EXPLORATIONS-OF-VISIONARY-DIMENSIONS
A Group Art Exhibit by:

Hannah Petrikovsky
Eduardo Alvarez
Dana Baldwin Naumann

The Naumann Gallery
279 Branford Road
North Branford, CT 06471
(203) 430-2179

Meet the Artist Reception: Sunday, November 3, 2024, 3:00 - 6:00 pm.

Curated by Johnes Ruta

 
 
Hannah Petrikovsky - ANGRY JACK - acrylic on canvas, 40.5" x 30.5"
 
 

Hannah Petrikovsky - Peas and Carrots - oil on wood, 48" x 36"

 

Hannah Petrikovsky combines oil paint and charcoal to create aesthetically lush, vivid paintings which explore
themes of beauty and impermanence. She exhibited in a group show at Lyme Academy and two group shows
at the Richard and Dolly Maas Gallery. She has her BFA in Lyme Academy of Fine Arts and has an MFA and MA
from SUNY Purchase. She lives in Hamden with her family.

Until recently, Ms. Petrikovsky has been Adjunct Professor of Fine Art and History "Exploring Visual Culture"
at Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT, 2021 to the present. In January, following a maternity
leave-of-absence, she will take up a similar position at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven.

Previoiusly, she was Adjunct Professor of Art History and Art Design at SUNY Purchase College, NY, 2018-2022,
and Sacred Heart University, 2023, and Gateway Community College, 2022. She had a Strypemonde Fellowship
at the Art History Department, SUNY Purchase College, 2020-2021. Since 2022, she has been a Painting
Instructorat Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven. Her artwork has been shown frequently at at Richard & Dolly
Maass Gallery, Purchase; also at Casa Somati, Pomona, NY, Essex Flowers Gallery, New York City, and Chauncey Silliman Gallery, Old Lyme.

http://www.chanarosaart.com/

 
 
Hannah Petrikovsky - The New Birdfeeder - acrylic on canvas, 54" x 37"
   
   
 

Eduardo Alvarez - Pannonica - acrylic on canvas, 30" x 48"

"I am a visual artist living and working in New Haven, Connecticut," says Eduardo Alvarez. "The focus of each
piece is to delve within oneself and let go of everything and completely surrender. Art brings you face to face
with yourself and shows you that although the inner struggle is sometimes wrapped in silk or sorrow, we emerge beautiful despite it all."

Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Literature, Graduated 2006, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT.
His artworks have been exhibited in more than 30 venues in the US and Europe, most recently at Koffee? in
New Haven.

2015 Mapiya on permanent display Yale Native American Cultural Center

2022 Visceral Art Exhibition Milan/Barcelona/Canary Islands

2024 Best in Show The Crossing Hygienic Art Gallery

 
 
Eduardo Alvarez - bondad no hace ruido - acrylic on canvas, 28" x 40"


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  Dana Baldwin Naumann - She Just Came to Me - 30lb wall scu;pture, 18" x 18"
 
Dana Baldwin Naumann

Dana Baldwin Naumann creates unique sculpture using mainly lead sheets coated with copper or zinc patinas.
His hammer?ed sculptures are studies in texture, soft and warm looking even as metal surfaces
and often depicting religious, mythic, and archetypal scenes.

He had a successful career in corporate sales and marketing with IBM, Wang, Mitsubushi, and Westinghouse.
When he left the corporate world, he was determined to devote his life
to his art. It was a decision Naumann says he has never regretted.

Dana Naumann designed and contributed sculptures to the permanent collection of United States Special Olympics,
and a piece created with the theme of the Holocaust was given to the Thomas Dodd Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
His artworks have been shown widely in Connecticut and the northeast.

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."

 
 
Dana Baldwin Naumann - There is Someting Wonderful About Just Holding Hands - 80lb wall sculpture 36x36"
 
 
  Dana Baldwin Naumann - The Thought Just Came to Me -35lb wall sculpture, 18" x 18"
 

Exhibition on view: October 27 - November 30, 2024 By Appointment


Contacts:
Gallerist: Dana Naumann
203.430.2179
dbnaumann@yahoo.com

Curator: Johnes Ruta https://AzothGallery.com/
iPhone 203.668.6933
azothgallery@comcast.net
independent curator & art theorist

 
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