A Group of Four

A Group of Four will showcase work created by my family! I can't wait to see how the work plays off each other in a gallery setting. Much of our art hangs together on the walls of my parents' home, but the task of decisively choosing work to show together to create a cohesive look in a gallery sounded a tad challenging. As we worked together selecting pieces that would compliment each other in a gallery setting, it became apparent we all artistically see and think a lot more like one another than we ever realized! Charlotte Davenhill, Tidemark Gallery owner, clarifies this point best in the press release:

" Joe, Mary, and daughters Angela and Nina seem to share the special ability of seeing things that others overlook. Working within their respective mediums, the Devenneys strip away the obvious to expose the unseen -- creating thought provoking works of intensity, movement, shapes and wonder."

Media exhibited will include paintings by my mother Mary, photographs by my father Joe (who also designed our wonderful announcement card), printmaking and sculpture by my sister Nina, and prints of my photo-based work.

A Group of Four runs from {03.03.10 through 03.27.10}

Please join us for the reception on Saturday, March 13 from 5 to 7 pm.

Tidemark Gallery is located at 902 Main Street / Waldoboro, ME

Tel. 832-5109, email: info@tidemarkgallery.com

black and white

My photograph, Winter, will be shown in the exhibit black and white at River Arts. Starlings love to congregate in this tree near our yard. I've paid more attention to them this season, as they are exposed by the lack of foliage this time of year. Starlings are a gregarious species, so this was a unique, tranquil moment for the tree, any listeners, and the two birds.

My sister, Nina Devenney, will also have a piece shown in this exhibit. Under the Dress, {above} is a photopolymer gravure print, in which she combined the use of Photoshop, plate development in the darkroom, and the final step of inking plates to run through a printing press. I have a love for all three processes, but have never used them all in conjunction with each other and can only imagine {and admire!} the precision and time involved.

Black and white opens this Friday, {02.26.10 / 5-7pm} and runs through {04.02.10}. Art critic, curator and art dealer Daniel Kany is the exhibit’s Juror. Kany will be giving a gallery talk and discussion on Saturday {03.14.10 / 3-4:30pm}.

River arts is located at: 170 Main Street / Damariscotta, Maine / 207.563.1507

Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday 10 – 4 & Sunday 12 – 4

'Spineless Wonders, Inspiring Invertebrates' Closes out 2009

The Spineless Wonders exhibit, curated by Robyn Holman and displayed at USM'S Atrium Gallery, was a wonderful show to close out 2009. Full of my some of my favorite subjects - invertebrates- "Spineless Wonders: Invertebrates as Inspiration celebrates the diversity of species for the 2009 bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species. Invertebrates make up a vast group that includes worms, insects and their larvae, spiders, jellyfish, shellfish such as crabs and shrimp, squid, and more – 97% of all animal species are invertebrates. Paintings, prints, sculpture, poetry, video, and work in clay, metal, fiber, glass, wood, and stone by 56 artists from around the country are all part of this multi-dimensional exploration of the invertebrate world."

To view Daniel Kany's review from the Portland Press Herald Maine Sunday Telegram, click here.

Just Look At Yourself! Opens tonight at CMCA

Just Look at Yourself!, a group exhibition exploring self-portraiture with a focus on

un-conventional definitions of this genre, opens tonight at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art.

Eclipse (at far right below), from my series Saliva Self Portraits, is included in this exhibit. These images were created by magnifying (you guessed it) spit. I was astonished by how beautiful the patterns within the micro-view were, and amazed by the perfectly shaped circles in my saliva. You can read more about these pieces here.

Horizon Approach / Perfect Circles / Eclipse

CMCA is located at 162 Russell Avenue in Rockport, ME.

Join us at the opening this evening, August 7, from 5-7pm.

Just Look at Yourself! runs through October 3, 2009.

What The Boston Globe Thinks about Our Bugs

Transformation Vessels (Cocoons)

Last week, (06.17.09), the Globe reviewed WOWbug and Other Micro-Natures, currently on exhibit at Khaki Gallery. Here's what they had to say about our work:  

Boston Globe Review 

 

Tiny, striking patterns

"WOWbug & Other Micro-Natures" is a fun, eye-popping, up-close examination of tiny critters at Khaki Gallery. The artists Angela Devenney and Jennifer Formica (whose last name, aptly, is the Latin word for ant) use scanners to magnify images of insects, among other things.

For "Moth Wings Study #6," Formica laid a heap of wings on the scanner. The result is a composition of dramatic, swooping lines, often with feathery fringes, glorious tones, and absorbing patterns. Something about her "Drosophila," a glowing blur of a fly with wings folded in and head tucked, looks eerily like a fetal ultrasound. "Lily Ovulary Megasporocyte" shows a single cell blown up against a black ground in a spectacle of yellow and green, blotted with electric purples.

Devenney makes little assemblages and scans them. Her assortments of strings and bugs come across as too precious, but when she sticks to one material, as in "Flies: Passion," a star form made of a small army of flies, the result is all at once formally precise, creepy, and funny.

 

 

 

www.angeladevenney.com

I’m so happy to finally have my website up and running. A HUGE thanks to web designer Matt Fulton for making it happen! Matt is wonderful to work with – he knows his stuff and is full of helpful suggestions. With only a few thoughts on what I had in mind, Matt took designing into his own hands and I’m so pleased with what he created! Thanks Matt!