Friday, December 11, 2015

One Person Exhibition

Unstuck
56 Bogart St.
Brooklyn

January 7-31, 2016
Reception: January 8th, 6-9 pm

I'll be showing collages, drawings, animation, video and my sketchbooks.  

Octopus II, Collage:Gouache on paper, 12 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches, 2015





Thursday, November 12, 2015

Upcoming exhibitions


Here is a piece I will have in the exhibition:






Friday, September 11, 2015

Soho20 Gallery is moving to Bushwick!

I'll be having a show in January of 2016.  I'm working hard towards that. Here's my favorite from my time last fall in Florence.




Monday, April 27, 2015

Group Show in Brooklyn opening May 1st



"Maypole" a group show

5/1 to 5/29/2015 
opening-May 1st - 6 to 8 PM.




Curated by: J. A. Holt 

I will be showing these three pieces:

Chinese Pistache Tree, Painted paper collage, 2015


Trumpet Flowers, Collage, 2015


Sea Monster, Painted paper collage, 2015




Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Upcoming exhibition

Show & Tell 7
April 25-May 16, 2015

Reception: Saturday, April 25th, 2 to 5pm

Blue Door Art Center
Yonkers, NY
914-965-3397

There's a link to a map and directions on their facebook page:
Blue Door Art Center Facebook page

I am showing work that I did in Italy.  Also there is the tell part of it - I am to give a demonstration or artist talk on May 16th.




Friday, March 20, 2015

Flora & Forest

February 6-March 7; Reception February 12
Romano Gallery, Blair Academy, Blairstown, NJ

Winter Green

January 29 - March 22, 2015
Opening Reception Thursday January 29th, 5p-7p
Gallery 51, MCLA, North Adams, MA


Saturday, October 26, 2013

A review of my recent exhibition by John Goodrich

Elizabeth Bisbing & Mariángeles Soto-Díaz, Sept 3-28, 2013



Elizabeth Bisbing
Knapweed 
2012
gouach, collaged paper
14 x 11 in


Mariangeles Soto-Diaz
Color Felt Translation 6
2013
silkscreen, acrylic and gouache on wood
18 x 24 in




Connected, and Still Personal

These days we’re nothing if not connected. And so is our art; one of the most salient features of contemporary art is the drive for inclusiveness—for the dismantling of the last barriers between art object and viewer, using new technologies, novel mixtures of media, and site-specific installations.
 

When reduced to a recipe, however, the inclusiveness can actually work to exclude the kind of complex and intimate expression we expect of more traditional art. Two solo installations at Soho20, however, succeed at engaging the viewer personally even as they exploit new trends and technologies.
 

Venezuelan native Mariángeles Soto-Díaz turns to new media to analyze personal perceptions. A CalArts alumna, she has put her MA in Aesthetics and Politics to practical use, building through the social media a database of individual responses to her query: what color represents your current status? The string of replies (many in Spanish) are printed in a paragraph on one wall, and reappear in fragmentary form in the backgrounds of small wood panels featuring triangles painted in the relevant colors. The panels in turn are connected by zigzagging lines of small, similarly colored felt triangles that connect gallery walls and floor. The effect is more arresting conceptually than pictorially—considered independently, the panels are closer in spirit to the decorativeness of Vasarely than the poetry of Klee—but the artist’s will to engage vitalizes the installation, as does her layering of the paradoxes of high-tech culture: the global extraction of very individual predilections, and their translation from the optical to the verbal and back.
 

Elizabeth Bisbing’s collages and animations explore perceptions of nature in more personal fashion. A series of a dozen collages presents an intriguingly updated version of old-fashioned botanical studies. Delicately cut-out bits of colored paper, layered with the blunt physicality of collage, convey the exuberance of individual flowering plants – thistle, knapweed, tansy, and others—down to tiny veins and stamens; subtle shifts of color evoke the luminous turnings of petals from light to shade. Another series adds a mixture of the innocent and the sinister, combining the flower motif with images of the artist’s childhood alter ego (“Little Betty Jane”) and her encounter with giant insects and other monsters. A natural outgrowth of her collages, two of the artist’s stop-action animations are also on view. The storylines of these videos, both depicting a little girl emerging from and finally subsumed by nature, may not be groundbreaking, but they possess a poignant intimacy of description and technique. For good measure, the installation includes a site-specific work: a collage of a hibiscus plant with four small Betty Janes (constructed originally for the animation “The Swamp”), clambering up one of the gallery’s walls.

Mariángeles Soto-Díaz and Elizabeth Bisbing at Soho20 Chelsea, Sept. 3-28, 547 West 27th Street, www.soho20gallery.com


Soho20 Chelsea
547 West 27th Street
www.soho20gallery.com    

This review is published on 
City Arts website: 

And John Goodrich's website - "On View At" 
http://www.onviewat.com/index.html