Paper Work Art Exhibition in Portsmouth, NH

The PaperWork exhibition is a collection of works that focus on the versatility of paper. To achieve this, I use Asian papers that are delicate, translucent, and can withstand robust experimentation and invention. Despite their fragile appearance, these newly constructed drawings have endured extensive manipulation to become artifacts of their own making.

My work develops in an exchange of traditional and non-traditional methods and materials. This approach provides an open field for intuition, improvisation, and chance. Drawings make their way into paintings. Prints and drawings become cut-paper assemblages and structures. Through this process, the work undergoes multiple transformations, and each alteration leaves a trace of the turbulence, tranquility, and beauty I experience each day.

Denise Manseau, b. 1959 Somerville, Massachusetts, currently lives and works in Rye, New Hampshire. Manseau holds a BFA from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Manseau attended Haystack Mountain School of Craft in Maine as an Open Studio Resident and a resident artist at Vermont Studio Center. Manseau’s work from her residency at Lo Studio dei Nipote, Monasterace, Italy was included in a traveling exhibition at the Monasterace Museo and the Hillyer Art Space for International Artists, Washington, DC. Recent exhibitions include Westbeth Gallery, New York, Five Points Arts, Connecticut and The Piano Factory, Boston.