During their residence in St. James New York, Bobbi recorded grates, manhole covers and water covers in their paved environments. She captured the street ambience in her prints and sculpture relief works: “Buckeye” Sculpture Relief “Buckeye” was based on a former Lake Ave North Sidewalk in St. James. This water valve cover was eventually paved over with asphalt. During […]
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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 […]
Bobbi Mastrangelo with “Borough of Manhattan” National Post Card Week 2012 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. Each year I choose one of my sculptures or art happenings to be reproduced as a […]
I see the smirks and hear the silent smiles when people discover that my art is based on sewers and manhole covers. Imagine my surprise when I learned that there was a site in Moscow specializing in the theme I pursued in sculptures and works on hand made paper. Sewers of the World, Unite! What […]
Why I created the Sculpture Relief: “City of Orlando.” download a PDF of this story Orlando Museum of Art’s First Thursday’s Competition for January 5, 2012 was entitled “Sculpture, the Ultimate Process.” Remembering the brick pavers surrounding the Orlando Museum of Art, I thought, “Why not enter the competition with a streetscape scene from the […]
The Heckscher Museum 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 […]
The Islip Art Museum celebrates summer with an exhibition entitled Flag Day, on view in the museum galleries at Brookwood Hall, 50 Irish Lane, East Islip, NY: June 15 through Sun. Sept. 4. 2011. http://islipartmuseum.org/about.html Flag Day was curated by Janet Goleas, an artist, gallerist and writer. The exhibit explores the way flags and banners convey attitudes, […]
“SHAKEOUT: From Streets to Galleries,” page 56 “Cast manhole and utility covers have inspired artists like Bobbi Mastrangelo and Kim Christiansen to create works of art that have been on display in galleries around the country.” This is the Fiber Arts creation that Shannon Wetzel chose for The Shakeout page of Modern Casting Magazine. The various […]
The myriad of cover designs always amaze me. And now friends and web viewers from around the world are contributing to my reference. Diane and Wayne Schoeffle, Solivita Friends, took a photo of a cover in Prague from the Czech Republic. Mike Aronstein, a post card pen pal for National Post Card Week sent me […]
Inside Newsday by Karen Hasby May 1983 Newsday is the leading news source of the borough of Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties of Long Island New York. The thought of an interview at their Big Office in Melville was intimidating. Paula Shengold, the sponsor of my very first art exhibit at Gallery 333, gave me some […]