Juried Art Exhibition and Sale at Danbury Fair Mall Sept 9-23

Starting tonight will be a juried art exhibition and sale at the Danbury Fair Mall that includes painting, illustration, photography, mixed media and primitive works. Photographers/clients we know among those included are Dennis Yates, and Eric Gottschalk.

There will be an opening reception Friday, September 10, 7-9 pm in the Center Court Area of the Danbury Fair Mall, Danbury, CT. The show is juried by Vincent Baldassano, and is presented by Housatonic Valley Cultural alliance. The exhibition will run until September 23, 2010.

~Lys

Photography of Hoopfest 2010: Tony Donovan at The Buttonwood Tree Gallery

© Tony Donovan

Photographer Tony Donovan will be exhibiting his basketball photography at the Buttonwood Tree Gallery, 605 Main St., Middletown., CT. An opening reception will be held Sunday, September 12, 3-5 pm.

A quote from Tony Donovan from the Buttonwood Tree's website: "Photographs from the basketball games at this summer’s Hoopfest 2010which were held at the Ray Barnes Memorial Courts on the ground of CT Valley Hospital, in Middletown.All sport is spirited, I suppose that’s why we love it. And for me, basketball has always seemed the most intense and dramatic of our games. My goal with these pictures has been to record some of the drama, effort, the cleverness and grace played out in the games at Hoopfest.


It is these elements of character and skill that I wanted to record. (Tony Donovan, July 2010)" "

Banjie Getsinger Nicholas exhibiting in "for the birds..." Clement Gallery, Troy, NY

Egg tempera and silverpoint artist Banjie Getsinger Nicholas is featured in a group exhibition titled "for the birds..." at the Clement Gallery in Troy, NY from August 27 to September 25.  Also exhibiting are Spring Hofeldt, Chris Murray, Jon Gernon, and Randi Martin-Kish.

Nicholas' work is bird-inspired, and often bird-derived (egg tempera is an ancient, natural, incredible painting medium, and she deftly makes her own paints.) Her work is very detailed--there's a sort of magical realism to her paintings. The birds, animals, and objects might resemble the familiar, but they are combined in a way that is very Banjie.

The Clement Gallery is located at 201 Broadway at Monument Square, Troy, NY Opening reception Friday August 27, 6-9 pm.

~Lys

"Eclectic Nature": Works by Martha Koons at Koenig FrameWorks, Newtown

Client Martha Koons is exhibiting her nature-inspired art at Koenig FrameWorks from August 26th to September 25th, 2010. "Eclectic Nature" describes both her subject matter, and her chosen media: colored pencil, charcoal and photography.

Also opening on the 26th at FrameWorks, an exhibit of photographs by Frank Tumminio. Tumminio's proceeds will be donated to Doctors Without Borders.

The opening reception for both shows is Thursday, August 26, from 6-8 pm. Koenig FrameWorks is located at 97 South Main St. (Route 25), Newtown, CT.

~Lys

A few photos of the opening © Lys Guillorn (added 8/31/10):

Kehler-Liddell Gallery featured on WTNH today

Kehler-Liddell Gallery in New Haven was featured today on CT WTNH ABC News. In the video, client Edith Borax-Morrison's work is featured, as is the Kehler-Liddell-curated special group exhibition in the players' lounge at the Pilot Pen Tennis Tournament. From Kehler-Liddell Gallery's press release: "In some small way, the exhibition as a whole seeks to mentally prepare the players, who will use the space before and after tennis matches, for their games by acting as conscious points of meditation, energy and strength. Featured Artists Include: Joseph Adolphe, Edith Borax-Morrison, Frank Bruckmann, Susan Clinard, Matthew Garrett, John Harris, Blinn Jacobs, William McCarthy, Gerald Saladyga, Marjorie Wolfe, and Gar Waterman."

Kehler-Liddell is hosting the work of client Edith Borax-Morrison (see previous post about the exhibiton) from this month until next.

~Lys

Tom Peterson at Christopher Martin's in New Haven

© Tom Peterson
Photographer Tom Peterson is the featured artist at Christopher Martin's Restaurant, 860 State St., New Haven through September. Peterson's areas of interest are urban documentary and landscape. The geometry and colors of the streetscape are his subjects.

There will be an artist's reception on Sunday, August 22, 2010 from noon-3 pm. 

~Lys

Edith Borax-Morrison at Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven

© Edith Borax-Morrison
Edith Borax-Morrison is showing recent drawings at Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven from August 19-September 26, 2010. Also showing are new paintings and pastels by Lisa Hess Hesselgrave. There will be an artist reception on Sunday, September 12 from 3-6 pm with an artist talk at 3 pm.

Morrison's ink drawings are simultaneously explosive and controlled. She has characterized her work as "mind fibers", and her titles give insight into the concepts behind each drawing. Her meticulously executed abstract forms seem to undulate on the paper on which they are drawn.

From the press release: "Morrison’s works relate to Gego’s wire sculptures and Escher’s drawings, or more recently to the work of James Siena.  They reference influences from both Eastern and Western culture, including African masks, folklore and memory, beaded jewelry and maps."

Kehler Liddell Gallery is located at 873 Whalley Ave., New Haven, CT.

~Lys

SoNo Arts Celebration This Weekend in Norwalk, CT & Other Delights

It's been a nearly annual tradition for me to go to the SoNo Arts Celebration with my best gal pal. We usually end up eating Pad Thai with some chicken on a stick, and have lemonade, and buy spiced nuts to eat while walking around and looking at the art and listening to music.

Hope to see usual favorites (I'm hoping photographer Vincent Serbin will be there), and I look forward to checking out new artists.

Irrepressibly creative folks with great color sense, Karl Heine, and kHyal™ of DesignerGrill will be there, featuring the Weather sKwirl. Karl and kHyal's street-level shop for creativeplacement will be hosting events throughout the weekend.

There are a bunch of gallery shows opening tonight/this weekend, it being the first week of the month... Haviland St. Gallery in Norwalk, and The Gallery at Black Rock in Bridgeport, are two places I know are hosting events. If I find out specifics later, I will post them here.

See you around!

~Lys

Marge Malwitz / The Sketchbook Project

"Healing Together" © Marge Malwitz
Marge Malwitz stopped at the lab to have scans or prints made the day I got the bee in my bonnet to start an art blog. That was a couple of years ago--and here we are, and she has one, too.  So I thank her for helping catalyze this outlet for both the lab and myself.

Marge's works combine contemporary quiltmaking and collage in a fresh way in both fabric and on paper. She also travels with a conscience, and brings her collage/quilts and workshops to compromised local and international communities trying to rebuild their lives.

The Sketchbook Project: 2011Today she turned me on to an interesting indie project in which she's participating called The Sketchbook Project.

Artists receive a sketchbook (for a small fee--it's an indie-financed project), choose a theme, fill it up by Janurary 15, 2011, and send it back. Then your sketchbook becomes part of a traveling exhibition, ultimately coming to rest in the Brooklyn Library (you don't get it back, but you do get a notification every time it's checked out!)  For a bit more, your book can be put online for internet viewing.

This bears looking into, no? Let me know if you participate, and I'll let you know if I participate. It's a pact.

~Lys

End of Summer Digital sale Aug. 29-Sept. 4 - 15% off digital services


End of Summer Thank You Sale!
15% off all digital services ordered
from August 29 to September 4, 2010 

From August 29 to September 4, 2010, save 15% on all digital services--this includes digital prints (including giclée prints), reprints, scans, digital artwork capture, and retouching. (It excludes sales tax, mounting services, and shipping costs.) 

Easy uploader
If you're sending new digital files or files we have printed before, we have easy file upload applications, so that can save you a trip.

Artwork capture now in larger sizes
This is a great time to bring in work to have scanned, and we are able to capture film, and most flat artwork up to 40"x60". 

Remember:
All work must be ordered during the sale week in order to receive the discount. You can email, call or come in. We'll work with you to give you what you need, when you need it.

We are always happy to answer your questions. Call 203-791-1474 or 1-800-287-4686 or visit stillrivereditions.com and ctphoto.com.

Our print pricing (before discount)

Give us a holler, why don'tcha?
~Lys

Litchfield Jazz Festival This Weekend to include Fine Art & Crafts Village: Pat Gullett

© Pat Gullett
Pat Gullett, who makes beautiful, ancient-looking jewelry, will be exhibiting at the Litchfield Jazz Festival this weekend. The festival runs from Aug 6-8, 2010 at Springs Center, Kent School, Kent, CT. Gullett's Howling Moon Studio is participating in the Fine Art and Crafts Village, and will be there Fri. 5-10, Sat. and Sun. 11 am -10 pm

We printed a few large mounted fine art prints for Pat's booth--her work looks great big, so check them out at her booth if you go.  

Music includes Dave Brubeck, Arturo O'Farrill Afro Latin Jazz, a Cannonball Adderley Tribute, Anat Cohen Quarted doing clarinetwork--Benny Goodman and Beyond--just a few highlights, and there are so many great artist. The set I am most inerested in is Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussein, and Edgar Meyer Sunday night at 7 pm. 

~Lys


Cliff Abrams in Juxtapositions at Flinn Gallery, Greenwich

© Cliff Abrams

Photographer Cliff Abrams will be among Greenwich Art Society members whose work is on display in a juried exhibition at the Flinn Gallery from July 30 to Aug. 22 with a reception held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, July 30. The judge of the show is Neil Watson, executive director of the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, N.Y.

The Flinn Gallery is located on the 2nd floor of the Greenwich Library, 101 West Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, Connecticut.

~Lys

Garage Sale-Purchased Negatives Found to be Ansel Adams', Appraised at $200 Million

In this Antiques Roadshow era, everyone dreams of finding some lost gem of art or antiquity to cash in on later.

In this case, a box of 65 glass plate negatives found at a garage sale 10 years ago for $45, has now been verified by handwriting and photography experts to be the work of Ansel Adams. Appraisers have valued the treasure trove at around $200 million. It was 10 years of hard work proving that they were authentic. I'm sure the California man who found them invested quite a bit of money toward that end, so I suspect $45 initial price tag may be slightly misleading about the overall net cost.

The reason for their being off-premises is not explained, but that saved them from a fire that claimed 5000 other Adams negs. I have a hunch this was a reject bin Adams used for teaching materials. Granted, Adams' reject bin has amazing stuff in it, but perhaps he never intended some of these to see the light of day. Imagine someone going through your studio's garbage and selling your work after you're dead. Guess we'll never have to worry about that.

Story here on CNNs website.

So... if you see glass plate negs at the Elephant's Trunk flea market one Sunday... look very closely.

By the way, we can print from black-and-white glass negatives and other antique media, both traditionally and digitally. In color, we can reproduce them digitally. We did a job for the Newtown Historical Society a number of years ago and pulled an incredible amount of detail out of some glass plate negs. Gorgeous prints of historical images. Film may be dying, but it is still sending us love letters from bygone eras.

Laurie Lambrecht: "From the Studio of Roy Lichtenstein" at Blue Sky Gallery, and on NPR

© Laurie Lambrecht 

Photographer Laurie Lambrecht worked as an assistant for Pop painter Roy Lichtenstein in the early 90s. While working with him on a major retrospective of his work, she grew close to him, and photographed him in his workspace. She also photographed collections of objects and images, reinterpreting some of his materials to make her own work. There is some very cool imagery that combines elements of Lichtenstein's paintings along with the artist himself--it's as if he has stepped inside his own paintings, and Lambrecht has offered us a rare glimpse of Lichtenstein's imagination.

The exhibit is at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland from July 1, 2010, to August 1, 2010.  The gallery is located at 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR.

NPR did a story on Lambrecht's exhibit for their online feature Daily Picture Show.

~Lys

This is Your Blog, Too...

Where else but here would you find out the latest about peers' shows, new competitions, new technology, items of interest, and sometimes nutty opinions you can only find written by Mark and me?

This is a reminder to please send me show and other announcements at lysbeth [at] stillrivereditions.com (close up space, and replace [at] with @), or mail them to me at Connecticut Photographics/Still River Editions 128 East Liberty St., Danbury, CT 06810.

A handy-dandy way to keep up with reading the blog is to just click on "subscribe by email" in the right hand column, and you'll be prompted to enter your email address and a code. Then check your email and click on the confirmation link.

You may already have a blog reader, and if you do, you can use that instead. You can also use your email program as a feed reader.

If this is totally confusing to you, call or email me and I will give you a Social Media Pep Talk.

And that's all she wrote.

~Lys

Life in a Day: Participate in a Worldwide Self-documentary Project July 24

Life in a Day's idea is this: to document July 24--a single day on earth---from as many perspectives as possible. It's up to you what and how much you film. Videos must be uploaded to their site between July 24 and 31.

I don't shoot much video, but I think even I might participate. Youtube is calling it an "historic cinematic experiment". There are a few prompts, but the rest is up to you.

Huh... one of the "don'ts" is no music, and others include not infringing on various forms of other people's intellectual property, and trademarks. Makes sense unless you are the owner of that intellectual property... like music, for example? [Can it really be a representative day on earth without music or high art?]

Make a video. Have fun. Upload it. If you do it, can you send me a link?

~Lys

More on "Where did my files go?": Desk, Filing Cabinet, Folders, Files

Have you ever lost a file on your computer?

I want to help clear up any confusion about the concepts of files, folders, and the desktop.

First you need to understand how the information stored on your computer is organized--file management. There's a very good tutorial for Windows here on youtube (not by us.) It'll help you understand where to look for files, and how to store and organize them.

Concrete examples involve a desk, a filing cabinet, folder inside the cabinet, paper (files) inside the folders, and folders inside the folders. There's a kind of patronizing example here.

FYI, when there's computer stuff I don't understand, my first impulse is to check Google, and my second is to look on Youtube, and my third is to consult a friend.

~Lys

Mark Savoia Exhibit at New England School of Photography in Boston




"Fried Doe Just a Buck"
© Mark Savoia



Mark Savoia, photographer (and co-owner of Connecticut Photographics/Still River Editions), is exhibiting at the New England School of Photography's Stairway Gallery for the month of July, 2010.
Mark graduated from the New England School of Photography in 1980.

Savoia's fine art photography records the visual contradictions that pop up just about everywhere, but it takes a trained eye like his to seek them out. Mark shoots primarily digitally, and his prints are carbon pigment giclees, yet his black and white prints have a film feel. Color would probably just distract the eye from the key elements of his compositions that add up to the visual satire.

Mark is one of seven photographers to receive at 2010 artist fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism.

NESOP is located at 537 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA.

~Lys