"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."

"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"

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.

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 

'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.

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.

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.