Artspace - Erector Square (Weekend 1, October 12-13)

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Sophie Aston Jean Galli Margot Nimiroski
Art space Home Lani Asuncion Peter Gardner Liz Pagano
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Hayne Bayless Joyce Greenfield Mark Previtt
Meg Bloom Bob Gregson Derrick Quevedo
Joan Bombalicki Sarah Gustafson Peter Radosta
Vito Bonanno Barbara Harder Peter Ramon
Rita Brieger Sidney Harris Joseph Saccio
Jay Bright Louise Harter Annie Sailer
Colin Burke Cham Hendon Joanna Schiff
John Caesar Susan Higgins Dana Scinto
Catherine Cazes-Wiley Michael Horseman John Scully
Christine Chiocchio Danny Huff Sam Shevelkin
Jeanne Ciravolo Robert Jacoby Lisa Shoglow
Dan Cogan Erin Jenkins Debra Simon
Claudia Cron Jean Kandalaft Gordon Skinner
Phyllis Crowley Zachary Keeting Sigrid Smith
Jan Cunningham Kristina Kuester-Witt Kathleen Smits
Jennifer Davies Janet Lage Kevin Stevens
Isabelle Day Maria Lara-Whelpley John Sweeney
Geoffrey Detrani Hannah Leckman Paul Theriault
Anne Doris-Eisner Mary Lesser Regina Thomas
Karen Dow Martha Lewis Robert Thomas
Linda Drazen Robert Lisak Eliza Valk
Nancy Eisenfeld David Livingston Karissa Van Tassel
Mindi Englart Rebecca Lowry Katya Vetrov
Camille Eskell Jane Lubin Joseph Vumbaco
Daniel Eugene Will Lustenader Mark Williams
John Fallon Fethi Meghelli Marian Wittink
Cathy Farrell Christian Miller Don Wunderlee
Oi Fortin Denise Miller Gerald York
Jason Friedes Irene Miller Kristina Zallinger
Roberta Friedman Christopher Mir Gonzalo Zuniga-Vergara
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Hil Anderson
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Erector Square (October 12 -13)
I am a storyteller because I believe that
the road to knowledge is paved with
fabulous tales. I enjoy telling stories that John Arabolos
challenge the common expectations of
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narrative. My hope is that where I am Erector Square (October 12 -13)
successful you will find stories visible in Arabolos’ art work is an investigation of
my photographs. ↑
our natural world and how we perceive
and relate to it, including the processes’
of conception, creating and the
metaphysical act of experiencing and
becoming. The artwork allows the
observer to experience the
phenomenological brink or edge where
abstraction becomes subjective and
identifiable. ↑
Sophie Aston
Sideways & Askew
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In recent collages I have spliced painted
Sideways & Askew is where paper and elements into rearranged interiors culled
clay collide to make artful illumination. from vintage “Better Homes and
It's a collaboration between Liz Pagano, a
Gardens” magazines. The abstract
New Haven print and mixed-media
gestures of Expressionism are suggested
artist, and Hayne Bayless, a potter in
within pristine spaces - Maverick
Ivoryton, CT. The two mull over a
furniture, incongruous curtains, and
design, then construct the lampshade curtains of paint, in turn occupy and
using light steel rods. Liz applies deny the picture-space. ↑
encaustic and ink to paper and attaches
the shade. ↑
Lani Asuncion Laurie S. Auth

Website → Website →
Erector Square (October 12 -13) Erector Square (October 12 -13)
Place and identity becomes a starting I am excited to be part of the entire CT
point of reference within my work. community this year. ↑
Translated through the medium of
video,I use cinematic approaches and
poetic imagery to produce an abstract
visual story. Throughout each video
there is a reflection of my multicultural
background in conjunction with tradition,
the desire of integration, and community.
↑
Caryn Azoff
Website →
I explore the physicality of the figure.
Using texture, color, mixed media Hayne Bayless
collage, thread and various marks, I am Website →
looking at gender, age, and physical Erector Square (October 12 -13)
conditions through a lens that does not I love what spawns in the friction
offer the subject any privacy. I am between what I want the clay to do and
questioning the idea of beauty in our what it would rather do. I'm intrigued by
society, how we ignore the concept of what happens when clay is rolled,
society, how we ignore the concept of what happens when clay is rolled,
human experience and time that passes. stretched, pressed, incised, inlayed,
↑ extruded, bent, cut and put back
together. The unintended result, often
misread as a mistake and so dismissed, is
one of the most fertile sources of new
ideas. ↑
Joan Bombalicki
Meg Bloom Erector Square (October 12 -13)
Website → In 2003, I signed up for an oil painting
Erector Square (October 12 -13) class. Soon after, my work was selected
Finding beauty in the imperfect or for two juried shows. I'm a member of
impermanent and engaging with the Connecticut Women Artists. My work
process of transience form the basis of has been shown at John Slade Ely House,
my two and three dimensional work. I New Haven and Slater Memorial
am guided by the mix of planning and Museum, Norwich. I'm enjoying the
chance afforded by the materials I use. artistic journey, playing with a variety of
For several years I have worked with subjects and approaches to the canvas. ↑
fabric,paper, pigments and wax. More
recently I have added paper-making to
my process. ↑
Vito Bonanno Rita Brieger

Vito Bonanno is primarily a self-taught "Never let reality get in the way of
accomplished and nationally recognized imagination" sums up my approach to
New Haven based artist, who has found a my art work. ↑
way to tap into the daily emotional ups
and downs of his neuro-diversity, taking
the personal struggle of his innermost
thoughts, feelings and fears and placing
them into bold and unedited art
statements. ↑
Jay Bright
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Andre Derain's & David Hockney's use of
vivid color to render the landscape
inspired me to go to East Rock to look Colin Burke
with new eyes. I painted spring's primal Website →
energy exploding from the subtle winter Erector Square (October 12 -13)
landscape-hints of blue and rose in bare I research, write and teach the history of
tree bark, and outrageous yellow photography, the origin of optics in art
forsythia exploding in improbable places and the processes and techniques that
on the rock face. ↑ led to contemporary photography. My
practice is focused on analog
photographic processes (cyanotype,
solargraph), photogram, camera obscura
and pinhole camera design and
construction, and site-specific
installations. ↑
John Caesar
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My intention is to create objects that are
simultaneously abstract and natural,
modern and shamanic; essentially,
archetypal totems, utilizing mostly
recycled and repurposed materials
salvaged from scrap piles and imperfect
or heavily figured discards, creating
natural, colorful, meditative pieces
executed in a thoughtful yet organized
approach. ↑
Catherine Cazes-Wiley
Website →
A designer, an instructor and a social
entrepreneur leading a project called
Tinaliah, I design and manufacture a
unique line of hats. Tinaliah project goal
is to provide manual skills to homeless or
formally homeless persons so they can
earn a living. Tinaliah Co-op,
www.etsy.com/shop/tinaliah, is starting
to bring their ware to a broader market.
↑
Christine Chiocchio Jeanne Ciravolo

Christine uses art as a form of I love the way light falls on and reveals
communication to convey an emotion, objects, landscapes and people. I'm
capture a moment in time, create a intrigued with the physical details of a
dialogue, stir a memory, or a smile. She
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dialogue, stir a memory, or a smile. She face and the puzzle of a unique
works in a variety of media, including personality as it is revealed through
painting, photography, and carving. observation. ↑
Often working in her studio overlooking
Stony Creek Harbor, her art is influenced
by nature, the sea, and other cultures. ↑
Dan Cogan
Website →
I love to make art that is based on or
tells a story. To do this I'm Claudia Cron
experimenting with different techniques Website →
and mediums to portray te stories in my Erector Square (October 12 -13)
paintings. ↑ Memories of hot, hazy sunshine and hard
metallic surfaces and the sharp angles of
playgrounds and carnivals permeate this
body of work. Imagery reminiscent of
long ago escapes from the summer heat
are achieved using photo lithography and
mixed media. ↑
Phyllis Crowley
Website →
My work addresses issues of perception
and point of view. Changes in position,
format, scale, & focusing create the
illusion of space in very different ways.
Multiple images and non-conventional
formats create new relationships which
enhance the emotional experience. ↑
Jan Cunningham
The paintings, drawings, and
photographs that make up my practice
inform each other. The materiality of
color and light, and scale – what it takes
to traverse the great distance between
two points in close proximity to one
another - are continuing preoccupations.
↑
Jennifer Davies Isabelle Day

A papermaker working with heavy My paintings portray everyday subjects
fibers, I achieve objects that are almost perceptually. My works cover
sculptural by folding, twisting, and landscapes, still life and the figurative in
dyeing paper. I also make delicate, oils, watercolors, and pastels. I paint
translucent sheets of Japanese fiber, directly from observation. ↑
called kozo, that I process myself. When
I weave string onto frames, dip them
into baths of this fiber, they dry into
crisp lacy webs I hang or sew together. ↑
Anne Doris-Eisner
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Geoffrey Detrani I respond so strongly to the language of
Website → the natural world and I utilize bold
Website → the natural world and I utilize bold
Erector Square (October 12 -13) marks on paper to embrace it. I am
My imagery explores an imagined inspired by the resilience and
intersection between the natural world transformative beauty of the land above
and the built environment. I am and the supporting rock beneath. By
interested in a symbolic rendering of the using geological structures and forms in
natural work that is informed more by nature, I draw parallels between the
imagination and ideology than optical human experience and the natural world.
fidelity. My pictures suggest landscapes ↑
in flux, on the cusp or in the throes of
explosive generation or devolution. ↑
Linda Drazen
My art is inspired by melodic lines,
repeating in space as it does in music.
Pigment, water and brush or pencil are
expressive vehicles. ↑
Karen Dow
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handmade geometric abstraction ↑
Nancy Eisenfeld Mindi Englart

Website → Erector Square (October 12 -13)
Erector Square (October 12 -13) Mindi Englart is a New Haven artist,
The forces of nature and the writer, and educator. Her work is
environment are concepts that inform concept-driven, and focuses on balance,
my sculpture , paintings and drawings. I justice, and equity. She uses collage,
am excited about found materials and papermaking, and bookmaking to recycle
experiment with paints inks metal wood and synthesize seemingly obsolete
and what ever I can get my hands objects and ideas into what she hopes is
on.Both pain , joy and humor are injected meaningful, thought-provoking art. Her
into my work. ↑ latest body of work is "Ephemera". ↑
Camille Eskell Daniel Eugene

Erector Square (October 12 -13) My line-works are a process of internal
Camille Eskell will exhibit her recent exploration that is guided by and
series, The Ezekiel Project, works on grounded in the movements of my pen.
paper that explore restoration & The image created is a by-product of
renewal, prompted by the prophetic self-discovery and my intention is that it
vision in the parable the Valley of the may serve as a catalyst or guide for
Dry Bones. The series title also alludes to introspection in those who view my
Eskell's original family name which was work. ↑
Anglicized by her forebears to assimilate
into American society. ↑
John Fallon
Erector Square (October 12 -13) Cathy Farrell
Atlanta College of Art - BFA School of the Website →
Art Institute of Chicago - MFA ↑ Erector Square (October 12 -13)
I make art for fun and self-expression. I
work primarily with abstract collage,
printmaking and painting, most recently
small works on paper. I find the order-
from-chaos nature of collage, and the
free-form, unfettered nature of
abstraction both challenging and
satisfying. ↑
Jason Friedes
My work attempts to redefine abstract
concepts such as progress, friendship, or
pain in a fashion that changes the
Oi Fortin viewer’s perspective on the subject. Yet,
Website → I recognize that the best way to alter
Erector Square (October 12 -13) someone’s perspective is to literally
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He who knows does not speak. He who change their position, so my work
speaks does not know. Lao-Tzu ↑ occasionally tries to directly help others.
↑
Roberta Friedman Kathryn Frund

Passport/Private Studios (October 19- The work explores the themes of
20) stewardship and damage, fluidity and
City Gallery, 994 State Street control. Through the layering of paint
New Haven, CT and the reconfiguration of objects and
Map materials, the work seeks to open
The technique of collage-layered pathways and find restoration and
paintings created on surfaces of various balance. The paintings become a material
textures, weights and properties, allows and spiritual exploration into the nature
me to expand my perception of of our presence in the landscape. ↑
watercolor. The ever changing natural
layering of the landscape tirelessly
beckons. My goal is to take the viewer on
an imaginative journey into memory,
reflection and solace. ↑
Francine Funke
Joseph Fucigna
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Erector Square (October 12 -13) My creative process leads me on a
Fucigna is a multi-media artist who never-ending journey of artistic
enjoys taking modest industrial materials discovery. Not being content with
and transforms them into elegant yet straight – forward traditional handling of
provocative abstractions that speak materials, I am forever seeking new
about the inherent qualities of the techniques and media to express my
material, process, and craft. ↑ varied aesthetic visions, and my artwork
falls into sometimes diverse “series” –
each exploring a particular subject in
depth. ↑
Peter Gardner
Jean Galli Erector Square (October 12 -13)
Website → I started painting as a way of
Erector Square (October 12 -13) approaching the spiritual through an act
Passport/Private Studios (October 19- of creation. Finding the higher power is
20) like trying to find the perfect line –
Framed 1224 Whitney Ave spiritual perfection can be attempted,
Hamden, surrounded, sketched and stroked,
Map almost never achieved; but the central
My paintings embody the inner pride, truth – the perfect line – can be
strength and confidence of my subjects. I suggested to the imagination. ↑
strive to achieve as close a resemblance
to as I can, while adding creative nuances
to all my work, so the viewer will know
know they are looking at paintings. My
goal is to draw the viewers in, evoke
emotion, inspire imagination, and
ultimately tell a story. ↑
Martin Gent The Geomorphic Tank

Erector Square (October 12 -13) Website →
I am part of the Artclectics group who do Erector Square (October 12 -13)
figure studies at Erector Square. GeoMorphic Tank is an ongoing
However, I primarily paint landscapes in collaborative platform in which Debbie
a realist mode, either on site or using Hesse and Rashmi Talpade create
photographs. I paint outdoors with sculptural installations, videos, drawings
watercolor over a pencil sketch. I also and prints that fold in materials and
paint in acrylics based on photographs. ↑ notions from everyday life to explore
ideas about the breakdown, overload and
flattening of information. ↑
Joyce Greenfield
Website →
I work in Oil, and Watercolor which I
teach at CAW. Light is my main Subject. Bob Gregson
Previously I have used white buildings as Website →
foils for exploring light in various Erector Square (October 12 -13)
conditions. I am now doing two series, My work is a hinge between artist and
one with rocks, one with paper, both are audience. Pieces are invitations that
acting as white walls have in the past. ↑ provide permission to be involved. One
enters the work through the visual
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temptation of color, visual tricks and, at
times, words and symbols. I enjoy the
idea that the work is never completed
but continually reinterpreted and
refreshed through those who encounter
it. ↑
Sarah Gustafson Barbara Harder


Patterns, surfaces and textures fascinate Peripatetic marks dance across the wall.
me. The routine of passing the same Soft pools of color puddle onto plexi
surface on the sidewalk, highway, the panels. Layered shapes float on billowing
landscape sweeping by. Surfaces collide, Asian papers, or hide within wood veneer
sunlight and shadows form changing surfaces. Juxtapositions of line, color, and
patterns on buildings and trees, colors form offer the viewer a sense of serenity
resonate in the sun. ↑ and a look into surprising new spaces. ↑
Sidney Harris
Website →
Acrylic paintings of New York, food,
boxing, science, and cartoon books. Also, Louise Harter
children's books by Kate Duke. ↑ Erector Square (October 12 -13)
Alternative Space (October 26-27)
I make functional wood-fired pottery.
Some are small-scale intimate pieces --
sake cups, bud vases, little cups. Some
are large scale -- banquet platters and
serving bowls. Some pieces specify a
serving bowls. Some pieces specify a
culinary use -- juicing a lemon or storing
garlic. And some leave planning their use
to your tastes and imagination. The
mood is rustic and timeless. ↑
Cham Hendon
Website →
Erector Square (October 12 -13) Susan Higgins
Thank you Artspace ↑ Website →
My work explores the American cultural
landscape captured in passing, as
selected moments of seeing; and as
viewed in public settings. I aim to
capture the inherent beauty, perplexity
and lure of cultural forms; make the
mundane felt; and question the personal
and cultural identity that is constructed,
preserved, bartered or abandoned. ↑
Michael Horseman Danny Huff

The world we know and inhabit, as well None. ↑
as the universe “beyond,” is filled with
many wonderful shapes, forms and
figures, some man/woman-made, others
being viewed as magical, visionary gifts
of nature, beautiful, haunting and
mysterious! I apply my own visions and
interpretations to many of these
incredibly beautiful phenomena of
nature. ↑
Robert Jacoby Erin Jenkins

I did representational work for many I create woodcut relief prints, carved
years, but currently emphasize blocks, drawings, and paintings that
abstraction. My canvases are large, depict emotion driven illustrative
colorful and energetic and focus on landscapes, symbols, and figures through
expressionism. ↑ the use of simplified form, high contrast,
and dynamic color. ↑
Zachary Keeting
Website →
Here is the challenge: be brave, struggle
to build a vivid document. Courageously
push the materials to a surprising place,
Jean Kandalaft
accept an art of rough approximation, of
free-improvisation, where careful
The paintings submitted reflect a
measurements may be entirely
Matisse approach of la “planéité” a
inappropriate. If successful, the paintings
simplification of means at the edge of
abstraction, moving away from the will make visual what is within. ↑
impressionist “la petite sensation” as in
the
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the Atelier paintings. The colors used
follow the principles of the French
fauves, contrasting complementary
blues, oranges, and yellow. ↑
Kristina Kuester-Witt Janet Lage

One theme has preoccupied me and been I approach each piece with an
apparent in my work since the mid understanding of a physical image and
1990`s when I lived and studied in allow internal forces of perception and
Germany and Holland, and that is duality chance to collide. Each painting
- in every aspect of human life. My work experience is an adventure woven by
evolves around the human figure and experiment and intent. My goal is to
condition. Aside from painting in oil I also momentarily harness logic, instinct and
enjoy working as a printmaker. ↑ guesswork. ↑
Maria Lara-Whelpley Hannah Leckman

Erector Square (October 12 -13) I work primarily on the wheel, although I
Last year at a flea market I found an old enjoy some handbuilding and sculptural
suitcase with a series of letters from the detail on pottery as well. I love what is
1960's from a daughter to her mother. round, what swirls, like music. My work
Since then I've realised that my tends to be functional, because I want
paintings are very similar to these my objects to be useful as well as
letters- commentary on ideas, activities, beautiful. I make plates and bowls, vases
the world around me- and most and candlesticks, casseroles and goblets.
importantly, a vehicle inviting the viewer ↑
to a dialogue. ↑
Martha Lewis
Website →
Ingredients: Diagram, Map, Mandala,
Mary Lesser Absurd, Plan, Anxiety, Pencil, Hybrid,
Website → Drawing, Scheme, Color, Threat,
Erector Square (October 12 -13) Line,Urban, Paper, Desire, Hubris,
My new work consists of mixed media Flatten, Science, Propaganda, Micro,
paintings. They include acrylic paint, ink, Past, Sprawl, Faith, Future, Blow-Up,
mylar, hand-dyed paper and hand- Sprawl, Pixilated, Macro, Pompous, Sly,
stitching. I also create monotypes and Mechanical, Trace, Scan, Intricate,
installations work. ↑ Electronic, Meta. ↑
David Livingston
Website →
I hand-sew large corporeal objects that
Robert Lisak occupy physical space, weigh a lot,
Website → awkwardly droop to the ground, and
Erector Square (October 12 -13) interact with the public. These large
I photograph in an attempt to describe sculptures are passive forms that cannot
beauty. ↑ stand up on their own, relying on me for
animation. I see my sculptures as man-
made extensions of my body, and
physical manifestations of psychological
hangups. ↑
Rebecca Lowry
Website →
Alternative Space (October 26-27)
Rebecca combines elements of painting
and woodcarving to create heavily
textured wall pieces that ride the line
between painting and sculpture. Her
work is often thought to be evocative of
textiles or rudimentary maps. Rebecca’s
works on paper are made from pastel
rubbings of her woodcarvings, to which
she then applies paint and other
markings. ↑
Jane Lubin
Website →
My work addresses the oddities that I
see in life, the surreal aspects of
existence. I love to assemble creatures
composed of disparate parts, to play
reality against imagination. Mostly, these
images come spontaneously from the
subconscious, much as the surrealists
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promoted “automatic drawing” and
dream tableaus. ↑
Fethi Meghelli
Will Lustenader Website →
Erector Square (October 12 -13) To express my realities,i have chosen the
no statement given ↑ visual representation of the human
figure. My imagery draws upon past and
current news stories,children memories,
music,folk tales, literature and art
history. ↑
Denise Miller
We are an expression of our inner selves.
What we choose to wear tells the world
Christian Miller who we are. Just as our thoughts shape
Erector Square (October 12 -13) our destiny, our physical image shapes
The task of the artist is paradoxical by our thoughts. In my art I have combined
nature. He strives to create all at once both vintage and new materials to create
the essence of an emotional moment to unique one-of-a-kind accessories of
be recreated endlessly in the viewer's expression. ↑
mind. In this sense the artist is defining
the moment of the present to be
recreated infinitely as far as the mind
can imagine. ↑
Irene Miller Christopher Mir

My newest series continue to explore the My paintings are intended to evoke
fields of sight and perception based on hallucinatory or visionary states. I work
microscopic and cellular studies and my from digital composites, but the process
personal interpretations of them. The is always primarily about the physicality
Blink and Floaters series portray some of of paint on canvas and the history of art.
the minuscule details of the images that ↑
result from disturbances in compromised
vision. ↑
Jeff Mueller
Website →
Jeff Mueller and Kerri Sancomb own and
Larry Morelli
operate Dexterity Press letterpress
Website →
studio. ↑
Please list as "Larry Morelli and David
Bassine." Larry Morelli is a painter and
David Bassine, a painter and sculpture. ↑
Susan Nally
Website →
In my oil paintings, I strive to create a Margot Nimiroski
"zen-like" atmosphere. The colors are Website →
calming; the subjects have room to Erector Square (October 12 -13)
breathe. Come visit me at Erector I love the water and have lived on the
Square to see my original still life, Branford Harbor for the past 18 years...it
figurative and landscape oil paintings. ↑ seemed natural to start painting
seascapes. I have enjoyed painting large
seascapes for the past 2 years and have
continued to develop a process of
layering paint to get the desired images
of wave action and cloudy skies. ↑
Liz Pagano
Website →
I’m always searching for unexpected
possibilities. My work magnifies Jean Perkins
moments, capturing movements, Erector Square (October 12 -13)
sometimes reactions or fusions. The part My work is informed by the science of
I can’t control keeps me how one’s perceptions are formed which
chasing/searching/moving. My process are most often highly prescriptive. It is
is about exploring interactions of chance concerned with discovering new
and control, of coincidence and intent ↑ relationships amongst the familiar using
traditional photographic process
combined with digital print processes. ↑
Fellowship Place
Website →
Fellowship Place offers programs and Mark Previtt
services that emphasize Website →
wellness,creative expression, and the Erector Square (October 12 -13)
importance of social relationships for ever since I picked up my first sheet of
individuals suffering from mental illness. steel, i felt like a third grader with a
Exhibiting artists: Jon Singer, Ken
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Exhibiting artists: Jon Singer, Ken great big piece of construction paper.
Grimes, Pat Croke, Beth Stannard, pass me the paste. is it naptime yet? ↑
Randy Stanton, Shari Hoffman, Don
Schmidt, Roger Torpey, Do Walker, and
Max Clark. ↑
Derrick Quevedo Peter Radosta

The ephemeral nature and culture of the Paintings and sculptures in ceramic,
world, intimately experienced through utilizing wood stone and metal. The
the color of paint. ↑ figures are hand modeled and painted
individually. Each work is unique. I
create by drawing from my memory
persons and places I have seen or
imagined. In a way they call out to me
emerging during the process. ↑
Peter Ramon Joseph Saccio

My paintings are abstract, based on . The majority of my work uses natural
nature, comprised of memory, sideways materials, primarily wood, and found
glances, fleeting thoughts...and unrelated objects, joined together in a primitivistic
meanderings. I use the shapes, forms, manner, expressing personal feelings
the light and shadows in nature as a associated with myth and ritual, loss and
starting point. Often it is some small rebirth. . I focus on leading the viewer
object, event or passing observation that through the transformative process,
becomes the focus of the work. ↑ producing forms which are abstract but
usually biomorphic. ↑
Joanna Schiff
Website →
Play is a very important part of my
work, playing with colors and shapes to
create depth and an engaging aesthetic. I
Annie Sailer like to draw in viewers with color
Website → combinations that are strange and
Erector Square (October 12 -13) surprising like overly bright pinks and
I am a painter, a modern greens with muted earth tones. Art has
dancer/choreographer, and director of always been an important part of my life,
Annie Sailer Dance Company. The intent I don't know what I'd do without it! ↑
of my work is to evoke dream-like
narratives through spatially-oriented
forms. My main influences are Abstract
Expressionism and Minimalism. My
work is process-oriented and my
paintings and choreography inform each
other. ↑
Dana Scinto John Scully

Erector Square (October 12 -13) My landscapes are inspired by dawn,
We are a full service fabrication shop dusk and storms moving across the
specializing in wood, cast concrete, landscape. I am interested in creating
molding and casting in a variety of through black and white prints, the fluid
materials. 3d CNC machining. Your 2 and impressions of my watercolor paintings
3 dimensional designs realized in wood, combined with line drawings. ↑
plastics, resins and more. Provide us
with your completed design files or we
can create 3d modeling for you. ↑
Lisa Shoglow
Sam Shevelkin
My paintings, whether encaustic,
My ceramic creations and I are exploring
watercolor, acrylic, digital or
how the form of hand thrown objects
affect the surrounding area as well as photographic, are attempts to embody
ongoing interior dialogues reflecting
what is inside the form, functionality is
psychological states of mind and
also kept in mind during the creative
experience. Translucent, layered,
process. ↑
obscured, embedded, scarred, blurred,
they explore personal themes and
shadows that linger as present forces. ↑
Debra Simon
I am a new artist, I only started painting
recently. I thought it would be a good
experience for me to participate in Open
Studios and meet other artists. ↑
Gordon Skinner
Website →
The current state of the world appears to
be in more chaos than it is in order. We
live in a time where domestic violence,
corporate and government corruption
are recurring. I use my brush as a mirror
to show the true often savage nature of
humanity. The colors in my work
represent hope for a brighter future. I
fight back by painting. ↑
Kathleen Smits
Website →
I create realistic oil paintings and I have
Sigrid Smith a unique genre of abstract digital art,
Website → created through a process of
Erector Square (October 12 -13) experimentation with photography and
I work exclusively in transparent digital manipulation. Paintings express
watercolor sometimes supplemented my need for serenity and color. My
with India ink. My work ranges from abstracts explore color with shape and
natural representational pieces to form out of context, creating images to
unframed and varnished 3-D abstracts evoke curiosity, questions, and
which are best viewed using Chroma- mindfulness. ↑
Depth 3-D glasses. I paint often with my
friend and mentor Lora-Lee Bell and
with Joyce Greenfield, also showing in
this same gallery. ↑
Kevin Stevens
Website →
Right now my focus is on painting. I am
working in mixed medium, of acrylic, John Sweeney
pastel, charcoal and whatever stuff I Erector Square (October 12 -13)
have lying around my studio. My ground I work in oils. ↑
is composed of plywood with shoji paper
and, or canvass pasted on to it. My work
deals mainly with color, texture,
transparent layers and space. It is really
all about the process. ↑
Paul Theriault Regina Thomas

My work engages in processes which are My work is an ongoing process involving
digitally based (as represented by prints different genres from representational to
and video) in addition to pieces of a the abstract. What motivates me is
tactile nature (as expressed by means of pushing the envelope, taking risks in
sculpture, assemblage and paint.) ↑ these multi-layered collages. I love
injecting visuals and textures that
beckon my viewers to get close. ↑
Robert Thomas Eliza Valk

Erector Square (October 12 -13) Cultural and infrastructural conjunctions
As an engineer, I enjoy the cameras with ecological, hydrological and
ability to accurately capture the moment atmospheric processes, the visceral
and reflect the vision of what I see. I details of encounter—the toggling
have learned not just to document but to between macro and micro event
apply the creative aspects of composition motivates my work. I look for the
and the freedom offered with digital uncanny and improvised. Startled from
image processing. Through this I work to assumption and consumption, we
create a more engaging representation of become pliant for playing, devising and
my field of view. ↑ understanding. ↑
Katya Vetrov
Website →
Karissa Van Tassel Katya is focused on nature and the
Website → environment. Her prints represent life
Erector Square (October 12 -13) and growth with a focus on New Haven's
I stand in awe of the world around me. eco urban community as well as
There is so much beauty and it is so Connecticut farms. These images appear
often overlooked. My work focuses on on block printed rice paper, hand
finding simple beauty in the world and silkscreened notecards and t-shirts. ↑
capturing it, undisturbed, in it's natural
environment- from the streets of Paris
to the fields of China, the mountains of
the Montana to the beaches of Sanibel. ↑
Joseph Vumbaco
Website →
This series is a modern version of the
game CLUE. It's ironic, as kids we play a
game about a murder mystery. I added
sex appeal to the characters, creating an
adult version to the mature game. I
wanted the paintings to have a sense of
realism. The photographs are created by Mark Williams
controlled sets,lighting,props and models. Website →
With this,I give you SCANDAL. ↑ Erector Square (October 12 -13)
The earliest known drawings over
30,000 years old are found in caves.
Humans have been drawn to caves for a
very long time, and I am no exception.
During the past twelve years, I have
visited more than 70 caves where I have
taken video and photographic
documentation. This research has
inspired paintings, drawings, prints, and
works on paper. ↑
Marian Wittink
Marian Wittink has been experimenting
with printmaking for the past 7 years.
Her Main focus has been on oil based Don Wunderlee
monotypes with mixed media ( collage Website →
and drawing) she has studies with Erector Square (October 12 -13)
master printmakers Barbara Harder and Although my recent paintings contain
Liz Pagano. ↑ themes of time and erosion, the effects of
wear and tear, there is also a sense of
optimism in them. The optimism comes
from the regenerative power of the
creative process. In the face of
uncertainty comes the new and that’s a
comforting feeling. ↑
Gerald York Kristina Zallinger

Gerald P. York creates portrait paintings Color and texture give my paintings life.
and portrait sculptures. His clients I am an abstract expressionist painter.
include Procter & Gamble; Becton, My work is filled with movement and
Dickinson & Company; Gulfstream excitement, leaving the viewer with an
Aerospace Corporation; The U.S. Navy;
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emotional reaction. I know because I feel 31/32
Aerospace Corporation; The U.S. Navy; emotional reaction. I know because I feel
Yale University; and many others. ↑ this every time I paint. ↑
Gonzalo Zuniga-Vergara
As humans we are constantly trying to
make sense of the world around us. Our
visual perceptual process has always
played with natural forms and their
ability to create illusions. These drawings
of nature and animal hybrids arouse
your own visual perception. ↑
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Lani Asuncion Laurie S. Auth

Vito Bonanno Rita Brieger

Christine Chiocchio Jeanne Ciravolo

Jennifer Davies Isabelle Day

Nancy Eisenfeld Mindi Englart

Camille Eskell Daniel Eugene

Roberta Friedman Kathryn Frund

Martin Gent The Geomorphic Tank

Sarah Gustafson Barbara Harder

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Michael Horseman Danny Huff

Robert Jacoby Erin Jenkins

Kristina Kuester-Witt Janet Lage

Maria Lara-Whelpley Hannah Leckman

Irene Miller Christopher Mir

Derrick Quevedo Peter Radosta

Peter Ramon Joseph Saccio

Dana Scinto John Scully

Paul Theriault Regina Thomas

Robert Thomas Eliza Valk

Gerald York Kristina Zallinger

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