Abington Art Center is proud to host this artist talk, featuring two of our 2023 Spring Solo Series artists, Maryanne Buschini and Adina Segal.
Our Coffee Break series is a casual conversation with the artists featured in our exhibition programming. Learn more about the exhibiting artists’ process and technique through a talk and a Q&A. Coffee and bagels are provided for free.
This event will also be live-streamed in real time on our Instagram page for those who are unable to attend in person. The livestream will begin at 10AM EST on April 29.
Maryanne Buschini
Maryanne Buschini explores ideas of origin, ancestry, history, and community in her figurative paintings. As a child of immigrants, Buschini uses her artwork as a tool to better understand her own connections to her ancestors and home.
Her most recent work looks at the history of the laborers who contributed to the construction of the New York City water system, a project that was an important part of her childhood, having grown up in the area and “seeing the reservoir lake and large dam almost every day…in a town where many of the immigrant/workers had settled.” The artwork is the result of her research, piecing together the family and cultural history of those who lived on the land used for the reservoir and displaying it in a personable way that evokes an emotional response in the viewer.
Adina Segal
Visual artist Adina Segal creates abstract mixed-media paintings inspired by her own intuition and the organic forms she finds in nature. Segal takes on an intuitive approach when making her paintings, layering thin coats of watercolor and gouache and letting the work naturally take shape by trusting the process and learning when to pull away.
She notes, “following my intuition and trusting when to stop and when to work back into the painting, is contrary to how I often exist in other areas of my life…I am a planner, a list-maker, someone who likes to know what to expect.” Letting herself create in this way creates compositions that feel fluid, expressive, and unique and allows for new artistic discovery.
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Maryanne Buschini, Spring Forward, 2020, Oil on panel, $1,000. Maryanne Buschini, Blue Suits, 2019, Oil on board, $1,100. Adina Segal, Suddenly Appearing Out of Nowhere, 2022, Collaged painting with watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, and graphite, $1,500. Adina Segal, Looping Ball of Light, 2021, Watercolor, gouache, and graphite, $1,200.
For more information on a particular artist or piece please call 215.887.4882
This event is produced as part of our 2023 Spring Solo Series, on view from April 21 – May 29.
Our Coffee Breaks are sponsored in part by the Jenkintown Lyceum.
Abington Art Center is proud to host this artist talk, featuring two of our 2023 Winter Solo Series artists, Constance McBride and Gail Fox.
Our Coffee Break series is a casual conversation with the artists featured in our exhibition programming. Learn more about the exhibiting artists’ process and technique through a talk and a Q&A. Coffee and bagels are provided for free.
This event will also be live-streamed in real time on our Instagram page for those who are unable to attend in person. The livestream will begin at 10AM EST on April 8.
Constance McBride
“From becoming aware of the male gaze and self-objectifying, to harassment, abuse, marginalization and ageism,” artist Constance McBride creates figurative sculptures that explore issues experienced by womxn. Drawing upon her own experiences, McBride’s sculptures are representative of what is often overlooked or left unspoken. She creates natural forms with visible signs of aging and raw expression. These details call for introspection while inviting the viewer to consider what strength and resilience in the face of discrimination looks like.
Gail Fox
“I have always painted nature. For me, there was never a need to search for a subject…My search has always been for particular locations, places that begged recording.”
From vivid seascapes and mountain ranges, to whimsical koi pond compositions, local artist Gail Fox paints large-scale landscapes that are inspired by the natural world around her. Fox is drawn to natural forms, she explains “painting alongside fields, in woods, at stream’s edge, in solitary places, it is the dynamic rhythms of nature, its changing lights, and weather that engage me.” Her intense observation of these natural shifts is evident in the color choices, elaborate compositions, and attention to detail within her work.
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Constance McBride, Lonely Girl Room 3400, 2021, Ceramic and wire, $1,600. Constance McBride, Lonely Girl Room 4732, 2021, Ceramic and wire, $1,600. Gail Fox, Allegro, 2022, Oil on canvas, $5,200. Gail Fox, Rio Grande, 2021, Oil on canvas, $3,900.
For more information on a particular artist or piece please call 215.887.4882
This event is produced as part of our 2023 Winter Solo Series, on view from February 24 – April 10.
Our Coffee Breaks are sponsored in part by the Jenkintown Lyceum.
Abington Art Center is proud to host this artist talk, featuring our 2023 Winter Solo Series artist, Stuart Lehrman.
Our Coffee Break series is a casual conversation with the artists featured in our exhibition programming. Learn more about the exhibiting artists’ process and technique through a talk and a Q&A. Coffee and bagels are provided for free.
This event will also be live-streamed in real time on our Instagram page for those who are unable to attend in person. The livestream will begin at 10AM EST on March 11.
Stuart Lehrman
“The Portal Series has percolated in my mind for a long time, originally focused on the idea of a “nest”. When I started drawing it morphed into something with broader meanings, including entry into a void, the eye the passageway into the soul, of course, a “nest’ from one stage of life to another.”
Artist Stuart Lehrman creates work inspired by the natural and human-made forms around him. Observation and experimentation is at the heart of his artistic practice. Creating works from crushed blueberries, ashes, iron shavings, and other experimental organic matter, Lehrman notes that it is through “the constant experimentation with the physical properties of the materials he works with,” that he is able to uncover truths and discover new ways of thinking.
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Portal Burnt #130, 2023, Smoke soot on archival paper, $550.00 Portal Burnt #129, 2023, Burnt encaustic on archival paper, $750.00 Portal #41, 2021, Mixed media on wood panel, $2,450.00 Portal #46, 2022, Mixed media archival paper on wood panel, $550.00
For more information on a particular artist or piece please call 215.887.4882
This event is produced as part of our 2023 Winter Solo Series, on view from February 24 – April 10.
Our Coffee Breaks are sponsored in part by the Jenkintown Lyceum.
Abington Art Center is proud to host this artist talk, featuring four of our 2022 Faculty Show artists, Mat Citrenbaum, Megan Giampietro, Art Salazar, and Don Stephens.
Our Coffee Break series is a casual conversation with the artists featured in our exhibition programming. Learn more about the exhibiting artists’ process and technique through a talk and a Q&A. Coffee and bagels are provided for free.
Mat Citrenbaum
Mathew Citrenbaum is an artist, instructor, and silversmith based in Philadelphia, who creates custom jewelry and metalworks in his artistic practice. As a long time teacher, Citrenbaum has helped aspiring artists develop their craft, through results-oriented instruction.
“My primary goal for a new student is immediate results. A first time student can expect to produce a sterling silver ring in under 3 hours. My advanced students are guided through a technical progression encouraging them to design beyond their skills.”
Megan Giampietro
Artist and educator, Megan Giampietro, explores the connections between science and art through her intense observation of natural forms. She notes “both the scientist and the artist are inspired to carefully observe the natural world, drawing conclusions, sharing their observations, and seeking to explain the abundant patterns, colors, rhythms, and forms around them”. Working in oils, acrylics, and pastels, Giampietro works to capture the deep rich hues, organic textures and wondrous forms found within nature.
Art Salazar
Printmaking instructor and artist, Art Salazar, creates large-scale silk screen collages. Salazar’s work pushes the boundaries of printmaking, manipulating the paper and combining different techniques to give his work dimension and visual interest. He plays with abstracted forms and shapes to create whimsical compositions, noting “there’s always an amount of humor to my prints”.
Don Stephens
Don Stephens is a Philadelphia-based artist and instructor, who received his BFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture in 1996. Stephens describes himself as a figurative expressive artist, “utilizing the human experience to express the dance between the subjective and objective”. He works in a variety of mediums to create figure drawings and paintings that evoke a visceral response in the viewer.
For more information on a particular artist or piece please call 215.887.4882
This event is produced as part of our 2022 Faculty Show, on view from November 4 – December 19.
Our Coffee Breaks are sponsored in part by the Jenkintown Lyceum.
Abington Art Center is proud to host this artist talk, featuring two of our 2022 Faculty Show artists, Ekaterina Vanovskaya and Bill Ryan.
Our Coffee Break series is a casual conversation with the artists featured in our exhibition programming. Learn more about the exhibiting artists’ process and technique through a talk and a Q&A. Coffee and bagels are provided for free.
Ekaterina Vanovskaya
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Vanovskaya received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009 and her MFA from Indiana University, Bloomington in 2015. Working primarily in oil paint, Vanovskaya paints pale, distressed figures in somber atmospheres that evoke feelings of loneliness, longing, and melancholia.
She works to translate her own feelings of emotional longing into paintings, drawing from her childhood experiences and acknowledging that “the physical places I no longer occupy and … do not exist in the same state, as when I knew them, all is imagined…How does our past impact our emotions, responses and ways of being?”
Bill Ryan
“I became serious about art after seeing a retrospective of paintings by Vincent VanGogh sometime around 1970 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.”
Local artist, Bill Ryan, draws inspiration from the works of Cezanne, Picasso, and the cubism movement to create large-scale abstract paintings and collages. His work explores geometric forms and color interaction, through expressionism and intricate composition. He notes “my pursuit is expression that emerges in the moment. I like to be surprised and open to what is unexpected”. This expression is evident in the intense mark making and brush strokes that encompass each canvas.
For more information on a particular artist or piece please call 215.887.4882
This event is produced as part of our 2022 Faculty Show, on view from November 4 – December 19.
Our Coffee Breaks are sponsored in part by the Jenkintown Lyceum.
