"ORANGE: CT ASMP Members' Exhibition" at Still River Editions

Postcard for the CT ASMP Members' Exhiition

The Gallery at Still River Editions announces "ORANGE: Connecticut Chapter, American Society of   Media Photographers Members' Exhibition". The show has been up since January 3, 2013, and will run until February 28, 2013.

There is an opening reception on Saturday, January 12, 2013 from 4 - 6 pm. The reception is free and open to the public. 

The photographers who are participating in the exhibition were given a one-word theme: "orange", and have responded in very creative ways. 

The photographers are:
Nikki Alekson, Rich Pomerantz, Christine Chiocchio, Jim Fiora, Richard Freeda, Carl Vernlund, Liz Calvi, Edwina Stevenson, Donna Callighan, Christopher Beuchamp, Gale Zucker, Michael Garner, Ronald L. Glassman, Barry Hyman, Jane Schauck, Phil Nelson, Peter Wnek, and Pam Rouleau.

The exhibition will be moving to the Spring Street Gallery in Chester, CT on March 7 with the addition of several other photographers. 

More information about CTASMP here.

Galeria Súbita opens on First Night; "Shadows" at the Mercurial

The Arts Network of Danbury is exhibiting work in a pop-up gallery exhibition called Galeria Súbita at 262 Main St., Danbury from December 29, 2012 through January 28, 2013. "Galeria Súbita" means "sudden gallery" in Portuguese.

There is an exhibition opening on First Night, December 31, 2012 from 4 pm - 8 pm featuring Afrikan drumming by A Common Ground Community Arts Center.

Normal hours for the exhibit: Saturdays and Sundays from 12 noon - 4 pm until January 28.

Exhibiting artists include Catherine Vanaria, Mark Savoia, Lys Guillorn, Jing Lu, Jeff Buckholz, Kialynn Bird, Brian Walters III, Amanda Bloom, John O' Sullivan, Scott Jackson, Katie Bassett, Shona Curtis, David Haislip, Eric Camiel, Marko Susla, Jim Felice, Adrew Werner and other local artists.

Other events for First Night Danbury here.

"Romeo and Juliet" © Henry Caserotti

Also happening around the corner: "Shadows" exhibit at the Mercurial featuring Christine Mitchell and Henry Caserotti. The gallery will also be having an opening reception on First Night from 4 pm - 8 pm. The Mercurial is located at 11 Library Place, Danbury, CT across the street from the Bardo Garage.

Does hanging artwork hang you up?

We are not usually in the endorsing business, but came across an APP that can help anyone who hangs artwork on a wall and wants it to be an easy and quick process. I am talking about Hang-a-pic, for iPhone and iPad. Over the last few months Still River Editions has "suggested' a few operational features to the developer, and to our surprise, he listened. It has turned out to be one of our favorite APPs.

This is what it does (example); to hang four different width framed pieces on a wall, just enter the widths and wall dimension and it tells you where to put your hook or nail. No guessing, no fuzzy math, it just works. We now use it in the gallery all the time. And for $1.99, a real bargain, Hang-a-pic.

Mark

Small Works Exhibit at Koenig Frameworks, Newtown

Koenig Frameworks is holding its annual Small Works exhibit from December 1 -  24, 2012. Koenig Frameworks is located at 97 South Main St., Newtown, CT. 36 artists are included in the exhibition with 128 works, each smaller than 12"x12". 

There is an opening reception on Saturday, December 1 from 1 pm - 4 pm. 

"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.'”

Photo Show at Art and Frame of Danbury

Art and Frame of Danbury is hosting a group photography show that begins with an opening reception opening reception on Saturday, November 3, from 5 - 7 pm.

Both Mark Savoia and Lys Guillorn of Still River Editions / CT Photographics have work in the show. Savoia is exhibiting two color photographs and Guillorn is exhibiting two black-and-white photographs.

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.

"Some Things We Both Might Have Missed" Photographs by Vito Pasquale

"The Potting Shed" © Vito Pasquale

Photographs by Vito Pasquale will be exhibited in a solo show titled "Some Things We Both Might Have Missed," at Mount Kisco Library, 100 East Main St., Mount Kisco, NY. October 1-31, 2012.

There will be an opening reception on Saturday, October 13, at 1:00 pm.

Each photograph is paired with a poem, also by Pasquale.

"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.

Laurie Lambrecht exhibit and lecture at The Gershman Y, Philadelphia

Laurie Lambrecht will be giving a lecture based on her photographs and book "Roy Lichtenstein In His Studio" at the Gershman Y, 401 South Broad St., Philadelphia, PA on October 18, 2012 from 6 - 8 pm. She will also be signing books at that time.  Work from the series will be exhibited until November 18, 2012.

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.