The Wagner College Gallery will host an exhibition, “Figure in Motion,” containing 13 large panel paintings by adjunct art professor Griselda Healy. The exhibition will run from Tuesday, Oct. 2 through Saturday, Oct. 27. A gallery reception and dance performance is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 13 from 4 to 6 p.m. The exhibition and the reception are free, and the public is invited.
“Figure in Motion” is a set of large paintings of dancers in motion.
“These 13 panel paintings make up one work,” Healy says. “They were made after many drawing sessions with model dancers in my studio.”
The models were part of Laurie De Vito's company of dancers.
“The dancers have come from all parts of the world to dance in New York City,” Healy says. “They meet weekly to rehearse at DNA Dance Studios downtown on Chambers Street near the courts and City Hall. The context of these panel paintings make reference to the monumental architecture, bridges, parks, river, sea and sky in this part of the city.”
Dance is such a critical component of “Figure in Motion” that the Oct. 13 gallery reception will include a dance, “Struggle,” performed by Mika Yanagihara, choreographed by Laurie De Vito.
A Long Island native, Griselda Healy studied at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League. In 1997, Healy joined the Visual Arts Studio Program at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center on Staten Island where, she says, her serious work began. She recently relocated to Manhattan, and she maintains a studio in Brooklyn affiliated with the New York Artists and Residency Studios Foundation.
“Figure in Motion” is Griselda Healy’s second solo exhibition in the Wagner College Gallery. Her earlier show, “Portrait and Figure Paintings,” was on display in early 2009.
For more about Griselda Healy, visit the artist’s website.
The “Figure in Motion” exhibition was created with the fiscal support of the New York Foundation for the Arts.
READ MICHAEL FRESSOLA'S preview
of "Figure in Motion" from
the Sunday, Sept. 30 issue
of the Staten Island Advance.
The Wagner College Gallery is located in the Union building on the campus of Wagner College, 631 Howard Ave., in the Grymes Hill neighborhood of Staten Island. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., with extended hours on Thursday until 7 p.m. The gallery is closed on Sunday and Monday, except for specially scheduled events. For more information, call the Wagner College Art Department at 718-390-3192, or email gallery director Bill Murphy at bmurphy@wagner.edu.