Showing posts with label Sarasota. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sarasota. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Studio News





News from Sarasota, FL

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

 

Other links:

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/

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

5 X 5:
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.
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


International Encaustic Conference 2007 ,2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and invited speaker and presenter for 2012

The Fourth Annual Encaustic Painting Conference
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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.



Wednesday, September 21, 2011

WOW! National Show of Encaustic Work


WOW! Women & Wax will feature the leading artists in the field who are dedicated to the innovation of contemporary art and ideas. Artists from around the country were chosen for their innovative and contemporary use of the Encaustic medium. The exhibit provides a platform for dialogue and education, while increasing the understanding and appreciation of encaustic art.


Encaustic is one of the oldest forms of painting wherein beeswax, resin and pigment are layered and then fused to produce a luminous surface that both captures and transforms light. These artists melt, layer, scrape, and sculpt to create their individual vision in wax.





Curated by: Elena De La Ville

At the Art Center Sarasota

 

Invited artists:

 



Binnie Birstein

Neverne Covington
Karen Freedman  
Diana González Gandolfi
Joanne Mattera
Laura Moriarty
Nancy Natale
Catherine Nash
Jane Allen Nodine


Opening Reception:  November 3rd


Show runs: Novemver 3 – December 31 - 2011


Art Center Sarasota:707 N Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34236-4050
(941) 365-2032

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Encaustic Artist at the Hermitage Artist Retreat

Taken from the Hermitage website

Yesterday, I had the wonderful opportunity to meet up with artist and Hermitage Fellow, Barbara Ellman. She is here in beautiful Manasota key for her final days of residency at the Hermitage Artist retreat, just south of Sarasota.

I was invited by friend and artist Elizabeth Van Riper to meet Barbara, who also works in Encaustic. She has produced an extensive body of work which include many Public Art projects in NY. We had dinner with Barbara and Mimi Herman, a writer who is also in residency at the Hermitage.

We had a wonderful time talking and sharing stories and getting to know one another as we enjoyed the views and sounds of the Florida Gulf sunset from the outside deck.

We had an incredible treat of a reading of poems by Mimi as we enjoyed our dessert and then a visit to Barbara’s studio to see her latest work. It is so much fun to meet fellow encaustic artists and talk shop!

Thank you all for a memorable and inspiring evening.








Barbara and Elizabeth Van Riper

New piece influenced by the glorious Florida light and color.

Works in progress.