
Bruce Gardner
Naoko Ito
Luci Jockel
Margaret Parish
Lauren Rosenthal
Carrie Witherell
“We may learn a great deal from books, but we learn much more from the contemplation of nature—the reason and occasion for all books. The direct examination of phenomena has an indescribably disturbing and leavening effect … [a] revitalizing quality altogether absent … in even the most faithful copies and descriptions of reality.”
— Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

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Thomas beale
Thomas Beale is a New York-based sculptor. He founded and directed the Honey Space, an innovative “no-profit” gallery in Chelsea, from 2008 to 2012. Starting with found and reclaimed materials, notably wood and shells, Beale processes them into small, workable units, which he then assembles to create the organic and sensuous shapes of his sculptures. The diversity of those individual segments lends richness and a sense of movement to both his large, and small-scale work.





↑Thomas Beale – Untitled, 2001 – Found wood – 52″ x 54″ x 74″
↑Thomas Beale – Ghost, 2006 – Found wood – 3′ x 2.5′ x 7′


↑Thomas Beale – Venus, 2002 – Found wood – 4.5″ x 3″ x 3″



↑Thomas Beale – Untitled, 2012 – Found wood and graphite – 30″ x 28″ x 42″

↑Thomas Beale – Origin, 2001 – Found shells – 14 x 14 x 6 inches
BRUCE GARDNER


↑Bruce Gardner – Untitled, 2016 – 2017 – (shelf installation) wood, dorodangos – Dimensions variable















↑Bruce Gardner – Untitled, 2016 – 2017 – (floor installation) wood, sand, dorodangos – 8 x 8 feet
NAOKO ITO


↑ Naoko Ito – W as in Wind , 2011- Glass jar, tree – 40 x 80 x 60 inches (101.6 x 203.2 x 152.4 cm)
LUCI JOCKEL


↑Luci Jockel – Shroud, 2016 – Fawn skull, honey bee wings, beeswax, PVA glue – 8 x 3 ¼ x 3 ¼ inches


↑Luci Jockel
Death’s Head Hawkmoth, 2015 – Honeycomb, beeswax skull, steel, brass – 4 ½ x 2 x ½ inch
Bee Stick Pin, 2016 – Honeybees, beeswax, shellac, silver, gold leaf – 5 x 1 x 1 inches
Orbs, 2017 – Honeybee wings, PVA glue, propolis, tulip tree thread – 14 x 1 ¾ inches















↑Luci Jockel – Ossuary, 2017 – Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Paper – 7 x 7 inches each (8 ½ x 8 ½ framed, edition 2 of 20)

↑Luci Jockel – Lunula, 2016 – Honeybee wings, PVA glue – 8 ½ x 8 ½ inches

↑Luci Jockel – Preserved, 2017 – Wax – 51 x 54 inches

↑Luci Jockel – Study for Gold Veil I, 2017 – Honeybee wings, PVA glue, wood, glass – 14 ¼ x 5 ¾ x 2 inches
MARGARET PARISH


↑Margaret Parish – Potato Nails, 2017 – Tubers, black walnut, celery root – Dimensions variable


From left to right:
↑Margaret Parish – Scholars Foam, 2017 – Styrofoam – 19 x 34 x 5 inches
↑Margaret Parish – Bucket Bottom, 2017 – Steel, plaster, plastic – 10 x 14 inches
↑Margaret Parish – Collard Root, 2017 – Plaster, roots, plastic – 10 x 27 inches


From left to right:
↑Margaret Parish – Untitled, 2017 – Steel, egg, plastic, canvas – 6 x 2 inches
↑Margaret Parish – Pipes and Plaster, 2017 – Steel, plaster – 7 x 9 ½ inches

↑Margaret Parish – Drawing, 2017 – Steel – 30 x 29 inches

↑Margaret Parish – Five Buckets, 2017 – Steel, plaster, plastic – Dimensions variable
LAUREN ROSENTHAL


↑Lauren Rosenthal – Musconetcong Drawing, 2017 – Ground rock, water – Dimensions variable





↑Lauren Rosenthal
Wickecheoke Creek, 2017
Ground rock, water, gum arabic on paper
15 x 21 inches
↑Lauren Rosenthal
Nishisakawick Creek, 2017
Ground rock, water, gum arabic on paper
11 x 15 inches
↑Lauren Rosenthal
Tinicum Creek, 2017
Ground rock, water, gum arabic on paper
15 x 21 inches
↑Lauren Rosenthal
Lockatong Creek, 2017
ground rock, water, gum arabic on paper
15 x 21 inches

Ground rock, water, gum arabic on paper
11 x 15 inches

↑Lauren Rosenthal – Tohickon Creek, 2017 –
Ground rock, water, gum arabic on paper
30 x 21 inches
CARRIE WITHERELL


↑ Carrie Witherell – Horse, 2011 – Cyanotype – 81 x 120 inches

Elsa Mora is an artist and curator. A recipient of the UNESCO-Ashberg Bursaries for Artists, she was born and raised in Cuba and moved to Los Angeles, CA, in 2001, where she lived until 2014. Mora currently resides in New York with her husband William Horberg and their two children. Elsa’s art has been exhibited worldwide in art galleries and museums. She taught at the Vocational School of Arts in Camaguey, Cuba, and has been a visiting artist at the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco State University, The Art Institute of Boston, the MoMA Design Store, and the National Gallery of Art, among other places. Her work is in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, and the Long Beach Museum of Art in CA. Mora has collaborated as an illustrator with organizations such as the Museum of Modern Art, Chronicle Books, The New York Review of Books, Penguin Random House, The Oprah Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and teNeues, among others. She is passionate about forming and strengthening communities through the transformational power of art, creativity, and collaboration.





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