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LEWIS KNAUSS "Recording Time" Saturday, May 1 - June 13, 2021 Chestnut Hill, PA April 28, 2021 - Gravers Lane Gallery is pleased to present works by ber artist, Lewis Knauss: LEWIS KNAUSS / RECORDING TIME, Forty Years of Interpreting the Natural Environment Through Material and Craft... Mr. Knauss is Professor Emeritus, Moore College of Art and Design. He received his BFA from Philadelphia University (Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science), Philadelphia, PA and his MFA fromTyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA. Knauss is a Fellow of the American Craft Council, additionally a recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Craft Fellowship and a Lindbach Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Pennsylvania. His early work began on the cusp of a generational shift within the modern textile movement. In 1969, Wall Hangings at The Museum of Modern Art, curated by Mildred Constantine and Jack Lenore Larsen, revised concepts of craft within the context of 20th century art. Traditional craft weaving techniques were replaced by the monumental handwoven constructions by artists Clair Zeissler, Sheila Hicks and Lenore Tawney, ushering in contemporary studio ber practices and sparking the (still present) art vs craft debate. Knauss’s close associations with these artists presented the potential of new forms of construction and ways of seeing. A recollection of place, from of his youth in Macungie, Pennsylvania, an impulsive trip to Egypt, months-long stays in New Mexico and Cape Cod, to his home here in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania became his subject matter. He states being increasingly conscious of how we create feelings of comfort from familiar places, the textile medium became my medium for expressing ideas about the importance of landscape. Long walks while being present, sensitive to color, light, and textures, expanded his vocabulary of varied materials, allowing him to create a textural impression of each environment while nodding to time and season. Winter elds, summer grasses, accumulations of reeds after a storm, and the scarring of a re-charred landscape are points of inspiration for Knauss’s work. Using natural materials along with paint, beads, and wire, his meditative weavings are a visual diary of changing environments on a micro scale. Like the repeated walks that inspired them, his process of assembly is a time consuming one. Through intricately woven bers, barely perceptible, perfectly spaced dots of paint, carefully tied and repeated knots, he patiently manipulates each successive layer, managing the spaces in-between, illuminating them, allowing them to breathe. Knauss transforms bundles of natural materials into intricately complex woven works of art. He notes, I hope to reward the viewer’s scrutiny with a more intimate awareness of landscape, a reminder that time passes quickly and we should not rush through our lives, unaware of its cycles of destruction and renewal.

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The Roll Up technique involves a combination of kiln-forming, hot working, and cold working the glass. It is a technique for blowing glass that does not require a furnace full of molten glass; all that is required to blow a Roll up is a glory hole and two kilns. One begins with sheets of colored Bullseye Compatible glass; each color is compatible with all the other colors for fusing and for melting. These sheets are cut up into strips and arranged into patterns on a kiln she...Continue reading

Lanny Bergner is a mixed-media sculptor, installation, fiber and sculptural basketry artist. He was born in Anacortes, WA in 1952 and received his BFA in sculpture from the University of Washington in 1981 and an MFA in sculpture from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in 1983. The ethereal quality of Lanny’s work is in contrast to the mundane materials he uses to construct them. They are created using industrially woven bronze, brass, aluminum and stainless steel mesh, s...ilicone, wire and glass frit. Using only a linesman pliers and cutting shear, he employs inventive yet simple joining techniques to transform mesh into semi-transparent organic structures, vessels and geometric constructions. His work reference biomorphic forms (plant biology, microorganisms, undersea creatures), earth geology and cosmology. They engage the viewer with glimpses into a world where nature and manmade material coalesce. They celebrate the mystery and wonder of it all. Lanny has been creating biomorphic and geometric constructions and installations out of metal mesh since 1983. He maintains a studio on Fidalgo Island near Anacortes, WA. IMAGE#1 LANNY BERGNER "Genesis Table" Glass top, stainless steel mesh, glass frit, steel bars, wire. 22.5"H x 34" x 34" IMAGE#2 LANNY BERGNER "Aggregate Vessel" Silicone, stainless mesh, and wire. 28"H x 18" x 18"

Barbara Straussberg is a Philadelphia based artist, known for her large scale, bold color abstractions of familiar landscapes. Her work leans towards a vernacular as seen in noted abstract expressionists Joan Mitchell, Sam Francis, and Willem De Kooning. She studied at Northwestern University, The University of Pennsylvania and The Pennsylvania, Academy of the Fine Arts. While studying printmaking, an instructor encouraged Straussberg to incorporate Joomchi paper into her Pho...tolithographs. The images printed on delicate Hanji papers were layered with the Joomchi paper and run through a press. The Joomchi added material strength and visually exciting textural surfaces and shapes. In 2018 she attended a workshop with Master Joomchi artist, Jiuoung Chung. Straussberg’s work has always been relied on the strength of materials, exploring how they can be manipulated to express movement, evoke emotion, and reference location or environment. Her new series, which she references as Joomchi Scrolls, visually exciting, direct, bold, and visceral. Vertically hung, the scrolls become monumental with aggressively bold quick transitions in color, shapes, and surfaces. A recent transition to mounting the scrolls horizontally, the works can be folded to create undulating waves of movement and large gestural color swaths as if swept by a wide brush. IMAGE BARBARA STRAUSSBERG "Joomchi/Trees One" Hanji Paper and Lithographic Print Collage 24"h x 18"w

Barbara Heinrich finds inspiration in many forms of art, nature, architecture and music. Her jewelry transforms the images and ideas in her mind into material form, bringing her inspirited designs to life as wearable pieces of art. Barbara’s work is hand fabricated directly in her studio. Using mainly traditional goldsmith techniques and tools, she and her team of talented and professionally trained jewelers create pieces that display the unique multi-textured finishes in 18 ...karat gold that Barbara has become known and recognized for. She combines colorful precious stones with the soft nature of brushed gold to create pieces of jewelry that embody the union between classic and contemporary design. IMAGE#1 BARBARA HEINRICH Large petal earrings on french wires with 2 diamonds, 0.08 ctw. IMAGE#2 BARBARA HEINRICH 8.5 - 9.5mm white freshwater pearl earrings with petal caps and plain ear wires.

Our current show of Doug Herren’s dynamic clay forms is running through Nov 15. If you won’t have the chance to stop by in person, take a virtual tour via our new 3D platform! https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=mPcYWQUJ8Ae

In many ways, I think of my work as non-traditional portraiture; I am not as concerned with communicating a physical likeness as much as conjuring less visible aspects of the subject. I’m interested in the relationship among the physical and the ephemeral forms. I construct sculptural environments in my studio with which I interact and capture the movement on film. My movements are awkward and strained in reality, but I choose to print images that translate as fluid and grace...ful. The images start to hint at notions of transience and, in turn, move beyond the specific action taking place. As the clear reference to photography falls away, the images start to become more abstract, leaving room for broader associations to take place. IMAGE JENNIFER ONOFRIO FORNES "Deep Sleep" Oil on time lapse silver gelatin print. 31"H x 23.75"L

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LESLIE PONTZ at Allen's Lane Art Center More and more people are tuning in to discover the artists that live in their own neighborhood. Tune in this Thursday, Oct. 29 at 7pm as Allens Lane Art Center's Executive Director, Craig Stover, sits down with Mt. Airy artist Leslie Pontz as they talk about her life and work followed by a Q&A from audience members. Click here to get your zoom login code for this interview: https://conta.cc/3otN3Pw and to see the list of all of the artists scheduled for interviews this year.

Mitchell graduated from Pennsylvania Academy of the FIne Arts with an MFA in painting. His recent paintings are poetic studies of familiarity. Sublimely beautiful and intimate in scale, Mitchell consciously chooses a reduced palette producing captured moments adrift in atmospheric splendor. Each painting speaks of a memory; that moment when one returns to a familiar place again and again. Mitchell’s fresh approach to traditional landscape and still-life painting evokes a sens...e of calm and allows the viewer a welcome moment of self-reflection. Referring to his work Mitchell states: "My paintings are generally born out of observation of things and places I see and come to know through extended periods of looking. The things are generally owers and simple items, and the places are the places I roam and love in and around Southern New Jersey. These places and things allow me to see new shapes, colors, and patterns that I try to arrange into interesting pictures. Once the thing or place is looked at long enough, and the colors and shapes that make it up are remembered and known, I can then move onto dealing with them as simple formal elements of design to be moved or altered to best serve each other within the bounds of the painting. My only concern is that in the end the painting can be interesting enough to be looked at for as long as I originally looked at the things or places from which the painting is derived." IMAGE JOHN MITCHELL "Flowers Under a Tree in Early Winter", 2020 Oil on board and wood 8 7/8" x 21"

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RUTH BORGENICHT Inspired by medieval chain mail body armor, Ruth Borgenicht began experimenting with large coiled rings of porcelain, creating remarkably subtle and graceful sheets of porcelain chainmail. Currently, Ruth is exploring industrial aluminum and stainless steel allowing works to be permanently placed in commercial interior and exterior spaces. . . .... Image1 (left to right) "Cloak", stainless steel, 45" x 20" "Linear chain links in rectangle", stainless steel, 130" x 12" "Linear chain links in oval", stainless steel, 130" x 12" Image2 "Woven Horizon", wall works, stoneware, 40" x 40" #craftnowphl #americancrafts #graverslanegallery #chestnuthillpa #ceramics #contemporaryscrulpture

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To all our artists, patrons, or just art enthusiasts, during these Covid Constripated times, we've been polishing up the gallery bringing in new and stimulating work available online, by most importantly here to been seen in person. We understand that many are hesitant to stray out too far and we urge you to make sure you visit when you are comfortable to be out in public. We are taking private reservation times for groups no larger than 6, accommodating the safety needs yo...u may have. We've also been developing two newsletters, one titled Portfolio, designed for trade, designers, and art consultants. We also have a general letter focusing on exhibitions, newsworthy works, and events as well as features on artists, collectors, placed works, and a special profile allowing you friends to send in a brief statement with an image, of something that currently excites you in the arts, be it public art, performances, exhibitions or a single painting that has moved you in some way. We encourage you to go to www.graverslanegallery.com and sign up for our newsletter. We realize that many of our artists are actually not on the contact list for our mailings. We very much look forward to future times together and wish that families, friends, and you are staying safe & healthy. Cheers from Bruce, Barbara, and Bo-In Gravers Lane Gallery and The Goldenberg Group family https://www.graverslanegallery.com/ See more