"Earth: Our First Home"(in background)
Viewing "Letters Home"
I am pleased to be included in this group exhibition. The work received a very positive response at the recent reception.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
THE HOME SHOW
"Earth: Our First Home"(in background)
Viewing "Letters Home"
I am pleased to be included in this group exhibition. The work received a very positive response at the recent reception.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
JUROR:4-Corners Commission
I was recently the sole juror for this show at the Durango Arts Center. The exhibit runs through the Month of January. These cold winter months find me in my studio working on a series of artists' books.
Monday, November 19, 2007
ANNUAL OPEN STUDIO IN NOVEMBER
Showing Collage
Studio Display
Opening my studio each year gives the community of Durango and the surrounding region an opportunity to view my art works that span almost 40 years. I offer paintings, prints, collage, drawings, sculpture, and artists' books for sale during this event. Studio visits allow the artist and viewer to have a personal connection which is not always the case when the artist only shows work through the gallery system. Thus I have always tried to make this a regular practice, beginning in Southern California with other artists and craftspeople... and in recent years on my own.
Studio Display
Opening my studio each year gives the community of Durango and the surrounding region an opportunity to view my art works that span almost 40 years. I offer paintings, prints, collage, drawings, sculpture, and artists' books for sale during this event. Studio visits allow the artist and viewer to have a personal connection which is not always the case when the artist only shows work through the gallery system. Thus I have always tried to make this a regular practice, beginning in Southern California with other artists and craftspeople... and in recent years on my own.
RECENT FOREST INSTALLATIONS
Lichen Tree
Sandy Creek
I have just finished my outdoor installations at Edgemont Highlands, Durango, CO for this year. Over a period of three years I have created over 30 environmental art sites along the wild trails of this development in my role as artist-in-residence. These sites are meant to be slowly discovered as residents wander and hike. Many of the sites are designed to be interactive and educational, acquainting residents with the history of the area, seasonal change and animal life. These sculptures are created from primarily natural elements...one exception being the use of fragments from an historic water system. As the residents hike along the trails, "forest rooms" offer a place in which to sit, rest and meditate. Other pieces are meant to be seen from a distance. All these sculptural works bring to the community a sense of place and a heightened awareness of the surrounding natural landscape.
Sandy Creek
I have just finished my outdoor installations at Edgemont Highlands, Durango, CO for this year. Over a period of three years I have created over 30 environmental art sites along the wild trails of this development in my role as artist-in-residence. These sites are meant to be slowly discovered as residents wander and hike. Many of the sites are designed to be interactive and educational, acquainting residents with the history of the area, seasonal change and animal life. These sculptures are created from primarily natural elements...one exception being the use of fragments from an historic water system. As the residents hike along the trails, "forest rooms" offer a place in which to sit, rest and meditate. Other pieces are meant to be seen from a distance. All these sculptural works bring to the community a sense of place and a heightened awareness of the surrounding natural landscape.
Monday, November 12, 2007
ANNOUNCING PUBLICATION: "DETRITUS"
"Detritus" Book
The artists' book, "Detritus" has recently been published. This book documents a series (15 in all) of outdoor open book sculptures that were completed from 1992-2001. The edition is 50 and 18 pages are offset printed with photos and text - enclosed in a handmade paper cover, pamphlet style. This book joins other editioned books (4 in all so far) that document my work in the environment. Available through the artist.
The artists' book, "Detritus" has recently been published. This book documents a series (15 in all) of outdoor open book sculptures that were completed from 1992-2001. The edition is 50 and 18 pages are offset printed with photos and text - enclosed in a handmade paper cover, pamphlet style. This book joins other editioned books (4 in all so far) that document my work in the environment. Available through the artist.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
CALIFORNIA VISIT
Artists' Books display, Del Mar, California
October: A drive to Southern California (my home for my first 47 years) and a ten day visit with family and friends. Artists' books were placed at the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla and UCSanDiego Mandeville Library, Special Collections. Fire pushed by Santa Ana winds were part of the experience.
October: A drive to Southern California (my home for my first 47 years) and a ten day visit with family and friends. Artists' books were placed at the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla and UCSanDiego Mandeville Library, Special Collections. Fire pushed by Santa Ana winds were part of the experience.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
INTERVENING SUBTLY WITH NATURE
This article was written by Jules Masterjohn for Durango Magazine, Winter-Spring 2006-07. (click on images to enlarge)
(cont.) photographs and paper sculpure are then exhibited in galleries and museums, and purchased by collectors. Other outdoor artworks include her "Offerings" series, which was inspired by seeing lily pads floating on pond water. Long has placed circles of handmade paper on the surface of lakes, streams and canals. To date, 20 "Offering pieces have been created in bodies of water all over the world.
Natural materials like pine cones, leaves and twigs are also used by Long to create non-permanent outdoor artworks. "Concentric Circles" - 16' in diameter - is a sculpture that is made of mounded pine needles and paper pulp. It rests on the forest floor. During its ten-year existence, each spring the artist reshapes the circular mounds, renewing it for another season. Permanence is not one of Long's goals, her inspiration instead lies in working with the changing cycles of nature.
Meandering through the tall ponderosa pine forest on the acreage where she and her husband have lived for 23 years, she developed "Forest Walk". This trail through the woodlands connects various designated areas where Long has intentionally placed fallen tree limbs, gathered pine cones and arranged rocks and bones in circles, spirals and random patterns. These compositions of indigenous materials indicate nesting spots or places for contemplation along the trail.
Long is at work in the forest developing another art trail. She is artist-in-residence at Edgemont Highlands, a private residential development in the forest just northeast of Durango, where she has been commissioned to create outdoor sculptural artworks along the community's hiking trails.
Choosing to "intervene subtly and temporarily with nature", her art lends itself to documentation in film. Currently in production, a documentary film, "Seeing the Forest for the Trees, is scheduled for release at the Durango Independent Film Festival in 2008. Highlighting Long's outdoor art trails and productive diverse artistic career, the film focuses attention on one of Durango's unique artists, whose perspective on nature draws attention to and enriches one's appreciation of the surrounding natural wonders.
(cont.) photographs and paper sculpure are then exhibited in galleries and museums, and purchased by collectors. Other outdoor artworks include her "Offerings" series, which was inspired by seeing lily pads floating on pond water. Long has placed circles of handmade paper on the surface of lakes, streams and canals. To date, 20 "Offering pieces have been created in bodies of water all over the world.
Natural materials like pine cones, leaves and twigs are also used by Long to create non-permanent outdoor artworks. "Concentric Circles" - 16' in diameter - is a sculpture that is made of mounded pine needles and paper pulp. It rests on the forest floor. During its ten-year existence, each spring the artist reshapes the circular mounds, renewing it for another season. Permanence is not one of Long's goals, her inspiration instead lies in working with the changing cycles of nature.
Meandering through the tall ponderosa pine forest on the acreage where she and her husband have lived for 23 years, she developed "Forest Walk". This trail through the woodlands connects various designated areas where Long has intentionally placed fallen tree limbs, gathered pine cones and arranged rocks and bones in circles, spirals and random patterns. These compositions of indigenous materials indicate nesting spots or places for contemplation along the trail.
Long is at work in the forest developing another art trail. She is artist-in-residence at Edgemont Highlands, a private residential development in the forest just northeast of Durango, where she has been commissioned to create outdoor sculptural artworks along the community's hiking trails.
Choosing to "intervene subtly and temporarily with nature", her art lends itself to documentation in film. Currently in production, a documentary film, "Seeing the Forest for the Trees, is scheduled for release at the Durango Independent Film Festival in 2008. Highlighting Long's outdoor art trails and productive diverse artistic career, the film focuses attention on one of Durango's unique artists, whose perspective on nature draws attention to and enriches one's appreciation of the surrounding natural wonders.
SEQUENCES OF MEMORY:THE VISUAL BOOKMAKING OF MARY ELLEN LONG
Link to artsperspective.com archive Winter 2006 for this article written by Connie Gotsch.
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