"White" at Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven

© Kristina Kuester-Witt
"White" is the holiday season group show at Kehler Liddell Gallery, which runs from November 15, 2012 until December 23, 2012.

From their website: "White is the color of possibilities from the mundane, like the stripe on the edge of the road, to the grand, like the white that gives relevance to black in a photograph.  As a subject of KLG artists, white hides, morphs, acts as a shape changer and refuses any type of predictability."

There is an opening reception on Sunday, November 18 from 3 - 6 pm. Kehler Liddell Gallery is located at 873 Whalley Ave., New Haven, CT.

The Bridgeport Art Trail, November 8 - 11, 2012

The Bridgeport Art Trail is a multi-venue, multi-event, cultural festival in Bridgeport, CT from Nov. 8 - 11, 2012. Open studios, performances, gallery shows.

One of the main attractions on Thursday 11/8 at 6:30 pm is the ribbon cutting for the City Canvases mural at the Bridgeport train station by Liz Squillace with Darcy Fangi, Frank Foster, Ruben Marroquin and Jaclyn Podlaski. The Bridgeport train Station is located at 525 Water St. The unveiling is followed by a City Canvases closing party at the Arcade, 1001-12 Main St., from 8 pm - 10 pm including new media projections and other festivities.

Other venues include City Lights Gallery, The American Fabric Arts Building, the Nest Arts Factory, Read's Ground Floor Gallery, the Atrium Gallery, The Bijou Theatre, and many more.

"Factory Girls"
© Lys Guillorn
Still River Editions' own Lys Guillorn will be in a temporary space at 938 Broad St. (across from the main branch of the Bridgeport Public Library with her installation "Factory Girls" on Thu. 11/8 and Fri. 11/9 from 5 - 8 pm and Sat. 11/10 to Sun. 11/12 from 12 noon - 5 pm.

"End of an Era" Photographs by Harrison Judd

© Harrison Judd
Photographer Harrison Judd is exhibiting "End of an Era: Past Identity/Future Vision" presented by The Windham Textile and History Museum at ArtSpace, 480 Main St., Willimantic, CT. The exhibition runs from November 9 through December 3, 2012

An essay about this body of work appears on Judd's website, along with photographs, and an introduction by the late author and illustrator, Maurice Sendak. Judd photographed the demolition of the last American Thread Mills smokestack in Willimantic, CT.

Paul R. Berger Photography Exhibit: "Solitude"

© Paul R. Berger
Photographer Paul R. Berger is featured in a solo exhibition titled "Solitude" at Danbury City Hall 3rd floor gallery (outside the Mayor's office), 155 Deer Hill Ave., Danbury, CT from October 6 through December 6, 2012.

There is an opening reception on Thursday, November 15 from 4:30 - 6:00 pm.

Berger uses medium-format film cameras to create highly detailed photographs in both black-and-white and color. His subjects are both natural and human-made landscapes that convey the feeling of solitude.

Berger's exhibit is part of the "Accessible Art Project" by the former Housatonic Valley Cultural Alliance, now called the Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut.

Phyllis Crowley: "Fields and Screens" at Choate Rosemary Hall

"Red Marsh 2012"
© Phyllis Crowley
"Fields and Screens" is an exhibit of photography by Phyllis Crowley at Paul Mellon Arts Center Gallery at Choate Rosemary Hall school. The show opened November 1 and ends December 15, 2012.
There is an opening reception on Friday, November 16, from 5:30 - 7:30 pm.

Crowley's landscape work in this series is reminiscent of Japanese screens.

From the press release: "[Crowley] notes, 'In working with the landscape, I am not attempting to simply represent what I see . . . . The less realistic the image, the more the work encourages participation from the viewer. With the use of abstraction, multiple images, and non-conventional formats, I can create new relationships which bring me closer to the original emotional experience.” Crowley’s photographs may also intentionally distort and transform information through screens of water, dirt, or fabric—a reference to what she calls “our inability to know anything clearly or directly.'”

Chris Randall exhibiting at Spruce Home & Garden, New Milford

New Haven photographer Chris Randall is exhibiting photographs in the Spruce Home & Garden Store, 20 Bank St., New Milford, CT. There is an opening reception from 5 pm - 8 pm on Thursday, November 1, 2012.

The photographs are from "his series documenting the derelict Winchester factory [that] captures the melancholy and beauty of a once bustling enterprise left to decay in its own history."

Randall, who is Executive Director of the New Haven Land Trust, is one half of the team behind ilovenewhaven.org along with photographer Jeffrey Kerekes.

Randall was also one of the minds and cameras behind Inside Out NHV, which created large black and white photographic portraits of New Haven residents, and installed the prints as a photo mural on a highway underpass that divides their neighborhood earlier in 2012.

Call for Small Works Submissions at Koenig FrameWorks, Newtown

Koenig FrameWorks in Newtown, CT is calling for entries to its annual "Small Works" exhibit. They will receive work in person Saturday Nov. 10 through Monday, Nov. 19 during normal business hours 10 am - 5 pm. Artwork must be ready-to-hang and be able to fit inside a space 12"x12". Any medium except sculpture will be accepted.

For more information and prospectus see their website.

FrameWorks is located at 97 South Main St. (Route 25) in Newtown, CT.

The opening reception will be on Saturday December 1 from 1-4 pm.

"Creativity and Compassion" faculty exhibition at WCSU

"Second Floor Landing"
© Catherine Vanaria
Co-owner of Connecticut Photographics, Catherine Vanaria, is also a full-time professor of photography at Western Connecticut State University. She is one of the 24 art faculty included in the WCSU faculty art exhibition titled "Creativity and Compassion" from Oct. 11 through Nov. 29 at the Higgins Gallery in Higgins Hall on the university's midtown campus, 181 White St. in Danbury.

There is an artist reception at 5 pm on Thursday, October 11.

From the university's website:
"The exhibition will consist of works by 24 full-time and adjunct art faculty in a wide variety of media, including photography, printmaking, sculpture, drawing and painting. This presents a unique opportunity to view one exhibition that brings together the personal work of so many instructors in the university's department of art. Some works are for sale."

Faculty participants include: Bob Alberetti, Vincent Baldassano, David Boyajian, Riley Brewster, Santo Bruno, Bruce Dunbar, Margaret Grimes, Chris Hartman, Jilaine Jones, Moira Kelly, Jurg Lanzrein, Joel Leneker, Ed Little, Sabrina Marques, Plonia Nixon, Fran Patnaude, Marjorie Portnow, Ken Scaglia, Michael Serao, Elyse Shapiro, David Skora, Jack Tom, Cathy Vanaria and Terry Wells.

Grace Scharr McEnaney selected for Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Annual Open Juried Exhibition

Watercolorist Grace Scharr McEnaney has been selected for the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club 116th Annual Open Juried Exhibition from October 2 - 26, 2012 at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, NY, NY. There is a benefit reception for the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday, October 12, from 5:30 - 8:30 pm, and an award dinner on Friday, October 26, from 6 - 9 pm.

(McEnaney's painting is the bottom right hand illustration on the card--click image to enlarge)

The Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club is "a national organization to show and promote works by professional women artists, founded in 1896". According to the group's website, Wolfe was "the only woman among the 106 founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art".

Still River Editions at City Wide Open Studios Erector Square Weekend

© Mark Savoia
Mark Savoia and Catherine Vanaria of Still River Editions will be exhibiting their photography in a temporary studio at Erector Square, 215 Peck St., New Haven for City Wide Open Studios on Saturday October 13 and Sunday, October 14 from noon - 5 pm each day. Savoia and Vanaria will be in Building 5, 2nd Floor.

Also exhibiting on the same floor is Tony Donovan of Ivoryton Studios, Ivoryton, CT.

Savoia will be featuring gel transfer photographs. Vanaria will be featuring her "HEADshots," black and white portraits taken with her antique 8"x10" film camera.

City Wide Open Studios is a three-weekend celebration of the arts in New Haven. The following "Alternative Space" weekend, October 20 and 21, will take place at the former New Haven Register building at 40 Sargent Drive, New Haven (and also repurposing delivery trucks in the parking lot.)


Marko Susla's night photographs published in Still Point Arts Quarterly

"Brooklyn Bridge"
© Marko Susla

A portfolio of night photography by Marko Susla of Edison, NJ is being published in the Fall 2012 edition of the Still Point Arts Quarterly curated by Still Point Arts Gallery Director Christine Brooks Cote.  The portfolio consists of a sampling of Susla's photographs taken while “carrying out his ritual of capturing the night”.

The Still Point Arts Quarterly is a printed serial art and literary publication focusing on issues of expression, imagination, and inspiration.  Each issue includes extensive portfolios of contemporary artists as well as articles, essays, fiction, and poetry about art, artists, and artistry.  The Still Point Arts Quarterly is available online and in bookstores in the US and Canada.

In addition, Susla's black and white night photograph of Manhattan's High Line park is featured in the 2nd Annual Affordable Art Exhibition at the Gallery at Still River Editions.

Art filled weekend October 5 - 6, 2012

"Factory Girls"
© Lys Guillorn
This weekend there is an especially high number of art activities in which we folks here at the Gallery at Still River Editions involved.

Friday night, City Wide Open Studios New Haven kicks off from 5-8 pm at Artspace, and I (Lys Guillorn) will be doing an installation for L.A.M.P. (Light Artists Making Places) from 8 - 11 pm in front of Graffio Jewelers, 28 Orange, St., New Haven. 20+ artists will be making art with light in 9th Square. Maps will be available of all the sites, and all are within short walking distance of each other.

Saturday, October 6, there will be an exhibit opening for the Affordable Art Exhibition: Photography at Still River Editions from 4-6 pm at 128 East Liberty St., Danbury, CT. Seventeen contemporary fine art photographers, all prints priced $100.

The photographers are Paul Berger (Newtown), David Blackett (Stratford), Garry Burdick (Southbury), Shona Curtis (New Milford), Karl Decker (Monroe), Tony Donovan (Ivoryton), David Haislip (Danbury), Keith Johnson (Hamden), Paul Jones (New Britain), Ben Larrabee (Darien), Jay Misencik (Monroe), Karen Neems (Stamford),  Ann Reeves (Redding), Michele Russell (Stamford), Graham Scott (Deep River), Marko Susla (Edison, NJ), and Dennis Yates (Woodbury).

© Cathy Vanaria
At the same time on Saturday from 4 - 6 pm, there will be an opening at YMCA Escape to the Arts for "The Faces, Places and Spirit of Our Community" group show, any medium. Catherine Vanaria, co-owner of Still River Editions/CT Photo has a photograph in the exhibition. Escape to the Arts is located at 293 Main St., Danbury, CT.

"Still..." at the Mercurial Gallery in Danbury

(Composite image)
L: Lys Guillorn
R top & bottom: Mark Savoia,
R middle: Catherine Vanaria
Mark Savoia, Catherine Vanaria and Lys Guillorn of Connecticut Photographics / Still River Editions are featured together in a group show, "Still..." at the Mercurial Gallery, 11 Library Place, Danbury, CT from September 6, 2012 - October 22, 2012. There is an opening reception on Saturday, September 22 from 5-7 pm.

Mark Savoia's images are observations of the ironies and visual contradictions seen in daily life. Catherine Vanaria's images are "HEADshots" taken at close range with her antique film 8"x10" camera at Connecticut Photographics / Still River Editions. Lys Guillorn's seven new black and white photographs draw from her "Route 34 Series".

In addition, Lys Guillorn will be performing a set of music on Saturday, October 20 at 7 pm.

There is paid parking in the city-operated Bardo Garage directly across the street from the gallery. There is also on-street parking on Main St.

Eric Camiel and Randy Lagana at Koenig FrameWorks Gallery; Newtown Arts Festival

Sculptor Eric Camiel and painter Randy Lagana are featured in a two-person exhibition at Koenig FrameWorks and Gallery, 97 South Main St., Newtown, CT until September 29, 2012, with a reception on Thursday, September 13 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm. The reception is free and open to the public.

Also of interest in Newtown is the Newtown Arts Festival which will take place at the former Fairfield Hills on Trades Lane in Newtown, on Sat., Sept. 15 and Sun., Sept. 16, both days 9:00 am to 6:00 pm. There will be arts and crafts booths, musical performances, author talks, literary readings, and food concessions. Admission is $5.



". . . another Viewpoint - Photographs by Jay Misencik" at Easton Library Gallery

© Jay Misencik
". . . another Viewpoint - Photographs by Jay Misencik" is an exhibition of Misencik's photographs of Bridgeport, Maine, Nova Scotia, Ecuador, and studio-made Polaroid photo transfers that will run from September 6 through October 15, 2012 with an opening reception on Wednesday, September 12 at the Easton Public Library Gallery Room located at 691 Morehouse Rd., Easton, CT. The exhibit was curated by Dolly Curtis.

Misencik will also be one of the artists included in City Lights Gallery's (Bridgeport, CT) exhibition "Make Art Not War" which opens Sept. 21 from 5-8 pm, and The Gallery at Still River Editions' Affordable Art Exhibition, which opens on October 6 from 4-6 pm.

Misencik owns Misencik Studio with his wife and business partner Geralene

Affordable Art Exhibition: Photography opens at Still River Editions on October 6, 2012



The Gallery at Still River Editions is pleased to announce its 2nd Annual Affordable Art Exhibition from October 6 - December 21, 2012. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, October 6 from 4 - 6 pm. This year's exhibit features 16 photographers from Connecticut and one from New Jersey.

The photographers are: Shona Curtis (New Milford), Paul Berger (Newtown), David Blackett (Stratford),Garry Burdick (Southbury), Karl Decker (Monroe), Tony Donovan (Ivoryton), David Haislip (Danbury), Keith Johnson (Hamden), Paul Jones (New Britain), Ben Larrabee (Darien), Jay Misencik (Monroe), Karen Neems (Stamford),  Ann Reeves (Redding), Michele Russell (Stamford), Graham Scott (Deep River), Marko Susla (Edison, NJ), and Dennis Yates (Woodbury).

The archival digital prints, made by Still River Editions, will be 16"x20", printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper, and will all be priced at $100.

Last year's exhibit featured 14 fine artists from Connecticut.

The Gallery at Still River Editions is located at 128 East Liberty St., Danbury, Connecticut.

"Brief Monuments" at the Orison Project

"Sybil's Fierce"
© Lys Guillorn
The exhibition "Brief Monuments: Making and Unmaking Memory", curated by Stephen Vincent Kobasa, is at at the Orison Project, 8 Railroad Ave., Building 7, Essex, CT from Sept. 7 to Oct. 20, 2012. There will be an opening reception on Friday, September 7 from 6 - 8 pm.

The exhibit features photographs by Paul Duda, Walker Evans, Lys Guillorn (of Still River Editions), Robert Lisak, Oscar Palacio, Katia Porter, William Williams, and sculpture by Heinz Warneke.

The gallery will host "A Conversation Between Robert Lisak, Photographer, and Stephen Vincent Kobasa, Writer and Curator"on Weds. Oct. 3 at 6 pm.