Muci Clemens' "Reflections of Light" at Artists Guild Gallery, Vero Beach, Florida







"New Dawn"
©Muci Clemens



Client Muci Clemens is exhibiting oils and pastels in a solo show called "Reflections of Light" at Artists Guild Gallery, Vero Beach, Florida. The gallery is at 1974 14th Ave., Vero Beach, FL. There is an artists reception Friday, March 5th, from 5-7 pm.

Clemens works in still life, landscape and portraiture, and says of her own choice in subject and mood, "There is much pain in the world, so to choose to focus on the positive - on light, color and uplifting themes - is a conscious choice."

I wish her good luck and hope she'll report back from Florida with some pictures of the gallery.

~Lys

Edith Borax-Morrison and Nancy Lasar in Silvermine Guild Group Show

Clients Edith Borax-Morrison and Nancy Lasar are participating in the current Silvermine Guild show titled "Inside/Out."

While the opening has already passed, the exhibition will remain up until April 9, 2010. There will be a lunchtime gallery talk on Friday, March 5 at 12:30.

Other artists include Linda Adato, Jocelyn Braxton Armstrong, Nina Bentley, Binnie Birstein, Martha Bloom, Karen Brussat Butler, Miggs Burroughs, Leslie Giuliani, Phyllis Clamage, Heidi Lewis Coleman, Carol Nipomnich Dixon, Kathy Draper, Lois Flint Eldridge, Robert Gregson, C.J. Guerin, Kim Hanna, Karin Hillmer, Hyun Joo Jung, Jane Ingram, Peter Lampke, Yen-Hua Lee, Kristina Kuester-Witt, Nancy Moore, Enid Munroe, Olivia Munroe, Susan Newbold, Heidi Palmer, Roxanne Faber Savage, Susan Sharp, Alan Shulik, Arle Sklar Weinstein, Karen Sorensen, Florence Suerig, Marjorie Wolfe, Torrance York, Ed Yuhas, Michael Zack and Florence Zolan.

The Silvermine Guild Arts Center is located at 1037 Silvermine Road New Canaan, CT 06840-4398.

Harrison Judd: Signs Along the Way at Silver Circle in Putnam, CT










© Harrison Judd


Photographer and multi-media artist Harrison Judd is exhibiting "Signs Along the Way" at Silver Circle Studio in Putnam, CT. Judd's photographs are witty and colorful, and document often overlooked remnants of commercial culture through Judd's curious lens.

The opening reception will be Friday, March 5 from 6-8 pm. The exhibit will be on display until April 3, 2010. Silver Circle Studio is located at 75 Main St. 3, Putnam, CT 06260.


If you can't make it to the exhibition, the body of work is on Judd's website.


~Lys

Shelby Lee Adams in the March 2010 Issue of Smithsonian Magazine





"The Home Funeral"
© Shelby Lee Adams, 1990




Photographer and writer Shelby Lee Adams is profiled in this month's issue of Smithsonian Magazine. The story is titled "Capturing Appalachia's 'Mountain People". Adams' photograph of a country home funeral is a jumping off point to introduce his style and discuss his background. Adams' history and current relationship with his subjects could possibly change how a viewer interprets his images, so it is essential that context is explored.

The way Adams unites two distinct scenes on opposite sides of a wall in "The Home Funeral" is striking. Within the image, the multiple generations represented give the impression of the strength of family, and a kind of ease with death. An image like this makes me ask questions I can't necessarily answer, and creates a bit of wonder as I try to match up the story in my head with the information given by Adams.

~Lys

Spring Ahead Reprint Sale - 30% off

Still River Editions is having a sale. Save 30% on reprints, or all additional copies of new work printed in March 2010.

Now is a great time to stock up for spring art fairs and exhibitions, and get birthday presents for friends and loved ones who have been bugging you for a print of yours. Dig up those CDs and DVDs we gave you and bring them in, or upload the files using one of our easy file upload applications. To see if we have your files archived here, just give us a call or e-mail us.

Discount valid March 1 - March 31, 2010 only

All past reprints must be from files Still River Editions provided you or we have archived. Additional prints from new work started in March 2010 qualify, but first print pricing applies to first print and additionals from new work must be of equal dimensions or smaller than first print. Discount applies to giclee / inkjet prints only and cannot be combined with other discounts or shipping costs.

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