BIRD

Opening reception for the artists August 4th, 5pm - 7 pm
Through September 3rd
Maine Art
10 Chase Hill Road Kennebunk, Maine 04043

Featuring paintings by: Ellen Welch Granter

Sculpture by: Andy Moerlein, Donna Dodson, Elizabeth Ostrander,
Andreas Van Huene and Tacha Vosburgh

Show catalog available- call (207) 967-0049
View the show online at http://maine-art.com/

PROMISES RECONSIDERED

wood, ceramic birds 24 x 30 x 73"h

This is a fact. There is life within the dust of loss. I cannot give up on hope, although the evidence is that commitment is impossible.Promises are hard work, but I am reconsidering my future with optimism. This image is revisited. I am still probing its relevance. This particular piece is oak. It is populated by three birds - each presented in different settings. One is skull-bound but looking out. Two are closer, one completely free to leave, the other snug within the wood void, but they seem drawn and held together.

This conversation is lovely but the meaning is incomplete.

ONE BIRD ON A STICK ON A STONE

wood, ceramic “bird”, graphite 10 x 14 x 10”h

He's a quiet soul who marvels his own shadow.

BALANCING ACT

wood, ceramic “birds”, cement covered styrofoam 38 x 16 x 20”h

Vulnerability and ego in that dodgy relationship of personality.

SMALL TALK

wood, ceramic “birds” 22 x 24 x 48”h

We all know the party. Strolling and trolling for a conversation that is more than bird chatter.

Deeper conversation is hard to find.

Also in the gallery at 14 Western Avenue, Kennebunk, Maine 04043 you can see:

SUMMER HEAT

wood, ceramic “birds” 35 x 48 x 88”h

A complete romp. Out of sorts and beyond control. The pure joy of days together.

Switzerland, Italy, Provincetown, New York. Skipping goofy and handholding.

Rock Garden Tutorial

ROCK GARDEN TUTORIAL

The classic garden at the Ryoanji Temple places an expectation upon the viewer. Patterns of raked gravel surrounding monumental stones present a language of seascape and islands. The ambition of this traditional rock garden is not representational. The design intent is an evocation of place.

The deep shade of a white pine grove – with its perfect vertical trunks and dappled sunlight – is a stage for this drama of buoyancy. Mass is redefined and belief is suspended as insubstantial sapling boats levitate boulders. The event provokes a visceral response. One’s body calculates the weight and is confounded. The design intent is a provocation of perception.

Most boats rely on the surface defined by two medium. They are masters interface. The boats in ROCK GARDEN TUTORIAL defy media and transform the sensation of solid. They create new symbols and suggest a language that we understand without knowing. These boats, loaded with boulders, transport dreams. Weighty imaginings buoyed preposterously.

INTERSECTION

This piece has generated some controversy. I document the world I know. 

When the ice storm wrecked havoc on the landscape, did you not marvel at the glassy ice halo about the bases of trees and bushes? Did you go outside and hear the crystal tinkling of ice shedding as sunshine warmed the bark? It was musical. Did you go outside and see the ripped and torn limbs, all yellow and exposed? Did you shiver at the force that brought that vivid bright to light for your eyes? Did your feel a sense of awe and wonder at such power? 

Do you walk the forests and look up? Do you see the lattice of revitalized and dead in a web of hope and resignation? Do you feel a connection to these life events? I do. 

Authentic feelings have been expressed. Authentic reactions have been experienced.

See the news and be sure to check out the comments!
http://www.telegram.com/article/20121007/COLUMN01/110079761#.UHIfexikDUp
Linda Hoffman is a friend. I respect her work and her ideas. 

 INTERSECTION

Wind mass exerts unsettling forces upon a mature tree in full leaf, challenging the tree’s core integrity. Mighty oaks express a power of fiber and substance that is both flexible and resolutely impenetrable. Such is the subject: resilient, fortified, structurally impressive.

 

Piercing and splitting this living oak was an act of arrogance. It was a concerted attack. Wedges were beaten in with sledgehammers. Tapered spacers tore fleshy bark and steely wood grain. Progress into the heart of the trunk was earned incrementally. Fibers yielded over time, groaning and snapping long after each new assault. Man driven steel against oak hard. Violence in slow motion. Bare logs penetrated the resulting split wound. These shards suspend against the forest canopy and expose evidence of the man/oak confrontation. My will has been expressed. The oak lives on. It has resisted mightily and then suffered, but it has not succumbed to the attack.

This work is not solely the resulting marks of bare line in greenscape nor is it the performative battle. It is both: that present demarcation, and the experience -expressed simultaneously. INTERSECTION is a defiant challenge to my own physical presence and the legacy of ideas documented.

Fruitlands Museum, Harvard MA
Artist in Residence

Cider Hill Gardens and Art Gallery

JOURNEY
wood, saplings, handmade stones
5' x 16' x 8'h

Cider Hill Gardens and Art Gallery
1747 Hunt Road, Windsor Vermont

July- October Thursday - Sunday 10 - 6
Reception Friday July 13 5-7

Artists:
Varjun Bogosian, John Cassin, Donna Dodson, Robert Ferris, Dimitri Gerakaris, Brian Goblick, Gary Haven Smith, John Hickory, John Kemp Lee, Gary Milek, Andy Moerlein,
Lawrence Nowlan, Eric Oleary, Max Van Pelt

This show will feature MythMakers Donna Dodson & Andy Moerlein's newest monumental sapling sculpture RED TAIL HAWK.

ALIGHT

The Spirit of the Red Tail Hawk

Just landed, ready to fly, observant, noble and respected, the Red Tail Hawk is a common raptor of human environments. Agile in the cityscape and familiar in the rural hedgerow,

Red Tail Hawk is a survivor.

These Vermont hills have similarly survived and adapted to a rich heritage of human occupation. Precious soil and abundant rock have conspired to doom all but the most ambitious. Red Tail Hawk stands as a patient monument to the toil that takes place here.

ALIGHT is a collaboration of Cider Hill Gardens and Gallery and Myth Makers: Donna Dodson & Andy Moerlein. Myth Makers created this piece on site while in residence at Cider Hill, during the first annual outdoor sculpture show. Gary and Sarah Milek have created a visionary garden and indoor gallery in Windsor VT. This year they introduce monumental outdoor sculpture to the gardens, inviting 13 sculptors to contribute work that fits their exceptional setting. Myth Makers welcome commissions.

ALIGHT is part human yet mostly hawk. It rests fleetingly on this landscape,

blessing the place – passing no judgment, but poised to fly.

On the Wing

A bird themed exhibit at the exceptional Falmouth's Gilsland Farm Audubon Center.
A lovely place to stroll, enjoy ocean breezes, SEE ART.

FLOCK
wood, ceramic birds
Andy Moerlein

Also featuring SENTINEL
MythMakers Donna Dodson & Andy Moerlein's newest monumental sapling sculpture.

Artists:
Cabot Lyford, Stephen Porter, Wendy Klemperer, Lise Becu, Squidge Davis, Ray Carbone, Dan West, Kitty Wales, Donna Dodson, Andy Moerlein, Pat Campbell, Jean Noon, Edwin Gamble, Cynthia Stroud, Rebecca Goodale, Leo Osborn, Brad Story, Sharon Townsend, John Wilkinson, Cat Schwenk, Stephan Parmley, John Bowdren, Antje Roitzsch, Lin Lisberger, T. J. McDermott, Digby Veervers Carter, Sumner Winebaum, Tyler Hank, John Bryan, Jim Sardonis, Pam Wellin

Gilsland Farm Audubon Center

SENTINEL

Raucous and sooty, friendly and frightening, the raven is a vivid mark upon the skyline. Their impossibly black feathers flicker with an iridescence that holds the clues to every color in the rainbow. Their vocal variety suggests that raven may have more to say than most birds.

Sentinel casts a watchful eye upon this unique landscape. Maine Audubon has collaborated with MythMakers Donna Dodson and Andy Moerlein to land a raven at Falmouth's Gilsland Farm Audubon Center. Stop by to witness this iconic presence of voice and sky.

Falmouth's Gilsland Farm Audubon Center.
A lovely place to stroll, enjoy ocean breezes, SEE ART. Indoors see On the Wing!

This piece is getting PRESS!
http://blogs.providencejournal.com/ri-talks/this-new-england/2012/07/a-mainiacal-rave.html?fb_ref=.T_SdADDJFGI.like&fb_source=other_multiline

30th Annual Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC) Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition at East River State Park

At East River State Park Brooklyn, NY.
This lively and lovely treasure of a NY State Park is a delight to behold.
Join us for the reception Saturday July 14th 1-5pm.


DIVINING FAULT
sawn beech, saplings
Andy Moerlein


Co-Curators: Ursula Clark, Tyrome Tripoli, Richard Brachman

Works by:
Ranjit Bhatnagar, Miggy Buck, Richard Brachman, Ursula Clark, Donna Dodson, Janet Goldner, Nicolae Golici, Esther Grillo, Howard Kalish, Bernard Klevickas, Coral Lambert, Barbara Lubliner & Sung Jin Oh, Eric Stein, Tyrome Tripoli, Bill Wood.