Selected Past Events and Exhibits
Tamara Krendel
Light in Shadow

Birdcage: Light in Shadows 2, 2007, watercolor, 22"x30"
March 27 - April 23, 2008
Artist Reception and Gallery Talk
Monday, April 14, 12-1:30 pm
Gallery Hours: M-F: 9-6, Saturday: 10-2
Gallery Collage of 48 drawings and paintings.
Henderson Hall Gallery
Middlesex Community College
521 Springs Rd. Bedford MA 01730
781.280.3803

Winged & Whispered
Curated by Tamara Krendel
Poetic interpretations of things with wings in a
Variety of complementary styles and mediums
Elizabeth Awalt
Jenny Grassl
Riyo Hirota
Tamara Krendel
Maxine Yalovitz-Blankenship
April 14 - May 20, 2006
Opening Reception, Friday April 14, 5-8pm
Featuring live jazz by The Krendel-Clark Group
Meet The Artists, Friday May 5, 6-8pm
Informal gallery talk 7pm
Poetry Reading by Jenny Grassl, May 6, 2-4pm
Image : Tamara Krendel, Luna Unfolding
watercolor on board, 18" x 16", 2006
Photo by Susan Byrnes
2005-06 FPAC Gallery Guest Juror:
Meredyth Hyatt Moses
Fort Point Arts Community Gallery
300 Summer Street, Boston, MA
Gallery downstairs adjacent to the cafe
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 9am-9pm
Located near the Red Line So. Station and
Silver Line Courthouse Station MBTA
For more information contact the FPAC Office
At 617 423 4299 or email
Fpacgallery@gmail.com
www.fortpointarts.org
Winged & Whispered is an exhibit centered around the theme of birds, bugs, and other flying creatures by artists working in a variety of styles and mediums. The artists in this group either share imagery literally - as in creatures with wings; birds, butterflies, moths, insects, angels, etc., or imply the feeling of wings or flight through atmosphere, environment, lighting etc. Additionally, the works intersect under the umbrella of "poetic realism" as a group of works that convey a sense of magic, mystery and/or transformation that brings to mind visual poetry.
I fell in love with moths as a child, finding them like magical messengers drawn to our light from another realm, especially the ones that appeared suddenly out of complete darkness with their hidden flashes of color. The luna is perhaps the most astonishing, with its otherworldly hue, brief life span and rare appearances....Over the last two years I raised luna moths in a netted cage inside my studio's bay window; immersing myself with my subject in order to capture something of their mysterious poetry."
- Tamara Krendel
Friday, May 12, 6-9PM
Hair of the Dog,
Art show and wine tasting event to benefit the MSPCA
Off Broadway Studios 250 Canal St. Lawrence MA 01840, 978-975-8843
$20- donation requested at the door (or in advance through ticket sales)
10% of all artwork sold goes to benefit the MSPCA
Saturday, June 3rd, 6PM
New Paint
Annual Gala Painting Auction
Wood Mill, Merrimack Street,
Lawrence, MA,
Featuring a live auction of paintings completed that day by a select group of invited artists painting throughout the city of Lawrence to benefit The Essex Art Center.
This year's theme --the roaring Twenties
For more information : (978) 685 2343
www.essexartcenter.com

Moths, Pussy Willows and Moon, 20" by 25", oil pastel on paper, 2005
Dreaming The Light/Unfolding The Dark,
curated by Tamara Krendel
Dreaming The Light/Unfolding The Dark is an exhibit featuring artists who use light and darkness poetically to evoke a wide range of feelings, ideas and experiences, literally and/or metaphorically through a variety of complementary styles and mediums.
The Concord Art Association
HOURS: 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Tuesday thru Saturday
noon to 4:00 on Sunday | closed Monday
FREE ADMISSION
37 Lexington Road, Concord MA. 01742 || 978-369-2578 || Gallery@concordart.org
Opening: Thursday, December 1st 6-8 pm
Meet the Artists Friday December 7th, 6-8 pm,poetry reading ( poet Jenny Grassl) from 7-8.

The exhibiting artists are (in image left-right and clockwise down):
Elizabeth Awalt, Stoney Conley, Tamara Krendel,Mary Armstrong, Jenny Grassl, and Riyo Hirota
Postcard design by: Amy Pearce Hamlet
Dreaming The Light/Unfolding The Dark
"Dreaming The Light/Unfolding The Dark" is an exhibit featuring artists who use light and darkness to poetically evoke a wide range of feelings, ideas and experiences, literally and/or metaphorically through a variety of complementary styles and mediums.
The exhibiting group includes; sculptor Riyo Hirota, poet Jenny Grassl, and painters; Mary Armstrong, Elizabeth Awalt, Stoney Conley, and Tamara Krendel.
The title "Dreaming The Light/Unfolding the Dark" speaks to the creative process in which one illuminates something intangible, something unanticipated and mysterious which becomes revealed as art.
The dark represents a personal place, perhaps a sacred place of complete privacy, where one may go into oneself to discover or transform ones grief, loneliness and fear, as well as ones awe or exhilaration. The dark is a place inside the artists mind, soul and spirit and where the artist embarks on a journey seeking inspiration and vision and is uniquely transformed bringing out of this place of darkness the mysterious magic and poetry of creation.
Art unfolds the darkness, creating expressive imagery, words and sounds out of sorrow and longing, awe and wonder that can provide light, poetry, and transformation, acknowledge mystery, and offer solace in the face of loneliness and tragedy. It unfolds the dark, offering universal, spiritual and personal transcendence in many forms, including hope and solace, as well as dialogue, transformation and even escape; -inspiring, soothing, connecting, as well as compelling and provoking.
-Tamara Elizabeth Krendel, curator & exhibiting artist
Two new works by Tamara Krendel were exhibited in
RED - curated by Nick Capasso, curator DeCordova Museum
November 18th through January 19, 2006
opening event on December 2nd
at University Place Gallery, 124 Mt Auburn Street, Harvard Square
Cambridge Art Association 617.876.1880. www.cambridgeart.org
Several sketches & paintings
of Lawrence's mill buildings and bridges along The Merrimack River.
All painted on location from a truck-loading parking lot by the river's edge.
Gallery 181
"Made in Lawrence, USA"
On view: January 8th -
through February 28th
Opening reception Friday, January 19, 2007 from 5:30-8:00pm
featuring Live Jazz by The James Krendel-Clark Group
181 Canal Street, Lawrence, MA
978 741 7979
Gallery Hours:
M-F 10am-5pm
Sat. 12pm-5pm
for more information see:
www.caladangallery.com/sites/gallery181
Some Notes about My Sketches of Lawrence currently on display at Gallery 181
Studies for The Essex Art Center’s Fresh Paint event
During The Essex Art Center’s Annual Gala Auction Fresh Paint, a group of artists are invited to complete a work of art in a single day, while working simultaneously from various locations throughout the city of Lawrence. Maps are provided, and the public is invited to observe the artists at work throughout the day. That evening, the freshly painted works are auctioned off at a gala fundraising event.
I have seven sets of studies of the factories and bridges along the Merrimack River. They are light and composition studies that I have done on location each year in anticipation of the Essex Art Center’s Annual Fresh Paint event. I have kept these sketches because I feel they capture the light and poetry of this scene and because they are my personal “journal” from an annual event in which I am very intensely invested and which I have to surrender a painting that I have spent eight or nine hours working on and only get to see in its finished state for a few hours, through rather bleary eyes—if that.
I work from the same location each year and each year I sketch and paint the scene completely anew. Reminiscent of my year studying the Northern Renaissance in Belgium and that area’s extraordinary light and infinite sky, much of what interests the landscape painter in me exists here in the magical enduring rugged beauty of Lawrence; the drama of changing waterways and low skylines set off against these eternal turn-of-the-century factory buildings and bridges
-Tamara Krendel