DRAWING INVITATIONAL
Helen Cass / Tina Mullen / Diane Newton / Jeff Quinn / Carla Stetson / Ellen Weider
On view Nov 9 - Jan 10, 2025
Reception Sat Nov 9, 4-6 pm
Helen Cass (b.1974 Ludlow) Studied B.F.A at The Ruskin School of Fine art and Drawing University of Oxford (1993-96) and MA in Fine Art at Aberystwyth, University of Wales (1999-2000). Has worked in Education alongside studio practice since 2000. Currently member of ‘Fold’ Artists’ Collective (Artists working in Rural Environments). Selected Exhibitions include ‘Linescapes’ (2008) and ‘Surface Tensions’ (2006) at Jaggedart, London, ‘Linear Expression’ at Gallery 57, Arundel. Recently included in ‘Lines of Empathy’ project exhibited at Patrick Heide, London and Close Ltd, Somerset. Awarded the Drawing Prize at the RWA Open in 2023. British artist and teacher, who works in a process-based way with line, repetition and surface as central concerns.
Her drawing practice is interested in labour intensive work over time that explores the minutest variations of materials and procedure that reveal difference through repetition. Work is made in series and frequently uses a limited set of hand manipulated materials. The materials and actions used have some connection to the domestic, agrarian routines and rituals of previous generations of her family as well as to the more universal human need to leave a trace and reveal a truth.
Helen Cass lives and works in Herefordshire, UK
Helen Cass, Woven Displacement 8, 40cm x 30 cm, ink on paper, 2024
Helen Cass, Woven Displacement 6, 40cm x 30cm, ink on paper, 2024
Helen Cass, Mapping Drawing, 56cm x 76cm, ink on paper, 2024
Helen Cass, Woven Displacement 5, 40cm x 30cm, ink on paper, 2024
Helen Cass, Woven Displacement 4, 40cm x 30 cm, ink on paper, 2024
Helen Cass, Woven Displacement 2, 40cm x 30cm, ink on paper, 2024
Helen Cass, Etched Grid, 56cm x 76cm, ink on paper, 2024
Helen Cass, Woven Displacement 1, 40cm x 30cm, ink on paper, 2024
Tina Mullen is a visual artist currently living in Atlanta, Georgia. For 31 years she held the position of Director of UF Health Arts in Medicine – a program that brings the arts to patients and families struggling with serious illness or injury. She currently serves as Visiting Faculty for the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine teaching courses that focus on the foundation of arts in health, the use of the arts in health design and administrative leadership.
“I have painted and drawn pictures my entire life. I believe that the arts are a vehicle for transformation and personal expression, and my passion is to help others bring art into their lives in meaningful ways.”
Tina has been a drawing instructor at Santa Fe College and the University of Florida, as well as Interim Director of the University Galleries at UF. Tina is also a working artist who has exhibited her work throughout the United States. She has received numerous awards including the Individual Artist Fellowship from the Florida Department of Cultural Affairs. She has been an instructor and visiting artist at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina and an artist in residence at the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida, the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown New York.
Tina Mullen has a BA from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. She studied abroad at the Cleveland Institute of Art Program (now SCAD) in Lacoste, France, and has an MFA from the University of Florida.
Tina Mullen, Practicing My B's, 14" x 10", watercolor, pastel and graphite on vintage paper, 2021
Tina Mullen, Up I Go. Go!, 29" x 20", acrylic, watercolor and pastel on geographical survey of Trumansburg, NY (c.1970) with applied English flash cards, 2024
Tina Mullen, Due North, watercolor, colored pencil and graphite on vintage nautical map, 2024 / sold
Tina Mullen, Mrs. J.H. Loyd #1, 14" x 10", graphite on vintage paper, 2024
Tina Mullen, Mrs. J.H. Loyd #2, 14" x 10", graphite on vintage paper, 2024
Tina Mullen, Mrs. J.H. Loyd #3, ink on vintage paper, 2024
Tina Mullen, Mrs. J.H. Loyd #4, 14" x 10", ink on vintage paper, 2024
Diane Newton
“Over the years, my work has taken a number of directions—abstract, landscape, figurative-- you could say I’m all over the map. I actually am all over the map—I was born and raised in the Midwest. I went to art school at the University of Nebraska--it was the time when Abstract Expression prevailed. It influenced me then and still does today.
I came to Ithaca about thirty years ago, lived in Boston from 2007-20, and then returned to Ithaca. I showed work there and at the Whistler House Museum of Art in Lowell, MA, and a number of places in New York. I have had two shows here at Corners Gallery.
For my contributions to the Drawing Invitational, I am showing work I made in drawing sessions at the Gallery at South Hill in the past few months. One is representational—the other two, even though I was still looking at the model, are abstract. All three were done with charcoal, pastel, powdered charcoal and pastel and as I worked, I was aiming to make something I hadn’t quite seen before both visually and with my use of materials…aiming toward a discovery, I’d say—for me and the viewers who would ultimately see this work.”
Diane Newton, Head Study, 18" x 24", charcoal and pastel on paper, / sold
Diane Newton, Red Blue Grey, 24" x 18", charcoal and pastel on paper, 2024
Diane Newton, Tilt/Swipe, 23" x 18", charcoal and pastel on paper, 2024
Jeff Quinn graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1986 with a BFA in Painting and has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions. He has been commissioned for many private and public environments, including painting the installation for American artist Robert Gober's retrospective at MOMA. A keen eye toward collaboration, Jeff has worked with a broad array of artists and designers, including David Weeks, David Rockwell and Vladmir Kagan. In 2012 Quinn created a 3000 square foot installation for Ralph Pucci during New York City Design Week and in 2017 painted two gigantic murals for Art Basel Miami Beach.
Jeff Quinn lives and works in New York.
Jeff Quinn, Couldn't Call It Unexpected no. 1, 11" x 8 1/2", pencil on paper mounted on illustration board, 2024
Jeff Quinn, Couldn't Call It Unexpected no. 2, 11" x 8 1/2", pencil on paper mounted on illustration board, 2024
Jeff Quinn, Couldn't Call It Unexpected no. 3, 11" x 8 1/2", pencil on paper mounted on illustration board, 2024
Jeff Quinn, Couldn't Call It Unexpected no. 4, 11" x 8 1/2", pencil on paper mounted on illustration board, 2024
Jeff Quinn, Couldn't Call It Unexpected no. 5, 11" x 8 1/2", pencil on paper mounted on illustration board, 2024
Jeff Quinn, Couldn't Call It Unexpected no. 6, 11" x 8 1/2", pencil on paper mounted on illustration board, 2024
Jeff Quinn, Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 7, 11" x 8 1/2", pencil on paper mounted on illustration board, 2024
Jeff Quinn, Couldn't Call It Unexpected no. 9, 11" x 8 1/2", pencil on paper mounted on illustration board, 2024
Jeff Quinn, Couldn't Call It Unexpected no. 9, 11" x 8 1/2", pencil on paper mounted on illustration board, 2024
Jeff Quinn, Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 10, 11" x 8 1/2", pencil on paper mounted on illustration board, 2024
Jeff Quinn, Couldn't Call It Unexpected no. 11, 11" x 8 1/2", pencil on paper mounted on illustration board, 2024
Jeff Quinn, Couldn't Call It Unexpected no. 12, 11" x 8 1/2", pencil on paper mounted on illustration board, 2024
Jeff Quinn, Couldn't Call It Unexpected no. 13, 11" x 8 1/2", pencil on paper mounted on illustration board, 2024
Carla Stetson (b.1953) lives and works near Ithaca, NY, in a converted 1860’s era barn that is also home to quite a few wild creatures besides its human occupants. She and her partner have a small apiary and harvest honey. Stetson came to New York State in 2008 to teach art at Ithaca College. She previously lived for 20 years in Duluth, Minnesota, where she is best known for public sculpture, especially the Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial, the first large scale memorial to victims of a lynching in the United States. Her recent awards include selections as a finalist for a NYSCA/NYFA Artists Fellowship in 2023 in Drawing, and Best in Show at the Southern Tier Biennial in 2022. Residencies include the Weir Farm National Historical Park, the McColl Center in Charlotte, the Saltonstall Foundation in New York, the Jentel Foundation in Wyoming, DRAW International in France, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Art Center in Nebraska. Her work is in collections of the Carolinas Healthcare, Charlotte, NC; the City of Duluth, MN; the Minneapolis Institute of Art; the Tweed Museum of Art; and the Walker Art Center, as well as numerous private collections.
Carla Stetson, The Conjurer, 22" x 29", ink and graphite on paper, 2023
Carla Stetson, Hunter and Gatherer, 22" x 31", ink and graphite on paper, 2023
Carla Stetson, The Road to Meikle Seggie, 22" x 33 1/2", ink on paper, 2023
Ellen Weider lives in New York City. She received her MFA from Pratt Institute and a BA from Hunter College. Collections include: New York Public Library, Prints and Drawings Collection; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division; Rutgers Print Study Archive, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ; Memorial Sloan Kettering Art Collection, NY, NY; Capital Group Art Collection, NY, NY; Fidelity Investments Art Collection, Boston, MA; Georgetown University Art Collection, Washington, DC; Free Library of Philadelphia, Phil., PA; Newark Public Library Print Collection, Newark, NJ; and many private collections. Her work is included in the Bau Contentiore di Cultura Contemporanea, N. 18, 2021-22. Her catalog “E.W. Squared: Ellen Weider Drypoint” is in the collection at Harvard’s Widener Library. She recently published the book Ellen Weider Paintings.
“My images float in an undefined, ambiguous space. Some suggest houses, buildings, rooms, and other architectural or geometric structures. There are no inhabitants, but the structures themselves sometimes evoke human presence and human interactions, and can also be seen as metaphors for internal states of being. Other works employ organic and geometric forms that create a similar effect. The ethereal settings of my images and the coalition of colors within evoke a sense of positive energy and hopefulness. My paintings explore issues of isolation and connection; whether they are interpreted as pure abstractions or as self-contained narratives, an ironic humor with a meditative, existential, transcendental bent informs them.”
Ellen Weider, Pink with Perimeter, 16" x 20", acrylic and graphite, 2021
Ellen Weider, Rock Around the Clock, 16" x 20", acrylic and colored pencil on linen, 2020
Ellen Weider, Space Race, 16" x 20", acrylic and graphite on linen, 2021