mixed media Cradled birch base, holographic collage, dyed and painted silk, interference hues, acrylic varnish and medium, 12x12", 8x8", 6x6", 5x5",

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  Painting fire as a metaphor, I work to the limits of the medium exploring thematic meditations on subjects ranging from current events to broader philosophical problems and human struggles such as love, loss, duty and society. The graphic control of a drawn glue line is up against the chemistry and physics of dye in an organic material. Chaos and control is both the nature of the medium, and undeniably the story of the pictures I make. Dye is painted in wet-in-wet working over an area as many as twenty times to move and pull a color into another color and leave them sitting at various heights in the weave of the substrate silk. The steaming process on protein dyes causes the color to move below the surface of the thread, creating the richest most intense color experience possible. The gossamer surface gives undulating tones’ way to light.

  Selected Exhibitions and Representation:
 

“Intuition,” Joseph Moakley Courthouse, 11-12/2022-1/2023 Boston, MA

“Hamptons Iconic” Karyn Mannix contemporary, 8/2022East Hampton, NY 

“Studio 137 Neighborhood Exhibit” Brookline, MA 6-7/2022

“Shared Habitat Earth” Menino Center for the Arts, Hyde Park, MA, 6/2022

“Shared Habitat Earth” The Paula Estey Center for Arts and Activism, Newburyport, MA 4-5/2022

Hopkington Center for the Arts, Hopkington, MA4/2022

“Flora and Fauna” Belmont Gallery of Art, Belmont, MA 1/2022

“Nourishing the Senses” Wederman Gallery, LaSalle, Newton, MA 1-4/2022

“Changing Lives, Changing Future” Atlantic Wharf Gallery, 1-2/2022 Boston, MA

“Manipulation is Art and Play,” Piano Craft Guild, Boston, MA 11/21

“Art Forward,” Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA 11/21

“Layering: Collage/Mixed Media” The National Association of Women Artists, New York, NY 9-11/21

“The National Association of Women Artists 132nd Annual Exhibition” NAWA, New York, NY 10/21

“Collages and Constructions,” Menino Arts Center, 8-9/2021
“Some Like It Hot 1 & 2,” Nella Lush Gallery (online), The National Association of Women Artists, MA Chapter, 7/2020, 7/2021

“Women in Abstraction,” New Art Center, Newton, MA 6-7/2021 

“Art Heals,” Belmont Gallery of Art, Belmont, MA 5/2021

“DeBlois Spring Show,” DeBlois Gallery, Newport RI, 4/2021

“Touchy Feely,” Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA 5/2020

Marblehead Art Association, Hooper Mansion, Marblehead, MA NAWAMA 4/2020

“Floating Worlds,” NAWAMA, Canvas Fine Arts, Boston, 4/2020

“Small Works Winter Show,” National Association of Women Artists, New York, NY, 2/2020

“Energy,” Maynard ArtSpace, Maynard, MA 1/2020

“Chroma,” Kavanaugh Gallery at the Fine Line Arts Center, St. Charles, IL 9/2019

“Fiberlicious,” The Loading Dock Gallery, Lowell, MA, 3/2019

“Symposium on Women and Violence” Violence Transformed, at Lesley University, Cambridge, MA 5/2018

“A Day Without Art, World AIDS Day 2017” Medicine Wheel Productions Cyclorama Boston 11/2017

“Friends,” Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA 7/2017

“Friend: Unfriend, the Inauguration of the 45th President of the United States,” Galatea Fine Art, Boston, 1/2017

“Fire Paintings: Sea of Love,” Galatea Fine Art, Boston MA 10/2015
“Violence Transformed,” Sky Gallery, Copley Place Boston, September 2014
“The Story of the Creative,” See | Exhibition Space, NYC Summer 2013, also on Times Square NY illuminated billboard exhibition
“Rapture: Quarticity,” Solo exhibition, Gallery at the Piano Factory, Boston, MA June 2011
“Making Our Mark,” Riverside Gallery, Cambridge, 7-8/2010
"Synergeticists," Waterman Gallery Rhode Island School of Design, 11/2009
“Love and Passion,” Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, NY 2/2008, 2/2009, 2/2011, 2/2016, 2/2018, 2/2019, 2/2020
“Global Mala,” The Boston Center for the Arts, 9/2008
Gallery 51, MCLA, North Adams, MA 11-1/2008
“Symposium on Form and Morphology,” Rhode Island School of Design, , 11/2007
Beech Tree Gallery, Hyannis, MA 2006-2007
Arsenal Center for the Arts, 2006
"War and Peace" Karyn Mannix and Vito Sisti, Pebbles Gallery, East Hampton, NY 3/2006
World Wind, Arlington, MA 2006
Canvas Alley Gallery, Reading, MA 2004-2005
Art Attack Gallery, Somerville 2004
“Robert Gatti Presents: LOUD Fashion Show,” Piano Crafts Guild Boston 2004
Joe Moakley Memorial Arts Festival, Moakley Park, Boston 2004
dEmios Gallery, several group exhibitions and Artists Talks, Belmont, MA  2004
Liliane Chaglassian Herb Country Gallery, Cushing Square, Belmont, MA 2004
The Mayor’s Artsmart, Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston, MA 2001
Representative Jay Kaufman, Massachusetts State House, Boston, Massachusetts 2000
ArtVision, Stella Maria Regina von Saher Moore, Dallas, TX 1990-
Dallas Visual Arts Center, Dallas, Texas, 1992-1994
j.l. Designs Gallery, Bishop Arts District, Dallas, TX, 1990-1991

Love and Passion 15, Karyn Mannix Contemporary, East Hampton, NY February 2019, 

Loading Dock Gallery, Lowell, MA 3/2019

Deception and Deceit- Love and Passion, Karyn Mannix Contemporary, East Hampton, NY 3/2019

Violence Transformed; Symposium on Women and Violence, 4-5/2018 Lesley University, Cambridge

Size Matters, Karyn Mannix Contemporary, East Hampton, NY, 2/ 2018

Fresh Forward, Galatea Fine Art, Boston 12/2017

Medicine Wheel Productions “A Day Without Art, World AIDS Day 2017” Cyclorama Boston 11/2017

Friends, Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA 7/2017

The Inauguration of the 45th President of the United States, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, 1/2017

Love and Passion, White Room Gallery, East Hampton, NY 2/2016
Fire Paintings: Sea of Love, Galatea Fine Art, Boston MA 10/2015
Violence Transformed, Sky Gallery, Copley Place Boston, 9/2014
Galatea Fine Art Gallery 2013
The Story of the Creative, See | Exhibition Space, NY 7-8/2013
Rapture: Quarticity, Gallery at the Piano Factory, Boston, MA 6/2011
Making Our Mark, Riverside Gallery, Cambridge, July/August 2010
Martinis and Masterpieces, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, 2010, 2012
Belmont Gallery of Art, April 2010
Waterman Gallery "Synergeticists" RISD, 11/2009
Love and Passion, Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, NY 2/2008, 2/2009, 2/2011
Global Mala, The Boston Center for the Arts, 9/2008
Gallery 51 MCLA, North Adams, MA 11-1/2008
Rhode Island School of Design, Symposium on Form and Morphology, 11/2007
Beech Tree Gallery, Hyannis, MA 2006-07
Arsenal Center for the Arts 2006
Pebbles, East Hampton, NY "War and Peace" Mannix and Sisti, 3/2006
World Wind, Arlington, MA 2006
SOWA Artwalks Boston South End since 2005
Canvas Alley Gallery, Reading, 2004-2005
Art Attack, Somerville 2004
Robert Gatti Presents: LOUD Fashion Show, Piano Crafts Guild Boston 2004
Joe Moakley Memorial Arts Festival, Moakley Park, South Boston 2004
dEmios Gallery, group show, Artists Talk, Belmont, MA  2004
Herb Country, Liliane Chaglassian, Cushing Square, Belmont 2004
The Art Project, 9/11 Memorial Art Show, New York, New York 2002
Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston, Massachusetts 2001
Massachusetts State House, Boston, Massachusetts 2000
ArtVision, Dallas, Paintings 1992
Dallas Visual Arts Center, Texas, 1992
j.l. designs gallery, Dallas; painting, 1990-1991, Bishop Arts District Festival

Media:

Dye painting on silk with mixed media, print, paint, couture, film, theater

Training:

Engaged in the discourse on art and culture from birth. I have spent thousands of hours in and auditing various classes, symposia, workshops and studios. I was raised and educated by two artists, one of whom worked for the artist Isamu Noguchi and futurist inventor philosopher, R. Buckminster Fuller, the other an educator. Some further studies occurred at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Harvard University Extension School, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Boston University, Rhode Island School of Design and others too many individual locations and sources to list. I am a dedicated lifelong learner.