Artist Statement
Ann R. Shapiro
ALTERED LANDSCAPES
(Seas Rising)
Oil Paintings and Digital Prints
Ceres Gallery
November 2 - 27, 2010

Climate change is altering our planet. This can be visibly measured by noting an increase in the ferocity of sudden rain storms, expansive heat waves, powerful mud slides, severe flooding and catastrophic erosion. Escalating temperatures are causing glaciers to melt, ice shelves and glaciers to calve and waters to rise.

In Altered Landscapes there are digital prints with oil painting and oil paintings with digital prints. They are each created using many layers of visual information and include found and personal photographs, works of art, maps and diagrams.

The oil paintings primarily deal with weather related problems such as heat waves and mudslides. Carol Goebel, artist and curator, after an interview with me wrote about the digital work.

Lush flora and fauna lit by strong direct light seem to pour forth from the frames of each print. The grid acts as a fence to contain the vibrancy of the primary color. The interlocking patterning of each composite work entices the viewer to move in closer, discovering that some of the prints include maps of countries, territories and states. ...we realize the artist is depicting the frightening trend of water in the oceans of the world. Shapiro visually describes the future alteration and loss of coastal land masses caused by the warming of the ocean temperatures. The potential for catastrophic changes in people’s lives and lifestyles, indeed their very existence becomes startingly apparent. This is political/environmental art at its best. Beautiful in color and form, this art does not hit us over our heads with its dire message. Rather, Shapiro’s composites seduce us into discovering for ourselves what is happening to our cherished earth.

The digital prints and the oil paintings tell the story of the crisis of weather connected events. They also portray what is happening or will happen to many geographic areas and their people, land, water, flora and fauna.

 

 

 

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ANN R. SHAPIRO, Ph.D.

201 East 28th Street
New York, New York 10016
(212) 683-6838
Shapann@aol.com
www.ceresgallery.org

Exhibitions Solo:
2013	Ceres Gallery, February - March 2
2010	Altered Landscapes, Ceres Gallery, Nov. 2 – Nov. 27
2008	Seas Rising , Ceres Gallery, Sept. 30 – Oct. 25
2006	Impact, Ceres Gallery, NYC, March 28-April 22
2004	Meanderings, Paintings and Digital Work, Ceres Gallery
2002	Maps and Memory and Extracting Memory, Ceres Gallery
1996	Constructs: Lurching into the Next Century by Shaping Remembered Environments, New Hampshire College, Manchester, NH
1995	Landscapes of Maine and New Hampshire, Deer Isle Artist's Association, Deer isle, ME
1994	Landscapes, New Hampshire College, Manchester, NH
Selected Group:
2011	Ceres Gallery, Women’s Nature, January 4 - 29
2009	Ceres Gallery, Towing [sic] the Line, January 6-24
2008	Gallery 225, Nov. 13 - Dec. 24, A Gift of Art, Harv Toback, Curator, NYC
2007	National Association of Women Artists,   NYC,   “X + 1”,  October 2 - October 31, 2007, (invitational) Ceres Gallery, Scratching the Surface , June 19 – July 14 Chappaqua (NY) Library Gallery, M R Rosenberg, Visual Poetry/Artists' Books , Collaborative Book Work, “Color Codes”
2006	Krasdale Gallery, Bronx, NY, Juror/Curator, Sigmund Balka, Main Line Art Center, Betsy Meyer Memorial exhibition, Haverford, PA, Juror, Elizabeth Osborne
2005	New Books Editions: Old, New Digital, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA, Juror, Betsy Davids
2003	Ceres Gallery, Ceres at 20, Birthday Duet
2002	Art Sites Gallery, Greenport, NY, Glynnis Berry, Curator A.I. R. Gallery, Generations III: A Survey of Woman Artists at the Millennium (invitational)
2000	A.I.R. Gallery Generations II: A Survey of Woman Artists at the Millennium, (invitational)
1998	Jews, Women and Art, National Jewish Museum, Washington, D.C., Ori Z. Soltes, Director/Curator
Reviews and Notations
	Leibel, Aaron. “Jewish women and their art, ”Washington Jewish Week ,, Feb., 26, 1998, p. 31 Boston (MA) Sunday Globe, “Art at New Hampshire College”, October 6, 1996, p. 47 “New show opening at DIAA gallery, Island Advantages: Compass, Deer Isle, ME, August 3, 1995 [photo]
Exhibition Catalogs and DVDs
	Balka, Sigmund R., Ceres Gallery Revisited, Roberts, Bryony  “The Artists of Ceres Gallery”, Krasdale Gallery, NY, 2006 New Book Editions: Old, New Digital, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA, Juror, Betsy Davids, 2005 Maps and Memories, 2002 “JEWS, WOMEN AND ART”, Eighteen Artists: Issues and Ideas,   pp. 38 and 40, Ori Z. Soltes, Director/Curator, 1998
Collections
	New Hampshire College, Manchester, NH Brooklyn Museum of Art Library, Brooklyn, NY Museum of Modern Art Library, New York City, NY National Museum of Women in the Arts Library, Washington, DC Whitney Museum of American Art Library, New York City, NY Various Individuals
Affiliations
	Women's Caucus for Art, [Board Member, 1993 – 1998], NYC Chapter Deer Isle Maine Artist's Association, 1982 to present New York Artists Equity, 1982 to present
Education
	New York University, PhD, New York City, NY Columbia University, Teachers College, M.A., New York City, NY Simmons College, B.S., Boston, MA Joseph Wolins Studio, New York City, NY Art Students League,   New York City, NY School of Visual Arts,   New York City, NY Manhattan Graphics Center,   New York City, NY City College Graduate Center,   New York City, NY New York Academy of Design,   New York City, NY

 

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