Upcoming events: Pat Gullett in Crafts at Lyndhurst, Lys Guillorn at the Connecticut Film Festival

Metals artist Pat Gullett will be exhibiting her jewelry at Crafts at Lyndhurst, 635 S. Broadway, Tarrytown this weekend, April 30 to May 2. Gullett's work looks at once ancient and contemporary, and often uses precious metal clay with stones, fossils and found objects to create a sense of history in her work. In addition to being an exhibiting jeweler, Gullett also teaches jewelry privately and at the Brookfield Craft Center in Brookfield, Connecticut.


Connecticut Film Festival

The opening movie and reception for the Connecticut Film Festival takes place at 6:30 pm on May 4 at the Palace Theater in Danbury. The film that will be featured is a documentary about "The Wrecking Crew", who were the stellar LA session musicians who played on just about every major hit in the 60s.

Speaking of music, in the shy self-promotion department, I, Lys Guillorn, will be performing next Saturday, May 8 at 6:20 pm at the Danbury Library Plaza as part of the CTFFs sister music festival. I'm playing a half hour set with my band. The library plaza is at the intersection of Main and West St. in Danbury.

Be well,
Lys

"What if? 60x60x60"







Still from "Duck and Coverup"
©Mark Savoia



Still River Editions/Connecticut Photographics co-owner Mark Savoia has contributed a film titled "Duck and Coverup" to "What If? 60x60x60", to take place April 29, 7:30 pm AXIOM Center for New and Experimental Media, 141 Green St., Jamaica Plain, MA.

The project was created by media artist Gene Gort and composer Ken Steen, both of New Media New Music New England. The project is a participatory experiment in audio and video that uses 60 video clips and 60 audio clips that are 60 seconds long. Contributors to the project are notable New England media and sound artists. Audience members will select one audio and one video clip, and the resulting combination is played back together. The selections will dictate the evening's performance, resulting in an hour-long event.

Savoia is a master printer, video artist and photographer.

"What If? 60x60x60" may be viewed online here. I've found by playing around with the web version, that pairing the same video with different audio often changes its meaning/mood/feeling, and vice versa.

~Lys

Banjie Nicholas in Litchfield County Times









"Butterfly Sunday"
© Banjie Nicholas

The Litchfield Times wrote a nice piece on the egg tempera painting process and artist Banjie Nicholas. Egg tempera is an extremely old and long-lived natural process, used by Michaelangelo, and Botticelli, and has hooked Nicholas ever since she first tried it.

In addition to being an egg tempera and silverpoint artist, Nicholas is a certified bird rehabilitator, and chicken coop-keeper. Along with the article is a video of her mixing powdered pigments with egg yolks from her coop to create the painting medium. (Anyone who has accidentally broken a yolk while trying to make eggs over easy will admire Nicholas' delicate touch as she gently pinches a yolk with her fingers, and drops it into a cup, unbroken.) Paintings are developed slowly, building up color in small, cross-hatched brush strokes.

In her recent work, Nicholas has used a recurrent motif of paper dolls in addition to nests, landscapes, butterflies, and still life. There is a dream-like naturalism to the paintings--at once mysterious and familiar.

Banjie Nicholas will be participating in the Annual Northeast Juried Exhibition, which features 27 artists, from May 8 to June 13 at the Washington Art Association in Washington, CT.  She will also be exhibiting at the Norfolk Library in Norfolk, CT from April 30 to June 3, and at the Minor Library in Roxbury, CT from June 19 to July 28.

~Lys

RSS feed for our blog now available

Still River Editions blog is now available as an RSS Feed. What is that you say? RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. It allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the websites you are interested in. You save time by not needing to visit each site individually.

There are many RSS feed readers out there but more and more web browsers now support them directly. You can also add an RSS feed to MacMail so when you receive your e-mails you will also see if any new content has been added to the websites you are following.


Mark

Jim Rohan featured on Holga Jen









"Vernal Pool"
©Jim Rohan


Jim Rohan's beautiful black-and-white Holga images were profiled on the blog, Holga Jen, earlier this week.

Rohan uses the Holga to balance out his work of painstaking exactitude as a digital printmaker. His technical and professional experience in photography and printmaking inform his artistic choices, but he has found the Holga is particularly well-suited to capture a certain type of visual magic occuring constantly in front of our eyes, that sometimes goes unnoticed. Now Rohan carries at least one of his plastic cameras wherever he goes.

The recent surge in the popularity of film and lower-tech cameras like the Holga are proof that art is in the eye of the creator; it doesn't take a lot of fancy, new digital gear to create beautiful images. Someone with a great eye, like Rohan, could use anything at his disposal.

More images from Jim can be found on his Flickr stream.

~Lys

"Durante / Fucigna" at 22 Haviland Street in Norwalk

"Durante / Fucigna" is an exhibition of collaborative and individual works by Chris Durante and Joe Fucigna at 22 Haviland Street Gallery in South Norwalk, CT.

Both Durante and Fucigna are art professors at Norwalk Community College, and have exhibited extensively. Fucigna's work is mainly sculpture, and his drawings seem to hold volume. Durante's eye is informed by graffiti, comic book art, and found marks, and his line is pure and confident. Their abstract drawings on Claybord feature similar shifting shapes, and the feel is almost juicy. As the works were passed back and forth several times, Durante said that the individual contributions became less recognizable, even to the artists themselves. The distinction between the artists may not always be obvious, but watching the resulting conversation play out on the wall is total eye candy.

The exhibition runs from April 16 to May 30, and there will be an opening reception on Friday, April 16 from 6-9 pm. A talk with the artists will be held on Sunday May 2 at 2 pm.

WilderImages to hold photowalk workshop at Mattatuck Museum Arts & History Center

Photographer Ken Wilder and artist Lois Wilder, of Wilderimages located in Southbury, CT, will hold an on-location digital photography workshop Saturday April 24th starting at the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury at 9:00 a.m. and continuing onto the green outside the museum in the afternoon.

The morning session will concentrate on the focus and exposure features of each person's digital camera and how to photograph inside museums using local historic artifacts on display at the Mattatuck. Participants will learn how to use their digital cameras in low light situations, how to isolate a subject and tell a story with their images, as well as minimize reflections in a museum setting.

The afternoon session will begin with a review of the Mattatuck's current Frederick Stone Exhibit of turn-of-the-century photographs and postcards followed by an outdoor photowalk around Waterbury Green and portions of the "main street" business district photographing some of the same structures featured in the exhibit but a century or more later. Many are still there, some have a new face and some have been replaced by something new.

For fee information and to register, call Wilderimages 203-267-1090 or email class@wilderimagesonline.com

Mark

June Bisantz - "Turning Pages" at the Willimantic Public Library

©June Bisantz

June Bisantz could be considered the queen of public art in Connecticut. She often works big, and uses public spaces to challenge peoples' relationships with everyday objects and situations. Billboards, buses, and traffic signage often fall under her spell. 

Her current exhibit "Turning Pages"  is an interactive light projection on the facade of the Willimantic Public Library, 905 Main St., Willimantic, CT. It will be viewable from 8pm - midnight April 12-16. A preview of the project is online on Bisantz's website. 

In "Turning Pages," text becomes luminous--optically, and as it ignites the imagination of the reader who approaches the library. The projection is a metaphor, as the beauty of reading depends on inner visualization, on the words coming off the page. Its existence highlights people's relationship with reading, and cleverly acknowledges the new roles libraries (and readers) must take on as electronic media changes what people think of "book" and "text".  

From the press release: “Reading has saved my life many times”, says Bisantz, “A good book offers escape, high drama and great adventure. Turning Pages is about the excitement and anticipation of reading a new story.” 

In addition to being an exhibiting artist, Bisantz is a teacher of digital art and design at Eastern Connecticut State University, and is a jazz musician.  

~Lys


The Collaboration of Gene Gort and Ken Steen Tonight April 8 on CPTV

Gene Gort and Ken Steen will be discussing their work on "All Things Connecticut", on CPTV tonight, April 8 at 8 pm. Producer Ed Wierzbicki visited the artists during their residence at the I-Park Artists' Enclave in East Haddam during the summer of 2009.

During tonight's episode, Wierzbicki explores the theme "Technology--Changing the Way We Live" by showing the collaboration between Gort and Steen, who use visual media, musical composition and technology to create their work. Gene Gort is a professor of art at Hartford Art School in Hartford, CT and is a working artist in video, photography, sound, and electronic media. Ken Steen is a composer and professor of music at Hartt School of Music in Hartford, CT.

Their new work, "Each to Each" is a "new media chamber opera in one act for Soprano, Tenor, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano, keyboard sampler, Max/MSP/Jitter, video projections and other visual elements". Their prior project, the "Reliquary of Labor" was created for for the opening of the New Britain Museum of American Art in November, 2006.

In addition to their creative collaborations, Gort and Steen have launched an online resource for artists who work in new media and composition. New Media New Music New England hopes to be a networking and promotion hub that will connect artists to venues, and will foster new projects in the northeast.

Check your local or digital listings to find your CPTV station.

~Lys

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Lys

Free screening of "An Unlikely Weapon- The Eddie Adams Story"

There will be a free screening of the documentary "An Unlikely Weapon" the Eddie Adams story, April 14th, 2010 at Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT, White Hall, Viewing Room #1 on the midtown campus.
There will be a short talk/presentation by Professor Marcy May from the WCSU History Department on photography and it's impact on our historical memory before the start of the movie.

The talk will start promptly at 7pm with the movie beginning immediately after.

Free and open to the public.

Edith Borax-Morrison featured in "Beauty Marks" at Fairfield Library

Edith Borax-Morrison will be exhibiting three drawings in the group show "Beauty Marks" at the Bruce S. Kershner Gallery at Fairfield Public Library in Fairfield, CT. The gallery features ten Connecticut artists--Borax-Morrison, Anne Doris-Eisner, Judy Henderson, Paul Kaiser, Peter Konsterlie, Jak Kovatch, M.G. Martin, James Reed, Nomi Silverman, and Karen Sorenson, and was curated by Janine Brown.

The gallery's website says of Morrison, "Addressing the linear in a different way, Edith Borax-Morrison uses a woven sheath of free flowing strings and fibers to create references of women in her pen and ink pieces, "Ensnared" and "Wired Woman." Her intensely intricate, visionary abstract drawings must be seen in person to understand completely what is meant when they are described as "mind fibers".

The opening reception is Saturday, March 27 from 5-7 pm. There will be a brief talk by the curator and artists at 6 pm. The show runs until May 16, and is viewable during normal library hours, so there is ample opportunity to view it.

Fairfield Public Library is located at 1080 Old Post Rd., Fairfield, CT.

Still River Editions now offering print mounting

Still River Editions

is pleased to announce that we are now offering cold-mount mounting for all prints produced by us. We have two choices for mounting, 3/16" Gatorfoam

®

and 3/4" and 1 1/2" Stand-Outs. Stand-Outs offer a great way to finish off your prints, giving a rigid support and a ready to hang solution. Stop by to see some samples and for more information and pricing visit our

website page on mounting

.

Mark

AIPAD Photography Show - New York City







© Monroe Gallery


It is that time of year again. If you have never been to this show it is well worth the admission. All the major photo galleries from around the world have booths filled with every famous and some still unknown photographer's works, all for sale. If anything it is just a great place to view (and actually handle) this much photography at one time. Click here for more info.

NY Times story here.

Mark

Joey Lounsbury's Nature Photography at Wild Birds Unlimited


Joey Lounsbury will be showing selections of his color nature photography at Wild Birds Unlimited, with an opening reception this Saturday, March 6, at 2 pm. Wild Birds Unlimited is located at 317 Federal Road, Brookfield, CT

Many of Lounsbury's photographs were taken locally, and highlight his interest in bird behavior and flight.

It'd be a good day to go check out the show, and pick up some bird seed--according to WBU's website, the time birds begin to nest in early March coincides with food supplies being the lowest for the year.

See the article in the Danbury News-Times

~Lys