2022 Exhibitions

January 28-March 3 2022   CURRENT STUDENT WORKS SHOW / Ani Garabedian, Juror 

“It was a pleasure and honor to have the opportunity to view so many pieces and such talent from the BBAC.  The breadth of skill and dedication displayed in the submissions was impressive and made the jurying process challenging.  I left feeling inspired by all who entered.  Because of the large number of exceptional works, I had difficult decisions to make.  The diverse work that was chosen for the exhibition demonstrates innovation and knowledge of formal techniques and processes.  Also displayed is a clear passion for making and expression.  Congratulations to all students and their teachers, especially for pushing through such a challenging year and still clearly producing such strong work.” ~ Ani Garabedian, Juror

This annual, favorite exhibit features artwork in a variety of media by BBAC adult students – more than 180 pieces. Here is a sampling (click each image for larger view). CLICK HERE for more images & awards.

Delight by Maureen Bolton

Coil Built Vase by Kathleen Connolly

Rufus by Susan Jacobs

Bronze Canyon by Gary Tolman

CLICK HERE for more images & complete list of artists in the exhibit.

Images by Annie VanGelderen

March 11-April 21 2022

Christine Welch – Nature of Things

“Our connection to nature is what guides and advances the cycle of my work. To understand our connection with the natural world I examine our internal imagery. Similarities of design, form and function are revealed by peeling away surfaces, inspecting interiors and comparing structures. I see the depth of natural beauty when fusing the human figure with natural forms; magnified, reduced, disassembled, and rebuilt. Using translucent mylar I simulate a skin or sheath enclosing natures beauty in the human form, while revealing subtle images of the natural world casting through the surface. By utilizing all sides of a two-dimensional medium, I can work the surfaces until a visual body of evidence is revealed. This exploration of our connection with nature exposes the notion that we are just one of nature’s many integral components, while we sustain our own unique design.” ~ Christine Welch

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Hive I by Christine Welch

Wasp nest paper, honeycomb nest & foil

Hive III by Christine Welch

Wasp nest paper, copy on mylar

Hive IV by Christine Welch

Wasp nest paper, honeycomb nest & foil

Vincent Castagnacci – Castagnacci: Quarry Echoes & Wanderings 

Vincent Castagnacci has lectured and published consistently in this country, in Rome at L’Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica and at the Gebaudelehre, Technische Universitat in Vienna. Castagnacci has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Michigan and abroad. Castagnacci’s abstract work in painting, printmaking and drawing has been centered in the principle of variational development. His work articulates a personal geometry and communicates a strong sense for tectonic values. 

placeholder by Vincent Castagnacci 

Acrylic

Gloucester: summer 97 by Vincent Castagnacci

Oil

Rome III.25.80-20.VII.12 by Vincent Castagnacci

Oil/chalk

Clara Nulty – Aftermath

Clara Nulty is an artist and educator based in Colorado. She holds an MFA in Painting from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI and a BA in Studio Arts from Carleton College in Northfield, MN. She has shown at galleries across the states including Colorado, New York, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Michigan. Recently, she has exhibited at Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, NY and the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Smith House in Bloomfield Hills, MI.

“These paintings bear moments of joy, grief, boredom, fear, anxiety, love, all of which have been sealed and buried beneath the surface. I am inspired by how mundane objects can trigger emotions or memories. One sensation can unearth multiple layers of experience and narrative. I build these paintings as manufactured palimpsests: altered surfaces which bear visible traces of an earlier form. My materials include pencil writing, erasing, pen drawing, found papers (legal, personal, or sentimental), pastes, adhesives, and burns, which are ultimately sealed beneath coats of watercolor and gouache. fascinating. After two years of shared global pandemic-related trauma, this bridge of emotional experience is more noticeable than ever. This collection of paintings represents the Aftermath of my own musings at the intersections of my personal and our shared emotional realities.”

Don’t Spend Your Birthday at the Branch by Clara Nulty

Watercolor, gouache, personal papers, adhesive, absorbent ground on stretched paper 

Sent by Clara Nulty

Watercolor, gouache, ink on stretched paper

Lost (detail) by Clara Nulty

Watercolor on stretched paper

Students of Anatoliy Shapiro

May 6-June 2 2022

Many Voices – The Fine Art of Craft 

Quarantena.A by Lynne Avadenka

Life in the Time by Karen Baldner

Floating Island by Danielle Bodine

Puppet Master by Sandra Cardew

At Home by Candace Compton Pappas

Nathan Grubich

Christine Hagedorn

Shroud by Sharon Harper

Woven Wall by Carole Harris

Amanda St. Hilaire

Under Armor by Sherry Moore

Finding #355 by Russ Orlando

Canberra Table by Cory Robinson

Attic by Dylan Strzynski

LT Chair by Colin Tury

Taylor Mazer – More Drawing in Ink

Students of Marat Paransky

Family by Laura Earle

Self Portrait With Fossil by Garth Glazier

Chambers by Susan Kwolek

Amuse-Bouche by Christa McDonald