James Grashow's Corrugated Fountain at the Aldrich

© James Grashow
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is exhibiting James Grashow's "Corrugated Fountain" April 1 to May 13, 2012. Corrugated Fountain is "an enormous cardboard sculpture inspired by Bernini's famous Trevi Fountain in Rome." The fountain has been on exhibition since 2007 and its final stop is at the Aldrich where it will slowly disintegrate over time.

Grashow's work makes cardboard seem fluid. It is just one of the surprising properties that make his artwork accessible to people of all ages.

The exhibition is also accompanied by a publication and two Aldrich Editions by James Grashow--a cardboard sculpture, and a finely-detailed woodblock print.

Guests will be invited to partake in Grashow's project Accumulated Wishes by tossing special paper coins with their wishes on them into the fountain.

There is an opening reception from 3 - 5 pm on Sunday, April 1, 2012. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is located at 258 Main St. Ridgefield, CT.

Chris Durante in "05@22", 22 Haviland St. Gallery, Norwalk, CT

© Chris Durante

"5@22" features five artists working in different media at 22 Haviland St. Gallery, in Norwalk, CT. The show opens Thursday, March 29, 2012 with a reception from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.  The artists are Lori Lohstoeter, Joe Fucigna, Frank Post, Chris Durante, and Mauricio Higuera. The exhibit runs until April 26, 2012.

The gallery's Facebook page is here.

Creighton Michael in "Dimensions Variable" at Waterhouse & Dodd, NYC

"ORCHID 7411"
© Creighton Michael
Creighton Michael is featured in the four-artist exhibition "Dimensions Variable" at Waterhouse & Dodd, New York. The other artists are Jae Ko, Derrick Velasquez, and Golnar Adili.

From curator Dr. Maxim Weintraub's (Dept. of Art, Hunter College, CUNY) essay that accompanies the exhibition:
"Dimensions Variable brings together four artists who radically reconsider, recast, and re-present the sculptural object. [...] The works assembled in this exhibition push the boundaries of sculpture into new and variable directions, allowing us to appreciate how the sculpted form, and our relationship to it, continues to be nomadic and unsettled."

A pdf of the exhibition may be viewed here.

The exhibit runs from March 28 - April 27, 2012 with an opening reception Wednesday, March 28, from 6 - 8 p.m. Waterhouse & Dodd is located at 104 Greene St. (Bet. Prince and Spring Streets), NY, NY.

"Atmospheres" at Koenig FrameWorks / HVCA Accessible Art

"Atmospheres" is a two-artist show that features etchings by DeAnn Prosia and oil paintings by Joanne Conant. The exhibit opens March 23, 2012 at Koenig FrameWorks, 97 South Main St. (Route 25) Newtown, CT. There is an opening reception on Friday, March 23 from 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. and the exhibit runs until April 28.

The exhibit is part of Housatonic Valley Cultural Alliance's 2012 Accessible Art Project.

Jim Felice's Hatchet Job, and Open Studio

© Jim Felice
The front of Jim Felice's exhibition announcement card features a hatchet. The back of the card reads: "My studio practice is based on four words: question, seek, discover and investigate.

In asking a question, one seeks an answer that leads to discovery, which demands further investigation in which asks more questions; and the process repeats itself over and over again.

And one day I asked, 'What would it look like if an axe went through it.'"

If that doesn't intrigue you, I don't know what will.

Jim Felice is a sculptor, painter, restorer and musician. His show is at the Upstairs Gallery at Molten Java, 213 Greenwood Avenue, Bethel, CT, from March 5, 2012 - April 13, 2012.

Also
Jim Felice Studios is having an open studio event "Possibilities" on Saturday, March 3 from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. featuring the work of Jim Felice, Katie Bassett, Kenny Hess, KVEAZY, and various guest graffiti artists. Jim Felice Studios is located at 15 Great Pasture Road, Danbury, Connecticut. There are plans for other open studio events throughout the year.

Second Art-For-All Opening Saturday March 3, 2012


The second of three juried Art-for-All exhibits to benefit Centro Hispano / Hispanic Center of Greater Danbury opens at the center on Saturday, March 3, 2012 from 6 - 9 p.m. The exhibit will be on view through Friday, March 30, 2012. The Hispanic Center of Greater Danbury is located at 87 West St., Danbury, CT.

The third exhibit is at the Mercurial Gallery, and opens on Saturday, March 10 from 4 - 7 p.m. at 11 Library Place, Danbury, CT, and will be on view through Friday, April 13.

The first of the exhibits opened at Art and Frame on Saturday, February 25, and will be on view through Sunday, March 11.  The winner of their juried exhibition was Raz, with a photographic self-portrait printed by Still River Editions.  Art and Frame is located at 60 Newtown Rd., Danbury, CT.

The Photography of J. Avery Wham at Trumbull Town Hall

© J. Avery Wham
The photography of J. Avery Wham will be on exhibit at Trumbull Town Hall, 5866 Main St., Trumbull CT from March 2 until April 5, 2012. There is an opening reception on Friday, March 2, from 6-8 p.m.

Wham is a professional photographer who divides her time between New York City and Trumbull. She is a graduate of the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

Read the story about Wham in the Trumbull Times.

Banjie Getsinger Nicholas: Silver Linings

"Feathered Guests"
Egg Tempera on Gesso Panel
© Banjie Getsinger Nicholas
"Silver Linings: Literal/Metaphorical" is a new show of egg tempera paintings and silverpoint drawings by Banjie Getsinger Nicholas from Whitson Gallery & The Brick Wall Exhibition Space at UCONN Torrington, Feb. 27 - May 11, 2012. Nicholas is an accomplished artist and teacher who works with remarkable materials and subject matter.

From the gallery website:
"The mediums used by artist Banjie Getsinger Nicholas, egg tempera and silverpoint, are two of the oldest mediums used by artists through the centuries. [...] These materials are little changed from those used by the old masters centuries ago. Banjie says, “Their ‘organic’ nature adds to the pleasure of the process for me. Through these paintings and drawings I maintain my personal connection to the natural world and hope some of the reverence I feel will connect with viewers of the work.”

There is an artist's talk and reception on Thursday March 1, 2012 - 7 - 8:30 pm.

Nicholas has recently written an instruction book on silverpoint drawing that was published in February, 2012.

Tony Donovan Featured in "On The Street," Vermont Center for Photography

"Informers Beware"
© Tony Donovan

Tony Donovan of Ivoryton Studio is featured in the Vermont Center for Photography's exhibition of street photography titled "On the Street" from March 2 to March 31, 2012.

Donovan has two photographs in the show, "Informers Beware" and "Commuters," both of which were printed by Still River Editions. Both images are from his Irish series, taken in the early 1970s during a time of great upheaval for Ireland. There is more information in an earlier blog post here about a prior exhibition of some images from the series.

There is an opening reception on Friday, March 2 from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m during Brattleboro's Gallery Walk.  Vermont Center for Photography is located at 49 Flat St., Brattleboro, VT.

The Naturalist's Studio at the Gunn Memorial Library

"Made from Scratch"
© Banjie Getsinger Nicholas
The exhibit "The Naturalist's Studio" will be on view from February 25th to April 29th, 2012 at the Gunn Library at 5 Wykeham Rd. Washington, CT. A reception will be held on Saturday, February 25th from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.

The artists included in the show are: Frannie Aeschliman, Ted Dove, Eileen Field, Mary Hawvermale, Richard Heys, Roxana Laughlan, Phyllis McGoldrick, Marge Muzyczka, Sarah Payson, Martha Schwerdtle, Ted Schwerdtle, Faith Stewart-Gordon, Gertrude Thiel and Cherra Wyllie, and Banjie Getsinger Nicholas. According to the Gunn Library's website, "The artists are class members and artists who have met in Warren at Banjie’s studio on Friday mornings for many years."

Keith Johnson in group exhibition "Stone Work" curated by Stephen Vincent Kobasa

"Yuma Rocks"
© Keith Johnson

The group exhibition Stone Work: Artists' Encounters with Hard Places is on view at the the Institute Library, 847 Chapel St., New Haven, CT from February 11 through March 10, 2012. There is a greeting of the artists on Saturday, February 11, from noon until 2 p.m.

Photographer client Keith Johnson is featured in the exhibition. The artists are: Marion Belanger, Frank Bruckmann, Daniel Buttrey, Anne Doris-Eisner, Emilia Dubicki, Keith Johnson, Constance LaPalombara, Roy Money, Kerry O'Grady, Matthew Weber.

The exhibition was curated by Stephen Vincent Kobasa.

Danbury Museum's Valentine's Day Cake Creation Celebration, Saturday, February 12, 2012

The Danbury Museum and Historical Society is hosting its third annual cake contest and tasting in honor of Valentine's Day on Saturday, February 11, 2012 from noon to 4:00 p.m. There will also be a special cake auction to benefit the museum. The general public is invited to attend and judge the contest. The $10 admission charge includes samples of all the cakes (on which you can vote), champagne, sparkling water or milk. Children under 10 are free.

Bakers will be competing in two categories: taste and decoration.

The "Locally Grown" art exhibit is still on view.

The Danbury Museum and Historical Society is located at 43 Main St., Danbury, CT.

"Stone Soup" at Koenig FrameWorks in partnership with HVCA


"Stone Soup" featuring artists Judith Secco, Mally DeSomma and Thomas Nackid will be on exhibit at Koenig FrameWorks in Newtown, CT from February 10 through March 19, 2012. The exhibition is a partnership with Housatonic Valley Cultural Alliance's Accessible Art Project.

The exhibit is called "Stone Soup" in a reference to the folk story of the same name, with the artists' different talents becoming more than the sum of their parts when put together. The artists' mediums are as follows: Judith Secco, photography; Mally DeSomma, painting; Thomas Nackid, painting/illustration.

There will be an opening reception on Friday, February 10, 2012 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Koenig FrameWorks is located at 97 South Main St., Newtown, CT.

Marko Susla in "Searching for the Perfect Storm"

© Marko Susla
Marko Susla is among the finalists whose work is being exhibited in "Searching for the Perfect Storm", a storm-themed juried group photography exhibition at Method Art, Scottsdale, AZ. The exhibit began on January 3, and is on view until February 25, 2012.

Images from the show may be viewed here.


Christine Brooks Cote of the Still Point Art Gallery, at which Susla is a Gallery Artist, wrote about Susla's work:

“Marko Susla pursued independent study in photography and is currently under the mentorship of a fine art professional. His current interests are disparate, ranging from the beauty of scenic and landscape photography, the dark side of documenting abandoned structures and places, and, most recently, the beauty and drama of nocturnal photography. Perhaps what seems disparate is actually a balance.

Marko Susla's work has been shown in a number of exhibitions around the United States, including: Vermont Photography Workplace in Middlebury, Vermont; The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado; Presidio of San Francisco and New Orleans. His work was also part of an online gallery project based in Kópavogur, Iceland. Susla has also had work published in Burn Magazine and SuperMassiveBlackHole.”

Bobby Grossman's Low Fidelity at Vertu Fine Art, Boca Raton, FL

"Debbie Harry, Pepsi, 1977"
© Bobby Grossman
"Low Fidelity: The Photographs of Bobby Grossman 1975-1983" will be at Vertu Fine Art, Boca Raton, Florida from February 16 through March 15, 2012.

The exhibition of mostly black-and-white photographs captures a time when New York City was still gritty. After graduating from RISD, Bobby Grossman was in the heart of the downtown art and music media scene, documenting the human landscape which included many up-and-coming and already notable scenesters.
He was the official photographer for Glenn O'Brien's TV Party, punk-dada public access TV program, which featured a rotating cast of characters that included O'Brien, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Debbie Harry and Fab 5 Freddy. 

Grossman's images of Debbie Harry, and a contact sheet of Andy Warhol eating cornflakes are the centerpieces of the show. 

There is a preview of the images here on Vertu's website.

The silver gelatin prints for the exhibition were printed by Master Printer Catherine Vanaria of Connecticut Photographics.

There is an opening reception at Vertu Fine Art on Thursday, February 16 from 7 - 10 p.m. Vertu Fine Art is located at 5250 Town Center Circle Suite 128 in Boca Raton, Florida

Ben Larrabee's "Ships Inn" at Rowayton Arts Center

"Ships Inn, 2011"
© Ben Larrabee
Photographer Ben Larrabee's intimate black and white portrait of his wife and muse Trudie Larrabee was accepted into the juried show "Expressions" at Rowayton Arts Center. The show is on display from February 5 through February 26, 2012 at Rowayton Arts Center, 145 Rowayton Ave., Rowayton, CT.

Ben Larrabee writes about the experience and image:

 "02.06.12 
Ships Inn, 2011

When Trudie and I went to Nantucket last summer for our two weeks of shooting, we spent the first day at Ships Inn before our rental was available.

We discovered that the first day had to be a transition day.

It became a day to shift our energy, tune into each other, allowing time to reorient and connect. We had no agenda, no place to go, nothing to do.

As I looked at Trudie I began to “see” her sitting in the window in a moment of reflection as she wrote down her thoughts about being a muse and our life together. I was inspired to photograph this moment in our lives. A moment that becomes one of the many in the body of work that shows our life together.

I love the layers; foreground, middleground and background, Trudie’s shape, the patterns and textures of the cushion, wallpaper and leaves outside."

Jim Felice Studios Open House Saturday February 4, 2012

Jim Felice Studios is having a series of open house days beginning with Saturday, February 4, 2012. Felice will have open studio on the first Saturday of nearly every month in 2012 from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m..

Felice is a painter, sculptor, restorer, and musician who has dedicated part of his studio to nurturing emerging artists. Other artists showing this month are Katie Bassett, Kenny Hess, KVEAZY and various guest graffiti artists.

Jim Felice Studios is located at 15 Great Pasture Road, Danbury, Connecticut.

Dates for future events in 2012 are:
Feb. 4, Mar. 3, Apr. 7, May 5,  June 2, July no event, Aug. no event, Sept. 15, Oct. 6, Nov. 3, Dec. 1.