Having a great time so far at my artist residency at the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort! For the month of September, I’ll be here making art about the plants, animals, and landscapes here in the Laurel Highlands. The views are hard to beat!
My half of the Nemacolin Artist-in-Residence studio that I’m sharing with the awesome Kathy Mazur ( https://www.kmazurart.com/ )
Looking over the mountains!
My art practice has a new home. Recently, Carrie Boerio (my mom!) and I moved into a new studio space at the Mansion at 731 E. Broad Street. The studio will be an great place to make art, share new works, and offer small group classes and art-making events. We’ve been cleaning everything up and hanging lots of art. You are welcome to come visit!
My studio open house is May 31st, from 5:00 - 8:00pm. Feel free to drop by, say hello, and check out the new studio.
Studio Open House
Friday, May 31st at 5:00 - 8:00pm
at 731 E Broad St., Columbus, OH 43214
Studio #7 on the second floor.
Can’t make it out May 31st? I’ll also have the studio open June 1st during the OTE Art Walk from 12 - 6pm.
Shadow of the Statue of Neptune, 2023.
Andiamo/Allons-y: Summer in the Cities of Italy and France showcases a series of paintings inspired by observations of the architecture, daily life, and nature in more than a dozen cities across Italy and France. Most of the paintings were created outdoors, on location, and range from watercolor to mixed-media and acrylic mediums.
Exhibited at Wild Goose Creative Gallery November 15 – 29, 2023.
“Most of the works were created en plein air (on site outdoors) while composer, Lauren Spavelko and I lived abroad this summer,” says local artist Michelle Boerio. “The goal was to explore, make art and seek out nature in the urban environment. We started in Paris and Lyon, France, then moved on to Italy, experiencing the cities of Turin, Bologna, Verona, Venice, Rimini, Parma, Florence, Rome, Pompeii, Naples and Positano.”
Boerio’s work is fluid, expressive and confident. She uses watercolor, acrylic and mixed media to capture not just moments of nature in the city, but also the sense of place, from the heat of the day to the historical character of the architecture.
Boerio explains the reason for the show. “These are the remarkable kind of experiences you want to share. There were surprises everywhere. One painting is about an evening when we listened to a classical music trio play in a medieval church courtyard as bats came out to fly overhead. I hope the viewer will get a feel for what it was like to live a normal kind of daily life in a wonderfully different context.”
On the Road to Torino, 2023.
As Seen from Via Caprarie, 2023.
2023 was a year of travel, making art, and spending some good time with friends and family.
I’m writing now from Bologna, Italy, where my friend Lauren and I are on a two month trip through Europe. We’re here to travel, make art, research, and explore (and eat lots of good food). During this trip, I’ve set myself up with a couple of starting questions for making art: 1) how do plants and animals interact with the human-built environments (some of which are ancient and some very modern) of our destinations, 2) How can I experiment with combining painting, drawing, monoprint, and/or collage to create images inspired by my experiences here.
So far, I’ve run into many, many pigeons, some feral graveyard cats, a fight between starlings and sparrowhawks, giant catfish, swan families, and a horde of turtles. One of the nice parts of traveling through the early summer has also been that so many flowers are in bloom. I spent a decent part of our time in Paris smelling every rose I passed and then chasing down the jasmine and honeysuckle in Lyon and Torino. Green spaces have been a bit fewer and farther between in the city center of Bologna, but I’ve enjoyed watching starlings dart above the Piazzas and finding many, varied lion sculptures throughout the city.
As I travel, I’ll be painting on watercolor and acrylic paper with water soluble paints like watercolor, gouache, and acrylic. I’ve also got some watercolor pencils and a little gelli plate for monoprints. I love oil painting, but I wanted to simplify packing and clean-up as much as possible while we travel. What this means is that I can make quite a few smaller paintings with multiple layers, but certain techniques like wiping out and scraping back will be limited to what the paper can tolerate.
Four of my little guys are on view tonight at Wild Goose Creative’s Tiny Art show. It’s a one night only show 6-9pm for this month’s Franklinton Friday. I can’t wait to see everyone’s small works there! (And everything is available for sale, so it’s a great time to take home some mini-art works).
Wild Goose Creative is at 188 McDowell St, Columbus, OH 43215.
My mother, Carrie Boerio, and I have art on view now at Argo and Lehne Jewelers in Columbus, Ohio (3100 Tremont Rd.Columbus, OH 43221). Our show, Celebrating Sunlight, is on view from now until September 25th, with an artists reception Saturday, June 26th at 3-5pm.
Michelle Ward of Argo and Lehne wrote a lovely blog post about Celebrating Sunlight that you can find here.
https://www.argolehne.com/blog/art-at-argos-celebrating-sunlight-paintings-by-carrie-michelle-boerio/
So excited about these two actual physical art shows coming up in early June--with one more show still on the way. You can see my art here:
Tempting Fete http://www.temptingfetecolumbus.com/
June 5th, 12 - 6pm
254 Woodland Ave., Columbus, OH
The Reader's Garden Book Store https://www.readersgardenohio.com/
Date TBD, 5-7pm
143 E Broadway, Granville, Ohio