSON

I work in diverse media. The work, narrative, drives the preferred media for the intended audience. Drawing, painting, sculpture are all embraced and have become integral to my work...[...]

JODI GERBI

During my childhood, art became my way to escape the environment I was in. I would draw and eventually paint to have some peace in a home that was frightening to exist in. [...]

NATASHA JABRE

I paint using acrylics, but my techniques, such as glazing and underpainting, are just as at home in oil painting. My preference for acrylics is based on my long experience using them (over 10 years) and their amazing consistency. [...]

TRISHALA KALE

My art work uses fiber based materials and a traditionally craft based skill set. I had never started out using these techniques, and when I started a more formal training, I was introduced to the prospect of fibers art. I don’t think I have any goals for this medium, I simply enjoy using these materials. [...]

JOAN OLIVER

For me, drawing is a main line to the subconscious. The exploratory, meditative process of “tapping in” yields works that, however abstract, evoke the blurred landscape of dream or memory. While the drawing process itself is intentionally evident and primary, indistinct yet resonant configurations coexist within an atmospheric space. [...]

ZOEY B. SCHELER

My practice often begins on the potter’s wheel. From there I alter and transform my vessels, breaking their symmetry while maintaining the refined, controlled, and systematic nature of wheel-throwing. The thrown forms then get combined with slabs and slip cast forms. [...]

MARITA TORBICK

I love the figure, abstraction and the wandering drawn line. As I began to think about how to represent my concerns about climate change and material sustainability, I settled on the columnar form. [...]