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SPHINX invites Stephanie Seymour

Italian flower morning

Gorgeous home and vast selection of flowers in the hillside of Perugia this morning. A group of friends, flowers, painting, and a fabulous "merenda" of homemade treats.

Opening day The Other Side

Opening of my exhibition THE OTHER SIDE at Gaia Gallery, Papiano of Marsciano (Perugia), Italy.
A good crowd, many artists, friends who came from a distance to see the exhbition and enjoy a buffet afterwards.

                                    Fiorenza Mosci, writer and friend who presented the show. 

                          Pino Bonanno, curator and owner of Art Farm Gaia and the Gaia Gallery.

The first floor of the gallery which hosts four larger works. On the floor above another seventeen works varying from 30x30cm to 60x90cm, works in acrilic and oil on canvas.

Here are some of the pieces on display:

Se io fosse te, 100x100cm                                                          Vuoto moderno, 100x100cm

Blue jazz, 60x80cm acrylic                                                               Gioventù solare, 60x80cm acrylic

 Timid ballerina, 40x50 acrilic

Bon ton, 40x50cm acrilic

Quick shopper, 40x40, oil 

Press Release for THE OTHER SIDE

PRESS RELEASE

Saturday October 15, 2016, during the event AMACI (Contemporary Art Day), the opening of the personal art exhibition “The Other Side” will be held at 7pm at Gaia Gallery, Strada per Caprareccia, 220, Marsciano – Papiano (Perugia) of the artist Stephanie Seymour, with the presentation by Fiorenza Mosci.

The exhibition is an event organized by E20Gaia.

Between irony,  social commitment, the need to represent the limits that  existence imposes, the pleasure of letting go to the aesthetics of creating, to the incessant dialogue with  color and its mysteries, Stephanie Seymour fascinates us with her works in the exhibition "The Other Side ".

The exhibition is a project in which the search for one’s self  exalts through sustained action of internal analysis. Seymour is an artist who stubbornly pursues  responses between landings and departures, in the need to crystallize the poetic inclination of life, invisible and elusive of this present illusion.  She is a diviner who has an urgent inner need to give shape and structure of language to her emotions.

Hers is an expressive and human universe, dense and complex: her art lives on poetry and, at the same time, is extraordinarily visionary. It is expressed on the border between  dreamlike and surreal, and  takes unpredictable forms, never predictable.

Her attention is to the psychological relationship between

herself and  reality that surrounds her, in the attempt to imagine other identities that enable them to live and overcome the increasingly suffocating  and repetition of everyday life.   

The nature of humanity and her deep poetic feeling is the center for artistic reflection that finds its maximum expression in intense chromatic elaboration  full of suggestions for insatiable soul-searching.

The exhibition is also a reflection on  woman and her role in relationships with  reality that surrounds her.  As body and character, precious presence and misunderstood human figure, strong and weak.              Pino Bonanno

Artist:  Stephanie Seymour

Opening :  Saturday October 15, 2016, 7pm

Gallery:  Gaia Gallery, Strada per Caprareccia, 220 – Marsciano-Papiano (Pg)

Dates:  15 Ottobre   –  20 Novembre 2016

Curator:  Pino Bonanno

Presentation of exhibition: Fiorenza Mosci

Hours open: Monday to Sunday 10am-13pm  – 4pm – 7.

Secretary organizers:  E20 Gaia - e-mal: info@artfarmgaia.it -  tel.+39.347.3652984                

Third prize won - La Nobil'Ebbrezza Montepulciano

While out of the country this past August (I was in Chna)  I learned of my winning third prize in the art competition at Montepulciano

during the contest/art exhibition

"La Nobil'Ebbrezza"

Here is a photo taken by Pippo Biribim of me in front of my painting "Red Wine Woman"

Painting exhibition THE OTHER SIDE of Stephanie Seymour

I have the pleasure to announce my painting exhibition opening OCTOBER 15, 2016 at 7pm

at the Gaia Gallery in Papiano (Marsciano), Perugia.

Below, a map together with the Press Release of the event.

 COMUNICATO STAMPA

Sabato 15 Ottobre 2016, nell’ambito di AMACI (Giornata del Contemporaneo), s’inaugura, alle ore 19, 00 , presso Gaia Gallery, Strada per Caprareccia, 220, Marsciano –Papiano (Pg) la mostra “ The Other Side” dell’artista Stephanie Seymour, con la presentazione di Fiorenza Mosci

La mostra è un evento organizzato da E20 Gaia.

Fra ironia, impegno sociale, esigenze di rappresentare i limiti che l’esistenza impone, il piacere di lasciarsi andare all’estetica del fare, al dialogo incessante con il colore e i suoi misteri, Stephanie Seymour ci affascina con le sue opere nella mostra “The Other Side”.

La mostra vuol essere un progetto in cui si esalta la ricerca del sé attraverso un'azione continua di approfondimento interiore. Seymour è una artista che insegue ostinatamente risposte tra approdi e partenze, nel bisogno di cristallizzare la propensione poetica della vita, invisibile e imprendibile del presente illusorio. Ella è una rabdomante che ha l’urgente necessità interiore di dare forma e struttura di linguaggio alle sue emozioni.

Il suo è un universo espressivo e umano denso e complesso: la sua arte vive di poesia e, al tempo stesso, è straordinariamente visionaria. Si esprime sul confine tra la dimensione onirica e quella surreale e assume forme imprevedibili, mai scontate.

Usa molta attenzione al rapporto psicologico tra sé e la realtà che la circonda, nel tentativo di immaginare altre identità da vivere e che le facciano superare la quotidianità sempre asfissiante e presupponente.

La natura dell'umanità e del suo profondo sentimento poetico è il fulcro della riflessione artistica che trova espressione massima nelle elaborazioni cromatiche intense e piene di suggerimenti per la sua insaziabile ricerca interiore.

La mostra è anche una riflessione sulla donna e il suo ruolo nel rapporto con la realtà che la circonda. Come corpo e come carattere, preziosa presenza e incompresa figura umana, forte e debole.

Artista: Stephanie Seymour

Inaugurazione:  Sabato 15 Ottobre 2016 ore 19, 00

Sede Espositiva: Gaia Gallery, Strada per Caprareccia, 220 – Marsciano-Papiano (Pg)

Durata della manifestazione:  15 Ottobre   –  20 Novembre 2016

Curatori dell’evento:  Pino Bonanno

Presentazione della mostra: Fiorenza Mosci

Orario:  da Lunedi a Domenica: 10/13 – 16/19, 30

Segreteria Organizzativa:  E20 Gaia - e-mal: info@artfarmgaia.it -  tel.+39.347.3652984                

Painting with wine at i Vinarelli 2016

FUN evening at Torgiano at i Vinarelli.

Lots of artists, wine, painting.

Here are photos taken by my husband of the event, along with me and two paintings done with watercolors, mixed media, and wine!

First painting finished!

Old time friend, Moreno Chiacchera, well-known illustrator and cartoonist

My second painting of the evening, grapes escaping from the crowd! 

Lots of painting going on and lots of public.

Mayor of Culture at Torgiano, Silvie Bèal and I

Always nice to have people genuinely follow what you are creating 

My first finished piece created with watercolors and wine 

Being an artist, stories beneath the surface

A STORY

Several years ago I was contacted by a person who organizes an exhibition in the Embassy of Iraq in Rome. I was to produce a painting that would possibly be selected for a collective exhibition. The theme was PEACE.

I asked myself, "What contribution can I do, what would express my feelings about the world, and the main subject that interests me most: bringing people of all nations together. THAT would be my theme.

I don't consider myself an artist who appreciates banal subject matter. Basically I love irony, but I also love beauty. How could I get MY own personal view across, and something that for the Embassy in Rome of Iraq, something that would not offend....

I imagined this: a sea, a pool of water where all people from all over the world could relax and meditate, they would be together, in harmony. Water would bring these people together, and all would be at peace.

I began my rough sketch. But I had one problem, or perhaps more than one: if the people were shown nude, or at least with no straps of bathing suits showing, would that be permissable? Would that be offensive?

The water in my painting began to cover more bare skin. THAT was a solution I believed.

I even asked a friend what she thought, and she believed it was alright, that it would not offend, and that the idea was a good one.

Now, about three years later.....I just saw the pubblicity for a film that has a very similar image. People of different races are in the water, they do look like migrants, they look as if they may not have the abillity to be saved, in their shirts, in the water and with serious expressions.

When I saw this photo I thought back to my painting and thought "My idea seems to have been before its time. It seems to have seen ahead, many people in the water, together, but my people have the ability to meditate and to come out happier, not sadder or desperate.

This story isn't over actually....because my painting was not accepted into the show.

I was quite disappointed, I IMAGINE that it offended someone, because perhaps of the "imagined" nudity.

Maybe it isn't a good painting.

Maybe it is too far out of reality of peace (no doves flying, no mother holding a baby, no flowers, or hearts). Just an imagined world where everyone could be together, peacefully, in an element that helps us all feel peaceful:water.