Often at NAWA, we find there are clusters of committed and professional women artists in various locations around the country. On Long Island, just outside of New York City, we have one of these groups of engaged artists.

Recently this cluster was well represented at the juried exhibition, The Big Picture at the Art League of Long Island. It was announced that 94 artists submitted 214 images out of which only 36 works were selected by the Juror, Simon Levenson. Out of those 36 works we had six Signature Members of NAWA.

At the recent opening reception at ALLI,  the NAWA members gathered to share, network, celebrate and enjoy each other’s company. Each of the artists spoke about their work as they moved from piece to piece. As always it is enlightening to hear from an artist, what they were thinking and hoping to express through their work.

The Big Picture is on view at Art League of Long Island, Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery, 107 East Deer Park Road, Dix Hills, NY 11746. June 10-July 7, 2023

The six NAWA Signature Members have kindly shared their statement and work with all of us.

Karen Kirshner

Karen Kirshner

My painting, Windows to a New World is bright and playful, yet tells my story of experiencing great technological, socio-economic, cultural, world-order, and political changes while moving ahead and navigating through life.

The image of a face on the far left edge of the 48×36″ Acrylic painting is symbolic of me moving forward, looking back as the imagery that moves left within the painting is the embodiment of those experiences and feelings, memories, thoughts, and awareness.

Eileen Shaloum

Eileen Shaloum

“Interior with Cutouts ” is a blending of three of Matisse’s iconic paintings. “Woman in a Hat” is cutting papers for the collage “Les Betes de la Mer” while her ” Goldfish” watch her create. This is an homage to an artist I greatly admire and whose work has inspired and influenced my own work.

Mary Ahern

Mary Ahern

Flowers represent to me a microcosm of the universe. They need what we human beings need, food, water, climate, & more in order to survive. They, like us, need communities to help them in this quest. They rely on the bees and butterflies for fertilization, the worms and fungus to enhance their growth environments. As humans, we also build communities. We need farmers to grow our food, truckers to bring it to us and they need us to eat what they produce.

The garden displays the need for reliance on community in order to prosper. It offers an example to humans that to survive, a balance of many disparate entities needs to come into play. Each with its own mission, its own style and its own quest for survival. My large squared flowers boldly call the viewer to consider questions beyond the canvas.

Susan Rostan

Susan Rostan

My artwork “Marin”, takes an aesthetic perspective on the world around me. Color is my primary language in my exploration of intimate relationships and surroundings. My work explores the effects of color, shapes, textures, light, gesture, and movement within my aesthetic sensibility. With the essence of objects reduced to crucial elements, the resulting work is abstract, even when it includes suggestive responses to an object, a landscape, or a figure

Pamela Waldroup

Pamela Waldroup

Drawing is my most mindful creative act. My first love, it informs my photographic works with the same emphasis on bold contrasts, rhythmic textures and tightly cropped compositions. This large charcoal work, drawn from life and inspired by works by Henry Moore and Kathe Kollwitz, evokes deep contemplation that changes when viewed over time.

Constance Sloggatt Wolf

Constance Sloggatt Wolf

The physical subject of Sorrow is a convoluted dried up leaf which continually challenges my draught(wo)manship. In this rendition, the materials, black ink and spackle, and composition of leaf falling downward rather than dancing upward, imply a sense of loss or sadness. While I am an innately joyful human, I am acutely aware of the pain and suffering of people, the planet, countries and all living things. Sometimes we can act to directly relieve this suffering but otherwise we can tenderly express our compassion as in “Sorrow.”

NAWA is always on a mission to promote and empower our Member Artists. Let us know if you also have a cluster of NAWA members exhibiting together. We would love to promote your work and your group show.

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