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#106 Women of the World Click image to view
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#1106 Fertility Click image to view
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As a sculptor, I create wood assemblage constructions, continually striving to bring the two-dimensional painted stroke out into our three-dimensional space. Through layering of my material, volume is created that allows the viewer to participate in the emotional content of my work. My content deals with the multiple feelings which we experience daily, as they, too, are layered down within us. Whether they are uplifting, fragile, celebratory, cautious or energized, we as humans are continually balancing our emotions, in our everyday life. The gesture of my strokes captures the emotional qualities of life. my work suggests an intimacy and tactile quality. Wood by nature is a hard and heavy material, and after I have transformed it to satisfy my content, it becomes light and airy. This juxtaposition is one that I enjoy. I work with thin plywood that I bend and manipulate and then throw out into space, giving one the feeling of the painted stroke in space. My background of painting and drawing is solid in a traditional sense, but personally, I've taken the gesture of the human figure and created more intimate shapes. My new sculptures are a tribute to women: their strength, their feminine qualities, their caring nature. Women nourish and bring forth new life. They embrace the future generations of the world. Although I juxtapose representational with the abstract, it is abstraction that remains my most dominant mission in conveying these feelings. The human emotions of womanhood are a strong presence, in the intimate shapes that I have created. I use wood as a natural fiber, in that it represents the history of the time, just as do women. I bend and caress the wood producing sensitive shapes that are personal to me. My exhibition career spans 20 solo exhibitions throughout the United States, and numerous, selected juried shows, as well. In 2002, I was invited to have my first museum exhibition at the midland Center for the Arts, in Midland, Michigan. In addition, I gave a slide presentation and gallery talk about the development of my line. My affiliation with Walter Wickiser Gallery in Chelsea, New York City has been long standing. Regardless of one's own spoken language, my personal visual language of life's emotions, can be understood by all, through dialogue and reflection of the painted stroke in space. News Release Manspeizer's sculpture "Tsunami Women Weep" won Best in Show at Iona College, in 2007. Her outdoor sculpture "Harmony" has recently been added to the permanent collection of the Vero Beach Museum of Art, in Florida. Ms. Manspeizer was awarded a solo exhibition at the Bendheim Gallery at the Greenwich Arts Council, in Greenwich, CT, from March-April 2007. The curator for GE in Fairfield, CT. recently selected 5 pieces of sculpture for the World Headquarters for a six month exhibition. Her sculpture, A Symphony, was awarded an honorable mention in the Best of New York Artists, publication, 2006.
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Education: 1966-1968 1966 1962 Selected Exhibitions: 2007-08 Solo Exhibition NYU Broadway Windows NY NY 2006 Two Person Exhibition Walter Wickiser Gallery NY NY 2005-2006 Winter Solstice IV The Studio/The Arts Exchange Armonk/White Plains NY Curator: Tedd Stratis 2005 Painting as Sculpture Silvermine Guild Arts Center New Canaan CT 2004 Members Exhibition Art Students League New York NY 2004 Before and After, Imaging Public Art The Arts Exchange Curator: Rosemary Cohane Erpf White Plains NY 2004 NAWA Poughkeepsie Art Museum Poughkeepsie NY 2003 Walter Wickiser Gallery New York NY 2003 Sculpture The White Gallery Lakeville CT 2002 2001 1995 Broadway Windows New York University New York NY 1992 Juried Exhibitions: 2005-2006 Haddad/Lascano Gallery Gt. Barrington MA 2005-2006 GE World Headquarters Fairfield CT 2004 Katonah Museum Artists Assoc. at Westchester Community College Valhalla NY Juror: Dede Young, 2003 Of Myth and Metaphor Walter Wickiser Gallery New York NY 2003 The Drawing Show Westchester Arts Council White Plains NY 2003 Memory & Place CCNY Biennial New York NY 2003 Three Sculptors Hernaine/Miranda Portchester NY 2001 2001 2001 2001 From the Painter's
Perspective: An Exhibition of Sculpture Armonk NY Awards and Recognitions: Juror for the Bergen County
2005
Center for Lifetime Study Lecture-Marist College New York 2002 New York Times/Westchester Sec. Footlights/ Roberta Hershenson 2002 Art Students League Artist Panel Invitational
White Plains NY 2001 N.Y.S. Council on the Arts AA Grants Juror 2001 2000 1995/96 Marquis, Who's Who of American Women, 19th edition 1995/96 Marquis, Who's Who of American Women, 21st edition Permanent Collections: 2006 Vero Beach Museum of Art Vero Beach FL 2006 Zimmerli Art Museum 2002 Chappaqua Library Chappaqua NY
1996 Outdoor Sculpture Garden Stamford CT 1975 Elmsford NY Numerous Office and Private Collections
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