SHIRLEY – Gallery Sitka announces the exhibition “Symptoms” by French visual artist Veronique Sapin, with an opening reception on Friday, April 26, from 4:30 to 6:30p.m.
Sapin, whose studio is in Cugnaux, France, will be in attendance at the Shirley gallery. The show will be displayed through May 3. Also planned is an Artist Talk, “Sisterhood in Art, as a Consequence, as a Strategy” at the Fitchburg Art Museum Thursday, May 2, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Both the artist reception and the artist talk are free and open to the public.
The full scope of Sapin’s artwork is of the visual arts nature, including videos, installations, photos, ink and art books. Her artwork has been a part of more than 240 showings in 40 countries. She is also curator, co-founder and coordinator of the international women artists collective FemLink-Art, which involves more than 140 artists from more than 60 countries.
For this exhibition at Gallery Sitka, Sapin focuses on an ink painting art method she gleaned while living in Singapore, where she took classes from artist Lim Choon Jin.
“Working with ink means anticipating what the ink will want to do, expecting it not to do so, and measuring our degree of intervention on its freedom,” Sapin said. “This implies a constant game of partnership and adversity between the artist and the medium.”
Gallery Sitka owner Tamar Russell Brown said, “We have been expanding the gallery’s breadth of artists and offerings to include more international art. Veronique is our first French female artist to have as part of our Gallery Sitka family; we invite the community to join us in welcoming her.”
Additional information can be found at GallerySitka.com.
Gallery Sitka is a woman-owned and operated art entity with galleries in Newport, R.I., Shirley, Saratoga, N.Y. (by appointment) and additional periodic pop-ups around the Northeast. With a focus on abstract art, Gallery Sitka represents the work of more than 20 painters, sculptors, encaustic artists, as well as jewelry designers from New England, New York, Brazil, France and Italy.
For more information visit gallerysitka.com.
