"Behold the Moon" at the Hammond Museum

I will be exhibiting two new wall installations. Image detail below.

Mimi Czajka Graminski Image: "Waning" detail,  fabric, wool 

''Behold the Moon'' an art exhibit to celebrate the Hammond Museum's 50th Anniversary of Moon Viewing - curated by Bibiana Huang Matheis.

 

 Opening Reception: Saturday June 11, 1-3PM

 Exhibit: June 8 – September 17, 2016

 Hours: Wednesday to Saturday: 12 Noon to 4PM

 Location: Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden

                   28 Deveau Road, North Salem, NY.

 Museum Tel: 914 - 669 - 5033    www.hammondmuseum.org,

 

North Salem NY - This year Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden is celebrating its 50th anniversary of Moon Viewing. The Annual Moon Viewing Concert (August 20) at the Hammond Museum is a tradition that was begun by the founder Natalie Hays Hammond in 1966. The elegant custom of eating, drinking, listening to music, and writing poetry while watching the moon, has been performed devotedly since the Tang Dynasty in China (618-906) and started in Japan in the middle of the Hein period (794-1192). To commemorate the event the Hammond Museum has asked Bibiana Huang Matheis to curate an art exhibit “Behold the Moon” to accompany the celebration.  The Exhibit will be on view for 3 months (June 8 to September 17). Bibiana Huang Matheis has invited 13 well established artists from the Hudson Valley, Connecticut, Long Island and NewYork City to participate in this multimedia art show. Included in this contemporary art exhibit, to honor an ancient tradition, are 8 site-specific installations. Artists are Carla Goldberg, Chuck von Schmidt, Eda, Eleni Smolen, Elizabeth MacDonald, Harry White, Illse Schreiber-Noll, Karen Fitzgerald, Leslie Pelino, Lisa Breznak, Lori Robeau, Mimi Czajka Graminski and Pam Smilow. The resulting art exhibit is a seamless flow of contemporary, contemplative visual poetry - Behold the Moon at the Hammond.

HER Stories Performance: "Stitching Together" at ArtsWestchester

Stitching Together:Bean Dress, beans, fabric   Past to Future fabric  Grape Dress grapes, plastic  

HER Stories Performance on Saturday April 2, 6-8 pm at ArtsWestchester

Mimi: Bean Dress (Center) fabric, beans ,thread

I will be working with 3 dress sculptures representing my mother, my grandmother and myself. Pictured above is Bean Dress representing my grandmother Rosa Monaco Mangiafico.

HER Stories

• ArtsW Event
• Location: ArtsWestchester Gallery at 31 Mamaroneck Ave. White Plains, NY 10601
• Saturday, April 2, 2016
• 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
• "Her Stories" is a free event with RSVP requested :  https://artswestchester.org/events/her-stories/

HER Stories is a multi-media performance featuring artists

Bettina “Poet Gold” Wilkerson

Bibiana Huang Matheis

Elisa Pritzker

Flora Vial

Magogodi Makhene

Mimi Czajka Graminski

Nalini Rau

Sarah Stern

“Her Stories” focuses on the strength, wisdom and perseverance of the female human spirit. Sources are varied and include a female shaman from an extinct tribe, wives of Italian fishermen, and a heroine’s tales from India among many others.

Each artist will deconstruct the actual events and reinterpret them through their individual medium: painting, video, music, poetry, drawing, sculpture, dance, spoken word, photography.

"Her Stories" is a free event with RSVP requested :  https://artswestchester.org/events/her-stories/

Location: ArtsWestchester Gallery at 31 Mamaroneck Ave. White Plains, NY 10601

Attachments Exhibition March 2016

Installing Hearts and Hawks crocheted yarn on photos, vellum, found objects

Hearts and Hawks (one panel) Installation

Attachments  

An Exhibition at

Millbrook Library 

3 Friendly Lane

Millbrook, NY 

845-677-3611

March 5 - 31, 2016

Opening Reception and Gallery Talk 

March 5, 5-7 pm 

2016

Atlantic Gallery  Dialogues  January 2016

 I was invited by Ruby Silvious to participate in this exhibition at the Atlantic Gallery in Chelsea. My work on the left was chosen to respond to her print, on the right.

Graminski: Left Top:For Alberto, Left Bottom:For Henri fabric and thread on vellum

Silvious: Right: Relief print

Ruby Silvious and Mimi Czajka Graminski are showing works inspired directly or indirectly by a recent Matisse exhibition. The connection was an indirect one stemming from the images stored in the subconscious. Both artists were influenced by the cutouts of Matisse but they took that inspiration in different directions. Silvious’ forms, while abstract, have references to Matisse’s botanical shapes. Graminski’s are also undulating and bulbous but they have a figurative quality. Both Ruby Silvious and Mimi Czajka Graminski reside in the Hudson Valley and are known for their 2 and 3 dimensional work.

Exhibit of Two -Artist & Poet- Collaborations

In "i am your red" I will be exhibiting work from my collaboration with poet Sarah Stern. Bibiana Huang Matheis and Poet Gold will also be showing their artist-poet collaboration in "you are my blue". Both shows are built around interests in color.

Akin Library and Museum "Meeting Past" Exhibition

"Red Net"  8'x10'  mesh fabric, thread 

Opening reception: Sunday, September 13, 1-5pm

Exhibit: September 18 – October 18, 2015

Hours: Friday, Saturday and Sunday: 1-4pm

 Fridays, 6-8pm includes music

Location: Akin Library and Museums, 378 Old Quaker Hill Road, Pawling, NY 

Venue Tel.: 845-855-5099 

PAWLING, NY – 2015 marks the fifth year that artist/curator, Bibiana Huang Matheis has organized the “Meeting Past” exhibit at The Akin Library and Museums in Pawling. This year the curator has reached out to 95 artists for inclusion in the exhibit making this event one of the largest art exhibits in Dutchess County and indeed, in the Hudson Valley of New York.

Locating “Meeting Past” within historical and natural history collections may seem at odds with a plan to exhibit contemporary art. The building, an elegant late Victorian stone structure sited on Pawling’s Quaker Hill holds the Olive Gunnison Natural History Museum, Historical Society Museum, and the Akin Library.  Adding in contemporary artworks energizes the space and permanent collections with new meaning. A number of the artists will create a site specific artwork that appears to have been part of the collection, adding to the visitor’s experience of looking through all three floors of artifacts for the artworks. 

Artists include regional artists that exhibit internationally, as well as emerging artists, ranging from 5 years of age into to the 80s. The curator has thoughtfully guided the placement of the artworks, making each piece fit into the theme of the space by working closely with the artists.

"Red and Purple"detail     mesh fabric, thread  3'x5'

These two pieces will be shown in the upstairs gallery at the Akin.  They are part of a series of new works created using mesh fabric.