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!

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.

 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."

"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