Still River Editions' owners in photo exhibition

Mark Savoia and Cathy Vanaria have both been chosen to exhibit photographs at the 30th Annual Juried Photography Exhibition at The Carriage Barn Arts Center in New Canaan, CT, February 7 through March 7th. Cathy will be showing one of her recent portraits and Mark will be featuring one of his digital paper negative nature photographs. Also in the exhibit are clients Karen Neems, Pamela Zaremba and Paul Berger. There will be an opening reception on Sunday, February 7th, 4-6pm. The Carriage Barn Arts Center is historic barn located on the grounds of a former estate now known as Waveny Park.

"Echo" Members' Exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking

The Center for Contemporary Printmaking's annual members' exhibition is titled "Echo". The artists have explored the theme with repetitive marks, iterations, and multiple images. Among the printmakers will be Catherine Lucia Durante.

Word just in that the opening has been postponed from tonight to next Thursday, February 4, 4-7 pm. The show was juried by Monica Ramirez-Montagut, curator at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.

The Center for Contemporary Printmaking is located at Mathews Park, 299 West Avenue,
Norwalk, CT.

~Lys

Fresh Pics at Ridgefield Guild of Artists to include Nancy Lasar and Jane Sutherland

Ridgefield Guild of Artists is hosting a group exhibition of contemporary art in Connecticut called Fresh Pics, curated by Camilla Cook. It will include work by a couple of our clients--a monoprint by Nancy Lasar, and a piece by by Jane Sutherland. The exhibit includes around fifty artists in a variety of media and styles.

The opening reception is Saturday, January 23 from 2-4 pm, with a curator-led walkthrough at 2 pm that day. The exhibit will run until February 20, 2010. Ridgefield Guild of Artists is located at 34 Halpin Lane, Ridgefield, CT.

~Lys


Lys Guillorn on HolgaJen's blog









"Arm's Length"
©Lys Guillorn


Today one of Lys Guillorn's photos was featured on HolgaJen's site in a roundup of Etsy items related to the Holga. If you haven't been on Etsy before, it's a way for users to sell and buy fine art and handcrafted items, as well as vintage goods, and supplies. The Holga is a plastic 120 film camera with a plastic lens known for its quirky ability to lend a dreamlike quality to an image. Though there's a bit of a toy camera craze right now, Lys has been using the same Holga for the last 11 years, covered in electrical tape.

Mark

Tom Peterson - Passing By at City Gallery, New Haven














Tom Peterson is exhibiting his color urban documentary photographs in a show called "Passing By" at City Gallery in New Haven from. January 7 to January 31. Peterson's photographs use familiar locations around Connecticut as a springboard for explorations of color and shape. There will be an artist's reception January 9, 2-5 pm. City Gallery is located at 994 State St., New Haven.

City Gallery is an artist-run co-op that was founded in 2003.

~Lys

A few snaps from the opening on January 9th, 2010







Chris Durante exhibiting at Silvermine Guild Arts Center New Members Show; opening Sunday 1/10








© Chris Durante













There will be a New Members show including drawings by Chris Durante at Silvermine Guild in New Canaan, from January 10-February 19. New members inducted in 2009 in this show include Durante, Binnie Birstein, Silas Finch, Robert Gregson, Susan Halls, Linda Kuehne, Yen-Hua Lee, Constance Old, and Bradley Wolman. The inducted artists work in a variety of media--drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, and mixed media. There will be an artists' reception Sunday, January 10, 2-4 pm.

Many of Chris Durante's recent drawings use forms that resemble fibers and viscera, and create (at least in me) a feeling of looking up through holes in a matrix into the dark sky of outer space. Those fluid black lines are charmers. However, Durante has moved out of strictly black-and-white ink drawing to include wild color, soft pencil forms, collage elements, cuts and burn marks, and heavily burnished and multi-layered surfaces that resemble pewter. Durante's keen eye pulls these seemingly unrelated elements together, but it is still his deft hand moving across paper to create meaning.

The Silvermine Guild Arts Center is located at 1037 Silvermine Rd., New Canaan, CT 06840. As a special event, there will be an informal discussion with Gallery Director Jeffrey Mueller and the new members on Friday, February 5, from 6:30-7:30 pm.

Happy looking,
Lys

Six Degrees of Separation - Photography show at Windsor Art Center









"Six Degrees of Separation," an exhibit of Connecticut photographers including client Andrew Buck, Steven Cote, Wayne Dombkowski, Jim Duval, Susan Forbes Hansen, and Jack McConnell will be held at Windsor Art Center from January 9 to February 16th. There will be an artists' reception January 9 from 5-7 pm, and there will be an artist talk with Andrew Buck on Saturday January 16 at 1 pm.

Windsor Art Center is located at the Freight House, 40 Mechanic St. Windsor, CT 06095.

~Lys

Here are a couple of pics from the opening on 1/9 (added 1/14/10)






Andrew Buck (with mic) gave a brief gallery talk, along with the other artists










A patron viewing one of Buck's photographs

Edith Morrison and Keith Johnson in "Size Matters" show at Kehler Liddell in New Haven, CT










© Edith Morrison

Client Edith Morrison is exhibiting drawings among 22 artist-members in different media at Kehler Liddell Gallery from December 10, 2009 to January 10, 2010 in the show "Size Matters". Also exhibiting is social landscape photographer Keith Johnson, about whom we've written fairly recently during a flurry of gallery/blog activity.

An artists' reception is Sunday December 13, 3-6 pm. Kehler Liddell is located at 873 Whalley Ave. New Haven, CT.

"Size Matters" is a salon-style exhibition that features some relatively small works and full scale art in a wide array of prices, geared toward holiday art sales. A portion of proceeds will benefit Child Life Arts and Enrichment Program at Yale New Haven Children's Hospital.

If you haven't seen Edith's work--it's wild and remarkable. Have a look in person--the drawings should be seen at full scale to appreciate their detail and flow.

~Lys

Mark Twain Library Art Show and Gala This Weekend










© Muci Clemens

The Mark Twain Library Art Show runs from December 5-13. Clients participating will be Muci Clemens (any relation to Samuel Clemens himself?), Pam Reese, Ruth Newquist, Kathy Anderson, Catherine Lucia Durante, Florence Froeder, and Jimmy Grashow. Other artists include Nancy Howell, Susan Jositas, and Julie Hopkins, and many others. There is a champagne preview gala on December 4 from 7-10. The library is located at 439 Redding Road, Redding, CT.

Ben Larrabee at Nantucket Looms during Christmas Stroll this weekend






"Nantucket Ferry #1, 2009"
©Ben Larrabee

Photographer Ben Larrabee will be exhibiting at Nantucket Looms through the Christmas Stroll this weekend December 4-6, 2009 at 35 Main St., Nantucket, MA. A sample of his fine art collection is viewable here. Larrabee's fine art black and white photography is included in the permanent collections of MoMA, MFA Boston, and the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY.

~Lys

Claire Tuffereau at White Silo Farm Gallery through this weekend








© Claire Tuffereau

Watercolorist Claire Tuffereau, a client whose work is full of life and greenery, will be showing at the White Silo Farm & Winery Gallery through this Sunday, December 6. The gallery is open Fri., Sat., and Sun. from 11 to 6, and is located at 32 Rt. 37 E. Sherman, CT.

Also of note, the Silo offers tastings of its fruit-based wines made from their own fruit.

~Lys

Send Us A Thanksgiving Cameraphone Image

While I was driving home yesterday in the pre-holiday traffic, I had the idea to ask you to send us a Thanksgiving cameraphone pic. I'll post as many as I can either over the weekend or on Monday. Title them if you want, but make sure you give your name so I can credit you, and link to your website, if you like. If you don't have a cameraphone, and want to participate, just send a small jpg instead (try & keep it under 2 MB).

C'mon... it'll be fun. Send 'em to lysbeth [at] ctphoto.com

Thanks for being inspiring, and for creating some of my favorite artwork.

Happy Thanksgiving!
~Lys

Chris Osborne Exhibiting "Who's Driving? Legendary Cars and Legendary Stars" at the Trucking Museum, Middlebury, Connecticut




"James Dean with a 1949 Mercury"
© Chris Osborne


Fine artist Chris Osborne will be exhibiting "Who's Driving? Legendary Cars and Legendary Stars" at the Golden Age of Trucking Museum from November 15, 2009 until November 2010. There will be an artist's reception from 2-4 pm on November 15. The museum is located at 1101 Southford Rd., Middlebury, CT.
Chris Osborne's art bridges a love of cars and a love of music and film. Often familiar faces are paired with significant automobiles--Marilyn Monroe with a pink 1956 Thunderbird, Johnny Cash with a 1954 Chevy pickup, Robert Johnson with a 1935 Hudson Terraplane. When she is not traveling the country with her artwork, she sometimes drives around in a green vintage Chevy truck of her own.

Osborne says of the museum, "I love the museum for the quality of the displays and the sense of history, and I am grateful for the chance to be a part of it over the next year. The antique trucks are truly impressive. The museum has always been very supportive of my work; they sell my posters in their gift shop."

On exhibit will be original paintings, as well as digital fine art prints and posters.







"Green Bean" and Chris Osborne
© Chris Osborne



Lys

Tony Donovan's "Ardoyne, Belfast, Ireland 1971-1972" at NESOP








© Tony Donovan

Tony Donovan of Ivoryton Studio's portfolio of work from Ardoyne, Belfast, Ireland 1971-1972 will be exhibited from November 16, 2009 to January 8, 2010 at The Garner Center for Photographic Exhibitions, New England School of Photography, 537 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA. There is an opening reception November 19, 7-9 pm.

Donovan, who was a 26-year-old filmmaker at the time, ended up by chance living in a brick row housing estate in the small community of Ardoyne, in north Belfast, Ireland and photographing its residents with his Leica. "To a lot of Irish Americans, [Ireland] was the promised land," said Donovan. What he saw when he got there was more like a police state.

"At the time the images were made, no one was interested in the work--people didn't want to talk about it," Donovan said. His time in Ireland coincided with some of the worst civil unrest caused by paramilitary groups who waged a war against British rule. Donovan worked on a scaffolding gang rebuilding houses that were burned during the conflict. He says there was around 60% unemployment among the men of the community, as well as high rates of alcoholism and suicide. Some of these problems continue to this day.

As an outsider, Donovan had to gain the trust of his neighbors, and he often photographed children playing in his neighborhood. His images capture the contradictions in Ardoyne's street life, at once tender and supercharged with tension. The black and white carbon pigment prints for the exhibition were made by Still River Editions from the original negatives.

Lys

Catherine Vanaria Featured in Faculty Exhibition at WCSU, Danbury, CT

"Stacy" © C.A. Vanaria

Catherine Vanaria will be exhibiting two black and white photographs from her series of portraits taken with her 8x10 film camera at the Western Connecticut State University Faculty Art Show. The exhibition takes place at Higgins Hall Gallery, 181 White St., Danbury, CT from November 17 to December 10. The reception will be on the 17th of November from 5-7 pm.

Cathy's use of the 8x10 camera is a counterbalance to the digital approach, which often tempts us to overshoot and underthink. The images themselves are formal and yet extremely intimate; little space stands between the camera's lens (therefore the viewer) and the subject. The narrow area of focus is usually around one eye, and the most arresting visual element is the subject's gaze. The two prints included in the faculty show are of former photography students.

Lys

Catherine Vanaria at the opening party