InterWoven
Upcoming Exhibitions
2019 State of Art
Exhibition Dates: June 28 – August 9, 2019
Location: Studio Montclair; 127 Bloomfield Ave, Montclair, NJ
Repurposed: 4th Annual Juried Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: July 5- July 27, 2019
Location: Arthaus Projects; 140 W. 4th St. Williamsport, PA
“Repurposed” is a juried exhibition focused on the adaptive reuse of materials to create new art. Participating artists were asked to create an original piece of artwork that utilizes some sort of found object, or unusual recycled medium as the base for the piece. I used bottle caps.
Combined Talents 2019 Juried Competition
Exhibition Dates: August 19 – September 29, 2019
Location: Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts; 530 West Call Street, Tallahassee, FloridaÂ
There will be an opening reception on Friday, August 30th, from 6:00-8:00pm.
Artist Talks & Workshops
Mixed Media Self Explorations
Please sign up for my workshop at MAM. Bring materials and images from different sources to make your own autobiographical, figurative composition.
The workshop will be Tuesday, July 16, 7 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Montclair Art Museum; 3 S Mountain Ave, Montclair, NJ 07042
Let Me Tell You A Story: Artist Talks & Workshops:
Drawing Rooms: 926 Newark Ave, #T107, Jersey City, NJ
Saturday 6/22/19 from 3:00-5:00pm
Artist Talk
3:45-4:15p Kimberly Becoat
3-3:30p Ibou Ndoye
4:30 – 5p Shoshanna Weinberger
Artist Talk
Sunday 6/23/19 from 3:00-5:30pm
3 – 3:30p Adebunmi Gbadebo
3:45 – 4:15p Theda Sandiford
As a woman, I find it is often easier to make my way in the world by keeping my mouth shut. These works are from a collection of one-sided conversations. The things I wish I said or could say, the things I say under my breath or the affirmations I use to remind myself that my voice is relevant even when I think no one is listening.
Workshop Sun
Sunday 6/23/19 from 4:30 – 5:30p
4:30 – 5:30 Theda Sandiford
Join me for a hair-raising yarn wrapping workshop to wrap and hitch knot yarn, recycled sari thread and ribbon on 100″ of cotton rope. Impart your essence and become a part of this community art making project.
Let Me Tell You A Story
Artist Reception: Thursday 5/23/19 6:00-9:00pm
LOCATION: Drawing Rooms; 926 Newark Ave # T107 JC, NJ
Artists Talks:
6/22/19 Sat: Kimberly Becoat, Ibou Ndoye and Shoshanna Weinberger
6/23/19 Sun: Adebunmi Gbadebo and Theda Sandiford
Artists Workshops:
6/23/19 Sun: Theda Sandiford
Gallery Hours: Thurs/Fri, 5-8p, Sat/Sun, 1-6p​
“Let Me Tell You a Storyâ€, 5/23/19 – 6/23/19, presents five artists: Adebunmi Gbadebo, Ibou Ndoye, Kimberly Becoat, Shoshanna Weinberger and Theda Sandiford, whose works celebrate Black culture. Drawing from their rich and varied experiences, these artists explore historic and contemporary issues of race, gender and identity that African-American, Caribbean-American and mixed race cultures deal with. In these artists’ materials, scale, imagery and message, they proclaim their lives while exposing topics important to the lives of the communities with which they identify. Curated by Anne Trauben.
World Collage Day & Pop Up Show
Celebrate World Collage Day with Garden Level Gallery as we honor our local community of artists and the art of collage!
World Collage Day Pop Up Exhibition
Saturday, May 11th, 1-5:00PM
Garden Level Gallery
315 Third Street
Jersey City, NJ 07302
Get inspiration from our Collage Pop Up Exhibition and spend an afternoon making artwork with our participating artists.
Make art with us.
Let’s show the world what it looks like when people come together as a community. #worldcollageday
Saturday, May 11th, 1-5:00PM
Garden Level Gallery
315 Third Street
Jersey City, NJ 07302
Participating Artists:
Luis Alves: Luis Alves’s photo collages utilizes appropriated imagery from magazines, to incite dialogue on the role the media plays in the shaping of our lives. Each collage is hand-manipulated with the goal of transformation as a way of commenting on, satirizing or criticizing the source material. Website
Theda Sandiford: Theda Sandiford: Using internal conflict and diverse recycled materials as a starting point she constructs a mixed media mask to protect herself from fear. What may start off as an ugly statement about herself, is in the end transformed into something beautiful. Theda photographs her process and then digitally manipulate these images to extend the narrative.
Leslie Sheryl: Leslie Sheryll’s photo based collages start with appropriated 19th century tintypes which she scans and digitally manipulates. Sheryll then incorporate historical facts, imagery, personal experience and an infusion of fantasy to create a new narrative about women Website
Brad Terhune: Brad Terhune is forever seeking out new materials to work with leads to changes in style and subject. Terhune looks to create a weird, surreal world, and have been influenced by early twentieth century art movements that embraced and explored collage, while continuing to explore this vibrant medium in the contemporary arena. Website
Psyche was the goddess of the soul and the wife of Eros god of love.
Spring Exhibitions
Grand Opening: Somewhere We Landed
Opening Reception: Friday May 3th, 7:30-9:00pm
LOCATION: Drawing Rooms: Topps Building; 26 Newark Ave #T107, Jersey City, New Jersey 07306
Artists were asked to create works that relate to new beginnings, new adventure, new body of work, outer space, atmosphere, place, transportation, land, nature, or utopia. Hundreds of works are on sale during the course of the show, 5/3/19 – 5/11/19, for $200 each.
I made a series of collages from my airplane ticket stubs and a lino print i carved in flight from LA to Newark.
Gallery Hours:
5/5/19 Sunday, 1-6p
5/9/19 Thurs & 5/10/19 Fri, 5-8p
5/11/19 Saturday, 12-6p
Exhibit runs through 5/11/19.
View Points 2019
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, May 4 from 7:00 – 9:00 pm.
LOCATION: Studio Montclair Gallery located at 127 Bloomfield Avenue in Montclair, NJ.
This exhibit will be on display from May 2 to June 15, 2019.
Wonder Woman Selfie’ is a collage for the ages. Colorful, warm and strong – it reflects the best of what a person can see in themselves.
No Boundaries Benefit
BENEFIT: Saturday, May 4th, 2019 8:00-11:00pm
LOCATION: The Woodland; 60 Woodland Road Maplewood, NJ
You can bid on the piece I made for this show. … herehttps://www.accelevents.com/e/NoBoundariesBenefit/A/TSA
Open Orange 2019
Opening Reception: May 9th, 6:000-9:00pm
LOCATION‘: Community Gallery at ValleyArts: 400 S. Jefferson St., Orange, NJ
Mark your calendar for the Artist Talk and Closing Celebration on June 8, 3-5pm to see this piece and learn more about my Wonder Women series.
“Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn’t forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.”
Grace Jones
Portraits and Narratives- Artist Talk
SAVE THE DATE: Friday May 10, 2019, 7:00-9:00pm
LOCATION: Akwaaba Gallery, 509 S Orange Ave, Newark, NJ
Come Meet and speak to me and artists Kortez and Jimmy James Greene about our work in the “Portraits and Narratives” Exhibition.
Shadow Box Size: 20 x 16 x 1 in Medium: Acrylic paint, Xerox image transfers, stencil printed deli, paper, paper punched recycled envelops, tissue paper, buttons, glitter appliqués, glitter, Diamond Dust on canvas. July 2018 
For a perfect side-eye you have to keep your head steady and straight ahead and do it all with your eyes. Side Eye Limited Edition (3/5) Aluminum Print 24 x 20 x 1 in 2015
World Collage Day Pop Up Exhibition
Pop Up Collage Show : Saturday May 11, 2019, 1:00-5:00pm
LOCATION: Garden Level Gallery: 315 3rd Street, Jersey City NJ
Celebrate World Collage Day with me, as we honor our local community of artists and the art of collage!
Get inspiration from our World Collage Day Pop Up Exhibition and then spend an afternoon making artwork with the participating artists.
#worldcollageday
Participating Artists:
Luis Alves Collage: Luis Alves’s photo collages utilizes appropriated imagery from magazines, to incite dialogue on the role the media plays in the shaping of our lives. Each collage is hand-manipulated with the goal of transformation as a way of commenting on, satirizing or criticizing the source material.
Theda Sandiford: Theda Sandiford: Using internal conflict and diverse recycled materials as a starting point she constructs a mixed media mask to protect herself from fear. What may start off as an ugly statement about herself, is in the end transformed into something beautiful. Theda photographs her process and then digitally manipulate these images to extend the narrative.
Leslie Sheryll: Leslie Sheryll’s photo based collages start with appropriated 19th century tintypes which she scans and digitally manipulates. Sheryll then incorporate historical facts, imagery, personal experience and an infusion of fantasy to create a new narrative about women
BradTerhune: Brad Terhune is forever seeking out new materials to work with leads to changes in style and subject. Terhune looks to create a weird, surreal world, and have been influenced by early twentieth century art movements that embraced and explored collage, while continuing to explore this vibrant medium in the contemporary arena.
Let’s show the world what it looks like when people come together as a community. #worldcollageday
Bring paper, magazines, found materials and your preferred substrate. I have paint, scissors and various glues…
$5 suggested donation to cover material costs.
2019 Cathedral Arts Festival
CHAMPAGNE GALA: Saturday, May 18, 2019, 7:00pm.
LOCATION: Grace Church Van Vorst, 39 Erie St, Jersey City NJ
Exhibition on view through June 7th,
I’m always down for a champagne gala. Join me. Tickets may be purchased for $50 by cash or check at drop-off or online at www.cathedralartslive.org.Tickets will cost $60 at the door.
I made these abstract figurative self portraits over the course of 5 weekends using the fine print from my MS infusion drug, Tysbari, paper scraps and mono-printed deli paper. Take a close look at the fine print to see the multitude of symptoms i’m dealing with this hidden illness. Each drawing is representative of a MS treatment, I get infusions every 6 weeks to suppress my immune system and slow the progression of the disease.
Hidden Figure #11, Acrylic paint, Sharpie, colored pencils, pastels, Distress Stain, mica spray, Tysabri newsprint, hand printed deli paper, construction paper, recycled Tazo tea box, tulle, glitter stars, glitter glue and rhinestones on Canson paper. 2018 
Hidden Figure #7, 12″x9″, Mixed Media; Acrylic paint, Sharpie, colored pencils, pastels, Distress Stain, mica spray, Tysabri newsprint, hand printed deli paper, construction paper, recycled Tazo tea box, tulle, glitter stars, glitter glue and rhinestones on Canson paper. 2018
World Collage Day is 5/11
Join me for World Collage Day on Saturday, May 11, to honor this community of artists and to remind the world what a spirit of cooperation, mutual support, and creativity can look like when people come together as a community.
SAVE THE DATE: 5/11 @ 1-5pm
LOCATION: Garden Level Gallery 315 3rd Street, Jersey City NJ
Bring paper, magazines, found materials and your preferred substrate. I have paint, scissors and various glues…
$5 suggested donation to cover material costs.
Open Studio Events This Weekend
Please join me this weekend for two open studio events at my studio Garden Level Gallery
Art Supply Swap: 4/13
Marie Condo your art supplies. Bring a bag of art supplies you are not using and swap it for something else. Craft paper, paint, colored pencils, frames, yarn, fabric… you get the idea.
If you are saving recycled bottle caps for me this is the perfect time to visit my studio and see what i’m doing with your gifts
Save the Date: Saturday, April 13, 12:00-3:00pm, RSVP here
LOCATION: Garden Level Gallery, 315 3rd Street, Jersey City NJ
Yarn Wrapping Circle: 4/14
Imagine, hair. The elusive, coveted “good” hair. On some days and for some people, that is my hair. Or was. Or can be. But you should know by now – Don’t. Touch. My. Hair. That is unless you come help me make hair made from rope and yarn in this Yarn Wrapping Circle. No experience necessary, I will teach you the knots. Come for the fellowship or to try something new.
Date: April 14th 2019, 1:00-4:00pm
LOCATION: Garden Level Gallery, 315 3rd Street, Jersey City NJ
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Love and Fear Exhibition
Please join me for an exhibition visually depicting love or fear on a personal, social, or cultural level.
Love: warmth, tenderness, kindness, compassion, devotion, affection
Fear: anxiety, terror, hatred, malevolence, jealousy, anger. We all experience these emotions. I channel my emotions into my artwork so I can feel FREE from constraints.
Exhibition Dates: April 2- 29, 2019
Opening Reception: Sunday, April 7, 2009, 3-5:45pm
Panel Discussion from 4-5pm.
LOCATION: Montclair Public Library Gallery located a 50 S. Fullerton Avenue in Montclair, NJ.
Masking Fear, This is the mask I wear when dealing with nasty gossip. Notice the repeating eyes seeing in front and the back of my head, so haters beware, I can see you even when you whisper behind my back 
Insider Outsider, Gossips don’t really know who I am. My identity is hidden, making me an Outsider. Talk to me, not about me if you want to know me 
Gossips, Nasty gossip rocks my boat, it’s impact reverts me to being an Outsider rather than both Insider and Outsider which is a place of power for me.