South Boston Fall Open Studios will be on November 5th & 6th 2011. Come and view over 40 local artists including myslelf!
I'm in Studio #210!! For more information, check out the Distillery's website

Check out my interview with Caughtinsouthie.

The Distillery Gallery is pleased to present "Moving Forward," an exhibit of new and recent works by long-time Distillery artist, Vanessa Irzyk. The show will pair Irzyk's current abstract works with selections from the artist's previous series of figurative paintings.
Irzyk has recently departed from her span of uniquely tempestuous depictions of people laden with exaggerated facial features and expression to focus on a new series of abstract mixed media pieces. The process for each of these bodies of work begins with a predetermined background color where imagery is then created upon and influenced by that hue. The abstract works are full of fast-moving forms that swirl and stack with interrelated areas that are covered up, revealed, and cropped. Through the use of opposing colors, the artist prompts vibration and movement within each composition.
"Moving Forward" highlights Irzyk's current creative state while revealing the inherent connections to a previous one. Works from both series are undeniable specific to the artist's hand and display the culmination of diligent practice and progress.
Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, September 29, from 7-9pm

"Moving Forward"
New & Recent Works by Vanessa Irzyk
September 29 - November 1, 2011
Opening Reception: September 29, 7-9pm
contact: Scott Chasse, gallery director
gallery@distilleryboston.com
www.gallery.distilleryboston.com
hours: Mon-Sat, 9-5

The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum is featuring Vanessa Irzyk at the Annual Coporate Night reception preceding the opening of the deCordova's Summer Exhibitions with exhibitions by artists: Andy Goldsworthy, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Park and Spencer Topel. deCordova Corporate Lending Program

I have an upcoming group show in Lowell April 2011.
MASSACHUSETTS ARTISTS 2011: Contemporary Work by the Artists of Massachusetts
March 20 to April 30, 2011
Artists' Reception: April 3 , 2 - 4 pm.
Juror: Jen Mergel (Robert L. Beal, Enid L. Beal and Bruce A. Beal Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Lowell is, and continues to become, a major, inviting destination for artists. The Brush Art Gallery is pleased to be able to showcase artists from all over the state of Massachusetts. Thirty two artists will be represented by a diverse range of work including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, mixed media and sculpture.
For more information please go to the Brush Gallery's website

I will be participating in a group show at the MEME Gallery in Central Square in Cambridge. The Show is entitled Carry Out and is curated by Courtney Moy. The premise is that each artist will recieve a 3" x 3" ziploc-style bag in which to create their work. MEME Gallery will host a one night exhibition of the work for sale on May 8, 2010. All work will be priced at 10 bucks each. Dope art for cheap, yo!

March- April 2010 I'll be showing up to 30 watercolors and 2 22" x 24" oil paintings at the fabulous Station 8 Salon on 761 Centre St. in Jamaica Plain.

It's time again for this season's The South Boston Open Studios They will be happening the first weekend of November 2009. October 31, 2009 and Nov. 1, 2009 from 12-6pm each day. Come to my Studio #210 in the Distillery to see my most recent work along with Aimee Belanger & Monica Nydam and a ton of other talented artists. For a complete list of locations & participants for 2009 and directions please check out: www.southbostonopenstudios.org

As the tumultuous world of commercial galleries continues to scramble for readjustment to today's sales-savy artists, alternative methods of display are at the forefront of a battle, a battle which The Distillery Gallery* has deemed: "Artageddon."

This exhibit gathers twenty artists from Boston and beyond who are moving forward in their careers regardless of a lack of gallery representation. Embracing alternative venues, social networks, street campaigns, and other creative outlets for their work, these artists are helping to shape the future of art commerce. Rather than rely on commissioned gallerists to vend their works, artists of today have the ability to independently exhibit and sell to a degree unparalleled in the past.

"Artegeddon," as an exhibit, highlights merely a fraction of the enormous pool of talented artists whom are diligently pressing forward amidst this transitional point in time. "Artageddon" as a concept will prompt fallout and unknown consequence which the exhibitors will continue to navigate and embrace.


I have one piece in that show and I was featured in a writeup on the Daily Serving blog!
http://www.dailyserving.com/co

"BluePRINT, Phase IV" opens on Tuesday, September 29th at The Blue Room in Kendall Square from 7-9pm. Featured artists are: Jarrett Golz, Vanessa Irzyk, and Anna Trzaska. I have about 12 pieces in the . The show will be up for about three months.

Jamaica Plain's newest art gallery "The Hallway Gallery" is my current location for the "To Mass a Crowd" series. Thirty, two inch square works are hung in the gallery for the month of July 2009. The Gallery is located at 66a South Street Jamaica Plain, MA. Hallway Gallery

I will be participating in a faux mythological group show in Miami with 30 other artists working in various mediums, at Gallery Diet. I have painted five football cards (that are on view on the website) 3.5"x5.5". The show will be displayed from June 13th-August 1st. To learn more about the story go to the Oh Nancy blog, or Gallery Diet's website.

Check out 3 of my paintings at the Blue Room Restuarant in Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA. It is a group show of artists from the Distillery working 10"x10" panels. The show will be displayed from June-August 2009.
Postcard and Info for Phase III"
Blue Room Website

I was recently written about in these blogs, http://myloveforyou.typepad.com/my_love_for_you/2009/02/vanessa-irzyk.html
://lumper.blogspot.com/2009/01/vanessa-irzyk.html

From December to January 2008 I will be showing seven of my pieces at the "Grand Small Works" Show in Philledelphia, Pennsylvania at the F.U.E.L. Collection Gallery.

Along with 9 other Distillery artists, I am are currently in a group show at the Blue Room in Kendall Square in Cambridge. The Show is called "Blueprint" and will be up from September-November 2008.

I was chosen to be a part of a group show in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Manifest Gallery's Fourth-Annual International Exhibit of Small Works. The Show is up from June 3rd-July 6th.

Hard Pressed
I had my first solo exhibition at the Brookline Arts Center featuring my new Pinpoint series. The show is up from April 7-25, 2008 and the opening was on April 11th 2008.