Gallery News

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Mel Kadel was recently invited to speak at a conference for over 2,000 attendees in Sydney, Australia titled ‘Semi-Permanent’.

EVA HILD, in addition to having a book published on her work ‘Eva Hild,’ was also featured in the September Issue of Architectural Digest in the elegant Washington DC home of designer Thomas Pheasant (pg. 103).

Ferne Jacobs was honored at a private reception celebrating her accomplished forty year career. Introduced by Nancy Margolis, Chief Curator of the Museum of Arts & Design, David McFadden spoke of Jacobs’s important contribution to the field of fiber art. Jacobs’s gallery talk and slide presentation included an historical survey of her fiber work, also shown to the public for the first time were her extraordinary works on paper. Images from the reception are viewable here.

SUSAN JAMISON will have a solo museum exhibition titled ‘into the forest’ at the Taubman Museum of Art, opening March 2010. Jamison is also included in a group exhibition at Skidmore College in April, and will be a visiting artist at East Carolina University. Jamison also completed a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative arts this past March and received a fellowship from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. Jamison also appears in New American Paintings, Vol 81.

KIM SIMONSSON recently received the prestigious Pro Arte Award from the Didrichsen Art Museum [Helsinki] and will be exhibiting there in September 2009. Simonsson was also profiled in ‘BEST ART OF NYC 2008-2009,’ a compilation of the most compelling and worthwhile art in New York galleries and museums, by Theredoom Projects. Simonsson was also recently accepted into the Taiwan Biennale 2010.

CHERYL A. THOMAS work is included in the invitational show “Fifth International Ceramics Bienale” in South Korea which opened April 26th. Her work was also recently reviewed by Constance Mallison in the March 2009 issue of Art In America.

MARIE VON HEYL will have a residency in Monschau, Germany in September/October of 2009. At the completion of her residency the local museum will house a solo exhibition of her work.

NANCY MARGOLIS profiled in American Craft Magazine