recent projects
2010 – 2011
Girls’ Club presents its first solo exhibition, Frances Trombly: Paintings, new works by the Miami fiber artist.
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Designer Karelle Levy addressed the public at Girls’ Club, part of our Artist in Action! series of behind-the-scenes talks and demonstrations by artists. Merging concept and fiber, Levy spoke about her international upbringing in France and Sweden, her roots in performance art, her discovery of hand- and then machine-knitting, and her forays into the fashion…
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…and the development of her work, which derives from her fascination with science and nature. Jen spoke to an audience of 25 folks who attended the first Artist in Action! event of 2011 on Sat Feb 19. Her limited edition 3D t-shirt was presented to the public, and is now available on our shop page.…
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Twenty-five avid needleworkers joined artist Frances Trombly at Girls’ Club on a sunny Saturday afternoon in February to gossip and compare notes on their projects. As a special treat, South Florida writers Denise Delgado, Jessica Machado, Yaddyra Peralta, and E. Parker Phillips read aloud to us from their works in poetry and prose. This was…
Read MoreSaturday, Feb 12th, 6pm – 12am The Bubble 810 NE 4th Avenue Ft. Lauderdale, FL Back for it’s 2nd year, Janette Valentine’s “The Trouble with Girls – All Female Art Revue” is gearing up for another stellar line-up of local female artists, vendors and performers. Being hosted once again by Ft. Lauderdale’s IWAN Bubble Art…
Read MoreBy CAROL VOGEL Believing that women are underrepresented on the walls of most art museums, Linda Lee Alter, a Philadelphia collector and artist, donated some 400 works by artists including Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Alice Neel, Nancy Spero and Louise Nevelson to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Ms. Alter, who started collecting in the…
Read MoreIs a blank canvas empty of art? See for yourself with a solo show from Miami’s Frances Trombly at the Girls’ Club in Fort Lauderdale (the first solo show at the relatively new exhibition space, made possible from a $10,000 Knight Arts Challenge grant). Called “Paintings,” the excellent, subtle show forces you to think about…
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Read MoreShifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism opens September 12, 2010 – on view thru January 30, 2011 The Jewish Museum 1109 5th Ave at 92nd St New York NY 10128 Feminist challenges to creative and institutional limits have been widely influential in art since the 1960s. Much of the feminist movement aimed to overcome the…
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Juried exhibition to be held in the month of October, 2010. Jurors: art dealer Richard Arregui (from Fredric Snitzer Gallery) Lou Anne Colodny (artist and director of the late CoCa museum and Mathew Snitzer, art historian. All work will be anonymous to jurors. Send e-mail with five pics of your work attached or a URL…
Read MoreArtists are invited to apply for the 9th FEMALE ARTIST’S ART ANNUAL Online Global Art Annual. The competition is open to all artists and is judged solely by visuals submitted online or attachment. All accepted works that pass the first screening will entry into competition and will be exhibited 12 months beginning with the date…
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2010
Organized by Girls’ Club in collaboration with Olin Gallery at Kenyon College, Spreading the Influence includes contemporary works of art from the collection of Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz, and recent work by Studio Art faculty at Kenyon College and members of the community.
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21 Days in Santa Fe Carolyn Swiszcz & Wilson Webb Video, Original Song by Carolyn Swiszcz, produced by Anonymous Duration: 2 minutes 2 seconds Courtesy of the artists Carolyn Swiszcz’s paintings of mostly B-grade 1970’s architecture, from faded strip malls to corporate headquarters, have been exhibited widely. She recently began making videos as a way…
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Migration of the Golden Toad Part 1 Part 2 Duration: 1 minute Believed to be one of the first casualties of global warming, the Golden Toad of Costa Rica was rumored extinct by the late 1980’s. Inhabiting the Monteverde cloud forests, many species in addition to the toad began disappearing due to a rise in…
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2009 – 2010
Set to Manual is an exhibition of works in diverse media by artists from Girls’ Club collection and beyond, characterized by intensive hand manufacture.
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Artist Karen Snouffer contributes a multimedia work, “My Chaos“, combining drawing, performance and digital animation to the Girls’ Club exhibition Under the Influence. Karen Snouffer, a mixed media artist, has created installations, performances, paintings and works on paper for over 20 years. Selected exhibitions have been at Fashion Moda, Bronx, New York; The Work Space,…
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Girls’ Club Creative Director responds to works by New York painter Suzanne McClelland that in a mid-career retrospective exhibition at the Orlando Museum of Art. McClelland’s work was included in the Girls’ Club exhibition Under the Influence. Read the text here.
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Artist and writer – currently Girls’ Club Writer-in-Residence – Denise Delgado created an interactive web-based project for Girls’ Club in conjunction with the exhibition Under the Influence. Check it out here. Denise Delgado is a Miami-based writer, artist and curator. She has read, exhibited and performed her multidisciplinary work at events and venues including the Miami Book…
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A companion essay to the Girls’ Club exhibition Under the Influence by Girls’ Club Creative Director Michelle Weinberg. Read it here.
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“Friends and colleagues who really know me can tell you that for many years my principal mantra has been a single word, “collaboration.” So begins Hollywood Art and Culture Center curator and artworld polymath Jane Hart’s narrative, written on the occasion of her co-curating Girls’ Club’s exhibition Under the Influence. Read the rest here. image…
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Miami’s own Elisa Turner, former art critic for The Miami Herald, currently blogging for ArtCircuits.com, contributed this essay for Girls’ Club exhibition Under the Influence. In her article, she ties together strides made by women in politics, art, fashion and her personal life. A Fabulous and Frightful Crossroads
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On the occasion of Girls’ Club exhibition Under the Influence, Claire Breukel, formerly Director of Locust Projects alternative space in Miami, interviewed artists Frances Trombly, Kerry Phillips and Elisabeth Condon, whose work is included in the exhibition – read their remarks, compiled in a round robin fashion and combined into one document with illustrations. Breukel…
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2008 – 2009
Girls’ Club’s second annual exhibition, Under the Influence, explores the phenomenon of cross-pollination that occurs at every level of arts production today.
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A photo session by Provincetown, MA artist Jenny Humphreys layers identities and histories. Natural History augments the Girls’ Club exhibition Talking Heads. Learn more about Jenny Humphreys here.
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Caperucita Roja is a project by artist Eugenia Vargas Pereira, currently residing in Chile, where she was born. The series of photos, made in collaboration with performance artist Carmen Paz Venegas, stalk a young woman dressed in red.
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2007 – 2008
Girls’ Club’s inaugural exhibition Talking Heads, developed organically out of the collection of Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz, reveals the passion behind each acquisition, ultimately expressing the personality of its owners.
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