Florence Froeder / New Fairfield Artist Tour, September 26th







© Florence Froeder


Watercolorist, painter, and client Florence Froeder is opening her studio as part of the New Fairfield Artists' Studio Tour on Saturday, September 26. There are five artists participating in the event sponsored by the Candlewood Arts Fund. Studios will be open from 1-4 pm, and afterward there will be an artists' reception from 4-5pm at Sue Newton's Barn Gallery at 82 Route 37 in New Fairfield.

Check out the above link for more details on the other artists.

If you've never gone on a studio visit before, this is a good opportunity to check out some artists, and see how they work, without having to drive to a major city. It'll be a good weekend to do that, get some apples and cider doughnuts, and see the blushing leaves.

~Lys

Archive of Photojournalist Eddie Adams Donated to Briscoe Center, University of Texas at Austin







© Eddie Adams

The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin has received the complete photographic archive of photojournalist Eddie Adams. An exhibition of some of the many photographs will be held at the Sid Richardson Hall location. The exhibit will run through January 16, 2010 Still River Editions printed all the photographs in cooperation with Mr. Adams estate and his widow. Press release info, online gallery of images. NPPA story.

Mark

Ben Larrabee in New Canaan, CT






"Nantucket Lighthouse"
© Ben Larrabee


Cobble Court Interiors and New Canaan Chamber of Commerce are showcasing a selection of Ben Larrabee's fine art photographs at a reception this evening from 5-8 pm. Cobble Court is located at 13 South Ave., New Canaan, CT. The photographs will be on display until December. I hear there will be martinis...

This is the perfect time of year to be going to art openings. Take a drive on the Parkway, see that the leaves have started turning already... bittersweet autumnal beginnings...

Have fun seeing new things,
Lys

Phyllis Crowley at Gallery 195 in New Haven





"Carp, Shanghai - 2008,"
© Phyllis Crowley

Photographer Phyllis Crowley is showing with painter Janet Lage at Gallery 195, a project of the Arts Council of Greater New Haven and Alliance Bank from now until November 13. Crowley's multiple images often destabilize the viewer by suggesting motion; varying points of view reflect a shifting gaze as seen all at once. There is an artists' reception Tuesday, September 15, 5-7 pm. Gallery 195 is on the 4th Floor of 195 Church St., New Haven, CT (across from the New Haven Green.)

~Lys

Edith Morrison at H. Pelham Curtis Gallery in New Canaan











"Betrothed," © Edith Borax-Morrison

Edith Borax-Morrison is currently showing Penweave Drawings at the H. Pelham Curtis Gallery at New Canaan Library. The show is up until October 12, 2009. Borax-Morrison calls her spectacular abstract, and free-flowing mandala drawings "penweaves." The textures created resemble fibers, and the process by which Borax-Morrison creates them recalls the meditative qualities of weaving. The New Canaan Library is located at 151 Main St. New Canaan, CT.

~Lys

Two Keith Johnson exhibitions in Massachusetts open in September








© Keith Johnson


Keith Johnson's photographic series Suite Niagara will be at the Griffin Museum Sept 9-October 18, 2009. Johnson made Suite Niagara during his recent residency at CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, NY. The Griffin Museum is located at 67 Shore Road, Winchester, Massachusetts.

Keith will also be featured in a group show focusing on architecture at Panopticon in Boston in September 10-Nov 10, 2009 with an opening reception Thursday, October 15, 5-7 pm.

The show includes photographs by Steve Rosenthal, John Woolf, Keith Johnson and Peter Vanderwarker. From the gallery's website: "Keith Johnson's new work isolates landscape elements, laying them out in grid and multiple linear formats. He suggests that the presentation of multiple images has a very structured and multilayered effect, creating a visual experience larger than the sum of the individual parts."

~Lys

Keith Johnson to exhibit at NESOP




© Keith Johnson

Photographer and photography educator Keith Johnson will be exhibiting at New England School of Photography (NESOP) from August 24-October 2, 2009. The show is titled Extended Landscape, and features Johnson's series of constructed panoramics of both human-made and natural landscapes. NESOP is located at 537 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. There is an opening reception Thursday, August 27, 7-9 PM

Johnson, who was a student of both Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan at RISD, also has two shows coming up in September. Details on those in a couple of weeks.

~Lys

Richard Klein at Project Room in Washington, CT







"Black Friday, 2009"
© Richard Klein
Ashtrays, speakers, eyeglass lenses,
jar lids, shopping cart

Richard Klein will be exhibiting at Project Room of the Washington Art Association, 4 Bryan Plaza, Washington Depot, CT from July 25 to August 23. Tony Carretta of Litchfield is also exhibiting. There will be an artists' reception this Saturday, July 25 from 6-8 pm.

Klein's sculptures incorporate eyeglass lenses and other glass and found objects; they shape surface, volume, light, and shadow. They're surprising and beautiful. Tony Caretta also uses glass in his antiquity-inspired, sculptural vessels.

Klein is Director of Exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT. Tony Caretta is gallery director at the New Arts Gallery in Litchfield, CT, where Nancy Lasar is exhibiting this month.

~Lys

Nancy Lasar in two Litchfield County exhibitions










© Nancy Lasar

Nancy Lasar, from Washington Depot, Connecticut, often utilizes new technologies along with traditional printmaking in her unique, multi-layered images.

She and Inga-Britta Mills are in the exhibition "Inscripted Earth: An Exhibition of Prints and Paperworks" at Minor Memorial Library, 23 South St., Roxbury, CT from July 25 to September 9. There is a reception on Saturday, July 25 from 2-4 pm.

Also from July 25-August 23 she is exhibiting with her brother John Davis and Stephan Fowlkes at New Arts Gallery, 513 Maple St. Litchfield, CT. There will be an artists' reception from 3-6 pm on Saturday, July 25.

So if you time it right, you can go to both exhibition openings. Sounds like an ideal afternoon to me.

~Lys











A few snaps from the opening at New Arts Gallery
Photo © Mark Savoia

Tom Peterson in new members show at City Gallery, New Haven









Client Tom Peterson and printmaker Amy Arledge are featured in the new members' show called "Juxtapositions" at City Gallery in New Haven. There will be an artists' reception Saturday, July 11, 3-6 pm. City Gallery is located at 994 State St. New Haven, CT.Peterson, from Hamden, photographs the local urban landscape for its shapes and colors, not just its familiar sites. I will admit--there is some fun in trying to figure out where some of the photos were taken.

~Lys

Added 7/13--Mark took some photos at the opening... and here they are:










Photo © Mark Savoia










Photo © Mark Savoia











Photo © Mark Savoia

Vasilios Sfinarolakis at Soho Photo, NYC






"Pennamacoor"
©Vasilios Sfinarolakis

Client Vasilios Sfinarolakis is one of the winners of the 2009 Soho Photo National Photography Competition, juried by Susan Kismaric of MoMA. Soho Photo is located at 15 White St., New York, NY. The reception is Tuesday, July 7 from 6-8 pm.

Sfinarolakis is a Brooklyn-based artist with a background in film as well as still imagery. The image the jurors chose is a mysterious, traditional black and white gelatin silver print, seen above. It leaves the viewer with some interesting unanswered questions...

~Lys

Michele Muir's "Every 71 Seconds - Memories of Alzheimer's"







© Michele Muir


"Every 71 Seconds - Memories of Alzheimer's" is a black and white photo essay by Michele Muir about the lives of those affected by Alzheimer's disease. It will be exhibited at Mill Street Loft, 25 Pershing Ave. Poughkeepsie, NY from June 20 to July 31. There will be an artists' reception Saturday, June 20, 3 to 7 pm with a gallery talk, music and readings.

Muir's photographs follow the lives of people with Alzheimer's over the course of a period time--whether an afternoon, a day, a few months, or a couple of years. The images show the confusing and sometimes subtle changes that occur from moment to moment, from day to day in those coping with the disease. The relationships between those with the disease and their caregivers show both tenderness and frustration. Some of the images are metaphorical or symbolic. All of the images are infused with compassion, as Michele works for an Alzheimer's organization, and in addition, her father has Alzheimer's.

More information about the exhibit may be found here.

I printed much of the exhibit, and found it an emotional experience.

~Lys

C.A. Vanaria exhibiting with Connecticut Women Artists at the Jorgensen Center in Storrs, CT











"Stacey" © C.A. Vanaria

My friend/mentor/owner of Connecticut Photographics Catherine Vanaria will be included in the Connecticut Women Artists' 80th Annual Open Juried Exhibition from June 20-July 25.

Cathy's entry, shown above, is from her recent black and white portrait series captured using an 8x10 film camera. The behemoth 8x10 has built-in mojo, and it invites a deliberateness that is rarely present in making a digital photograph. There's an unbelievable degree of intimacy when you are that close to the camera/that close to the subject.

There will be a reception and awards ceremony on Saturday, June 20 from 2-4 pm. The exhibit is located at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts, 2132 Hillside Road, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3104

In addition, Cathy is now posting her portfolios to blogs accessible here or by clicking on her name above.

Keep lookin',
Lys


Karl Decker's "The People of Townshend, Vermont" on exhibition at Sterling College











© Karl Decker

Photographs from Karl Decker's series, "The People of Townshend, Vermont, 1998-2003", will be on exhibit during June and July at the Brown Library of Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, Vermont. The black and white gelatin silver prints are 20"x20," and were printed from Decker's medium format negatives here at Connecticut Photographics by Catherine Vanaria. There will be an opening reception on June 18th at 4:30-6 pm. Driving directions are on the Sterling College website.

Decker's environmental portraits reflect his deep rela
tionship with Townshend, Vermont, the small rural town in which he has spent time throughout his life. The photographs take the pulse of the town from 1998-2003, with its changes measured against the persistence of its inhabitants. Decker is a writer as well as a photographer, and I do believe some
of the deep listening of a writer comes through in his photographs. A selection from his series is viewable on Decker's website here.

In other news... Ben and Trudie Larrabee were kind enough to send us photos from the exhibition on Nantucket. They're at the end of the post from May 20.

~Lys

Added 7/13--Karl sent us some photos from the reception, and here they are:










© 2009 Karl Decker










© 2009 Karl Decker










© 2009 Karl Decker










© 2009 Karl Decker










© 2009 Karl Decker










© 2009 Karl Decker




Edith Borax-Morrison at Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven

Client Edith Borax-Morrison, and Emilia Dubicki are featured in the two-artist show No Constraints at the Kehler Liddell Gallery, 873 Whalley Avenue, New Haven, CT. The exhibition runs from June 4-July 5. There is an artists' reception this Sunday, June 7, 3-6 pm, and an artists' talk Thursday, June 18, 7 pm. In addition, there is a poetry reading Sunday, June 28, 3 pm.

I liked this tidbit from the gallery's description of the show, "No Constraints defines an attitude, a self motivating creative directive and its results. [...] Unstressed discipline, intellectual curiosity, and a joyful compulsion to work are evident in this exhibition of abstract art."

Both artists work abstractly. Morrison's work is visionary and intricate; her drawings are "pen weavings" of "mind fibers". I encourage you to go see her work, and to meet her at the reception.

~Lys








Edith Borax-Morrison at the opening.