James Seffens: The Texture of Memories
March 24th - May 1st, 2022
James Seffen’s creations, meticulous; fanciful; imaginative and layered, create a world of their own. Seffens evokes the feeling of “being there”, he takes us to a timeless era, to an uncharted place, and draws us to search our own memory for traces of reminiscence.
His multidisciplinary body of work, includes paintings on board, papier mâché sculptures, and box assemblages. He lives and works in NYC, where he continues to create since he began his career in the 1970’s.
“The paintings are created in stages, over an extended period of time. Several thin layers of paint are built-up and later reduced by sanding. The sanding reveals underlying colors and details, in effect exposing the history of the work’s production. Recalling the subjective reality of a time or place and expressing it without value judgement continues to be an appealing challenge. The desire to create work that could convey something akin to the actual experience is always there.” - James Seffens
Abstracted Realities
Victor Vasarely, Pedro Friedeberg, James Rosenquist, A.R.Penck, & Mike Bidlo
On view until March 20th.
T. Klacsmann
T. Klacsmann, “Sonata in Red – Snow Leopard”, 2020, 41.5” x 50”, linocut, woodcut and polyester lithography with ink, acrylic, colored pencil, on marbled gray paper
T. Klacsmann captures the consciousness of animals as they exist independent from, but intermingled with humanity. Loving beauty more than efficiency, they first meticulously carves each thing that appears in their work in linoleum or wood. Some of the resulting relief prints are further developed with paint, ink, and colored pencil and become parts of mixed media collages or installations; other prints are scanned and turned into polyester lithography plates or used in digital collages.
Klacsmann is a council member for the Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA). Their work has been shown nationally and internationally and is included in the permanent collections of the Albany Institute of History and Art and The Smith College Museum of Art, the flat files and archives of Zea Mays Printmaking, and the Miriam Shapiro Archives at Rutgers University. In 2014, he received the Medal of Honor in Mixed Media and Walinska Memorial Award from the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA).
He completed certificates in Green Printmaking at Zea Mays Printmaking, and Graphics and Animation at University of North Georgia; an MFA at Northern Vermont University; a Masters of Art History at the University of Glasgow, and a BA at Yale University.
