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October 14, 2021November 2, 2022, by Art Spiel

Cynthia Pareja Dubin: MVA Open Studios

Cynthia Pareja Dubin, Liquitex Acrylics Medium Residency, June 2021

Manufacturers Village Artist Studios, located in an 1880’s historic industrial complex at 356 Glenwood Avenue in East Orange, NJ, will feature the work of over 60 different artists at its annual open studios weekend, Friday 10/15 (VIP Preview) and Saturday thru Sunday from 11-5, 10/16 and 10/17.

October 9, 2021November 2, 2022, by Art Spiel

An Architecture of Longing at Hopkins Art Center

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Keren Kroul, An Architecture of Longing, series of four works, 2021, watercolor on paper, 60” x 48” each. Photo courtesy of Keren Kroul.

Minnesota based artist Keren Kroul shows watercolor on paper in her current solo exhibition at the Hopkins Center for the Arts. The show runs through October 23^rd, 2021.

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October 8, 2021November 2, 2022, by Art Spiel

The Factory Project during London Frieze Week

Featured Project: Nicholas Stavri and Eric Thorp – Answering collectively as THORP STAVRI

The Factory Project – Warehouse Internal – Thorp Stavri

Whilst The Factory Project runs through the most commercially driven week of the London art calendar, Frieze week, it is championed as a non-profit museum scale multi-disciplinary exhibition that has been produced by the duo Thorp Stavri with the aim of amplifying underrepresented voices of emerging to mid-career artists and curators, offering them the opportunity to exhibit new work without the constraints of commercial bias. It is set to open from October 9th to the 22nd, showcasing 10 exhibitions by 10 curators and over 110 artists within the former Tate & Lyle 67,640 sq ft warehouse and yard complex at Thameside Industrial Estate by City Airport. ” We’ve been thinking of the project as a sort of music festival, where you can travel from stage to stage (exhibition to exhibition), catching your favorite acts while discovering loads of new ones,” The Factory Project producers say.

October 6, 2021October 6, 2024, by Art Spiel

Jonathan Lewis: MVA Open Studios

Jonathan Lewis in his studio at Manufacturer’s Village

October 4, 2021October 1, 2021, by Etty Yaniv

Maggie Nowinski -Drawing (un)limited

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Description automatically generated — Maggie Nowinski, Be Spilled, My Heart, 2021 detail installation view with artist for scale, wHoles are acrylic and India ink on canvas, double sided, installation approximately 20’x30’x10’

About a decade ago, Maggie Nowinski shifted her focus from site specific project-based installation to her studio as the primary site of her work. She made this shift after realizing that her connection to the work had become too fragmented. She needed her studio work to become more accessible and her creativity more meditative. Since drawing has always been at the core of her work, focusing on drawing with limited materials and themes, enabled her to process a lot of the ideas she had been working through in her large-scale installations. “I was craving a way to immediately access creativity, to be in a place where if I had an hour I could walk into my studio and pick up where I’d left off on a drawing,” she says.

October 3, 2021November 2, 2022, by Art Spiel

Susan Mastrangelo at 490 ATLANTIC

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Description automatically generated — The artist with her work, photo courtesy of Barabara Friedman

Susan Mastrangelo’s five paintings featured in her solo show at 490 ATLANTIC vibrate with vivid and visceral energy, a culmination of the emotional journey she has experienced this past year and a half. The artist says that as she is standing in front of this painting series, she remembers how the fear during COVID prompted her urge to “seize the moment and focus on being present every minute in the creation of each work.”

October 2, 2021October 6, 2024, by Etty Yaniv