Gallery
Exhibition Archive June 2015 ~ August 2012
"The
Magic Touch"
Paintings by sculptor
Dana Naumann
New
Haven Free Public Library Gallery
(in the Business/Periodicals Room -- main level)
133 Elm Street, New Haven, CT 06510
Artist
Reception: Saturday, June 14th, 2 to 4 PM.
Exhibition:
June 8 - July 8, 2015
Dana
Naumann "The Observer" 36x36" acrylics
on canvas
Dana
Baldwin Naumann is a sculptor who creates fanciful
and historical-themed sculptures crafted from
hammered lead sheets.
--
But his paintings are equally fanciful -- depicting
mythic, mysterious, and archetypal scenes.
Until
1994, Naumann had a successful career as Vice-President
of Sales and Marketing with the Westinghouse Corporation
in Pittsburgh, but then determined to devote his
life to his art, a decision he says he has never
regretted. He and his wife Terrell operate the
Naumann Gallery in
North Branford, which is devoted to his sculpture
and her fashion clothing business.
Dana
Naumann "Oh, the Spoon" 36x36" acrylics
on canvas
Dana
Naumann's artworks have been shown in two shows
at Gallery RIVAA in New York City, Artworks Gallery
in Hartford, Art Expo in NYC, Gallerie Michele in
Washington DC, the Mystic Art Guild in Mystic, CT,
Vital Gallery in Hawaii, the York Square Gallery
in New Haven, Fre Wil in Los Angeles, CA, and at
the Jewish Community Center in Amity, CT. His first
show at RIVAA in 2009 was a solo exhibition of his
series of 20 lead sculptures dedicated to the theme
of The Holocaust.
Mr. Naumann's
works are in the permanent collections of The Aetna
in Los Angeles, CA, and in Hartford, CT, an Villanova
University, Villanova, PA.
He designed and contributed sculptures to the permanent
collections of United States Special Olympics, and
one of his pieces of a series created on the theme
of the Holocaust was given to the Thomas Dodd Center,
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. Other gifts
of work were made to the East Shore Adult Day Care
Center in Branford, CT, and to the Aids Project
in New Haven, CT.
Art critic
Steve Starger wrote about his work: "Naumann's
finely wrought sculptures aren't depressing or oppressive.
He draws on African and mythological references
to create monolithic faces that are inspired by
ritual masks and statuary, like monuments or totems
left by a long-vanished civilization. These elongated
faces appear aloof and ascetic, but are also strangely
poignant, and each emanates a sense of mystery and
longing."
These
comments also well describe Dana Naumann's paintings.
Dana
Naumann "He's Home, He's Free" 18x36"
acrylics on canvas
Gallery Hours: Monday - Thursday
10 AM - 8 PM;
Friday and Saturday 10 AM to 5 PM.
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Art Gallery Director: Johnes Ruta (203) 387-4933
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3
Generations a show of 60 artworks
by 3 generations
of the Rabinowitz Family:
Harold
Rabinowitz, Kiki Rabinowitz, Abbie Rabinowitz,
Rebecca Rabinowitz, Sandy Rabinowitz, Toni Kirchner,
and Mary Rabinowitz (1965-2007).
The
Jewish Community Center
of Greater New Haven
360 Amity Road , Woodbridge, CT 06525
Shelley Ganz, Director
Artists'
Reception:
Sunday September 21, 3 to 5 pm.
Exhibition: September 3
-November 11, 2014.
Curated by Johnes Ruta
Art Gallery Director New Haven Free Public Library
The
Rabinowitz family of Bethany are patrons of the
arts, in the real sense of the parents, Harold and
Kiki, along with Ann Lehman,
having been the founders and first instructors of
the highly regarded Creative Arts Workshop in 1961,
in New Haven. All active in the arts,
Harold Rabinowitz is a painter, and the father of
daughters and a 21 year-old granddaughter who are
each an artist in their own right.
Harold
Rabinowitz "Winter Woods" watercolor
32" x 39"
Harold
and Kiki Rabinowitz
met in 1945. Harold graduated Yale Art School
with an MFA in1952. He paints nature with passionate,
exuberant paint strokes, overlapping planes of
color, with a personal
calligraphic signature. Kiki is a musician and
artist, Together they bought land in Bethany,
CT where they built a large, rambling stone house
by themselves. Eventually they had a family of
six children who
also became artists and musicians, with the exception
of one astrophysicist, and a jazz bassoonist.
Harold
and Kiki taught children’s art classes every
weekend in their home. Along with their friend
Ann Lehman, they were the founders and first instructors
of Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven.
The Rabinowitz children practically grew up at
CAW, participating in classes and workshops since
its conception. Harold taught art at the Amity
Regional Highschool system in Woodbridge for 20
years.
Harold and Kiki also created an school art supply
business. They invented Twisteezwire sculpture
wire and the Waxmelter, a tool designed to melt
crayons and wax for batik and encaustic.
Abbie
Rabinowitz "Weir Farm Grove" oil
on canvas board 12" x 15"
Abbie
Rabinowitz: “Painting
is a Tango, a dance that engages my intellect,
sensuality, and the natural rhythm of my body.
It is relationship between myself, my subject
and my medium. Like couples moving
in a line of dance around the room, my paintings
trace the pattern of my brush marks around the
canvas. In each painting I find my own tempo
and respond to that rhythm. From beginning to
end my paintings
remain in a state of flux as I alternate between
leader and follower. The pauses in Tango are
as important as the motion. When I pause I can
listen to my painting while it guides me to
the next stroke."
After
graduating art school in 1979 with a BFA from
SUNY (State University of New York) at Purchase,
Abbie moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where
she pursued her art. She attended San Francisco
State University for two years where she learned
computer graphics. This allowed here to make
a living as a computer artist and freelance
while pursuing her career as a painter.She is
currently living in Bethany and getting her
MFA at West Connecticut State University in
painting.
Sandy
Rabinowitz "Nereyev" watercolor
25" x 31"
Sandy
Rabinowitz,
born into a family of artists and musicians, has
been drawing since she could pick up a crayon,
and has always loved animals, especially horses:
“Almost as soon as that crayon was in my
hand I was drawing horses!” Despite parental
objections, I was determined to own one of these
magnificent creatures, so I entered a contest
to win a pony when I was eight years old. I won!
My parents gave in and since that fateful day
I have ridden, trained, bred, driven, competed
and reveled in the aroma of barns, hay, and horse
manure!”
Sandy
attended Cooper Union and Parsons School of
Design where she focused on children’s
book illustration, and while there wrote, illustrated
and published the first of several picture books
about horses.
This led to a career in children’s book
illustration where she drew and painted all
sorts of subject matter.
After
graduating from college she became a life-long
student in the equestrian discipline of dressage,
and later an editor of Dressage Today magazine
asked her to illustrate a monthly feature called
"Solutions,"
for which she has now illustrated for nearly
20 years. She also created a new product for
braiding horses manes and tails, called ‘Braideez’
which she has been marketing since 2011.
Rebecca
Rabinowitz "Woods and Marsh" watercolor
16" x 13"
Rebecca
Rabinowitz'
watercolor landscapes are created out of pure
joy. Every painting is a story of escape from
a hard chair, a computer screen and a thousand
responsibilities. Each painting represents a special
and specific moment; an hour or two hiding in
a field, sitting on a shore, studying the old
yellow house next to Ice Pond road getting covered
by road dust. Enjoying every blob of paint, and
the joy of mixing colors
and the challenge to capture the beauty around
us on paper.
Toni
Kirchner "Kiki and Harold" pastels
23" x 28"
Toni
Kirchner is Harold and Kiki Rabinowitz'
21 year-old granddaughter, and a practicing artist.
She is the daughter of Paul Kirchner and Sandy
Rabinowitz both artists/illustrators. Toni has
been gifted in art since she was born, She has
a keen eye and works well creating art from both
memory and photographs. She is talented in sculpture
as well, and is self taught and skilled at getting
the essence of both animals and people. She is
a great animal lover which is reflected in her
art. Commissions gladly accepted.
Curated
by Johnes Ruta, independent curator & art
theorist,
Art Director New Haven Free Public Library
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INFINITIES
art works by Maxwell Clark
New
Haven Free Public Library Gallery
(in the Business/Periodicals Room -- main level)
133 Elm Street, New Haven, CT 06510
Artist
Reception: Saturday, June 28th, 2 to 4 PM.
Exhibition:
June 10 - July 28, 2014
Maxwell
Clark "Eggs" acrylics on canvas 42x20
My
Psychosis + My Paintings
By
Maxwell Clark
‘All
faces envelope an unknown, unexplored landscape;
all landscapes are populated by a loved or dreamed-of
face, develop a face to come or already past.’
—Deleuze
and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
If
you were to take my paintings as landscapes and
my expressions trace in them as the face of my
beloved others, then you would be very neatly
and justly identifying my paintings.
I express your faces, my beloveds, inasmuch as
they are proximate to me in the poesy (or doing)
of my paintings. Unlike as in the joyous melancholia[1]
of my poems, my paintings evidence my passion
to educate a future of new love. Or, whereas my
poems ever so delicately lament my loss in various
estrangements from beloveds, my paintings very
rigorously
investigate how love itself is to be renovated.
The erotically zen languor of my painting practice,
it is my imagination of the good life incarnated.
In my poems as in my paintings, however, I am
obligated to obey the sway of my exteriorities.
I just obey their otherness, or the Other itself,
with different modes of obedience in my poems
as opposed to that of my paintings. My paintings
are my oracles or augurs of a future sensuality.
They do not predict the future at all, however,
they merely register the traces of its affect
on me or influence into me. I do not say my paintings
are the future itself, I say they are archives
touched with its absolutely unforeseeable imminence.
My paintings may come to be known as having influenced
the future, as in my dreams, of course, but this
only when their own future is already long past.
“Don’t it always seem to go/ That you
don’t know what you’ve got till it’s
gone” (Joni Mitchell).
[1]
Melancholia, as in: suffering the loss of a beloved.
Thus also a past oriented “facing”.
Maxwell
Clark would prefer, in accord with his ethics, to
leave himself absolutely unidentified. If there
were any possible social justice available in his
own self-description, however, he would call himself
a creator of infinities, or Infinitist. Maxwell
Clark is a young New Haven artist who, in addition
to his skill as a painter, also takes a deep interest
in the study of historical art and philosophy. He
studied Art at the University of Vermont, and Urban
Studies at Yale.
Maxwell
Clark "Footprints" acrylics on canvas
56x36
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Artist Reception: Saturday, June 28th, 2 to 4
PM. (in the Business/Periodicals Room -- main
level)
133 Elm Street, New Haven, CT 06510
Exhibition: June 10 - July 28,
2014
Gallery Hours: Monday - Thursday
10 AM - 8 PM; Friday and Saturday 10 AM to 5 PM.
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Art Gallery Director: Johnes Ruta (203) 387-4933
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"Forgotten
Roses"
a
solo show of artworks by
Carolina Guimarey
New
Haven Free Public Library Gallery (lower level)
133 Elm Street, New Haven, CT 06510
Artist Reception:
Saturday September 7, 2 to 4 PM. Exhibition
thru October 3, 2013
Carolina
Guimarey "Forgotten Roses II" mixed media,
18" x 18"
“FORGOTTEN
ROSES”, A SOLO ART SHOW
BY CAROLINA GUIMAREY Post Minimalist Whispers Lustfully Flirt with
Medieval Flavors
Essay by Mercedes Arensberg, Art historian
Carolina Guimarey, a CT professional visual artist
will have a One-Woman Art Exhibition at the New
Haven Public Library with opening reception Saturday,
September 7, from 2-4pm, at Ives Main Library, 133
Elm Street, New Haven CT 06510. The exhibit will
run from August 29, to October 3, 2013 and is curated
by Johnes Ruta of Azoth Gallery.
Guimarey's work is included in collections across
the United States, Argentina, Italy and Spain. From
an early age, she received art training directly
from master artists in her native Buenos Aires,
Argentina, as well as at University of Connecticut
where she studied drawing, sculpture, painting and
photography.
Her work captures the viewer’s attention immediately
with a sense of quiet dignity filled with tamed
yet intense passion. To walk through her studio
and gallery exhibitions, one gets the sense of being
conveyed, through deeply intellectual perspectives,
and strong emotional & philosophical components,
to an encounter which captures the facets of human
experience. These components reveal an underlying
social commentary.
Carolina
Guimarey "Behind the Restraints" mixed media,
20" x 16"
In
“Hidden Realities II” we see several boxes
filled with what appear to be rolled up little papers,
scrolls. The repetition of the small scrolls as well
as that of the boxes where they are contained speak
of individual identities, which have been packaged
and limited by externally imposed limitations and
structures. These trapped and restricted “individual
parts” are easily associated with in the viewer’s
mind, but also in the context of an art historical
discourse. In the explanation of her work, she relates
these visual perspectives with the state of contemporary
society and culture, where communication has become
limited by the computer screen, the IPhone touchpad,
the frame of the text message, the profile on the
social media, the space allotted to the tweet, and
the confines of the small apartment in the booming
urban city. One is made conscious of the state of
affairs where, even though there are more inhabitants
on earth than ever before, it is prevalent for communication
and interaction among them and with the world, to
take place in confined and limited virtual or factual
spheres and spaces. Thus the global consciousness
is characterized by a sense of isolation and confinement.
Carolina
Guimarey "Breaking the Emptiness II" mixed
media, 20" x 20"
Guimarey’s
work presents itself, softly, stoically and with
great dignity, it is reminiscent of Jorge Luis Borges
writings and of Eva Hesse’s unforgettable sculptures.
Yet, in spite of its systematic construction, its
soft, pleasant, texture, and the humility and quiet
which exudes from the pieces—within every one
there is visually described an act of courage, a
statement of rebellion, a call to awareness. —
For instance, in “Behind the Restraints”,
even though the vibrant blood red hue is hidden
behind the stitches of restraint, societal norm,
and indoctrina-tion -- towards the bottom of the
picture plane we can see these stitches seem to
be coming undone, and a larger triangular area of
red coming through, symbolizing the inevitable escape
of the individual consciousness from the Status
Quo.
An exhibition not to be missed, one of the most
inspiring and surprising artist of our times.
New
Haven Free Public Library Gallery (lower level)
133 Elm Street, New Haven, CT 06510
Artist
Reception: Saturday July 20, 2 to 4 PM.
Mason
Markley "Birds of a Feather" oils on canvas,
22" x 28"
My
love of art began early when I was a kid living
down in the Gulf of Mexico. I would take old coat
hangers and shape them into seagulls that I saw
on the beach. My dad kept one of these and it
always meant a lot to me to see it up on his shelf.
In 1980 we moved to Taos New Mexico where my father
would take me around to the galleries and go ‘window
shopping'. I remember being at gatherings where
people were painting, but I was still a little
young to understand what was going on. We eventually
moved to the Midwest where it wouldn't be till
college that I picked up the brush myself.
Mason
Markley "Some Things Are Better Left Undone"
oils on canvas, 22" x 28"
My
art comes from a place of feeling. I am always trying
to capture how I feel about what is going on in
my life. I love to use a lot of color, thick paint,
and be a little messy. I never quite feel that art
must be perfect.I believe that we are messy people,
with messy feelings and that confusion is what makes
life interesting and beautiful
Mason
Markley "Abstract 7"
oils on canvas, 22" x 28"
Mason
Markley "Untitled 12"
oils on canvas, 22" x 28"
After a short stint at Hastings
College in Nebraska and Purdue University in Indiana,
I moved back to New Mexico and attended the University
of New Mexico graduating in 2001 with honors in
Cultural Anthropology and History. I have taken
courses in art and am looking into various MFA
programs, but I believe that most of my training
has come from traveling and living in various
places, meeting other artists and my life experiences.
All told I have been in every state except Alaska
and lived now in 9 US states. In 2010 I settled
down and bought a house in Connecticut where I
have a studio in my barn.
Mason
Markley "Flesh and Color"
oils on canvas, 15" x 28"
Mason
Markley "Love Dances"
oils on canvas, 22" x 28"
Color
Out of the Blue
Paintings by Kristina Zallinger
The
New Haven Free Public Library Gallery
133 Elm Street (Lower Level) New Haven, CT 06510
Artists'
Reception: Saturday, June 1, 2 to 4 PM
Kristina
Zallinger "Flash in the Pan"
acrylics on canvas, 30" x 30"
"My paintings are all about color and
texture," says Kristina Zallinger. "I
live in a world surrounded by it. With each
of them I try to dazzle the viewer with delight!
I have been told that my work makes people happy.
That is my intention. Often people miss the
presence of color. I like to remind them of
it. I isolate a flower garden, a piece of glass,
my approach to a waterfall and any images that
I see in my mind. The color and texture both
create a feeling of depth within the canvas.
I often quip that 'color is my middle name!'
"
Kristina
Zallinger "Little White Square"
acrylics on canvas, 30" x 30"
Kristina
Zallinger "Blue Suede Shoes"
acrylics on canvas, 16" x 20"
Exhibition:
May 30 - July 16, 2013
THE
ISLAND ARTISTS OF RIVAA
The International Enclave
of Artists of Gallery RIVAA Roosevelt
Island, NYC
The
New Haven Free Public Library Gallery
133 Elm Street (Lower Level) New Haven, CT
06510
Artist
Reception: Saturday, October 13, 2 to 4 PM.
Exhibition
thru November 16, 2012.
Barbara
deCew -- "Waters of Time"
acrylics on canvas, 48"
x 30"
the
artists:
Valeriu
Boborelu
Rachel Garrick
Annette R. Hochberg (1918-2012)
Piotr Olszewski
Ioan Popoiu
Edel Stuehmke-Levy
Barbara
deCew
Toshiko Kitano Groner
Arlene Jacoby
Kevin Pope
Georgette Sinclair
Victoria Thorson
Guest
Curator: Barbara deCew, Vice-President RIVAA
Gallery,
Roosevelt Island, NYC
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The
Roosevelt Island Visual Art Association
(RIVAA) is a cooperative of artists in an international
community, located on an island in the East
River, NYC, bridging Manhattan and Long Island
City, Queens. Established in March, 2001, its
membership of approximately twenty-five artists
promotes RIVAA as a dedicated cultural center
which provides monthly classical music concerts,
jazz salons, poetry readings, modern dance and
theatre events!
Toshiko
Kitaro Groner -- "Hampton"
oils on canvas, 18" x
24"
Vicoria
Thornton -- "Basswood Abstraction"
wood sculpture, 30" x
15" x 11"
Georgette
Sinclair - "On the Coast of Maine"
dry pastels, 19" x 22"
Ioan
Popoiu -- "Anonymous"
acrylics on canvas, 36" x 48"
Piotr
Roland Olszewski -- "Roosevelt Island"
photograph, 18" x 24"
Exhibition:
October 13 - November 16, 2012
Red,
Blue, White,
Bodies of Light ...
art works by
Valeriu Boborelu
A
Romanian art educator whose creative, spiritual
vision brought him to the US in 1983, Valeriu
Boborelu paints fractal layers of space/time.
Luminous, transparent beings gesture and vibrate
in the cosmic dance
of karma.
OPENING
RECEPTION:
SATURDAY, April 28, 2012, 6:00 - 9:00 PM
Guest Curator: Johnes Ruta
Valeriu
Boborelu"Phthalo
- Blue Celestial Meditation"
acrylics on canvas, 60" x 60"
Artist
Valeriu Boborelu is an inspired painter of human
shapes in ancestral & anthropomorphic silhouettes
-- silhouettes integrated in verticals, obliques,
and spirals superimposed to create a continuous
movement of Space. Using contrasts in a reduced
range of colors, polarities of white & black,
large strokes of modulated grays, gestural tensions
create a Chromatic Vertigo, a vibration, and
depth: "In my paintings are human shapes
and forms inspired by the mineral and floral
worlds. Figures are luminous, transparent and
pearl-white colored, and appear from the Blue-Black
depths of space. Underlying geometric drawing
combines with the harmony of sober color. There
is a dialogue between Part and Totality. In
my vision, these figures symbolize our subtle
inner-nature of Wisdom and Compassion -- our
spiritual Bodies of Light."
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video
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Valeriu
Boborelu "Luminous Magenta
Romanian Figures"
acrylics on canvas, 60" x 60"
Boborelu
hails originally from Bucharest, Romania. He
obtained his MFA in 1965 at the Nicolae Grigorescu
Academy of Fine Arts there, as a student of
the world-famous painter Gheorghe Saru. He went
on to teach Composition and Drawing there from
1966 to 1982, and became the Chair of Painting.
After studying Painting, Drawing, and Art Documentation
in Perugia, Rome, Bologna, Venice, Naples, Sicily,
East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Russia, he
was allowed to make study visits to Paris, from
where in 1983 he was able to bring his family
out of Ceausescu’s Romania, finally settling
in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York.
Boborelu’s early paintings were influenced
by Romanian traditional art, such as old icons
on glass, rugs from Oltenia and Moldavia, and
ceramics pots. There is a visionary relation
between color and value, the equilibrium and
rhythm of shapes, dynamicity, exaltation, a
cool / warm dialogue.
Valeriu
Boborelu "Blue Meditation"
acrylics on canvas, 48" x 36"
"I
believe that an artist-painter has to think
and feel continuously in form-color, to translate
all the events of life in symbol colored images.
Color, the essential element in art painting,
can tell us about the depth and warmth of
life, and the uniqueness of our psychic experiences.
Spiritually, color is a vehicle to penetrate
and experience the Superior Planes of Consciousness.
Art painting is the happiness and joy of life:
the aesthetic manifestation of human beings.
It is the inner, spiritual vibration sent
to other souls -- the special way of seeking
our real Identity."
Boborelu
had one man shows in several Bucharest galleries,
and was in group shows in Warsaw, Turin, Helsinki,
Venice, Moscow, Sofia, and Budapest. Working
in Paris 1982-83, he was in the "Salon
D'Automne," "Grand Palais"
shows, and in recent years, Montmartre, The
International Festival of Paris, The Biennial
Drawing Exhibition at the Art Gallery Le Puget.
In the U.S., he has shown at the Alex Gallery
in Washington DC; the York Square Gallery,
New Haven; in NYC at Tribeca 148, Artist’s
Space, Gallery Korea, the East-West Gallery
at the Romanian Cultural Center, and GALLERY
RIIVA on Roosevelt Island. His work is in
private and State collections.
Directions
to Gallery RIVAA:
From
GRAND CENTRAL STATION in Manhattan: Walk 3
blocks west (right) on 42nd Street to the
corner of 6th Avenue, at Bryant Park; take
the F Subway Train uptown. Get off at the
4th stop (the FIRST STOP after LEXINGTON AVE/E63rd
ST.). Exit the subway station and walk north
(right) 1/8 mile on Main Street to Gallery
RIVAA, 527 Main Street.
OR
take the Roosevelt Island TRAM from E60th
& 2nd Ave.
On Roosevelt Island, exit the tram station
and walk north 1/4 mile on Main Street to
Gallery RIVAA, 527 Main Street.
"It
all started as a child (ha ha). I was really into
heroes like Bat Man," says Nick Grossmann,
alias "Mickey Wolve." "I used to
make up my own evil villains and try to be as
creative as possible as to their unique super
powers. Come middle school, I was very misunderstood.
I had a few good friends but was definitely part
of the anti-establishment. I discovered Punk Rock
at the age of fourteen and fell completely in
love with the music because it was non-conformist
like me. I took up writing and composing music,
calling myself a troubadour and playing country/punk.
Life wasn't easy. I felt like an Outlaw. I didn't
know what it was like to be a 'typical' person,
and I still don't.
Nicholas
Grossmann - "Sea Gypses" - triptych,
oil on canvas, 72"w x 48"h
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by Stan Olshefski
"As
I got older, I remained troubled and got into some
major...let's just say some Outlaw issues that wasted
chunks of time away from my life. Eventually I started
getting tired of this lifestyle. I believe that
when you're an artist, you are different and it's
hard when you're not accepted; a lot of us become
rebels in our own way. Things changed a lot when
my son Dylan came along and some friends have also
changed my life as well. I came to the conclusion
that it wasn't worth getting in trouble anymore.
I happened to go to a Native American Indian Pow
Wow just to go buy some art or crafts from them
and ended up in a powerful conversation with a man
there who was a Shaman and he told me that I was
gonna go on a journey to find myself. Well after
that, some unexplainable, mystical things happened
and I became even more of a loner. I went on long
hikes, meditated and played music, alone. It was
really spiritual to have all that time to myself
as well as to having a son. If I can say I have
a spiritual belief and categorize it, it's looking
out for others more then myself. I believe in helping
the sick, Homeless, and animals because that's worth
more to me then all the money in the "world.
Nicholas
Grossmann - "A Loner in a Lost City"
oil on canvas, 48"w x 64"h
"One
day about three years ago, out of the blue, I went
to the art store and bought supplies and started
painting. I did five or six oil paintings and people
really loved them. I discovered I truly loved painting
memories, dreams and visions on canvas. I dedicate
much of my time to my art because I feel passionate
about the arts and my paintings. My favorite color
is purple and I use it a lot. I like capturing the
little things in life that are absolutely breathtaking
to me." ~Nick Grossmann
Nicholas
Grossmann "Friends of the Neighborhood -
Waste Haven" oils on canvas, 68"w x
50"h
Nick
Grossmann's artworks, with their vivid, blended
colors, emerging and submerged forms, and deliberately
trapezoidal shaped stretched canvases, have been
shown at many venues, including Umbrella Arts, NYC;
The Nest Arts Factory, Bridgeport; Rosie in New
Canaan; the Bridgeport Arts Fest; Visions of Hope
for Japan; and Caffeine in South Norwalk.
Nicholas
Grossmann "Italiano Terrotso (Carmine)"
oils on canvas, 20"w x 16"h
Exhibition: February 18 - March
31, 2012
"Stolen
I.D.: Fragmented, Colonized,
and Lost"
paintings by GORDON SKINNER
The
New Haven Free Public Library Gallery
133 Elm Street (Lower Level) New Haven, CT 06510
Artist
Reception: Thursday, January 19, 5 to 7 PM.
The subject of identity
is one every artist battles with; whether this means
voiding identity of its importance or basing one’s
art entirely on what it means to be a Self and a
human. Gordon Skinner’s work falls within the
litmus of an identity in crisis. As a young African-American,
the frustration felt by the artist at his lack of
ownership in society is something that is centuries
old and runs deep with in the veins of society.
He is part of a group that feels fragmented, colonized,
and lost. As Skinner puts it, “I feel robbed
of my heritage and culture.”
This anger and frustration is
too big to put into words. So, two years ago in
2009, Skinner turned to paint to vent that sense
of invisibility in a tangible way. He began painting
figures wearing colorful masks that represent
both concealment and expression. Though their
true identities, defining features, and identifying
qualities are obfuscated by the mask, the images
are expressive and dynamic. Skinner tends to challenge
the norms of American society in his images, calling
upon the sedatives fed to the public through television
and reliance on petroleum. In other works, he
commemorates those artists that inspire him, from
Joan Mitchell to Tracey Emin, expressing that
he is fully conscious of the fact that, as a young
artist, he is a subject of those who blazed the
trail before him.
Gordon
Skinner - "Tin Drum" acrylic house paint,
spray paint, and collage on canvas, 36" x
48"
Full
of vigor and animation, his work is raw, spontaneous,
colorful, and fragmented. You escape nothing when
viewing his work; through a variety of mediums,
he lays everything out on the table to be picked
over and looked at. There is a rough, almost primal,
edge to his artwork. It comes from a severely
emotional place, creating an instant and intimate
connection with the viewer. Skinner is locating
his voice out of voicelessness; as an artist,
he is emerging into a category of human that transcends
definition and exists purely in a place of creativity
and innovation.
Gordon
Skinner is a visiting artist to the Fernando Luis
Alvarez Gallery. He is a New Haven area artist.
Gordon
Skinner - "Wise Noble" acrylic house
paint and spray paint on canvas, 36" x 48"
Gordon
Skinner - "Crack Baby" acrylic house
paint on wood panel, 21" x 24 1/2"
Exhibition: January 10 - February
19, 2012
MONDOEXPRESSIONISM
featuring the paintings of
elisa vegliante
The
New Haven Free Public Library Gallery
133 Elm Street (Lower Level) New Haven, CT 06510
Artist
Reception: Saturday, August 11, 2 to 4 PM.
Exhibition
thru September 8, 2012.
Elisa
Vegliante "Outside
Art Fair"
oils on canvas, 22" x 28"
Welcome
to the world of “Mondoexpressionism”
a term created by New Haven artist Elisa Vegliant
which can be roughly translated as "Beyond
‘The Scream.’" Reaching for words
to describe her massive, iconoclastic body of
work, clichés like "poignant",
"provocative" and other recycled expletives
are impotent and absurd. (This curator would credit
it as a form of "Maximalism," in the
vein of such a painter as her colleague, outsider
Maurice Hansen (1941-2000) -- but whereas Hansen's
work is narrative, Vegliante's is explosive.)
Arty Fields
of The Patterson Review of Art notes that by
“combining the expressionism of Edvard
Munch with the personal visual documentation
of Frida Kahlo, Vegliante’s … [oil
on canvas] paintings merge elements of inner
psychology with events in the material world
to form a haunting, disturbing, enlightening
and completely unique body of work… Her
paintings vividly illustrate the psychological
and philosophical under-pinnings of characters
and events, the spiritual motivation behind
things, rather than the things themselves. Her
bold and shameless paintings make for an ongoing
cultural diary of Western Civilization’s
mass hysteria
at the breaking point.”
Elisa
Vegliante "Vinny's
Chicken"
oils on canvas, 22" x 28"
Ms.
Vegliante also stars in husband Ace Fronton’s
backyard films as the eccentric actress, Yahuba
Daley, such as in the astonishing (to this viewer),
feature-length "Seven Ghastly Sins"
: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVHesnVbvao&feature=youtube_gdata_player
These films,
like Vegliante’s paintings, are multidimensional
vignettes of psycho/social commentary in motion
picture format, giving voice to another facet
of the artist’s boundless creativity.
For more
images and information on Elisa Vegliante's
work and exhibitions, please visit the artist's
website at http://www.mondoexpressionism.com
Elisa
Vegliante "Hot
Nut Stand"
oils on canvas, 22" x 28"
Exhibition:
August 8 -September 8, 2012
"In
Relationship with Time"
art works by
Michael Sundra
The
New Haven Free Public Library Gallery
133 Elm Street (Lower Level) New Haven, CT 06510
Artist
Reception: Saturday, May 12, 2 to 4:30 PM.
Michael
Sundra "Elisa and Elenya"
mixed media on canvas, 48"w x 48"h
“I
respond to things that are in relationship with time,”
says Michael Sundra. "Words in a dream that came
one morning in early 2007 soon after I began investigating
the arch form (the oldest man-made form in the world),
as subject matter for a new direction in my work:
'More than geometry, strength, mystical meaning in
sacred western architecture. Vesica Piscis (Pisces).'
"In
painting, the object, the idea is only pretext.
The act of painting is in direct relationship with
time. The essence of which (not only form) is really
what is being explored. The painting usually finds
it’s way – if you allow it to happen."
Click
on the image below to play the Artist Talk videos
1 &2.
Click on the "Full Screen" button for
a large view. (20 minutes)
Michael
Sundra "In Relationship with
Time V" mixed media on canvas, 48"w
x 48"h
Michael
Sundra was born in 1948 in Cleveland, Ohio and resides
in Farmington, Connecticut. In 1972 he graduated from
the Paier College of Art in New Haven with a degree
in Photography. His work has been featured in national
and international exhibits. One of the most notable
appearances of his work was as a part of “Americans
on Americans,” the photographic tour that opened
at the Kiev Museum of Art in Kiev, Ukraine in 1997,
and featured work from his Venice Beach, California
series where his art was displayed alongside works
by Annie Liebowitz, Walker Evans, Dorthea Lange, Herb
Ritts, Bernice Abbot, and “Beat” poet Allen
Ginsburg.
Michael
Sundra "In Relationship with
Time III" mixed media on canvas, 48"w
x 48"h
As
a photographer, Sundra is most known for his black
and white conceptual portraits and mixed media art
that incorporate his B&W portraits as pretext
for painting. He has worked commercially for many
national clients and Fortune 500 companies, out
of his former Colt building studio, in Hartford,
for twenty years. Many of his fine art photographs
reside in corporate and private collections.
Michael
Sundra "In Relationship with
Time VI" mixed media on canvas, 48"w
x 48"h
Sundra’s
interest in painting began in 1990 in mixed media
and he has gradually made painting his primary focus
as an artist. In "Relationship With Time,"
his current work embraces ancient architectural forms,
primarily the arch, in it’s relationship to primordial,
mystical, and spiritual energies; it’s strength,
and the influence the arch has had on civilization
over time as both aesthetic and utilitarian elements.
Michael
Sundra "In Relationship with
Time XIV" mixed media on canvas, 48"w
x 48"h
Exhibition:
May 3 - June 18, 2012
POSTERS
FROM AN ISLAND - Classic Films vs. Contemporary
Cuban Design -- An exhibition in conjuction with the New Haven
International Ibero-AMERICAN Film Festival
The
New Haven Free Public Library Gallery
133 Elm Street (Lower Level) New Haven, CT 06510
Artist
Reception: Tuesday, October 2, 3 to 5 PM.
Exhibition
thru October 12, 2012.
Nelson
Ponce' -- marquee poster: "A Clockwork Orange"
A
collection of posters designed by young cuban designers.
The exhibit will be curated by designers Nelson
Ponce, Raúl Valdes (RAUPA) and by Sara Vega,
an specialist from the Cinemateque of Cuba . The
number of available works will vary depending on
the exhibition space.
23 serigraphic works, format 51 x 76 cm, covering
international classic films as viewed by Cuban designers.
NELSON
PONCE'
Young Designers
Development of the serigraphic posters organized
by the young designers that work this artistic expression.
Di erten tgeneration al technologies.Current forms
of production. Caca (Friends of Posters
Club). Revitalization of the genre by young designers,
from 1999 to the
present.
Raul
Valdes Raupa - marquee poster
RAÚL
VALDES RAUPA
The second step
The cultural or cinema poster is the fi rst step
in a promotional or "popular” campaign.
The second step involves the development of the
idea and the graphic elements in order to create
a consequent story with multiple elements that will
support it. In this case, the audiovisual spot
is very strong in Cuba because of its masses and
visual appeal.
How do you develop a story with just a few minutes
from that fi rst step (the poster) ? It is done
from the poster, script, story board, animation
and composition.
Yolyanko
WIlliam - marquee poster - Piano with Saxes
SARA VEGA
Cinema Posters
Cinema Posters from an island Panoramic view of
the graphic arts
especially produced for the promotion of cuban cinema.
References to the peak reached by this manifestation
during the decades of the sixties and seventies,
the crisis of the eighties and nineties and the
new expressions that hinted to a recovery of the
genre during the last few years.
This renovation period occurs because of a new generation
of graduates from the Superior Institute of Design
which not only has contributed to the revitalization
of lm posters, but also to the productof posters
for other cultural institutions.
Exhibition:
September 12 - October 12, 2012
The
Amazing Himba People of NAMIBIA
photography by Barbara Paul
The
New Haven Free Public Library Gallery
133 Elm Street (Lower Level) New Haven, CT 06510
Artist
Reception: Saturday, April 14, 2 to 4:00 PM.
Barbara
Paul, of Westport, CT, photographs people living
in remote regions of Asia and Africa and other
parts of the world where few travelers visit.
She photographs their ethnic dress, tribal and
religious customs, festivals and daily way of
life, capturing the spirit of the moment in each
photograph.
"I
was privileged to visit twenty isolated Himba
villages in the rugged terrain of Northwestern
Namibia. It was impossible not to be awestruck
by the stunning women of this semi-nomadic tribe,
whose oiled and ochred skin gleams a deep red-orange,
and who wear extravagant thick braids and animal
hide skirts, headdresses and ornaments. The Himba
still preserve age-old habits and traditions which
have endured despite much adversity. They live
almost as they did centuries ago.
"I
was welcomed into every village, first by the
elder, then by other members of the community.
This photo exhibit reveals the daily life of women
caring for their children, cooking, picking corn,
men engaged in herding goats, and children playing
in the encampments. It was most spectacular to
photograph the Himba women exuberantly dancing,
their glorious braids flying out in all directions
as they spin their heads and bodies. They are
truly a fascinating people.
"By
photographing unique indigenous groups around
the world," says Barbara, "I hope to
provide understanding and respect for their culture,
their style of dress, their daily way of life,
and the steadfastness with which they preserve
their traditions. We can learn from them; we can
value their creativity; and we can make an effort
to help them maintain their identity while much
of the world's population becomes homogeneous.
24
"Not
Belonging To The Place
You Have Arrived At"
Artworks by Cecilia Whittaker-Doe
New
Haven Free Public Library Gallery
(in the Business/Periodicals Room -- main
level)
133 Elm Street, New Haven, CT 06510
Artist
Reception: Saturday, March 14th, 2 to
4 PM.
Exhibition:
March 10 - April 21, 2015
Cecilia
Whittaker-Doe "Wash"
oil,mixed-media on panel 18" x 18"
“Painting
is a place to go – a place to inhabit.
It’s the way I see the world, or
the way I would like to see the world.
It welcomes interpretation,” says
Cecilia Whittaker-Doe.
“The depiction of the movement of
water through a natural environment in
my paintings illustrates continual growth
and change.
“Perceived human and animalistic
forms that evolve from the chaos suggest
our intrinsic connection to a natural
environment that is both threatening and
joyful.”
Cecilia
Whittaker-Doe "Passing Cloud"
oil,mixed-media on panel 22" x 30"
The
artist's palette of brilliantly vivid
and soft color create abstract fields
that are both balanced and energized.
The conceptual focus is growth and change,
while the dense patterns of Ms. Whittaker-Doe's
abstract and natural analogies are visually
enigmatic and aesthetic.
Since 1996, Cecilia Whittaker-Doe has
been an Adjunct Professor at the New York
School of Interior Design. From
1990 to 2000 she was Founder/Art Director
of Doe Print Designs LTD., NYC, creating
textile surface designs for men’s
ties. In 1998 she was Adjunct Professor
at Parsons School of Design, and in 1996
was Visiting Artist in Printmaking at
St. John’s University, Queens,NY. She
assisted Nancy Graves in the application
of patina.
Cecilia
Whittaker-Doe "X-Rayed Earth"
oil,mixed-media on panel 36" x 36"
She
received her MFA at Brooklyn College in
2013, where she received three awards for
her work in 2012 and 2013. She received
her BFA at Buffalo State College in 1986,
Apprentice-Patina. She studies at Tallix
Art Foundry 1986-1987, and Siena University,
Italy in 1983.
Just in the past two years her artwork has
been exhibited at Nation III, Sideshow Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY.: Fractured Landscape, Callahan
Art Center, St., Francis College, Brooklyn,
NY; Art from the Boro’s, Denise Bibro
Fine Art, New York, NY; Landscape, Greenhouse
Café, Brooklyn, Curated by Jeanine
Bardo; Pain and Pleasure, Gallery Ell, NYC/London,
Curated by Kirsten Nash, Juried Fine Art
2014, Juried by Denise Bibro, Mills Pond
House Gallery, St. James, NY.
Cecilia
Whittaker-Doe "Red Tree"
oil,mixed-media on panel 16"x 20"
Gallery Hours: Monday
- Thursday 10 AM - 8 PM;
Friday and Saturday 10 AM to 5 PM.
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Art Gallery Director: Johnes Ruta (203)
387-4933 azothgallery@comcast.net
"Atlantic
and Southwestern Rocks"
Photography by Victoria Navin
Artist
Reception: Saturday April 25, 2 to 4 PM.
New
Haven Free Public Library Gallery
(in the Business/Periodicals Room -- main
level)
133 Elm Street, New Haven, CT 06510
Artist
Reception: Saturday, April 25th, 2 to 4
PM.
Exhibition:
April 21 - May 27, 2015
Victoria
Navin"Arizona Rocks 927"
digital photograph
"I have been taking photographs
for many years, but it is only in the
last few years that I have been able to
give full rein to my enthusiasm for photography!"
writes Victoria Navin. "Among my
favorite subjects are trees, rocks and
boulders, bodies of water, landscapes
and roof-scapes. I am also interested
in monumental architecture as well as
the smaller details that define a location
as unmistakably unique, such as doors,
windows, balconies and street-scapes."
Currently a resident of New Haven, Ms.
Navin has also lived in Wallingford and
Meriden, CT as well as Brooklyn, NY, Washington,
DC and Madrid, Spain. A graduate of Lyman
Hall High School and Albertus Magnus College,
she also holds master’s degrees from
New York University, Georgetown University
and Pratt Institute.
"A retired librarian, I do volunteer
work for two nonprofits in New Haven,"
she says. "Among my enthusiasms are
travel, reading, movies, theater, leaning
Portuguese and hiking. I enjoy sharing
photographs with my family and friends.
I am the mother of two adult daughters
not wanted by the FBI...
"My ATLANTIC AND SOUTHWESTERN ROCKS
exhibit consists of some photographs taken
during recent trips to the Atlantic coast
of New Hampshire, Arizona and New Mexico,
where I enjoyed the variety of rocks and
boulders featured in the natural landscape.
"This exhibit is dedicated to the
memory of Emilie Zernitz, my late great-aunt,
who pioneered the concept of groundwater
pollution and opened my eyes to the beauty
of rocks and boulders."
Victoria
Navin"Arizona Rocks 937"
digital photograph
Victoria
Navin"Atlantic Rocks 028"
digital photograph
Victoria
Navin"Northern New Mexico NM17"
digital photograph
Gallery Hours: Monday -
Thursday 10 AM - 8 PM;
Friday and Saturday 10 AM to 5 PM.
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Art Gallery Director: Johnes Ruta (203)
387-4933 azothgallery@comcast.net
The
Symmetry of Thought and Being
A
6-person art exhibit at
The OCTAGON
888 Main Street Roosevelt Island New York,
NY 10044
(in the Lobby Gallery) Directions below.
Artists’
Reception:
Saturday, October 18, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Exhibition:
October 18 to November 16, 2014
Gallery Hours: Daily 10 AM to 8 PM. Curated
by Johnes Ruta
Art Gallery Director New Haven Free Public
Library
Artists:
Maxwell
Clark
Philip
Falcone
John
Favret
Carolina
Guimarey
M.G.
"Trudy" Martin (1935-2013)
Kristina
Zallinger
THE
SYMMETRY OF THOUGHT AND BEING
This exhibition will explore the relations
between the three components of Symmetry,
Thought, and Being:
1. "Symmetry," the principle
of balance, the balance of elements in
Matter, the "static equilibrium"
of purely balanced weights versus the
"dynamic equilibrium" or asymmetry
of proportioned objects; 2. "Thought"
as the principle of personal interpretation
of life, existence, perceived objects,
Matter, and ephemera, and the personal
interpretation of experience: ... Descartes
"I think therefore I am" ; and
3. "Being," in the experience
and orientation of the physical world
and metaphysical dimensions -- the principles
of "Becoming" as process; and
of "Being" in the reality of
Matter and Dark Matter: ... as the early
Greek philosopher Parmenides surmised:
"Being is. Non-Being is; Being and
Non-Being are...:
Aside from philosophical and artistic
considerations, this exhibition explores
the sensations and sensibilities of personal
worlds from many perspectives, the meaning
and experience of being a person, being
an individual in a world of responsibilities
and choices, the thinking which is expressed
and private, and the balances required
in life. The purpose of asking these questions
is to perceive and understand the Universe,
and to evolve the human condition: "Life,
Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
!"
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on Frame button for Full Screen view, ^
here.
All
photos by Rita DeCassia.
Carolina
Guimarey "Cryptic Chronicles"
40x30 mixed media
Carolina
Guimarey, is a CT professional visual
artist whose work is included in collections
across the United States, Argentina, Italy
and Spain. From an early age, she received
art training directly from master artists
in her native Buenos Aires, Argentina and
continued learning drawing, sculpture, painting
and photography in USA at Norwalk C.College
and University of Connecticut .
Guimarey's work, in the format of the repetition
of small scrolls and boxes, speak of individual
identities, and captures the viewer’s
attention immediately with a sense of quiet
dignity filled with tamed yet intense passion.
To walk through her studio and exhibitions,
one gets the sense of being conveyed, through
intellectual perspectives, and strong emotional
& philosophical components, to an encounter
which captures the facets of human experience.
These components reveal an underlying social
commentary and an historical discourse.
There is a global consciousness characterized
by a sense of isolation and confinement.
Her work is reminiscent of Jorge Luis Borges
writings and of Eva Hesse’s sculptures.
Within every piece there seems visually
described an act of courage, a statement
of rebellion, a call to awareness.
M.G.
"Trudy" Martin (1935-2013) "The
Symmetry of Faces"
11x14 ink on black scratchboard
M.
G. “Trudy” Martin,
(1935-2013) studied at Westminster College,
PA, Ohio State University, The American
Craftsmen, R.I.T., NY; Pratt Graphics Center,
NYC, and the Brookfield Craft Center, CT.
She has taught at Manhattanville College,
NY, Hartford Art School, CT; Arcosanti,
AZ (the experimental strip city designed
by architect Paolo Solieri), and was head
of art department at Westover School in
MIddlebury, CT. She was Vice-President of
the Society of Connecticut Craftsmen, winner
of a Fulbright Grant to Italy, and original
member of the Makers Gallery in SoHo, NYC.
She had one-person exhibitions at the Mattatuck
Museum, Waterbury, CT, and at The Washington
Art Association, Washington Depot, CT.
Kristina
Zallinger "A Little White Square"
30x30 acrylics on canvas
Kristina
Zallinger says “My life revolves
around a palette of color. I am not sure why
or when this obsession began. It's sort of
an example of "who came first, the chicken
or the egg?". I know that I owe some
credit to my design teacher in art school
who taught color theory. He would challenge
us with squares upon squares of color-aid
paper, which I coveted. With this said and
done, I guess you could say that Josef Albers
and all his "Homages" influenced
my work as well. When I lived in Montana my
focus centered around Native American art
and culture. Totems, hide paintings and ledger
drawings became the iconography of the day.
Color was secondary at this point. My emphasis
was on drawing. Somewhere after that, upon
returning to Connecticut, I splashed into
a world of abstract expressionism. I could
barely pronounce it let alone paint it. I
kept saying to myself, "What am I doing?"
That phrase suggests growing pains and boy,
I had them! I still ask myself that question
although I have began to be less apprehensive.
However you always must be apprehensive or
you won't move forward, or grow, or change.
Maxwell
Clark "Topographical Map" acrylics
on canvas 26x22
Maxwell
Clark is a young thinker and researcher
on the principles of Thought who would call
himself a creator of infinities, an Infinitist;
a young New Haven artist who takes a deep
interest in the study of historical art and
philosophy. He studied Art at the University
of Vermont, and Urban Studies at Yale. “In
my paintings, I am obligated to obey the sway
of my
exteriorities. I just obey their Otherness.
My paintings are my oracles of a future sensuality.
They do not predict the future at all, however,
they merely register the traces of its affect
on me or influence into me. I do not say my
paintings are the future itself, I say they
are archives touched with its absolutely unforeseeable
imminence. My paintings may come to be known
as having influenced the future, as in my
dreams, of course, but this only when their
own future is already long past.”
Philip
Falcone "BEING BECOMING"
20X16 oils on canvas
Philip
Falcone thinks in the dimension
of the creative process of painting and
the textures of oil paints, the smell of
linseed oil, and the work of mixing oil
colors right on the canvas. "As a child
I have vivid recollections of vacationing
in Upstate New York with my parents. Two
working artists from New York City would
vacation
with us. They would paint the surrounding
landscape, and I would sit and watch them
for hours, fascinated." Phillip Falcone
is a graduate of Parsons School of Design,
and holds a 1999 BFA from the University
of Hartford Art School. In 2001, he had
an Artist Residency at the University of
Urbino, Italy, and in solo exhibits in SoHo,
NYC and at the New Britain Museum of American
Art in 2013.
John
Favret "Transfer Station"
24X16 acrylics on canvas
John
Favret 's paintings pose existential
situations and dilemmas of Being, Time,
and Place. Presently the Art Program Coordinator
at Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport,
CT, Favret is originally from a Boston suburb,
where he began making art in childhood,
winning the Boston Globe Art Award-Gold
Key in high-school. On graduation from Bridgewater
State College, he was awarded the Senior
Art Award. Earning his MFA , with a scholarship
at East Texas State University, he lived,
in between, in the East Village of New York
City and there developed his unique expressive
visual style exploring these situational
and sometimes preternatural sensations.
His work has been exhibited in San Francisco,
Dallas, and Boston. At Rhode Island School
of Design, he received one of the first
Certificates in Computer Graphic Design,
and began a career in textile graphic color
separation. He began teaching at the Lyman
Allyn Art Museum in New London, then taught
Computer Graphics in the Certificate Program
at RISD.
Since 1999, Favret has been a Graphic Design
Instructor at Housatonic College. His experiments,
combining the traditional expressive style
of painting with patterns and color blends
that are common in Italian mosaic tile work,
have continually produced an array of landscapes
populated with figures in the midst of perplexing
scenes and situations that can be best interpreted
by the viewer's own existential and experiential
memories and anticipations.
******************************************************* The
OCTAGON
888 Main Street Roosevelt Island New York,
NY 10044
(in the Lobby Gallery) Directions below.
Artists’
Reception:
Saturday, October 18, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Exhibition:
October 18 to November 16, 2014
Gallery Hours: Daily 10 AM to 8 PM.
******************************************************* Curated
by Johnes Ruta, independent curator &
art theorist,
Art Director New Haven Free Public Library
203.387.4933 azothgallery@comcast.net
DIRECTIONS:
From GRAND CENTRAL STATION:
Obtain an MTA Round-Trip Ticket from
the Subway station, $2.50 each way, (or
$2.50 for a round-trip Senior Ticket from
the ticket window, with a Medicare ID Card,
if applicable). Exit the GCT station from
an east corridor and walk one block east
on East 43rd Street to 3rd Avenue. Take
the uptown bus to
East 60th - 61st. Walk one block east on
East 60th to the Roosevelt Island Tram (at
2nd Avenue). Tram entry is an MTA TRANSFER
Fare. At Roosevelt Island, a four minute
ride,take the FREE
Red RIOC Bus to the north end
of the route at THE OCTAGON. (This
bus runs every 10 to 15 minutes.)
BY CAR from I-95 CT via thr Tri-Borough
Bridge (Toll road): Coming into
The Bronx on I-95, fork left onto Rte
278 the Bruckner Expressway. At fork
for the Major Deegan FORK LEFT continuing
on 278, which crosses the the Tri-Borough
/ Robert F. Kennedy Bridge. The bridge
crosses over Randall's Island then into
Queens, NYC. Take the first exit in Queens
-- Astoria / Hoyt Avenue/ 31st Street.
Either take first right ramp and cross Hoyt
Avenue onto 29th Street, or next RIGHT onto
31st Street. Either way, take next RIGHT
onto Astoria Boulevard. Take LEFT at 21st
Street. Take RIGHT at 36th Avenue, and
continue straight across the Roosevelt
Island Bridge. Turn left down the circular
ramp to the street level. Turn RIGHT
onto Main Street, and follow north along
the East River to the THE OCTAGON
-shaped Building on the left.
BY CAR from Manhattan:
From East 57th Street, between 2nd and
1st Avenues, enter the QUEENSBOROUGH BRIDGE
Upper Level to Long Island City, Queens,
(no toll)
Exit the bridge via the right-side ramp
to 21st Street. Turn RIGHT, and take an
immediate LEFT at the first traffic light
before passing under the Q-Bridge onto
Queens Plaza South. Drive to the end of
this street and take a RIGHT onto Vernon
Boulevard. Travel up Vernon along East
River Park to 36th Avenue, and turn LEFT
to cross the bridge to Roosevelt Island,
then left down the circular ramp to the
street level. Turn RIGHT onto Main Street,
and follow north along the East River
to THE OCTAGON -shaped Building
on the left.
The
Wonders of Portugal
photography by Victoria Navin
New
Haven Free Public Library Gallery (in
the Business/Periodicals Room, main level)
133 Elm Street, New Haven, CT 06510
Artist
Reception:
Wednesday, April 9th, 5 to 7 pm.
Victoria
Navi "Street in Mist, Elvas" digital
photo print
Exhibition:
March 25 - April 24, 2014.
"My
WONDERS OF PORTUGAL exhibit consists of
a few photographs taken during three recent
trips to Portugal, a visual paradise on
earth."
"I
have been taking photographs for many years,
but it is only in the last few years that
I have been able to give full rein to my
enthusiasm for photography! Among my favorite
subjects are trees, rocks and boulders,
bodies of water, landscapes and roofscapes.
I am also interested in monumental architecture
as well as the smaller details that define
a location as unmistakably unique, such
as doors, windows, balconies and streetscapes."
Victoria
Navin ""A Main Street in Monsaraz"
digital photo print
Currently a resident of New Haven,
Victoria has also lived in Wallingford
and Meriden, CT as well as Brooklyn,
NY, Washington, DC and Madrid, Spain.
A graduate of Lyman Hall High School
and Albertus Magnus College, she holds
Master’s Degrees from New York
University, Georgetown University and
Pratt Institute.
Victoria
Navin ""Lisbon Roofscape"
digital photo print
"A retired librarian,
I do volunteer work for three nonprofits
in New Haven. Among my enthusiasms are
travel, reading, movies, theater, learning
Portuguese, hiking and observing the world.
I also like to share photographs with
my family and friends; I am the mother
of two adult daughters who are not wanted
by the FBI."
TREES
OF LIFE
"My TREES OF LIFE exhibit is
dedicated to the memory of Jacquelin Chase,
who opened my eyes to the beauty of trees."
Victoria
Navin "Olive Trees from the Alentejo,
Portugal" digital photo print
"The
Domestic Workers
of New England"
photography
by
Mario Quiroz
New
Haven Free Public Library Gallery
(IN THE BUSINESS/PERIODICALS ROOM, main
level)
133 Elm Street, New Haven, CT 06510
Artist
Reception:
Wednesday, MARCH 19th, 5 to 7 PM.
Exhibition
thru March 25, 2014
Photography
by Mario Quiroz
"It's
time to support Domestic Worker Bill of
Rights," advocates documentary photographer
Mario Quiroz of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Nannies,
house cleaners, and adult care workers/personal
care attendants are the invisible labor
force that has freed our business men
and women, scientific community, academic
world, and many others to go out into
their everyday industries knowing that
their dear ones and their homes are being
taken care of.
In
partnership with the Brazilian Immigrant
Center, MataHari: Eye of the Day, Brazilian
Women's Group, the Women's Institute for
Leadership Develop,and the Dominican Development
Center, photographer Mario Quiroz is producing
a series of portraits of Domestic Workers.
These images will be featured as a traveling
exhibition during 2013.The project supports
the ongoing movement for legislative passage
of the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights.
Once it becomes law, this bill will address
current gaps in legal protection for domestic
workers, address working conditions, living
wage, sick days, vacation and injury on
the job issues. "It's just common
sense to care of those who take care of
our families."
"For
a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights" composite
digital photograph by Mario Quiroz
For
more information about the project, contact:
Mario Quiroz:
Claudine
Burns-Smith
Moira Fain
Jahmane
Wills McWilliams
Rita Valley
Bob
Cuneo
Nick Grossmann
Bob Keating
Dana Naumann
Elisa Vegliante
Reception:
Saturday, November 2nd, 2013, 6 to 9 pm.
On-Going:
Reception:
Saturday, July 27th, 2013, 7 to 10 pm.
851
Hegeman Avenue
East New York, Brooklyn, NY 11208
Exhibition
thru October 30, 2013.
Reception:
Saturday, Septenber 21st, 2013, 7 to 10
pm.
14
South Main Street (corner of Haviland Street)
South Norwalk, CT
Exhibition
thru September 29, 2013.
The
New Haven Free Public Library Gallery
133 Elm Street (Lower Level) New Haven,
CT 06510 Artists'
Reception: Saturday, March 23, 2 to 4
PM. Exhibition
thru April 14, 2013.
Elisa
Vegliante -- "Mad Youth SPIN OUT"
oils on canvas, 17" x 14"
Curated
by Chris Butler - Butler Exhibition Design
&
Johnes Ruta, AzothGallery.com, independent
curator, writer & Art Director New
Haven Free Public Library.
A Catalog with essay will accompany this
exhibition. Exhibition
thru March 3, 2013.
Good
things come in small Spaces. "Ten
Narratives" is a substantial group
show of Connecticut, New York, and California
artists to be housed in a small East Village
Gallery, Umbrella Arts, at 317 East 9th
Street from January 24th to March 2nd. The
exhibition explores the art of the narrative
through a broad scope of styles, ranging
from expressionist to surrealist to abstract
to primitive, with influences ranging from
Eduard Munch to Joan Miro, Australian Aboriginal
art to Jean Dubuffet and Outsider Art. The
ten artists comprise an interesting cross
section. Half are self-taught. Ages stretch
from mid-30s to mid-90s. Media include paintings,
drawings, etchings, collage, assemblage,
mixed media and sculpture. Some of their
accomplishments include NEA fellowships,
public sculpture and mural installations,
and publishing children's picture books.
All of these elements combine to make an
exciting visual smorgasbord held together
by the narrative art form.
In visual narrative stories emerge
from constellations of dots and strokes
of paint, points of reference, shadows and
overlays, forms and images, figures and
objects. -- It often requires a new vocabulary
to describe patterns, motifs, moods, and
emotions. Carl Jung's so-called "archetypes"
lay out patterns of personalities, symbols,
and myths to explain recurring principles
in living reality. The anthropologist Claude
Levi- Strauss wrote that the vast number
of mythic stories in the world can be distilled
into certain structures that are constant
and universal. A.J. Greimas points out contrasting
polarities in stories, such as subject/object,
sender/ receiver, helper/opponent -- the
individual terms of which are characteristic
representation.
Elisa
Vegliante of New Haven is a painter
who also stars in husband Ace Fronton's
backyard films as the eccentric actress
Yahuba Daley. Whenever she is not making
art she is teaching art to elementary school
children. One of her many talents is extracting
extraordinary pictures from her students.
Their art, in turn, informs hers. In addition
to the influence of children's art, Vegliante
aligns herself ultimately with Outsider
Art. Initially a printmaker, she turned
to oil painting in the 80s, eventually finding
a kinship with Eduard Munch, Vincent Van
Gogh and Frida Kahlo. In the late 90s she
began developing complex narratives in an
over-amped expressionistic style she has
dubbed "Mondoexpressionism", which
can be roughly translated as "beyond
The Scream".
Claudine
Burns-Smith
"Carlos Defending the Children from
the Chickens"
ceramic wall sculpture,
30" x 30"
Claudine
Burns-Smith is a US citizen/Parisian
who resides in Hamden, CT. Formerly an Art
Instructor at The Hopkins School, she paints
on handmade paper and sculpts in clay and
cement. Her narratives relate to her love
of family, mythology, and primitive cultures.
Primary influences are the art of Oceania
and Dubuffet. Her approach is always intuitive.
She pays no attention to archetypes until
after the art is completed. Only then does
take stock of what the piece is about. Her
interest in the work of Carl Jung and dream
symbolism enhance themes that typically
derive from her personal life or the natural
world.
Gordon
$kinner "Shante' "
acrylics, house paint,
spray paint, on fibre material board,
42"
x 48"
Gordon
Skinner of Woodbridge, CT, comes from
a fashion design background. His "masks"
are wildly Dubuffet + Basquiat. He has been
creating quite a stir in New Haven and NYC
galleries as well as Yale University's Afro-American
Cultural Center. Skinner's art is composed
of organic narrative portraits that reveal
his inner struggle and come to life through
his signature blend of bold color, spontaneous
brushwork, and a world of hard-edged life
experiences. Personal and universal revelations
lie behind the mask-like visages. Skinner's
work is also reminiscent of a tradition
and movement known as "Blues Impulse"
comprised of artists who transform circumstance
and hardship into extraordinary levels of
visual content and artistic expression.
Cherie
Tredanari "Vento d'Amore"
copper sculpture, 20" x 15"
x 30"
Cherie
Tredanari is a 94 year old bohemian
from Manhattan's Upper West Side who still
creates metal sculptures and then builds
pedestals for them. She uses all types of
metals, new and recycled, to produce abstract
narratives that are sometimes whimsical,
sometimes stately, sometimes delicate, always
vital. She studied with such figures as
Arthur Melzer, Paul Gill, and Henry Snell.
Movement is most important to her: movement
through time as well as movement through
space. Tredanari has designed many large
scale sculptures, including one installed
at Broadway Malls in 1983 titled "Number
11 Perspectives", dedicated to Duke
Ellington. In 1981, at the request of Saks
Fifth Avenue, Cherie installed 13 of her
sculptures in their Fifth Avenue display
windows. Her home is a salon where artist
friends visit, drinking wine from bottles
bearing the Tredanari label, produced in
her basement.
Helene
Burke "Teapot #3"
mixed media on canvas, 16" x 20"
Helene
Burke of NYC is an NEA fellowship recipient
(1992-93) who currently works in mixed media
collage, with a background in painting and
found object sculpture. She has published
two children's picture books, pieces of
which appear in her collages. The vocabulary
of her art is biomorphic surrealism, descended
from such painters as Miro and Kandinsky.
Burke begins her collages by doodling just
as Miro used automatic drawing to begin
his biomorphic works. She combines her own
drawings, cut up paintings, papers, pieces
of pages from her books, thin layers of
acrylic paint and splotches of walnut ink
to create dreamy landscapes of furniture,
plant forms and domestic interiors. Important
themes in these narratives are childhood
innocence and healing of the inner child,
and personal transformation that creates
Hope.
Nick
Grossmann
"Nephilem Invade the Little People
Village"
oils on canvas, 24" x 30"
Formerly
living the life of an Outlaw, Nick Grossmann
of Norwalk, CT, went on a self-imposed exile
in his mid-twenties, spending a lot of time
alone, practicing meditation, learning voodoo,
meeting with a Shaman, finding his truths
and coming to terms with his identity. He
went into an art store one day, bought paints
and brushes and canvases, and has been painting
ever since. Grossman now happily perceives
himself as a vagabond, a troubadour, a street
mystic and, most recently, a sea gypsy named
Mickey Wolve. These identities fuel the
subject matter of his art. Each painting
is a story drawn from Grossmann's adventures.
Images are built of heavily textured layers
of garish colors, shadows, forms and details
scratched into freshly painted canvas. His
painting titled "The End of You"
was included in the 2011 annual Nurture
Art Benefit held at the Chelsea Art Museum.
Moira
Fain "Teapot #3"
mixed media , 16" x 20"
Moira
Fain of Landers, California has also
published a children's book with beautiful
illustrations rendered in oils. She and
her family presently live in the Mojave
Desert. Although her body of work includes
oil paintings, drawings and etchings, her
primary art form is assemblage. This exhibition
features what she refers to as her "collage
boxes" which she began constructing
during the 90s. Steeped in childhood imagery
and ominous overtones, these narratives
recall childhood confusion and conflicted
relationships with parents, overshadowed
by the impending loss of innocence. As adult
understanding emerges, personal experiences
are understood; the collage boxes become
less detailed and more focused. Finally,
in later works, the art starts to take over
the narrative.
Bob
Cuneo "Primal Deities" (6 of
12)
Dancing Goddess & God
Elder Goddess & God
Enchanted Goddess & God
derwent pigmented leads, each painting
8" x 10"
Bob
Cuneo is a retired Professor of Fine
Arts from the University of Bridgeport where
he taught from 1969 to 1989. He is a painter
of miniature narratives in the Magic Realist
style. After leaving his teaching post,
he moved away from the ideas of contemporary
art and devoted most of his work to his
long-time practice of neo-pagan Wicca, also
becoming a staff artist for the nature/spirituality
quarterly CIRCLE MAGAZINE, which has featured
his ink drawings and color covers since
1985. His recent narrative series "Thought-Form
Divinities : Astral Images of the Great
Goddess and the Primal God by a Wiccan Iconographer"
relates his symbolism and mythic pictorial
imagery to the Hermetic Traditions of alchemy,
pagan magic, ancient wisdom, and Renaissance
story-telling.
Dana
Naumann "The Narrator"
lead pedestal sculpture, 8" x 20"
x 6"
Dana
Baldwin Naumann, former corporate marketing
executive who reincarnated as a self-taught
artist, is a metal sculptor and painter
residing in Branford, CT. His style stretches
from primitive to expressionistic. Naumann
hammers narratives out of sheets of lead
in the form of religious, mythic and archetypal
figures, reminiscent of the art and artifacts
found amongst ruins of an ancient civilization.
He finishes the metal in zinc or copper
patinas which impart a warm glow and add
a feeling of softness to the hard surfaces.
The idealized woman and romantic love are
also themes that he frequently revisits.
Maurice
Hansen"Vision of Catatonic Cathlick
Medamorphics"
acrylics on casnvas, 19" x 20"
In
Memoriam . . . Maurice Hansen (1941 - 2000)
The late New Haven Outsider Artist, Maurice
Hansen, created an endless stream
of paintings, poems, plays and videos in
an elaborately quirky environment of his
own making from 1960 until his untimely
death in 2000 from Lymphoma at age 59. In
1993 his retrospective "Inner Visions",
which included 63 paintings spanning four
decades, was curated by Whitey Jenkins and
held at the Aetna Center Gallery in Hartford.
Outsider art critic and Director of the
Benton Museum in Storrs, Sal Scalora, called
it a "tour de force". This exhibition
sparked the subsequent steady flow of solo
and group shows which had been long overdue.
His exposure over the next seven years included
such venues as the Cork Gallery at Avery
Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center where he exhibited
his 30 foot mural of Coney Island; the Bridges
+ Bodell Gallery on East 7th Street where
he exhibited his 25 foot mural of the 3rd
International Outsider Art Fair. Hansen's
art was also exhibited during the early
years of the Outsider Art Fair at the Puck
building in Soho. Reviews of his shows were
featured in the New York Times, The New
Haven Register, The Advocate, Art New England,
Provincetown Art, Folk Art Finder and the
Hartford Courant. Hansen was also included
in Betty-Carol Sellen's and Cynthia J. Johansen's
resource book "Self-Taught, Outsider
and Folk Art: A Guide to American Artists,
Locations and Resources", 1999.
Hansen and Maximalism
Maximalism began to appear as a movement
in painting during the 90s in both Europe
and the US, having been initiated in a catalog
by filmmaker and painter Daryush Shokof
of Cologne, Germany for his 1990 solo exhibition
at Galleria Verlato in Milano, Italy. As
a visual art form it is elaborate in design,
ornate in detail and bright in color. In
the catalog for that show Shokof wrote some
of his thoughts on Maximalism: "Unbalancing
the Chaos = Balance = Life = Maximalism"
and "Life for a Maximalist means actions
committed by every moving creature."
A year later Shokof's "Maximalist Manifesto"
began appearing in his exhibition catalogs
asserting that, as an aesthetic, Maximalism
"is open to wide views and visionary
dimensions that can be fantastic, but not
deformed".
Back in New Haven, at roughly the same time,
Maurice Hansen found that, to catch attention
in our frenzied environment, the artist
can reinforce his concepts with multiple
subtexts and elaborate detail. In a captivating,
wildly expressionistic style, Hansen flaunted
these visual excesses as a self-proclaimed
Maximalist. In a 1994 exhibition at the
York Square Cinema Gallery in New Haven,
"Castles, Kings and Carnivals; The
Maximalist style of Maurice Hansen",
the artist displayed his fully developed
philosophy, vision and style.
Hansen's Narratives
Maurice Hansen's starring role was as a
painter of narrative. Through decades of
painting Biblical subjects as well as contemporary
cultural and political events, Hansen took
the art of visual narrative to a whole new
level. One of his better known paintings
"Starry Night of the Kingdom Come"
(property of Beverly Kaye Gallery) is an
apocalyptic vision which depicts an extravaganza
of cultural icons and religious references
interwoven with subplots and miscellaneous
annotation, and which ironically result
in a painting that celebrates life.
Exhibition:
January 26 - March 3, 2013
Gallery Hours: Thursday thru Saturday,
1 to 6 PM.
"Not
Specialized"
Paintings by Matty Dagradi
The
New Haven Free Public Library Gallery
133 Elm Street (Lower Level) New Haven,
CT 06510
Artists'
Reception: Saturday, May 4, 2 to 4 PM
Matty
Dagradi "High in the Sky (Lighthouse)"
watercolors on paper, 20" x 16"
"I do no belong in this age of
specialization," says Matty Dagradi.
"I can’t resist painting a
multitude of subjects. A walk in the
woods reveals an inspiring contrast
of earth and foliage. A cluster of grapes
accidentally spills and creates a still
life. The pounding elusive surf is a
constant challenge to capture. Every
day there is a new image to discover.
"After graduation from Pratt Institute
in Brooklyn, I worked for David Delaney
Printers in their advertising department.
Afterwards I worked for a U.S. Government
Agency producing “Amerika”
a magazine sent to the USSR. I married
and became a 1950’s “cookie
mom” and raised five children in
Summit, New Jersey. I returned to work
when my youngest was 7 years old and
became manager of the Overlook Hospital
Gift Shop. I also taught Watercolor
classes for 10 years at the Summit Adult
Education Department.
"After a decade of widowhood,
I decided to downsize and move to New
Haven to be closer to family, welcome
my sixth grandchild, and become more
involved in art. The art scene in New
Haven proved to be so exciting and I’ve
found many new friends, students, and
teachers. Recently I began exploring
oil painting, a total different mind
set from all the years creating in watercolors.
I’ve included a few examples of
them in this exhibition. I teach painting
at Hamden Adult Ed and an active member
of The Hamden Art League and The North
Haven Art Guild. I’ve settled nicely
into Westville and yes, I’m finding
more time to paint."
Matty
Dagradi "High in the Sky (Lighthouse)"
watercolors on paper, 20" x 16"
Matty
Dagradi "Maine Coast"
olis on canvas, 20" x 16"
Exhibition:
April 29 -May 29, 2013
COLOR
IS LIFE
abstract paintings
by Stanislao Sullo
The
New Haven Free Public Library Gallery
133 Elm Street (Lower Level) New Haven,
CT 06510
Artists'
Reception: Saturday, February, 16 2 to
4 PM.
Exhibition
thru March 14, 2013.
Stanislao
Sullo "Patia" ("Craziness")
oils and acrylics on canvas, 40" x
30"
Stanislao
Sullo is a New Haven artist, born in Panni,
Italy. Sullo is a self-taught artist who
works in watercolors, oils, and acrylics.
He studied ancient art and worked in the
fashion world in Bologna, Italy for many
years. working in that world on both Broadway,
New York City and New Haven.
"In
my works," says Stanislao, Color
is life. Color represents the mood of
a person, and gives emotion to figures.
Abstract colors give a personal interpretation
of emotion, a variety of color-identification:
the mood of the day -- -- morning --
afternoon -- evening..."
Sullo's fascination with color began
when in 2002 he opened his men's clothing
store, Monsieur, in Bologna. Immersed
in the world of fashion, he worked with
local artisans to create lines of menswear
with innovative color combinations and
led his brand to become one of the most
prestigious in northern Italy. His storefront
window displays were noted for their
originality and he quickly became sought
after as a window designer for businesses
throughout Bologna.
Arriving in New Haven, Connecticut three
years ago, Stanislao has continued to
explore amalgamations of color through
his work in storefront design and through
his paintings. He combines media, oil
and acrylic paints and wax, to create
textured and atmospheric images on large
scale supports of canvas, linen, and
wood. He paintings subtly layer and
juxtapose hues to provoke each individual
viewer's own memories and experiences
of color.
Stanislao
Sullo "Two Faces" oils, acrylics
and wax on canvas, 24" x 36"
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"My
work expresses everyday emotions –
simultaneously concrete and fleeting,
recognizable and imperceptible, extraordinary
and unexceptional – through experimentation
with various color palettes and combinations.
I take inspiration from my work in fashion
design and as a specialist in storefront
window display, as well as from my travels.
"Color is the substance of the
landscapes and panoramas that surround
us in our lives; it can depict our moods
and define our visual perceptions of
the physical world. Through the medium
of paint, I recall the ever-changing
expanse and greens, reds, and browns
of my southern Italian hometown located
on a hilltop of the Apennines. Tones
of blue evoke time spent in Greece as
eclectic bright color describe the chaos
of Tokyo. I am ever stirred by the museum-scape
of Barcelona, dotted by the late works
of Miró. Juxtapositions of color
can represent events, episodes, or memories
of our individual journeys through life.
Experiencing color through art is a
way to dream, to reminisce, and to reify
emotion."
Stanislao
Sullo "The Kiss" oils and acrylics
on canvas, 40" x 30"
Exhibition:
February 7 -March 14, 2013
New
Haven Library Gallery Exhibition
BLUE
Unique works on paper
by Vanilia Majoros
The
New Haven Free Public Library Gallery
133 Elm Street (Lower Level) New Haven,
CT 06510
Artists'
Reception: Saturday, January, 12 to 4
PM.
Exhibition
thru February 7, 2012.
Vanilia
Majoros "Xoxo" - silkscreen, 10"w
x 7"h
Vanilia
Majoros came from Hungary to the US
in 2003. She lives in New Haven, and
teaches Printmaking at Creative Arts
Workshop.
"I
love to explore my own self and image;
this is the culmination of the fusion
of science and art for me. I try to
see things in my own way, shaped by
my life and my experiences. For each
viewer this experience an entry into
this personal world through visual or
mental images, can be uniquely his own."
Vanilia
received her Ph.D. in Art History in 1997
in Budapest, and worked there as a scholar
and as head of the Art Collection of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She has
written six books and more than one hundred
articles about European Modernism., and
spends her time at the Yale Libraries
researching and writing. Her largest book
is about one of the best Hungarian painters,
Lajos Tihanyi, who died in Paris in 1938.
"My book was published in Budapest
in 2004, and this was a changing point
in my life. My dream to become a Yale
professor did not materialize, but a new
dream to be an artist was born. -- After
eleven solo shows of my photos in Hungary,
I determined art as a new field of pursuit,
and I began my studies of Calligraphy
with Martha German and of Printmaking
with Barbara Harder at the Creative Arts
Workshop.
Vanilia
Majoros "Grand Central Terminal"
- cyanotype, 24"w x42"h
"From
2006, I was a guest student in the Yale
School of Art, in the first year completing
all of the Printmaking classes with Norm
Paris. After finishing the Graduate Printmaking
Seminar with Rochelle Feinstein, I was
invited to teach printmaking in the Creative
Arts Workshop. Since 2005, I've participated
in group shows in New Haven, and in 2009
my first solo show took place at the DaSilva
Gallery." In 2010, the Arts Council
of New Haven invited her to show in Gallery
195 in the downtown First Niagara Bank,
and the New Haven Register published a
complimentary article about Barbara Marks'
and her works in this show.
Vanilia
Majoros "Variation for Sunday"
- cyanotype, 42"w x24"h
Vanilia's
prints are in private collections in the
US, Hungary, Austria, Australia, China,
Japan, Switzerland, Ireland and Germany,
and in the Collection of the National
Gallery of Hungary, the Literary Museum
and the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest.
"My unique prints are not only monotypes,
but mono prints by woodcut, carborundum,
linoleum cut, lithograph and etching.
I make prints connected to Architecture,
Music, Literature and Fine Art, a series
dedicated to Gehry, and portraits about
Gyorgy Ligeti, Anna Netrebko, Joan Sutherland,
Paul Auster and Chuck Close. My Connecticut
Garden series is based on Nature, but
I like semi-Abstraction."
The
New Haven Free Public Library Gallery
133 Elm Street (Lower Level) New Haven,
CT 06510
Artists'
Reception: Saturday, November 17, 2 to
4 PM.
Exhibition
thru January 2, 2013.
Rosebud
Ebenezer "New York 2" acrylics
on canvas, 36"w x 18"h
ROSEBUD
EBENEZER
"My
recent acrylic on canvas series ‘New
York’ is my rumination over my
New York City life," writes Rosebud.
Born and raised in a very quite countryside
of South India, I moved to New York
few years ago. The concrete jungle that
New York is famous for baffled my senses
at first and later I started seeing
the quintessential abstract and geometrical
patterns that was hiding behind the
physical facade of the city.
Abstraction
to me is the essence of my innermost
feelings that stand with color and form.
The subtle forms in my work hold a physical
presence of the cityscape yet truly
an inner manifestation of my own self
of the objective exterior. I prefer
to make sketches from my walk in Manhattan
and other high-rises around Brooklyn
area then transfer them on to my canvas
to convert them as my personal images.
The
bright colors that are characteristic
of my palette help me bath in vivid
shades till I complete a work. I move
to and fro between delicate color variations
and intense shades until the form and
the color converge to become a unique
whole.
In
Chennai, India, 1992, Rosebud Ebenezer
earned her B.Sc. in Ceramic Design at
Government College of Arts and Crafts,
and an award for Excellence at the Victoria
Technical Institute. During 2012, Rosebud
has had two shows at A. Jain Marunouchi
Gallery, on West 57th Street, New York
City: ‘Yudh Abhyas’ and ‘New
Beginnings.’
Rosebud
Ebenezer "Byway 4" acrylics on
canvas, 20"w x 36"h
Rosebud
Ebenezer "New York 4" acrylics
on canvas, 24"w x 24"h
Ebenezer
Sunder Singh, a Fulbright scholar from
Madras, India, constructs images with
allegorical/religious references, displaying
metaphysical aspects of Shiva, angels,
and the human figure, with a mastery
of texture, equilibrium, tonality, and
rhythm. His references cross several
cultures because he comes originally
from the state of Tamil Nadu in southern
India, studying at the Madras College
of Art there, and at the Art Institute
of Boston.
Ebenezer
Sunder Singh "Cathedral" acrylics
on canvas, 18"w x 12"h
Building
references in his writing to "elemental
forces," the "Body's compulsions,"
"matter & energy," "memory
packages," and "spiritual plethora,"
his artwork is committed to developing
a visual vocabulary of his spiritual experience.
His evocative figures each fall within
a fixed translucent geometric form, visualizing
personal thought and the intimacy of human
emotions, such as the mutual sharing of
breath and the experience of sexual parity
in free-fall.
Ebenezer
Sunder Singh "Prowl" acrylics
on canvas, 12"w x 18"h
Working
on hand-made paper in tempera, acrylics,
or acrylic emulsion, Ebenezer explores
the inner color complexity of the human
torso: contrasts of blue, red, and orange
blend to manifest the throat chakra
and a mandalla centered over the navel
chakra. He describes a visionary experience
invoking the symbolism of the Snake,
representing its mythic history and
the creation of the Universe. His writing
is included in three catalogs: "Fibre
Glass Sculptures and Painted Books,"
"The Hollow Men, The Stuffed Men,"
and "Inspirationen."
Both
Rosebud Ebenezer and husband Ebenezer
Sunder Singh are currently represented
by A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery on West
57th Street, New York City, and have
their studios in Park Slope, Brooklyn,
NY.
Exhibition:
November 17 -December 27, 2012
"The
Symbolism of Places"
art works by
Michael Kozlowski
The
New Haven Free Public Library
Gallery
133 Elm Street (Lower Level)
New Haven, CT 06510
Artist
Reception: Saturday, July 7,
2 to 4 PM.
Michael
Kozlowski "The
Wolf"
Oil, Acrylic, Lacquer, and spray
paint on canvas. 84" x 70"
"My
inspiration" says artist Michael
Kozlowski, "has always come
from painters who have the ability
to create and display another world
that not only allows you to visit
but draws you in and bars the door
behind you. Whether this is done
through the intrigue created by
the symbolism and careful technique
of Edward Hopper, or through the
visual attack that comes from many
paintings by Turner, creating work
that has this type of arresting
power and presence is my goal.
Michael
Kozlowski "Window
3"
Acrylic on canvas. 60" x
40"
"Most
of my work deals with places--typically
interiors or man-made spaces. Saying
that I allow the places I paint
to choose me would not be incorrect.
These are places which have all
made an impression on me in some
way, and the way I choose to present
them -- and the situations depicted
in these settings -- reflect, and
hopefully convey these impressions.
Each person brings their own history
and ideas to view artwork, and therefore
the images can suggest an endless
array of interpretations that may
evolve over time. Likewise, my paintings
are composed over long stretches
until they reach a "critical
mass," at which point they
can be assembled on the canvas.
These recent paintings are large
scale, immersive works depicting
store windows and interior spaces,
and attempt to incorporate contemporary
elements into representational painting
to make it more dynamic, expressive,
emotive, and appealing. Rather than
dictate a particular meaning or
point of view, they are meant to
evoke diverse feelings and emotions
which become a catalyst for a dialogue
with the work."
Michael
Kozlowski "Untitled"
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas.
56" 36"
Kozlowski is an award-winning
Fairfield County artist who studied
art at Southern Connecticut State
University in New Haven and at
the School of Visual Arts in New
York. In addition to drawing and
painting (in oils, acrylics, and
watercolors), he has studied traditional
darkroom and digital photography,
computer graphics, and advertising.
New
Haven Free Public Library Gallery 
The
Jewish Community Center 
