Women in Sculpture Artist Talk & Reception Nov. 13th, 1:00-3:00 pm
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You do not have to register for this event, just show up at 1pm on Nov. 13th.
RoCA is proud to present the Women in Sculpture exhibit as a part of a tribute to the 20th Century artist and feminist, Dorothy Gillespie. Join RoCA for an Artists Talk & Reception on Saturday, November 13th, 1:00pm-3:00pm, to discuss women in sculpture in the 20th century and today. Artists Aurora Robson, Cathrin Hoskinson, Leigh Taylor Mickelson, Simone Kestelman and Gary Israel of the Dorothy Gillespie Foundation will speak about their artwork in the sculpture park, their passion for sculpture and their inspiration. Free to the public. The exhibit is on view through 2023 and open 7 days a week dawn to dusk.
Women in Sculpture Artist Talk & Reception
Nov. 13th, 1:00-3:00 pm
You do not have to register for this event, just show up at 1pm on Nov. 13th.
RoCA is proud to present the Women in Sculpture exhibit as a part of a tribute to the 20th Century artist and feminist, Dorothy Gillespie. Join RoCA for an Artists Talk & Reception on Saturday, November 13th, 1:00pm-3:00pm, to discuss women in sculpture in the 20th century and today. Artists Aurora Robson, Cathrin Hoskinson, Leigh Taylor Mickelson, Simone Kestelman and Gary Israel of the Dorothy Gillespie Foundation will speak about their artwork in the sculpture park, their passion for sculpture and their inspiration. Free to the public. The exhibit is on view through 2023 and open 7 days a week dawn to dusk.
Dorothy Gillespie (1920-2012) pioneered joyful, new directions of metal sculpture and is best known for large-scale, colorfully painted arrangements of cut aluminum strips curling, radiating, or undulating in giant arrangements of ribbons, enchanted towers, or bursting fireworks.
An influential force in the women’s movement, Gillespie encouraged more women’s art in museums and art in public spaces through demonstrations of large museums, such as the Whitney, as Founder of Women Artists Historical Archives of the Women’s Interart Center in NY, as co-founder of the NY Professional Women Artists group, taping interviews of the most important women artists of the 20th century, and teaching at colleges and universities.
Today many more women are now entering traditional male dominated sculpture roles in metal, wood and stone, thanks to the pioneering activism of women like Dorothy Gillespie in the 20th century. Gillespie’s works grace many institutions, museums, colleges, universities and public spaces, including the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the United States Mission to the United Nations.
Each of these contemporary accomplished female sculptors of the 21st Century, being featured along with Gillespie, each have made a contribution to the art world through their mediums.
Leigh Taylor Mickelson’s ceramic botanical Garden Dwellers sculptures use natural forms – especially ones found in plant life – she uses her work to “magnify” the elements of this dichotomy: natural forms playing out the spiritual, emotional and physical dramas that exist within our human selves. Mickelson served as the Executive Director of Clay Art Center in Port Chester, NY as well as Exhibitions Director for Baltimore Clayworks and is currently on the board of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts as their Exhibitions Director.
Aurora Robson created Learning Curves, is welded plastics. She uses her art to inspire others to rethink and reinvent plastic waste in ways that promote creative strategies to upcycle discarded plastics into new objects. Robson is an eco-activist and founder of Project Vortex, an international organization of artists, architects and designers working together to reduce the amount of plastic debris littering our oceans and shorelines. Her work is in major collections including The Figge Art Museum, IA and Kingsbrae Gardens, NB, Canada.
Simone Kestelman’s glass Warriors sculptures represent different types of inner strength expressing the diversity of both individuality and personality. Kestelman’s work reflects on important social issues and comments on them through her work, focusing on injustice and inequality. She is the director of SK Gallery in White Plains and has exhibited in the Museum of Art, Morago, CA and Novotel Sao Paulo, Barzil among others.
Cathrin Hoskinson’s large metal Connection sculptures are drawings of natural forms. By following different types of patterns, she presents a connection between the inner structures of the body and the outer lines in nature. Her works have been installed from New York to California.
You do not have to register for this event, just show up at 1pm on Nov. 13th.