“Mother Muse” Group Artist Show
May 18 – July 15, 2023
Celebrate mothers with a group artist show curated by Lizzie Selle Studio at the new West End Gallery, featuring 11 female artists who have been courageous in sharing their stories of motherhood and maternal influences in their life. Enjoy a wide variety of mediums and styles from both emerging and established, local and international artists.
Featured artists include: MKODJ, Sarah Whalen, Diana Leviton Gondek, Grace Federighi, Erica Mills, Bari Wieselman Schulman, Jen Diver, Lizzie Selle, Erika Vazzana, Rebecca Marfise and Crissie Vitale.
All exhibition artworks are for sale. Mother Muse will be on view through July 15, so you can schedule a visit at your convenience using this link: linktr.ee/lizzieselle_studio
Artist Reception Photos
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Mother Muse Artworks
Featuring 12 female artists in a show celebrating mothers.
Bari Wieselman Schulman
"Again"
24″ x 36″ acrylic & oil pastel on canvas, 2022
Again is a powerful embodiments of the chaos, the exuberance, the joy, the color, the noise, the complexity, the fierceness…that is the essence + core of mother…
$1,875, includes light wood float frame
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Bari Wieselman Schulman
"I just can't, I won't"
24″ x 36″ acrylic & oil pastel on canvas, 2022
I just can’t, I won’t is a powerful embodiments of the chaos, the exuberance, the joy, the color, the noise, the complexity, the fierceness…that is the essence + core of mother…
$1,875, includes light wood float frame
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Lizzie Selle
"Milestones in Motion"
36″ x 36″ acrylic, crackle paste & oil pastel on canvas, 2023
It’s a funny thing becoming a mother. Suddenly time is told through your child’s milestones that are slow at first then start to feel unstoppable, flashing before your eyes. You never feel ready for something to end yet simultaneously you couldn’t feel more excited for the next chapter. It’s this constant feeling of forced change and transformation happening right before your eyes. As I painted this piece, I processed another milstone I was experienced with my 17 month daughter in the end of nursing, this deep connection I had worked so hard to establish with her and was so hard to let go. But we move forward as parents every day, holding on to what was, filled with joy for what is, thrilled for what’s to come.
$2,500
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Lizzie Selle
"The Quick Queen of Quincy"
14″ x 18″ acrylic, crackle paste & oil pastels in upcycled vintage frames, 2023
I created this playful pair to portray the sudden joy I feel ever time my 17 month old daughter makes me smile. Her curiosity, sense of wonder and zest for life is a breath of fresh air in my life and forces me to smile and feel joy in moments that may otherwise have been missed. The sense of repetition, bold color and whimsical shapes are influenced by the Dr. Seuss books I’ve ben reading to her on repeat. This playful pair forces you to stop and smile, to soften the tension you may carry from a rough day; to remind you to not take life to seriously. Just like my Avery.
$550 each
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Sarah Whalen
"Am I"
30″ x 40″ acrylic and charcoal, 2023
I believe, as a mother, it’s my job to help my daughters grow into the best versions of themselves. To show them how to be kind, independent, and brave through words and actions, not hard and fast rules. It’s the greatest responsibility of my life. And every day I watch them grow, there are moments of pure joy powerful enough to make me stop questioning if I’m doing this right.
$2,200 – SOLD
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Sarah Whalen
"Through the Window and the Rain"
24″ x 36″ acrylic and charcoal, 2023
$1,400
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Sarah Whalen
"Early Morning in the City"
22″x30″ acrylic, framed 2023
$2,400
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MKODJ
"Mother"
30″ x 48″ acrylic, 2023
This piece represents mothers as givers and portals of new life.
We surrendered to the bigger picture and let the universe magic work within us.
We are the givers of life.
$3,750
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Erika Vazanna
"Black Madonna"
24″ x 36″ acrylic om canvas in metallic gold frame, 2023
Black Madonna is our beloved Mother and Child, Blessed Virgin Mary. A depiction in Christian imagery but the Black Madonna is
highly regarded among Polish people as our mother who was burned, stolen and left with rips in the canvas hence scars on her cheek.
The legend of the story was the picture hung in a church in a small village in Poland called Częstochowa, it was burned down and
remaining was her painting. When thieves still attempted to steal the painting ironically they were slashed themselves and died.
I choose to paint this, as being of Polish decent and raised by a Polish mother means the world to me. My hardworking Grandmother, Babcia came to this county with nothing raising 9 children. My mom was raised with work ethic and values that I in turn now raise my 3 children with. More importantly with the Grace of Faith and and “dirty beauty” of what being a mother really is.
$1,100 – SOLD
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Rebecca Marfise
"Beachcombers"
24″ x 36″ oil on canvas in white float frame, 2021
Beachcombers depicts my children on a beach vacation that we took several years ago. A fond memory.
$1,000
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Rebecca Marfise
"Mom's Daffodils"
10″ x 10″ oil on canvas in white float frame, 2021
This is a painting of a field of daffodils that my mother has planted and loves in her yard.
$400 – SOLD
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Rebecca Marfise
"Summer in Lake Michigan"
10″ x 10″ oil on canvas in wood float frame, 2022
$400 – SOLD
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Erica Mills
“Morning Dew”
18” round, 2023
I’ve always loved mornings, but never so much as I did when I had newborns, and those early morning feeds when it was just us awake in the world (it seemed). The preciousness of babies made me appreciate every aspect of nature even more; and not only the flowers were beautiful, but the tiny drops of dew were a thing of beauty as well.
$450
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Erica Mills
“Kaleidoscope of kindness”
16″x16″, 2023
I want many things for my children but my greatest wish and hope; and the thing I try to emphasize most every day in my mothering is to be kind. It is my ultimate pleasure to be raising three kind boys.
$400
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Crissie Vitale
“Early June” and“Sweet Spring,”
12×16, Watercolor, 2022”
For as long as I can remember, I have loved gardens and flowers. Some of my earliest memories are of helping my mother in her garden. She always grew the most beautiful, whimsically wild flower gardens. I always tried but never had her touch. Instead, I started painting flowers and gardens. Some inspired by her flower beds, others that I have photographed over the years, or just dreamed up. She passed away from cancer in 2017. In a way, it helps keep her memory alive for me.
SOLD
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Crissie Vitale
“If I Didn't Know Better” and "Thread of Gold"
17×21, Watercolor, 2023, framed
“If I didn’t Know Better” (Red Poppies)
After the loss of a loved one, there are so many moments when you can still feel their presence, when it feels for an instant as though they are somehow still here. As if… If you didn’t know better, you could just pick up the phone and call them. My mother loved the garden at our lake house. A garden that her relatives started over a hundred years ago. That she cared for with such patience and joy. Whenever I am there to see her poppies blooming I get that feeling – like she’s speaking to me through their brilliant red blooms.
$375 each
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Jen Diver - JSD Art
"Joined Together"
36×28, acrylic on canvas
“Joined Together” reflects the immense gratitude and peace I felt following my oldest son’s recovery from a life-threatening disease. This work was created during his long recovery process. I patiently added layer on top of layer, painting on days I felt hopeful and thankful. As a mother, I am forever joined together with my
children’s experiences and feelings.
$1,400
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Grace Federighi
"Eternal Bloom"
16.5 x 13.5, oil on canvas
My figures represent the sensuality of a woman and her boldness to express her own self without regard for criticism or hindrances. When my work is welcomed into your space, I want you to embrace your own sensuality, beauty and worth.
Eternal Bloom symbolizes beauty, fertility, life and resilience. Like the petals protecting the core of a flower, she is protected by gold petals painted with a palette knife.
$2,200
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Diana Leviton Gondek
"Family Time"
10″ x 10″ oil on canvas, 2019
Precious moments between a mother and her child or children come in the most beautiful to the most common acts. As seen in “Family Time.” Bonding comes from understanding each other’s likes and dislikes. As mundane as being on one’s phone can be, closeness can be found.
$3,000
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