by Debra Claffey | May 27, 2017 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Exhibitions
Next week I will be installing a small show I have curated for the Eleventh International Encaustic Conference. Each year they have a Curatorial Program in which artists are encouraged to submit proposals for exhibitions for Provincetown and Truro during the...
by Debra Claffey | Aug 5, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Exhibitions
Last evening Twiggs Gallery hosted a reception for Balancing Acts, a small show of encaustic work that I was delighted to curate. Summer in the country, evening breezes beginning to cool what was a beautiful, blue-sky day. Artist-owner Adele Sanborn’s creation,...
by Debra Claffey | Aug 2, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Interviews, Thoughts
One of the delightful parts of curating this exhibition was discovering how many artists contemplate this idea of balance in our work and in our lives. I had some questions for Pamala Crabb, an artist living in Maine, who works with wax and encaustic in paintings,...
by Debra Claffey | Jul 31, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions
Here’s a pretty good interview with Kelly Sennott from The Hippo magazine about our upcoming exhibition at Twiggs...
by Debra Claffey | Jul 31, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Interviews
Hélène Farrar, What We Carry: The Balance, encaustic on panel, 30 x 22 inches Hélène Farrar, What We Carry: Later On, encaustic and painted small person model, 4 x 4 inches Hélène Farrar, What We Carry: Middle Age,...
by Debra Claffey | Jul 31, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Interviews
Angel Dean Angel Dean is an artist in Providence, Rhode Island. The work of hers that I chose for Balancing Acts at Twiggs Gallery spoke to me of “precarious balance” in the juxtaposition of so many disparate objects. She turns our throwaways into art that...
by Debra Claffey | Jul 21, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Interviews, Thoughts
For the upcoming exhibition, Balancing Acts, at Twiggs Gallery in Boscawen, NH later this month, I asked each of the artists for a paragraph or two about their work and our theme: Explorations of the artful life in wax and encaustic. I had Borofsky’s work in...
by Debra Claffey | Jul 9, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Interviews
This is the second in a series of interviews with the artists I’ve chosen for the exhibition, Balancing Acts, that will be taking place at Twiggs Gallery in Boscawen, NH, July 30 through September 2, 2016. I hope you will join all of us at the opening reception...
by Debra Claffey | Jul 5, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Interviews
For the exhibition, “Balancing Acts”, which will be at Twiggs Gallery in Boscawen, NH, from July 30 through September 2, 2016, I’m putting together a series of interviews and/or studio visits with the artists whose work I’ve chosen for the show. The six artists,...
by Debra Claffey | Jun 26, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events
Studio Visit is a series of juried artist books.In each issue they present two- and three- dimensional media, selected by professional curators, in a full-color bound volume from about 150 artists. I was selected for Volume 31 and the juror for that issue was Mary M....
