A one person exhibition, "Wind Horse - The Prayer for Peace", will be shown at the gallery at the Lancaster Arts Hotel on Harrisburg Pike in Lancaster City. (See information and contact information below) from August 20 - October 15. I hope you'll join me for a reception on the third Friday - August 20, at 4:30 p.m. Please visit the hotel for information about accommodations, reservations, driving directions and more.. I am extremely pleased and honored to have the large drawing, Beatification juried into the Pennsylvania Art of the State Exhibition. The exhibition will open June 23 and continue through September 12, 2010 at the Pennsylvania State Museum in Harrisburg, Pa. Visit the Museum for further information and details. I was inducted into the Echo Valley Art Group this past year, a singular honor that I am very proud of. The group limits its invited artists to 25 thoughtfully nominated and established Lancaster County artists at any one time. Needless to say, I was humbled and immediately accepted the invitation to be included into the group of artists I admire and whose works represent the best that Lancaster has to offer. The group's yearly exhibition, titled "Flight", will be at Elizabethtown College in November. Check back for details. The current members of The Echo Valley Art Group are: Carol Anspach, Daniel Burns, Ann DeLaurentis, William F. Early, Hubert FitzGerald, Milton D. Friedly, Bruce Fry, James R. Gallagher, Carol Galligan, Jeff Geib, Claire Giblin, Susan Joy Gottlieb, Joann W. Hensel, Kenneth M. Hoak, Kenneth A. Kirsten, Robert A. Lyon, Carol L. Morgan, Richard Ressel, Peg Richards, Abby H. Rudisill, Carol Toner Shane, Scott Spangler, Ronald E. Sykes, C. Richard Whitson. Since the Group's inception in 1945, there have been a total of only 94 members, limited to 25 participating at any one time. You can imagine why I am so proud and the artwork at this exhibition should give you good reason to agree. UPDATES: Rust and Silver is on view at the Gallery at Montgomery County Community College until August 9. The piece was juried into the 61st Anniversary Exhibition of the Philadelphia Tri State Artists Equity. The painting won the Jack Richeson & Co. Inc. Award. Juror's comments: "...I have an intense appreciation for the nuance of color and subtle mark making sensibilities found in Claire Giblin's piece.". My schedule of exhibitions for the year is below for any one of you who might be able to stop during the opening receptions or during the time that the exhibitions are in place. THE ECHO VALLEY ART GROUP SIXTY FIFTH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION was hosted at The Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA -- a beautiful placement of works by this prestigious art organization's members. In memory of Constantine "Gus" Kermes, curated by Stanley Grand, Ph.D, and Heather Heilman Loercher, the works exhibited were from various periods of time in the Group artists' careers. Grand also wrote essays for each artist represented in the exhibition, which are included in a beautiful, full color catalog, (62 pages, 9" x 11") for sale at the reasonable price of $12 at the Museum. The catalog is made possible through the generosity of Thomas Cook and the Von Hess Foundation. This was my first group exhibition with these fine artists, and it was beautifully designed.
"Beatification" copyright 2010
40" x 330", gesso, crayon, graphite, ink on drawing paper
available
This year, the Echo Valley Art Group Auction will be held Sunday, Septemher 26 at Rader Park at Homestead Village on Marietta Avenue in Lancaster. THIS IS A NEW LOCATION for the auction, with easy in and out and plenty of parking. The park and village are located on Apostle Way off Marietta Avenue. The Village and road are clearly marked with signage and about 1/10 of a mile east of Good Drive. Check back for an update and watch e-mail for invitations.
Rust and Silver copyright 2007
36" x 28", acrylic, ink on paper
available
Thus...and no Further (Job 38:11) copyright 2007
58" x 58", acrylic on canvas
available
Lone Mountain, 2010, 24" x 24" acrylic on paper Collection of Michael Green, Lebanon, PA
Siddhartha - The Birth of Blue copyright 2004
diptych, 8 feet by 5 feet (total), acrylic on canvas
available
At any time during the year works can be viewed at Exhibit 110, 110 East King Street, Lancaster, PA.
This year there will also be some large scale works in place at the offices of Manning and Rommel Associates, 2115 Noll Drive (the Noll business Park adjacent to Stauffer’s on Rohrerstown Road) in Lancaster. For information about their business hours, call 717-393-7980
Several large works can be seen at Waltz Vineyards, Old Line Road in Manheim, Pennsylvania. The Vineyard owned by Kimberly and Jan Waltz celebrates is first year of business after a 10 year period of growing and perfecting grapes. I wish them the best of luck with their venture. Tastings and special events at the winery are available. Please link to their
website for information about available wines, tasting events and store hours.
La Neige et L'hiver (sketch for triptych) copyright 2009
34" x 51", acrylic, ink, pigment, encaustic on canvas
available
Raising Lazarus copyright 2005
diptych, 60" high x 96" wide, acrylic on canvas
available at Exhibit 110, 110 East King Street, Lancaster, PA
La Neige et L'hiver copyright 2009
three panels, total: 5.5 feet high by 24 feet long, acrylic, mica on canvas
available at Waltz Vineyards, Manheim, PA
Jade Mountain copyright 2009
24" x 30", acrylic, ink, pigment, on paper
available
From January 27 - February 26, at the McKinney Gallery in Mitchell Hall at Westchester University, 675 Church Street, West Chestier, PA, I was invited to participate in the “Handprint Identity Project”, a collaboration of poets and artists which has traveled since early in 2009. The opening reception was on January 27 from 5 to 8 pm, and poetry readings on January 28.
I worked with poet, Barbara Crooker, to develop related poetry and painting to be exhibited at the event. Barbara's poem, "Climbing the Jade Mountain", is responsible for the piece "Jade Mountain" above, and she is writing in response to "La Neige et l'hiver", the sketch, and the large triptych, "La Neige et l'Hiver apportent la mort et fournissent la naissance du printemps". To view Barbara's poems, please see her website:
http://www.barbaracrooker.com
Atoll copyright 2009
24" x 30", acrylic oil pastel on paper
available
Testimony of Eve copyright 2006
28" x 28", acrylic, ink on paper
collection of Mary Burton, Lancaster, PA.
Guidebook Fragment copyright 2006
38" x 28", acrylic, ink on paper
collection of Jess May, Lancaster, PA.
On February 26 two paintings were auctioned at the Hamilton Club in Lancaster, PA: (Guidebook - fragmentand Testimony of Eve) for the benefit of the Club's charitable programs, at a dinner for artists invited to participate in the 2009 “Artist of the Month” series.
Encroachment - The Tiny Silos copyright 2009
46" x 68", acrylic, oil pastel on canvas
available
Also in Spring of 2010, I participated in an exhibition, "Perspectives on Preservation" - A celebration of Art & Poetry expressing Lancaster County Artists' perspectives on preserving our land, resources, and culture. This is also a collaboration and I was happy to be working with Barbara Strasko, poet laureate of Lancaster County. The piece Encroachment - the tiny silos, is in response to her poem about Warren Rohrer, Lancaster native and artist. The exhibition was held at The Keystone Art and Culture Center in Lancaster, PA. Music and poetry readings by local poets and Lancaster School District student poets were the highlight of the event.
Bridge Across the Ashokan - Late Summer copyright 2009
24" x 54", acrylic on canvas
collection of Joy and Frank Manning, Lancaster, PA
Last Winter (remembering Gus) copyright 2009
18" x 16", acrylic, ink on vellum
collection of Tim and Mary Pat Donnellon, Lancaster, PA
Coming up this fall:
August 20 - October
October 25 - December 5 - Solo Exhibition at the gallery space at WITF, in WITF Public Media Center, 4801 Lindle Road, Harrisburg, PA 17111
For information, gallery hours and directions, call: (717) 704-3000 or (800) 366-9483
November 8 - December 9 - Solo Exhibition at the Rose Lehrman Art Space at Harrisburg Area Community College, Lancaster Campus (Greenfield Road, Lancaster, PA).
"Evidence of Occupation" and "Bound" are found wood and recycled paints, pearls and findings and were selected by juror, Linda Cunningham for exhibition at "SALVAGE - Reclaiming Recycling", a national juried exhibition held at The Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, in September through December of 2009.
"Solo Road" is a series of 11 photographs (silver-gelatin prints). The photos were taken with a Holga camera and printed on fiber based paper. Taken over a two week period of time in Lancaster, New York City and back in Millersville, my home, the series explores the variations in landscape and the magic of the Holga all plastic, fixed lens, filled with light leaks, camera. This series of photographs was recently shown at Southwest Minnesota State University andthe Camp Hill, PA headquarters of Highmark, Inc.
A solo exhibition of small ink drawings and paintings, "In Search of Harmony", was reviewed by Carla diFonzo from the Intelligencer Journal. Read her article here:
The Lancaster Arts Hotel is located in Lancaster City (300 Harrisburg Avenue). This luxury boutique hotel, with beautiful lobby, is a museum you can sleep in! The Arts Hotel features artwork, sculpture, and a fine art gallery and a world class restaurant with the freshest local produce and meats. There are 63 guest rooms and suites, two meeting rooms, wireless and wired internet access, a free business center, fitness center, laundry services, whirlpools in suites, etc. There is also free parking. I am very pleased to have a suite (Room Number 503) with my original artwork installed and available for sale, as well as a self-portrait in the portrait gallery. For reservations call: 717.299.3000 (toll free: 866.720.2787). You may also visit the website at: www.lancasterartshotel.com . Currently, the works on display in the Giblin Suite 503 are: "Love - No Barrier", "Wisdom - good, beautiful and true", "Tormentosa" and "Fetish".
SPECIAL NOTICE: The Arts Hotel will no longer be selling original artworks in their rooms and will no longer be having exhibitions in their gallery spaces. The exhibition of my artwork scheduled for August 20 - October 15 will be next to last of the exhibitions to be held in the gallery. If you'd like to spend an evening with original artworks, do so soon. In the future, you may view photo-copies (so-called "giclee reproductions") in the guest rooms and purchase them at the hotel front desk Be aware that the only original part of these photo-copies is the artist's signature and, in some cases, "enhancement" by the artist means that the artist uses a clear medium gel to put brushstrokes across the photo-copy). As always, my personal choice is not to reproduce my work for sale as "original giclee prints" or any other photoreproduction method. I will reproduce the work on posters, postcards and in publications, and, in such case, will give the pieces away at no cost. I'll even sign them for you!!! I will not license my work for sale through any venue and any such reproduction is against Federal copyright laws.
REMINDER NOTICE Weekly life drawing studios take place every Tuesday evening, 7 pm to 9 pm, in the second floor drawing studio of the Herman Arts Studios on Buchanan Avenue in Lancaster. The building is on the campus of Franklin & Marshall college and is situated next to the North Museum. Cost for two hours is $5.00, $2.00 for students and free for F & M students. Please e-mail me at: claire@giblinart.com for information.
For the fifth year, I will participate in the Invitational Fusion Calendar Exhibition, hosted by Fumihiko Enokido Fusion Art Institute, Japan. Exhibition of calendars will begin in April, 2009 at Hacettepe Sanat MÙzesu, Ankara. For information about the exhibition, please see the article here. You may also visit the website at: this link
Ses Memoires (la bella sera), ©2002, acrylic on canvas. 32" x 42".
collection of Angie and Daniel Roeder, Vienna, VA
Labyrinthine Soul, ©2002, acrylic on paper.
24" x 14", collection of Mr. and Mrs. Art Pavlatos, Lancaster, Pa
Passage to the New World, ©2002, acrylic on acrylic 37" x 29".
collection of Robin Walsh Wise, Lancaster, Pa
Mystique, ©2001, acrylic on paper
collection of Jason Adams, Harrisburg, PA
Shrine of the Sea Turtle, ©2001, acrylic on canvas. 24" x 36".
private collection of Drake Nicholas, Esq., Harrisburg, PA
Walking Down West 4th Street, ©2001
newly available: contact: Don Foy, 610.591.3634
In Search of Avalon, ©2002, acrylic on paper 26" x 38".
collection of Dr. and Mrs. Steven Morgan, Lancaster, PA
Distant Hills, ©2001, acrylic on canvas, 38" x 36" collection of Jason Adams, Harrisburg, PA
Shattered Sky, ©2001, acrylic on canvas. 49" x 32".
collection of George and Jan Broske, Newark, Delaware
(Creeping) In the Garden at Night, ©2001, acrylic on canvas
Created for the Yellow Wallpaper project, July, 2001collection of Marianne Milianta and Robert Creason, Harrisburg, PA
Yellow Wallpaper, ©2001, acrylic on paper
collection of Julie Brodie and Michael Huffnagle, Gambier, Ohio
created for the production "The Yellow Wallpaper", July, 2001
Field of Green, ©2000,
acrylic on paper
collection of Dr. and Mrs. Steve Morgan, Chicago, Illinois
Her Voice (I Hear Her Voice in the Gentle Breeze of a Summer's Eve), ©1999,
acrylic, oil, pastel, watercolor on paper.
(Collection of Jay Green and Mary Tamaki, Los Angeles, California)
Out of Chaos, ©2000,
acrylic, oil, watercolor on paper.
Claire Giblin was born in New York City. As a child, she was tutored in studio techniques by her uncle, Western artist and historian, Vincent Mercaldo, and began creating artwork at a very young age.
I grew up in the inner city where life was never easy. I had an alcoholic father who left our home when I was five years old. He lived on the subways and streets and eventually died in New York City's Bowery section. At a very young age I began to draw. Creative expression was the means by which I was able to survive severe depression as a child and, later, as an adult, I was able to endure many hardships because of the transportation of life to art which I practiced. I created out of frustration and fear and pain and the desire to escape what was too overwhelming to understand. However, I always believed I could transcend those subjective motivations to create art that is an expression of beauty and peace.
The power of art substantiates its value in society. The premise that thoughts and emotions transcribed into visual images can affect behavior, fascinates me. The slightest suggestive response gleaned from a painting can trigger narratives of historical and contemporary events or generate feelings of pure visual excitement, social consciousness, movement and ecstasy. This points to the purpose of art -- its enormous inherent power to influence an individual, or entire civilizations. As an artist, my job is to see things differently and to present things that might lead to open conversation and understanding. Unspoken communication is a key to enlightenment and peace, and this is the thrust of my commitment as an artist.
Reflecting Pool in Autumn, 1999, acrylic and oil on canvas.
(Collection of Steve and Andrea Morgan, Chicago, Illinois)
Schedule of Exhibitions 2010 :
.January 5 - February 28 - The Gallery at Highmark in Camp Hill PA2009:
.January 15 - February 15 - Solo Exhibition of silver gelatin photographic prints
Claire contributes at least 10% of all income from the sale of her artwork to charities which support the homeless, including:
"Fire Island", 1998, acrylic on canvas paper
Collection of Hon Eng, Flushing, NY
For your interest and enjoyment, visit the following Awesome Art blogs: "Out There" is literary giant, Jeff Weinstein's, witty, interesting and insight/inciteful media blog. Updated often, visit Out There and, while you're at it, you'll enjoy reading John Perrault's very informative and up to date art diary, "Artopia", which is also available as a podcast. Jeff happens to be a classmate from high school and John is his partner of many years. Both blogs are updated frequently, both excellent and refreshingly readable....Enjoy!
