bimshwel

Medium: Digital Art

Link: http://www.bimshwel.com

Artist Statement:

I hope you can find something useful. Trying to guess what anybody else wants never gets me anywhere! Consequently I can only aim to amuse myself and keep doing that until I do something which amuses somebody else.

Artist Bio:

Blurk blark gwerp friddin mlipperp. Skeep scrop spibben fop. Nyurdit narbik geerz ert. Zebbedin hyurdit heepzen “bimshwel” erzgrud meniw werngrezzin. Borzgrid mimp potatoes hzed. ZIZZEN sprug nemitz mernit horgmux! Plimbew murfit scraggorp lurpzid?

Evād

Medium: Mixed Media

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

Artist Statement:

As a young boy, it was always my dream to become an artist. As an adult, life happened and I found myself on another path. Decades later, I am now making art and fulfilling my childhood dreams.

Artist Bio:

Evād recreates cultural icons, using his chosen medium of glitter to bring them to life. Four years ago, Evād started his apprenticeship with top glitter artist, Sue Zola, who is also his wife. He has exhibited his work in New York, Connecticut and Texas.

Cunnographic

Medium: Photography

Link:

Artist Statement:

" If it doesn’t come from within then it’s not worth attempting. " -Cunnographic

Artist Bio:

There are NO RULES in my style of art.. My material is point blank RAW.
My passion for expression began in 2005 when i discovered that photography was an outlet of FREEDOM regardless of
(criticism, confusement, or biased opinions) I am the model and the photographer allowing My life and emotions to be displayed.
The good.. The Bad..and The Scary.

Lytle

Medium: Installation

Link: http://www.lytle.myportfolio.com

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

Lytle. Artist and Graphic designer exploring the relationships between color and form in and OCD/dynamic way. Graphic and bright style.

Dooley-O

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.dooley-o.com

Artist Statement:

Come to the studio and see the works of Dooley-O

Artist Bio:

Legendary hip hop producer and graffiti artist Dooley-O is well known on the underground circuit as one of the purist hip hop and graffiti artist to keep it real and capture the true essence of being a artist

MINDPLOW

Medium: Film/Video

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

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

MINDPLOW is a video collective out of New Haven CT. Check us out at Facebook.com/mindplowvideo.

MANIAC Episode 5

Medium: Other

Link: https://www.ballandsocket.org/upcoming-events

Artist Statement:

MANIAC Episode 5 features the work of 45 members of the MANIAC collective. Presenting an eclectic selection of works that loosely explore abstraction as an aesthetic, narrative, and conceptual device, this 5th group show of international artists represents the group’s return to its origins in New Haven, and includes 13 area artists.

Artist Bio:

MANIAC is Multi-media, Artist Network, Idea exchange, And Collaboration. Created in 2009 by New Haven artist/curator Kevin Daly as a crit group, the collective now is a network of 350 artists from all over the world that have come together through a common desire for the exchange and exploration of new ideas, frequently sharing via social media.

Kwadwo Adae

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.adaefineartacademy.com

Artist Statement:

We believe in art as public service. We believe in the power of uniting people who are not necessarily artists in collaborative efforts to beautify their surroundings. We believe art is a fundamental human right. We believe in art.

Artist Bio:

We provide individualized instruction in drawing & painting in classes for children and adults regardless of experience. We also run a Mobile Art Studio service providing off site art lessons to assisted living centers, after school programs, and mental health clinics throughout the Greater New Haven area. Call 203.777.7220 for a free trial lesson

Faustin Adeniran

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://Adeniranartstudio.com

Artist Statement:

My attendance and deep observation of society as an artist, coupled with great aspirations and relentless work to attain artistic excellence, has provoked my imagination for making artworks with materials that would otherwise be considered trash or recyclable. These materials has challenged my creativity to produce works that reflect our society.

Artist Bio:

Faustin Adeniran is a contemporary artist from Nigeria. At an early age, he developed a vivid interest in making art and discovered his own artistic abilities and creativity. He immersed himself in drawing, painting, and experimenting with different media.
Adeniran has had several group exhibitions and art workshops on his brilliant innovative art.

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: http://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.

Eduardo Alvarez

Medium: Painting

Link: http://eduardoalvarezart.blogspot.com/

Artist Statement:

I am a visual artist living in New Haven, Connecticut. My pieces are created using mainly acrylic paint and at times mixed media. The focus of each piece is to delve within oneself and let go of everything, much like if one were in a dream. The colors chosen represent an exhalation of a meditative journey through movement, music and emotion.

Artist Bio:

Eduardo Alvarez resides in New Haven and is a graduate of SCSU with a B.A. in Spanish. Recent exhibits include: Koffee?, Barracuda Bistro, and Arte, Inc. Eduardo’s piece “Mapiya” has been on permanent display at the Yale Native American Cultural Center since 2015. His cartoon series was featured in an April 2016 article in feelin diasporic.

Jonathan Amici

Medium: scuplture

Link: http://www.jonathanamici.com

Artist Statement:

Art should be fun for all. Just create.

Artist Bio:

Jonathan is a glassblower, painter who focuses in watercolors.

Christian Ammon

Medium: Painting

Link:

Artist Statement:

I paint subjects ranging from landscapes, seascapes to figurative works in an expressive style with bright, vibrant colors. My expressionist palette has been influenced my interest in color theory.

Artist Bio:

Visual Arts Teacher (Painting and Drawing)

Bek Andersen

Medium: Photography

Link: http://bekandersen.com

Artist Statement:

This work illustrates Andersen’s nuanced view of the contradictory situations that can arise from profound religious belief. This work represents a push back into explicit spirituality as she attempts to create a personal Eden.

Artist Bio:

Bek Andersen started this incarnation in Syracuse NY, 1980. She was raised in a Mormon household in Oklahoma City before moving to New York and working as a fashion photographer. She currently works in New York City and New Haven.

* Bek Andersen’s studio will close at 3pm on Sunday

Hil Anderson

Medium: Photography

Link: http://www.hilanderson.com

Artist Statement:

I like good stories. Our stories make us who we are. In fact, I believe that all roads to knowledge are paved with fabulous tales. I hope that the images in my recent exploration of the conditional nature of contemporary truth and identity can be read as narratives that reach beyond the frame of any single image.

Artist Bio:

I was born in the South and educated in New England. My life has been a pendulum swinging between art and academia. However, I can’t rely on the natural laws implied in this metaphor since the arrival of our three children, for whom the laws of nature are more aspirational. Art is what happens now in gravity-free, grown-up moments.

Joseph Vincent Annino

Medium: Painting

Link: http://jovian.me

Artist Statement:

My work includes representational paintings from my day to day life, from references photos from my camera phone, and abstracts where I explore how visual components interact. Painting is a counter to technology, something physical, final, and permanent in its creation, and an escape from the frustrations of my career in computer programming.

Artist Bio:

Joseph Vincent Annino, signing works as JoViAn and based in Bethel CT, has been painting for the past two years in a variety of mediums, techniques, and styles, believing that each informs the others along a path of creative development.

Aspasia Anos

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://www.aspasiaanos.com

Artist Statement:

Impermanence, transience, the potential of change and the role of chance in its origin and outcome are central themes of my work. Trace elements from the landscape serve as inspiration for my mixed media photographs and monotypes.

Artist Bio:

Aspasia Anos earned a BFA from the University of Illinois and an MFA from the Yale School of Art. A lifelong artist and educator, she is a past recipient of a Connecticut Commission of Arts Fellowship. Her work has been shown nationally in both solo and group exhibitions and is held in corporate and private collections.

John Arabolos

Medium: Digital Art

Link: arabolosart.com

Artist Statement:

My artwork is an investigation of “Chaotic” patterns found in nature. The images created utilize symmetry as a methodology to find and portray an existing underlying hidden order or universal aesthetic language of form that structures the way we perceive and understand our sense of being and environment, gain and process knowledge, and then create.

Artist Bio:

John is an “Assistant Professor” in Department of Art and Design at the University of New Haven. In 2006 he was appointed as a “Professional Designer and Artist in Residence”.
He received a BA at the Hartford Art School of the University of Hartford in Hartford, CT in 1974 and obtained a MFA at Pratt Institute of Design in 1980.

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.

Ely Center of Contemporary Art

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://www.elycenter.org

Artist Statement:

The Ely Center of Contemporary Art will host its first month long artist residency from October 17 to November 17. Come meet the participating artists October 21 and 22 from 12-6PM and see what they have been up to.... Join us November 7-8 for Nasty Women Film Festival special screening event. Other events planned so check the website for update

Artist Bio:

Our mission is to reaffirm Grace Ely’s testamentary wishes for an art center where arts organizations and the public could assemble, exchange, learn, and engage through exhibitions, performances, and emerging contemporary practice.

West River Arts

Medium: Other

Link: http://www.westriverarts.wordpress.com

Artist Statement:

Sarah J. Bratchell / Kate Stephen / Epstein Design / Don Wunderlee / James "JC" Capuras / Dooley-o / Semi Semi-Dikoko / Susan McCaslin / Noé Jimenez / Mohamad Hafez / Caryn Azoff / Martha Savage / Howard el-Yasin / Kieran Coleman / JoAnne Wilcox

Artist Bio:

Consisting of 13 studio spaces forming a community of engaging artists of different styles, backgrounds, and practices. The roster includes sculptors, mechanical engineers, product designers, handmade jewelers, painters, photographers and more. Their works fill the walls and hallways, contributing to a diverse array of art.

Tom Aschenbach

Medium: Mixed Media

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

Artist Statement:

My inspirations come from classical art, comic books, and science fiction. I try to create works that are uplifting without being maudlin. This year, my focus has been to create a science fiction experience that portrays science and scientists in a positive light.

Artist Bio:

Tom is an illustrator who focuses on works in pen and ink, with some watercolor.

Sideways & Askew

Medium: Mixed Media

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

Artist Statement:

Every lamp combines many different materials, each calling for its own treatment and approach. This suits both artists, who find the collaborative process rewarding and different from the solo work each pursues in their studios. To agree on a mutually pleasing design transforms the interior creative monologue into a conversation out loud.

Artist Bio:

Sideways & Askew is the lamp-making collaboration of New Haven printmaker Liz Pagano and Ivoryton potter Hayne Bayless. The lamp structure is typically a brazed piano-wire frame with a base of concrete, stone, wood, or ceramic. The shades are high-quality paper with one-of-a-kind decoration in ink, paint, and encaustic.

Anna Held Audette

Medium: Painting

Link: www.annaheldaudette.com

Artist Statement:

The remains of collapsed power have a strength, grace and sadness that is both eloquent and impenetrable. Transfigured by time and light, which render the ordinary extraordinary, they form a visual requiem for the industrial age."

Artist Bio:

Anna Held Audette was a distinguished teacher and artist whose paintings of industrial ruins and obsolete machinery chronicled the decline of American industry.

This studio will only be open on Saturday, October 21.

Lexi Axon

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://lexiaxon.com

Artist Statement:

Why are we mesmerized by power and by light? We meet the chaos of opposing traits with two qualities: immense optimism and strength, but also distraction and frailty. "The hand is the window on the mind." ~ Kant. Sculptures, etchings, paintings- physical and psychic and poetic objects: an autobiography of questions.

Artist Bio:

Lexi Axon’s first exhibitions in the 1980s New York East Village and Paris and Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton Long Island were attended by critic Maurice Poirier, a Clark Gable impersonator, Andy Warhol, Wynn Kramarsky, Kurt Vonnegut, and New York Times editors. MFA CUNY Hunter College in Painting during Robert Morris and Rosalind Krauss’s tenures

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.

Chris Barnard

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.chrisbarnard.com

Artist Statement:

My recent work examines how art and educational institutions perpetuate racial injustice. Certainly, this is in part the product of my attention to current events in and beyond the U.S., and my reflections on how the same spaces that welcomed me and inspired my creativity also actively and passively alienate, discourage—even dehumanize—many others.

Artist Bio:

Chris Barnard received his MFA from The University of Southern California (USC) and is currently assistant professor of art at Connecticut College. He has exhibited in solo and group shows in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and most recently in New Haven with Fred Giampietro Gallery. He and his partner live in New Haven.

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.

Wyatt Baum

Medium: Ceramics

Link: https://www.etsy.com/shop/wyattbaumpottery

Artist Statement:

I make pots that are meant to be used on a daily basis. I enjoy creating quiet, clean forms that are comfortable and inviting to the touch. The glazes used are simple and designed to complement the form.

Artist Bio:

Wyatt Baum studied ceramics as an undergraduate at Indiana University. He then apprenticed with Maishe Dickman at George Street Studio in New Haven. He lives with his wife and two children and 4 cats in Westville.

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.

Robert Bienstock

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: https://www.robertbienstock.com

Artist Statement:

My art explores lines. They parallel and each other. They build up patterns organically as they accumulate. The patterns compete and complement. They thicken and fragment and disintegrate and spew. I view this process as unveiling other-worldly structures and spaces.

Artist Bio:

Robert Bienstock is a Connecticut artist. He creates abstract ink drawings based on parallel lines. He uses both pen and brush, often on monotype or painted backgrounds. A Kehler Liddell Gallery member, he has shown his work at venues throughout Connecticut and New York.

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

Michael Bond

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.artistmichaelbond.com

Artist Statement:

I consider visual expression a form of spiritual communication. I strive to connect the spirit with natural influences in a balanced and harmonious fashion.

Artist Bio:

I am originally from the west coast, and relocated to CT five years ago. My work is found in many private collections throughout the US and also abroad. I am inspired by the natural beauty of Connecticut and incorporate nature themes in my work, from a spiritual perspective.

Michelle Bradford

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.michellebradfordart.com

Artist Statement:

My abstract paintings are inspired by the beauty of color, the joy that it brings me and a desire to put that out to the world. I work intuitively, allowing the paint to flow through the canvas creating shapes and pathways that reveal new possibilities for the direction of the piece.I strive to to create art that is both moving and easy to be with.

Artist Bio:

After graduating from the SF Academy of Art in 2001, I spent four years as a 3D character artist for video games. In 2004, life and love brought me to CT where I’ve been a commissioned portrait artist for over a decade. In the last 4 years, my lifelong passion for color has been my focus. I create custom abstract oil paintings for interior spaces.

Sarah J. Bratchell

Medium: Painting

Link:

Artist Statement:

Creating art means holding space for the sacred. I seek beauty without burden throughout my creative process. In jewelry design I transform discarded items into a wearable aesthetic and in drawing/painting I often use repurposed surfaces to intuitively conjure an image. I'm influenced by revolutionary movements, Hip Hop, spirituality & love.

Artist Bio:

As the owner of Bella Rev. Jewelry & Artworks Sarah “Skribe” Bratchell designs jewelry that offers beauty without burden. Each piece has been resurrected from discarded materials and transformed into wearable pieces of handcrafted art. Sarah’s body of work also includes paintings & drawings that are an extension of her intuitive creative process.

Rita Brieger

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.ritabrieger.com

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

I work primarily in acrylic paint on paper and canvas. Layers of myself are painted until the right colors, textures and emotions come together to reflect my unique spirit and personality.

JAY BRIGHT

Medium: Drawing

Link: http://artspacenh.org/artists/jay_bright

Artist Statement:

I love the possibilities of water soluble colored pencils, 300# Arches and 1000H graph paper to explore the beauty, irony, distress and humor of American flags encountered in the past three years. A work begins with a riveting photo and progresses through a variety of faint, dreamy, and/or bold drawings. Knowing when to stop is the hardest part.

Artist Bio:

I have degrees in architecture from Washington University and Yale and many classes with good teachers at CAW and GAC.
Painting and drawing are like breathing-sometimes as a relief from my profession of architecture and sometimes heightened by it. I have had some solo shows of my fauvist work, Hockney studies, East Rock Park & American flags.

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.

Alexis Brown

Medium: Printmaking

Link: http://alexisbrown-art.com

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

Animal illustrations, printmaking, pen and ink, and other.

Frank Bruckmann

Medium: Painting

Link: http://fbruckmann.com

Artist Statement:

I like to paint.

Artist Bio:

Plainfield, New York, Paris, Madrid, Cordoba, Paris, South Norwalk, New Haven.

Tanner Bryant

Medium: Photography

Link:

Artist Statement:

With a focus on visual structures and narrative, I am pursuing a career in Journalism and Filmmaking. My studies at Bennington College in Vermont, and Gateway Community College in New Haven, Conn. have brought history, drama, photography, video art, politics, and literature together in my interest in understanding social and aesthetic constructs.

Artist Bio:

I am a student at New Haven’s Gateway Community College, studying Journalism and Film, with a future interest in Law. In my time, I’ve traveled and worked across continents, with an endless thirst for history and nature. As cancer survivor, I appreciate the gift of living this life, and want to make use of my time to create works of social value.

Colin Burke

Medium: Photography

Link: http://www.colinburkestudio.com

Artist Statement:

Since 2008, I've been working with antique photographic processes exploring the elasticity of time, plasticity of memory, and the consistent rhythm of nature. I use hand-built pinhole cameras loaded with photopaper left in place for months, up to a full year. The long exposure images depict the static landscape and paths of the sun across the sky.

Artist Bio:

Colin Burke lives and works in Westville, Connecticut. He works with analog and alternative photographic processes exploring time and systems of transformation. Burke began his long exposure photography work in 2008.

Marc Burns

Medium: Other

Link:

Artist Statement:

Beauty's Beast

Artist Bio:

Engendered curious, taken with using sound and objects to examine and exalt in circumstance.
Stubborn, foolhardy.

Leigh Busby

Medium: Digital Art

Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/77958174@N07/

Artist Statement:

I see Art everywhere!

Artist Bio:

My name is Leigh Busby, I have been a resident of New Haven, CT for five years now, I moved here from Hackensack no where I grew up. I started painting four years ago on my iPad and been painting acrylics for only two years now and recently within the year began my photography. I have been published for my iPad art several times around the world .

Annette Bushman

Medium: Mixed Media

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

Artist Statement:

Sending a little piece of art through the mail gives me great pleasure! Please visit me at Erector Square, Building 8, Second Floor, Studio C. Thank you.

Artist Bio:

Annette Bushman is a paper artist who has been making one-of-a-kind cards and stationery for more than ten years. Her cards feature hand finish techniques and collage using hand-decorated and fine papers from all over the world.

Eskarlin Cabrera

Medium: Photography

Link: https://eskarlincabrera.wordpress.com

Artist Statement:

Eskarlin is an aspiring artist. As a hobby she enjoys shooting film and digital photography. Her goal is to capture moments that represent a meaningful yet mundane everyday life.

Artist Bio:

Eskarlin is a Dominican woman with an interest in photography. Eskarlin took film Photography courses at Gateway Community College, she graduated June 2011. Quickly, she realized that she wanted to pursue a career in Graphic Design at Southern Connecticut State University, where she graduated May 2015. Eskarlin reminisces developing her own photos.

Taja Caprice

Medium: Painting

Link:

Artist Statement:

I’ve always been drawn to storytelling; it’s as natural to me as breathing. To be able to transform one object into something entirely different is the ultimate story. Told in every stroke of the brush. In every line drawn by the pencil. In the colors and shapes transforming what was into what is. In every piece I create, I try to tell a story.

Artist Bio:

A lover of fantastical worlds, web slinging heroes and Chinese takeout, Taja Caprice seeks to convey her love of storytelling through contemporary, striking art that evokes a nostalgic sense of familiarity and challenges norms by highlighting characters and people of color. Her hope is to inspire everyone to ‘be their own hero’.

James “JC” Capuras

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.instagram.com/jcxarts

Artist Statement:

Everyone should be doing something they love. Find that thing... and be passionate about it. I'm very grateful that my love for the arts led me to be involved in this amazing community, and I look forward to what comes next.

Artist Bio:

I’m 1st generation born here New Haven with my family coming from the Philippines. My environment has always been rich in all areas of art and music. I pursued business in sales and marketing, eventually landing a career in digital advertising. I’m here to re-establish my love affair with art.

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.

Eileen Carey

Medium: Painting

Link:

Artist Statement:

Somewhere between an outward appearance and an inner existence lies a painting. My aim is to work with the visual elements while allowing the intangible elements to surface. It is through this struggle and process that a dialogue takes place and magically something is revealed that surprises me !

Artist Bio:

A painter

Leslie Carmin

Medium: Printmaking

Link: http://lesliecarmin.com

Artist Statement:

Americans, is a series of monoprints I created in response to current National Politics. I strip down the identity and anatomy of a face to simple human elements, working quickly and intuitively with ink. In this way I try to connect to my fellow Americans and our shared but unique hopes and fears to contemplate What is an American, exactly?

Artist Bio:

Leslie Carmin is an Artist and Illustrator working in New Haven. Her figurative work explores the contradiction between selfperception and the world.

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!

Dennis Carroll

Medium: Painting

Link: http://dennisccarroll.com

Artist Statement:

I work with clutter. My work depicts characters and objects in active, crowded groupings. Androgynous figures enact awkward, tender, or intimate scenes I have observed between people in real life, dreams, social media, or stories I have heard. Text, placed on an assortment of objects alludes to a story that is too abstracted to be fully understood.

Artist Bio:

I have been selling antiques, vintage clothes, jewelry, coins and more since the age of 8. I find great interest in uniqueness. This has always attracted me to the world of reselling. I am painting and working In Guilford. I find everyday an opportunity to make something. A day that I don’t make something was a waste of time.

Judie Cavanaugh

Medium: Printmaking

Link:

Artist Statement:

Printmaking is my passion! Add to that, collage, bookbinding and encaustic and you have my body of work. I am inspired by nature and my travels--Ireland, Barcelona and the Pacific Northwest as of late. My work is very abstract with lots of color and pattern and I work very intuitively.

Artist Bio:

I have been an art essentialist for over 20 years in the New Haven area and an artist all my life! I live on the Connecticut shoreline and exhibit in and around our state.

Taylor Chamberlain

Medium: Installation

Link: http://www.behance.net/taychamb

Artist Statement:

My work is not necessarily an accurate account of my childhood, rather a reconstruction of a memory. The pieces in this installation have been altered to symbolize the effects of illicit drugs on the mind. The tarnishing of the furniture then, mirrors the destruction of the nuclear family and serves to spread awareness about substance use disorder.

Artist Bio:

Taylor Chamberlain recently graduated from Albertus Magnus College where she received the 2017 Bruce Sinkey Award for Excellence in Art. Having earned a BA in both Art and Psychology, she attempts to use her craft to harmonize the two.

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.

Mariellen Chapdelaine

Medium: Mixed Media

Link:

Artist Statement:

Symbols can provide paths to states of consciousness. Travelling unused roads enhances our ability to understand experience in new ways and more importantly, illuminates the ground from which experience arises. Our senses lead both to and from knowledge; an individual chooses. Luckily, there is often time to change our mind when we are dead-ended

Artist Bio:

Self-trained artist

Jennifer Cherrington

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://jenniferraedesign.com

Artist Statement:

I have made a pastime of listening to humans tell their life stories. When I am able to hear what pleasures and what pains them, it is extremely moving and precious. My art revolves around these narratives (as well as my own) and are never confined to one medium.

Artist Bio:

Creative output is a daily exercise for Jennifer. When it doesn’t look like designing, or teaching, it often looks something like paper making, large paintings, wood sculptures, textile work, or mixed media.

David Chorney

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.davidchorney.com

Artist Statement:

I like to push myself. I find myself always exploring paths I'm not certain about. I hope this never changes.

Artist Bio:

I am a New haven bred and born self-taught artist, who only stands on the shoulders of every single artist whose art I’ve had the honor to experience. I usually work in the abstract, and constantly find myself exploring paths I’ve never journeyed before.

Wendy Chorney

Medium: Other

Link:

Artist Statement:

I've always admired, and have been inspired, by other's artistic talents. All of my art, which includes knitted scarves and jewelry, has been self-taught. How blessed I am to have found two avenues that offer me my Zen moments. I learn through observation, and will always strive to advance my work.

Artist Bio:

I’ve been a nurse for 42 years but always wanted to find an artistic release from my career. For both, my knitting and jewelry, I am a self-taught artist. I have found both to be wonderful outlets, and enjoy sharing them with others. The influence and encouragement I receive constantly pushes me towards new boundaries.

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.

Julia Coash

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.juliaacoash.com

Artist Statement:

My paintings are mixed media abstractions inspired by vines and the qualities of light that play across the surfaces of time worn walls. Veils of light and atmosphere are used to create a dialogue between solid marks and atmospheric dissolution of form. The use of pentimenti reveals the painting process through transparent layers of color.

Artist Bio:

Julia Coash is a painter and Professor of Art at Albertus Magnus College, where she is Co-chair of the Dept. of Art and Director of the Masters in Liberal Studies Program. She has taught at Bermuda College and the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Coash has exhibited her work in Bermuda, Paris, Cairo and the U.S.

Kieran Coleman

Medium: Other

Link:

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

Kieran Coleman is a mechanical engineer who brings structured thinking to his exploration of shape and light.

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…

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.

Jeanne Criscola

Medium: Textile

Link: http://www.jeannecriscola.net

Artist Statement:

This new series titled "Fractors" represents an intersection in my process of employing fractals and generative processes to recreate the recursive approach found in nature. Chaos and mash-up are utilized to realize new object surfaces.

Artist Bio:

Jeanne Criscola has built her professional reputation by integrating her deep experience as a designer, artist, and educator. She collaborates with individuals and with international organizations on projects that feature both arts and culture issues and social justice initiatives. She exhibits her art internationally and teaches Design at Central.

Nicole Croce

Medium: Photography

Link: www.NicoleCrocePhotography.com

Artist Statement:

My goal is to continue to search for and loose myself in the present moment; life is never not this moment

Artist Bio:

Fine art photographer based out of Trumbull Connecticut. Exploring the unkown, quaint places and beautiful light are what I’m drawn to.

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 close observation of my surroundings. I am fascinated with the materiality of color and light, and the mysteries of proportion and scale.

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.

Terry Dagradi

Medium: Photography

Link:

Artist Statement:

Making art is often a singular activity but I had an idea and invited artist/friends to collaborate. Come visit"Paths to Totality" an exhibition to celebrate what happens when a group of friends travel separately to the same destination to experience a life changing moment together.

Artist Bio:

Photographer, mother, curator and newly launched umbraphile. New Haven has been my creative sandbox for more than 30 years and it just keeps getting better.

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.

Leila Daw

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://www.LeilaDaw.com

Artist Statement:

I'm fascinated by: the underlying structure of landscape, the ways humans exist upon the surface of the land, the threat and excitement of geological phenomena, the archaeological uncovering of the hidden past, the notion of sacred and ritual sites, the exploration of communities interacting with environments, and terror for our planet's future!

Artist Bio:

Leila Daw, an independent artist with a studio in New Haven & Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, has works installed in public, corporate, and university spaces, on the land, in the sky, on the stage, and inside museums and galleries throughout the United States and internationally. She employs a wide variety of media.

Kathleen (Cathy) DeMeo

Medium: Printmaking

Link: http://www.kathleendemeo.com

Artist Statement:

Unpredictability and chance are part of my process - I let the work direct me with each pass through the press. My monotype subjects are imaginary landscapes and geometric abstractions incorporating rich texture and color through layering of ink and imagery. I strive for evocative, compelling compositions that personally resonate with viewers.

Artist Bio:

Kathleen DeMeo is a printmaker, painter and mixed-media artist. Her work appeared in major exhibitions including FootPrint International and the CT Academy of Fine Arts’ national juried show. Her monotypes have merited several “best in show” prizes among other awards, and her outdoor installations for Florence Griswold Museum gained wide attention.

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

Geoffrey Detrani

Medium: Painting

Link: www.geoffreydetrani.com

Artist Statement:

My imagery counter poses representations of dynamic natural and botanical forms with suggestions of static emblems of our built environment. I am interested in exploring the ideology of explosive (possibly retributive) disorder lying beyond the veil of order in our world.

Artist Bio:

Geoffrey Detrani is a visual artist and writer whose work has been exhibited in throughout the US and is in public and private collections.

Duo Dickinson

Medium: Photography

Link: http://www.duodickinson.com

Artist Statement:

Duo collaborated with ECA students to create a meandering photo/literary installation within the halls, stairwells and nooks of the Armory. Celebrating the historical relevance of abandoned buildings, while creating a walking tour for patrons to explore the entire building and it's artists who bring it back to life for CWOS.

Artist Bio:

Graduating from Cornell in 1977, Duo Dickinson opened his own architectural practice in 1987. His work has received more than 30 awards, including Architectural Record, Record House, Metropolitan Home Met Home Awards, and Connecticut and New York AIA design awards. He is the first non-member award-winner of the Society of America Registered Architects’ 2009 Special Service Award and the 2015 Sacred Landscape Award from the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture.

Anne Doris-Eisner

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.annedoriseisner.com

Artist Statement:

I am captivated by the stories of resilience and transformation that nature reveals as I work on living deeply despite the challenges and losses to be endured. Working in black acrylic on large sheets of white Arches hot press watercolor paper and using a variety of marking-making tools, I create potent drawings to draw forth powerful feelings.

Artist Bio:

Anne Doris-Eisner has exhibited in the Providence Art Club, New Britain Museum of Art, Westport Arts Center and Mystic Arts Center (CT), Beverly Arts Center of Chicago (IL), American Jewish University (CA), and The Women’s Museum (TX). Anne has attended residencies at the Atlin Art Centre (British Columbia) and the Vermont Studio Center.

Lydia Douglas

Medium: Photography

Link: http://www.lydiadouglas.smugmug.com

Artist Statement:

I love photography. I especially love the image that is created by natural light hitting celluloid, otherwise known as silver gelatin film. My goal in life is to use my film and photography to document the culture and contributions of people of African Ancestry that are honest.

Artist Bio:

Lydia Douglas is a fine art photographer and an independent filmmaker since 1997. She studied photography at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, receiving a BFA degree and received her MFA degree in film from Howard University. Nappy, her thesis film, is a pioneering film that directly addresses the “politics” of Black women’s hair.

Phil Duarte

Medium: Painting

Link: http://philduarte.weebly.com/

Artist Statement:

Textural rhythms built from drips, spills, splatters, brush strokes and smears are the scaffolding for color experiments. Though figurative, my work is about the paint not the topic. Reality is the impetus not the goal. Feel the paint, follow the color & express the struggle for belonging that is the path of all immigrant kids no matter how old

Artist Bio:

A Valley Boy back in CT after a few decades in the DC where where I majored in Studio Art & minored in Linguistics; taught ESOL & Art; played in , wrote for & recorded in bands; designed & built sets; done music for performance art & modern dance pieces, and incessantly painted and exhibited. Meditative & visceral, painting is my lifeblood

Steven Duchesne

Medium: Painting

Link: https://stevenduchesne.carbonmade.com

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

Through the use of oil paints and other mixed media Steven Duchesne creates vibrant paintings of nature and portraits.

André Eamiello

Medium: Drawing

Link: http://eamiello.com

Artist Statement:

Creating helps me interpret and relate to things I don't understand.

Artist Bio:

2006 BFA Painting from San Francisco Art Institute
2013 Chautauqua residency
2014 MFA Painting from Western Connecticut State University
2014 Hollows Brooklyn residency

Howard el-Yasin

Medium: Installation

Link: http://howard-elyasin.squarespace.com

Artist Statement:

My work engages everyday materials as a way to explore perceptions, and marginality.

Artist Bio:

Howard el-Yasin is a New Haven native and recent MFA recipient from MICA. He has exhibited locally and around the United States, and his work is in private collections.

Jennifer Van Elswyk

Medium: Printmaking

Link:

Artist Statement:

At CWOS she will show selections of her most recent silk screen and wood cut prints. Her reduction method woodcuts have been modified by color or composition to create unique monoprints. Jennifer finds her inspiration from the rich variety of nature. One can see her stop while on a walk to collect a leaf or flower that caught her eye.

Artist Bio:

Jennifer Van Elswyk is an artist, preschool teacher, and faculty member at Creative Arts Workshop. Jennifer began printmaking in 1992 at Wesleyan University. She studies at Creative Arts Workshop and earned a BS in Printmaking at SCSU. She lives in New Haven, CT with her husband and three children.

Sally Ann Endleman

Medium: ceramic

Link:

Artist Statement:

My work is all wheel thrown. I fire both oxidation and reduction. I have a studio in Milford .

Artist Bio:

I have been a potter since the sixties. I took a 30 year break and dtarted working in clay again three years ago.

Eric Epstein

Medium: Collage

Link: http://Epsteindesign.net

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

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

Daniel Eugene

Medium: Photography

Link: http://www.facebook.com/nhvdrag

Artist Statement:

My current project, #NHVdrag, is a multi-volume, photo-book project the intention of which is to create a comprehensive, printed document of the our present drag community in New Haven. I will be celebrating the release of Volume No.1, Partners Café, with an exhibition of select images from the book and live-performaces throughout the weekend.

Artist Bio:

Daniel Eugene is an artist designer, photographer, and poet from Bethany, CT currently working and living in the Westville Village neighborhood of New Haven, CT.

Junko Falcone

Medium: Painting

Link: http://Facebook.com/childofjune

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

Born and raised in Japan,I have been enjoying drawing, painting and being inspired by art in my entire life. Most of scenery I paint are from Connecticut shoreline area. I also love to paint still life.

John T Fallon

Medium: Painting

Link: http://johnfallonart.com

Artist Statement:

I have painted continuously for the last 45 years in a wide variety of styles and mediums. My primary focus has been abstract work of a constructivist nature, exploring color, symmetries and spatial illusion. When I paint, the form is simply the container for the process.

Artist Bio:

Atlanta College of Art, BFA 1977
Art Institute of Chicago, MFA (Painting) 1979
John Fallon’s work can be found in collections in San Diego, Chicago, New York and Connecticut.

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:

Zeph Farmby

Medium: Painting

Link: http://zephfarmby.com/

Artist Statement:

Zeph Farmby is currently Artspace's Artist in Residence and will be opening his studio at 50 Orange St during Private Studio Weekend

Artist Bio:

Born and raised in Chicago, Zeph Farmby is a multi-disciplined artist and art activist.  He started his career as a graffiti artist, covering the city of Chicago with his visions.  His world-renowned “Eat The Rich” painting, vast murals, teachings, and art on apparel extends his creativity to all walks of life; the message is usually anti-greed, anti-capitalism and/or anti-establishment focused.

Matthew J. Feiner

Medium: Installation

Link: www.matthewjfeiner.com

Artist Statement:

If I wanted to write about art I would've been a writer . -MJF

Artist Bio:

Mr.Feiner will be showing during citywide open studios the installation “hard to find 2015” a collection of 365 separate collages combined to form one large inspirational piece.

Joe Fekieta

Medium: Sculpture

Link: www.addalinedesign.com

Artist Statement:

I like to make art. Making art is fun. Sometimes I make something good and people say "Oooh, that's good!" Then I want to make more art that criticizes and comments on the sick and twisted nature of our culture.

Artist Bio:

My installation in room 220C is called “Buried Alive”. The centerpiece is a shopping cart full of plastic garbage that is smothering a live tree with its roots sticking out from the sides and the root-tips encased in tiny ceramic pots. The installation purpose is to focus on the growing human-caused environmental catastrophe of plastic garbage.

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.

Joan Fitzsimmons

Medium: Photography

Link: www.joanfitzsimmons.com

Artist Statement:

Joan Fitzsimmons’ work examines the complexities of the quotidian in photographic explorations. She constructs imagery for the camera and photograms. The scale varies from intimate inkjet prints to large gelatin silver collages."Small & Large Thoughts" references other media, but also reclaims simple artifacts of home as material for art-making.

Artist Bio:

Joan Fitzsimmons has exhibited nationally, internationally and online. In 2015 she had a solo show at The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA. Recent group exhibitions include, “Three Decades of Change Reunion Exhibit” Artspace, New Haven. Fitzsimmons’ work is in various permanent and private collections, as well as curated flatfiles.

Brian Flinn

Medium: Digital Art

Link: http://www.brianflinn.com

Artist Statement:

I use fragments and debris from daily encounters in a variety of combinations to investigate ideas and concepts. Within these combinations rests the incursions and decisions of a certain segment of time.

Artist Bio:

Brian Flinn is a mixed media and digital artist from Derby, CT whose work explores issues of paradox and fragments of time. His recent work explores themes of loss and memory through texture, shape and symbolism.

Heather Flinn

Medium: Printmaking

Link: http://heather-flinn.squarespace.com/

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

Heather studied fine arts with a focus in printmaking at the University of Hartford for four and a half years. She has done graphic design work for Milford Living Magazine, University of Hartford’s LEX Society, and other local organizations.

M Flower

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.facebook.com/martha.ligos

Artist Statement:

M Flower enjoys the challenge of exploring the essence of thought, time and existence as it relates to reality, mortality and the human conscience. This is achieved through the tools of brilliant colors, sculptural elements and a dash of humor. This year M Flower considers the color, shape and motion of thought.

Artist Bio:

M Flower has a background in French, Fashion and Art and has studied at Pratt, URI and BU.

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.

Oi Fortin

Medium: Printmaking

Link: www.oifortin.com

Artist Statement:

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. Melody Beattie

Artist Bio:

Oi Fortin is an abstract expressionist printmaker; her monotypes have a meditative quality, subtle textures and present vivid narratives.

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.

Kathryn Frund

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://www.kathrynfrund.com

Artist Statement:

My assemblages/installations focus on the relationship between the natural world and humanity. Because of a commitment to reducing my environmental footprint, the work heavily relies on post-consumer waste. This material functions as both muse and raw matter for the production of art making. I also address the notion of transcendence in my work.

Artist Bio:

Kathryn received her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art. She has exhibited in the US and abroad including shows at HVCCA, NY, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, NY and Chase Young Gallery, Boston. Her work has been reviewed in ARTnews, Art New England, The New York Times, The Boston Globe and featured in New American Paintings Magazine.

Howard Fussiner

Medium: Painting

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

Artist Statement:

Howard Fussiner painted all over the world, but was most known for his landscape paintings of southeastern Maine.

Artist Bio:

HOWARD FUSSINER (1923-2006) studied at the Art Students League, The Hans Hofmann School, Cooper Union and New York University. He taught Art at SCSU for twenty-eight years. His paintings are in the collections of the Bruce Museum, The Yale Art Gallery and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

Maura Galante

Medium: Printmaking

Link: http://www.mauragalante.com

Artist Statement:

Although I like to experiment with a variety of media, I consider myself first and foremost a printmaker. I am fascinated by the various tools, the smell of the inks and the machinery of the press. I continue to play with color, pattern and texture, and incorporate these elements into my explorations of the world around me.

Artist Bio:

In love with the process of printmaking, Maura Galante is a long time artist and art educator of both children and adults. She has been active in various arts organizations in the New Haven community for over 20 years, and exhibits locally and regionally.

Eric Gallant

Medium: Photography

Link:

Artist Statement:

They say we should live our life in the moment and our lives are made up of millions of these moments. Over the last two years as I wander New Haven I have had some incredible moments and would like to share with the world. I hope you enjoy my moments

Artist Bio:

I am finding it’s never too late to find the artist in you. I have always enjoyed taking photos however in the last two years I have found myself and my eye and my soul. I live and work in New Haven and enjoy all the interesting corners and crevices in the city,

CITY GALLERY

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://www.city-gallery.org

Artist Statement:

City Gallery as a collective seeks to promote creative interaction among artists and the public and contributes to New Haven as a vibrant regional center for the arts. Our 16 members represent some of Connecticut's finest artists, many of whom have earned numerous awards for their work

Artist Bio:

City Gallery celebrates its 14th year at 994 State Street, New Haven, as an artist run gallery featuring contemporary art. Exhibitions of painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, paper and fiber arts and other mixed media rotate monthly. Our mission is to promote creative interactions among artists and the public.

Kehler Liddell Gallery

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://www.kehlerliddellgallery.com

Artist Statement:

Our mission is to represent, present, promote and sell work of local contemporary artists. As champions of free speech, we do not censor our artists' work or written statements. We are dedicated to representing critical perspectives that challenge and illuminate culture and enrich our aesthetic experience. 6 of our artists will be on site for CWOS.

Artist Bio:

Founded in 2003, Kehler Liddell Gallery (KLG) is a cooperative gallery collectively operated by member artists. Currently representing 20 of the area’s most notable emerging and established mid-career professionals, our artists have all been juried into membership. Monthly exhibitions are highlighted by special programs and events.

Molly Gambardella

Medium: Sculpture

Link: http://mollygambardella.com

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

Molly Gambardella is an up-and-coming American artist who works in screen printing, 2D & 3D media.
Gambardella’s work (most notably, “Color Blind”) was shared, celebrated and commissioned by private clients from around the world. She received her BFA at Paier College of Art and currently lives and works as a freelance artist in CT.

Peter Gardner

Medium: Painting

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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.

William Geleneau

Medium: Ceramics

Link: http://www.studiogeleneau.com

Artist Statement:

My work uses elements from the wild to help restore and maintain a connection with nature that modern culture tends to forget. References to the world we inhabit are echoed in the forms and surfaces of works both sculptural and functional with wheel-thrown & hand built forms drawing inspiration from places unspoiled by the human hand.

Artist Bio:

William Geleneau is a CT born & bred ceramic artist inspired by landscape & environment. After many years of exploring and creating works self-taught and academically trained in illustration, photograhy, & various other mediums he finally found his home in ceramics in 2012. Now honing his craft looking for his signature style in a medium eons old.

edwin gendron

Medium: Photography

Link: http://www.edgendron.com

Artist Statement:

If you could be the star of your own film, with history as your script, what character would you play? Playing Soldier follows the lives of WWII reenactors and would-be time travelers. But the results get complicated when people of different backgrounds don military uniforms and try to live through someone else’s war.

Artist Bio:

​Ed Gendron currently resides in New Haven, CT. although he grew up in the southern U.S.
Most recently, he’s been documenting WWII reenactors throughout the U.S., culminating in a series of photographs and a feature length documentary film called Playing Soldier (2017).
You can follow the film at: http://www.playingsoldierthemovie.com

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.

Sergei Gerasimenko

Medium: Furniture

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Artist Statement:

Always intrigued by endless possibilities of design.

Artist Bio:

Originally from Russia with the background building sets in the Theatre,currently Sergei lives and works in his studio in Westville.
Most of his work is for private clients building custom cabinetry.

Gabriela Gigola

Medium: Painting

Link: https://gigolart.com

Artist Statement:

Throughout my life people have always told me that art is just a hobby. Most days my heart would melt and sink slowly. It was in this time of despair that the canvas was always there. Not only did it absorb my tears, it would soak in my melted heart and create a picture of my vast emotions. It was this portrayal of inner self that we call "art."

Artist Bio:

“It ain’t about how hard yah hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward” -Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) These words will forever echo throughout my head, and slither down my paintbrush into my artwork. I always say how I didn’t choose the arts, the arts chose me, it has always been something I just HAVE to do.

Craig Gilbert

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://www.thatcraigguy.com

Artist Statement:

Craig's artwork is interpreted as whatever the viewer sees it as. Tiny bubbles in beer, interplanetary star clusters, fractals, the spiritual connection between everything, a puddle of spit, or microscopic cell division; each definition is correct. Seen as both "tense" or "obsessive" and "soothing" or "gentle", Craig's work is all labeled FLOW.

Artist Bio:

Craig is a New Haven area artist who shows his artwork throughout the state.
A participant in CWOS for many years, Craig enjoys gearing up and making new art for the CWOS weekend, creating art throughout the year, and eating Mexican food.

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.

Jacquelyn Gleisner

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.jacquelyngleisner.com

Artist Statement:

I am interested in patterns, surface design, and decoration. The impulse to decorate and embellish is present in ancient textiles and other forms of handicraft. Yet throughout history, cultural perceptions of ornament, color, and decoration have varied. My installations and paintings reflect and respond to cultural responses of these traditions.

Artist Bio:

Jacquelyn Gleisner holds an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA with honors from Boston University. Jacquelyn was awarded a Fulbright grant to Finland in 2010, and she participated in an artist’s exchange in Botswana through the Art in Embassies Program in 2015. She works as a Practitioner in Residence at the University of New Haven.

Rob Goldman

Medium: Photography

Link: http://rgoldman.com

Artist Statement:

I LOVE PEOPLE! The more intimate, trusting, open, vulnerable, accessible, electric, revealing the relationship, the better. Photographic portraiture offers me a way in. Deep in. It’s beyond satisfying when my subject offers a glimpse inside the recesses of his/her tender soul, and then I get to share evidence of that mystical beauty with the world.

Artist Bio:

Rob Goldman is a photographer, educator, author and speaker. His public projectscreated in partnership with universities, museums, nonprofits and corporationsempower youth while building community. His photographs have been celebrated in galleries, national magazines & major corporations including Cosmopolitan, Time, Google, Club Med & Microsoft.

Mike Golschneider

Medium: Painting

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

Artist Statement:

Mike Golschneider’s work examines the intersection of human consumption and the natural environment using paint, found objects, and his own over inflated sense of self-importance. His 2017 series, “Local Flora”, explores Connecticut parks and neighborhoods through lens the litter and creatures found there.

Artist Bio:

Mike Golschneider paints all over New England because no one has stopped him yet. He graduated from CCSU in ‘08 with a focus in Mural/Painting/Chicanery. His work transcends genres while reinventing them. One time he disinvented one. That was a weird weekend. He enjoys spending time with his wife/son and writing short biographies about himself.

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.

Debbie Greco

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.dgrecoart.com

Artist Statement:

The serenity, seasonal changes in color and interplay of light on the landscape are images I want to give life to on paper. I love working in pastel because I can modulate the intensity of color and texture by blending subtle layers of colors to contrast with more definitive marks to create the fleeting effect of light and mood.

Artist Bio:

BFA, Syracuse University/Continuing workshops with the Art Students League, Guilford Art Center and private studios

Amir Green

Medium: Painting

Link:

Artist Statement:

After listening to an album called, "All Amerikkkan Bad Ass," created by Joey Badass. I started reading some American history and there were articles & stories that showed me the lies I was taught in school and it was upsetting. Using acrylic and spray paint, I made an American flag and a blackface type character with a George Washington wig.

Artist Bio:

My name is Jarrell Brantley but I prefer the name Amir Green. I’m 19 years old and I had a gift for the arts since I was 4. Music and cartoons are my influences and pop culture & society issues is my fuel. I want to learn and perform new art styles because it feels like the more I learn about art the more I learn about myself.

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.

Bob Gregson

Medium: Installation

Link: http://www.bobgregson.com

Artist Statement:

My work is a hinge between artist and audience.

Artist Bio:

Bob Gregson has a BFA from Hartford Art School and an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. His solo shows include “Off Kilter,” Five Points Gallery in Torrington and “Out of Order,” Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven. In 2014, the New Britain Museum of American Art presented “Space to Maneuver.” Collections include the New Britain Museum.

Dan Gries

Medium: Digital Art

Link: http://dangries.com

Artist Statement:

I write computer code to produce 2D prints, 3D printed objects, animations, and physical installations, and my background in mathematics often informs my work. I am particularly fascinated by imperfection and irregularity in shape, color, and flow, and the human connection to this type of imperfection.

Artist Bio:

I live and work in New Haven CT, teach mathematics and computer science at Hopkins School, and create art in my spare time. I have a Ph.D. in mathematics from Ohio State and have taught at both the college and secondary levels. Computer programming came to me outside of my formal education, and has become a means for my creative expression.

Josh Griffen

Medium: Painting

Link:

Artist Statement:

Josh will be a featured artist at the Bregamos Community Theatre during the Erector Square Weekend- sponsored by Bregamos Community Theatre.

Artist Bio:

For all of Griffin’s demonstrated skill (he uses no projection, stencils or grids), the artist credits not himself, but his ongoing challenge in facing down a pressing sense of doubt: “When people ask me how I do this, I always tell them that,‘Doubt did it’—doubt in myself, and sometimes that others doubt me.”

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.

Stephen Grossman

Medium: Drawing

Link: http://www.sgrossman.net

Artist Statement:

Drawing is an alternate form of language, perhaps the root of language. For me the act of drawing is both idiosyncratic and analytic. The experience of looking at art is inherently incomplete – to be filled in over time, hopefully a lifetime.

Artist Bio:

Stephen Grossman makes drawings and paintings, primarily in ink, charcoal, gouache or oil. He has in the past made site specific drawings and sculpture for interior and outdoor public venues, his work has been exhibited and published regionally.

Ashley Guerrera

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://instagram.com/amguerreraart

Artist Statement:

Imaginary sea organisms, psychedelic fungi, and surreal creatures these are the creations found in my multi-media body of drawings, paintings, and sculptures. My love of found materials such as feathers, string, cloth, wax, hot glue, and gems, has helped me transform these ordinary substances into fantastical forms.

Artist Bio:

Ashley Guerrera is a 23 year old surreal artist. Her artwork is strongly influenced by psychedelic fungi, animals, spirituality, and various cultures. Ashley has her BFA in Art Therapy, and currently is a graduate student in her second year in the Masters of Art Therapy and Counseling program at Albertus Magnus College.

Sarah Gustafson

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://SarahGustafson.com

Artist Statement:

In my work I interchange patterns, structures, inter-playing the relationship between the natural and the industrial world. Working spontaneously to create the surfaces, I try to develop a dialog between the separate elements, using color texture and pattern.

Artist Bio:

Sarah Gustafson has a BFA from the University of Michigan and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She taught printmaking at Creative Arts Workshop and at the Guilford Arts Center. She has work at Smilow Hospital and Yale. She has exhibited at the National Children’s Hospital in DC. Sarah lives in Deep River with her husband and two daughters.

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.

Barbara Harder

Medium: Printmaking

Link: http://www.barbaraharder.com

Artist Statement:

Excavate surface. Discover space. Interpret natural forms. Layers of translucence. Jolts of color. Eliminate the extraneous. Find the essential.

Artist Bio:

Quinnipiac University Art Professor. Creative Arts Workshop Head of Printmaking Department Head. Lecturer Yale Art Gallery & Yale Center for British Art. Visiting Artist at Connecticut College, Fairfield University, Center for Contemporary Printmaking. Master Printer. Curator. Private, corporate and museum collections. Exhibits internationally.

Sidney Harris

Medium: Drawing

Link: http://www.sciencecartoonsplus.com

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

I’ll be showing:
Cartoons (prints) of some of my drawings from The New Yorker, American Scientist, National Lampoon, Playboy, Architectural Record and other periodicals.
On-the-spot drawings of scenes in New Haven – mostly restaurants.
Framed pages from the Illustrated London News from 1845-1889 – including engravings of
the Afghan War (1879)

Louise Harter

Medium: Ceramics

Link:

Artist Statement:

My focus for many years has been creating sturdy and soothing pottery that will provide an understated accompaniment to delicious meals. I make a wide variety of forms from lemon juicers to teapots. My most recent work focuses on hand-built mountain forms and the quest for safety on higher ground.

Artist Bio:

Louise Harter has maintained a studio in Bethany, CT since 1998. She makes wood-fired table ware: plates, bowls, serving pieces, jars, and many varied forms for kitchen use. She has taught at Creative Arts Workshop since 2000. Her new work focuses on earthenware pieces for the garden and sprouting seeds.

Rachel Hellerich

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.rachelhellerich.com

Artist Statement:

My work is based on geometric abstraction- the relationship between pattern and spatial shifts. Patterns have been the vehicle for me to expand on challenging linear perspectives while creating illusionary spaces. In the creation of my work, in a representational and material sense, I approach painting more as a sculptor.

Artist Bio:

Rachel Hellerich has been focused on painting for the last 12 years. She is inspired by architecture, science fiction film, textile design and variations in natural phenomena. Her work can be found in many private collections both regionally and internationally and has been showing with George Billis Gallery since 2015.

Stephen Henderson

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: stephenbhenderson.com

Artist Statement:

I have been an artist for many years and an arts educator for over 25 years. I tell my students that art is made by intellectual dreamers. Be smart, think your way through. Move quietly or claw into your work. Study your world complete or imagine other new lives or spectacular worlds. But be you. Dance to your own tune. Thus do I make my own art.

Artist Bio:

I have had long careers as both an artist and arts educator:
BFA from the Maryland Institute, Collage of Art in 1986MFA from the University of Cincinnati in 1989
Professor at Quinnipiac University; Director of Visual Arts Program
Current obsession: Still- life in watercolor and mixed media: collages and non-objective works on paper.

Ruby Gonzalez Hernandez

Medium: Photography

Link: http://www.Rubygonzalezhernandez.com

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

Ruby Gonzalez Hernandez is an interdisciplinary artist based in New Haven, CT. She received formal training from Educational Center For The Arts, and practices in drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, video, digital and traditional photography. Her concept based work primarily focuses on processing events and experiences she is unable to.

Debbie Hesse

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://www.debbiehesse.com

Artist Statement:

My wall constructions, made from Plexiglas and adhesive color gels, explore the complex interaction of color, transparency, reflectivity and opacity. Inspired by underwater life, forms are reconfigured into map-like constructions that evoke meditative spaces both specific and universal.

Artist Bio:

Debbie Hesse is an artist, curator, educator and activist who recently received a REGI grant from the Connecticut Office of the Arts with the National Endowment of the Arts, an International Residency at Hongti Art Center, South Korea, Rhode Island & Connecticut Visual Artist Sea Grant Awards and Weir Farm National Trust Artist Residency.

Lisa Hess Hesselgrave

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.lisahesselgrave.com

Artist Statement:

Three subjects compete for my attention: the atmospheric landscape as an abstraction of form and color; the figure as a depiction of sensual form and line; and the narrative that occurs when the painted figure enters the painted place. While exploring new materials, I try to maintain a disciplined and refined approach to drawing, color, and design.

Artist Bio:

Hess Hesselgrave has an MFA from the Yale School of Art and a BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Hesselgrave has exhibited widely throughout the greater Northeast and teaches at Gateway Community College in New Haven. The artist experiments with materials and content while maintaining a disciplined approach to craft.

Karen Hibbs

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://hibbsartglass.com

Artist Statement:

I produce compositions of kiln formed and flat glass with sculpted metals... often with inclusions of fossils and minerals.

Artist Bio:

Glass artist 45 years,
Erector Square 32 years

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.

Willie Hoffman

Medium: Furniture

Link: www.playablestudio.com

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

Willie is a woodworker and furniture maker residing in New Haven

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

Allison Irene Hornak

Medium: Other

Link: http://allisonirenehornak.com

Artist Statement:

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Artist Bio:

As a student docent at the Aldrich Museum i was exposed to alternate ways of making. i have worked in the Performing Arts Department at Mass MoCA and as the founder of MINE ART! Gallery. i have done residencies with the Rocky Neck Art Colony and Hartford Art School’s Nomad9. i have a BFA from Montserrat College and am an MFA candidate at SAIC.

Craig Houghton

Medium: Drawing

Link: http://www.craighoughton.com

Artist Statement:

I draw and paint simply because I love to do so. Its how I process the world around me, express myself, procrastinate, and generally prefer to pass the time. Art has been a serious part of my daily experience for about fifteen years. Sometimes I have work to show for it, but I create for the act of creation itself, the journey not the destination.

Artist Bio:

Artist and and author available for portrait commissions and illustration projects. Craig’s work may be found on nationally distributed packaging, and he is a crowned user with an enthusiastic following on the social media platform Musical.ly, where he is well-known for live-streaming his drawings.

Donald Houston

Medium: Painting

Link: http://Www.don-Houston.com

Artist Statement:

I paint with passion and try to remain true to the image in my head. But if the brush takes me on a voyage, I must obey the brush. I often find myself painting idyllic ocean scenes, that may or may not sell. Meanwhile the market craves painted nudes!

Artist Bio:

Don Houston is a self taught artist currently working in New Haven. He has always loved the sea, and after working on ships, loves to paint the sea as he saw it.

DJOULIA HOUZET

Medium: Collage

Link: http://www.peinturesdjouliah.jimdo.com

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

Djoulia is an artist from Grenoble, France. She makes intricate painted collages that shimmer and change with the light. Her favorite color- blue- is used to evoke water, the universe and internal spaces. Her work is entirely hand-cut and is both obsessive and meditative, and offers her a way of finding the “moi intérieur”.

Ellen Hoverkamp

Medium: Photography

Link: http://www.myneighborsgarden.com

Artist Statement:

My photographic compositions are informed and inspired by Botanical Illustration, Still Life, Sculpture, Collections, Mosaics, Garden and Floral Design. The general mission of my work is to bring attention to the exquisite beauty present in our natural world.

Artist Bio:

I have been using a flatbed scanner as a camera to photograph plants and natural objects for 20 years. My image on the directory wall, made in August, 2017, was composed mosaic style on the scanner’s glass. The theme of this photograph is finding joy in the beauty of nature and the necessity of play at every age.

Kat Hyatt

Medium: Painting

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

Artist Statement:

My art is just like real life, just with 100% more mermaids.

Artist Bio:

Kat Hyatt is a New Haven based illustrator specializing in acrylic and gouache painting. She is also known for dabbling in digital painting, watercolor and jewelry making. Kat’s favorite subjects include fantasy scenes, pin-up cheesecake art, landscapes and pet portraiture.

Eric Iannucci

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://famousartistforhire.blogspot.com/

Artist Statement:

Eric Iannucci makes art from objects he finds in the material world...have simultaneous existences in the symbolic world...it is important for the artist to use care in his or her juxtaposition of such objects for all of the tediously placed molecules of our reality may be in dire peril based on their actions. This fact is not lost on Eric Iannucci

Artist Bio:

Connecticut based artist- attended Parsons School of Design – Multimedia, assemblage, ceramics, textiles and more.

Southern CT Polymer Clay Guild, Inc.

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://www.scpcg.org

Artist Statement:

The Southern Connecticut Polymer Clay Guild, Inc. is celebrating our 20 year Anniversary. We are an encouraging, fun loving, creative group. We explore the unique properties of the polymer clay material. Mixing it up with other materials. Pushing its boundaries. Learning from each other. Enjoying what we do. Welcoming others to come play!

Artist Bio:

Members of the Southern CT Polymer Guild, Inc. will be displaying their work. We have collaborated on a mirror frame that incorporates Faux Veneers in keeping with the “fiction” part of the theme for CWOS.
Come visit our space in the Armory to see how diverse Polymer Clay is.
It’s not just the material, it’s the artist’s vision and creativity.

Mary Janacek

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://himarymelissa.tumblr.com/

Artist Statement:

Investigating ideas of object recognition, I cut into familiar pads of paper in a way to make them, at first sight, unrecognizable. On closer inspection, these images reveal themselves: a clouds or murky water made of watercolor washes, graph paper, colored paper, and a sketchbook.

Artist Bio:

Mary Janacek received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, CA, and her MFA from California Institute for the Arts in Los Angeles, CA. She has exhibited work nationally, in spaces such as Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY, The Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, and Fort Works Art, Fort

N Jewell

Medium: Other

Link:

Artist Statement:

what is there to say 
for the light 
of last morning 
when cast in the light 
of this morning: the usual rehashing of events. we fell asleep with the microphone on.

Artist Bio:

N Jewell is making poetry mixing pastoral and commercial textures to examine where the lyric tradition breaks down into silence, repetition, cliche, and other language materials, in a durational poem since 2015. Their work can be found in shabby doll house, peach magazine, ferrofluid, and alien mouth.

Keith Johnson

Medium: Photography

Link: http://www.keithjohnsonphotographs.com

Artist Statement:

Photography is a revealing, recording visual art. I love the dialog with a body of work. I have been working with the extended form of presentation for about ten years and haven't found all the answers yet so I keep looking. Come to see my work Saturday Oct 21 ar 220 Dessa Drive, Hamden 10:00-5:00. Clotheline art available by the pound or sq ft.

Artist Bio:

RISD MFA, 40+ Solo shows, National and International exhibits, five residencies, two CT Artist fellowships, 20 years teaching collegiate photography, multiple publications.

Studied with Aaron Siskind, Harry Callahan, Nathan Lyons, multiple collections.

Aude Jomini

Medium: Installation

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

Artist Statement:

For CWOS '17, Aude Jomini's "Ceiling Meadow", shown at NoPop in 2016, will be reinstalled at Erector Square, to form the site for a collaborative & site-specific project with artist Chen Reichert. The month-long residency will allow the artists to re-imagine and portray New Haven and its inhabitants as an inverted landscape in the studio' ceiling.

Artist Bio:

Aude Jomini ( born 1979) holds a BFA from RISD (Painting 2001) and M-ARCH from Yale School of Architecture (2010).
She works in New Haven, at Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. She is a Swiss and American artist and designer, interested in collaborative art practice and cross-disciplinary projects that can foster community.

Jacqueline Jones

Medium: Painting

Link: www.jacquelinejones.com

Artist Statement:

“My oils are created on location as an expression of emotion manifested through the beauty of the landscape. A deep desire to partake in a dialogue with nature and a quest to infuse a moment of truth within the canvas is why I paint. It strive to imbue my work with the spirit of nature created in communion with the wind and sunlight itself".

Artist Bio:

Jackie’s landscape paintings capture fleeting moments with spontaneity and vigor as she works from life, in the open air. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Painting from the Lyme Academy College of Fine Art and is the recipient of numerous awards. Her memberships include theAmerican Artist Professional League and the Salmagundi Club

Katie Jurkiewicz

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.katiejurkiewicz.com

Artist Statement:

For City-Wide Open Studios 2017 I will be presenting a series of work from time spent in Menton, France entitled "Lemons & Helicopters". This exhibition will include my signature large scale unstretched canvas landscape paintings, pen and ink sketches and crayon drawings.

Artist Bio:

Katie Jurkiewicz is a painter from New Britain, CT. You may know her from her day job as Artspace’s PR Coordinator. She also does freelance design work, has co-written a horror movie about a Yeti, a comic strip about a T-Rex that loves language, and illustrated a kids book about the hiccups. Her dream job is to be a professional gambler.

Jean A. Kandalaft

Medium: Painting

Link: http://jeanalexandrekandalaft.com/index.html

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

Studies at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Rouen, France
Masters School of Architecture, Montreal, Canada

Nancy Karpel

Medium: scuplture

Link: http://www.nancykarpeljewelry.com

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

Professional jewelry artist/designer more than 40 years in New Haven. Exhibited nationally and internationally, published in several magazines, newspapers, books. Works in collections of Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and the White House in Washington DC.
Teaches jewelry workshops locally at a Guilford Art Center, Guilford CT.

Kyle Kearson

Medium: Sculpture

Link: http://www.kylekearson.com

Artist Statement:

My work revolves around the experience of human/object interaction with sculpture that contains meaning within its material form. Often holding symbolic presence, each work is deeply connected to human understanding. Processing emotions, responding to the world and provoking thought through tactile forms.

Artist Bio:

Kyle Kearson is a contemporary artist born and raised in New Haven, CT. He holds a BFA in sculpture/ceramics from the University of Connecticut. His artistic practice consists of conceptual sculpture with objects that highlight materiality and utilize symbolism to reflect on our social climate.

Michael Kellner

Medium: Painting

Link: http://michaelrkellner.com/

Artist Statement:

I think the best art is uncanny. It gets your attention the first time you see it, but reveals more when you come back to it. My most recent work is done with CNC carved wood, in the form of small shrines.

Artist Bio:

Studied art at the California College of Arts and Crafts; The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy. Worked to create security holograms for passports, drivers licenses, etc. for 25 years. Recently moved to Connecticut to apply what I’ve learned in my own work.

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.

Toto Kisaku

Medium: Installation

Link: http://www.kmutheater.net

Artist Statement:

Toto offers a way to go beyond the four walls of a performance space to expose the hidden truths. This live installation is inspired by his latest play Requiem For An Electric Chair which being produced in New Haven to debut in 2018. The installation plays with the tensions of shadow, power, and the dis-ease of displacement.

Artist Bio:

Toto is originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He studied Drama in the National Institute of Arts in Kinshasa. As a refugee since December 2015, he is exploring themes of “identity” and redefining his artistic expression based on the drama that his country of origin is experiencing as well as the country which has welcomed him.

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.

Karen Klugman

Medium: Photography

Link: http://www.karenklugman.com

Artist Statement:

The "Nature and Plastic" series captures scenes that have been created over a period of time as natural elements have aged and man-made objects have been subjected the distresses of nature.

Artist Bio:

Karen Klugman photographs and writes about the interaction of social issues and photography. She has co-authored and photographed for two cultural studies books: “Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World” and “Strip Cultures: Finding America in Las Vegas.” Her photographs are in several collections, including MOMA.

Nikki Korth

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://NikkiKorthArt.com

Artist Statement:

Trees and water are recurring images that show up in her art. As a social worker, Nikki uses art to help her client’s process their struggles with addiction and express their inner selves. Nikki hopes that you enjoy her art and invites you to view her website where some of her larger pieces can be viewed, NikkiKorthArt.com.

Artist Bio:

Nikki Korth was born in Detroit, MI and has been living in Connecticut for thirteen years. Much of her art is inspired by the bounty of natural beauty that Connecticut holds. Nikki works in encaustics. This is an art form where beeswax is melted with resin, and pigment to make a liquid that can be painted in layers and then fused with fire.

Sheldon Krevit

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.sheldonkrevit.com

Artist Statement:

I’m interested in essence, in that which is timeless, the micro and macro, the organic continuum that is the cosmos. Creating, for me, is a kind of meditation involving my attention to the present, to the act of painting or drawing.

Artist Bio:

Since graduation from of The Philadelphia College of Art (UArts) and The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in the mid 1970s, my work has been exhibited in numerous curated and juried shows, and is represented in public, private and corporate collections. I’m a native of New Haven and recently returned to CT after ten years in Santa Fe, NM.

Kim Krivensky

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.paiercollegeofart.edu/

Artist Statement:

I am an illustrator who works in a variety of different mediums, primarily watercolor. I enjoy the transparency and luminosity of watercolors that I use to create my whimsical illustrations

Artist Bio:

Kim Krivensky is a fine artist and illustrator currently studying at Paier College of Art. She is continually experimenting with various mediums and styles.

Abbie Kundishora

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.abbiekundishora.com/

Artist Statement:

My works are expressionist depictions of people. I am intrigued by body language and unintentional communication – how gesture, posture, and, pose can inform us of a persons’ inner attitude. People watching and strangers inspire small-scale paintings while models depicted in specific, often symbolic, environments are the subject of larger narrative

Artist Bio:

Abbie Kundishora is a British painter who moved to New Haven in 2011. She graduated from SOAS, University of London in 2010 and obtained a Post Baccalaureate in Painting from Lyme Academy College of Fine Art in 2015. Abbie now works as a Conservation Assistant at the Yale Center for British Art and is an organizer for Nasty Women CT.

William Kutschinski

Medium: Photography

Link: http://www.thesmokinggirl.com

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

Photography… A counter culture passion project…

Constance LaPalombara

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.constancelapalombara.com

Artist Statement:

As a painter my interest is focused on the physical world--trees, rocks, clouds, bluidings, chairs, objects--all of it. The challenge is to understand the color light and in particular the color of light in shadow.

Artist Bio:

A landscape and still life painter, I work from direct observation. The landscapes focus on urban New Haven and coastal Maine. I have also been fortunate enough to paint in Italy. Among the many painters I admire and who have influenced my work, the standouts are Edward Hopper, Corot and Giorgio Morandi.

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.”

Mary Lesser

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.marylesser.com

Artist Statement:

My art school training was as a painter. However, I also do printmaking. My work is mainly "abstracted " I figurative, depicting both people and landscapes. In printmaking I often combine drawings made on the computer with traditional printmaking methods.

Artist Bio:

I have worked as a professional artist for many years. I studied for three years at the New York Studio School obtaining my certificate in painting. I also studied printmaking at Creative Arts workshop. I have shown my work throughout the Northeast and Pennsylvania in group juried shows and in many solo shows. I am a member of City Gallery.

Martha Lewis

Medium: Other

Link: http://marthalewis.com/

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

Martha is an artist, curator, educator and radio host. Her work involves science, history and diagrams. Currently she is Artist-in-Residence at the Yale Quantum Institute. Additionally, she is Resident Curator at the Institute Library in New Haven, where she curates exhibits relating to books, words, archives and collections.

Evie Lindemann

Medium: Printmaking

Link: http://www.evielindemann.com

Artist Statement:

This copper plate etching was inspired by a friend's gift to me of a 1940's bed jacket. Lacy, soft pink, very feminine. I could not resist its beauty. and so I did a soft ground etching by pressing the bed kjacket, lace and all, into my copper plate.

Artist Bio:

I walk in two worlds….in the world of academia where I am a Professor of Art Therapy and in a second world where I am a print maker. These worlds do intersect some of the time. And provide challenges as well. When I create art, I like to sit with the piece for a while and reflect upon what its voice is, and how it informs my life in some way,

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 .

Carlos Lopez

Medium: Painting

Link:

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

I was born in the highlands of Guatemala and have lived in the US for 32 years. A machinist by day, I spend most of my free time painting and reading books and magazines about art. My preferred media is acrylics, though I also work in oils and occasionally sculpture. My favorite subjects are from nature – shells, birds and other wildlife.

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.

Jane R Lubin

Medium: Collage

Link: http://www.LubinArt.com

Artist Statement:

I believe in art as commentary on issues that we face at the moment. Sometimes artwork screams at these issues, but more often it hints at the artist’s personal interpretation of these societal issues. I create images that gingerly nip around the edges of the problem of how we fit as individuals, into a highly organized, complex society.

Artist Bio:

Dr. Jane Lubin is a retired ophthalmologist who has pursued art as both a mixed media artist, and a teacher and lecturer in contemporary art. She is a past president of Womens Caucus for Art, CT, a member of Silvermine Guild of Artists, and, as of 2017, an artist member of the board of Artspace New Haven.

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….

David Lyman

Medium: Mixed Media

Link:

Artist Statement:

David Lyman in order to understand his work one needs to see it done live.. went to a 1 year for graphic design.. logos cd covers flyers etc was the path for him to travel and open doors to a new way of seeing.. his art changed from typical to a unique signature style ..which he calls (the art of THIS ) when he started to create art live

Artist Bio:

David lyman the art entitled BE LIKE WATER… THIS was a themed art piece done live at this event called the collage..in Manhattan at the Delancey ..when it comes to themes I prefer to give the viewer something to think about …the theme was Bruce Lee that night so many did portraits but I wanted to show the otherside perhaps some didn’t know..

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.

Eric March

Medium: Painting

Link: http://ericmarch.com

Artist Statement:

My artistic mission is to continually grow as an artist in ways that allow me to more deeply understand the world around me, the complexity of our society, and to create work that grows love, awareness, forgiveness, honesty and generosity of spirit personally and in our society.

Artist Bio:

Eric March is a painter and draftsman whose work explores the formal possibilities of realism along with themes of observation, history and urban life-often through the lens of Coney Island, one of his favorite subjects. Eric teaches painting and drawing at the 92nd Street Y, CAW, and classes in his studio.

Charles Maring

Medium: Painting

Link: www.togetherinstyle.com

Artist Statement:

I approach empty spaces with spontaneity creating from an subconscious level where everything is completely unrehearsed and unplanned allowing the universe to guide me in a direction I couldn’t have imagined if I wanted to. Working backwards from found familiarities, memories, or thoughts that show up along the way I find my way to a conclusion.

Artist Bio:

Charles Maring is a modern artist creating works that exploring the boundaries of oil painting, photography, filmmaking, fashion, design, and even performance art along with how they can all work together creatively. A Renaissance Man by nature, Charles’s current project encompasses all of these skills and overlaps them the a myriad of ways.

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.

Sabrina Marques

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.sabrinamarques.com

Artist Statement:

My work utilizes visual storytelling and humor. Childlike allegorical metaphors exist in my paintings as a way to address multiple facets of memory. This kind of imagery is often associated with children’s books. My goal is to redefine the aesthetic that is often attributed to an audience of children and bring it into a fine art context.

Artist Bio:

Sabrina Marques is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art and MFA Critic at Western Connecticut State University. She received her BA in Visual Arts from Columbia University, and her MFA from the Yale School of Art. She has exhibited her work at the Geoffrey Young Gallery, the Morgan Lehman Gallery, and in the Radius Program at the Aldrich Museum.

* exhibiting sunday only

Alisha Martindale

Medium: Photography

Link: www.aphotom.com

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

Alisha has been photographing events, private moments, family, and people for over ten years. She has recently graduated from SCSU with a Master’s Degree in Women’s Studies and while she favors portraiture, she strives to create images that make you forget to breath.

Sven Martson

Medium: Photography

Link: http://svenmartson.com

Artist Statement:

I take photographs because it pleases me to capture and show something I’ve seen that had meaning for me. I photograph what is significant to me as I encounter it in the real world. It is my hope to extract a meaningful moment from reality through the process and craft of photography.

Artist Bio:

I’m sorry but I don’t think bios are important.

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.

Kiara Matos

Medium: Ceramics

Link: kiaramatosceramik.com

Artist Statement:

I very much enjoy working with clay, the way it responds to touch, and the many possible ways to treat it and take it to a finished state. The use of color and is my biggest pleasure. Even though the ceramic process can be long and stressful at times I strive on keeping it playful when this balance is reached I feel accomplished.

Artist Bio:

I had my first contact with clay at as a kid and love it. Somewhere around 19 years all it became clear working with it was all I wanted to do for a professional life, I did have the means to go to school formally so I took short courses and did apprenticeships, in Venezuela where I was born and In the USA where I had friends. I am still learning.

Zoe Matthiessen

Medium: Drawing

Link: http://www.zoematthiessen.com

Artist Statement:

Zoe is deeply concerned with political and environmental issues, yet remains hopeful despite all evidence to the contrary. She is inspired by nature, politics and the chaos and confusion of the modern world.

Artist Bio:

Zoe Matthiessen is a self taught artist living in New Haven, CT. She is drawn to the woods—and draws in the woods. She has two weekly spots in New Haven Independent: “Ecocide” on Tuesdays, and “Picture This” on Wednesdays. Her primary tools are a dip pen and black ink, though she often works in watercolor and charcoal.

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.

Bryan Masud McDowell

Medium: Painting

Link: https://www.masudart.com/

Artist Statement:

His style is very vibrant as he uses complimentary, primary colors in a simplistic way. He was dedicated to fostering a positive learning environment and artistic development for children through a variety of creative techniques.

Artist Bio:

Masud is a fine artist, digital artist, and art educator. As a very young child he had a special talent for drawing. He went on to develop his talent at Art and design High School in New York City. Masud continued his formal art training at Parsons School of Design, where he later earned his B.F.A. in fine art. Masud’s fine art primarily consists of acrylic on canvases and mixed media on paper. He will be showing at Bregamos Community Theatre.

William Meddick

Medium: Painting

Link: http://meddickart.net

Artist Statement:

Visual imagery that captures my interest is always challenging to my interpretation. Thankfully, this excitement continues throughout the year. My choice of subject is attached to my heart, mind and temperament. My utmost painting passion is trying to capture the human form and psyche and the wonder of nature. Combining the two is painting bliss.

Artist Bio:

Pratt Institute, painting major
Scenic painter apprentice for Atlas Scenic Studios
Director, Milford Fine Arts Council – too many years
Painter (life-long)

Fethi Meghelli

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://www.fethimeghelli.com

Artist Statement:

All those faces that shed tears All those smiles and laughter All those forgotten lives All those stories untold

Artist Bio:

Fethi Meghelli has exhibited throughout his long career in the US and internationally, including Algeria, France, Japan, Germany, the former Yugoslavia and Canada.
He has been awarded both prizes and grants for his work.
His art is in the Library of Congress, multiple university and private collections.

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.

Sharon Mihalyak

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://scpcg.org

Artist Statement:

I co-founded the Southern Connecticut Polymer Clay Guild Inc. with Diane Villano 20 years ago (!) It's been a lot of fun. There always seems to be something new to try. Some other technique to push the boundaries of the material. Being part of this guild inspires me.

Artist Bio:

I’ve been having a lot of fun working with Polymer Clay.
Exploring its possibilities.
Sculpting and printing with it, making jewelry, mixing it up with other materials and creating functional items.
I’ve been doing this for quite awhile and it still holds my interest.

Jean Miles

Medium: Installation

Link: Facebook Page: Jean Miles

Artist Statement:

I define this work as the "Fine Art of Graphic Design". I retouch album covers created for commercial distribution into a piece of art for display. Specifically, with ink, I eliminate UPC Codes, Logos, and the "Type Nobody Wants to Read". Often I restore the album cover art in places where ink is worn from the record inside, called "Ring Ware".

Artist Bio:

This installation is a montage of actual album covers. I reinvented and retouched the covers in order to give them an aesthetic and life of their own. I chose covers that are some of the most iconic personalities of the recording industry. “American Beauties” have the undeniable capability to invoke nostalgic feelings of endearment.

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.

Christian Miller

Medium: Painting

Link:

Artist Statement:

The task of the artist is paradoxical by nature. He strives to create all at once the essence of an emotional moment to be recreated endlessly in the viewer's mind. In this sense the artist is defining the moment of the present to be recreated infinitely as far as the mind can imagine.

Artist Bio:

My name is Christian Miller, and I am a self-taught artist. I began drawing at an early age and still regard some of my early sketches as a source of inspiration. I studied at Paier College of Art in 1985-1986, and earned an Associate in Arts/Commercial Graphics Degree from Middlesex Community-Technical College in 1998.

Denise Miller

Medium: Collage

Link:

Artist Statement:

My art explores the gray realm of uncertainty between the subconscious and physical reality.

Artist Bio:

I have a B.A. degree in Technical Theater Design from Southern Connecticut State University. I have been designing clothing, jewelry and fashion accessories for many years. My work has been shown in several area boutiques. Currently I have expanded into creating mixed media collages.

Jane Miller

Medium: Textile

Link: http://www.janemiller.xyz

Artist Statement:

I like to putter and make things that involve a kind of meditative process. I like to take things apart and then put them back together. I like to experiment with materials. Most recently I have been using textiles and other found objects to create sculptural forms. There is something fascinating about the reverse side of an embroidery, where one

Artist Bio:

Jane Miller is a contemporary artist working in two and three dimensional forms in drawings and sculpture and installations through the manipulation of textiles, fiber, and common industrial materials. She currently has a studio in New Haven, CT. Her works have been shown as solo, two person and group exhibitions internationally and domestically.

Margot Miller

Medium: Painting

Link: www.millerstudio.org

Artist Statement:

Margot Miller is an American Artist born in 1962 in the Borough of Woodmont, Ct. An Oil Painter from Putney, VT, with deep ties to the New Haven area. Has been showing her work in New Haven since the 1970s. She has just closed her show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC for Biennial and is scheduled to show overseas in London this year.

Artist Bio:

Margot will be showing her work at Bregamos Community Theatre

Carole Monahan

Medium: Sculpture

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

Artist Statement:

You can find me at the corner of Twisted and Whimsical. I look at most things in a unique and humorous way. I love to watch someone zoom in on a piece and then burst out laughing: that boisterous connection is what I love. This medium is so diverse and has captivated me: I don't see this love affair ending any time soon.

Artist Bio:

Carole first discovered polymer clay in 2006 while using it for physical therapy for muscle cramps in her hands from MS.
Since then she has written many articles for several polymer clay magazines, and loves teaching as well.
She is a proud member of the Southern Connecticut Polymer Clay Guild as well as the International Polymer Clay Guild.

Maria Morabito

Medium: scuplture

Link:

Artist Statement:

My work addresses the beauty of seeing and understanding the works of the human mind and our interpretation of the world by an abstract language of shapes, lines, colors, and patterns. In my sculptures I use abstraction as a way to explore the relationship between solid forms and negative spaces and their rhythms.

Artist Bio:

Maria Morabito was born in Italy and grew up in Rome. Morabito works predominantly in the medium of oil painting and, recently, sculpture. She was awarded Honorable Mention by Robert Storr. She has shown nationally and internationally and she is represented in several private and public collections. She lives and works in New York City.

Larry Morelli

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.lawrencemorellipainting.com/

Artist Statement:

As long as there is a world there will be paintings- Sister Wendy

Artist Bio:

I cannot separate the processes of becoming from the process of painting. This is something which is particular to me and not meant as universal. I did not intend this, it is not an extension of how I believe an artist should approach his work, it’s just how it worked out for me.

Tyler Morris

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.tylermorrisart.com

Artist Statement:

Tyler Morris looks for art in chaos. He discovers his muse hiding in the brief pauses within worldly disorder, moments laced with unexpected grace. He loves to capture what he finds in black & white oils. In this absence of color his subjects are stripped down to their raw form, exploding in scrapes & swirls across his canvas in a riot of beauty...

Artist Bio:

I have a lot of strange stories. Stories you probably wouldn’t even believe.

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.

Alexis Musinski

Medium: Sculpture

Link: http://alexismusinski.com

Artist Statement:

Polyethylene is an indestructible chemical that most stomaches cannot break down, but is often consumed.

Artist Bio:

Alexis lives and works in New Haven, CT. She received her BFA from the Hartford Art School with a concentration in Sculpture, Ceramics and Art History. She currently works at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art in New Haven.

ELIZA MYERS

Medium: Painting

Link:

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

I’ve thought of myself as an artist my whole life and while I’ve dabbled in many mediums — notably Halloween costume construction and Gingerbread House execution — my heart is in oil painting. I’m now a practicing physician with four kids. I’m challenging myself to explore portraiture by working on paintings of my children.

Theresa Nast

Medium: Fabric

Link: http://www.theresanast.com

Artist Statement:

My story starts with a lifelong love of elegance and whimsy. I set out to create a collection with pieces special enough to wear to your own wedding and easy enough to wear to brunch. Proudly, everything is handcrafted right here in New Haven.

Artist Bio:

My background is in fine art. Painting specifically. I graduated from Bard College with a degree in studio art. After pursuing my career in painting for several years I went back to school for design. Fashion specifically. I’ve now happily landed in a unique place of dressing nontraditional brides and their wedding parties.

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.

Claudia Van Nes

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.twosisterspaint.com

Artist Statement:

Claudia long painted in acrylics, but in the last couple of years, turned back to pen and ink and watercolors using a rather fanciful style and concentrating on scenes and objects she is most familiar with. Very recently, she has taken up abstract collage with papers she paints herself. Pattern and shapes most interest her.

Artist Bio:

Claudia intended to be an artist since my youth which was spent drawing elaborate homes and villages for rabbits. Don’t ask.
She retired 13 years ago to be what she long planned to be and since has taken numerous classes and workshops; joined a number of art organizations, serves on several of their boards and shows widely. In the midst of this

Ethan Newman

Medium: Painting

Link: https://traillife.bandcamp.com/

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

Joneen Nielsen

Medium: Painting

Link: https://www.sites.google.com/site/joneennielsen/

Artist Statement:

I hope you enjoy my paintings.

Artist Bio:

Joneen grew up in Dobbs Ferry, NY and learned to paint & draw from her father, American Artist and Illustrator, Jon Nielsen (1912-1986). She specializes in paintings of fish, and sometimes mermaids, and likes to paint on wood, metal and found objects.

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.

Sean O’Brien

Medium: Photography

Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/areabridges/

Artist Statement:

I like to complicate image-making. Usually this means I prefer to do it "wrong" -- for example, shooting digital photos through the viewfinders of old film cameras, hacking an instant camera to make long or multiple exposures, or haphazardly coloring in black and white negatives with permanent markers.

Artist Bio:

Sean O’Brien (AKA “AreaBridges”) makes photographs, music, and video animations that mash up analog techniques and technologies with the iterative possibilities enabled by contemporary digital media.

Ryan Olsen

Medium: Drawing

Link:

Artist Statement:

The concepts of transformation and change have always fascinated me. Time is always moving forward, much like a river. With its flow, everything is always changing, however slightly. With no change, there is no room for growth, and without growth, there is room only for death.

Artist Bio:

You might as well say I was concieved with art supplies in hand. I’ve been creating art since I was a kid starting with my favorite cartoon/comic characters. While other kids were playing sports or out with their friends, I would be found somewhere letting my imagination run “wild.” Art has been at my side throughout all life’s twists and turns.

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.

Liz Pagano

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://www.lizpaganoart.com

Artist Statement:

Accidental beauty inspires me. My process is about exploring interactions between unintentional and the intentional. My work is immediate and intuitive. The parts I can't control keep me chasing/ searching/ moving. I am always looking for fresh moments to explore.

Artist Bio:

70 glenview terrace

Hank Paper

Medium: Photography

Link: http://www.hankpaper.com

Artist Statement:

Walking his own beat in street photography, Hank Paper captures what otherwise escapes notice – a revelation that alters our awareness, punctures pretension, and mines irony from surface appearances. He has documented contemporary culture and society in the streets of North America, The United Kingdom, Western and Europe, the Middle East and Cuba.

Artist Bio:

Walking his own beat in street photography, Hank Paper captures what otherwise escapes notice – a revelation that alters our awareness, punctures pretension, and mines irony from surface appearances. He has documented contemporary culture and society in the streets of North America, The United Kingdom, Western Europe, the Middle East and Cuba.

Ryan Paxton

Medium: Other

Link: http://www.ryanjpaxton.com

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

Ryan was born and raised in Washington state. He received his BFA from the University of Oregon. He works at The Whitney Workshop at The Eli Whitney Museum as the Design/ Production Technician. In his free time he makes tiny paintings.

SCSU Photography

Medium: Photography

Link: https://www.southernct.edu/academics/schools/arts/departments/art/undergraduateprograms/studio-art/photography.html

Artist Statement:

The Photography Dept specialization at Southern emphasizes an expressive and comprehensive approach to photographic image making. Students explore the medium’s creative potential and place within contemporary art and culture through a diverse curriculum, while also developing technical competency and practical knowledge in a range of techniques.

Artist Bio:

Mitchell Library located at 37 Harrison St will be featuring work by

Daniel Pizarro

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://www.danielpizarro.info

Artist Statement:

Grounded in the pursuit for self-determination and liberation for the people of Puerto Rico, the Young Lords Party was a revolutionary nationalist youth organization that sought to reclaim agency and community control over the well being of their communities. This work will showcase the impact and depth of their political and community projects.

Artist Bio:

Daniel Pizarro is a graphic designer and advocate for social justice. He’s currently a Design and Technology fellow at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Daniel received his MFA from the Yale School of Art and BA from UCLA Design Media | Arts. His interests explore the role of design and participation in an emerging society of the commons.

Fellowship Place

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://fellowshipplace.org/

Artist Statement:

Given the fact that art possesses an inherent universal language, it contains an undeniable message that speaks volumes about who we all are as human beings. With art there is a level playing field, free of the consequences of stigma. With each work, renewal, growth, and personal peace are possible.

Artist Bio:

ArtShip at Fellowship Place is an artists’ cooperative comprised of individuals who routinely show and sell their work in the community. Fellowship Place provides a safe and therapeutic community where individuals suffering from mental illness may access support and programs to improve their daily lives.

St. James Poetry

Medium: Other

Link:

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

St. James Poetry offers a selection of chapbooks and full-length publications focusing on experimental work and the Avant-garde.

Mark Potter

Medium: Ceramics

Link: https://ravenofferings.blogspot.com/search/label/Pottery

Artist Statement:

I'm searching for images and objects that feel eternal - I cannot think of art as a dialogue that is answerable to contemporary art history which I'm sure will be blown away by the next hurricane or coming of days. Once the present is past there's no need to relate an art work to any time or place, only to make sure it springs from what is human.

Artist Bio:

I’m a potter and sculptor – clay has been my material of choice in recent years.
I studied painting at Yale but spent 15 years working in the film industry as an editor.
In 1999 I bought a worn out kiln from the University of Kansas and took industrial space in New Haven.
Now I’m a full time potter in West Haven CT.

Dexterity Press

Medium: Printmaking

Link: https://www.etsy.com/shop/dexteritypress

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

Dexterity Press is a letterpress print studio located at Erector Square, run by Jeff Mueller and Kerri Sancomb.
Feeding the machine since 2000.

Michael Quirk

Medium: Painting

Link:

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.

Teresa Ramos

Medium: Sculpture

Link: https://www.prettyandplated.com/home

Artist Statement:

Chef Teresa draws on her wanderlust as inspiration for creating elegant yet vibrant dishes. She believes that eating should be a complete experience from the complexity or simplicity of flavors, to beautiful presentation and thoughtful ambiance.

Artist Bio:

Trained at the International Culinary Center (formerly known as, The French Culinary Institute) in NYC as well as ALMA, The International School of Italian Cuisine in Parma, Italy—Chef Teresa enjoys pairing her classical training with a vast array of ingredients and techniques she’s picked up while traveling around the world. She will be showcasing her work at Bregamos Community Theatre at Erector Square.

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:

Shilo Ratner

Medium: Painting

Link: https://shiloratner.com

Artist Statement:

I try to questions a way to look beyond our drive to be connected and start connecting with ourselves outside of assumed social constructs.

Artist Bio:

Shilo Ratner’s work can be found in myriad of private art collections in the United States and abroad.

Steve Reggiani

Medium: Painting

Link:

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

Hi my name is Steve Reggiani, I am an Illustrator and Landscape Painter living in Seymour CT. I am a graduate of Paier College of Art with a BFA in Illustration. I work mainly in oils, and primarily on board, or canvas. I currently work as a Fine Art Conservator at Yost Conservation in Oxford CT.

Chen Reichert

Medium: Installation

Link: http://www.chenreichert.com

Artist Statement:

For CWOS '17 Aude Jomini's "Ceiling Meadow", shown at NoPop in 2016, will be reinstalled at Erector Square, to form the site for a collaborative & site-specific project with artist Chen Reichert. The month-long residency will allow the artists to re-imagine and portray New Haven and its inhabitants as an inverted landscape in the studio' ceiling.

Artist Bio:

Chen Reichert is a New Haven-based artist. She holds a BFA in Art History from Pratt Institute. She explores the colors & quirks of her subjects through live drawing, painting, and handmade dolls.

Tom Reilly

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.tomreillyartist.com

Artist Statement:

Tom Reilly works from observation with oil paint . His subject is mundane and everyday street scenes or household objects. He plays with loose, sometimes thick paint sacrificing details for overall light, space and weight. Starting from a frenzy of sludge and impulsive marks he attempts to form an image that hits hard and has guts.

Artist Bio:

Tom Reilly is from Norwalk, CT. He attended SUNY Purchase & received a BFA in painting in 1999. He then worked as a carpenter for the next ten years, building & remodeling homes in Fairfield County. While the housing crisis loomed in 2008, Tom went back to school where he received an MFA from WestConn. He now works at the Yale Art Gallery.

Tim Reimer

Medium: Painting

Link: https://www.iamonlyheresometimes.com/

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

Connecticut based artist.

Avé Rivera

Medium: Ceramics

Link: http://www.averivera.com

Artist Statement:

By infusing functional objects with a dose of happiness, I hope to bring a little more joy to the user’s daily life. I get ideas for my work through personal experiences and patterns seen in nature; transforming them into happy blobs and colorful dashes and dots. I keep my illustrations simple and immediate to provide a sense of connection.

Artist Bio:

Avé Rivera is interested using playful, colorful imagery on her pots as a means to share happiness with others. Born in Connecticut, she received her BS in Ceramics from SCSU and a post baccalaureate in ceramics from UMass Dartmouth. She has exhibited across New England and has recently been featured by Amaco in the April issue of Ceramics Monthly.

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.

Stephen Rodriguez

Medium: Ceramics

Link: http://www.stephenrodriguezpottery.com

Artist Statement:

I make stoneware, porcelain & earthenware pottery reflecting & inspired by classic forms the history of Ceramics has presented to me, such as; Ancient Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Greek, Etruscan, Native American, & Early American pottery. I seek clarity from distinct proportions of pottery form, from these many influences.

Artist Bio:

Stephen Rodriguez ; Potter/pottery instructor/ Gas kiln builder lives & works in New Haven,CT for the past
27 years. Attended college at Rio Hondo CC in Whittier, CA & Alfred
University in Alfred ,NY. Awarded a
Fellowship in 2004 from the CT Comission on the Arts for his in ceramics. Has constructed / repaired
Over 30 kilns in the Northeast area

Ricardo Rodriguez

Medium: Mixed Media

Link:

Artist Statement:

"Thou Shalt Worship False Idols" A sensory exhibition of mixed media works ......... An Examination of our current culture and connection with image and ID......... Who are we? Who were we? Who do we hope to be?

Artist Bio:

I believe that Art exists as a filter for ideas and thoughts.
As a trained artist, I find inspiration in the everyday and the ordinary, often seeing actions and intent as the foundation for thought.
I collect, create and curate, with an eye to the interactive, seeing is not always believing……..

“Thou Shalt Worship False Idols”

Susan Rogol

Medium: Ceramics

Link:

Artist Statement:

Artist Bio:

Having a studio at Erector Square has afforded me the opportunity of building on my skills developed and still developing in pottery classes at Creative Arts Workshop.
I am forever grateful to my friend Judy who first suggested we take a pottery class so many years ago.

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.

Dariush Rose

Medium: Painting

Link:

Artist Statement:

"when I create art" the joy it gives me makes me realize how much God enjoys creating his creations. Dariush Rose

Artist Bio:

Dariush Rose, born 1962 in Tehran, Iran, started drawing (oil techniques) at the age of 16 and experienced sculpture, pottery and Volumetric Arts, in the preceding years. He is mainly self taught, however, has also passed a sculpture training course at Tehran University’s Art School in 1994. In 1990s he experienced metal art works as well and expo

Matthew Ross

Medium: Painting

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

Artist Statement:

The ability to fly, in simplest words, is absolutely magical. A majority of what I paint is owls and in each painting I try to capture a little of that magic. Sure owls and birds have a more significant meaning to myself but the fluidity when they fly or even attack prey influences much of my art. This “magic” that birds hold has left me trying to

Artist Bio:

Matthew Ross is an artist from Meriden, CT currently working and living out of Meriden, CT.

Lesley Roy

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://www.QuantumWow.com & http://www.lesleyroy.com

Artist Statement:

The natural world around us, often goes unnoticed and the fact that it is disappearing fast, slips past a majority of folks. Habitat loss, environmental responsibility, sustainability ar underlying motivations for my art. Traveling the world, photographing rare birds before they disappear drives me to take tens of thousands of photos then paint.

Artist Bio:

In 1994, I founded Lesley Roy Home Couture and began manufacturing handmade glass dinnerware and home accessories, which were retailed through luxury stores throughout the world. Art & Nature continue to be my passions, expressed through photography and painting. My love of birds is a predominant focus.

Anna Russell

Medium: Drawing

Link: http://stressdreams.com/

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.

Jackie Ryan

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.visionfaerie.com

Artist Statement:

I am interested in the transformational experience that painting renders inevitable. By creating transcendental universes in which one can lose their sense of the ordinary and trust in the other-worldly, neuropathways are formed. The mind and heart can therefore awaken to their true purpose, releasing old patterns and forming the path to beauty.

Artist Bio:

Jackie Ryan was born and raised in New Haven County, but travels often to expand her view of reality. Her studies range from classical figure drawing to the abstract expressionist movement and her journey in natural healing through yoga, meditation, dance, and spiritual seeking has largely influenced the work you see today.

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.

Annie Sailer

Medium: Performance

Link: http://www.anniesailerdancecompany.com

Artist Statement:

Annie Sailer is a dancer, choreographer, painter, installation artist, and director of ANNIE SAILER DANCE COMPANY. Annie's work is generated by physicality, process, imagery, and spatial relationships. The abstract forms she creates often suggest emotional and psychological states of mind reflecting the aesthetics and sensibilities of the present.

Artist Bio:

Annie Sailer is a dancer, choreographer, painter, installation artist, and director of New York/New Haven-based ANNIE SAILER DANCE COMPANY. In 2016 she opened ANNIE SAILER studio space at Erector Square where she teaches modern/contemporary dance classes, rehearses, paints, and constructs installations. anniesailerdancecompany.com

Gerald Saladyga

Medium: Painting

Link:

Artist Statement:

My primary interest in painting is landscape .... technical, imaginary, schematic or real.

Artist Bio:

I am a Connecticut native and currently live in Hamden with a studio in the industrial part of new Haven . I have exhibited extensively throughout Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York City. I have received two grants from the Connecticut Commission on Art and Tourism and the state’ One percent for Public Art.

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.

Eliezer Santiago

Medium: Photography

Link: http://www.isthateliezer.com

Artist Statement:

I aim to shed light on issues that are important to my community and I. These are tumultuous times that we live in and I'm using my voice to make sure we don't go unheard.

Artist Bio:

Born and raised in New Haven. I picked up a camera at the age of 10 and still haven’t let go!

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

Samuel Sbarbori

Medium: Drawing

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

Artist Statement:

I close my eyes and all the things I see collide and intertwine in paint and pen to allow me to cope with life and all that that entails.

Artist Bio:

Samuel Sbarbori is a young artist who primarily uses markers, pens and paint to create an abstract world of this own.

Niko Scharer

Medium: Ceramics

Link:

Artist Statement:

I enjoy pursuing the fusion of beauty and function in everyday objects, inspired by the way that pottery in different cultural traditions reveals the character and values of the creators and the users of their artifacts. I am excited by the endless possibilities that clay has to offer, and look forward to continuing to explore different styles.

Artist Bio:

Niko Scharer discovered pottery 2 years ago, when she moved to New Haven from Toronto. She continues to take classes at Creative Arts Workshop and welcomes the opportunities that the Erector Square Studio provides for the further development of the craft.

dana scinto

Medium: Furniture

Link: http://www.danascinto.com

Artist Statement:

making cool things since the 60s.

Artist Bio:

I’ve been a self-employed furniture and product designer since 1999. This year, I will be displaying several pieces of “one of a kind” custom furniture along with a wide assortment of exotic wood cutting boards, candle holders and other assorted gift items just in time for early holiday shopping.

Suzan Scott

Medium: Painting

Link: http://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.

Jean Scott

Medium: Other

Link: http://jeanscott-art.com

Artist Statement:

Loss creates emptiness; palpable, expanding. We try to confine it, but it overflows. It moves in with us, weighs on us, crowds us out; we are beside ourselves. The absence is present. The world is upside down. Being offends; nothingness beckons. Erase, deface, displace..to escape the space - to embrace the space - make something out of nothing.

Artist Bio:

Jean Scott (MICA) will be in residence at Ely Center of Contemporary Art, 51 Trumbull St, New Haven, from Oct 17-Nov 17, 2017. Visit, watch, chat, make some art with her at ECOCA during public hours, Weds-Thurs 5-8p/Sundays 1-4p, and on CWOS Private Studios Weekend, Oct 21-22. Closing reception/talks/presentations at ECOCA on Nov 17 at 6p.

Lipgloss Crisis (Sara Scranton

Medium: Photography

Link: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151097012267098&set=a.10154678884507098&type=3&theater

Artist Statement:

Lipgloss Crisis is a artist born and raised in the New Haven Area. Since childhood she has been armed with a crayon and glitter and always used art to express the crazy notions that go through her head.

Artist Bio:

Lipgloss Crisis (Sara Scranton) is a artist/bartender in the Elm City. Her current project is the second installment of “The Patron Saints of New Haven”- a set of 40 prayer cards. Each card features a Saint and Prayer. Each saint is somebody Lipgloss Crisis knows….that represents and celebrates New Haven’s charms & causes to her.

John David Scully

Medium: Printmaking

Link: http://www.johndavidscullyart.com

Artist Statement:

He is inspired by Norman Ackroyd, Turner Whistler's etchings, and others. He is drawn to dark and stormy clouds and traditional landscapes.

Artist Bio:

John David Scully has been exploring the black and white sketching of the landscapes, the skies and the horizon combining my drawing with distinct element and line with his fluid water color. He has been under the guidance and standards of his teacher and mentor Bob Harder from Creative Arts Workshop.

Semi Semi-Dikoko

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: https://facebook.com/semidikoko

Artist Statement:

A consulting practice in Systems Architecture and Social Sculpture, as well as Conceptual Art explorations in collaboration with other artists and practitioners.

Artist Bio:

A consulting practice in Systems Architecture and Social Sculpture, as well as Conceptual Art explorations in collaboration with other artists and practitioners.

Meghan Shah

Medium: Printmaking

Link: http://meghanshah.com

Artist Statement:

Meghan's work takes on an experimental nature where chance guides her pieces instead of planning out the process. Retelling the energy of experiences from various travels gives a subject matter to Meghan’s work. She takes this process and adapts it to prints, painting, and textiles.

Artist Bio:

Meghan Shah is an art teacher by day and printmaker/textile artist by night. She graduated in 2013 from SCSU with a degree is printmaking and since then has focused her practice around monotypes, painting, and textiles. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally in addition to traveling to India last year for an artist residency.

Polly A Shindler

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.pollyshindlerpainting.com

Artist Statement:

My paintings are a meditation on solitude. I have spent more time alone in the past few months in a far quieter environment and I think that my interior work exemplifies the calm that accompanies a life outside of a city, and being so much closer to nature. I think this solitary working mode has had a direct effect on my thought process.

Artist Bio:

Polly Shindler received her M.F.A. in Painting from Pratt Institute in 2011 and attended the Vermont Studio Center in 2013. She was named one of “30 Artists to Watch in 2012” by NY Arts Magazine. She recently had her first solo show, Retreat, at Ortega Y Gasset (Brooklyn, NY) and has an upcoming show at Spoonbill & Sugartown (Brooklyn , NY).

Suzan Shutan

Medium: Installation

Link: http://www.suzanshutan.com

Artist Statement:

My work straddles the worlds of two and three dimensions, extending lines in space. Often an idea grows out of a preexisting form and might start as a wall relief, become a sculptural floor piece and end as an installation. I use saturated colors of materials as emotive, shadows as ephemeral and meaningful patterns as transformative life processes.

Artist Bio:

Suzan Shutan received a BFA from Cal Arts, MFA from Rutgers University, has been shown throughout the United States, South America and Europe . She has received numerous grants, attended artist residencies, has had 30 solo exhibits, been reviewed by the New York Times, Smithsonian and Sculpture Magazine, published in Paper Art II and is collected.

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.

Brian Sing

Medium: Digital Art

Link: https://www.sunnysing.me

Artist Statement:

Street Polymorphisms is a collection of prints derived from the same set of eight softwares I made since moving to New Haven. It showcases abstraction, on how language translates into code, and reflection, on being and coming into process and techniques.

Artist Bio:

Brian Sing is a New Haven based software artist currently concentrating in generative design.

Stephen Sitko

Medium: Photography

Link: http://www.paiercollegeofart.edu/

Artist Statement:

Art evokes intellectual and emotional responses. In the past, I tried to use my art to shock and provoke visceral feelings in the viewer—perhaps even trying to appeal to the crowd. Now, I stubbornly believe that my art needs only to fulfill my desire for deep engagement with my own soul.

Artist Bio:

Stephen Jude is a junior at Paier College of Art. His formal art education began with ceramics and three-dimensional art and later evolved into photography. Throughout his pursuit of a Bachelors of Fine Arts, he has worked with media such as large format photography, archival printing and storage methods, and digital processes.

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.

Joe Sorge

Medium: Sculpture

Link: http://www.joesorgestudio.com

Artist Statement:

Fortunate to be making sculpture, I am thankful to everyone who supports and aids my growth. With infinite sculptural form, the use of scrap metal, patina, dye, paint and natural finish, I'm so happy to be able to create.

Artist Bio:

Joe Sorge creates flowing steel sculpture using mild and stainless steel. Cutting, sanding, shaping, welding and finishing with patina, dye, wax, paint and natural finish.

Sydney Spiesel

Medium: Photography

Link:

Artist Statement:

I am drawn to mysterious, evocative, and ambiguous images and I always carry a camera for moments when I encounter unexpected beauty. I try to make pictures than can stir memories or evoke emotions or act as canvases on which a viewer can project a story that draws on his or her own memories, thoughts, and feelings.

Artist Bio:

My long, mostly secret career in photography began in large-format architectural work. I’ve only shown my work publicly once before, in a show (“SubSublime”) of photos and algorithmic art prints at the boundary of chaos and order. Like that show, today’s photos push on an boundary; this time between what we see and what our mind reads into it.

Christina Spiesel

Medium: Collage

Link: https://artspacenewhaven.org/?s=spiesel&post_types=flatfiles

Artist Statement:

There is a connection between my law writing life and my art making: The more I write, the more I put my hands into my visual work in the studio, making things that are obviously constructed by hand. This involves incorporating errors and accidents, composition through process, of accumulating decisions. My installation will be called Eclipse.

Artist Bio:

I make art, I write, I teach, all are important to me. Trained in humanities, my studio practice dates to 1965 in New Haven. Some prizes, some commissions, some fellowships. Themes that pervade both art making and scholarship: relationships between perception, conception, literal space and conceptual space, fact and metaphor.

Timothy Spratlin

Medium: Furniture

Link: connecticutfurniturecompany.com

Artist Statement:

I work by hand, I build for function and longevity. My original influences are from the builders Old Wethersfield. My work is a conscious antithesis of industrial woodworking. I preserve the connection between the object and the hand. I select wood not for its uniformity but for the complex and original history each tree expresses. I rely on the

Artist Bio:

Timothy Spratlin grew up in Old Wethersfield Connecticut. He learned furniture making from craftsmen who had preserved the artistry of classical joinery. Traditional tools and wood itself with its infinitely varied personalities have been his most instructive teachers.

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.

Marcela Staudenmaier

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://www.marcelastaudenmaier.com/

Artist Statement:

I work in a variety of media. My cut paper collages -particularly- allow me to combine my architectural background and my illustrator skills in a single medium. I call it "three dimensional cut paper collage". Through my artwork I intend to evoke a sense of wonder and playfulness.

Artist Bio:

Marcela Staudenmaier is currently an artist-in-residence at the Ely Center for Contemporary Art. Her work has received the Tassy Walden Award, the Ann Barrow Illustrator’s Scholarship, the R. Michelson Galleries Emerging Artist Award. She is a graduate of the Children’s Book Illustration Certificate Program at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Thomas Stavovy

Medium: Sculpture

Link:

Artist Statement:

My primary focus is making architectonic structures using plaster, cardboard, and wood.

Artist Bio:

I am studying sculpture at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture.

* exhibiting sunday only

Kate Stephen

Medium: Other

Link: www.katestephenjewelry.com

Artist Statement:

Jewelry design is an empowering and exciting form of creativity. I can sit down at my bench and make something new and unique every single day. It is a practice that helps me stay tuned to the moment, allowing me to experiment with and engage in a meditative creative process. From that process comes jewelry that people connect with on many levels.

Artist Bio:

Kate Stephen is a self-taught jewelry designer who lives and works in the Westville neighborhood of New Haven. Kate was honored by Connecticut Magazine in their “40 under 40” issue, where she was chosen for her work as an exemplary jewelry designer and small business woman. Her designs can be found in boutiques across the state.

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.

Matt Stevens

Medium: Digital Art

Link: http://www.mattstevensart.com

Artist Statement:

With over 20 years of experience in the book publishing and editorial illustration markets, Matt Stevens's approach combines unique and memorable concepts with sophisticated, humorous drawing. His work has been described as darkly whimsical, refined, and clever.

Artist Bio:

Matt Stevens is a freelance illustrator living in the New Haven area

Katro Storm

Medium:

Link:

Artist Statement:

Katro Storm's show at Cafe Nine, a legendary bar and music space in the Ninth Square, runs concurrently with the CWOS exhibits, and premieres several commissioned works. Each showcases his unique painting technique and features some well-known faces - Nina Simone, Alfred Hitchcock, Clarence Clemons - as well as those known by families and friends.

Artist Bio:

Katro Storm made his mark in the New Haven, Boston and New York art worlds with his energetic, unconventional portraits.

Joan Strickland

Medium: Painting

Link:

Artist Statement:

As with so many aspiring artists, and despite earning a BFA in painting, my life went in the direction of raising a family, but the artist lives on inside me still. Now, nearing retirement, my desire to be involved in the arts goes beyond sewing projects & my gardens; but to painting and experimenting with new artistic mediums.

Artist Bio:

With roots in Branford, but living in Old Saybrook, I am closer to retirement now, with a BFA in painting that has collected dust. My creative desire is growing stronger, and I look forward to the years ahead renewing the artist inside.

Lotta Studio

Medium: Photography

Link: www.lottastudio.com

Artist Statement:

Through the years they have formed a symbiotic relationship creating highly conceptualized imagery that intersects everyday domestic life and theater, with an eye toward the more absurd perceptions of ourselves and our social context. Their images are highly emotional, saturated in color and character & maintain clean graphic aesthetic strength.

Artist Bio:

Mistina & Luke Hanscom have formed a symbiotic relationship creating highly conceptualized imagery that intersects everyday domestic life and theater, with an eye toward the more absurd perceptions of ourselves and our social context. Their images are highly emotional, saturated in color and character & maintain clean graphic aesthetic strength.

John Sweeney

Medium: Painting

Link:

Artist Statement:

I find painting challenging and revealing.

Artist Bio:

I grew up in Texas and came to Connecticut in 1969.

Karissa Van Tassel

Medium: Photography

Link: http://www.karissavantassel.com

Artist Statement:

I believe our memories are our most precious assets- and that photography is one of the most powerful ways to both capture & recreate those memories. While working with light, shadow, color, texture & space, I have the honor of creating photographs that my clients treasure for a lifetime. I live in New Haven with my husband & three kids.

Artist Bio:

Van Tassel works with light, shadow & authentic connection to create compelling photographs that bring her subjects to life. Working primarily in portraits, commercial, and fine art, her photography is rich in color and texture, and features beauty from around the world.

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.

Elizabeth Tranzillo

Medium: Photography

Link: http://www.elizabethtranzillo.com

Artist Statement:

I express the wonder of my visual experience with photography. I work with various digital photographic techniques, colors, shapes, and textures to create my images. In shooting for unique perspectives its all about reconnecting to feelings of harmony, balance and unity.

Artist Bio:

Raised in Port Chester, NY, Elizabeth Tranzillo studied technical theatre. Graduating with a bachelor’s degree she found it challenging as a hard of hearing person and skinny lass getting into the field. She switched interests to photography. She has been involved in creating photographs for over 30 years and resides in New Haven.

ninh truong

Medium: Ceramics

Link:

Artist Statement:

My current work challenges the stagnation of two dimensional art. By taking drawing to a three dimensional form it limits the ability of the viewer to see the piece in one sitting. It forces the viewer to interact with the piece, either by walking around it or picking it up. I use traditional Vietnamese mythology and subject matter to depict myself

Artist Bio:

Ninh Truong was born in Vietnam and migrated to the United States in 1993 at the age of six. Truong received a Bachelor of Science, Studio Arts from SC SU. His concentration was ceramics, drawing, and illustration. Ninh is an MAT K-12 Art Ed candidate at Maine College of Art. He plans to teach at the high school level.

Eliza Shaw Valk

Medium: Installation

Link: http://www.elizashawvalk.com/

Artist Statement:

I am drawn by how light changes in tone, intensity, and hue, as well as its physical makeup and properties. My work explores these shifts of light and color through materials, printing, and massing.

Artist Bio:

Eliza is an artist and landscape architect living and working in New Haven, Connecticut.

Rita Valley

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://www.ritavalley.net

Artist Statement:

It's politics as usual and I'm still trying to save the world. At least there's no shortage of raw material!

Artist Bio:

Rita Valley is an artist living and maintaining a studio in Connecticut; close enough to New York to dive frequently off the deep end into the vagaries of the art world, but distant enough to enable a life of bucolic scenery, complete with a Dog and Pony Show.
She has recently shown at Odetta Gallery in Brooklyn and Real Art Ways in Hartford CT.

Joe Velardi

Medium: Painting

Link: https://jmvelardi4.wixsite.com/joevelardiart

Artist Statement:

The most impressive thing in life is to think of something no one else has. Creating to improve life is the best thing someone can do. In my Bethany, Connecticut home studio I reference photo images as a basis for painting in oil on canvas. I frequently take liberty with the content by changing line and color for dramatic emotional effect.

Artist Bio:

After taking a drawing class in college I began to develop my skills as an oil painter privately. During this time my impressionistic style has evolved. After a career in education, during which I worked part time on painting, I have begun to engage more fully in my passion for art.

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.

Ariel Visci

Medium: Photography

Link: http://www.arielvisci.com

Artist Statement:

With a quick glance these images seem like ordinary scenes: cleaning, shaving, having a drink, and dancing, yet paint peels and debris is left everywhere. The characters ignore the world around them that is deteriorating and crumbling. They are immersed in a false world where they continue to act out their domestic roles without facing their fears.

Artist Bio:

Ariel Visci is a photographer residing in Connecticut. She graduated from UConn in 2014 with BFA in photography. She enjoys photographing the world’s forgotten places both in hard-to-reach locales and right around the corner in our own neighborhoods and cities.

Michael Visosky

Medium: Painting

Link:

Artist Statement:

Studied under numerous Illustrators at SVA. Such as Marshall Arisman , Michael Deas and Jack Endewelt. Have taken a few years off of art to focus on my construction business and now am looking to continue my art once again.

Artist Bio:

Graduate of SVA 1990, BFA. Publised work, murals, logo designs and t-shirt designs

Nicki Vitali

Medium: Painting

Link:

Artist Statement:

My artwork is heavily influenced by my students' stories. Art is a very personal subject in comparison to math or science, so I have the opportunity to learn their stories as they create artwork based off of social issues, current events or social experiences. Each piece tells a story of experiences that have impacted the future of New Haven.

Artist Bio:

Relying on techniques learned from my studies, as well as drawing inspiration and style from an embedded love for illustration, I tend to create artwork that is both painterly and conceptual. As a teacher at High School in the Community, I teach my students that art isn’t just meant to be aesthetically pleasing – it can also communicate a message.

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.

Shilo Walsh

Medium: Digital Art

Link: https://shilohmwalsh.carbonmade.com/

Artist Statement:

I have always been enchanted by stories. Art has been my lifelong platform for sharing the stories that intrigue me. I work with graphite, charcoal, oils, acrylics, watercolors, and digital media. I enjoy creating on large paper or board to immerse myself in a scene and craft the details that bring a piece to life.

Artist Bio:

Shiloh M. Walsh is a freelance illustrator and independent comic artist living in Guilford. Shiloh has worked as a children’s book illustrator and backdrop designer and painter, and her work has been displayed in a number of exhibitions, including New Haven’s City Wide Open Studio Armory Show in 2016, and the 2013 Pause for Beauty show at Studio 33 in New London.

Gar Waterman

Medium: Sculpture

Link: www.garwaterman.com

Artist Statement:

Sculptor Gar Waterman is a native of New England who lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut. He works in stone, wood, glass, bronze, and steel, creating carefully crafted and frequently beautiful objects that reflect his ongoing fascination with the evolution of both organic and inorganic design in the world around us.

Artist Bio:

Born in Castine, Maine, grew up in Princeton, NJ, graduated with a BA in French from Dartmouth College, lived and worked in Italy in the 1980’s where he learned to carve stone. Bought a building for $1 from the City of New Haven 21 years ago and created West Rock Studio with Thea Buxbaum, presently and for the foreseeable future a Westvillian.

Toby and Sam Welch

Medium: Photography

Link:

Artist Statement:

A father and son collaborative photography work. In preparing for the Open Studios show, we began to consider possible themes to shoot on. With Sam living in Seattle and Toby living in New Haven, we thought we could shoot on the various political marches and rallies that were taking place in the Pacific Northwest and the greater New England region

Artist Bio:

Both Toby and Sam Welch (father and son) have been keenly interested in the medium of photography for many years. Both capture images ranging from daily life to sojourns to generate photographs on a specific subject.

Brian Wendler

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.briangillwendler.com

Artist Statement:

First thought, best thought. When I approach my subject I try to empty my mind and respond to prompts from the subject, the painting, and from within, always with an eye to simplifying shapes while distilling colors and impressions. I view this work as evidence of an inner dialogue.

Artist Bio:

A diverse educational background includes a BFA from Cooper Union, the study of Minoan art at the Aegean Institute in Greece. I currently teach painting at Silvermine School of Art in New Canaan, CT, and offer workshops in plein air painting at all levels.

Kim Weston

Medium: Photography

Link: kimwestonimages.com

Artist Statement:

Weston photographs in the Native American dance circle where prayer is emphasized and the outside world's struggles or joys can be left behind. Some images often leave traces of that world and are often seen as abstractions of time and space. No two people see the same image or interpretation in any given piece. The work speaks to the individual.

Artist Bio:

Kim Weston is a photographer with a graphic design and painters background living in New York and Connecticut. She received her BFA from Cooper Union and is a recent MFA graduate from ICP-Bard college in Advanced Photographic Practice. Photography has allowed her to freelance in the commercial industry and as a be a professional artist.

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.

Christa Whitten

Medium: Painting

Link: http://christa-whitten.squarespace.com/

Artist Statement:

Christa's passion is to provide an opportunity to access and explore the intangible places we carry around inside.  Her artwork is evocative of the natural world and is often compared to clouds, waves and gardens.  Vivid colors and flowing textures encourage reflection and transport viewers to their own inner landscape.

Artist Bio:

Christa is classically trained in several forms of art and graduated cum laude from the highly respected Paier College of Art.  In addition to displaying in galleries, she has created covers for the art book producer Snffbx Press, a series of album covers for Izikhotane and illustrated the well-received children’s book “Reach For The Stars”.

Mark Williams

Medium: Painting

Link: http://www.livepaint.org

Artist Statement:

My work is based on cave interiors, especially the formations of flowstones, stalactites, and stalagmites. Humans have been drawn to caves for a very long time, and I am no exception. During the past fifteen years, I have visited more than 80 caves and photographed the environments. The artwork is inspired by these images.

Artist Bio:

Mark Williams earned his BFA from Miami University in 1997 and his MFA from the University of Connecticut in 2004. His work has been written about in many publications and included in over 100 exhibitions at venues including the Wadsworth Atheneum, Real Art Ways, the International Print Center of New York, and Project 4 in Washington DC.

Glenn Williams

Medium: Painting

Link:

Artist Statement:

I use art as a way of searching, as a means of discovering. I am in many ways, being an art educator, more interested in the process of making art and how that journey affects me, than in the final product.

Artist Bio:

I was an elementary art teacher for 35 years but didn’t really start thinking about my own work until after I retired 13 years ago.

Marian Wittink

Medium: Printmaking

Link: Marianwittinkprints.com

Artist Statement:

I enjoy creating contemporary monotypes and collages, to experiment with color, size and composition. What keeps me fully engaged in this process of printmaking is the ever lasting curiosity , anticipation and the element of surprise of my experimentations.

Artist Bio:

After retiring from a carrier in nursing and the healing arts I took my first course in printmaking at Creative Art Workshop in 2006.
I find my inspiration in observing the beautiful explosion of colors in the the skies and the formation of rocks in nature that surrounds us.
The images I have created allows a great deal of freedom in expression.

Marjorie Gillette Wolfe

Medium: Photography

Link: http://marjoriewolfe.net

Artist Statement:

“Reality is always extraordinary.” Mary Ellen Mark I photograph the land and structures, greenhouses, campers at home, the sea and the shore. Recently I have explored the panorama. My work often combines multiple images to form a whole.

Artist Bio:

I have been a photographer for four decades. A New Haven native, my work centers on structures, landscape, and the environments in which they occur. I received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and Masters degree from Wesleyan University, and I am a 2012 recipient of the Connecticut Artist Fellowship. Here my work is shown at KLG gallery.

Mary B. Wolff

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: http://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.

Haley Wulfman

Medium: Drawing

Link: https://www.behance.net/haleywulfman

Artist Statement:

At some moment most every day, I pick up a pen and a brush. What happens from there, is anybody's guess. I might draw the rolling cart near my kitchen with plants and old glass bottles, the person across from me lit by screen glow, or the blue morning sky as it stretches away from orange horizon. The subject matters little; the practice is supreme.

Artist Bio:

At some moment most every day, I pick up a pen and a brush. What happens from there, is anybody’s guess. I might draw the rolling cart near my kitchen with plants and old glass bottles, the person across from me lit by screen glow, or the blue morning sky as it stretches away from orange horizon. The subject matters little; the practice is supreme.

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.

Nina Yuen

Medium: Film/Video

Link: http://www.ninayuen.info

Artist Statement:

I work to combine voices from all parts of the culture, looking at how origins and identities manifest themselves in personal narratives. Using biographical observation as a research methodology, I build fictional characters through aggregating personal gestures, writing fictions based on my subjects’ singular troubles and glories.

Artist Bio:

Nina Yuen’s films are associative playfully composed assemblages of performances, collages and montages, usually revolving around a flux of imagery and spoken monologues merging personal and collective memory.

* exhibiting sunday only

Kristina Zallinger

Medium: Sculpture

Link: http://www.kristina-zallinger.squarespace.com

Artist Statement:

Recently I let go of my painting temporarily (?) to dive into a new medium, found object sculpture. I had seen the Rauschenberg exhibition at MoMA decided to explore a new creative process. I choose Items that relate to each other in some way and connect them somehow into sculpture. I also like to have a sense of humor in my work.

Artist Bio:

I am a painter/sculptor who was born in New Haven, CT. I grew up in the area and still live in Hamden. My parents were both artists so the genes and environment were there for us to use. After art school I worked as a teacher and went back to painting after retirement. I now have a studio. Making art is my life.

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.

Joan Jacobson Zamore

Medium: Printmaking

Link: www.printmakersnetwork.org

Artist Statement:

Joan has been creating art all her life. While auditing a class at Yale University with Richard Claude Ziemann she discovered monotypes. Her work is included in public collections such as Yale University, Colgate University, the Housatonic Museum of Art in Bridgeport CT, Aetna corporation and a poetry publication called “Parnassus”.

Artist Bio:

The pieces in the show are all monotypes and wood block prints. The work is as much about the art making process as it is about the subject matter which is the modern day landscape and its ephemeral nature. I express the yin and yang of painting and the elements of art and try to balance all these elements to create a dance of visual pleasure.

Sue Zola

Medium: Mixed Media

Link: www.suezola.com

Artist Statement:

17 years ago, I began using glitter as a medium in my artwork. The playful nature of these tiny reflective and colorful particles feeds my inspiration, while still maintaining the substance of my motif. My work is enhanced by prominent clean lines and the utilization of vibrant color, and is the ultimate conversation piece on any wall.

Artist Bio:

Sue Zola uses glitter to evoke emotion and recreate cultural icons and symbols of the 50s, 60s and 70s, its attention-getting, bright, shiny, funky pieces a metaphor for our current and past times. Zola’s glitter art has been exhibited in many galleries in cities all over the country including Chicago, Miami, New York, Houston, and Los Angeles.

Sarah Zunda

Medium: Digital Art

Link: https://sarazunda.com/

Artist Statement:

I have always been interested in attempting to blur the line between real life and fantasy in the senses of visual story telling. I use my illustrations and character creation to portray imagination and the idea of something a little more extraordinary.

Artist Bio:

Sara Zunda is twenty-something year old young creative in the Greater New Haven Area. Sara is an award winning Illustrator and Graphic Designer and mere months before earning her Bachelors Degree in Illustration. She is currently exploring concept art, character designs, world building, and just about everything in between.