SANDRA RAMOS

KRISTEN SCHIELE

For 2019 It is our great pleasure to present our first exhibit with Kristen Schiele from August 30 – September 29, 2019.For this exhibition we will present a suite of works on paper, images of women drawn/ painted with line and color that seem to incorporate the strength of urban architecture, the history of masks and tribal garb, resistance to the the legacy of the female subject in the painter’s patriarchal gaze, and the action of the moment between abstraction and figuration.

Schiele holds a BA in Visual arts from Indiana University, a MFA from the American University in Washington DC, and has studied at the Universität der Künste Berlin. Her works on paper and silkscreen graphic novel is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of art and the Museum of Modern Art. She has been selected for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Residency, Bronx AIM Artist in the Marketplace, the Workspace Residency Program of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, a Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency, Ucross, Fountainhead, DNA and Wassaic Art Residencies. She has exhibited in the Torrence Art Museum, Corcoran Museum of art, Printed Matter Book Fair at PS1 Moma and the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. She has been reviewed in the New York Times, Berliner Morgenpost, the Brooklyn Rail, Modern Painters among others. She lives and works in Brooklyn.

FRANCIS OLSCHAFSKIE

Francis Olschafskie, who lives in Truro and outside of Boston, holds an undergraduate degree from Massachusetts College of Art (where he met master art photographers Minor White and Walker Evans) and a graduate degree from MIT. There, he essentially taught himself to write image-making software for a room-size computer, and remains passionate about technology and invention.

Photography and image printing is another passion. An expert of the medium even before the digital revolution, he brings a wealth of history beginning with the birth of photography to his use of digital equipment, cameras with finely calibrated lenses and digital printers sensitive enough to produce exquisitely detailed prints.

Olschafskie travels widely, making images on the streets and in the museums of London, Paris and elsewhere. He will exhibit new work at the gallery from August 9 – 28, 2019.

NONA HERSHEY

Nona Hershey was born in New York City in 1946 and has had more than 20 solo exhibitions. She is a distinguished professor and taught at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy and Tokyo, Japan; and at The Massachusetts College of Art & Design. Her work is included in public and corporate collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Library of Congress, Boston Public Library, Harvard Art Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, CT, Minnesota Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Corcoran Museum of Art, Crakow National Museum, Museo Civico, Piacenza, Museo Municipal, Caracas, and the National Print Cabinet, Rome.  She has participated in over 150 Print Biennials and Group Exhibitions internationally. Numerous solo exhibitions include those at Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY; Dolan Maxwell Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Galleria Il Ponte, Rome, Italy; Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Miller Block Gallery, and Soprafina Gallery, Boston,MA.  Editions of her prints have been published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Associated American Artists, NY, Mary Ryan Gallery, NY, Laboratorio Artivisive, Foggia, Italy, Lario Cadorago, Como, Italy, Associazione Amici dell’Arte, Piacenza, Italy, Il Ponte Editrice, Rome, Italy, Hartford Art School, CT, The Print Club of Rochester, NY, and The University Print Club, Cleveland, OH.

She has had residency grants at the Asillah Forum Foundation, Morocco; Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ireland; Ucross Foundation, WY; Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; the Vermont Studio Center; and twice at the MacDowell Colony, NH.  She taught printmaking at Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy for 12 years and at Temple University’s Tokyo program for one year.  Since September 1993, Ms. Hershey has been Professor and Coordinator of the Printmaking Department at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. She was awarded a Somerville  Arts Council Artist Fellowship Grant, A Massachusetts Cultural Council Award and in 2018, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Finalist Award.

She will exhibit new works on paper from June 28 – July 17, 2019