The artist Ria Brodell takes great care to research and create intimate gouache paintings with historical significance. Let's take a peek at her studio and working process. I’ve been working on my series “Butch Heroes” for about two years now. I’m looking for butch, queer women or female-to-male transgendered individuals from history and painting their … [Read more...]
Studio Views
Highlighting the work spaces and creative processes of individual artists.
Studio Views: Stacey Alickman
Recent MCC Drawing awardee Stacey Alickman has launched a USA Projects campaign* to support her fascinating painting project, and here, she offers a look into her studio and process. I'm currently working on a project called Pulling The Legs Off Bugs Was a Cruel, Harmless Waste of Time. This poetic phrase came into my head almost ten years ago and its meaning is layered; … [Read more...]
Studio Views: Rachel Mello
Rachel Mello (Painting Finalist '10) recently returned from a one-month residency at Ucross Foundation, an experience that allowed for deepened explorations of her unique, cut-silhouette paintings. Rachel drove out to the Wyoming cattle ranch, where artists, writers, and composers take up residence for intense focus on their work. Bringing only what she needed, she worked … [Read more...]
Studio Views: Edie Bresler
Peek into the studio and process of Edie Bresler (Photography Finalist '11), an MCC-funded photographer and faculty member in the Art and Music Department at Simmons College, as she prepares a public art project in Somerville, this December. A large part of my practice involves being out in the world with my camera and digital sound recorder. I shoot mostly with a 4x5 view … [Read more...]
Studio Views: Heddi Vaughan Siebel
In the early 20th century brave explorers traversed the outer regions of the North Pole without the luxury of modern navigational technologies to rely upon. The risk to the crews' lives and ship was great and often explorations resulted in a shipwrecks. Artist Heddi Vaughan Siebel has created an installation about one such failed attempt in which her grandfather was a member … [Read more...]