THE ARTISTS AMONG US II

The Burchfield Penney’s Members’ Exhibition

Opening Celebration May 11, 2012   5:30 PM  - 7:30 PM

Burchfield-Penney Art Center

1300 Elmwood Ave.

Buffalo NY 14222

Burchfield Penney Art Center

Phone 716 878 6011
burchfld@buffalostate.edu

On View Friday, May 11–Sunday, August 26, In recognition of the artists of Western New York and our role as the center of record for the arts of this region, the Burchfield Penney Art Center is very pleased to host the second members’ exhibition in the museum’s history. This celebration of artistic expression in our community is important. It was fitting that the last exhibition in our Rockwell Hall galleries was our first members’ exhibition—and now, more than 3 years after the new museum opened to the public, we are excited to host The Artists Among Us II.

View the commanding space for this Exhibition: East Gallery > Locations > Burchfield Penney Art Center

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 12, 10:00 AM – 6 PM

Exhibition Dates: May 4-28, 2012

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 10 – 6

“The Essential Element” Miniature Rotating Sculpture by Bobbi Mastrangelo

     Midday Gallery

8 North Dean Street, Englewood, NJ 07631

(201) 568-4454 ‎middaygallery.com  middaygallery@verizon.net

Midday Gallery is located in the heart of shopper-friendly Englewood, NJ. For the over 40 years they have been serving Bergen County’s discriminating art lovers.  They are celebrating SPRING and Mother’s Day with a versatile collection of artwork created by members of the National Association of Women Artists, Inc.

The exhibition is part of the Englewood Art Weekend, dedicated this spring to women artists. Participating galleries: Ayesha Studio Jewelry, Gallery Two Seventy at Bergen County Camera, Jewel Spiegel Gallery and Midday Gallery.

Bobbi Mastrangelo
with
“Borough of Manhattan”

National Post Card Week 2012

This year’s black and white image is the third in a series.  2010 featured Art Carney as Ed Norton emerging from a sewer. 2011 exhibited a Ford Water Meter Pit cover. The portrait of myself in front of my sculpture creation fits the theme of black and white and NYC manhole covers. Ed Norton worked in the NYC Sewers and my ” Borough of Manhattan,” is based on an actual New York City Grate.

The Grateworks Collection for National Postcard Week is  displayed under my bio/about.

Each year I choose one of my sculptures or art happenings to be reproduced  as a post card for NPCW.

National Post Card Week is celebrated annually during the first full week of May. I correspond with almost two- hundred post card pen pals in The United States and abroad.

View my National Post Card Issues under my bio/about:Bobbi Mastrangelo- Postcards -”The Grate Works” -transforms manhole covers, sewers and grates into artistic streetscapes.

The Osceola Center for the Arts presents the

2012 Annual Juried Art Show

May 1 – 30, 2012

Opening reception Tuesday: May 1, 2012 from 6 – 8 PM  Free, Open to the public

Osceola Center for the Arts

       2411 E. Irlo Bronson Highway

Kissimmee FL 34744 USA

Osceola Center for the Arts

Bobbi Mastrangelo and Eloise Ritt ‘s sculptures were chosen for OCFTA’s Annual Exhibition.  They join forty-eight artists showing paintings, drawings, photography, sculptures  and mixed media.

 The OCFTA Announcement Post Card features “Reuse” a detail from Bobbi Mastrangelo’s “Solivita Scene,” Mindy Colton’s elegant horse sculpture, and provocative art by Kathy Omeara, Michael Healy and Ami Gore.

Bobbi Mastrangelo “Solivita Scene” is based on one of the common scenes of her Solivita Community which reuses recycled water to irrigate the landscape.  That relief work and “City of Orlando” were recently featured in “Sculpture:  the Ultimate Process” at the Orlando Museum of Art, First Thursday Event in January 2012.

Grate Thoughts » Blog Archive » Bobbi Mastrangelo at Orlando Museum of Art 1st Thursday: Jan. 5, 2012 “Sculpture -The Ultimate Process”

See the process of creating  ”City of Orlando:”Grate Thoughts » Blog Archive » The Creation of “City of Orlando,” Mastrangelo’s Sculpture Relief

Eloise Ritt is a very talented sculptor who instructs many of Bobbi’s colleagues. Check out her website to view more of her art. http://www.emritt.com/

What is even more amusing is that this web project began on Laughter Day: April 1, 2001.  

“SEWERS OF THE WORLD UNITE”

(A Moscow Web Site)

Two enterprising artists, Alexander (Sasha) Kholopov and Natalie (Natasha) Lamanova from Moscow posed a mail art project just for fun.  They invited artists from all over the world to send photos of manhole covers.  So April’s Fools Day was the start of something “grate.”  Artists from 40 countries enthusiastically responded to the E-mail request.  

Kholopov’s unique set of manhole cover artist’s stamps had already attracted attention in Japan, a country known for many beautiful manhole covers. (See Archives)  The variety of photos, creative projects and artistically rendered covers on “Sewers of the World, Unite” has expanded to participation by 233 people from 71 countries and includes 3052 images.

Michele Brody designer of NYC Manhole Covers, introduced me to the site.   http://www.recoveringthecityscape.com/

You can find me in several places: archives # 4   Port Jefferson NY Manhole Rubbing

Projects # 27 with works on paper

creative   

and my poem about manhole covers is on commentary # 3.

In August 2001, my husband, Al sang with Barbershop Harmony Choruses in St. Petersburg.  The next week, we met Natasha and Sasha in Moscow and were invited to their apartment for dinner.  We continue our international friendship via e-mail.  Personally I have made other friendships and benefited from this amazing web site.  Sewers of the World, Unite!

 Alexander Kholopov, Bobbi Mastrangelo and Natalie Lamanova: Moscow, Aug. 2001 

Orlando Museum of Art’s First Thursday’s Competition for January 5, 2012 called for sculptures. Remembering the brick pavers surrounding the Orlando Museum of Art, I thought, “Why not enter the competition with a streetscape scene from the Museum grounds. That would be a form of “Pop Art” based on common objects: a manhole cover and surrounding bricks that museum visitors walk over to enter its hallowed walls.

Orlando Museum of Art (Florida, USA)

Two references were needed: close-up photos of the bricks which were provided by Jamieson and a rubbing of the manhole cover which Susan Raff cheerfully delivered.  Here she is on the museum grounds, sweeping off the manhole cover, preparing for the rubbing.

Susan Raff  ”Grate Works Apprentice” 

Manhole Cover Rubbing used for reference.

A blank foam background is as intimidating as a fresh canvas is to a painter. The circle was drawn and the letters were formed.

Once the letters and grids were added, the art work took shape. It looked OK.

To create the bricks pavers, the grout tracks were cut out and the Individual brick edges were beveled. For protection the bricks were bandaged with plaster gauze: the kind used for broken-bone casts. Cement and acrylic paint were brushed on for brick texture.

For the arrow placement, I called upon my husband, Al to use his Mechanical and Architectural Drawing Skills. He sketched the “Parking Lot Arrow” and I painted the area. Stage One of the sculpture relief looks finished except for two problems, artistically speaking:  See if you can discover them?

The Colors were too intense and the letters of the manhole cover needed rotating to create artistic tension. This created frustrating challenges. Every single brick had to be recolored and then antiqued. The arrow was affected too. Now that it was more subdued, I hesitated to add opaque paint. So I completed the arrow image with glue and sprinkled sand.

 To rotate the manhole cover was a major  job.  Together Al and I cut around the  cover edges, gently prying up the cover.  We rotated it left forty-five degrees and I glued it back in place.  The only problem was that a few gaps appeared around the edges.  Guess how I solved that?  With artificial moss died green and actual cinders from our street.

DA DUM!  THE FINISHED RELIEF

“CITY OF ORLANDO”

December 25th, 2011  Michael Freeman

City of Orlando

POINCIANA — Bobbi Mastrangelo isn’t totally certain what the theme “Sculpture: the Ultimate Process” truly means, since like most works of art, it can be open to various interpretations. 
“Ultimate usually means the final or the greatest,” she said. If that was the intention at the Orlando Museum of Art, Mastrangelo is indeed getting some very high praise.

Nevertheless, when the Orlando Museum of Art decided to make their theme for January “Sculpture: the Ultimate Process,” Mastrangelo said it was quite a privilege to be invited to display her own sculptures there. 
“It gives the chosen artists a chance to show their work and meet the public, “It’s like a party, a reception, actually. Mastrangelo’s art will compliment the theme: “The Ultimate Process:” Thursday, Jan. 5 from 6-9 P.M.

Known as “Orlando’s original art party,” the 1st Thursdays are presented by the Associates, OMA’s volunteer support group committed to expanding the museum’s member ship and encouraging an appreciation of the visual arts.

 ”City of Orlando” 

The Orlando Museum of Art is at 2416 N. Mills Ave. in downtown Orlando.  Admission for non-members of the Orlando Museum of Art is $10 at the door.

Mastrangelo is known for her sculpture relief works based on grates, drains, manhole covers and water covers. Her sculpture “City of Orlando” was inspired by the museum’s own parking lot at Loch Haven Park, with its terra cotta bricks and cast iron sanitary covers. I artistically created that scene. —There is also art outside the museum, so I’ve created the beauty of the art we walk over.

Mastrangelo, 74, is an artist who lives at the Solivita active adult community in Poinciana. As a member of The Solivita Artisans Guild, she continues to create new works of art and to display her creative pieces at different venues.

 Her “Buckeye Water Meter” wall relief was on exhibit at The Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio last summer.

During the January 5th reception guests can view Mastrangelo’s three relief works and meet the Central Florida sculptors whose artworks have been chosen for this exhibit.

For more information, log on to www.omart.org.

To learn about the artist’s work, email her at grateworks@aol.com or log on to: www.bobbimastrangelo.com.

Contact Michael Freeman at: FreelineOrlando@Gmail.com.

http://freelinemediaorlando.com/poinciana-artist-heads-to-the-orlando-museum-of-art-next-month-for-1st-thursday/  (The complete article)

Mastrangelo with “Buckeye Water Meter” sculpture (Pictured Above)

Huntington (Long Island) in New York  USA   

The Heckscher Museum of Art regularly organizes installations highlighting works from their Permanent Collection.  Their most recent exhibition, in the far south gallery, is entitled “A WAY WITH WORDS: TEXT IN ART” curated by Lisa Chalif.  Included is Bobbi Mastrangelo’s collagraph print on hand made paper.             

“John E. Potente and Sons”

At the Heckscher Museum of Art through April 5, 2012

2 Prime Avenue

Huntington, NY 11743 – 7702

Telephone 1 (631) 351 – 3250

www.heckscher.org

Our grandson Drew made this pencil drawing during our visit in the 2011 Christmas Vacation. Don’t you just adore kid’s drawings!  They make me smile.  And if you knew Drew you would continue to smile.  So dear viewers, let’s start the New Year in the Happiness Mode.

Here are links to previous drawings by our grandkids:

Grate Thoughts » Blog Archive » Happy New Year 2011!

Grate Thoughts » Blog Archive » “Tis the Season for Giving

Grate Thoughts » Blog Archive » Grandson Drew’s Flag for Veterans’ Day 2010

Drew has a zest for life and is engaged in many worthwhile activities: Tae Kwon Do Black Belt Ceremony Below.

 In Sparring Gear       Drew’s  Journey

Happy New Year – Auld Lang Syne by Sissel (Live).wmv – YouTube

Blessings for Kindness and Peace on Earth!