Press Release – Here Today – Athens, Rome, Paris, London, New York

Write on a Wall!

Wendy Artin, NYC, big Tattered wall, watercolor, 26″x41″, 2017

Wendy Artin, Crop from NYC, big Tattered wall, watercolor 26″x41″, 2017

Wendy Artin, cropped detail from NYC, Life Drawing Wall, watercolor 16″x23″, 2017

Wendy Artin, NYC, Muhammed John & Yoko, 26″x41″, 2017

Wendy Artin, Athens Madonna, 10″x14″, 2017

WENDY ARTIN – HERE TODAY

Wendy Artin, NYC Marilyn Innocent, 26″ x 41″, watercolor on paper, 2017

Wendy Artin, Rome, Cinema America 2017, photo by Lily Artin Boschin

Wendy Artin, NYC Muhammed Ali, John and Yoko, 26”x41”, 2017

Wendy Artin, London Blue Amy, 9”x12”, 2017

Wendy Artin, Big Pile of Wall Paintings, June 2017

Wendy Artin, Paris On Danse, 9”x12” – Athens Motorcycle, 9”x12” – Rome Cinema America, 7”x10″, 2017

Wendy Artin, Oleander, 7”x9”, 2016

Wendy Artin, Palmyra, Arion Journal of Humanities and the Classics, Boston University, Spring/Summer 2017

FINISSAGE, FROM THE ROMAN STUDIO

This is a picture of Carolyn’s friend Helen, with my paintings of Laura

Andrew Kohji Taylor

FROM THE ROMAN STUDIO

Two life-sized figure paintings

Paintbrushes

Rocks, Paper, Memory: Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures

An American artist who lives in Rome, Wendy Artin has been working for over a decade on a series of watercolor paintings of ancient Greek and Roman sculptures and related subjects. This exhibition will feature a selection of her paintings, not only images of ancient sculptures and landscapes but also contemporary life studies. The paintings will be set in dialogue with objects drawn from the Kelsey’s collections, including works of Greek art inspired by Egyptian precedents and examples of the same figure types seen in Artin’s work (such as Aphrodite rising from the sea). Wendy Artin is one of a long line of artists who draw inspiration from antiquity. Artin’s visually stunning paintings offer fresh and arresting ways of looking at ancient sculptures and buildings. Image: Wendy Artin, Phrygian Cap (Parthenon north frieze slab XXXVII), 2010, watercolor on cotton Khadi paper, 103 x 130 cm

The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Lively Conversation between director and curator Christopher Ratté and Wendy Artin

Stone from Delphi, collection of classically themed poetry by Seamus Heaney, published by Arion Press

Stone From Delphi, Boston

This is the beautiful and haunting face of Asclepius, who represents healing and hope.

Wall featuring a large painting of Actaeon, attacked by his own hounds after being transformed into a stag by the goddess Diana when she caught him admiring her during her bath.

The Maenads or Bacchantes were a favorite subject for the sculptors of Antiquity, with swirling robes that suggest the movement of their wild drunken dances.

Paul S. Diette and Wendy Artin in front of watercolor of Antinoüs during the opening of Stone From Delphi

Jean and Mark Patiky at opening of Stone From Delphi

This bas-relief depicts a procession with Two Satyrs and a Maenad who is playing a drum.

Wendy Artin with bicycle painter Taliah Lempert, whose paintings can be seen at bicycle paintings.com

gallery view of Roman landscapes and Aphrodite

gallery view with Mosaic watercolors

With the Maenad-Bacchante

gallery view with Temple, Hermes, Antinoüs

Russ Gerard of Gurari Collections and Wendy Artin

Thank you to Carolyn Artin for the great photos!

Stone From Delphi, Rome

Corner showing paintings of Hermes and of two Satyrs with Dancing Maenad

Wendy Artin and Adele Chatfield-Taylor at the exhibition

Planning out the exhibition, with a mock-up of Stefano’s beautiful grey walls

Seamus Heaney, Wendy Artin, Andrew Hoyem (photo by Diana Ketcham)

Wendy Artin answering questions in front of Aphrodite Rising

Seamus Heaney is presented to a group of aspiring poets

Orpheus with his Lyre, enchanting all of the animals

Seamus Heaney and Wendy Artin

Corner view of the American Academy Gallery, featuring Dancing Maenad and Temple of Zeus at Delphi

Entrance to the American Academy in Rome (photo by Henry Crapo)

Bruno, Aphrodite, Wendy, Karl

Thanks to Lexi Eberspacher and Stefano Silva for their excellent work on the show!

Jean Artin, Bruno Boschin, Seamus Heaney and Wendy Artin at the elegant American Academy dinner