Wren
6 Allendorph Way
City
USA (United States)
http://wrenpanzella.com
Kunstart: Malerei
Technik: Ölmalerei
Stil: Moderne
Statement:
For years now, in clubs, I have been sketching performing jazz musicians, filling sketchbooks with gesture drawings of these artists making jazz. Using these drawings as a starting place I abstract from them often employing a multipoint perspective and perspectives from different moments to give visual expression to the movement and connectedness of the music.
Jazz is America’s most important contribution to international culture and it is my hope that my work contributes in some way to the appreciation of jazz.
I am interested in music of all cultures and in the human figure moving through music in dance. It is my intention in my artwork to create a figurative, sensual and visual art form.
My baseball work derives from summer nights of the New York Penn League watching short season rookie league baseball in upstate New York and western Massachusetts. Sketching these apprentice ballplayers in congenial settings such as Wahconah Park in Pittsfield, Massachusetts and Demashkie field in Oneonta, New York, I have developed a growing fascination with the visual beauty, the swift motion and complexity of this game.
Vita / Lebenslauf:
WREN PANZELLA
6 Allendorph Way
Castleton, NY 12033
wrenpanzella.com
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS_______________________________________________
1998 The 2nd International Jazz Art Competition, The Jazz Gallery New York, NY
1997 Antibes Jazz Festival, Jazz Themes, Musee Navel et Napoleonien, Antibes France.
1991 Fourth Biennial Exhibition of Prints, Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS _____________________________________________________
2008 Missing Pieces: Works on Jazz, The Arts Center, Troy, NY
Point of Departure, Orazio Salati Gallery, Binghimton , NY
2008 It Ain�t Nothn� But the Blues, Capital Repertory Theater,
Albany, NY
2007 Take Me Out, Baseball Works Capital Repertory Theater,
Albany, NY
2006 Small Works, Group Exhibition, Gallery 100,
Saratoga Springs, NY
2002-2006 Latin Jazz: La Combinación Perfecta, Smithsonian
Institution Washington, DC Exhibition to travel to
twelve Museums
2005 Works on Baseball, Root for the Home Team: Baseball in
Rensselaer County Rensselaer Historical Society,
Rensselaer, NY
Rude and Bold Women Group exhibit, The Garland Gallery
Binghamton, NY
24 at 75 (Willie Mays) Group exhibit, Louisville Slugger
Museum, KY (Traveling exhibition)
Works by Wren Panzella, North Pointe, a Center for the
Arts, Kinderhook, NY
2004 12� x 12� Exhibition, The Spencertown Academy Art Gallery,
Spencertown, NY
Jazz Exhibition in Connection to the 2004 Saratoga Jazz
Festival, Saratoga, Gallery 100, Saratoga, NY
Recent paintings by Willie Marlowe, Wendy Ide Williams and
Wren Panzella, Firlefanz Gallery, Albany, NY
Three Artists, CJ Gallery, Troy, NY
2003 Down the Rabbit Hole, Group Exhibition, The Spencertown
Academy Art Gallery, Spencertown, NY
Interpretative: Self Portrait, Group Exhibition, Fulton
Street Gallery, Troy, NY
2002 Chords and Progressions: Works on Jazz,University Art Museum,
State University at Albany, Albany, NY
2001 Crosscurrents, One-person exhibition, Carabaux Gallery,
New Orleans, LA
2000 Black and White, Carabaux Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1999 Jungle Dreams of New Orleans, One Person Exhibition,
Lulu Gallery, Albany, NY
1997 One Person National Juried Exhibition, Berkshire Artisans and
Lichtenstein Center For The Arts,Pittsfield, MA
1996 Works on Jazz and Dance, Gail Johnson Gallery,
San Luis Obispo, CA
Works on Jazz and Dance: One Person Exhibit, Cooperstown Art
Association, Cooperstown, NY
Jazz Exhibition, Galerie Royale, Ltd., 312 Royal Street,
New Orleans, LA
1995 1995 Mohawk-Hudson Regional Art Exhibition,
Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, NY
1994 One Person Exhibit, Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, NY
A Whole New Ball Game Invitational, Group Exhibition,
National Baseball Library & Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY
1994 - 1995 One Person Exhibition on Jazz Themes, St.Peter\\\'s Church,
Citicorp building,Lexington Avenue & 54th St., NYC
1993 ARTEXPO Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Expo Center, Chicago,
Illinois.
The Mohawk-Hudson Regional Invitational, Albany Center
Galleries, Albany, NY
1993 Exhibition by Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region,
Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY
1992 1992 Exhibition by Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region,
Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, NY
1991 Views from the Cheap Seats: Works on Jazz and Baseball,
Shelnutt Gallery, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
PUBLICATIONS/COLLECTIONS ____________________________________________
Willie Mays Art in the Outfield, Mike Shannon The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa 2007
Peg Delaney Hotline, CD cover art and design Daisyland Music 2007
Business Review Book of Lists: Cover art and Article, 2006 edition
Jazz Times: an exhibition of jazz inspired work, May 1999, volume 29/Number 4
Cover Art of �The Latin Tinge� By John Storm Roberts Published by Oxford University Press
Collection of the Phoenix Home Life, 2 Paintings Greenbush Commerce Park E. Greenbush, NY
Nick Brignola in Concert, Drawings used in video and video cover. WMHT (Public Television 1996)
Nick Brignola and the Endangered Species, CD cover art and design, Hang Records, 1994
Mike Shannon, SPITBALL, The Literary Baseball Magazine, Fall 1993, No. 43
Baseball: A Treasury of Art and Literature, Michael Ruscoe, editor, Published by Hugh Lauter Levin
Associates Inc. and distributed by F. Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, 1993
Montreal Expos, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
National Little League of Albany - Permanent Mural for Little League Club House, 1995
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Tim Cahill, Times Union Albany, NY �Kid Rock picks up works by local artist Wren Panzella� September 15, 2004
Kris Worrell, Times Union, Albany, NY �An Improvised Career� May 7th 2000
Karine Henry �Quelques Touches de Jazz� Nice-Matin, July 1997
Antibes-Juan-Les-Pin Magazines July 1997
Kerry Lynch, Metroland Magazine, �All That Jazz� March 1997 #907
Clark Bell, The Saratogian, October 1996
Peg Churchill Wright, The Daily Gazette, �Jazz And Baseball Favorite Subjects For Painter Wren Panzella� April 94
Mikhail Horowitz, Woodstock Times and Huguenot Herald (New Paltz), \\\"Hues on First: Night Game in Tunisia,\\\"
September 30, 1993.
Kurp, Patrick, Times Union, Albany, NY \\\"Artist Speaks her mind on canvas\\\" December 6,1992.
Feil, Lisa, The Source, \\\"Inside the motion: The Art of Wren Panzella\\\", March 3 1993.
CAREER RELATED OCCUPATION____________________________________________________________
1996 - Present Collections Manager of Permanent Collection University Art Museum, State University at Albany, New York
2007 Received from State University at Albany an Excellence Award for the work I have with the University�s Art collection
2005 � Guest Lecturer at Russell Sage College on the subject of my work
2001 - 2004 My artwork has been represented on t-shirts and sweat shirts for the annual Saratoga Performing
Arts Center Jazz Festival
1996 � 2002 Director of Lulu Gallery, 288 Lark Street, Albany, NY
1998 � 1999 Registrar for the Marcia Brown Puppet Theater, State University Library, Albany, NY
Aktivitäten / Ausstellungen:
Some of the tecniques I use are:
GLASS TRANSFER PAINTING
Glass Transfer Painting is a practice dating back to the Middle Ages in which paint is applied directly to glass and viewed from the unpainted side. Since a painting on glass is very fragile I use a technique invented by the artist Robert Cartmell for transferring the painting from glass to paper or canvas. This is a process in which the back of the painting is adhered with polymer to paper or canvas and left to dry for twenty-four hours. It is then carefully lifted away from the less adhesive glass. What interests me most about Glass Painting is that my first impressions and marks are nearest the surface. Because in Glass Painting you work from the foreground to the background, the underpainting is added last creating new possibilities for unifying and deepening a composition. It is like turning a painting inside out.
ETCHED TRANSFER PAINTING
Etched Transfer Painting is a blend of Glass Painting technique and traditional etching methods. A copper or zinc plate is etched and then inked and wiped as you would do before printing your etching. The plate is then coated with a layer of polymer, sealing in the ink and preparing the surface to paint as in a Glass Painting. When the painting is completed it is adhered to the canvas with polymer and left for twenty-four hours to dry. Then the painting is carefully pulled up and away from the plate. The ink in the etched lines is pulled out and sits on top of the painting in relief. This procedure creates a luminosity of color that sits behind beautiful fine black etched lines.
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Piano Trio
Druckgrafik
Lithographie
72 x 50 cm
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Killer Joe
Druckgrafik
Lithographie
61 x 45 cm
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Blue Samba: For Stan Getz
Druckgrafik
Lithographie
81 x 55 cm
1991
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Blue Rumba
Malerei
Glasmalerei
16 x 17 cm
2005
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Warm Canto
Malerei
Glasmalerei
75 x 58 cm
2008
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Blues For Modern Man
Malerei
Acryl
119 x 112 cm
2008
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Missing Pieces
Malerei
72 x 109 cm
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