Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Opening Thursday December 12, 2013  6 - 8pm

Meet the artists at the opening

Thursday, November 21, 2013





ON THE MOVE
Opened Thursday December 12, 2013 

with artists...
Laure Dunne, Lisbeth Firmin, Pierre Gagnon, Charlie Hunter,
Andrei Palmer, Joel Sokolov and Judith Wyer

Let's move on with them! ... seven artists will display their work in " ON THE MOVE" through January 22, 2014.

Charlie Hunter paints " what nature does to what man creates, and nowhere is that more evident that what time and weather do to railroads."

Judith Wyer has been exhibiting her brightly colored paintings of ephemeral moments in life in individual, group and juried show for more than two decades.  "My subject finds me," she said. 
 " I don't find it.  When it does, I must be prepared with camera and sketch book."

The photographs of Laure Dunne are from a series called " Wings and Wheels," showing older planes, motorcycles and vehicles on the freeways of southern California.  " I work in color and black and white to capture a mood, an emotion or a particular point of view".

Paris-born Pierre Gagnon was a textile designer for Ralph Lauren and Alexander Julian, and now owns Couleur Provence in Darien, where he works with interior designers on decorative painting of walls, floors, panels and furniture.  But Pierre's artistic priority is painting on canvas depicting scenes of the Venice and Paris from his travels.

Contemporary realist Lisbeth Firmin explores the relationship between people and their environment.  Bold blocks of color produce an abstract interplay of shapes in urban landscapes that fall into place when viewed at a distance. The Kentucky native lives and works in Frankin, NY.

Award winning Joel Sokolov is originally from NYC and now lives on the " big island" of Hawaii in Pahoa.  "Photography is a part of my creative life which provides me with imagery for my painting.  Jets,  views from the back seat of taxi's, freeways, trains, train stations and airports are amongst the subject matter that I photograph  - they depict my time, place and lifestyle.

Andrei  Palmer was adopted at the age of six from an orphanage in Romania.  He draws detailed sketches of automobiles on cardboard sheets recycled from pallets.  The the frame, he attaches chicken wire, blister-packaging plastic and fabric to create his unique cars. He was discovered at the Outsider Art Fair held in NYC this past February. This 22 yr.old folk artist now lives in Atlanta.

All art work is for sale, with a portion of the proceeds going to the Friends of the Greenwich Library.

The exhibit will be on view Monday through Saturday from 10-5, Thursdays from 10-8 and Sundays from 1-5. 


Tuesday, October 29, 2013



'DAY IN, DAY OUT...'

Stop by the gallery to see Stephen Coyle's way of seeing at the beach... luminescent color and light in every day beach scenes... and then Heidi Broner's " At Work" series... "...workers moving with unselfconscious grace and assurance in their world..." 

David Bradford's interiors, landscapes, sailboats... in captivating color

Maddy Le Mel's delicate, magical wire sculptures and assemblage

all on view in the gallery through December 4, 2013.

Monday, October 21, 2013




DAY IN DAY OUT
OPENING 
THURSDAY OCT. 24, 2013 

... ON VIEW THROUGH
DECEMBER 4, 2013

With artists David Bradford, Heidi Broner, Stephen Coyle and Maddy Le Mel

David Bradford, artist and college teacher, paints landscapes, interiors, still life, murals and abstracts.

Heidi Broner paints, illustrates books, makes oversized outdoor pieces for the band, Phish and has worked for the Bread and Puppet Theater.  For 14 years she has hand-engraved drawings on black granite and in 2003 began a series of paintings " At Work" of laboring folk.

Stephen Coyne has exhibited country- wide and around the world.  "I live my life, observe and paint."

Maddy Le Mel is a "scavenger poet" who uses found objects to create articulations of light and space in sculpture, assemblage and installation.

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Friday, September 13, 2013




ALL THE PRETTY HORSES
MICHAEL MANNING

The first exhibit of our 2013 - 2014 season
OPENED LAST NIGHT September 12 with a great crowd and an impromptu performance of 
the lullaby "All the Pretty Horses" by the esteemed soprano Claire Stadmueller!

We welcome Michael back to the Flinn after ten years with a whole new body of exciting work.

"The dual and ambivalent nature of human beings has long been a dominant theme in my work.  My paintings often situate human and animal figures in otherwise abstract environments.  The horse dominates this recent series of paintings, and is sometimes combined with a human figure.  Appearing in awkward, unnatural positions, these forms become metaphors for human behavior, especially our depraved tendencies.  While reflecting a human capacity for empathy, the unsettled figures also conjure egregious acts of cruelty.  Faded, washed away, and redrawn in multiple layers, my images create a visual language that suggests the dual and often contradictory sides of human behavior.  The paintings are an ongoing balancing act between abstract and concrete imagery, and convey a message without overtly telling a story."  - Michael Manning

The exhibit will be on view through October 16, 2013.  Visit us... and Like us on Facebook!

Monday, September 9, 2013




ALL THE PRETTY HORSES
MICHAEL MANNING 

 THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
OPENING RECEPTION 6-8PM


 

Friday, August 30, 2013



OPENING OUR 2013-2014 SEASON

ALL THE PRETTY HORSES





MICHAEL MANNING
ALL THE PRETTY HORSES

OPENING RECEPTION SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
6 -8 PM


ON VIEW THROUGH OCTOBER 16, 2013



Saturday, June 22, 2013



THE FLINN WELCOMES OUR
SECOND SUMMER RENTAL
TO THE GALLERY... 


 ART SOCIETY OF OLD GREENWICH

" REFLECTIONS"

JULY 25 - AUGUST 13, 2013







COMING IN SEPTEMBER...

Flinn Gallery resumes their 2013-2014 exhibition season


"MICHAEL MANNING: ALL THE PRETTY HORSES"


 Opening Reception from 6-8pm
 Thursday September 12 
All are welcome!



"ALL THE PRETTY HORSES" 
on view through October 16


Sunday, June 9, 2013


VERY SHORT STORIES
CONCEPTUAL ILLUSTRATION

JACKIE WELSH


Artist Talk with Jackie Welsh
Saturday June 15 at 2pm
in the Gallery 

Tuesday, May 28, 2013


VERY SHORT STORIES
CONCEPTUAL ILLUSTRATION

MARC ROSENTHAL
THIS SATURDAY!! AT 2pm in second floor Meeting Room! 



ARTIST TALK 
with 
MARC ROSENTHAL
in the 2nd Floor Meeting Rm.
Saturday June 8 at 2 pm.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

The curators of our current exhibition 
"VERY SHORT STORIES"
invite you to come to see artists 
Roz Chast, Leslie Giuliani, Marc Rosenthal and Jackie Welsh and their interpretation of 
Conceptual Illustration.
On view in the gallery through June 19,2013.

Thursday, May 16, 2013


VERY
SHORT
STORIES


LESLIE GIULIANI 
will discuss her work
SUNDAY MAY19 AT 2PM


IN THE FLINN GALLERY


Wednesday, May 15, 2013

ROZ CHAST ARTIST TALK IN THE COLE AUDITORIUM MONDAY MAY 13 AT 7pm

VERY
SHORT
STORIES



Roz Chast wowed 144 enthralled patrons Monday night in the Cole, the highpoint of the AuthorsLive series so far this year and highest attendance since Bill Bryson two years ago. She presented an overview of her career, actually talking the audience through her New Yorker cartoons and doing the voices of all the characters. Roz also explained her work process and the technique she uses to do her Faberge-type eggs. She is a very funny lady and her talk was punctuated by howls of laughter from the audience. She traced her career from Brooklyn to the Rhode Island School of Design to the New Yorker to her current residence in Ridgefield. She offered a preview of a book in progress about her aging parents, both sad and funny with life drawings of their last years alternating with her usual wacky color cartoon panels of the same. We hope to have her back when the book is completed. There was the usual fascinating  Q&A from the audience covering a lot of ground. It could best be described as a Love-In with her opening greeting and ending accompanied by thunderous applause. The Flinn Gallery stayed open until 9 so the audience could take in the show after the talk. We would like to tip our hat and thank the Flinn Gallery Committee, particularly York Baker and Deborah Fram, the curators of this show. We thank them for assembling this dazzling show and for getting Roz Chast to speak tonight, something we have fantasized about for years. With humor, deft, elegant drawing and luminous color the artists in the final show of the Flinn Art Gallery's 2012 - 2013 season tell "Very Short Stories." They are Roz Chast, Leslie Giuliani, Marc Rosenthal and Jackie Welsh  The exhibition will run through June 19. The show is "Very Short Stories: Conceptual Illustration"
A podcast is in the works and will soon be available on the Library website.

Wayne Campbell
Program and Film Librarian
Greenwich Library
101 West Putnam Avenue
Greenwich CT 06830

You can hear a podcast of this talk if you go to the Greenwich Library website!










Thursday, May 2, 2013


VERY SHORT STORIES
CONCEPTUAL ILLUSTRATION

TONIGHT MONDAY MAY 13 7PM

ARTIST TALK
 Roz Chast 
 part of the Author's Alive series in 
Cole Auditorium Monday May 13, 7 pm
in conjunction with a book signing ...
Gallery will be open that evening until 9 pm.

Saturday, April 20, 2013

 ARTISTS TALKS

Roz Chast in the Cole Auditorium 
Monday May 13 at 7 pm

Leslie Giuliani in the Gallery 
 Sunday MAY 19 at 2 pm

Marc Rosenthal in the 2nd Floor Meeting Room 
Saturday June 8 at 2 pm

Jackie Welsh in the Gallery
Saturday June 15 at 2 pm

"Very Short Stories: Conceptual Illustration"



"Very Short Stories: Conceptual Illustration"

Opening Thursday May 9, 2013 
with an opening reception 
from  6 - 8 pm.

 Roz Chast, Leslie Giuliani, Marc Rosenthal and Jackie Welsh

"With humor, deft, elegant drawing and luminous color our artists in the final show of the Flinn Gallery's 2012-2013 season tell us stories.
The show, subtitled " Conceptual Illustration" reminds us that stories are not always words and that often words only tell part of the story.  In the ageless tradition of story telling the image has long been partner to the word.  To these "Very Short Stories we bring our own perspectives, often seeing details or gaining understanding in the second or third look that we might
not have noticed at first glance.  In this sense the viewer is part of the story being told."

Tuesday, March 19, 2013



"A Fine Line: James Kennedy & Nancy Koenigsberg"

Opened Thursday March 14 and will be on view through Wednesday May 1, 2013

An Artists Walk and Talk will be in the gallery 
Sunday April 14, 2013 at 2 pm

"Ruminations On Red"  James Kennedy


 "Sea-Sky"  Nancy Koenigsberg



 James Kenndy wih his "Reciprocal Arrangement"



Nancy Koenigsberg with her "Cleft"






Tuesday, March 12, 2013



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A Fine Line
Kennedy & Koenigsberg


The Flinn Gallery, sponsored by the Friends of Greenwich Library, will present an exhibition featuring the artworks of Nancy Koenigsberg and James Kennedy, artists who focus on line, shape and form. 

An opening reception for “A Fine Line – Kennedy and Koenigsberg” will be held from 6 to 8 pm on Thursday, March 14, on the Library’s second floor.

Nancy Koenigsberg uses textile techniques – weaving, knotting and crochet in her steel and copper wire works. The work is
a synthesis of the natural world and the technological environment. Using the medium of narrow-gauge electrical wire, her wall-hung and free-standing sculptural works form lace-like layers of nets, allowing for transparency, the passage of light and the formation of shadows.
She creates a sense of weightlessness
and luminescence by manipulating the industrial wire, creating delicate textiles that contradict the strength and durability of the metal.
A graduate of Goucher College, the
New York City artist later attended the New School for Social Research in fiber art, Skidmore College and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Her work
has been seen over a span of more than
a quarter-century in both solo and invitational shows from New York to Hawaii, from Europe to Asia. Koenigsberg is the co-founder, president emeritus,
and program director of the Textile Study Group of New York, and is represented
in the public collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts
in Houston and the Museum of Arts and Design as well as private collections. 

Born in County Down in Northern Ireland, James Kennedy has lived in the U.S. for the past nine years, working in Long Island City at the Surface Library Atelier + Gallery he co-founded with ceramist, Bob Bachler. Educated in
the UK and Ireland, Kennedy holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Royal Scottish Academy and post-graduate degrees in architectural design and choreography.
Over the last decade, the work of the award-winning Kennedy has been featured in both solo and group shows, from Art Basel Miami to the Royal Dublin Society. The work of this alchemist and master craftsman places shapes and forms within landscapes and their various abstractions. At the same time, he explores the linguistics of music, mathematics, dance and architecture in his personal language of form and color.

The show will run from March 14 to May 1, and may be enjoyed Monday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm, with extended hours to 8 pm on Thursday and from 1 to 5 pm on Sundays.

In addition, the gallery will present an ARTIST'S TALK with James Kennedy and Nancy Koenigsberg on Sunday, April 14, at 2 pm.


Artworks will be available for sale, with a portion going to the Friends of Greenwich Library.





Wednesday, February 6, 2013






Mark it on your Calendar!

Long view in gallery of Jacob Rhodes " A Drunkard's Path and Andy Lane's  "Horse and  "Cutting Grass"



Yale MFA: Five Years Later
will be on view through March 6, 2013.

Artist Walk and Talk
March 3, 2013 at 3pm 






Friday, January 25, 2013

'Yale MFA: Five Years Later'



'Yale MFA: Five Years Later' opened last night with a great reception and all the artists were there to receive the huge crowd who came to celebrate them.


"Students in the Yale MFA programs are extremely committed.  Giving up or failing isn't really an issue.  The question is really how far can they push themselves, what problems are they willing to take on, and how much can they develop beyond what they already know." 

"These seven artists are all at a point where their graduate experience is, probably, hopefully far from their minds.  It's a place where they have found their own paths and are establishing their own voices."
 Clint Jukkala, Associate Professor, Yale


"My work involves an integrated attempt at creating hybrid forms of planned ideas and things discovered through the process of making."   John Bianchi 

"I am constantly researching advances in engineering, science, and technology.  My work is driven by these new advances outside of art, but at heart my art is focused on a traditional object-oriented approach to sculpture."   Johnathan Brand

"My paintings are about extended moments of solitude, often within public spaces.  Within these moments, one can focus on light, color, objects, labor, history etc. to show places that don't instantly reveal their function, so that one experiences them as offering a sense of possibility and freedom."
    Beth Livensperger

"Light and color figure more prominently in my current work.  Singular form has given way to pattern. I have also become interested in social practice: teaching, collaborative painting projects, and arts and healthcare work."   Cat Balco

"My paintings create a field of selective focus.  Activity occurs both in and out of this zone. The effect is jarring, because the viewer is unable to connect their blurred vision.  This discomfort suggests psychological states of unease..."   Andy Lane

" My work explores codes of masculinity, class and the inherent violence in homo-social interaction." And " ...opens a discourse about the intersection between craft, subculture as family and alienation."   
     Jacob Rhodes

"My work is centered around my desire to feel connected to nature and to experience wildness.  The paintings portray specific places I have explored and revisited with family and friends throughout my life."   Breehan James


'Yale MFA: Five Years Later' is curated by Tracy McKenna and Kirsten Dieterich Pitts and will be on view through March 6, 2013.


Thursday, January 10, 2013

Coming Soon... "Yale MFA: Five Years Later"


"Yale MFA: Five Years Later"

Opening Thursday January 24, 2013 with a reception open to the public... 6-8pm.

 Featuring seven artists who earned their MFAs at Yale in 2007-2008, this exhibit explores their artistic development after graduation.

Artists included are Cat Balco, John Bianchi, Johnathan Brand, Breehan James, Andy Lane, Beth Livensperger and Jacob Rhodes.  
The exhibit is curated by Tracy McKenna and Kirsten Dieterich Pitts.


All  artwork will be available for purchase.
A portion of each sale goes to the Friends of Greenwich Library.

"Yale MFA: Five Years Later" will be on view in the gallery through March 6, 2013.




Wednesday, January 2, 2013

HAPPY 2013!

Happy New Year from the Flinn!!

If you haven't visited "Mother Goose Re-Imagined" make an intention ...( rather than a "resolution"-we don't seem to follow through on them!?)  ... to bring your children in ... sit in our reading corner and show them the fun, imaginative renderings and 'reimaginings' of the Children's Book Illustrator Group of NY.

The many brilliant artists included in the show are: Angelique Ellyn Anderson, Deborah Cuneo, Diana Ting Delosh, Laura Goetz, Leeza Hernandez, Mike Herrod, Sara Kahn, H. Ruth Karpes, Anna Kim, Ann D. Koffsky, Lisa Lavoie, Kitty Leech, Donna Miskend, Sawaka Noril, Marilyn Papas, Clare Pernice, Barbara Mason Rast, Roberta Rivera, Vicky Rubin, Tatyana Starikova-Harris, Cheryl Taborsky, T.T. Tyler, Wallace West, Brian Yanish.


Join us for our Artist Walk and Talk on January 6 at 1pm. 
 There will be a panel discussion and demonstration -  bring your children!
Participating artists: H. Ruth Karpes, Lisa Lavoie, Donna Miskend, Marilyn Papas, Clare Pernice and Roberta Rivera.