Gallery Artists at U of M Hospitals' Gifts of Art program

Gallery artists Norma Penchansky-Glasser and Valerie Mann have work at University of Michigan Hospitals right now as a part of the Gifts of Art program. Penchansky-Glasser's bronze figures and Mann's Evening Bags for the Midwestern Woman Series will be on display through June 13, 2011. Find out the details: http://www.med.umich.edu/goa/exhibits.htm

Norma Penchansky-Glasser at Midtown Gallery

WSG member Norma Penchansky-Glasser has work in a show at Midtown Gallery, Kalamazoo, MI. Congrats, Norma! The show is up through March 26, 2011. Check out the invitation and visit their website:
http://www.midtownkalamazoo.com/?page=shop/exhibit&category_id=043fa8d0889f4819c4ec799f83d95fd5&PHPSESSID=4b70432a478a8bb82d7a965d4cddaa73

WSG artists exhibit in Birmingham, MI

WSG Gallery presents gallery artists - Norma Penchansky-Glasser and Nora Venturelli in: Collective 7 - Trace Point at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center 1516 S. Cranbrook Rd, Birmingham, MI 48009 Kantgias/DeSalle Gallery January 7 - February 4, 2011 Opening Reception: January 7 6-8 PM Suzanne Boissy Ruth Henkel Molly Marie Nuzzo Norma Penchansky-Glasser Nora Venturelli Barbara Elizabeth Williams Fran Wolok

BBAC Gallery Hours: Mon-Thurs, 9a - 6p, Fri-Sat, 9a-5p, second Sundays, 1-4p free and open to the public ___________________________________________________________________________________________

Clothesline Show

WSG has a lot going on! Our artists returned from Tubingen, Germany from the Sister City Exchange last week. Our German hosts were most gracious and the Kunsthalle (city art gallery) is a gorgeous space for the show of our work "Ann Arbor Artists in Tubingen".

Also, our Clothesline Show is up for another week - through July 24! There are many smaller, more affordable pieces hung throughout the gallery on clotheslines for a fun shopping experience in celebration of the Ann Arbor Art Fairs!

And lastly, gallery artists Alvey Jones and Barbara Brown are doing an Artists' Residency at Hollander's in Kerrytown through July 24 - STOP IN AND SEE THEM! Hours for the residency are 10 - 5 weekdays.

Norma Penchansky-Glasser - Inside and Outside the Box

Step into WSG gallery's entry space and you'll be welcomed by a group of bronze sculptures first. You may stop, wait for them to draw a breath, lift an arm, flex on the ball of a foot, make their next move....

Norma has studied the figure as her primary inspiration, capturing each dancer at the point just before the next gesture - at a point that leaves the viewer anticipating what comes next.



On the walls, you'll see Norma's spectacular drawings. You can see the artist's work process in these pieces, as she sees the figure, records in on paper, imagines the figure's next movement, records it on top of the first drawing, and so on. The drawings have such a poetic nature - meditative, really. The black and gray lines are so elegant against the white paper!




A slight departure from Norma's bronze work and framed drawings are her wall-hung box pieces. I say slight, because her drawings and sculpture provide a stepping-off point for these little pieces. Norma starts with an antique sewing drawer and uses drawings of her dancers, beautiful papers, clay objects and parts from sculptures to create these assemblage pieces.

"Dance With Me", above, is one such piece. The box pieces provide the artist with more immediate satisfaction than the bronze pieces - a nice break from the labor-intensive process of sculpting, moulding, casting in wax, investing in ceramic shell, pouring bronze, chasing, patinating and mounting on a base (WHEW!). Working in several different veins, an artist can feed her soul, invigorate her thought process and, ultimately, discover things that translate among the media she explores.

Norma Penchansky-Glasser's work will be featured from May 18 through June 27, 2010. Gallery hours are Tu, Wed noon to 6, Th - Sat, noon - 10 pm and Sunday noon - 5pm. WSG gallery is located at 306 S. Main St., Ann Arbor.