Hullaballoo Collective

Bernice Sokol Kramer

hullaballoo — Sun, 19 May 2013 20:05:24 +0000

I do bodies without heads and heads without bodies

Does anyone care about this rift?

Only when the split arouses

Dubious claims to territories adrift.

Bascha Mon

hullaballoo — Tue, 07 May 2013 22:21:32 +0000

Life and Art are a Journey

An art life of over 4 decades has taken my work through many phases. Painter, Mixed –Media, Sculpture, Installation, Digital Prints and Lithographs – all have been exhibited and garnered grants . The flood of Irene and the hurricane Sandy set me back 2 years; my studio has been rebuilt. I am rediscovering oils and excited to explore new themes. “Tsunami:Loss” and “Mountains, Barriers and Poppy Fields” all encaustic, were my last solo shows. Now, after disasters of my own, I am teasing and testing : color, memory, and the unconscious, mixing abstraction and realism. I am revisiting whimsy as I did in the sculptures of “Family Portraits”. My journey goes on as new ideas are explored.

Jérôme Forsans

hullaballoo — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:57:03 +0000

Naturally both sensitive and curious, I experience a lot of feelings due to my private life as well as my confrontation with the globalised world. My work is the synthesis of this sincere and emotional point of view in minimalist metaphorical images.
A pewter wire, draws in a single stroke my subjects. Flat-washes of colors contrast with the metallic wire and sum their evocative power to the intellectual complicity created by the single stroke.
With a childlike and often humoristic form, my minimalist narrative paintings offer insightful observations about our contemporary world.
Blending a witty metallic wire with the sensitivity of color, my art invents a new medium, bringing fresh air to the art audience.

Nancy Egol Nikkal

hullaballoo — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:59:51 +0000

My studio practice is paper collage and 2D. Some collages incorporate paint. Some paintings include papers. My work is abstract and often includes text that is deliberately hard to read. The text is an abstract element – a hidden message. I want people to look again (look harder). I hope people want to actually touch the work and feel the collage.

I think collage needs to be hand-made. They love my paper collages in Japan.

Robin M. Jordan

hullaballoo — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:02:20 +0000

My art is inspired by the concept of garden as a metaphor for human mortality. While I enjoy the small plot of earth in my backyard garden, gardening in my studio is a lifesaver for my imagination. I create my gardens by either trapping objects, along with scraps and detritus, in sticky resin of self-leveling gel or I bend steel into an armature, a grid, a plot, in which a fabric garden is created from bits of collected fabrics, laces, plastics, and deconstructed silk flowers. This eclectic array of urban detritus is machine embroidered to create vibrantly colored flowers that are at once beautiful and threatening—a dichotomy that enables me to extend the brief beauty of my backyard garden while grappling with my own transient existence.

Pamela Casper

hullaballoo — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:34:54 +0000

I am investigating the dynamism of nature’s life cycles — both observed and imagined. The struggle between the survival of the environment and human tampering plagues me. In watercolor on paper, i show the complexity and density of nature and especially its fragility. I use the Tornado motif as a metaphor for uncontrolled forces. The intense detail of my renderings juxtaposes realism with more abstract elements. In this divergence, chance and controlled painting correlate with how one might see order confronting chaos within the ever-present cycle of mortality and regeneration.

Edwin Salmon

hullaballoo — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 03:56:30 +0000

Edwin Salmon is a sculptor that works with building materials, new and salvaged and industrial scrap. He has been represented in the northeast by galleries in the Berkshires, Cape Cod and on Long island. The Green Gallery in Guilford CT has shown his work since 1998. Edwin is also the owner of EWS3D LLC, an architectural metal fabrication company. EWS3D work has been published widely in periodicals such as New York, Interior Design, Architectural Review and books. For the last thirteen years he has lived on the shoreline in CT with his partner, the mother of their two children and their three dogs.

Jacqueline Sferra Rada

hullaballoo — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:11:00 +0000

While my subjects are always reality based, they are manifested in reducing the forms of complicated compositions and structures to simple shapes – obliterating detail in favor of minimalist clarity – and layering sheer tone over tone to create richness and depth of color – whether vivid of transparent hues. My ultimate criteria is that I have processed the emotional responses to my subjects internally and only that becomes my authentic source material and reason to make art. I also think of my work as a diary of locations visited which conveys both a nostalgic memory of the simplicity and restorative effects of nature and a documentary notation of the loss of its innocence through technology and industry.

Norma Greenwood

hullaballoo — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 18:36:11 +0000

Romantic, warm, painterly and inviting, are words that describe Norma Greenwood’s art. The inspiration for her paintings often comes from her photographs as well as remembered moments from childhood. These dimensional, luminous forms that refer to both interiors and landscape are built up in layers of oil paint applied over poured acrylic.

Norma Greenwood is a grant recipient from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Abby Austin Mural Arts Fellowship from the National Academy Museum. Additionally, she received a George Sugarman Award, a Ludwig Vogelstein grant and a NYFA Workshop Grant. Greenwood has a graduate degree in Fine Arts from Hunter College, New York.

In 2008 she was awarded a public art commission to create a permanent art installation for the International Airport in Jacksonville Florida and was a finalist with the MTA , NY Arts for Transit.

Her work is represented in private and public collections including The Museum of American Folk Arts, AT&T, CUNY Art Gallery, Citicorp and Columbia Pictures Ltd.

She is currently exhibiting work at Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery, College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ. In addition to gallery exhibits, Greenwood’s work can be seen in the film, “The Smurfs”.

Sarah Haviland

hullaballoo — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 03:15:40 +0000

My abstract-figurative sculptures distill human and natural forms with the simplicity of gesture. Often resembling birdlike figures, plants, or female forms, the work honors individual consciousness and investigates mythology, images of women, historical place, and the meaning of mirrors.
My sculptures and commissioned installations have been exhibited nationally in galleries, parks, museums, and educational settings. Public collections include Pratt Sculpture Park, Grounds for Sculpture, and NYU Langone Medical Center.