Catherine Vanaria exhibiting at Images 2010 29th annual photo exhibition

Our very own Catherine Vanaria has been accepted into the 2010 Images 29th Annual Photo Exhibition. Held at Guilford Arts Center in Guilford, CT. This is the 4th time she has been picked for this prestigious show. She will be exhibiting two of her current series of large format black and white portraits. Opening reception and awards ceremonies takes place February 7th, 3-5pm.

Directions to Guilford Art Center's Mill Gallery : I-95 to Exit 58 Guilford, go north on Route 77 for 200 yards. Turn right into the center. The gallery is the yellow building. The exhibition will be shown February 8th through February 27th, 12-4pm daily.

Mark

Silvermine Special Event Friday 2/5

On Friday, February 5, at 6:30 pm at the Silvermine Guild Gallery in New Canaan (quoted from their website):
"Join Silvermine Guild Gallery Director, Jeffrey Mueller and New Guild Members of 2010 for an informal art discussion about the current works on exhibit of the nine new members in the New Guild Members Show."

Rumor has it there will be finger foods, wine, Pellegrino, and dialogue about art, of course.

More about the members' show participants here.

~Lys

Andrew Buck in "Photography: Three Worlds" at Flinn Gallery, Greenwich




"Tobacco 96"
© Andrew Buck

Photographer Andrew Buck is featured in a new exhibit at the Flinn Gallery with Phil Stein and Lacey Terrell. "Photography: Three Worlds" runs from February 4-March 7, 2010. Flinn Gallery is located at the Greenwich Library, Second Floor, 101 West Putnam Ave., Greenwich, Connecticut.

Images are from Buck's series "Tobacco", "Tobacco Panoramas", and "Ohio Horizon".

Buck says something interesting about the idea of landscape on his website, "My use of the word 'landscape' is based in the writings of John Brinkerhoff Jackson. He went back to the source word, the German landschaften, which referred to that which results when 'man' reconfigures or uses the land, in essence creating his own landscape on the natural landscape. I’ve always found this landscape of much more interest than purely natural landscapes."

Buck's "Tobacco" images made me think of the rural South, but when he said they were from Windsor, Connecticut, he reminded me of Connecticut's role in the cigar industry. The gauzy forms of covered tobacco rows are well-suited to Buck's eye, and his panoramic treatment.

The opening reception is Thursday February 4, from 6-8 PM.

~Lys

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