Artists from the Grotta Collection
exhibition and book launch
at browngrotta arts
November 2nd - November 10th
Hours: Nov 2nd 1-6
Nov 3rd - 10th 10:00-5:00
The Grottas have been collecting since the 1950s, and are long-time patrons of the Museum of Arts in Design and the American Craft Musuem in New York.
The exhibition, Artists from the Grotta Collection, will highlight work by more than three dozen of the many artists who have been collected by the Grottas, including Toshiko Takaezu, Naomi Kobayashi, Norma Minkowitz, Axel Russmeyer and Mariette Rousseau-Vermette. "In quality and depth, the Grotta collection of contemporary craft outshines all others, including what is in museums," writes designer and curator Jack Lenor Larsen.The works are housed in the Grottas' architecturally significant home which was designed intentionally to showcase art.
Artists from the Grotta Collection offers a glimpse of these collectors' vision, featuring important works of fiber, ceramic and wood – just as their collection does.
The Artists Reception and Opening will take place at browngrotta arts, 276 Ridgefield Road from 1 pm to 6 pm on Saturday, November 2nd.
Pre-orders are available at http://store.browngrotta.com/the-grotta-home-by-richard-meier-a-marriage-of-architecture-and-craft/
browngrotta arts 276 ridgefield rd Wilton, CT
Art & Text
Opening, October 11th
Wilton Library, Wilton Connecticut
Exhibition runs through November 7th
137 Old Ridefield Road, Wilton, CT 06897 Tel: 203-762-3950
April 27 - May 5, 2019
Opening and Artists Reception:
Saturday, April 27th: 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
276 Ridgefield Rd, Wilton, CT
Hours:
Sunday, April 28 - Sunday, May 5: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For more information call: 203.834.0623 or visit: www.browngrotta.com
More than 50 international artists, reflecting five continents, will take an expansive look at identity and art in a global world in browngrotta arts’ 2019 Art in the Barn exhibition, Art + Identity: an international view. The identity that each explores may be personal, political, social or cultural; it may reflect the influence of a hometown, country of birth or adoption, a place visited, or a region whose art has made an impression, an artistic or scientific movement or a broader focus on the effects globalization. Works by artists from, or influenced by, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the UK will create an intriguing dialogue about the influence of culture, geography and personal experience and spur questions about the universality of art.
Participating artists include:
Adela Akers (US), Polly Barton (US), Michelene Beauchemin (Canada), Nancy Moore Bess (US), Marian Bijlenga (the Netherlands), Birgit Birkkjaer (Denmark), Lia Cook (US), Wlodzimierz Cygan (Poland), Neha Puri Dhir (India), Lizzie Farey (UK), Paul Furneaux (UK), Mary Giles (US), Susie Gillespie (UK), Agneta Hobin (Finland), Kazue Honma (Japan), Kiyomi Iwata (US), Stéphanie Jacques (Belgium), Tim Johnson (UK), Christine Joy (US), Tamiko Kawata (US), Marianne Kemp (Netherlands), Lewis Knauss (US), Anda Klancic (SL) Nancy Koenigsberg (US), Yasuhisa Kohyama (Japan), Irina Kolnesikova (Russia/Germany), Markku Kosonen (Finland), Lila Kulka (Poland), Kyoko Kumai (Japan), Gyöngy Laky (US), Sue Lawty (UK), Jennifer Falck Linssen (US), Federica Luzzi (Italy), Dawn MacNutt (Canada), John McQueen (US), Mary Merkel-Hess (US), Norma Minkowitz (US), Judy Mulford (US), Keiji Nio (Japan), Nnenna Okore (Nigeria/US), Gudrun Pagter (Denmark), Eduardo Portillo & Mariá Eugenia Dávila (Venezuela), Lija Rage (Latvia), Ed Rossbach (US), Heidrun Schimmel (Germany), Brigitte Bouquin-Sellès (France), Naoko Serino (Japan), Sylvia Seventy (US), Jin-Sook So (Korea), Aleksandra Stoyanov (Russia/Israel), Polly Sutton (US), Chiyoko Tanaka (Japan), Hideho Tanaka (Japan), Eva Vargo (Sweden), Ulla-Maija Vikman (Finland), Wendy Wahl (US), Gizella Warburton (UK), Katherine Westphal (US), Merja Winquist (Finland), Jiro Yonezawa (Japan), Carolina Yrarráazaval (Chile)
An Unexpected Approach:
Exploring Contemporary Asian Art –
an Online Exhibition
March 9th - March 31
video walkthrough:
youtube link
exhibition on Artsy:
artsy exhibition link
April 28th (opening) thru May 6th, 2018
The Artists Opening and Reception, Saturday, April 28th from 1-6 p.m.
Daily Hours, April 29th through May 6th, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
13al I Mirror You, Åse Ljones, hand embroidery on linen, stretched on frames 32.25” x 81.75" 1.125", 2013-17
•Adela Akers (United States) • Micheline Beauchemin (Canada) • Jane Balsgaard (Denmark) • Caroline Bartlett (United Kingdom) • Polly Barton (United States) • Marian Bijlenga (The Netherlands) • Pat Campbell (United States) • Włodzimierz Cygan (Poland) • Carole Frève (Canada) • Ane Henriksen (Denmark) • Helena Hernmarck (Sweden/United States) • Kiyomi Iwata (Japan) • Ferne Jacobs (United States) • Tim Johnson (United Kingdom) • Kristín Jónsdóttir (Iceland) • Christine Joy (United States) • Tamiko Kawata (Japan/United States) • Marianne Kemp (The Netherlands) • Lewis Knauss (United States) • Nancy Koenigsberg (United States) • Yasuhisa Kohyama (Japan) • Kyoko Kumai (Japan) • Lawrence LaBianca (United States) • Gyöngy Laky (United States) • Jennifer Falck Linssen (United States) • Åse Ljones (Norway) • Federica Luzzi (Italy) • Dawn MacNutt (Canada) • Rachel Max (United Kingdom) • John McQueen (United States) • Rebecca Medel (United States) • Mary Merkel-Hess (United States) • Norma Minkowitz (United States) • Laura Foster Nicholson (United States) • Keiji Nio (Japan) • Gudrun Pagter (Denmark) • Eduardo Portillo & Mariá Eugenia Dávila (Venezuela) • Michael Radyk (United States) • Debra Sachs (United States) • Heidrun Schimmel (Germany) • Naoko Serino (Japan) • Sylvia Seventy (United States) • Hiroyuki Shindo (Japan) • Karyl Sisson (United States) • Ethel Stein (United States) • Polly Adams Sutton (United States) • Noriko Takamiya (Japan) • Hideho Tanaka (Japan) • Chiyoko Tanaka (Japan) • Lenore Tawney (United States) • Deborah Valoma (United States) • Ulla-Maija Vikman (Finland) • Wendy Wahl (United States) • Gizella K Warburton (United Kingdom) • Katherine Westphal (United States • Grethe Wittrock (Denmark) • Chang Yeonsoon (Korea) • Jiro Yonezawa (Japan) • Shin-Young-ok (Korea) • Carolina Yrarrázaval (Chile)
A 144-page full-color catalog, Blue/Green: color/code/context, will be available on April 28th. The catalog includes an essay by Leatrice Eiseman, a color specialist whose expertise is recognized worldwide. She heads the Eiseman Center for Color Information and Training and is also executive director of the Pantone® Color Institute. She is the author of 10 books on color, including Color: Messages and Meanings a Pantone® Color Resource and most recently, The Complete Color Harmony, Pantone® Edition. You can preorder the catalog now at: http://store.browngrotta.com/blue-green-color-code-context/.
Cocktails, Canapés and Continuing Education
Slide Presentation and Walkthrough:
Wednesday, May 2, 2018, 5 -8 p.m.
(presentation at 5:30 p.m., Walkthrough at 6:30)
Join Tom Grotta and Rhonda Brown, co-curators of browngrotta arts and renowned tapestry artist, Helena Hernmarck for a presentation on contemporary fiber art — tapestries, baskets, objects, sculptures — and ways to integrate this art form into contemporary and traditional interiors.
Also included: cocktails, canapés and a tour of Blue/Green: color/code/context, an art exhibition featuring more than 50 artists from 15 countries.
Continuing Education Credit 1.0 (CEU) available through IDCEC.
276 Ridgefield Road, Wilton, CT 0689
203.834.0623
art@browngrotta.com
co-sponsored by browngrotta arts, Country Club Homes and Litchfield Distillery
Dona Anderson
Jane Balsgaard
Annette Bellamy
Marian Bijlenga
Birgit Birkjaaer
Chris Drury
Helena Hernmarck
Lawrence LaBianca
Heather Hobler
Sue Lawty
Anne Leone
Judy Mulford
Karyl Sisson
Ulla-Maija Vikman
Christopher Volpe
Grethe Wittrock
Still Crazy After All These Years... 30 years in art
April 22 - 30, 2017
276 Ridgefield Road, Wilton CT
203-834-0623
April 22 - 30, 2017
276 Ridgefield Road, Wilton CT
203-834-0623
Adela Akers • Dona Anderson • Jane Balsgaard • Jo Barker • Dail Behennah • Nancy Moore Bess • Marian Bijlenga • Sara Brennan • Pat Campbell • Lia Cook • Włodzimierz Cygan • Mariá Eugenia Dávila • Lizzie Farey • Carole Frève • John Garrett • Mary Giles • Norie Hatakeyama • Helena Hernmarck • Agneta Hobin • Kazue Honma • Kiyomi Iwata • Ritzi Jacobi • Ferne Jacobs • Stéphanie Jacques • Tim Johnson • Christine Joy • Tamiko Kawata • Marianne Kemp • Anda Klancic • Lewis Knauss • Nancy Koenigsberg • Yasuhisa Kohyama • Lilla Kulka • Kyoko Kumai • Lawrence Labianca • Gyöngy Laky • Sue Lawty • Jennifer Falck Linssen • Åse ljones • Kari Lønning • Dona Look • Federica Luzzi • Dawn MacNutt • Rachel Max • John McQueen • Mary Merkel-Hess • Norma Minkowitz • Judy Mulford • Laura Foster Nicholson • Leon Niehues • Keiji Nio • Gudrun Pagter • Simone Pheulpin • Eduardo Portillo • Michael Radyk • Scott Rothstein • Heidrun Schimmel • Hisako Sekijima • Kay Sekimachi • Naoko Serino • Sylvia Seventy • Karyl Sisson • Jin-Sook So • Grethe Sørensen • Polly Adams Sutton • Carol Shaw Sutton • Noriko Takamiya • Chiyoko Tanaka • Hideho Tanaka • Tsuruko Tanikawa • Blair Tate • Eva Vargo • Ulla-Maija Vikman • Wendy Wahl • Randy Walker • Gizella K. Warburton • Grethe Wittrock • Chang Yeonsoon • Jiro Yonezawa • Shin Young-ok • Mariyo Yagi • Carolina Yrarrázaval
Sofa Chicago 2016 Fiber Optic Weavings by Wlodzimierz Cygan
Nov 3 - 6
Festival Hall, Navy Pier, 600 East Grand Avenue Chicago, IL 60611
Contemporary Art Influenced by Korea and Japan:
An Unexpected Approach
Thru November 4, 2016
pictured, works by Chiyoko Tanaka and Yasuhisa Kohyama
This September the Greenwich Arts Council will present 60+ works by 23 artists from Japan, Korea and the United States in Contemporary Art Influenced by Korea and Japan: An Unexpected Approach. Included are artists who have built on centuries of inherited national aesthetic and technical traditions, as well as artists who have adopted some of the expansive vocabulary of contemporary Asian artistry.
Contemporary Art Influenced by Korea and Japan: An Unexpected Approach
From September 16th to November 4, 2016, the Greenwich Arts Council will present Contemporary Art Influenced by Korea and Japan: An Unexpected Approach, curated by browngrotta arts. The exhibition includes select works of ceramics, textiles, baskets and sculptures by artists from Japan, Korea and the United States that each reflect an Asian sensibility. The 23 artists in this exhibit have a close relationship to a traditional, culturally associated craft aesthetic, manifested in a contemporary manner. They have chosen conventionally Asian materials and/or techniques (dyes, papers, gold leaf, persimmon tannin, kategami) used in both time-honored and unconventional ways. For example, the ritualistic studies by Hiroyuki Shindo on the vanishing art of natural indigo dyeing and by Jun Tomita on the subtlety of kasuri, or ikat, dyeing; Jennifer Linssen’s innovative sculptures of katagami and Keiji Nio’s Interlacing-R, which references complex Japanese sumihimo braiding but uses nylon tapes instead of threads, thus expanding the scale. Also strikingly contemporary are works by Masakazu Kobayashi, Naomi Kobayashi, Naoko Serino and Toshio Sekiji, who create new relationships among disparate material and techniques. In other works, like Kiyomi Iwata’s Auric Gold Fold, Glen Kaufman’s Shimogamo Scrolls: Studio View II and Jin-Sook So, Pojagi Constructions I and II, gold and silver leaf play a role, their luster and longevity suggesting immortality, power, divinity. All these artists share a concern for surface and for the interactions of materials, evident in Chiyoko Tanaka’s Grinded Fabric-Three Squares Blue Threads and Blue #689, of linen distressed with earth and stones and Hideho Tanaka’s Vanishing and Emerging series of stainless steel and singed paper. The artists in Contemporary Art Influenced by Korea and Japan: An Unexpected Approach create work that is formal and contained while visibly involving the hand of the artist.
Pier 36, Downtown Manhattan
clockwise from left to right: Grethe Grethe Sørensen, Mary Merkel-Hess, Grethe Wittrock, Gudrun Pagter, Birgit Birkkjaer
Art in the Barn Exhibition 2016
Artboom: Celebrating Artists Mid-Century, Mid-Career
April 30th - May 8, 2016, bga, Wilton, Connecticut
Artists Reception and Opening: Saturday April 30th
276 Ridgefield Rd Wilton, CT 12 - 6 p.m.
May 1st - May 8th
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. or by appointment
The Baby Boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, have made an indelible mark. The oldest will be 70 next year; the youngest 52. There is some debate over what constitutes a "Baby Boomer” culturally, but as a group, says Wikipedia, they were the wealthiest, most active and most physically fit generation up to that time and among the first to grow up genuinely expecting the world to improve. They have tended to think of themselves as a special generation, very different from those that came before. In the 1960s, they created music, literature and art to describe that specialness and the change they were intent on bringing about. For our 2016 spring exhibition, bga will ask a large group of artists born in the Boomer years to reflect on that legacy, to provide us work that tells us where they’ve come from, where they are going, that illustrates influences, roads not taken and the like.
Jo Barker (United Kingdom)
Caroline Bartlett (United Kingdom)
Dail Behennah (United Kingdom)
Marian Bijlenga (The Netherlands)
Birgit Birkkjaer (Denmark)
Sara Brennan (United Kingdom)
Włodzimierz Cygan (Poland)
Ceca Georgieva (Bulgaria)
Ane Henriksen (Denmark)
Christine Joy (United States)
Lewis Knauss (United States)
Irina Kolesnikova (Russia)
Lilla Kulka (Poland)
Lawrence Labianca (United States)
Sue Lawty (United Kingdom)
Mary Merkel-Hess (United States)
Keiji Nio (Japan)
Gudrun Pagter (Denmark)
Axel Russmeyer (Germany)
Debra Sachs (United States)
Naoko Serino (Japan)
Sylvia Seventy (United States)
Young-ok Shin (Korea)
works above: Tim Johnson, Ceca Georgieva and Marion Hildebrandt
Green from the Get Go: International Contemporary Basketmakers
Morris Museum, March 19 - June 26, 2016 Morristown, NJ
Green from the Get Go: International Contemporary Basketmakers, is curated by Jane Milosch of the Office of the Under Secretary for History, Art and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, former curator of the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum and Rhonda Brown and Tom Grotta of browngrotta arts and has traveled to venues in Pennsylvania and Michigan. Next Spring it will debut at the Morris Museum in New Jersey. Throughout history, artists and craftspeople have been highly attuned to the beauty and resources of the natural world, whether depicting a pristine landscape, untouched by man, or harvesting plants and minerals for pigments and brushes. Sustainability is a natural part of their design and craft process. Green from the Get Go will include more than 70 works by artists from Canada, Europe, Japan, Scandinavia and the US, featuring innovators in the genre of 20th-century art basketry as well as emerging talents. These artists take their inspiration from nature and the history of basketry. Their work reveals a heightened sensitivity to the physicality of materials, one that honors the stewardship of nature by their choice and use of materials.
http://www.morrismuseum.org/future-exhibitions-2/
Catalog Available
http://thepaperfair.com
Dona Anderson
Jane Balsgaard
Pat Campbell
Chris Drury
Kazue Honma
Kate Hunt
Mutsumi Iwasaki
Naomi Kobayashi
Jennifer Falck Linssen
Mary Merkel-Hess
Ed Rossbach
Toshio Sekiji
Sylvia Seventy
Hisako Sekijima
Karyl Sisson
Britt Smelvær
Jin-Sook So
Noriko Takamiya
Hideho Tanaka
Deborah Valoma
Wendy Wahl
Merja Winqvist
Grethe Wittrock
From the Ground Up entrance: works by Gyöngy Laky, Dawn MacNutt and Stéphanie Jacques
FROM THE GROUND UP
Paintings • Photographs • Sculptures -- Art inspired by Nature works by:
Jane Balsgaard • Laura Cunningham • Stéphanie Jacques • Donald Landsman • Gyöngy Laky • Dawn MacNutt • John McQueen • Kyle Norton • Ángel Mieres • Lizzy Rockwell • Hisako Sekijima • Masako Yoshida
Open Through Sunday May 3rd: 10am to 5pm
276 Ridgefield Rd, Wilton CT
Adela Akers
Zofia Butrymowicz
Lia Cook
Carole Fréve
Susie Gillespie
Françoise Grossen
Sheila Hicks
Stéphanie Jacques
Ritzi Jacobi
Tim Johnson
Marianne Kemp
Anda Klancic
Masakazu Kobayashi
Naomi Kobayashi
Luba Krejci
Maria Laszkiewicz
Federica Luzzi
Rachel Max
Jolanta Owidzka
Eduardo Portillo & Mariá Eugenia Dávila
Michael Radyk
Ed Rossbach
Mariette Rousseau-Vermette
Naoko Serino
Kay Sekimachi
Sherri Smith
Lenore Tawney
Randy Walker
Gizella K Warburton
Carolina Yrarrázaval
Detail: Untitled, monofilament, Kay Sekimachi, monofilament, 57” x 14” x 14”, circa mid-70’s
Influence and Evolution: Fiber Sculpture then and now at SOFANOV 5-8, 2015
NAVY PIER, Chicago, Illinois
Green from the Get Go:
Contemporary International Basketmakers Opens at the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House
in Michigan January 12th
Green from the Get Go: International Contemporary Basketmakers, curated by browngrotta arts and Jane Milosch, former curator of the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, travels to the Visitor Center Gallery of the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Pointe, Michigan this month. The exhibition, which features from more than 50 works by artists who take inspiration from nature and the history of basketry, will be open from January 12th to March 9, 2013. On January 12th, Tom Grotta of browngrotta arts will do a walkthrough from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. In hosting Green from the Get Go, the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House honors the Fords' appreciation of boundary-stretching artistic inspiration, while drawing attention to the ever-more important issues of sustainability and the need for increased use of renewable resources. The museum's intent in sharing these artistic creations is to both heighten awareness of and draw attention to an unlimited resource for inspiration – nature. In addition to viewing the exhibition, when you visit, you can take a tour of the House and surrounding buildings. The Edsel & Eleanor Ford House is at 110 Lake Shore Road, Grosse Pointe, Michigan, 48236. The hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday. For more information call: 313.884.4222 or visit:
http://www.fordhouse.org/
participating artists:
Dona Anderson
Jane Balsgaard
Dorothy Gill Barnes
Dail Behennah
Nancy Moore Bess
Birgit Birkkjaer
Jan Buckman
Chris Drury
Lizzie Farey
Ceca Georgieva
Marion Hildebrandt
Mary Merkel Hess
Kiyomi Iwata
Stéphanie Jacques
Christine Joy
Virginia Kaiser
Markku Kosonen
Gyöngy Laky
Dawn MacNutt
John McQueen
Mary Merkel-Hess
Norma Minkowitz
Valerie Pragnell
Ed Rossbach
Hisako Sekijima
Kay Sekimachi
Naoko Serino
Klaus Titze
Jiro Yonezawa
Masako Yoshida
Retro/Prospective:
25+ Years of Art Textiles
and Sculpture
Catalog and Exhibition
October 26th - November 4th
Retro/Prospective online
through May 31st
browngrotta arts
276 Ridgefield Rd
Wilton, CT
Beyond Weaving
International ArtTextiles
catalog
SOFA NY (15th Anniversary)
Park Avenue ArmoryPark Avenue at 67th Street
New York, NY, 10021
April 19-23
46jss STEEL MESH UNTITLED, Jin-Sook So
steel mesh, gold-leafed and painted acrylic,, charcoal, ink colors, electroplated
17.75" x 16.5" (each), 2011
Green From the Get Go
thru January 21st at the Wayne Art Center, Wayne Pennsylvania
http://www.wayneart.org/exhibition/green-from-the-get-go-international-contemporary-basketmakers
Building a Future from the Past: Architecture
EXHIBIT & SYMPOSIUM
Nine invited architects who have designed/upgraded houses in Wilton including our architect David Ling and our art barn.
Opening March 25th runs through October 31
Symposium April 29th 2:30-3:30 Subject: an informal discussion of architecture and how it can enhance the value of a house, give pleasure to its occupants, plus other architectural and design topics of interest.
PAPERWORKS: material as medium
Flinn Gallery, Greenwich Library
May 10 - June 21st
101 West Putnam Avenue • Greenwich, CT
A collaborative show with browngrotta arts of Wilton, CT.
Dona Anderson
Jane Balsgaard
Marion Bijlenga
Pat Campbell
Chris Drury
Norie Hatekayama
Kazue Honma
Kate Hunt
Mutsumi Iwasaki
Lewis Knauss
Naomi Kobayashi
Jennifer Falck Linssen
Miriam Londono
Mary Merkel-Hess
Norma Minkowitz
Ed Rossbach
Toshio Sekiji
Sylvia Seventy
Hans-Jurgen Simon
Britt Smelvær
Jin-Sook So Noriko Takamiya
Takaaki Tanaka
Lenore Tawney
Deborah Valoma
Eva Vargo
Wendy Wahl
Lena McGrath Welker
Katherine Westphal
Merja Winqvist
Grethe Wittrock
Stimulus: art and its inception Catalog
Essay Jane Milosch
Photography and Design by Tom Grotta
April 2011
Seventh Regiment Armory New York, NY
Eco-Art
Online exhibit for Earthday
June 22 - May 1
January 2010
Palm Beach
Convention Center
Booth 204
April 2010
Seventh Regiment Armory New York, NY
"Highlights include new large fiber-tapestry reliefs by the veteran textile artist Ritzi Jacobi at browngrotta arts from Wilton, Conn.; sensuous biomorphic sculptures made of burnished steel nails and charred wood by Korean artist Jaehyo Lee at CRFA (Cynthia Reeves Fine Art) from New York; abstracted sculptures of kimonos made from salvaged steel by Gordon Chandler at Ferrin Gallery from Pittsfield, Mass.; shell-inspired Shigaraki clay ceramics by Japanese artist Koike Shoko at Joan B Mirviss Ltd from New York; and 3D collages by bead artist Jan Huling at Lyons Wier Gallery from New York." Artnet News, April 8, 2010.
Special Exhibit booth; Advocates for Art: Polish and Czech Fiber Artists from the Anne and Jacques Baruch Collection 
November 2010
The 15th Annual
International Exposition
of Sculptural Objects
& Functional Art
Festival Hall, Navy Pier
Chicago, IL
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Lenore Tawney
February 2010
Palm Beach
Convention Center
Booth 2101
April 30 - May 31, 2010
SOFA WEST:
Santa Fe 2010
Santa Fe Convention Center
Randy Walkers SHIMMERING FRAMES on the cover of the SOFA West catalog
