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Patterns of Art @ NURTUREart (curated by Susan Ross and Melissa Staiger) has a great premise: the growth and connections occurring in nature and between generations. Growth of ideas, growth in artistic practice...it sounds optimistic and fruitful. And its nice to see a diverse exhibition focusing on painting and women's practice, including young artists just setting out in their careers and octogenarian veterans…
Like any good artist's studio, Amy Kupferberg's working space reveals more than simply a collection of finished products. The sense one gets upon entering her industrial space in Brooklyn's Bushwick section, is a true glimpse at the process Kupferberg goes through as she transforms humble materials like paper, beeswax, steel and copper into delicate, yet commanding installation art…
Hexagons are nature’s organizing system, according to Amy Kupferberg. “It’s the perfect shape,” she says. “If you take a line and draw around the whole outside of a 60-degree hexagon it’s a perfect circle.” Amy is an artist who uses the hexagon as the basis of her work…
Last night I went to an opening of a group show at Nurture Art in Williamsburg. My absolute favorite piece -- hands down -- was a dramatic and commanding installation by Amy Kupferberg…
On view at NurtureArt Non-Profit Inc, 910 Grand Street, Brooklyn, at the junction with Waterbury Street, through March 28 in the exhibition, Patterns of Growth, curated by Susan Ross and Melissa Staiger and also featuring artists Laurie Close, Sarah Dobkin, Monique Ford, Phyllis Goldberg, Jackie Meier, Cynthia Milionis, Jeanne Thomsen, and Beatrice Wolert…
AMY KUPFERBERG began as a metal sculptor. "While fabricating an armature for another sculpture, I became intoxicated by the beauty and grace created from arc welding. In order to fabricate the armature to an exact likeness, I bent the steel and clamped it down directly on top of a drawing of the armature and welded the steel at the cross points…