A New Flow

You wouldn't believe how quickly things have come together! A whole new flow has started from the moment I decided to move my studio back to Housatonic. The powerful presence of the water tower, the strength of the river and the grand proportions of the new studio have combined to bring a locomotive-like power and determination to everything I'm doing.
It is clearly the right moment to expand the studio.
I've been blessed with a great deal of success at an early stage, resulting in having my work acquired by important museums, collectors and corporate art collections.
With galleries and collectors waiting for new paintings, there is a demand for my work that I can't keep up with. In addition, I have several large projects I would like to bring to fruition, including developing a series of sculptural works, completing a new series on industrial landscape paintings, creating a series of large-scale limited edition prints and applying for Percent-for-Art public art projects.

I'm working up a Proposal for Collectors, inviting them to jump on board this loaded train, and help facilitate the expansion of my studio operations, in preparation for the explosive growth that is just around the corner!

Contact me if YOU'RE interested in getting on board!

An Obsession is Coming On. . .

I feel like there's so much to put online, that it would take me three months straight, working night & day to get everything up the way I envision. . . but since that's not exactly where my priorities lie, I suspect that probably that vision won't be realized in the immediate future.
In the interim, I will bit-by-bit, put up what I can, and it will (I hope) make some sense.
For now, a bit of waxing nostalgic for that powerfully omnipotent water tower that sits above the river in the little village of Housatonic. I've painted it, dreamt about it, talked about it and wept over it so many times that I truly must have some kind of deep visceral connection with it. I wonder if everyone who looks at it feels that way? I've been obsessed with it before, when I had my studio in Housatonic, and now that I am moving back to "Housie" I feel that obsession returning. All I want to do is make images of it!
Thousands of them!!!

Background (Part II) C.V.

GABRIELLE SENZA
Curriculum Vitae
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

2006
O.K. Harris Works of Art, NYC

2005
"RADALDA: Rotations: Addiction, Desire & Abuse Linked to Depression & Alcohol" Gabrielle Senza & The Red Collaborative at the Storefront Artist Project MainSpace, Pittsfield, MA

2003
“Between the Lines” organized by the CAC @ Inkberry, North Adams, MA
“Unspoken” Library Atrium Gallery, Simon’s Rock College of Bard, Great Barrington, MA

2001
“Seeing Red” Project Room, Meeting House Gallery, New Marlborough, MA

1998
Palazzo Cerere, Rome, Italy
Jaffe Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL

1997
Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT

1996
David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT

1993
“Works on Paper” O.K. Harris Works of Art, NYC
“Industrial America” David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI

1991
“Small Works” O.K. Harris Works of Art, NYC

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006
“Woman: A Self Portrait”, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Chelsea, NY

2005
“Power of Place” Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA

2004
“Think Pink” Benefit art show co-sponsored by the Storefront Artist Project & the American Cancer Society
Breast Health Team, Pittsfield, MA
“Art & The River” Benefit Exhibition, 2004 Housatonic River Project, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA
“STREAM Lines” Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
“Toxic Landscapes: Artists Examine the Environment” Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences,
Loveladies, NJ
“Stripes” The Meeting House Gallery, New Marlborough, MA

2003
“Deep Listening” Gallery of Modern Art, Marblehead, MA
“Art As Activism As Art” The Meeting House Gallery, New Marlborough, MA
“Love Behind Glass” Storefront Artist Project, Pittsfield, MA
“Expressions: State of the Union” Railroad Street Youth Project, Great Barrington, MA

2002
“Postcards from the Edge” Visual AIDS Benefit, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY
“Phenomena” Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
“Paperworks” Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
“EcoArt” The Meeting House Gallery, New Marlborough, MA
“Paisajes Toxicos” El Reino del Mundo Gallery, Bibliotéca Nacional José Marti Havana, Cuba. Organized by the Puffin Foundation.
“Books by Artists” CAC & Inkberry, North Adams, MA
“Toxic Landscapes: US Artists Examine the Environment,” Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, NJ
"New Digs For The Dog" Juror: Deborah Solomon, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA

2001
“Toxic Landscapes: US Artists Examine the Environment,” international traveling exhibition sponsored by the Puffin Foundation. The exhibition opens in Pittsburgh, PA during the WASTE summit (Nov. 2001) at Chatham College sponsored by the Rachel Carson Institute and the Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO).
“Paper Prayers Thirteen” BPFAP Benefit, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
“Connections: Past, Present, Future” Gallery of Modern Art, Marblehead, MA
“Postcards from the Edge” Visual AIDS Benefit, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
“Urban Imagery” Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
“Lighten Up: The Benefit” DeCordova Museum's Annual Benefit and Auction, Lincoln, MA
“Contemporary Christian Art” Fox-Martin Gallery, Housatonic, MA

2000
“Human Nature” Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
“PULSE” Barbara O’Brien, curator, Gallery of Modern Art, Marblehead, MA
“Artists Along the Housatonic” Interlaken School of Art, Stockbridge, MA
“Inspired By Rivers” Meetinghouse Gallery, New Marlborough, MA

1999
“A Local Habitation & A Name” Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

1998
“The Landscape Revisited” The Putney School, Putney, VT
Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT

1997
“Selections from SPAZI Contemporary Art” Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY
“Genius Loci: Hail Corn” Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

1996
“The Alphabet of Trees” Westenburg Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
“Nine SPAZI Artists in Rome” Politecnico Associazione Culturale, Rome, Italy
“Image + Text” The Sage Colleges, Rathbone Gallery, Albany, NY

1995
“The New Landscape” Springfield Museum of Fine Art, Springfield, MA
“Intimate Obsessions” Barbara O’Brien, curator, Cragin Fife Gallery, Brookline, MA
“Painting X 5” Nicholas Davies & Co., New York, NY

1994
“Berkshire Artists Invitational” RiCA, Housatonic, MA
“Wood and Stone and Steel and Bone” Paris–New York–Kent Gallery, Kent, CT
OIA Benefit Exhibition, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
“Small Paintings and Gilded Artifacts” Modern Rarities, New York, NY

1993
“The Post Industrial World” Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA

1992
“Realism/Photo Realism” David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
“The Big Picture, Paintings in Grandes Format” O.K. Harris Works of Art, NYC
“Small Works” Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

1991
“Life in the Mill Town” SPAZI Contemporary Art, Housatonic, MA

1990
Chicago International Art Exposition, courtesy of the Rosa Esman Gallery, NYC
“Housatonic Artists” SPAZI Contemporary Art, Housatonic, MA

1989
Britell & Senza, Welles Gallery, LCC Award, Lenox, MA

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PUBLIC/PERFORMANCE EVENTS

2006
“Walk Unafraid Chelsea”, UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS NEW YORK Festival, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Chelsea, NY
“Walk Unafraid Brooklyn”, UTVSNY Festival, Take Action Brooklyn! Block Party, Williamsburg, NY
“Walk Unafraid New York”, UTVSNY Festival with ViBe Theater Experience at the Here Arts Center, Chelsea, NY
“Walk Unafraid SoHo”, UTVSNY Festival with ViBe Theater Experience at the Here Arts Center, Chelsea, NY
“Walk Unafraid Pittsfield”, Red Collaborative at City Hall, Pittsfield, MA

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SELELCTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

“Senza exhibit at Simon’s Rock library offers ambitious agenda in black-and-white and red” Art Review by Charles Bonenti, The Berkshire Eagle, Friday, March 28, 2003, page D4
“New Marlborough artist launches Red Collaborative” by Judith Monachina, The Advocate, March 19, 2003, page 6
“Eco Art: Man’s effect on nature expressed in art” by Charles Bonenti, Berkshire Eagle, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2002
“Art and Culture” by María de la Soledad, Radio Progreso Online, Miami, June 27, 2002
“Successful opening for Toxic Landscapes exhibition” by Jean-Guy Allard, Granma Internacional Digital, Cuba, June 21, 2002
“Pair of shows comment on environmental issues facing our nation - and the world” by Kurt Shaw, The Pittsburgh Tribune, Friday, November 16, 2001
“Dog house fantasies at Rockwell museum” Charles Bonenti, Berkshire Eagle, Saturday, April 20, 2002
“Cragin Fife Gallery: Intimate Obsessions” Susan Mulski, Art New England, 1995 Dec/January 1996
“New Berkshire Landscapes” Daniel M. Klein, Berkshire Magazine, Spring 1995
“Massachusetts Milltowns” Gloria Russell & Robin Krasner Cossin, Art New England, Oct/Nov 1994
“From Mill Town to Arts Mecca” Jeff Kantrowitz, The Boston Globe, September 3, 1993
“Montserrat exhibit presents Post - Industrial images” Elisabeth Clark, North Shore Magazine, Feb. 18, 1993
“Exhibit offers look at approaches” Gloria Russell, Sunday Republican, Leisure Section, Sun., Sept. 10, 1995
“Interpreting the Landscape” the Paper, October 1995

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PUBLIC SPEAKING

2005 "Landscape as Inspiration" Artists Talk, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
2002 "EcoArt Roundtable" in conjunction with the Toxic Landscapes exhibition, Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ
1996 “Image + Text” The Sage Colleges, Albany, NY
1992 “Nine for Five” Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA

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ARTICLES PUBLISHED

“Olivia Bernard: Descent and Flight: Terra Incognita” Hampden Gallery at UMass Amherst. Art New England, April/May 2004, Review, p. 27
“Carolyn Webb and Neal Parks: Shared Elements” A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA. Art New England, April/May 2004, Review, p. 25
“Bonita Sennott: Paintings and Drawings” Center For the Arts, Northampton, MA. Art New England, February/March 2003, Review, p. 28
“Jee-Un Kim: Objects of Subjectivity” S.K.H. Gallery, Great Barrington, MA. Art New England, December/January 2003, Review, p. 34
“Laura Fayer: New Paintings, Patterns of Movement” Ute Stebich Gallery, Lenox, MA. Art New England, December/January 2003, Review, p. 34
“Play With Your Food!” The Family Beat, October 2002, p. 23

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TEACHING/VISITING ARTIST

2004
Continuing Education Instructor, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
Community Access to the Arts Visual Arts Instructor at Valleyhead School, Lenox, MA

2003
Adjunct Professor, “Unorthodox Materials” Simon's Rock College of Bard, Great Barrington, MA

2002
Adjunct Professor, “Large-Scale Charcoal Drawing” Simon's Rock College of Bard, Great Barrington, MA
Visiting Artist, Simon's Rock of Bard College, Great Barrington, MA
IS 183 North @ MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA; Painting & Drawing Courses and Workshops
IS 183, Stockbridge, MA; Painting & Drawing Courses and Workshops
Flying Cloud Institute, New Marlborough, MA; “Dirt, Chocolate & Spaghetti Sauce,” workshop.
Meeting House, New Marlborough, MA; Private Painting Classes for adults

2001
Kidspace @ MASS MoCA; “Dirt, Chocolate & Spaghetti Sauce,” a workshop for children and adults on the use of alternative materials in contemporary art and how to use a variety of these materials.
Interlaken North at MASS MoCA; “Blow Up,” a course in creating large-scale drawings in charcoal
Interlaken School of Art, Stockbridge, MA; Painting the Intimate Landscape Workshop

2000
Visiting Artist, Hawthorne Valley School, Harlemville, NY
Interlaken School of Art, Stockbridge, MA; Summer Landscape Painting Workshop at Naumkeag

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AWARDS/RESIDENCIES/HONORARIA

2004
The Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation’s A.R.T. (Artist’s Resource Trust) Grant
Change, Inc. Rauschenberg Foundation
2002 The Puffin Foundation, Public Interest Grant for The Online Collaborative Revelations Scroll
2001 Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art; Kidspace Honorarium
1997 Palazzo Cerere, Rome, Italy; Private Residency Award
1989 MCC Local Cultural Council Award to fund Exhibition in the Welles Gallery, Lenox Library, Lenox, MA

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PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Lifetime Television, New York, NY
JMW Consultants Inc., Stamford, CT
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry, Miami, FL
JP Morgan Chase (formerly First Chicago National Bank), Detroit, MI
UBS (formerly Paine Webber, Inc.) Hato Rey, Puerto Rico

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SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Laura Stevensen Maslon, Venice, CA
Ruth & Richard Shack, Miami, FL
Alan Lawrence Gargle, NYC
Vernita McNeil, West Orange, NJ
Don & Maggie Buchwald, New York, NY
Thomas Parker, New York, NY
Donna & Bill DeSeta, NYC
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Pelavin, Flint, MI
David Klein, Detroit, MI
Robert Poplack, Birmingham, MI
Philip Smerling, Stockbridge, MA
Whoopi Goldberg, NYC
Adolfo & Nichola Doring, NYC
Judith Jamison, New York, NY
Ann Prival & David Greenstein, NYC
Ivan Karp, New York, NY
James Schamus, New York, NY
Deborah Menaka Rothschild, Williamstown, MA

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CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE*

2003
“Art As Activism As Art” committee-curated exhibition, The Meeting House Gallery, New Marlborough, MA

2002
“EcoArt” committee-curated exhibition, The Meeting House Gallery, New Marlborough, MA
“Books by Artists” curated by Gabrielle Senza in collaboration with the CAC & Inkberry, North Adams, MA

1997
“Selections from SPAZI Contemporary Art” group exhibition curated for the Kim Foster Gallery, NY, NY

1996
“Nine SPAZI Artists in Rome” group exhibition curated for Politecnico Associazione Culturale, Rome, Italy
“Image + Text” co-curated by Gabrielle Senza and Jim Richard Wilson, The Sage Colleges, Rathbone
Gallery, Albany, NY

1994
“Small Paintings and Gilded Artifacts” co-curated by Gabrielle Senza and Frederic Cantor, Modern Rarities,
New York, NY

* See also the Blog Post “History of Exhibitions & Events @ SPAZI Contemporary Art”

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WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES ATTENDED

2004 “Widening the Circle” New England Consortium of Artist Professionals 3rd Annual Conference, Open Square, Holyoke MA

2003 “Personal as Political: Struggle and the Expression of Identity” Simon's Rock College of Bard, Great Barrington MA

2002 “Artist Educators” New England Consortium of Artist Professionals Conference, Brown University, Providence RI

2001 Encaustic Workshop R&F Paints, Kingston NY

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RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2002 – Present
Founder and director of Red Collaborative, a non-profit arts initiative committed to empowering individuals through the creation and exhibition of collaborative art projects intended to raise awareness about physical, sexual and emotional abuse.

2004 – 2005
Visual Arts Instructor at Valley Head School, a residency treatment facility for adolescent girls.

2002 Department Head, Lectures and Exhibitions, IS 183 and IS 183 North @ MASS MoCA. Curated “Painted
Words & Artists’ Books” group exhibition, and arranged Sunday Studio Talks by Walton Ford, Karen Arp-Sandel and Richad Criddle.

1997 - 1998
Resided in Rome, Italy. Painting in the Palazzo Cerere, San Lorenzo.

1994 - 1995
Art Consultant for the corporate art collection of JMW Consultants Inc., Stamford,CT

1990 - 1998
Co-Owner and Director of SPAZI Contemporary Art, Housatonic, MA.

Background (Part I) SPAZI

History of Exhibitions & Events @ SPAZI Contemporary Art
Curated / Organized by Gabrielle Senza unless otherwise indicated

1989
Renovations of 4,000 square foot raw mill space at the Barbieri Lumber Mill begins.

1990
October/November Housatonic Artists, group exhibition
November Cacophony, group exhibtion
December/January The Eclectic Chair, group exhibition

1991
April/May Locomotion/Local Motion/Low Commotion/Loco Motion, group exhibition
May/June Poetic Landscapes & Outdoor Sculpture, group exhibition
July/August Dreams & Ambiguities, group exhibition curated by Barbara Green
July Art World Truths: Art Critic, Carol Diehl speaks of personal journey through the New York art world
August Music in The Mill: Baroque Cello and Harpsichord Concert
August/September 3 Way Objects: Cynthia Atwood, Beck Balken & Ruth Green
September/October Mia Münzer LeComte: From Paradise to a Crazy World
December/January Mirrors by Artists, group exhibition

1992
April/May Warner Friedman: Paintings
May/June Jarvis Rockwell: Toys
May/June Stephanie Jo Smith: Domestic Chaos
June/July Reginald Madison: Twenty Years of Painting
June/July Jim Toia: Vines
August/September Lavada Nicholls: Iconographs
August/September Lucio Pozzi & David Wynne
October Provincetown Artists (no boat paintings), group exhibition
October Season Synopsis, group exhibition
November Anne Arden McDonald: Recent Work from Eastern Europe
November A History of Fantasy & Staged Photography: a Slide Presentation by Anne Arden McDonald
December Books by Artists, group exhibition

1993
May/June Jane McWhorter: Here and There
May/June Women’s Work, group exhibition
July Growing Up Racist: A Black Comedy About White South Africa by Nuyorican poet Evert Eden
July/August Nuyorican Poets Café: Artists & Performers
July An Evening of Brecht, Eisler & Rilke: Songs, Scenes & Poetry
August/September Singular Imagination: an exhibition of Outsider Art curated by Phyllis Kind
August/September Alternative Photography by American and European artists curated by Anne Arden McDonald
October/November At Play: Bob Hepner & Ezra Maurer, curated by Jim Toia
Nov./December Bobbie Crosby: Tyringham People

1994
May/June Elio Ciol: Nero, Bianco & Colori
May/June Warner Friedman: Cut-Out Paintings of the Seventies
July/August Small Works at Spazi), group exhibition
July/August Margo Davis Hollander: Contemporary Botanicals
August/September Symbols of Civilization: Recent sculpture by Joe Wheaton
August/September Death of Marat & Other Master re-Works: Photographs by Carole Palermo Schulze
September/October Western Vignettes & Artists’ Spaces: Photographs by Lindy Smith

1995
June/July 22 Tattoos: Photographs by Kent Noble & Mark Perrott curated by Jessica Coville and Gabrielle Senza
June/July 87 Inches of Toast: New Work by C. A. Cundiff
July/August New Breed of Painters: 5 Painters from Florence, Massachusetts
July/August About Chairs: a multi-media group exhibition
August/September Jim Toia: Recent Work in Earth Mediums
August Anthony Crisafulli Talk on installation artist Jim Toia
August/September Dorothy Arnold: SCUD Paintings and other works

1996
January/February Image + Text at the Rathbone Gallery, Russell Sage Jr. College, Albany, NY, group exhibition co-curated by Gabrielle
Senza and Rathbone Director, Jim Richard Wilson
April/ May Photo Open 1996, group exhibition
May/June Bruce Ackerson: New Paintings
May Music in the Mill: A Classical Guitar & Cello Performance
June/July Selections: Artists from the Kim Foster Gallery, NYC
July/August Palmae: Recent Work by Lloyd Gunther Dallett
August/September Czech Photography Today, curated by Anne Arden McDonald
August/September Geoffrey Moss: New Work
October/November Carole P. Schulze: Recent Photographs
Nov./December Arlene Santana: Quarry Paintings

1997
July – September New Work by SPAZI Artists
New Artists: A Baker’s Dozen, group exhibition
Sept. – Nov. Naked Landscapes, Interpretations, group exhibition
Oct. Gabrielle went to Rome Italy for a two month residency (staying on an extra seven months)

1998
April - Gabrielle returned briefly to Housatonic and dissolved SPAZI Contemporary Art before returning to Rome
July - Gabrielle moved back to the United States and maintained her studio in the Barbieri Mill in Housatonic until summer 2001.