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| Ringling bridge at night. © Elena De La Ville |
I will be a presenter at the 7th Encaustic
Conference in Provincetown, MA. And will also be teaching a post conference
workshop on Photography and Encaustic at Castle Hill Center for the Arts.
I am currently showing at
the Boston center for the Arts, Mills Gallery: The Future of the Past:
Encaustic Art in the 21st Century
http://www.artscopemagazine.com/asdyn/index.wr?is=40&a=4
http://www.artscopemagazine.com/asdyn/index.wr?is=40&a=4
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Notes from Land's End: June 6
By Laura Shabott
June 6th, 2011 I stopped by Kobalt Gallery (336) to view the conference’s juried show. Curator Francine D’ Olimpio selected works that encompassed a wide range of composition and content. One standout is “Bee Habitat” by Venezuelan Elena De La Ville, a piece using fabric, rust and beeswax. “The sculptural form even attracts bees”, said the artist/bee-keeper. "Over 120 participants are also attending post confehttp://www.provincetown.com/fine_provincetown_art_craft/gallery_dealer_photo/_/18474/
June 6th, 2011 I stopped by Kobalt Gallery (336) to view the conference’s juried show. Curator Francine D’ Olimpio selected works that encompassed a wide range of composition and content. One standout is “Bee Habitat” by Venezuelan Elena De La Ville, a piece using fabric, rust and beeswax. “The sculptural form even attracts bees”, said the artist/bee-keeper. "Over 120 participants are also attending post confehttp://www.provincetown.com/fine_provincetown_art_craft/gallery_dealer_photo/_/18474/
Blurbs:
Elena De La Ville begins a documentary photo project at Bodyworks Gym. Images from the series are shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas. Elena was one of five Venezuelan artists selected for the exhibit; the five American artists were Robert Mapplethorpe, Annie Leibowitz, Bruce Weber, Herb Ritts, and Arnold Newman.
http://www.historyproject.org/resources/latino_timeline.php
Elena De La Ville begins a documentary photo project at Bodyworks Gym. Images from the series are shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas. Elena was one of five Venezuelan artists selected for the exhibit; the five American artists were Robert Mapplethorpe, Annie Leibowitz, Bruce Weber, Herb Ritts, and Arnold Newman.
http://www.historyproject.org/resources/latino_timeline.php
5 X 5:
150 Anos De La Fotografia = 150 Years of Photography Leibovitz, Mapplethorpe, Newman, Slavin, Weber, Beaufrand, De La Ville, Scannone, Sigala, Vogeler
150 Anos De La Fotografia = 150 Years of Photography Leibovitz, Mapplethorpe, Newman, Slavin, Weber, Beaufrand, De La Ville, Scannone, Sigala, Vogeler
PARADIGM GALLERY:
Elena De La Ville's
encaustic panels operate beyond objective reasoning. They reach us at a
visceral level; free from intellectualization.
301 GALLERY:
This
group exhibition features 20 artists from across the US, selected from a group
of 61 entries by Nick Capasso, Senior Curator at the DeCordova Museum in
Lincoln, Mass. Capasso selected the theme Beauty and Its Opposites to
challenge participants to go beyond the beauty of the wax.
DIRECTOR'S
PRIZE: Elena de la Ville
Palm Beach Art
27 of
November 2010 to the 26th of February 2011 – Art Museum-Araure Acarigua
A curatorial project by Rolando J. Carmona, The exhibition comprised 30 portraits of entertainers and models, with an evident and continuous attempt to represent the desire, either from the intentions of the photographer in the captured image, or the ego of the photographed object displayed as seduction.
A curatorial project by Rolando J. Carmona, The exhibition comprised 30 portraits of entertainers and models, with an evident and continuous attempt to represent the desire, either from the intentions of the photographer in the captured image, or the ego of the photographed object displayed as seduction.
Artists
Alexander Apóstol / Toni Catany / José Joaquín Figueroa / Milton Greene / Annie Leibovitz / Malika / Edward Mapplethorpe / Robert Mapplethorpe / Alila Morillo / Herb Ritts / Deborah Samuel / Margarita Scannone / Antonio Ugarte / Elena de la Ville / Guillermo Vogeler / Bruce Weber / Jenny Woodman
Alexander Apóstol / Toni Catany / José Joaquín Figueroa / Milton Greene / Annie Leibovitz / Malika / Edward Mapplethorpe / Robert Mapplethorpe / Alila Morillo / Herb Ritts / Deborah Samuel / Margarita Scannone / Antonio Ugarte / Elena de la Ville / Guillermo Vogeler / Bruce Weber / Jenny Woodman
International Encaustic Conference 2007 ,2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and invited speaker and presenter for 2012
The
Fourth Annual Encaustic Painting Conference
Saturday Morning Panel: "Making a Career in Encaustic". (From the left) Barbara Moody, Conference Director Joanne Mattera, Jane Allen Nodine, Eileen Goldenberg, Alexandre Massino, Elena de la Ville, and Montserrat Dean Laura Tonelli.
Saturday Morning Panel: "Making a Career in Encaustic". (From the left) Barbara Moody, Conference Director Joanne Mattera, Jane Allen Nodine, Eileen Goldenberg, Alexandre Massino, Elena de la Ville, and Montserrat Dean Laura Tonelli.
BEST FOOT FORWARD:
Elena De La Ville is adjunct
faculty @ Ringling College of Art, a member of the Sarasota County Art Council,
The Arts Center in St Petersburg, Art Center Manatee and Art Center Sarasota,
where she is part of the Exhibition Committee.
