Exchanges on Paper Curated by Nadia Martinez
Teresa Waterman Esther Rosa Kathryn Cameron Michelle Bratsafolis
Exchanges on Paper Curated by Nadia Martinez
Teresa Waterman Esther Rosa Kathryn Cameron Michelle Bratsafolis
miranda arts project space 6 N Pearl Street, Port Chester, NY 10573
EXCHANGES ON PAPER Exchanges on Paper highlights the significant role and variety of forms paper has taken over time in the world of fine arts. This show features a range of disciplines including drawing, alternative photography, sculpture, and painting. Each discipline is represented through the use of various media and techniques including encaustic, cyanotype, metal leaf gilding, casting from paper pulp, and painting with mixed media. Age-old methods are combined with contemporary sensibilities so that ideas and materials converge, resulting in a transformation of traditional media into modern artistic expressions. Time is the invisible thread that unifies all the artworks in the exhibition. Its passage is a catalyst acting upon the materials chosen at the start of each process, nudging them forward, sometimes resulting in a wholesale change of the raw materials used, and sometimes effecting a more subtle alteration.
Featuring works by Teresa Waterman, Esther Rosa, Michelle Bratsafolis, and Kathryn Cameron. Curated by Nadia Martinez.
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Teresa Waterman Elsewhere, 2016 Mixed media on paper 42 x 110 inches 7
Esther Rosa Veil, 2011 Acrylic and collage on paper 20 x 14 inches
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Kathryn Cameron Distant Traces, 2017 Handmade abaca paper and thread Dimensions variable
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Michelle Bratsafolis Passages I, 2017 (detail) Cyanotype and Kozo paper fiber extraction 8 x 8 inches
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Teresa Waterman received her BA in Fine Arts from Skidmore College and Masters Degree from Pratt Institute in Interior Architecture. She began a professional career in architecture at Gensler and Associates. Waterman was also a studio assistant in the Lanzrein Studio. She has been a teaching fellow in the Skidmore College's Summer Six Program, and has taught art history with the Learning to Look Programs. She is an art educator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has also been a portfolio reviewer for New York State Council of the Arts Grants Awards. She is currently a full-time practicing artist with a studio in Port Chester, NY. www.teresawaterman.com
Michelle Bratsafolis is an interdisciplinary artist who received her B.A. in American Studies from Brandeis University and her J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law. She pursued her interests in painting, alternative photographic processes and other mediums during three years of full-time study at the National Academy School of Fine Arts in New York City, where she completed the Studio Intensive Program. She has also studied at the International Center of Photography and the 92nd Street Y in New York City, and at the Art New England Summer Program sponsored by the Massachusetts College of Art and Design at Bennington College in Vermont. Ms. Bratsafolis has exhibited her work both in the United States and abroad, and her work is in several private collections. She is an active member of the Brandeis University Arts Council, which annually reviews faculty proposals seeking funding for special art, music and theater programs to benefit university students and the community at large. She lives and works in New York City. www.michellebratsafolis.com
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Kathryn Cameron is an American artist. Kathryn creates Installations, sculptures, drawings, paintings formed by materials with rich textures that echo natural elements of the Earth. She works with paper and metal, materials that are ephemeral in nature and are subject to the effects of the passage of time. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Video Production and has studied sculpture at the National Academy School of Fine Arts, The New York Academy of Arts and the School of Visual Arts in New York. Kathryn Cameron has largely exhibited in United States of America, Europe, and New Zealand, through solo and group exhibitions. Her work is in private and public collections, and it is the subject of several articles and essays. Kathryn Cameron lives and works in New York. www.kathryncameron.com
Esther Rosa was born in Madrid, Spain. She is psychologist specialized in Human Resources working in the Media sector for almost 15 years. Esther discovered her passion for fine arts when she and her family moved to New York in 2006. She started her studies in Fine Arts at the “National Academy School of Fine Arts” in Manhattan, NY. Once there, she discovered an ability and passion she didn’t know she had. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally in solo, group exhibitions and Art Fairs. Art on Paper Art Fair, NY: Affordable Art Fair, NY; Aqua Art Fair, Art Basel week, Miami, Florida; Sohotel Artspace Gallery, NY; Sonia Gechtoff Gallery, NY; National Academy Museum, NY; Kreisler Gallery, Madrid, Spain among others. She lives and works in New York. www.estherrosa.com
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Curated by Nadia Martinez. Ms. Martinez is an artist and an emerging curator who has exhibited her work nationally and internationally in individual and group exhibitions at Zorya Fine Art, Greenwich; National Academy Museum, New York; ArtLima, Lima, Peru; Pinta Art Fair, New York; 4uattro Pareti Galleria, Napoli, Italy among others. Ms. Martinez is currently on the faculty of the National Academy School where she teaches sculpture. www.nadiamartinez.com
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miranda arts project space was founded by artist, curator, and educator Patricia Miranda, as a space for curatorial exploration, exhibition, collaboration, and the gathering of ideas across disciplines and art forms. www.mirandaartsprojectspace.com
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