PAST EXHIBITIONS AT THE GALLERY AT STILL RIVER EDITIONS
2024
MOM UPDATES:
THE PHOTOGRAPHS
BRUCE GEORGE WINGATE
JANUARY 13-MARCH 29, 2024
Mom Walking Into Kohl’s To Buy A Baby Outfit For The Bank Teller © Bruce George Wingate
MOM UPDATES is a selection of photographs by Bruce George Wingate, "originally known as the cutest member of the influential 1980's New Jersey hardcore punk band Adrenalin O.D.". A longtime Danbury resident, Wingate moved to Central Florida in 2017 to become a caregiver to his mother, Grace.
He began to document brief conversations with her on social media, accompanied by photos of their daily activities. Wingate's photographs of his mother blend documentary portraiture and the American landscape, in the tradition of photographers like William Eggleston.
In 2020, Marc Fischer of Public Collectors press in Chicago (best known for his Hardcore Architecture series) published a two-color Risograph chapbook of MOM UPDATES with Grace’s full consent which is now in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art's Library.
2023
INSIDE JOB
PHOTOGRAPHS BY
LYS GUILLORN, MARK SAVOIA, AND CATHERINE VANARIA
RECENT WORKS BY STILL RIVER EDITIONS
OCTOBER 10 - DECEMBER 22, 2023
Inside Job is an exhibition of recent photographs by Still River Editions’ Lys Guillorn, Mark Savoia, and Catherine Vanaria.
Vanaria and Guillorn created both of their own series using scanners. Vanaria’s photographs are pleasantly disorienting. She captured each photograph using a scanner held by hand and drawn across moving television images. Faces are distorted and blown up much larger than life. From a distance the images seem black and white, but up close, colors and patterns emerge, revealing a full spectrum. The result is surprisingly intimate.
Guillorn’s three photographs depict a single object each, thrown into sharp contrast on a velvety, black background. A garter snake and puffball mushroom were both found on the property at 128 East Liberty St. The depth of field of the scanner was enough to give them an almost three-dimensional, painterly quality. The puffball becomes a moon, and the posed snake becomes a sigil. The somewhat gory photograph of Guillorn’s electric guitar is a statement about the aftermath of a memorable gig.
Savoia is a wry documentarian at heart. He often captures the absurdity of architecture where it intersects with nature and culture. Two of his images for this exhibition are of buildings in Derby that have long since been knocked down. The passage of time is a through-line, along with playful irreverence toward the rigidity of religion. The results are colorful, clever shape studies, served by whatever other message the viewer imagines given the context or lack thereof.
FLAG BEARERS:
JENNIE CARR, KEISHA ROLLINS,
ROXY SAVAGE, MARK SAVOIA, AND RITA VALLEY
FIVE ARTISTS’ TAKE ON FLAGS AND FLAG-LIKE MOTIFS
JULY 8 - SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Details from top - liberty + justice for ALL © jennie carr, No Borders! © Keisha Rollins, Twilight’s Last Gleaming © Mark Savoia, EatMe © Roxy Savage, Hand Eye © Rita Valley
Flag Bearers is a group exhibition of artworks featuring flags and flag-like motifs by artists jennie carr, Keisha Rollins, Roxy Savage, Mark Savoia, and Rita Valley. Included are fine art prints of paintings by jennie carr and Keisha Rollins, photographs by Roxy Savage and Mark Savoia, and original mixed media artwork by Rita Valley.
This exhibition is a springboard for contemplating our relationship to flags as one of life’s most-encountered, most-repeated, most-imitated design objects. Flags can represent and challenge nations and causes, call to a collective consciousness, or be deeply personal. Some are instantly recognizable, and can evoke both patriotism and protest, both pride and shame, with complicated histories and emotions to unpack and unravel. Others have symbolic meanings known only to their creators, and yet their iconography reaches for something universal.
The Ladies
Leslie Singer
APRIL 8 - JUNE 30, 2023
Lady 59 © Leslie Singer
The Ladies is a solo exhibition of prints of mixed media artworks by New Haven artist Leslie Singer. One of Singer’s original collages will be on view along with the fourteen archival fine art prints that comprise the exhibition.
Each piece in The Ladies combines elements of collage, drawing, and painting in which semi-abstract figures seem to dance on the page with accents of gold ink.
Some of the works are strictly decorative while others include pieces torn from vintage magazines that remind the viewer of some of the twentieth century’s most challenging moments. What does it mean when a collage combines elements of fashion illustration with a photograph of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg? Singer invites viewers to explore the sometimes jarring juxtapositions encountered at the intersection of aesthetics and social consciousness.
The Ladies shows the influence of both Singer’s mother who was a fashion illustrator, and her father, a world-traveler whose collection of ephemera she discovered after his death.
Singer has spent the past few years correcting what she calls “art-interruptus,” working on mixed media artwork while pursuing a Masters in Fine Art at Vermont College of Fine Art. Singer’s MFA project, smarthreads.org, explores sustainability in fashion while bringing awareness to some of the worst abuses of the fashion industry, like child labor and environmental pollution. It is conceptually harmonious that Singer’s personal artwork remixes imagery and materials to create a meditation on consumer and political culture.
Material Culture
Works in fiber by Nike Cutsumpas, Catherine Lucia, Aly Maderson Quinlog, Rachel Sclare, Violet Harlow, and Lys Guillorn
Jan. 7 - Mar. 31, 2023
Material Culture is exhibition of contemporary fine art textiles at The Gallery at Still River Editions in Danbury by six Connecticut artists Nike Cutsumpas, Catherine Lucia, Aly Maderson Quinlog, Rachel Sclare, Violet Harlow, and Lys Guillorn.
Details clockwise from top left: “Misao Jo” © Catherine Lucia, Untitled © Nike Cutsumpas, Untitled © Rachel Sclare, and “Kitsune’s Son” © Aly Maderson Quinlog
The artists’ techniques include SAORI / freeform weaving, cyanotype on fabric, assemblage, pictorial and abstract quilting, as well as re-use and re-imagining of vintage textiles.
Types of textile work are often used as metaphors for connections between people, the threads of ancestry are stitched, the repetitive motions of making become spellcasting, and the weaving begets storytelling.
Catherine Lucia of Redding and Rachel Sclare of Hartford are the two weavers in the exhibition. Lucia makes abstract works using the Saori technique, and Sclare’s work is freeform, inspired by nature, and art. Aly Maderson Quinlog of Magik Press in New London and Nike Cutsumpas of Danbury both use vintage textiles in their work. Aly Maderson Quinlog uses reclaimed fabrics as a ground for their cyanotype photographs. Nike Cutsumpas makes embroidered drawings on vintage tea napkins that were made by her mother in the 1940s. For the exhibition, Violet Harlow of Milford created a one-of-a-kind quilt inspired by her interest in mycology, and Lys Guillorn of Shelton made an abstract quilt out of naturally dyed fabrics, cut-up clothing, and embroidered elements.
In contemporary textile work, what was once relegated to the world of “craft” is now viewed through the lens of fine art. Remnant yarn is woven into abstracts centering texture and color. Vintage textiles are re-imagined and brought into the future by using cyanotype, which itself is an antique process. Cherished linens passed down generations become a ground for drawing with thread. Waste fabrics are used like paint and novel compositions emerge.
2022
LORD OF YRSELF
PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS BY ELISA FLYNN
OCTOBER 8 - DECEMBER 23, 2022
“Lord of Yourself” © Elisa Flynn
Lord of Yrself is a solo exhibition of paintings and drawings on paper by Elisa Flynn that will be on view at The Gallery at Still River Editions in Danbury, Connecticut from Saturday, October 8 through December 23, 2022. There is an opening reception on October 8th from 2 pm – 4 pm, and it is free and open to the public.
The works in the exhibition are mystical in feel, and draw the viewer into landscapes populated by strange creatures. Traces of humankind and its destructive tendencies are seeded throughout.
Elisa Flynn said the origins of this series began when she worked as a tattoo shop manager from 2016-2020 in Brooklyn, NY, where she has lived since the early 2000s. In the downtime, she worked on drawings, often for hours a day. She said, “I love the art of tattoo and working in that atmosphere, my drawing got stronger and more illustrational, and influenced by the work going on around me.”
Flynn received a degree in Fine Art from SUNY Purchase in painting and printmaking, and has worked as a fine arts registrar for many years. She is a performing musician and songwriter, and has exhibited her visual art in the Northeast and California. In the late-1990s, she ran the arts co-op Gallery Thirteen with a group of 6 other artists, in Danbury, CT.
Most of Flynn’s previous work was in woodcut printmaking. Although she still has an affinity for the medium, she says, “I have been making ink drawings pretty exclusively in the last 5-6 years. I started painting the drawings with watercolor during the pandemic, when I had more time to focus on experimentation.”
Of the subject matter, Flynn says, “Most of my work from the last several years has been focused on anthropomorphic characters, with animals as a substitute and focus, with very few humans. I’m mixing my concerns and fears about the natural world, with the creations and myths of humankind.
Many of the works in this exhibition, including the title work, are based on stanzas from Dante Alighieri’s Purgatorio, which I find myself going back to again and again, for its poetry, its loss, and its striving for redemption.
The older I get, the more I feel the earth under my feet. It keeps me anchored, and it fills me with wonder. I know the earth and its creatures are magic.”
THE INNER SANCTUMS: GENE MOORE
JULY 9 - SEPTEMBER 30,2022
“Farms and Meadows” © Gene Moore
The exhibition “The Inner Sanctums” consists of a select collection of visual works by Danbury, Connecticut artist Gene Moore, created primarily during the past ten years. Moore used pen and pencil, paint, and digital media to create the works in the exhibition, which runs from July 9th through September 30th at The Gallery at Still River Editions in Danbury.
Moore says of his work, “With the exception of artists who have historically dealt in repeated themes (Pollock, Warhol, even early Islamic art), my influences have not drawn so much from visual arts. Music—particularly free jazz, experimental, and psychedelic rock—acts as my main source of inspiration.”
Still River Editions printed Moore’s digital drawings on archival paper, and Chris Durante framed the exhibition.
SCRATCHING THE SURFACE: DAVID HAISLIP
JANUARY 24 - JUNE 30, 2022
© David Haislip
“Scratching the Surface” is an exhibition of mixed-media works on paper, art board, foamcore, glass, and metal by David Haislip. Haislip uses techniques with ink, lacquer, varnish, paint, and carbon; some of his works incorporate small branches and other natural forms, glass, found objects, and even cat whiskers.
The works that comprise the exhibition are part of Haislip’s personal collection, meant to be viewed as a whole. Over the years, he has made a lot of work, discarded pieces that didn’t resonate, and kept only what was most important to him. Within the exhibition, there are several distinct bodies of work, but Haislip would rather have viewers create their own impressions instead of imposing ideas on them.
2021
10 YEAR RETROSPECTIVE GROUP EXHIBITION
JUNE 12 - DECEMBER 17, 2021
The Gallery at Still River Editions is celebrating the 10 year anniversary of its relaunch with an exhibition featuring some of the artists who have had solo or duo exhibitions here.
The exhibition includes work in a range of media by twenty-eight artists including Lisa Berger (Newtown), Paul Berger (Newtown), David Blackett (Falmouth, ME), Colin Burke (New Haven), Joy Bush (Hamden), Lisa Cohen (South Salem, NY), Phyllis Crowley (New Haven), Shona Curtis (New Preston), Chris Durante (Redding), William Frucht (Danbury), Daisy Gesualdi (Bethel), David Gesualdi (Bethel), Vito Gesualdi (Bethel), Gene Gort (Torrington), Caroline Harman (Newtown), Keith Johnson (Hamden), Marcy Juran (Westport), Robert Kalman (Brewster, NY), Ben Larrabee (Darien), Nancy Lasar (Washington), Jeff Mueller (Hamden), Hasna Muhammad (Brewster, NY), Tom Peterson (Hamden), James Rohan (Wakefield, MA), Kerri Sancomb (Hamden), Mark Savoia (New Fairfield), Tara Tomaselli (Bethel), and Catherine Vanaria (New Fairfield).
ABSTRACTIONS: SHADOWS & RUNES
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOY BUSH
JANUARY 11 - MAY 28, 2021
© Joy Bush
“Abstractions: Shadows & Runes” is an exhibition of photographs by Joy Bush, of Hamden, CT. The photographs that comprise the exhibition are part of Bush’s observation of everyday life. Sometimes signs and portents form on pavement, on walls. The cracks, shadows, and stains converge, and through the artist’s lens, make us look at old surfaces with new eyes.
2020
POSTCARDS TO AN ISLAND
PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLAGES BY ANN NICHOLSON BROWN
OCTOBER 5 - DECEMBER 18, 2020
“Minke Whale” © Ann Nicholson Brown
“Postcards to an Island” is an exhibition of photographic collages by Ann Nicholson Brown incorporating images from North Haven Island, Maine, where her family spends summers. The images combine photographs captured by Nicholson Brown in traditional and alternative photographic printmaking processes, and juxtapose natural elements in fresh combinations that awaken the senses and evoke memories. Ann Nicholson Brown is a resident of New Canaan, CT.
WISH YOU WERE HERE
POSTCARD EXHIBITION
JUNE 13 - SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
“Wish You Were Here” is an exhibition of postcards featuring images submitted by 106 people from across Connecticut and around the United States. Gallery Director Lys Guillorn put out a call for submissions looking for “digital images you’ve taken during the COVID-19 pandemic—slices of daily life, art photographs, or photographs of artwork you’ve worked on or completed between March 1st and May 31st of 2020.” There are digital and alternative process photographs, paintings, prints, illustrations, drawings, and collages. The subject matter, tone, and style of the images reflect the varied experiences and creative impulses of the people who made them. At the end of the exhibition, the artist list was randomized, and each artist will be mailed another artist’s postcard.
The artists are: Anita Balkun, Doris Bens, David Borawski, Nancy Breakstone, Peter Brown, Pete Brunelli, Robert Buderman, Joy Bush, Isabel Chenoweth, Erin Coghlan, Kate Conetta, Frank Critelli, Morna Crites-Moore, Shona Curtis, Shelley Dell, David DeRemus, Jennifer DiLaura, Kenneth Dixon, Chris Durante, Mary Dwyer, Eleftherios Farina, Lynn Fisher, Robert Fontenelli , Alice Fritz, Daisy Gesualdi, renato ghio, Nicolas Giapponi, Janet Goldstein, gene gort, Amy Greenleaf, Merrill Grossman, Lys Guillorn, Stephen Harris, Don Heiny, Jean Hislop, Nancy Hoffmann, Ellen Hoverkamp, Charles Jennes, Stephanie Johnson, Marcy Juran, Karen Kalkstein, Laura Kara, Phyllis Keenan, Alan Kendzior, Stephen V. Kobasa, ShawnaLee Kwashnak, K. A. Laity, Devon Lawless, Jessica Levine, Elisabeth Levy, Laura Lewis, Scott Lewis, Aly Maderson Quinlog, Cheryl Magoveny, Jim Malloy, Karin Mansberg, Fruma Markowitz, Tony Mascolo, Samantha Mauro, Frances McMullen, Dorothy Medeiros-Bergen, Catherine Montalbano, Grace Napoleon, Shawn Northrop, Alegre Poniros, Brian Pounds, Diane Pucca, Cynthia Rauschert, Zoe Riccio, Amanda Riley, Daniel Robert, Michael Rogers , James Rohan, Helga Ruopp, Augusto Salinas, Leah Salinas, Amelie Sanchez, Jean Sanders, Cristina Sarno, Mark Savoia, Ken Scaglia, Diane Scarponi, Tony Seing, Elyse Shapiro, Barbara Shepard, Louise Sieviec, Lisa Paulette Silberman, Melissa Slattery, Barbara Soares, James Stasiak, Jen Stephens, Missy Stevens, David Sulkis, Marko Susla, Allen Swerdlowe, Eileen Tavolacci, Helen Taylor, Mei-Ling Uliasz, Ariel Unger, Andy Van Ness, Catherine Vanaria, Art Venable, Taryn Venable, Paul Whitman, Michael Wilcox, Kelvin Woelk
THREE GENERATIONS
VITO GESUALDI, DAVID GESUALDI, AND DAISY GESUALDI
JANUARY 11 - MAY 29, 2020
“Three Generations” is a group exhibition of paintings, etchings and sculpture by three generations of the Gesualdi family—Vito Gesualdi, David Gesualdi, and Daisy Gesualdi. David Gesualdi, a Bethel resident, is perhaps the best known of the three locally because of his prominent public work, a bronze statue of P.T. Barnum commissioned by the Bethel Historical Society to celebrate the 200th birthday of Barnum in Bethel. The statue resides in front of Bethel Public Library. However in this exhibition, he is showing a series of etchings, as well as one marble sculpture. Also exhibiting are David’s father, Vito, who has come into his own as an artist during his retirement, and David’s daughter, Daisy, who is majoring in art at Western Connecticut State University, and primarily works in oil paint on canvas.
2019
PRINCIPLES OF UNCERTAINTY: CAROLINE HARMAN
OCTOBER 5 THROUGH DECEMBER 20, 2019
“Where Has the Wanderer Gone?” © Caroline Harman
“Principles of Uncertainty” is a solo exhibition of drawings and prints by Caroline Harman of Newtown, Connecticut. Harman’s deeply multi-layered drawings, and the prints made from her paintings are rhythmic, complex, and organic.
Harman recently had her first solo exhibition at Washington Art Association in Washington, Connecticut. Read more about the making of the work for that exhibition in The Newtown Bee, some of which is on view here at The Gallery at Still River Editions.
IMAGINED GARDENS / TERRENE TREASURES
PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARCY JURAN AND ROB JACOBSEN
JUNE 8 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 27, 2019
“Imagined Gardens / Terrene Treasures” is an exhibition of photographs by Marcy Juran of Westport and Robert Jacobsen of Norwalk. Marcy Juran’s “Imagined Gardens” are layered botanical photo encaustics that emphasize the patterns and shapes of leaves and flowers. In his “Terrene Treasures” Rob Jacobsen explores the world of fungi up close, getting down on their level, and showing the beauty of their forms.
RUSTED RELICS
PHOTOGRAPHS BY LISA BERGER AND TARA TOMASELLI
APRIL 6 - MAY 31, 2019
“Earned My Stripes” © Lisa Berger, “Rusty GMC Grille” © Tara Tomaselli
"Rusted Relics" is a two-artist exhibition of color photographs by Lisa Berger of Newtown and Tara Tomaselli of Bethel. Berger and Tomaselli both have bodies of work that show that rust is more than just a process that changes iron into iron oxide with oxygen and moisture.
The images in the exhibition reflect close observation of surfaces and textures that draw the viewer into worlds hidden in plain sight. Details become studies in composition or abstract landscapes. The curves of massive gears intersecting, or of rail plates stacked on top of each other, prove that there is beauty found everywhere as nature reclaims even steel.
The photographs in the exhibition were printed by Still River Editions.
AND THEY THOUGHT WE COULDN’T FIGHT
WORLD WAR I LIBERTY LOAN POSTERS
FROM THE COLLECTION OF KENNETH T. DIXON
JANUARY 7 - MARCH 29, 2019
“And They Thought We Couldn't Fight - Victory Liberty Loan”
Clyde Forsythe
Printed by Ketterlinus, Philadelphia, 1918
A collection of original World War I posters from the collection of Kenneth T. Dixon, a nationally recognized reporter and columnist for the Hearst Connecticut Media Group.
2018
THE STILLNESS IN BETWEEN
PHOTOGRAPHS BY LUCIANA MCCLURE AND CAM GOULD
OCTOBER 13 - DECEMBER 21, 2018
“Grey Wonder” © Luciana McClure, "Reaching Out" © Cam Gould
We live in a world of visual over-stimulation. From constantly flickering screens to overly bright billboards, our eyes and minds have little chance for rest. The images in this exhibition are an antidote to the frenzy. The work of Luciana McClure and Cam Gould demonstrates a simplicity and stillness that allows the viewer to appreciate the elemental beauty of a scene. Like poetry in visual form, the images include only what is necessary to evoke a mood, thought, or feeling.
"FLUX AND FLOW: UNIQUE TECHNIQUES AND COLLABORATIONS"
NANCY LASAR
JUNE 9 - SEPTEMBER 28, 2018
“Bouquet” © Nancy Lasar
Over her long career, Washington, Connecticut artist Nancy Lasar has explored multiple kinds of media often combining and re-combining to create hybrid effects and crosspollinations of form.
Paint and print could overlay an original digital composition and monotype grounds, when dried on mylar, could act as negatives for black and white photographs in the darkroom.
In 2009 collaborations with her artist/filmmaker brother, John Davis, in unique abstract photography, prompted them to seek the expert services of Connecticut Photographics and Still River Editions. Thus further collaborations and refinements of their work ensued.
FINAL DAYS
PHOTOGRAPHS BY HASNA MUHAMMAD
APRIL 7 - JUNE 1, 2018
"The Public" © Hasna Muhammad
FINAL DAYS is a collection of photographs by Hasna Muhammad, a photographer, filmmaker, writer, and educator who lives in Putnam County, New York. It is both a personal and public body of documentary photography, capturing the final celebrations of the lives of her parents, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, who were both actors and activists, as well as the final days of her cousins, Donald L. Miller and Karen Fletcher, her father-friend Dr. Beny Primm, and her friend Sara Myers.
Miles and Miles
PRINTS BY JEFF MUELLER AND KERRI SANCOMB OF DEXTERITY PRESS
JANUARY 13 - MARCH 30, 2018
"Secret Codes" © Jeff Mueller
© Kerri Sancomb
"Miles and Miles" is an exhibit of prints by Jeff Mueller and Kerri Sancomb of Dexterity Press in New Haven, Connecticut. Mueller says of the exhibit, "We picked pieces that would tell a visual narrative of where we’ve been aesthetically and conceptually throughout the past 20 years." Mueller's prints are letterpress-based, while Sancomb's are photographic, utilizing photomechanical print processes like gum bichromate and Van Dyke brown.
2017
LOUD
GROUP EXHIBITION OF MUSIC PHOTOGRAPHY
OCTOBER 14 – DECEMBER 22, 2017
"Tad Kubler, The Hold Steady"
© Jen Stephens
"LOUD" is a group exhibition of music photography by sixteen artists from Connecticut, one from New York, and one from Florida/New York. The exhibition was curated by Lys Guillorn, who is Gallery Director of the Gallery at Still River Editions, and is also a musician. Photographs by Kaitlin Anne (Just Vibe Photo), Todd Atkinson, Pete Brunelli, Kathleen Cei, Michael Friedman, Katrina Goldburn, Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez, Bobby Grossman, Lys Guillorn, Tom Hearn, Hank Hoffman, Alisha Martindale, John C. Miller, Hasna Muhammad, Audra Napolitano, Karen Ponzio, Jen Stephens, and Catherine Vanaria.
CONNECTICUT: MORNING, NOON, AND NIGHt
CONNECTICUT CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MEDIA PHOTOGRAPHERS MEMBERS’ EXHIBITION
JUNE 10 – SEPTEMBER 29, 2017
Photographs by Allegra Anderson, Stacy Bass, Mike Cohen, Adam Coppola, Ron DiLaurenzio, Ronald Glassman, Nancy Hill, Barry Hyman, Robert Lisak, Christopher Rakoczy, Mark Savoia, Edwina Stevenson, Catherine Vanaria, Carl Vernlund, Peter Wnek, and Gale Zucker.
Each photographer is a member of the Connecticut Chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers.
Exhibit framed by Koenig Frameworks, Newtown, CT.
TO BE REAL
PHOTOGRAPHS BY SHONA CURTIS
OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 2 PM - 4 PM
"Kendra" © Shona Curtis
"To Be Real" is a solo exhibition of black and white portraits by photographer Shona Curtis of New Preston, Connecticut. Curtis is also a psychotherapist, and her work in that field informs her photography.
In addition to the portraits she makes of others are prints from a project called "SeeingSelf" in which she photographed herself for a year and a day during a period of dramatic personal change. Curtis also turned the images into a morphed video that will be viewable in the gallery that shows the subtle changes in expression and mood from day to day.
ARROW POINTS TO MY ROOM
NEW WORK BY CATHERINE VANARIA, MARK SAVOIA, AND LYS GUILLORN
JANUARY 17 – MARCH 31, 2017
"Untitled" © Catherine Vanaria
This exhibit showcases the photography of the three printmakers of Still River Editions. The thread linking them is their use of found materials. Catherine Vanaria manipulated archived materials as graphical and conceptual chunks to make her own compositions by removing the element of personal connection. Mark Savoia takes a new look at moon exploration by using Nasa imagery and hand sanitizer transfer. Lys Guillorn photographed found objects with a scanner to create stark macro images with personal statements.
2016
Court House Eyes: Photographs by Tom Peterson
October 11 - December 23, 2016
"Walking Boots" © Tom Peterson
The black-and-white photographs in Tom Peterson's exhibition "Court House Eyes" examine the film noir aesthetic. Dramatic shadows fall on urban streetscapes; light illuminates cobblestone in geometric patterns; a sense of mystery pervades. In some images, that mystery creates unease, and in others it makes peace with its surroundings. In this world, light and shadow are ever-shifting, like any good mystery should be.
Luminous Intervals: Extended Exposures in Alternative Photography
by Colin Burke
June 11- September 30, 2016
“West Rock 3A June 2012 - June 2013, 2015" © Colin Burke
"Luminous Intervals: Extended Exposures in Alternative Photography" is an exhibition of large-format cyanotype photograms and prints from months-long exposures made with hand-built pinhole cameras by Colin Burke of New Haven.
Off Peak
Photographs by Phyllis Crowley
April 2 - May 27, 2016
"Off Peak" is an exhibit of color photographs by accomplished New Haven-based photographer Phyllis Crowley. Crowley says of the body of work, "This series began 10 years ago when I took a Metro North train to New York City. The windows were filthy, so encrusted you could hardly see out of them in places. After my initial annoyance (since window watching is my main occupation), I realized that if the window were the focus, the subject could be transformed into something much more interesting, more meditative, with references to memory, chance, time, painting. The series began."
LOCALworks
Group exhibition
January 9 - March 25, 2016
"Time Unfurled" © Lori Robeau
Our winter exhibition features artists from the Greater Danbury area. The exhibition is a break from our usual mission of exhibiting primarily prints, as it includes some original artwork in a variety of media on an open theme as well as prints and photographs.
Katie Bassett, Paul R. Berger, Karen Bonanno, Shona Curtis, Chris Durante, David Haislip, Jim Felice, Stacey Kolbig, Karin Mansberg, Vito Pasquale, Alegrobot, Lori Robeau, Elyse Shapiro, Dayna Wenzel
2015
New York Diptychs: I & II
Photographs by Robert Kalman
October 13 - December 18, 2015
"Danielle" © Robert Kalman
For over thirty years, Robert Kalman has been making formal, large format portraits of people he meets on the street. In addition to his large format portraiture, he has worked as a freelance editorial photographer for regional newspapers and magazines in the northeast. He has studied with photographic luminaries such as the late Arnold Newman, the late Mary Ellen Mark, Marie Cosindas, Judy Dater and Jeff Cowen. His work has taken him to Mexico, Israel, Paris, London, Rome, New York City, Lisbon, Madrid, Istanbul, Budapest and Panama.
Mobile Pics CT 2015
Connecticut-themed cellphone photo exhibition
June 13 - September 25, 2015
This community-based exhibition of cellphone photographs features over 120 images taken in Connecticut. The results are diverse and interesting.
The photographers are:
Seth Adam, Michele Lee Amundsen, Michael Arafeh, David Arbour, Todd Atkinson, Adrienne Aurichio, Stella Maria Baer, Gabrielle Barrett, Julie Beman, Dan Bishop, Eric Bloomquist, Dave Bonan, Karrie Bulger, Dawn Burdick, Wendy Cahill, Danielle Capalbo, Jeff Cedrone, Ken Dixon, Adeline Crites-Moore, Shona Curtis, Shannon Duggan, Chris Durante, Mark Estrada, Sheryl Fatse, Ann Franzen, Arthur Gerstein, Renato Ghio, Lys Guillorn, David Haislip, Jen Haislip, Violet Harlow, Mary Harold, Karl Heine, Hank Hoffman, Aaron Houghtaling, Joanne Hudson, Christy Jackson, William Jones, Philip Keane, Karen Kalkstein, Stephen V. Kobasa, Stacey Kolbig, Phil Langin, Tiffany Lee, Isabel Levy, Melody Levy, Elisabeth Levy, Karin Mansberg, Sara Marquis, Samantha Mauro, Julie McNeil, Suzanne Molineaux, Vito Pasquale, Alegre Poniros, Sarah Rand, Barbara Ringer, Colleen Roche, Emily Roff, Michele Russell, Mark Savoia, Jennifer Schlesinger, Christina Spiesel, Allen Swerdlowe, Catherine Vanaria, Dan Villeneuve, Erin Waterfall, Dayna Wenzel, Samantha Yamin, Andrea Zimmermann.
Photographs from the Corporate Collection
March 30 - May 29, 2015
Photographs collected by Connecticut Photographics and Still River Editions' co-owners Catherine Vanaria and Mark Savoia
Gallery wall at Still River Editions
Over the years we have collected photographs that appealed to us. Periodically we like to share what inspires us with the public. The photographers whose work is featured in this current exhibition are: George Brace, Loomis Dean, Roy DeCarava, Benjamin J. Fernandez, André Kertész, Lotte Jacobi, Eric Lindbloom, Barbara Morgan, Vincent Serbin, Ken Shung, Jim Stone, Pennie Smith, Baron Raimund von Stillfried, Jim Stone, Jock Sturges, George Tames, and George Tice.
Dreamless, Unalive, Perfect
Photographs by William Frucht
January 10 – March 27, 2015
"Opera House, Ansonia, CT" © William Frucht
From his artist statement: “Without wishing to forbid any particular understanding, let me stake out the negative space of this series—what it is not about. It is not a warning; it is not a judgment; it does not moralize. It does not hope to evoke nostalgia for a better time, now lost. It is no sort of environmental protest. It is not a grim document of our current economic condition. The presence of the people who once lived and worked here is unavoidable: their lives had a meaning we can guess at but can never recapture. Still, I am less interested in what people took away from these places than in what they left behind, and what happened to it. What continues to happen to it.”
William Frucht’s photographs have been exhibited at Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven, Carriage Barn Arts Center in New Canaan, and the Fairfield Museum and History Center. This is his first solo exhibition. He is a Danbury resident.
2015
Saddle Horse
Photographs by Lisa Cohen
October 25 – December 19, 2014
"Stampede" © Lisa Cohen, Silver Mountain Studio
The black-and-white images included in the exhibition “Saddle Horse” reflect South Salem, NY photographer Lisa Cohen’s time spent in Colorado photographing working horses during the annual Great American Horse Drive.
Each year, approximately 800 of these “saddle” horses are rounded up from their overwintering pasture where they live largely free from human contact for most of the year. Once they are all accounted for, they are driven approximately 60 miles against the stunning backdrop of the Colorado range, to their destination at a private ranch. Cohen has returned to participate in and photograph the event four times over the last five years.
Wide Awake in Dreamsville
Photographs by James Rohan
June 14 – Sept. 26, 2014
"Last Stand" © James Rohan
“Wide Awake in Dreamsville” is a solo exhibition of black and white photographs by Wakefield, Massachusetts photographer James Rohan. Rohan uses "toy" cameras and traditional black and white film to capture his images. This exhibit is the third in a series at the Gallery at Still River Editions that focuses on contemporary photographers who use film in this age of all things digital.
For thirty-five years, Rohan worked in the photographic industry as a commercial photographer and co-owner of a photographic lab. Rohan exhibits nationally, and was recently the featured artist of the 7th Annual Juried Plastic Camera Show at RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, CA.
Discovering Solitude
Photographs by Paul R. Berger
April 12 - May 30, 2014
"Off Road" © Paul R. Berger
“Discovering Solitude” is a solo exhibition of the work of Newtown, CT photographer Paul R. Berger. Berger says in his artist’s statement, “The concept of solitude means discovering a place, or a state of mind, that can exist without other people directly intruding, at least for a few moments. Yet the viewer has the opportunity to project themselves into that environment and imagine what it might feel like.” Berger’s work in both black-and-white and color is shot entirely on medium-format film.
Fadeless Imagery: Light and Memory
Photographs by David Blackett and Lys Guillorn
January 11 - March 28, 2014
Fadeless Imagery is an exhibition of photographs by David Blackett of Stratford, Connecticut and Lys Guillorn of Shelton, Connecticut. In a world obsessed with digital cameras, Blackett and Guillorn both use photographic film in traditional cameras as the means for their expression.
3RD ANNUAL AFFORDABLE ART PRINT EXHIBITION:
THE BIG LITTLE PIN-UP
PHOTOGRAPHS AND PRINTS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2013 - DECEMBER 20, 2013
"The Big Little Pin-up" is The Gallery at Still River Editions' take on a small works show. The exhibit features photographs and prints of artwork, 8”x10” or smaller by national, regional and local artists: June Archer, Todd Atkinson, Alan Berkson, Karla Bernstein, David Blackett, Garry Burdick, Ann Harriet Carew, Karl Decker, B.J. Dinto, Tony Donovan, John Fasulo, William Giese , Jessica Glick , Tatiana Golovnya, Jonathan Gordon, Lys Guillorn, David Haislip, Nancy, Hill , Martina Jackmuth, Phyllis Keenan, Arielle Kubie, Grace Scharr McEnaney, Kathie Miranda, Marge Malwitz, Simon Melzer, Suzanne Molineaux, Adele Moros, Daniela Muhling, Ruth Newquist, Banjie Nicholas, Christopher Olszewski, Vito Pasquale, Alegre Poniros, Bill Quinnell , Jim Rohan, Barbara Ringer, Michele Russell, Michael Rollman, Henry Roth, Peter Schachter, Jean Sanders, Marko Susla, Gary Stanford, Mark Savoia, Claire Tuffereau, Donald Turner, Rick Tyrseck, Catherine Vanaria, Andrea White, Peter R. White, Dennis Yates, Mary-Jo Young
Nearly Forgotten
Photographs by Catherine Vanaria
June 8 - September 27, 2013
Nearly Forgotten is a solo exhibition of photographs by Catherine Vanaria. Catherine Vanaria has been photographing hats in the collection of the Danbury Museum and Historical Society since 2011. Vanaria's hat photographs are softly focused, and are carbon pigment printed on rice paper, making them look solid, but ethereal. The hats serve not just as artifacts, but as documents of the eras from which they originated. Their current value is reinforced by being photographed. In addition to her original photography, she has also curated a selection of "salvaged" photographs of hats and headgear that tie into her own.
Ball Players
Drawings by Chris Durante
March 11 - May 31, 2013
Untitled Ball Player #1 © Chris Durante
Ball Players is a solo exhibition of new drawings by Chris Durante of Redding, Connecticut. Durante uses ink and collage elements to express his nearly life-long interest in all things baseball, in particular the characters that inhabit the "cathedrals of baseball". The stylized figures convey the attitude and soul of players past and present, real and imaginary.
ORANGE
Connecticut ASMP Photography Exhibition
January 3 - February 28, 2013
Participants: Nikki Alekson, Rich Pomerantz, Christine Chiocchio, Jim Fiora, Richard Freeda, Carl Vernlund, Liz Calvi, Edwina Stevenson, Donna Callighan, Christopher Beauchamp, Gale Zucker, Michael Garner, Ronald L. Glassman, Barry Hyman, Jane Schauck, Phil Nelson, Peter Wnek, and Pam Rouleau.
CT ASMP
2nd Annual Affordable Art Exhibition: Photography
Group exhibition
October 6 - December 21, 2012
Opening Reception Saturday, October 6, 4 - 6 p.m.
This invitational photography show gathered some of the area’s best photographers to celebrate Connecticut Photographics’ and Still River Editions’ 25th anniversary including: 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 photographs were archivally printed by Still River Editions.
ORIENTATION
Selected Works by Bernard Boffi
July 9 - September 28, 2012
ORIENTATION is a solo exhibition of archival digital fine art prints by Bernard Boffi, whose monograph of the same name was published in 2010. Boffi is a painter, photographer, printmaker, filmmaker, and arts educator from Kent Lakes, NY. In his foreword to the book, critic Donald Kuspit describes Bernard Boffi's prints as "masterpieces of what might be called expressionistic surrealism."
The prints included in the exhibit ORIENTATION are classic prints based on Boffi's work as a painter, and stamp prints, which are collage works he says are "in the manner of Robert Rauschenberg that use postage stamps as elements like those in a still life." His classic prints, "have to do with things in nature that are invisible. Natural phenomena – like the idea of polarity is something that we know but we can't see, and is used for us to navigate through time and space."
Intellectual Property
New Work by Gene Gort
April 5 - June 29, 2012
"Intellectual Property: Stolen #3" © Gene Gort, 2011
The exhibition Intellectual Property at the Gallery at Still River Editions features archival digital print editions of new work by multi-disciplinary artist Gene Gort. His new series reveals a hidden beauty that emerges from his interaction with the technology meant to keep people from illegally copying movies. Some of the prints have elements that look familiar, while others are pure geometric abstracts.
The entire Intellectual Property series, as well as his other work, can been seen at www.genegort.com.
Fourteen Threadless Needles
Photographs by Vito Pasquale
January 5 - March 30, 2012
"Pink" © Vito Pasquale
Vito Pasquale is a photographer and writer from Mount Kisco, NY. He is one of those people who, upon retiring from the full-time job he'd done in corporate America for almost thirty years, began to "peek down, as Frost would call it, 'the road not taken'". In 2008, Pasquale returned to writing after a long hiatus, and in 2009 he began taking photographs that reflected some of the themes in his writing. His book of poetry, Fourteen Threadless Needles, was published in 2011. The fourteen photographs in the gallery are connected to poems posted online via QR codes, which viewers can scan using their smart phones, or look at online in the gallery.
Affordable Art Print Exhibition and Sale
Group exhibition of fine giclée prints
November 1 - December 23, 2011
The Gallery at Still River Editions is pleased to announce its first Affordable Art Print Exhibition and Sale, an invitational group exhibition of fine giclée prints of artwork by fourteen Connecticut artists.
The artists are Betty Christensen (watercolor, Newtown, CT), Grace McEnaney (Newtown, CT), Florence Froeder (watercolor, New Fairfield, CT), Tatiana Golovnya (mixed media, Redding, CT), Nancy Lasar(monotype, Washington Depot, CT), Marge Malwitz (gouache, Brookfield, CT), Adele Moros (acrylic painting, Bethel, CT), Edith Borax-Morrison (ink, Trumbull, CT), Mike Morshuk (mixed media, New Milford, CT), Ruth Newquist (watercolor, Newtown, CT), Banjie Nicholas (egg tempera, Warren, CT), Linda Pickwick (watercolor, Newtown, CT), Vicki Stevens (watercolor, Danbury, CT), and Claire Tuffereau (watercolor, New Fairfield, CT)
Moments of Grace®
Portraits by Ben Larrabee
August 30 - October 28, 2011
“I am dedicated as an artist to recognizing and recording those fleeting yet memorable glimpses of life that we take for granted, moments every family has but rarely sees revealed in photographs. I call them Moments of Grace®: when two and two equals five; when truth, spirit, love and even humor come together to create a whole that is infinitely greater than the sum of its parts. In addition to portraits I also photograph landscapes and nudes.”
Ben Larrabee is a portrait and fine art photographer from Darien, Connecticut.
Photographs by Keith Johnson and Mark Savoia
June 11 - August 26, 2011
Keith Johnson is a photographic educator and fine artist from Hamden, CT
Mark Savoia is a fine artist and co-owner of Still River Editions and Connecticut Photographics
Both artists were recipients of individual artist grants from the Connecticut Commission of the Arts. This exhibition was the first exhibition after re-dedicating the gallery to quarterly shows in 2011.