Circle Art Programs
Claudia Sbrissa
Claudia Sbrissa’s work is involved with practices of drawing, printmaking, book arts, and sculpture. Her practice is informed by her encounter with the beauty and wonder of the everyday world. Sbrissa gives shape to familiar yet enigmatic experiences through her engagement with ideas, methods, and materials.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally including shows at ArtVenice Biennale, Italy; The Museum of Anthropology, Spain; Birmingham Museum, UK; AC Institute, NY; Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada; Museo Guillermo Perez Chiriboga, Ecuador; Herzen Galley, Russia; Islip Art Museum, NY; Kentler Drawing Space, NY; Kuppelhalle der Dresdner Bank, Germany; Rutgers University, NJ; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, MA; Newport Art Museum, RI; Proyecto ace, Argentina; Smack Mellon, NY; Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, MI.
Sbrissa has participated in residencies including Civita Institute, Italy, Giorgio Cini Foundation, Italy; Salem Art Works, NY; Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, NY; Women’s Studio Workshop, NY; I-Park, East Haddam, CT; Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, ME; and Malaspina Studio, Canada. Her work is in the collections of The Columbus Museum, The Dan Donovan Collection, Canada, Museum Guillermo Perez Chiribiga, Ecuador, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Italy and numerous private national and international collections. Sbrissa’s work has been written about in Sculpture Magazine, New York Times, Art in America, ARTNews, ArtForum, and many other publications.
Loop of Grace (NAT Art Residence 05/2023)
The gathering
Exalt
Opening their eyes to the kiss of a new day
The work of stars
Keepers of the light
Scattering seeds from heaven
Waking in the dawn of the morning
Growing from a dark place
Earth to seed and then to flower
According to its nature
On the shortness of life
A breeze moves through
They move in silence. They move in song
Close your eyes and listen with your heart
Playing in the wind
They sing and dance
Swinging, shivering, swaying
They greet me as a friend, bowing inviting me in
Every one is a poem
For her
The starry way
Mary’s gold
All is gift
For us
The generosity of Creation
Book Page Spreads
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Book as Sculpture Form
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I Turned Around and Saw a Meadow accordion book
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Among the Trees of the Forest (Traces - 04/2021)
Tree of Life
Encircling rings of wisdom contain the pattern of the cosmos
Fingerprints and starlight
The topography of Heaven
We stumble along on our earthly sojourn
Deep roots cradling clumsy feet
Sprawling branches teach us to reach upwards towards eternity
Let us be like the trees turning towards the Light
Yielding and abiding
Until we reach Home
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Exult
I bend down to caress the platform of wood
And I am lost in the winding rings, crags, and tunnels
A foreign landscape that I wish to know
Evidence of its once thriving being
My hands search across the wood, open and exposed
Tracing its patterns with my fingers
Feeling the life within
Not vanquished but only dormant
Hidden beneath the soil
Once a majestic canopy
Dancing joyously in the wind
Full of light and wisdom
Feeding us with freshness and morning dew
Now it rests close to the earth
Rot sets in
The fate of all creatures
And yet new life spring from the old
White blossoms ring its crown
It again dances.
Rubbings
Embossings
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