Kehler Liddell Gallery September Exhibits Extended

People are talking about this month’s Kehler Liddell Gallery exhibits, so we've extended the show through Sunday, October 9. Come by to see Robert Bienstock’s A DIVERSITY OF LINES, and Gar Waterman’s METAL SCULPTURE at Kehler Liddell Gallery, 873 Whalley Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut. Gallery hours are Thursday through Friday from 11:00am - 4:00pm: Saturday and Sunday from 10:00am - 4:00pm. It is free and open to the public. For more information, visit our website, www.kehlerliddell.com, or call 203-389-9555.

IMAGES: Guests at the September opening reception enjoy works by Robert Bienstock and Gar Waterman. Photos by Hank Paper.

Revelations of a Secret Self in New Kehler Liddell Gallery Shows

Kehler Liddell Gallery's upcoming shows call to mind the quote by French film director Jean-Luc Godard who said “art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.” Will you see yourself in DONNE IN MASCHERE, a stunning exhibit by photographer Rod Cook? Or in WHO WE WERE WHEN, an intriguing series of new figurative work by Julie Fraenkel? Come find out! Both solo shows run from October 13 - November 13, with an Opening Reception on Saturday, October 15, 4-7pm.

Cook has long been fascinated by the literal and metaphorical meaning of masks. In DONNE IN MASCHERE, he features handmade Venetian-style masks in concert with his love of the female form. The result is a collection that captures two incongruous states: unadorned exposure and camouflaged secrets. 

Cook worked in photography in New York for the first 25 years of his career. His other jobs have included managing editor of a magazine, helicopter pilot, and partner in a design firm. In 1996, he left commercial photography to devote his energies to fine art work exclusively. His photographic mediums have included platinum/palladium printing as well as silver gelatin and digital carbon pigment. In recent years he has combined encaustic methods as well as Venetian mask making with his photographs and prints. Rod has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibits, and his work is in many private and public collections notably Graham Nash Collection, University of Chicago and the Cherye R. and James F. Pierce Collection. You can see examples of his work at www.penrodphotographs.com. 

In WHO WE WERE WHEN Fraenkel presents an allegorical look at the phases of life as if stages of mythic dreams. Employing the push and pull she experiences in her painting and drawing—shifting between which marks to leave and which to bury—she has created a series of figures bound in time, forming a non-linear chronology of who we may be at particular moments.

Fraenkel attended Syracuse University as a Fine Arts major, and received a Bachelor of Arts and certification in Art Education from Johnson State College, Johnson, Vermont. She was a graphic designer and illustrator for many years, working for newspapers, ad agencies, book publishers and museums. Julie has a studio at Erector Square in New Haven, where she works in sculpture, drawing, painting, mixed media and encaustics. Fraenkel won the Joshua Point Studio Prize for collage and New Haven Paint and Clay Club Prize. She exhibits widely in the region, and her work is in many private collections. You can view her work at www.juliefraenkel.com.

Founded in 2003, Kehler Liddell Gallery has grown to represent some of Connecticut's highest achieving mid-career and emerging artists in a full range of media, from painting, printmaking and works on paper, to photography and sculpture. The Gallery is dedicated to representing critical perspectives that challenge and illuminate our culture and enrich our aesthetic experience, and is committed to establishing New Haven as an important center of arts and culture. Its programs revel in the excitement of cross discipline collaborations—including projects with musicians, theatre troupes, filmmakers, authors, dancers, creative entrepreneurs, and events like the Westville ArtWalk.

Kehler Liddell Gallery is located at 873 Whalley Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut. Gallery hours are Thursday through Friday from 11:00am - 4:00pm: Saturday and Sunday from 10:00am - 4:00pm. It is free and open to the public. For more information, visit our website, www.kehlerliddell.com, or call 203-389-9555.

IMAGES: Metropolis by Rod Cook, carbon pigment print, 21 x 33 inches, 2016. Dialogue by Julie Fraenkel, mixed media, 24" X 48" (detail shown). Photo by Jackie Heitchue August 2016.

Explore the Architecture of Our Surroundings at Kehler Liddell Gallery

In September, Kehler Liddell Gallery explores the architecture of our surroundings in two complementary solo shows: A DIVERSITY OF LINES by New Haven artist Robert Bienstock, and METAL SCULPTURE by New Haven artist Gar Waterman. Both shows will be on exhibit from September 8 to October 2, with an Opening Reception on Saturday, September 10 from 4-7PM, free and open to the public.

Beauty, Robert Bienstock, ink (brush) and monotype on paper.

A DIVERSITY OF LINES: Bienstock presents a collection of ink and monotype images exploring pattern and contrast, order and disorder through parallel lines. The lines are curved, bent, smooth or distressed; they follow each other, collide with each other, form dense clusters and spare architectures. Some reference landscapes or still life images, others contain purely abstract geometries. This show exhibits Bienstock's new work, along with a cross-section of his pieces from 2012-2015.

Bienstock began creating these abstract ink drawings based around parallel lines in 2011. He is a new Kehler Liddell Gallery member. His art has also been shown at the River Street Gallery in Fair Haven CT; the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition in Red Hook Brooklyn; Catalyst Gallery in Beacon NY; City Lights Gallery in Bridgeport CT; the 6th Floor Lobby Conference Room at 2 Whitney Grove Square, New Haven CT; and New Haven’s City Wide Open Studios.

Wasp, Gar Waterman, nickel plated steel, copper, 13x17x11.

METAL SCULPTURE EXHIBIT: Gar Waterman includes sculptures inspired by a range of subjects—insects, orchids, birds, diatoms—as well as the odd utilitarian construct from his Tin Man series. Natural forms abound in these sculptures that explore the organic and inorganic architecture of our surroundings. He works in stone, wood, bronze, and steel, producing carefully crafted and frequently beautiful objects that reflect his fascination with evolution’s exquisite sense of design.

Waterman created the distinctive Wooster Street Archway

Waterman has been a member of Kehler Liddell Gallery since 2004. His art has been exhibited in a number of gallery and museum exhibitions including the Mattatuck Museum (Waterbury), the Alexi Von Schlippe Gallery (New London), WOCA Gallery (Maine), and the Alva Gallery (New London). His work can also be found in a number of private and corporate collections, as well as in public art exhibits including Lincoln Financial Riverfront Reclamation Project (Hartford), the Plainville Public Library, and The Connecticut Children's Museum.


Kehler Liddell Gallery is located at 873 Whalley Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut.

Founded in 2003, Kehler Liddell Gallery has grown to represent some of Connecticut's highest achieving mid-career and emerging artists in a full range of media, from painting, printmaking and works on paper, to photography and sculpture. The Gallery is dedicated to representing critical perspectives that challenge and illuminate our culture and enrich our aesthetic experience, and is committed to establishing New Haven as an important center of arts and culture. Its programs revel in the excitement of cross discipline collaborations—including projects with musicians, theatre troupes, filmmakers, authors, dancers, creative entrepreneurs, and events like the Westville ArtWalk.

Gallery Hours

Thursday through Friday from 11:00am - 4:00pm:
Saturday and Sunday from 10:00am - 4:00pm.
Free and open to the public.

Project Storefronts presents: A Street Fair inside Union Station

The City of New Haven is inventing new ways to connect creative entrepreneurs with resources to grow their businesses by giving them space inside New Haven’s train station through the Project Storefronts program.  Hosted by Park New Haven, the first-ever Street Fair Inside Union Station takes place July 18-19, 2014.

Says Elinor Slomba, Project Storefronts’ Program Manager, “Here in this beautiful station we wanted to create some of that Grand Central-style buzz while showcasing New Haven’s entrepreneurs and cultural organizations from different neighborhoods.”

Music and brightly-colored banners will attract people to the West Lobby where the Street Fair will be taking place.  Foot traffic and sales will be measured so that improvements can be made in the future.

Sixteen entrepreneurs will be featured, including:

• Gordon Skinner who designed a new line of merchandise featuring his collages while stationed at Popup55 last month on Church Street.

• Alfreda Warner of Fair Haven, who had envisioned starting a business with her sister after they both retired from Yale.  The company, V’s Accessories, is named in her sister’s memory.

• Nadine Nelson, a chef from Newhallville who designs culinary experiences based on cultural themes.  She will offer a selection of cookbooks, spices and kitchen accessories.

• Angelina Ludwig who makes colorful scented handmade soaps.

Information on upcoming exhibitions and a selection of prints and postcards will be also available from the New Haven Museum, Silk Road Gallery, The Hill Museum of the Arts and the Gallery at Ele-Mar.  

In keeping with the transit-themed location, Devil’s Gear Bike Shop will display foldable bicycles.

Site Projects Public Art | Whispering Galleries, an interactive digital artwork

Whispering Galleries comes alive with each new visitor.  

MEET THE ARTISTS! Saturday, April 26, 3-5pm @ NHFPL, 133 Elm St.

Based on the diaries of an anonymous New Haven county shopkeeper from the 1850s, this viewer-activated digital artwork is accessed on a computer screen through a gestural interface – the LEAP motion controller – and experienced in augmented reality.  

Presented in honor of New Haven’s anniversary, and part of Connecticut at Work, a year-long conversation about the past, present and future of work life in Connecticut created by Connecticut Humanities, the artwork will shed light on the history of work environments in New Haven.  

The artists explain: “the voice of the diary sends whispers to the present through a series of erasure poems” and describe “the keeper of the diary” as someone who “worked with his hands: as a woodworker making handles for tools, sawing lumber, and sweeping out the shop; as a violinist making music at intimate gatherings and church occasions; and as a composer, writing pieces for performance at the local school. In daily entries, the author's week is measured out by hand-work.” 

Whispering Galleries will be on view in the branches of the New Haven Free Public Libraries, opening April 26^th, 2014, 3-5pm, at Ives Main, 133 Elm Street, New Haven, CT.

Amaranth Borsuk Ph.D. is a scholar and published poet, whose work focuses on textual materiality -- from the surface of the page to the surface of language.  Brad Bouse is a developer interested in the creative applications of code (www.bradbouse.com).   Together, the artist team created,Between Page and Screen (Siglio Press, 2012), a digital pop-up book in augmented reality which has been exhibited nationally and internationally.

Site Projects Inc. has been presenting world-class award-winning artworks in New Haven’s public spaces since 2004.  Our exhibitions are free, open and physically accessible to all.  Recent artworks include: Night Rainbow, by Yvette Mattern (2013) & Square with four circles, by Felice Varini (2010).  This is Site Projects second collaboration with the New Haven Free Public Library.  For more information, visit: www.siteprojects.org.

Connecticut at Work is traveling across the state through December 2014 and features the Smithsonian Institution’s The Way We Worked exhibition, with stops in seven communities, which add local focus with community history exhibits, book and film discussions, author talks, performances and more.  Connecticut at Work is an initiative of Connecticut Humanities, a non-profit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.  In the New Haven region, Connecticut at Work is a partnership with New Haven Free Public Library and the Arts Council of Greater New Haven.  The Connecticut tour of the The Way We Worked is made possible by Connecticut Humanities and Historic New England.  For a calendar of events and more information, visitcthumanities.org/ctatwork.

Sculptures on Sunday

Susan Clinard
Threads of Serendipity
Opening Reception
Sunday, February 16, 3pm-6pm

Susan Clinard is one of the city's best sculptors out there, and if you feel like heading out to her art opening, it's from 3pm-6pm

Susan's work is highlighted on her website, but you can also see her in action in the video.

Art Shows Tonight: Katro Storm, ArtSpace.

Check out some art tonight. 7pm - ??

Tonight's a good night to tour the local arts scene, with two shows taking place within walking distance; we hope you'll see both. Katro Storm, the talented painter who created the outdoor murals for NHFPL's Stetson Branch is having his first solo show, at a gallery space carved out of the YMCA on Howe Street. Here's the event page.

Art Shows Tonight

• Katro Storm at 52 Howe St. 
• ArtSpace "Smart Painting" at 50 Orange Street

Another event tonight is ArtSpace is "Smart Painting." Like SmartCars and SmartWater, this exhibit exemplifies doing something, like painting, cars, and water, but more intelligently.

From ArtSpaceNH.org:

Smart Painting is an activity.  Through this activity, the ten artists in this show pose a range of questions.  At their most basic level these include: what does a painting look like? How was it painted? And what was it painted on?

A "smart painting."  

The works answer these questions in three ways, identified in the wall texts and subsections of the exhibition. First by referencing the limitations of their structures (“the frame”), second by exploiting the physicality of their surfaces (“the canvas”) and third by employing painterly strategies that enter the arena of the aesthetic realm (“the concept or idea”).   Breaking down a painting into its anatomical parts—“bones,” “flesh” and “brain,” the exhibition recasts these concrete terms more playfully.

The stake of this show is to recognize a painting that might appear lazy, hip or naïve as a measured strategy or intelligent vehicle for challenging the tradition of what it means to be a painting.  These artists trouble the notion that a painting must be a stoic representation of reality.  Rather, they pursue casual abstraction as a method for depicting “reality” by questioning recognizable material, concepts and everyday forms. The show features works by:

Blake Shirley, Sharon Butler, Deborah Dancy, Zachary Keeting, Ben Piwowar, Jenn Dierdorf, Rob D. Campbell, Derek Leka, Clare Grill, and Tatiana Berg.

John O'Donnell lives and works in Connecticut.  He is a multidisciplinary artist and has created performance pieces for the Museum of New Art in Detroit, MI, Proof Gallery in Boston, MA, Flux Space in Philadelphia, PA and SOHO20 Gallery in New York, NY.  His videos have been exhibited at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York and at film festivals in Boston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia. O'Donnell is an adjunct professor of studio and digital arts at University of Connecticut, Gateway Community College and Eastern Connecticut State University. 

Katro Storm is an artist living in New Haven. He's been around for a while. 
Tonight is his first solo art exhibit. 
Get to know Katro Storm from Boo Slick Show on Vimeo.

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Illustrators Show at Arts Council Next Week

View Larger Map - Opening Reception on the evening of November 7th

The Arts Council of Greater New Haven invites you to The Art of Picture Books: Creative Process in Visual Storytelling book signing and artists’ reception on the evening of November 7, 2013. The exhibition will run from November 8, 2013, through January 3, 2014. Eight award-winning children’s book artists from the New Haven area, in collaboration with the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, have curated an exhibition of their work, with an eye toward revealing the fascinating process of creating original work for young readers. The exhibition features the work of Doe Boyle, Frank W. Dormer, Deborah Freedman, Lynn Reiser, Sanna Stanley, Marcela Staudenmaier, Jennifer Thermes, and Nancy Elizabeth Wallace.

In this exhibition, the eight diverse authors and illustrators, working in a variety of media, have pooled talents to showcase the many inventive ways that artists reach the imaginations of children. Each artist will present work that illuminates a single aspect of developing a picture book that creatively melds words and pictures into a seamless unit. Long a literary staple as well as a first introduction to the dramatic and engaging world of art, picture books are a memorable element of childhood, carefully designed to entertain and/or educate audiences of eager listeners and emergent readers.  The creation of such a finely balanced work of art requires a particular magic, and these seven illustrators will unveil the precision and intuition that goes into every picture story.

Special Presentation Tonight: LAMP on9

This is the wall where the film will be projected.

As part of a collaboration between Nhv.Org with  Robert S Greenberg's Museum, we're launching a few new original films on the wall of the Acme Furniture Building for L.A.M.P. (Light Artists Making Places).  In preparation of tonight's event, we've produced a 45-minute film, complete with over 120 different events, dating from 1637 to the near future.

The film will be played in tandem with 3 additional bonus features produced by Robert Greenberg.

The tone of the work is essentially this:  in 1645, the colony of New Haven collected its tradable goods, such as beaver fur and wheat, as well as peas.  In addition, many of the more prominent citizens of the colony were on board, and never heard from again.  They sent it all to England on what was described as the "Great Shippe."  The ship was never heard from again, presumably lost at sea.  It's now known now as the Phantom Ship, because there was a mass apparition over The Harbor in 1646, where the settlers believed they saw the ship in the clouds after a June summer storm.   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote a poem about it.  There's a painting at the top of the stairs at the New Haven Historical Society on Whitney Avenue.

This tour de history that Greenberg created focuses on the moments which brought the city together.  Many have tried to associate New Haven with misrepresented facts about the origins of certain inventions, but Greenberg gets the facts straight, with documented evidence, sometimes more than three pieces at once, represented as images which appear along the timeline.  Many of the high resolution images come from his own source of collectibles, some of which were handed down to him from his grandfather, Simon Evans, who graduated High School with Ernest Borgnine at Hillhouse, which is one of the more obscure facts you'll learn throughout the film; complete with yearbook photo.

Greenberg's message is that tonight marks the return of the Phantom Ship; meaning that commerce and trade is ready to come back to New Haven.  "It's a celebration of the survivial and thriving of the colony of New Haven after the loss of 'The Great Shippe.'  The truth is that the Phantom Ship was the motivating force to grow and advance the colony, and it success is evident in this timeline."

The film is among the most comprehensive works about the history of New Haven that has ever been created.

Light Artists Making Places (L.A.M.P.) On9 / 9th Square [events page]
Acme / Cafe Nine Parking Lot on Crown Street [directions]

Constructed Ecology at UNH: Thurs.

Best thing happening on Thursday Night?  This.
Art Opening: Seton Gallery, University of New Haven.

Summer-Artists-In-Residence: Michael Galvin, Kyle Skar
Featured Artists: Lisa Amadeo, Nicki Chavoya, Gary Velush

September 12- 26, 2013
Opening: Sep 19, 5-9 p.m.

“Ventilation is the profound secret of existence.”
Peter Sloterdijk

Constructed Ecology aims to enhance the viewer’s spatial perception using light, sound, video, and texture. When entering the gallery space, the viewer is confronted with two luminescent cubes in a field of grass. These architectural vessels create tension between themselves and the triple-L shaped gallery.

Fem//me* Exhibition This Evening

See some fantastic art -- and have a little party too! 1175 State Street (near Willow)* Suite #215
7:30-10:30 PM DJ John Panos & a surprise performance  [Facebook Events Page]

*Free parking out front

Fem//me is an independent pop-up exhibition showcasing the work of emerging female artists in New Haven. Curated by Selby Nimrod and Hannah Plotke, the assembled works address and subvert female gender constructs and gendered notions of craft. Exhibited is collage and sculpture by Laura Marsh, video by Sarah Lasley (whose site says she's on tour with Amanda Palmer), assemblage and jewelry by Ashley Khirea Wahba, paintings by Hannah Plotke, sculptural video relics by Lani Asuncion, artist’s books by Grace Moskowitz, and a multimedia installation by Julia Cornell. The concept for Fem//me was inspired both by the 50th anniversary of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, and famed performance artist Marina Abramovic’s denouncement of feminism earlier this year.

 Located at 1175 State Street, Suite 215, in the former Robby Len swimsuit building, Fem//me opens on Friday July 19. Fem//me is open to the public from 1-6 PM daily through July 28. There is no admission fee. Donations are gratefully accepted. All are welcome.


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July 19-28 Everyday.  1175 Chapel St.  

Handful of Art at Slade Ely House Reception Today

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52 Artists.  52 Images. 

The very best New Haven artists working in painting, sculpture, drawing, collage, printmaking and photography have made for one remarkable deck of playing cards.  Please join us in celebrating the cumlination of a Partnership for CT Cities project over a year in the making. 

51 Trumbull St.

New Haven, CT

Sunday June 23, 2013 2-5pm.

This show's opening has passed, but you can still check out some of the awesome work on display in the slideshow below, simply by visiting the gallery during their normal business hours.

There are decks of cards also available, one with each of a collectable amazing local New Haven artist.  You could purchase these at the show for the amazing price of $20, and provided that these are still available, you can also obtain them in the future, at the same gallery, after browsing and enjoying some of the marvelous works on the wall.

For more info contact: Barbara Hawes, 203.645.1039, hawesandart@gmail.com

Participating Artists:
Michael Angelis   John Arabolos   Amy Arledge   Cat Balco   Ethan Boisvert
Riley Brewster   Frank Bruckmann   Susan Clinard   Megan Craig
Jan Cunningham   Leila Daw   Steven DiGiovanni   Karen Dow   Eileen Eder
Silas Finch   Dean Fisher   Amanda Fornal   Josh Gaetjen   Michael Galvin
Elizabeth Gourlay   Rachel Hellerich   Cham Hendon   Lisa Hess
Danny Huff   Clint Jukkala   John Keefer   Zachary Keeting   Janet Lage
Martha Lewis   Nathan Lewis   Linda Lindroth   Will Lustenader
Barbara Marks    Christopher Mir   Adam Niklewicz   Jason Noushin
John O’Donnell   Perry Obee   David Ottenstein   Hank Paper
J.D. Richey   Lyn Bell Rose   Joseph Saccio   Charles Santarpia
Martha Savage   K Levni Sinanoglu   Joseph Smolinski   Kevin Van Aelst
Thuan Vu   Jonathan Waters   Marjorie Wolfe   Aicha Woods

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Art at the NHFPL - Reception Saturday

Kristina Zallinger "Flash in the Pan"
30"x30" acrylics on canvas

"Color Out of the Blue"
Paintings by Kristina Zallinger

New Haven Free Public Library Gallery
(lower level) 133 Elm Street, New Haven, CT
Artists' Reception: Saturday June 1st, 2-4pm

"My paintings are all about color and texture," says Kristina Zallinger. "I live in a world surrounded by it. With each of them I try to dazzle the viewer with delight! I have been told that my work makes people happy. That is my intention. Often people miss the presence of color. I like to remind them of it. I isolate a flower garden, a piece of glass, my approach to a waterfall and any images that I see in my mind. The color and texture both create a feeling of depth within the canvas. I often quip that 'color is my middle name!' "


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Artists' Reception: Saturday June 1st, 2 to 4 PM.
Exhibition: May 30 - July 2, 2013
Gallery Hours: Monday - Thursday 10 AM - 8 PM; Friday and Saturday 10 AM to 5 PM.

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Meet The Artist: Oil Landscapes from Mike Angelis

Mike Angelis paints oils all around New Haven.  Can you guess where this was painted?  

Here is a sample of the band that will be playing.