Kevin Van Aelst

Medium: Photography

Link: http://www.kevinvanaelst.com

Artist Statement:

My photography is an attempt to reconcile my physical surroundings with the fears, fascinations, curiosities, and daydreams occupying my mind. I construct still lives from common artifacts and scenes from everyday life, arranging and assembling materials into various forms, patterns, and allegorical illustrations.

Artist Bio:

Kevin Van Aelst has taught photography courses at the Hartford Art School, Middlesex Community College, Quinnipiac, SCSU, and at the Educational Center for the Arts. He has exhibited his artwork internationally, and has been commissioned to create work for such publications as Time, Wired, The Atlantic, Scientific American, Fast Company.

Kimberly Van Aelst

Medium: Painting

Link: www.sharkinmysink.com

Artist Statement:

2017 Summer Series embodies conversations with color, movement and consequences. Such as a summer fling, the artist embraces the cataclysm caused by introducing new chemicals to each other and then with intrepid patience, observes how the materials have settled, days later after their rendezvous.

Artist Bio:

Kimberly Van Aelst, MFA Puppetry graduate student at UCONN has performed and exhibited her work at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, Puppet Showplace Theatre in Boston, Galapagos, Dixon Place and Tank in NYC among others. Her puppet film, Lost was featured at the International Festival of Puppetry in Prague.

Bayla Arietta

Medium: Painting

Link: www.BaylaArt.com

Artist Statement:

Water-colorist Bayla Arietta uses tiny brushes and many layers of paint to create whimsical Natural History Illustrations of Botanical and Zoological subjects. Inspired by the intricate illustrated books from her childhood, Bayla revels in capturing the fine detail and intricacies of the natural word.

Artist Bio:

Bayla Arietta is a Scientific Illustrator living in New Haven and works primarily in watercolor. She has worked with Botanical Gardens, Nature Centers, and Museums creating whimsical depictions of botanical and zoological illustrations. Bayla loves working in her home studio with her parrot, a chameleon, 3 poison dart frogs, and a snake.

Caryn Azoff

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.carynazoff.com

Artist Statement:

Works on paper begin with a hand drawn grid structure. From here, the shapes and colors intuitively inform the work. Mediums include colored pencil, watercolor, gouache, and flashe/acylic paint. The simple geometric forms encompass each page, working in an 6 x 6” or an 8 x 8” using the work to form a grid presentation on the wall.

Artist Bio:

Azoff currently resides in New Haven where she maintains both a home studio and is part of the West River Artists Studios in Westville, CT.

Lillianna Marie Baczeski

Medium: Photography

Link: www.lilliannamarie.com

Artist Statement:

There is no such thing as “making an image.” There is only the making of image-objects. There is always physicality to what is referred to, in art, as “the image.” To speak only of the image is to ignore an image-object’s physicality and materiality. My works refuse this form of disregard.

Artist Bio:

Lillianna Marie Baczeski was born and raised in Connecticut. She has studied conceptual photography at the University of Connecticut, The Ohio State University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Yale University. She lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut.

Amanda Bartel

Medium: Ceramics

Link: https://www.facebook.com/whitelotuspottery/

Artist Statement:

I am so excited to participate in my first Open Studio! Making pottery centers my soul and I am looking forward to sharing the results of that inner peace with all who enter my little corner of heaven in our shared studio space at Erector Square.

Artist Bio:

Amanda moved to New Haven with her husband this July and quickly settled in with the Erector Square Potters. She has been working on the wheel for 7 years while creating and teaching pottery in New York, New Jersey, D.C., and Berlin, Germany. Everywhere she goes, she is inspired and humbled by the brilliant artists who surround her.

Hayne Bayless

Medium: Other

Link: http://www.sidewaysstudio.com

Artist Statement:

I love what spawns in the friction between what I want the clay to do and what it might rather do. I'm intrigued by what happens when clay is rolled, stretched, pressed, incised, inlayed, extruded, bent, cut and put back together. The unintended result, often misread as a mistake and so dismissed, is a wellspring of new ideas.

Artist Bio:

Hayne is a studio potter in Ivoryton, CT. In school he managed to avoid any academic involvement with clay. In 1992 he quit a perfectly good job at a newspaper to make pots. A frequent workshop presenter, he’s shown work at the American Craft Museum and the Smithsonian Craft Show. A board member of Studio Potter journal and Pots on Wheels (POW!).

Miguel Benitez

Medium: Ceramics

Link:

Artist Statement:

I am a ceramic artist that builds worlds and tell stories. I mainly use the pottery wheel to shape components for my work, taking thrown objects and cutting them into sections, then reassembling them into functional wares or sculptural monuments. I inhabit my works with mini-pots to give viewers a sense of scale and exploration.

Artist Bio:

Miguel G. Benitez is a ceramic sculptor dedicated to the excellence of teaching and creating visual art. He currently owns and operates a home based ceramic art studio in Hamden and teaches art part-time at ESUMS Middle School. Over the summers he designs sets and props for the Audubon Arts summer theater program.

Kraig Binkowski

Medium: Printmaking

Link: http://www.kraigbinkowski.com

Artist Statement:

My prints explore all the shades of grey between deep black and brilliant white. I make prints to capture images and feelings that affect me—views that are a part of my life. The solitary scenes of urban and suburban life around me and the people I care about are the subjects of my work.

Artist Bio:

I’m never sure if I’m a librarian that makes prints or a printmaker that works with books. I’ve been making prints for almost 30 years and have been a librarian for over 20 — I grew up in Detroit, Michigan but have been living and working in Connecticut since 2005. I have a BFA and an MFA in printmaking and work primarily in woodcut.

Sonia Bombart

Medium: Painting

Link: http://Soniabombart.com

Artist Statement:

My new body of work is very sensual. Working with paint is extremely sensuous: the smell of it, the rituals involved in selecting colors and mixing them, the experience of watching my own movements as my arms and hands move across the canvas. Through my work, I imprint my artistic essence.

Artist Bio:

Born in 1960 in Mexico City, Mexico, and works in Weston, CT.

Education and Training: Figure Drawing Workshop, General Training, San Miguel Allende, Mexico 1992

Figure Drawing and Painting, Color Theory, Abstraction, Boca Raton Museum, 1992-1996
Boca Raton, FL

Mixed Media taught by Barbara Rothenberg

Janet Brodie

Medium: Mixed Media

Link:

Artist Statement:

I enjoy playing with images and scraps of things- rubberstamping, die cutting, paper punches and working with the greeting card format, paper dolls and pinwheels. I use paper to collage and quilt; to make calendars, necklaces and bookmarks and magnets. I collect quotes and incorporate them in my work- or is it play?

Artist Bio:

I have played with paper all my life. As a creative arts therapist I have encouraged others to play and explore using the arts.
I have taken part in Creative Arts Workshop Celebration of Crafts, previous CWOS and sell my work in various venues featuring local crafts and art. I have taught others to play at CAW and Ecoworks.

Amira Brown

Medium: Painting

Link: https://amirab-art.tumblr.com/

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

Amira is an illustrator turned contemporary artist. Inspired by nature, art and life, she continually is pushing the bounds of her own expression and experimenting with various mediums.

Alicia Caraballo

Medium: Textile

Link: http://www.textilesbyalicia.com

Artist Statement:

I am a Fiber Artist. Vibrant colors, making marks, ethnic images and maybe some words become a wearable piece of art. My favorite techniques include deconstructed screen printing, shibori or simply putting marks on the fabric. I use dye and paint and am always amazed how a simple tool like an old credit card can yield beautiful results.

Artist Bio:

My introduction to art began with a mixed media collage class. A brief encounter with a Fiber artist creating wearable art became my passion. I took many courses with Fiber artists including a Art Mastery Program with Jane Dunnewold and after retiring as a School Administrator have devoted my time to expand my artistic journey.

William Carpenter

Medium: Film/Video

Link: http://Milford-TV.com

Artist Statement:

One thing that is true about television is whatever is shown is amplified in our mammal brains. So who do you trust? What you read? What's on TV? Neither? This installation will entertain and challenge the viewers to decided for themselves: Fact or Fiction?

Artist Bio:

Bill is a veteran television producer that has been doing this since the 1970’s when he had the first VTR on his street: an Ampex 1″ reel-to-reel monster. He has been producing television ever since. At the turn of the last century, he was producing three shows at CTV in New Haven: Sacred Circle, The 3rd Eye, and Bill Carpenter’s Computers!

Adam Chambers

Medium: Painting

Link: http://adamgchambers.weebly.com

Artist Statement:

I explore themes of juxtaposition, humor and contradiction, often through the layering of image and text, in my visual work. My imagery is drawn from a wellspring of deeply personal experiences, yet is peppered with the archetypes and absurdities of pop culture as well, embodying a unique and imaginative aesthetic of social and personal commentary.

Artist Bio:

Adam Chambers is a New Haven-based artist whose figurative work is a hyper-contemporary blend of imagination, whimsy, and surreal imagery which is both intensely personal and culturally archetypal at the same time. He often explores the layering and juxtaposition of text and image in his art, primarily producing oil paintings and works on paper.

Susan Clinard

Medium: Sculpture

Link: http://www.clinard.org

Artist Statement:

My work is an exploration of nature’s forms, distorted and perfect, found and inspired. It is simple art reflective of life which contains the ugly and the beautiful without interruption.

Artist Bio:

Susan Clinard began her sculpture career over twenty five years ago. She works in wood, clay, bronze, wire and mixed media. Her body of work is at its core honest and exploratory.
Susan has taught extensively and her work can be found in private and public collections worldwide.

Jeanette Compton

Medium: Drawing

Link:

Artist Statement:

The subjects of my art include nests, branches, bark, fungi and other natural objects, especially those for which shadow and texture come into play... I use ink.

Artist Bio:

A lifelong resident of the New Haven area, I am interested in representing a personal appreciation for the natural world, especially in its sometimes unnoticed details…

George Corsillo

Medium: Digital Art

Link: http://designmonsters.com

Artist Statement:

Design Monsters studio will be showing new work for 2017 and we'll have new posters, Tee shirts and patches for sale.

Artist Bio:

Design Monsters is a small studio in Westville. We specialize in design for the entertainment and publishing communities.
I collaborate with Garry Trudeau on design projects (books, posters,etc.), and color the Sunday Doonesbury comics.
Designing logos, posters and campaigns for clients in New Haven has allowed me great artistic freedom.

Rosemary Cotnoir

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.rosemarycotnoir.com

Artist Statement:

I am experimenting using patterns in my work. They are motifs that organize surfaces in a consistent, regular manner. The forms I work with are derived from nature and classical motifs such as flow, branching, spirals, lines, dots, and symbols. They are repeated intuitively, so patterns come together to form movement.

Artist Bio:

I studied fine art at the New York/Phoenix School of Design, New York, NY; life drawing and watercolor at the Silvermine Artists Guild, Norwalk, CT; and currently carve stone at the Guilford Art Center with Andy Davis. I was educated as an interior designer at the New York School of Interior Design.

Ron Crowcroft

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://www.Roncrowcroft.com

Artist Statement:

I am showing work in a variety of media, including graphic work on paper, and reverse glass paintings.

Artist Bio:

I am an English artist working in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, performance art, conceptual art, video,experimental electronic music, poetry, and humor. In England I exhibited widely as part of the Mail Art network, and was a founding member of an experimental music group. I moved to the USA in 1982.

Phyllis Crowley

Medium: Photography

Link: http://www.phylliscrowley.com

Artist Statement:

In my new series, Being There, I combine images taken in different places and at different times, to give them a new context and meaning. They are then installed in clusters, which creates a narrative. It is up to the viewer to create their personal story. This refers to a continuing interest in perceptual issues and multiple imagery,

Artist Bio:

I am a self-taught photographer from New Haven, with many years of professional and teaching experience. I have twice received an Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and exhibit nationally. I am a member of City Gallery in New Haven and my work is in public, corporate, and private collections.

Jan Cunningham

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.jancunningham.net

Artist Statement:

The paintings, drawings, and photographs that make up my practice grow out of a close reading of my surroundings, a fascination with proportion and scale, and the materiality of color and light.

Artist Bio:

Jan lives and works in New Haven. She has earned degrees from the Yale University School of Art (MFA 1985) and the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA 1979). She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and a Yale University Art Gallery Artist in Residence in Priano, Italy. She is happy to call New Haven home.

Robert Datum

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.robdatum.com

Artist Statement:

The specificity of painting directly from nature offers glimpses of something that compels me to completely trust my intuitions. Starting with the sensual, the realization of form through the act of painting uncovers something larger than conceived. The point at which the act of painting reaches a crisis is where freedom and necessity are the same.

Artist Bio:

A 1989 graduate from Maryland Institute College of Art, Robert Datum’s work focuses on portraits and landscapes in and around the area of southeastern Connecticut in which he lives. His work heavily draws upon the immediacy of painting directly from life with an ambitious painterly style. Influences: Frank Auerbach, Chaim Soutine, Eugene Leroy.

Charlotte DePalma

Medium: Printmaking

Link:

Artist Statement:

These works are expressions of my heart at play. the juxtapositions of color, form, and texture are intended to surprise or please, or affect a mood, even disturb sometimes. They suggest dreamscapes, often blending ancient and modern referents. The works might be experienced as visual dialogues or as keys for exploring an inner world.

Artist Bio:

220 Calamus Meadow Rd

Eric Epstein

Medium: Collage

Link: http://Epsteindesign.net

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

Eric Epstein is a graphic product and building designer and musician.

Ana Cornier and Family

Medium: Mixed Media

Link:

Artist Statement:

As a family, we identify as artists. Katherine (mom) is an art therapist; Rafael (dad) is a graphic artist; Ana (daughter) is an emerging artist. Over the years, we have exhibited our artwork individually and supported each other’s creative process.

Artist Bio:

Christie Fisher

Medium: Digital Art

Link: http://christiefisher.com

Artist Statement:

Fine art, collage and photography are my tools of expression to pour out the phenomenal beauty and magic of this natural world. My work also continues into bio-programming/hacking (transformation beliefs) and the power of good food and herbs as the new medicine.

Artist Bio:

I have worked with a large variety of media over the years which include drawing, painting, collage and digital transfer photography. These tools have a provided me with the self expression to awaken and inspire all who come in contact with my art.

Heide Follin

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.heidefollin.com

Artist Statement:

Heide is inspired by things that grow and finds her muse in nature’s magnificent colors and organic shapes. Her personal interpretation of landscape explores free-form drawing, sweeps of shiny translucent color next to flat paint, spontaneous brush work, a variety of mark making, layering, clean color, lyrical, all bordering on abstract.

Artist Bio:

Heide is a graduate of the School of the Worcester Art Museum, studied at Parsons, as well as professional art workshops/classes. Actively showing her contemporary paintings, she has won many awards including Best in Show and has had two solo shows.

Robert Fort

Medium: Painting

Link: http://robertsdrawings.com

Artist Statement:

Robert Fort practices his particular style of oil painting on the Farm River near New Haven, CT. Using oil crayons and rags, he transforms the purely representational with the chimeric vision of the naïve artist. His work is basic, colorful, joyful in the sights and sounds of nature and in the hubbub of cities.

Artist Bio:

Originally from Philadelphia, via Boston, New York City and Connecticut, Robert’s life has been capturing images, in words, in photos, in oil. The pleasure is in the doing.

Roberta Friedman

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://www.robertafriedman.net

Artist Statement:

Over many years, my work has evolved into explorations of the abstract landscape using multi and mixed media: watercolor collage; encaustic with steel and rust, and natural elements imbedded into the image; acrylic with inks and gouache on canvas, board and paper--all meant to convey my memories and impressions of places traveled.

Artist Bio:

Roberta is a member of City Gallery, New Haven, who over time has sought to convey her love of the landscape in a variety of media: watercolor collage, encaustic, acrylic and oil media–emphasizing the texture and layers of nature–both real and imagined, urban and rural.

Scott D. Friedman

Medium: Photography

Link: http://www.crookedimage.com

Artist Statement:

I am a street photographer moving into the realm of color and landscape. While many subjects are immobile, I attempt to capture scenes that, through lighting, decay or thawing, represent a unique moment. Though my images are now captured/printed digitally, the techniques I learned in the physical darkroom set my digital darkroom boundaries.

Artist Bio:

Scott D. Friedman is a photographer, capturing the vibrant colors, textures and contrasts of the world. His work has been displayed in solo and group exhibitions in New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Scott is from New Jersey, lived for many years in Somerville, MA and is now based in New Haven, CT.

Peter Gardner

Medium: Painting

Link:

Artist Statement:

I am attempting to fuse the history of art into something new, drawing subject and style from cave painting to contemporary, classic figure to pure abstract, using a symbolic palette and a technique I call reverse chiaroscuro ( darkness or color coming out of light). The silver, white, and gold symbolize mortality. the soul, and eternity.

Artist Bio:

Working as an artist 18 years, as a writer, as well, poetry and fiction. Book of poetry and short stories recently published, titled Pearl Diving – Haiku, Longer Poems, and Short Stories, available on amazon.com. Graduated with an ALB in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University Extension School. Extensive art study.

Martin Gent

Medium: Painting

Link: http://martingentfineart.com

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

My training in art has been entirely in evening classes, starting with drawing and watercolor in Pittsburgh in the 1970s. I have taken portrait and figure drawing classes at various studios such as ArtsPlace in Cheshire and the Creative Arts Workshop. I use pencil as a precursor to applying watercolors.

The Smoking Girl

Medium: Photography

Link: thesmokinggirl.com

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

The girl + her cigarette = art.

Leslie Giuliani

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://www.lesliegiuliani.com

Artist Statement:

The work is a mixture of media including encaustic (hot wax) painting, digital machine embroidery and various printmaking processes (including monotypes and silkscreen, on Encaustiflex; a kind of cross between paper and fabric).

Artist Bio:

Ms. Giuliani is the recipient of a 2008 Artist Fellowship Grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism for Craft. Her work was included in the Farnsworth Museum’s show, “Beyond Rugs” and her work is in the permanent art collections of the Housatonic Museum of Art and the state of Connecticut.

Ellen Gordon

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://www.ellensgordon.com

Artist Statement:

Ellen Gordon is a mixed media artist. Her work is based on drawings from private sessions with a model. The work speaks about the creative magic that happens when inspiration and form collide. The art is the result of a searching process – finding the shapes and lines in both the figure and transcribing those lines into contemporary compositions.

Artist Bio:

Ellen Gordon is co executive director of the Loft Artists Association in Stamford and serves on the board of the Greenwich Art Society. Ms. Gordon teaches art programs for art lovers of all ages. She holds a BS from Boston University and a masters degree from Baruch College. She has exhibited regionally and is the recipient of many awards.

Amber Gratta

Medium: Painting

Link: http://instagram.com/agritzz_art

Artist Statement:

I have always been fascinated with cartoons and monsters. Most of my inspiration comes from those two things. I like to create paintings that illustrate a story within the piece. I definitely have my own style. Most of my paintings have a comic relief aspect to them. I just hope that my work can make people laugh or spark something inside of them.

Artist Bio:

My name is Amber Gratta. I am 24 years old and I’m from Southington CT. I have a bachelor’s degree in Art Therapy. I currently work in a nursing home as a recreation assistant. I have been drawing since I was a child and painting since high school. I’m hoping to expand my work to make more merchandise and eventually own my own independent company.

Eliška Mörsel Greenspoon

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://www.eliska-mg.com

Artist Statement:

My work is photo-based, but not always evident. I explore and exploit various alternative photo methods- including digital imagery- that evolve into mixed media final pieces. My processes reflect a response to issues that concern the human condition such as love, the effects of war on children, global warming, and natural disasters.

Artist Bio:

I was born in Chomutov, Czech Republic. I currently reside in Milford, CT and have lived in many places such as: Israel, Virginia, Boston, South Carolina, California, and recently Omaha, NE. I received a B.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University, graduate course work at The Massachusetts College of Art, and an M.F.A. from Clemson University.

Penelope Van Grinsven

Medium: Ceramics

Link: http://www.penelopevangrinsven.com

Artist Statement:

Through performance, touch, and interaction, Penelope Van Grinsven crafts participatory ceramic pieces that share common ground with cultural rituals and are imbued with communal expression and symbolism.

Artist Bio:

Recently relocated to New Haven after completing a Masters of Fine Arts at the Pennsylvania State University. A potter with roots in Iowa, Chicago, Minneapolis and New York.

MOHAMAD HAFEZ

Medium: Sculpture

Link: www.mohamadhafez.com

Artist Statement:

Unable to return to Syria during his architecture training in rural Iowa because of his student visa, Hafez began making models of his beloved homeland to cure homesickness. He never knew he was documenting a culture that would soon be lost to a brutal war. Now his pieces stand as a testament to the desolution of his nation.

Artist Bio:

A Syrian artist and architect, Mohamad Hafez was born in Damascus, raised in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and educated in the Midwestern United States. Expressing the juxtaposition of East and West within him, Hafez’s art reflects the political turmoil in the Middle East and is architectural in its appearance yet politically charged in its content.

Sara Hope Hill

Medium: PuppetrySculpture

Link: https://www.sarahopehill.com/

Artist Statement:

Sara's magical representation of upper and lower worlds create a mystical life-like realm through her puppetry. Her artistry incorporates fine sculpture, sewing, painting, textile manipulation to create each doll is at my heart of my set of craftsman skills - my handmade masks, jewelry and puppets are meant to be worn and loved

Artist Bio:

I am the Goblin Queen of New Haven, a self taught outsider artist who creates whimsical puppets. I am currently building an interactive puppet set, creating a village that will tie my playfully mischievous side to the ethereal dolls or marionettes together.  My puppets represent goblins, witches, tarot queens, mermaids, sadars, centaurs, and fairies which can play and coexist in their corner of the Universe I create.

Marianne Holtermann

Medium: Painting

Link: https://www.marianneholtermann.com

Artist Statement:

My preferred medium is pastel. In my art I try to capture not only what I see, but also the feelings the subject evoke in me. It is my hope that the viewer will connect with my art on an emotional level -  not just as something that is pleasing to the eye.

Artist Bio:

I started this joyous and wonderful journey only 4 years ago .
I have exhibited locally at The Firehouse gallery in Milford as well as Milford Arts Center, Lyme Art Association Gallery, Slater Memorial Museum and New Haven Paint and Clay Club.
I have won several awards which inspires me to continue learning and evolving as an artist

Katie Kindilien

Medium: Painting

Link: katiekindilienart.com

Artist Statement:

Creating art gives me an opportunity to share my sense of the world with the world. There is so much beauty in everyday life- moments when colors sing, tangled branches create dancing energy, mist over the ocean calms my soul. When I paint from life I make the transitory permanent.

Artist Bio:

I earned my BFA from Tyler School of Art and a Masters in Art Education from Southern Connecticut State University. I have been an artist and an art teacher in New Haven public schools for many years.

Suzanne Kirschne

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://sckartstudio.com

Artist Statement:

We’re complex & multi-layered. I build layers of line from multiple directions obscuring, revealing, creating value, & motion. The line may seem chaotic, but it forms rhythmic patterns that unify. The textured surface creates a barrier between the work & viewer, protecting what lies below- allowing the viewer to enter the work, explore & discover.

Artist Bio:

I’m a NW CT artist. I have a BFA from UCONN. I worked as a graphic artist for 15 years before attending CCSU for Art Ed. I’ve been teaching art for the past 20 years. I’ve attended intensive summer artist workshops at SAIC, the Art Institute of NH, & UArts. I’ve participated public art projects & have exhibited and won awards throughout CT, NY, & VA.

Beth Klingher

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: www.bethklingher.com

Artist Statement:

I love getting my hands dirty – clay, grout, dirt, or dough. My first love was clay and recently I have discovered mosaics. I am intrigued with textures and patterns, and the intricacies of creating a work of art one tiny piece at a time. I create landscapes – both realistic and abstract – to reflect the world around me.

Artist Bio:

I taught middle school math for 10 years and continue to work as a teaching artist exploring the connections between math and art. I have completed large-scale mosaic projects and mathematically inspired murals with schools all over CT. My personal art combines a variety of materials to create abstract geometric designs and landscapes.

Hannah Leckman

Medium: Ceramics

Link:

Artist Statement:

I work primarily on the wheel, although I enjoy some hand building and sculptural detail on pottery as well. I love the swirl and twist and versatility of clay. My work tends to be functional because I want my objects to be useful as well as beautiful.

Artist Bio:

I became a potter in December, 2000, I remember the date because that is when I made over 200 of the same object to give as gifts for my daughter’s wedding. After that many hyacinth holders, many of which did not turn out, I was able to say, with pride, “I am a potter.”

Linda Lindroth

Medium: Photography

Link: www.lindalindroth.com

Artist Statement:

Trickster in Flatland refers to my large-scale digital photographs that bear an uncanny resemblance to art historical icons. My subjects are found objects in various states of decay and disintegration, stripped of their identity. Enlarging to 44x55 inches further confuses the viewer, the grand scale revealing all their imperfections.

Artist Bio:

Linda Lindroth’s work is represented in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Bibliothèque National in Paris and the Princeton University Art Gallery. She earned her B.A. and M.F.A. degrees in Art from Rutgers. She is represented by Garvey|Simon .

Karleen Loughran

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.karleenloughran.com

Artist Statement:

Loughran's work engages the three elements of abstraction expression: the conceptual (idea/thought), expressive (emotion) and formal (color, line, composition). These elements work in concert as a piece emerges spontaneously over time on the canvas. Her recent work explores the complexity, impossibility, and process of human communication.

Artist Bio:

EDUCATION
M.F.A., School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 1985
London Arts Program, London, England 1979
B.F.A. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 1979

Numerous solo and group exhibitions. Private and corporate collections.

Pierre Merkl aka Mr. Lucky

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.pierremerkl.com

Artist Statement:

Real people who exist only in these paintings.... Paintings! Conceptual figurative...abstract humanist...humanesque... Inclusive and expansive psychological pictorialism.... To the situations comes the spectator. The spectator, like the artist, must make choices. The painter's challenges are now the viewers....

Artist Bio:

Recently moved here from San Francisco….

mahmood mahmood

Medium: Digital Art

Link: https://www.instagram.com/mark_mahmood/

Artist Statement:

Photography allows me to see stories of struggle and success in the lives of people and in the small objects and animals around me. My photographs are a mirror for the journey of finding hope after war. It is a journey that requires special attention to the details of everyday life. I try to capture what is too often neglected or forgotten.

Artist Bio:

Mahmood Mahmood is a eighteen year old refugee from Iraq currently living in New Haven, CT with his family. He first learned to take photos from his brother, who is also a photographer. Now, as a senior at Wilbur Cross High School, he is grateful for the opportunity to take art and digital media classes and advance his skills.

Dan Makara

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.danmakara.com

Artist Statement:

I like mucky and muddy art instead of pristine and clean. A mess is a must as I don’t try to make art. I like how Leonardo said his favorite paintings were a distressed stained wall that invite interpretation and I endeavor to make collections of accidents that imply a situation that can fluctuate in spatial relations and meaning.

Artist Bio:

Home Schooled in Art… Painted Billboards , Signs & Murals along the East Coast.
Previously represented by BRUCE R. LEWIN Gallery NYC.

Barbara Marks

Medium: Drawing

Link: http://www.barbarammarks.com/

Artist Statement:

My paintings and drawings are rooted in observation. For my subject matter, I look to the ordinary and the local. An individual tree is singularly interesting to me. In my paintings, I use color to create space. My drawings are a visual journal of the situations I find myself in every day, no matter where I am.

Artist Bio:

Barbara Marks is a multidisciplinary artist. She has an MFA from Brooklyn College, and a BFA from Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts. Barbara has been a resident artist at Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Brush Creek and Jentel (WY), Otis College of Art & Design (CA), and a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome.

Mark K. St. Mary

Medium: Photography

Link: http://www.saintvisions.net

Artist Statement:

My photos are primarily taken in urban settings, usually somewhat off the main streets, and are often a visual representation of my emotional connection to the locations. I am drawn to patterns, textures, and juxtaposition of colors on structural surfaces that have come about through the additive or subtractive effects of nature and man.

Artist Bio:

Mark earned a BS in Floriculture at Texas A & M University and a MS in Biology at Bowling Green State University. A mostly self-taught artist, he draws largely from a former career in landscape design.

His work has been exhibited at many galleries in the region. He is currently a member of Kehler Liddell Gallery.

Susan McCaslin

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://www.susanmccaslin.com

Artist Statement:

What began with wool coats layered with paper mache became coats built from layered and dyed newspaper. Coats protect us from the cold. We can hide within a coat and it can shield us from view. It is a layer of protection between us and the world.

Artist Bio:

My interest is in protective spaces, both physical and emotional. I work with paper and with my camera to investigate and express those interests. My work ranges from small works to large installations.

Rosemary McClain

Medium: ceramic

Link:

Artist Statement:

My works are representational but not realistic. I strive to get color and texture into my ceramics with a strong sense of design. My pottery is all hand built, because I find that to be very satisfying.

Artist Bio:

Rosemary has had a successful career as a product designer for several manufacturers including fabricators of home decor products. Presently she is focusing on pottery and ceramic sculptures. Her work can be found exhibited in galleries and art shows throughout Connecticut.

Lori Michels

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://www.infinitedezignz.weebly.com

Artist Statement:

Lori Michels's custom jewelry, art, and home decor is made with individuality in mind. Infinite DeZignz with endless ideas for the one of a kind you!

Artist Bio:

Since I was a child I have created art. At first, I used rocks, shells and flowers for color. As I got older I began to make my own jewelry, stationary and art. My influences are from experiencing nature and emotion. Today, I mix different textures, mediums and themes to create one of a kind art.

Irene K. Miller

Medium: Printmaking

Link: http://irenekmiller.com

Artist Statement:

The prints in my latest series Optics/Eye Shine are based on and abstracted from the minuscule details found in electron micrographs of molecular and cellular studies of the invertebrate eye. The Optics series is most personal as it is a commentary on visual deterioration, which to an artist becomes a life concern.

Artist Bio:

I did not plan to become a printmaker when I took  my first  printmaking course at Creative Arts Workshop.  I was happily making functional pottery in my small studio at Erector Square.  Then little by little the prints took over the walls, then the tables and floor.  When no space was left, I knew I was hooked.

Lenny Moskowitz

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.lennymoskowitzart.com

Artist Statement:

Much of my evolution as an artist occurs between each painting, while I am just living, unaware of my creative process. New visual ideas, new ways of approaching my work build up in my subconscious, manifesting the next time I pick up a brush.

Artist Bio:

Lenny Moskowitz is a Connecticut landscape painter who lives in New Haven with his wife Katie. He graduated with his B.F.A from the Philadelphia College of Art and received his M.F.A. from Michigan’s Cranbrook Academy. Lenny has participated in both group and solo shows at numerous galleries throughout the U.S. and has taught classes and workshops.

Alan Neider

Medium: Painting

Link: http://alan-neider.squarespace.com

Artist Statement:

The art I am most interested in seeing galleries and making myself is most often difficult to understand and visually challenging. By using cardboard, fabric, collage and moving blankets as some of the material(s) I choose to paint on and into I am setting out to destroy what has come before.

Artist Bio:

I have been making paintings, seriously, since the mid 1960s.
The earliest painting dealt with building out images from the surface of the canvas and making free-standing paintings. These issue along with painting on and into non-traditional materials such as: cement, clay, plaster, fabric are important to me. Experimenting remains
important to me.

Raheem Nelson

Medium: Digital Art

Link: http://raheemnelson.com

Artist Statement:

iPad Painting to me is an outlet for me to express myself. With apps like Brushes, Sketchbook Pro, Procreate, and Paper by 53 I create masterpieces with my fingertips or a stylus.

Artist Bio:

My name is Raheem Nelson (Ra!) and I’m an iPad Artist based in New Haven, CT. I went to the School Of Visual Arts and finished with a BA in Cartooning. I have a traditional background in Cartooning but I’ve branched out into working exclusively on my iPad.

Margot Nimiroski

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.margotnimiroski.com

Artist Statement:

My paintings are my personal vision of the water. Sometimes it's wild and rolling...other times, it's gentle and still...but it's always beautiful and full of surprises. I never set out to be a painter of seascapes...but the waves are always there.

Artist Bio:

I have lived and boated on Long Island Sound for most of my adult life.  I wake up each
morning to a view of Branford Harbor and I enjoy interpreting my love of the water into my
paintings.

My childhood was spent in Kansas and Illinois…the waves created in the water and in the
vast fields of corn and wheat are very similar…both are beautiful and inspiring.

Beatriz R. Olson

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: www.BROArts.net

Artist Statement:

Born in Havana Cuba after Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, with a family punished for not embracing communism, I entered America as aCuban refugee in 1970. This April I returned to Havana wanting to belong. My installation Havana Cuba 2017: Beauty, Decay, Farce embodies the visceral experience of being back home.

Artist Bio:

Havana Cuba 2017: Beauty, Decay, Farce embodies the state of my birth place Havana Cuba: war-like torn by political farce, time, and neglect. All must negotiate the fine line between morality and integrity versus livelihood and survival.

Hilary Opperman

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://www.hilaryopperman.com

Artist Statement:

I have a background in painting and political activism, yet my current work is a form of silent protest. Collage is my creative refuge. My mixed feelings about the world fuel a need to make mixed media work. I attempt to describe the indescribable: Duality, mystery and magic. My collages often evoke archetypes, hidden references and mythology.

Artist Bio:

Hilary Opperman has a B.A. in Fine Art. She enjoys making encaustic art related to mysticism and social justice. Hilary is interested in the healing capacity of art and using creativity as a means of conflict resistance. Hilary works at a local art nonprofit called Site Projects and has taught art to children in a few educational centers & museums.

Neil Daigle Orians

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://neilmakesthings.com

Artist Statement:

Currently I’m interested in the relationships between domesticity and masculinity, my nonexistent relationship with my father and obsession with queer daddy subcultures, and the digital versus corporeal spaces bodies inhabit. I utilize printmaking, sculpture and performance to explore queerness as a visceral experience.

Artist Bio:

I’m an artist born outside of Chicago, raised in Nebraska and now living and working in Connecticut. I received by BFA in Studio Art from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and MFA in Studio Art from the University of Connecticut.

Michael Quirk

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.quirkmuseum.com

Artist Statement:

Using a combination of palette knives and brushes, I started working with pure pigment in a fairly loose style. This group of recent paintings features humans and animals as shadow figures set in an over saturated world of vibrant color.

Artist Bio:

Artist Michael Quirk studied painting, sculpture and digital arts at the Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven and Silvermine School of Art in New Canaan, CT. His award winning work has been exhibited in various regional galleries and juried shows throughout the United States. His artwork can be found in numerous private collections.

Shilo Ratner

Medium: Painting

Link: https://shiloratner.com/

Artist Statement:

My paintings and drawings create a quiet and reflective tension between flat planes and figures that transcend physical space but hold an introspective presence. By hybridizing my foundation as a painter in both the Bay Area Figurative Movement and the chiaroscuro tradition of the old masters, the figures in my work carry an ethereal nature.

Artist Bio:

Shilo Ratner’s work has been exhibited are the African American Culture Complex, Los Angeles Art Association, First Street Gallery, NYC and Hang Art Gallery, SF. Ratner’s work can be found in myriad of private art collections in the United States and abroad.

Betsy Ratner

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://www.betsyratner.com

Artist Statement:

Abstract elements of color, line, texture and shape from home deck vistas appear spiritually. The transformation of nature takes on a thrilling magic. Sometimes deliberate, but most often intuitive and organic designs materialize. Playing with acrylic, paper,fabric and repurposed objects find their way to rest on the canvas.

Artist Bio:

Nick Robinson

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.slightlyawake.com

Artist Statement:

I create paintings and prints, exploring themes of fragility, fleeting beauty, and destruction as means not to an end, but change. Through textures and malleable oil paint applications, I use natural landscapes and surreal landscapes to describe moments. Moments are fleeting, and it behooves us not to hold on, but to seek anew.

Artist Bio:

I am a painter, graphic designer and musician. I live in Milford, Connecticut and play guitar in post-rock band “Wess Meets West”. Cats are great.

Vasilisa Romanenko

Medium: Painting

Link: www.VasilisaArt.com

Artist Statement:

Vasilisa explores the roots of feminine power, focusing on the intersection of spirit and the natural world. She depicts the strength and fragility of nature through her images of powerful women, goddesses, good and evil woodland spirits, and the places they inhabit.

Artist Bio:

Vasilisa Romanenko is a Connecticut-based illustrator, designer, and fine artist. She creates figurative paintings inspired by nature, mythology, fashion, and folk art. Vasilisa earned her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Illustration at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

Anna Russell

Medium: Drawing

Link: http://ello.co/essbim

Artist Statement:

Dreams help us process our emotions. The exercise of recounting memories of our dreams helps us take the emotion out of an experience, so that the emotion ceases to be active. This is important to reducing anxiety and stress. I will be setting up a booth to draw your stress dreams in exchange for a small fee- like Lucy's Psychiatry booth in Peanuts

Artist Bio:

A.Russ was born in the Southwest and raised in the Midwest, thus has an affinity for hot weather and no fashion sense. Most of her waking hours are spent either in her basement office in the museum or her basement studio in her apartment. She now calls New Haven home, where she lives with her husband, two cats, and mentally disturbed rescue dog.

Joseph Saccio

Medium: Sculpture

Link: http://joseph.saccio.com

Artist Statement:

A wide variety of natural and synthetic materials are joined together in a primitivistic manner, expressing personal feelings associated with myth and ritual, loss and rebirth. The often brutal form and meaning of most of my work are in contrast to the highly colored, brash and ironically humorous style of a smaller body of work.

Artist Bio:

I am a self taught artist from childhood and turned to sculpture under the mentorship of Ann Lehman at the CAW in the 60’s. My work has been shown widely, collecting many awards. I was a professor at the Yale Child Study Center and conducted a private practice in Child and Adult Psychiatry for 40 years creating many of the toys in my playroom!

My work can also be seen at:

http://kehlerliddellgallery.com

http://silvermineart.org (go to guild, online gallery)

Annie Sailer

Medium: Painting

Link: http://anniesailer.com

Artist Statement:

The intent of my work is to create abstract forms that evoke emotional states of mind that are both timeless and relevant to the present. My paintings, installations, and dances are generated by process and informed by the materials and physicality of each discipline, the spatial relationships, and the feelings and images that come to me as I work.

Artist Bio:

Annie Sailer is a dancer, choreographer, painter, and installation artist. She has directed NYC-based Annie Sailer Dance Company since 2001. In 2016 she opened ANNIE SAILER studio space at Erector Square in New Haven, CT where she teaches modern/contemporary dance classes, rehearses, and paints.

Denise Saldaña

Medium: Photography

Link: http://denisesaldana.pixels.com

Artist Statement:

In my art I try to combine an interesting natural subject with an artistic background and a unique presentation. In short, making paintings with my camera.

Artist Bio:

Your photograph is perfect—it shows scale along with intense color, clarity and perfect focus,” wrote Georgia Feasel, Cornell Cooperative Extension, of one of Denise Saldaña’s butterfly photographs. She combines a scientific interest in nature with a passion for art photography. Her goal—to render natural subjects artistically.

Steve Sangapore

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.sangapore.com

Artist Statement:

My work addresses the human condition and the nature of experience. The style of my work is a contemporary take on the surrealist approach infused in scientific and philosophical elements. Displaying a disciplined technique and great attention to detail, the stylistic quality and execution of my paintings is illustrative, hard-edged and calculated.

Artist Bio:

Steve Sangapore is a contemporary surrealist painter based in Boston, MA and is a 2013 art and design graduate of Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, CT. Sangapore’s paintings are currently exhibiting nationally and have been published in art magazines and journals such as Art Business News, the Creative Quarterly, Artscope, and more.

Roxanne Faber Savage

Medium: Printmaking

Link: http://www.roxanneprints.com

Artist Statement:

As a multidisciplinary artist, I work in a range of media and materials with printmaking my primary art form. For years, I have been investigating and generating art using ancient and contemporary symbols . My work is informed by ordinary things from daily life and I use these simple "icons" to tap my subconscious mind + emotions.

Artist Bio:

Roxanne Faber Savage was born in Boston and currently lives and works in Connecticut and New York.

Roxanne – “Roxy” is an award winning multidisciplinary artist with printmaking as her primary medium. She creates inventive graphic prints, and mixed media works to tell her personal human stories.

Martha Savage

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: https://www.facebook.com/WestRiverArts/?ref=br_rs

Artist Statement:

Unique collage, mixed media greeting cards for regular and atypical occasions & abstract landscape informed paintings.

Artist Bio:

try: Martha Savage Art and West River Arts on Facebook

Suzan Scott

Medium: Painting

Link: www.suzanscott.com

Artist Statement:

'...as a painter, my language is line and color and shape. they are my tools. they are my voice. made visible...' - Suzan Scott '...the question is never: what am i looking at?...the question is: what do I see?’ - Suzan Scott

Artist Bio:

Suzan Scott is a painter from the northwest hills of Connecticut. Her work explores color, & light, & abstraction as found in nature. Scott is a member of the Washington Art Association & exhibits throughout the northeast. Venues include: John Slade Ely House, Slater Museum, New Britain Museum, UConn Storrs, & the Blue Mountain Gallery in Chelsea.

Chelsea Silbereis

Medium: Photography

Link: http://chelseasilbereis.com/show-jiji

Artist Statement:

I am a photographer exploring family life by applying the principals of photojournalism to photographing families. I'm trying to define, understand and document the truth in family dynamics and the experiences of being a child. My work is built upon my own struggle to belong and feel comfortable in my role as a mother within my own family.

Artist Bio:

Chelsea Silbereis is a photographer applying the principals of photojournalism to family life. She photographs her own family as well as client families, creating photo essays of family life. She lives in Hamden with her husband, two children, dog and cat. She likes to imagine the ghosts of pets past are also members of the household.

Anna Sincavage

Medium: Fabric

Link:

Artist Statement:

Life is an invisible line of energy that runs in every form in our world. This life for me is existing in old clothing. From this, I created Vintage Reborn, to reinvent life in old fabric. I want to demonstrate that this invisible energy is always alive with us, enduring the passage of time.

Artist Bio:

My Unique Adventure
I come from the ancient hills of Umbria, receiving inspiration to create Vintage Reborn, unifying the creativity, labor, and design of the past. I breathe new life into vintage clothing, giving respect and tribute to those hands and minds. Style is not only now, but a connection with the eternal, colorful treasures of clothing.

Claudine Burns Smith

Medium: CeramicsSculpture

Link: http://www.claudineburnssmith.com

Artist Statement:

I make both functional ceramic work and sculpture. I prefer hand building to the wheel so as to create irregularities that add interesting effects. I like carving the surface of my pieces and I favor vibrant colors. My inspiration comes from nature and other cultures. I use mid-range stoneware and glazes and sometimes terracotta for sculpture.

Artist Bio:

Claudine Burns Smith is a ceramic artist. She has taught art at the college and high school level. She has had numerous group and solo exhibitions of ceramics, sculptures and works on paper in the United States, France, the former Soviet Union and China. She is currently represented in several galleries in Connecticut.

Claudine Burns Smith

Medium: CeramicsSculpture

Link: http://www.claudineburnssmith.com

Artist Statement:

I make both functional ceramic work and sculpture. I prefer hand building to the wheel so as to create irregularities that add interesting effects. I like carving the surface of my pieces and I favor vibrant colors. My inspiration comes from nature and other cultures. I use mid-range stoneware and glazes and sometimes terracotta for sculpture.

Artist Bio:

Claudine Burns Smith is a ceramic artist. She has taught art at the college and high school level. She has had numerous group and solo exhibitions of ceramics, sculptures and works on paper in the United States, France, the former Soviet Union and China. She is currently represented in several galleries in Connecticut.

Jeffrey Starkes

Medium: Painting

Link: http://jeffreystarkes.artspan.com

Artist Statement:

My abstract paintings are based on the idea that our lives are shaped by opposing considerations. I explore the balance and compromises we create in life between the quest for freedom and the need for control. I seek to achieve compositions that mirror the unique arrangements we devise between practical needs and emotional desires.

Artist Bio:

Following a long career as an art director and graphic designer, Jeffrey Starkes is now an emerging abstract artist working primarily in oils. His paintings have been displayed at galleries and exhibitions throughout Connecticut. He is a member artist at Art/Place gallery in Fairfield, Connecticut and lives and works in West Haven, Connecticut.

Kevin Stevens

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://www.artbykevinstevens.com

Artist Statement:

I mostly work with color and texture in my paintings. They deal with transparent layers of color laid one on top of another creating an inner luster that has a jewel like quality to it. I combine this with texture and different materials creating a spatial composition that is intriguing to the eye.

Artist Bio:

Kevin was born in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1947. After a 4 year stint in the USAF, he attended Montserrat College of Visual Art in Beverly MA. Kevin started exhibiting in local galleries in 1978, and has been exhibiting ever since.

Robert Thomas

Medium: Photography

Link: rdthomas.smugmug.com

Artist Statement:

My background in engineering allows me to utilize the ever-changing technology of digital cameras to capture moments that mirror my artistic vision. I have learned not just to document but also to apply the creative aspects of composition and the freedom offered with digital image processing. This creates a more engaging representation.

Artist Bio:

I have lived in the Americas, Europe and Asia and have traveled the world inspired by the religious, architectural, and cultural diversity that I have been fortunate to define through my lens. My themes are inspired by the landscapes and the imagery captured in reflective surfaces, weathered structures, as well as the beauty found in nature.

Christina Tillbrook

Medium: Painting

Link:

Artist Statement:

After many years, I have returned to the art world. The focus of each painting is meant to be therapeutic or technical or a mix as I combine two genres.

Artist Bio:

Christina Tillbrook is a multi media artist. Graduating from Paier College of Art with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and then received Master’s in Interactive Media from Quinnipiac University. Her love of both painting and digital media can be seen in a lot of her paintings where in some respects both are genres can be seen intertwined.

Katya Vetrov

Medium: Printmaking

Link: http://www.purslanepress.com

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

Katya Vetrov works as a freelance printmaker at her East Rock studio, Purslane Press. She specializes in silkscreen and relief printmaking and is now learning the ropes of letterpress printing on a Vandercook 320g proof press.

Amanda Walker

Medium: Drawing

Link: http://www.amandakatewalker.com

Artist Statement:

The prevalence of contest based reality TV combined with the election of Donald Trump has led me to question our competition based culture, specifically the idea of winning at all costs. In this group of drawings, the civility of cohorts in a race meant to be fun, degenerates into the chaos of every man for himself.

Artist Bio:

Amanda Walker is primarily a costume designer working mainly in musical theatre. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama ’04.

Holly Whiting

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://www.HollyWhitingArt.com

Artist Statement:

My inspiration comes from the world around me. From the woods in the White Mountains to the shore birds of Connecticut, the colors and patterns of nature have provided me with more material than I could paint in a lifetime. My latest work utilizes reactive metals, an exciting new paint medium combining rust and patina with acrylic paints.

Artist Bio:

Holly Whiting works in both traditional and unexpected media. Her work often incorporates not only acrylics, watercolors, and pastel, but plasters, mica, gold leaf, reactive metals or other various and sundry items that can be found in her Erector Square studio. Favorite subjects include abstract landscapes and semi-abstract paintings of birds.

Mary B. Wolff

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: www.facebook.com/marywolff.metalfiber/

Artist Statement:

The process for all my work-textile or metal, is the same. Surfaces are treated with one or all of the following-color, texture, pattern. It’s a continuous journey of discovering how ideas, design, and media interact with the surfaces used . The final consideration is for my visual language to stimulate conversation, thought and pleasure.

Artist Bio:

My journey in art began in the surface design at RISD. At first I concentrated on designing textiles, then gradually experimented with applying the same elements and techniques on both fiber and metal. My fiber artwork and metal jewelry pieces celebrate line, texture, color and the many possibilities each surface offers to create a visual language.

Don Wunderlee

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.wunderleeabstracts.com

Artist Statement:

What excites me about abstract painting is discovery. My work is intuitive. I improvise through the elements of color form and line to express moods and sensations. I create what I like to call “visual music.” I hope the viewer walks away with an appreciation for pure creativity.

Artist Bio:

Don Wunderlee is an abstract painter based in Westville CT. His careers in music and puppetry have helped contribute to his work. He served as a docent at the Yale Art Gallery.

Helen Wyland-Malchow

Medium: Other

Link: http://www.silverthumbstudios.com

Artist Statement:

I have been designing jewelry using authentic 1930-1980 glass, brass, bronze, copper findings, and gemstones for 10 years. Most of these findings came from close-out mills in Providence RI. Providence was the world's capital of costume jewelry design for over 60 years. Please come visit and enjoy something unique.

Artist Bio:

Helen is a National and Internationally awarded Polymer and Jewelry Artist. Her work has been consistently featured in books and magazines over the last 8 years. She creates everyday wear using vintage jewelry and creates her Art to wear designs in Polymer.

Jessica Zamachaj

Medium: Ceramics

Link: https://jessicazamachaj.com

Artist Statement:

I travel between two different styles in my personal art making and enjoy both of them in their own ways. When I make pottery, I find joy in making the forms in a simple way then adding in more sculptural elements to begin a conversation with the work. My sculptural work allows me to share more personal experiences with the viewer.

Artist Bio:

I am a mother of two wonderful young children, a wife, a high school art teacher and I work at my art in between all the tasks. I am beginning to find more time to focus on my art making and I am hoping to begin pit firing at home on a more regular basis.