September 21, 2024
Concord, MA
Process & Time at Breezeway Projects, Concord, MA September 21, 2024
Works by Joetta Maue and Nadya Volicer and a collaborative wall installation
May 3 - June 2, 2024
Knoxville, TN
Questioning Home at the Knoxville Gallery of Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, TN May 3 - June 2, 2024
The work on view represents the open and generous spirit of the home that Arrowmont creates for artists and craftspeople while simultaneously asking deep questions about the future, past and present of what home means to us individually and collectively in the present time. The exhibiting artists are all past attendees from the Textiles and Wood studios of the invitational Pentaculum Artist Residency held on the Gatlinburg campus every winter and spring.
Exhibiting artists include: Beizar Aradini, Morgan Hill, Stacy Isenbarger, Colleen Toutant Merrill, Brooks Harris Stevens, Mark Tan, Nadya Volicer & Kimberley Winkle
About the Curator: Joetta Maue is an artist and educator who has served as the Spring coordinator for the Textiles/Fiber studio for the Pentaculum Residency since 2022. Maue lives and works in New England and is an established artist, arts writer and independent curator.
January 6 - February 4, 2024
Lexington, MA
Exploring the World of Fibers 2024 at Lexington Center for the Arts and Crafts Jan 6 - Feb 4, 2024
Exhibit was juried by Jennifer Swope, David and Roberta Logie Curator of Textiles at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
June 27 - August 11, 2023
Portland, ME
Memories of Water in the Window Gallery at SPACE 538, Portland, ME on view June 27 - August 11, 2023
April 6 - April 30, 2023
Boston, MA
Tala AbuNuwar, Bayda Asbridge and Nadya Volicer at the Fountain Street Annex, April 6 - April 30, 2023
The 2023 Fountain Street Annex exhibition series opened with three artists whose work is characterized by their expression of the intangible and the use of texture in their presentations. Tala AbuNuwar uses mixed media to express her fascination with the mystic world of Sufism. Bayda Asbridge showcases her fascination with nature in her sculptures and paintings. Nadya Volicer uses fabric and family photographs to explore the uncertainty of memory.
April 23rd - May 20th, 2023
Brooklyn, NY
Boundless at KUNSTRAUM April 23rd - May 20th, 2023
Curated by Christina Massey, KUNSTRAUM Curator-in-Residence 2023-24
Carlos de la Sancha, Jacquelyn Strycker, Nadya Volicer, Olivia Springberg, Zhenyuan Shi
The Boundless exhibition at KUNSTRAUM LLC in Brooklyn, NY features the work of five contemporary artists: Carlos de la Sancha, Jacquelyn Strycker, Nadya Volicer, Olivia Springberg and Zhenyuan Shi. Through experimental adaptations of mediums ranging from photography, fiber arts, painting to printmaking, these artists explore the physical and emotional aspects of boundaries and limitations. While art is often seen as a boundaryless and free endeavor, personal boundaries may be limited by social constraints due to culture, religion, environment, or physical ability and space.
If we consider our memories as another kind of barrier, in the fabric works of Nadya Volicer we see moments of a couple posing for a photograph, overlaid with sewn lines that change and confuse their positions within the artwork. As in a memory, some moments of the images are clearer than others, others blurred and superimposed until the sensation represents the idea or feeling of a memory rather than the distinction of a memory itself. Volicer uses old family photographs as source material, drawing on those where her own memory has faded and she has little or no recollection of the documented event. Exploring these moments, she examines the uncertainty of memory and the limitless ways in which we can attempt to understand the passage of time.
Artworks in Boundless were selected from KUNSTRAUM’s annual open call by the KUNSTRAUM team and curated by the 2023-24 Curator-in-Residence, Christina Massey.
March 18 - March 25, 2023
Arlington, MA
In The Fourth Trimester at the Barn in Arlington, MA March 18 - March 25, 2023
This was a group show curated by Eva Zasloff in celebration of her medical practice, Tova Health, which takes care of new moms and newborns in the first few months of life. The show includes work about the newborn and postpartum moment by Emily Auchincloss, Cicely Carew, Maya Erdelyi, Kate Holcomb Hale, Katrine Hildebrandt, Alison Judd, Crystalle Lacouture, Joetta Maue, Meghan Morris, Nadya Volicer and Eva Zasloff.
February 13 - March 15, 2023
Haverhill, MA
Denature at the Linda Hummel-Shea ArtSpace at Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, MA February 13 - March 15, 2023
Natural imagery collides with the fantastical and technological in “Denature”, a group show of artwork by Carla Fisher Schwartz, Yuko Oda, Michelle Samour, and Nadya Volicer, curated by Michelle Carter. In drawings, reliefs, and installations, carefully observed natural forms become unfamiliar as they deteriorate, transform, and explode - or even reveal themselves to be fakes. Meditations on beauty merge with complex feelings about the future, like apprehension about irrevocable environmental loss, or excitement about potential adaptations and new forms. All four artists work in both two dimensions and three dimensions, and precise, intricate hands-on processes are central to their methods. Techniques include papermaking, pen and ink drawing, digital printing, 3D printing, and animation.
Nadya Volicer’s Oak and Magnolia series are like eulogies for trees. Created from handmade paper that incorporates charcoal, ink, and petals, the reliefs’ somber tones invoke petrified stumps, stains, and voids. Her paper pulp sculpture Now What more overtly references humans’ presence in the natural world: upon close examination, a brown tree stump topped with white fungus reveals that it is composed of countless tiny human forms.
First impressions also prove somewhat deceptive in the work of Michelle Samour and Carla Fisher Schwartz. Stylistically, Samour’s Adaptation series, drawn in brown ink with a quill pen, references early scientific illustration. But the images take a turn for the surreal, as wires sprout from mushrooms and from the feet of birds. Based on observations of the exterior and interior structures of plants of the Haute Savoie region, the drawings are visual interpretations of how plants and birds are being forced to adapt or are dying due to climate change.
In Undeliverables, Carla Fisher Schwartz displays rock-like sculptures in a grid of white shelves, as one might view specimens in a museum. However, her reference is to something absent: lost landmasses. Furthering the themes of artificiality and fakery, the images that wrap around the polygonal forms are taken from open-source textures depicting natural surfaces such as rock and ice, intended for use in building simulated environments in “sandbox” video games, such as Minecraft.
Yuko Oda’s digital sculpture installation Əvolution also explores the replication of natural forms by synthetic materials. Following an imagined narrative, dew drops made from clear resin lift off the surface of leaves, molting into amorphous forms that transition incrementally into realistic leaf structures. Transformation is explosive in Oda’s Winged Detonations drawings, in which acute pressures on the environment tear apart hummingbirds and send iridescent wings flying.
Explosions notwithstanding, softness and stillness permeate much of the work in Denature. The current culture can feel saturated with apocalyptic narratives about environmental catastrophe and out-of-control technological growth. In contrast, these four artists respond with quiet moments of contemplation. Rock specimens present themselves in orderly rows, trees are memorialized in subtle circles, tiny strokes of ink coalesce into delicate hybrid creatures, and mysterious leaf-like forms rise in a graceful arc. As disorienting as change may be, there is something reassuring about how each artist imposes order in her world.
February 4th - March 5th, 2023
Newton, MA
This Is America at Nearby Gallery, Newton, MA February 4th - March 5th, 2023
This Is America, curated by Jamaal Eversley, is about showing the good, bad, beautiful and ugly of America. In a nutshell the contradiction of America using these juxtapositions. Also, the purpose of This Is America is to show that unity through diversity of voice and thought brings success to the whole. Unity comes by understanding differences and working through them for a win win. Collectively, we are going to show what winning looks like. This is the People’s Art Movement. This Is America!
Sponsored by North Bridge Crew, Needham Cultural Council, Newton Cultural Council and Newton Community Pride
Jamaal Eversley, Terence Musto, Duke Delpe, Madeleine Lord, Fernando Fula, Alex Martinez, Recka, Janet Kawada, Hawi Mijena, Mel Nwokocha, Nick Paradis, Sophie Pearson, Rebecca McGee Tuck, Radiant Jasmin, Julia Cseko, Bette Ann Libby, Nadya Volicer, Sarah Alexander, Natiana Fonseca, Kathy McGinn, Chelsea Bradway, Andrew Fish, Flor Delgadillo, Stephanie Osser, Caron Tabb, Don West, Katie Lee Mansfield, Cameron Barker, Marla McLeod
September 15 - October 29, 2022
Cohasset, MA
Partners in Art at the South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA September 15 - October 29, 2022
Curated by Anthony Pilla, this exhibition explored the inspiration and creative influences artists take from fellow artists, especially when those fellow artists are life partners in relationships that are inherently built on trust and collaboration. Featuring works by four couples – Anthony Pilla and Dorothy Amore Pilla; Lorraine Sullivan and Phil Young; John Mahoney and Virginia Mahoney; and Nadya Volicer and Peat Duggins – Partners in Art posed broad questions such as: “Where do ideas come from?” “How are artists affected by the world around them?” “How are they influenced by other artists, especially partners?” As Pilla posits, “certainly, there are conscious factors that may be quite apparent, but what about the unconscious response that comes into play in the creation of one’s artwork? Influential factors may be past or present, may be in contra response to a feeling, thought, or intuition shared with one’s partner. Whatever the response, the resolution may be completely unpredictable. It is that experience that energizes the sense of mystery in the process.” Audiences are invited to explore the mystery!
