Gallery Ehva features contemporary Provincetown art and offers 2-week long off-season residency program. To celebrate it's 5th year Gallery is adding new year-round program Art Haven Workshops. Spring Hours Thur-Sunday
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Ewa Nogiec, Director
508 487-0011
art@galleryehva.com
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Artists represented by Gallery Ehva:
Stephen Aiken
Tracey Anderson
Barbara Cohen
Didier Corallo
Rob DuToit
Wendelin Glatzel
Irén Handschuh
Alicia Henry
Ken Horii
Jenny Humphreys
René Lamadrid
Susan Lyman
Ewa Nogiec
Janice Redman
Christina Schlesinger
Richard E. Smith
Rob Westerberg
Cyndi Wish
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Guest Artists at Gallery Ehva:
Midge Battelle
Donna Dodson
Peter Madden
Efrem Marder
Jane Paradise
David Paulson
Dominique Pecce
Miriam Laufer
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Gallery Ehva + Art Heaven Workshops
74 Shank Painter Road
P.O. Box 1426
Provincetown, MA 02657
508 487-0011
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Nathalie Ferrier
An Informal Response to Land, Nature and Anatomy: Arteries and veins permeate and bond our whole body resembling vines, roots and life sustaining trees. Organs nest among branches and roots like secret pockets.
-- Nathalie Ferrier
"Suspended"
Suspended: Installation by Gallery Ehva artist Nathalie Ferrier at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, curated by Frank Vasello, October 28, 2011-January 15, 2012.
Ferrier works with leaves, cells, and the language of scientific illustration- stitching together her pieces with traditional domestic handicraft. Her work explores the interplay between organism and culture, and and the biomorphic form within her installation utilize non-traditional materials. Gallery Conversation with artist Nathalie Ferrier, Saturday, January 14, 1pm
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Nathalie Ferrier, Ex-voto series, Old Dream Landscape (Brain), ink, cotton thread, canvas, 10 x 10, 2011
Nathalie Ferrier, Ex-voto series, Dream Fruit-half (Heart and Lungs), ink, cotton thread, canvas, 10 x 10, 2011
Nathalie Ferrier, Heart and Lungs, graphite, fabric, masking tape, cotton thread, wood, dog ball, 30 h x 27 w x 3 d, 2010
Nathalie Ferrier, Fire #1 (detail), graphite,electric tape, cotton thread, yarm, fibers, 32.5 h x 19 w x 3 d, 2010
Nathalie Ferrier, Stomach (detail), graphite, fabric, masking tape, cotton thread, dog ball, 30 h x 27 w x 3 d, 2010
Nathalie Ferrier, untitled: an informal response to land, nature, and anatomy, 54" x 14' (detail)
Nathalie Ferrier, untitled: an informal response to land, nature, and anatomy, 54" x 14' (detail)
Nathalie Ferrier, untitled: an informal response to land, nature, and anatomy, 54" x 14' (detail)
Nathalie Ferrier, untitled: an informal response to land, nature, and anatomy, 54" x 14' (detail)
Nathalie Ferrier, untitled: an informal response to land, nature, and anatomy, 54" x 14'
2011 Exhibition Artist Statement
The works presented in this show are a tribute, an offering to the body and nature.
Many layers of tissues line the inside of our bodies and are evocative of light dresses and delicate sweaters worn one on top of the other. Arteries and veins permeate and bond our whole body resembling vines, roots and life sustaining trees. Organs nest among branches and roots like secret pockets.
Calling upon my prior career as a couture clothing designer, I am interpreting sections of the body, organs, articulations, bones, muscles, and tissues by applying processes that employ various techniques of sewing, crocheting, embroidering, knitting. The presence of wool, fibers, threads and fabrics intertwining with elements from nature like dry leaves, tree roots and foliage, exhibit a sustained but fragile intimate world.
I salvage materials and objects found around the house - plastics, containers or wrappers, duct and electric tapes, wood, trash, paint etc. The choice of using daily objects gives the work an ironic critical stance and offers a more informal approach to the complexities of the body's anatomy. For instance, in Untitled: Digesting, part of an old dog ball recycled into the piece, is crocheted and turned into a spleen).
-- Nathalie Ferrier
Nathalie Ferrier Biography
Nathalie Ferrier lives and works on Cape Cod, MA. She received a MFA from MASSART. She is a faculty member at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Ferrier who is French was at first a fashion designer/ modeliste based in Paris making clothes for Haute Couture and for luxury Ready to Wear. She also ran her own clothing line, which was sold at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City.
Her artwork has been shown in galleries and art fairs in New York, Miami Art Basel, and Massachusetts and on the Cape. Her work over the years has been included in several exhibitions at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. She will be an artist in residence at Cape Cod Community College in September 2011 and will have a solo exhibition following her residency there. At the end of October 2011, Ferrier's work will be displayed in a large installation at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum starting in October 2011 through January 2012.
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