Gallery Exhibitions
Augusta Savage Gallery
"The Spirit of the Place," Connemara Summer 2001
Acrylic ink on wood exhibited in CANDID: Self Taught Artists of the Pioneer Vlley. February, 2002.
Artists in every culture and throughout history have sought inspiration from nature, and by their own experience in their art, they have evoked for others the human need to rediscover and be rejuvenated by its kindredness and its plenitude. Working with acrylic ink on wood and toned paper, I have attempted to capture the spirit of nature of Ballinakill Bay in Connemara Ireland. Absorbtion in this process was restorative and essential.
Jeanine Young-Mason
Franklin Medical Center, Greenfield, MA
Young-Mason curated the first art exhibit staged at the Franklin Medical Center in 2001, enhancing the Healing Environment Project of FMC. Thereafter, art has been exhibited in concert with the ongoing project.
Hampden Gallery
Young-Mason curated, with Anne Laprade, "Art and Exile," Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, September 2001. It featured an exhibit of Paris artists with developmental and psychiatric disabilities.
Wheeler Gallery
"Cellblock Visions: Prison Art in America." Gallery Talk: UnAutre Regard by Jeanine Young-Mason. October 18, 1999.
Floral Art
Nightinggale on beauty, color, and light:
"The effect in sickness of beautiful objects, of variety of objects and especially brilliancy of color is hardly at all appreciated... I have seen in fevers... the most acute suffering produced in the patient... not being able to see ut of the window and knots in the wood being the only view. I shall never forget the rapture of fever patients over a bunch of bright colored flowers. I remember (in my own case) a nosegay of wild flowers being sent to me, and from that moment recovery becoming more rapid."
Florence Nightingale, Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not, 1888.
Catherine Mueller of La Belle Ecole Paris where she earned a certificate in d’art florale.
In addition she attended demonstrations, lectures and master classes with Christian Tortu of Paris, Yoko Hosono, Ikebana Master Instructor of Japan and Gina Masterka of Sophia Flora Designs, Radisson Hotel, Kalamazoo.
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Paris, January 2008 |
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Young-Mason also studied art in nature at Decordova Museum and Northeastern University.
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Natural Art
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Cypress Trees photographed in California. |
Knarled Tree, found in tidal salt water stream, Ireland 2000. Cleaned by nature: sun, rain, wind, and fog for 3 years prior to soaking in linseed oil.
Plum Island Wave driftwood found with withered water lilly. Cleaned by nature, rain and sun, for one year.
Newbury Woods Tree Trunk found on rock ledge. Cleaned by wind and weather.
Cedar Tree Trunk resembling Japanese print, found in cedar woods partally buried in the earth. Newbury, MA.
Plum Island Tree Roots