ESSYE KLEMPNER | Gatherings and Scraps
September 6 – October 14, 2022
Opening reception: Wednesday September 21, 5 – 7pm
The Art Department and The East 40 at Northampton Community College are pleased to jointly present an exhibition featuring work by one of the 2021 and inaugural artists-in-residence, Essye Klempner. Included in this exhibition will be artworks Klempner made during her time at NCC, works made in the following year, highly influenced by her experience at the East 40 and artworks she completed immediately preceding the residency, giving what came after context.
Works include combination photograms and chemigrams, darkroom processes in which developer is painted onto and objects are set on photographic paper, ceramics made from clay processed from the East 40 soil and fired onsite and drawings made with natural materials such as mushroom spores and mud. All works represent Klempner’s continued interest in the nexus of urban and natural, drawing and photography.
Accompanying Klempner’s work will be documentation of research completed by 2022 artist-in-residence, Cindy Vojnovic, as she concludes her residency and begins to prepare for her exhibition in Communications Hall Gallery scheduled for fall, 2023.
Essye Klempner earned an MFA from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, NJ, and a BFA from School of Visual Arts, NYC. She has been an artist-in-residence at Woodstock, NY’s Byrdcliffe Guild; Hunter College in New York City; St. Mary’s College of Maryland; and currently at East 40 Garden and Ceramic residency at Northampton Community College. She has exhibited at Hunter College, Rutgers University, the RISING URBANIST Conference, and Queens Museum’s Queens International: 2018 Biennial, Volumes. She is also a co-founder of SEMINAR reading group and Ink Cap Press, as well as Grassroots Arts Fund, providing printing material to local activists at EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop.
Cindy Vojnovic is an artist and art faculty at NCC. Her home-studio practice connects to natural, human and spiritual cycles. While living in and utilizing her contemporary time and place, she resonates with histories-art historical, personal, family, and wider histories that radiate outward like ripples on a pond. Her BFA in painting is from The School for Visual Arts in New York City, and her MFA in Studio Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.
Contact rgorchov@northampton.edu with any questions