Gina Siepel

Gina Siepel

  • Projects
    • To Understand a Tree (ongoing)
      • Tree and Site
      • Participants and Public Engagement
      • Green Woodworking
    • Cycle of Self-Determination
    • FOREST-BODY-CHAIR
    • SELF-MADE
    • Chair and Tree Studies
    • Re-Surveying Walden
    • New World Reconsidered
    • The Versatile Queer-All
    • 1 x 1
    • A River Twice
    • The Boy Mechanic Project
    • The Coracles of Pignut Pond
    • The Candidate is Absent
    • CACOPHONY
    • Audubon's Birds
    • Portrait of Audubon
    • After Winslow Homer
    • Emma's Walk
    • King Philip Was a Warrior Bold...
    • Historic Site
    • Recursions
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  • Press/Writing
    • "Self-Made, Gina Siepel’s queer coming-of-age story at Vox Populi Gallery," by Levi Bentley, ArtBlog Philadelphia, 2018
    • "Gina Siepel's Listening Trips," by Jacqueline Gleisner, Art21 Magazine, 2016
    • "To Understand a Tree: An Environmental Art Piece by Gina Siepel," by Shira Zaid, "The Sophian," 2020
    • "Gina Siepel: The Artist as Explorer," by Lauren Lessing, "Currents 6" exhibition catalog essay, Colby College Museum of Art, 2010
    • "Gina Siepel: Currents 6," by Carl Little, Art New England, 2011
    • "In Defense of the Non-Native," by Gina Siepel, published in "Vector," 2010
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Chair Study: Becoming
2022
found red oak, MDF, oil
43" x 34" x 34"

The chair is metaphorically halted in the process of becoming. This chair was made from a fallen red oak tree, which grew in Highland Park in Greenfield MA. It blew down in a storm in 2020, and I salvaged it, splitting it on-site in the forest. The chair was built entirely by hand with simple tools in a traditional greenwood process. It is placed here in deliberate material contrast to the highly-processed MDF material from which the pedestal is made. The design of this sculptural chair pays homage to the work of greenwood chairmaker Jennie Alexander. The chair is pictured here with a large-scale drawing by Katrina Bello in the background, and a sculptural work by Howard el-Yasin, in the group exhibition "Becoming Trees," curated by Fritz Horstman, at the Concord Center for the Visual Arts in Concord MA, Spring 2022.

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