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The gallery is in the West End at 424 Findlay Street in Cincinnati, Ohio. The exhibition opens on Thursday, September 28, with reception for the artists from 5-9 pm. Some artists in the exhibition will be present for the opening reception.

Your class can explore their adventurous side by looking outdoors for all their equipment, then express their artistic side when they’re ready to create their own masterpiece. It can help them develop planning and organisation skills. This resource also asks children to look at other artists’ work for inspiration, so they can learn how to research effectively.

BNG: Ash is a great wood to work with because of the distinct separation of summerwood and springwood. (see Ash wood below) Bryan Nash Gill was born and raised in the same rural, northwestern corner of Connecticut where he works as an artist today. Gill earned his Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from Tulane University in 1984 and his Masters of Fine Arts from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland four years later.

Gill died on May 17, 2013, "unexpectedly of natural causes" at the age of 52. He was married to Gina Gill (née Kiss) for 12 years, [6] and they had a son named Forest. [1] Bibliography [ edit ] Although Gill began his art career in glassblowing, ceramics and landscape drawing, he gradually turned to sculpture. [2] His early works were mainly abstract metal sculptures, but over time he increasingly began to work with wood instead of metal. [1] He briefly lived in New York City but returned to New Hartford, Connecticut, where he constructed a two-story studio adjoining his house in 1998 from wood timbered from his own property. [3] One of Gill's first works after he resettled in Connecticut was a sculpture composed of 42 upside-down hanging Christmas trees. Some of his other sculptures include Twins (2000), a bronze cast of two conjoined saplings, and Blow Down (2002), a skinned and flattened spruce tree mounted on a wall. [3]

Bryan Nash Gill.

The artist has attempted to draw the growth rings of trees. “You can’t do it better than nature,” he says. The nature and trees around him have always been an creational source for him, not only are they beautiful from the outside at but also when you try to investigate a look inside. Gill found that things were more beautiful and complex inside than what was visible from the outside. Pattern, texture, color. ‘You’ll never know what you’re missing if you don’t find some way to get inside and look’ and that brought him closer to the gentle giants we live among. Gill used recycled lumber, covered it with ink and paper and pressed and scratched the wood pattern on the paper with his fingers. When Gill is working with wood, he is not fighting it but he is going with it. He is printing over a period of time and you can see and feel the slight changes in the texture or mushrooms growing on it. For him, his process is very organic and it just comes to him while working. Its engagement is to understand his place in this world in this time, which he has to participate as a record of his connection to it. In his prints you can see the natural beauty of the earth and its plants and creatures and the natural unique fingerprints and stories they tell in their texture, if you just listen carefully. The footprint of the studio is about 2800 square feet and has a large garage door for moving large sculptures in and out and opens up to a big field where we can watch the wild life.

Hollycroft Invitational '96, 50/50, The Hollycroft Foundation, Ivorytown, CT, The Essex Art Gallery, Essex, CT BNG: Dendrology, the study of trees, a science that has given us historical data about our global environment and forever-changing climate. Looking closely at an individual tree’s structure and annual rings teach us about a particular species, the environment in which it grew and the occasional marks therein indicating invasive trauma. Bryan Nash Gill (November 3, 1961 – May 17, 2013) was an American artist who worked primarily with wood, in the form of relief prints and sculptures.If you think your class could use an added challenge, why not ask them to get specific? They can use the tree identification sheet as a helpful tool to determine exactly what leaves feature in their artwork. Gill has made prints of tree boles measuring from an inch to five feet in diameter. According to the artist, it is actually easier to determine a tree’s age from his prints than from trying to count the individual growth lines on the wood itself. Gill has received two Connecticut Individual Artist Grants, is a California Arts Council Fellow and in 2005 he received the Artist Resource Trust, from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation. He has shown his sculpture, drawings and installations at many exhibitions and galleries across the United States. Gill is the author of “ Woodcut“, (New York, 2012, Princeton Architectural Press)

The exhibition will feature works by Vahakn Arslanian, Stephen Berens, Jay Bolotin, Charles E. Burchfield, Joan Drew, Bryan Nash Gill, Su-Li Hung, Hilja Keading, Tadataka Kishino, Robert Lobe, Robert Longo, Constance Mallinson, B.J.O. Nordfeldt, Lucas Reiner, Greg Rose, Jane Alden Stevens, Katia Santibañez, Jim Wainscott, Jim Wainscott Jr., Peter Waite, and Michael Wilson. As part of this activity encourages children to look at the work of other artists, why not show your students these wonderful creators? They use natural resources for their work, or enjoy creating art inspired by nature. BNG: The notion of landscape is so rooted in culture. It is hard to get beyond the conventional ideas of landscape. So when I speak of,” beyond the landscape”, I am referring to your own landscape, or more simply, “it is whatever you imagine.” Land Art Challenge Cards - Print off these brilliant cards to set your children the task of collecting lots of resources. They can develop physical and mental skills while they explore nature and finish by creating even more artwork. Amazing artists who use nature for their art:

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Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Samuel S.T. Chen Art Center, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT BNG: There are two tools I use when rubbing the paper onto the inked surface. A Baren made of Hornbeam, (also known as Ironwood) and a Bamboo disc baren made with a Bamboo leaf and a recycled record player dust cleaner. I made both of these tools, which makes them special. Bryan Nash Gill, Paintings & Works on Paper, The Minor Memorial Community Studio and Gallery, Roxbury, CT Connecticut Trees: Works by Bryan Nash Gill & City Bench, Homer Babbidge Library, UCONN, Storrs, CT