Flinn Gallery's fourth show of the season: "INTERIORS"...

SAVE THE DATE!

There will be a Gallery Talk with all five artists on Sunday March 1, at 2pm.

All are welcome!

"INTERIORS" 

Opening Thursday January 29 from 6-8pm

We had a terrific opening last night with about 160 visitors celebrating our artists...

Daniel Bohman

Nicole Cohen

Echo Eggebrecht

Beth Livensperger

Roxa Smith

Artists have long been interested in depicting interiors - whether to prove their ability to create three-dimensional space, a love of objects, or still life - or perhaps a desire to create a setting injected with political, religious or personal ideas.  The five artists in "INTERIORS" go beyond simple graphic achievement to explore real expression. Steeped in the tradition of Van Gogh's iconic painting, " Bedroom in Arles" , these artists are interested in the psychological exploration of interior space that exists between representation and abstraction.  Familiar spaces are turned unpredictable, edgy, flattened or unstable, yet have their own logic and arrangement.

Nicole Cohen's videos bring together past and present.  Each begins with the stillness of a historical period interior and is boldly interrupted by new digital animation.  The overlay provides a new narrative of mystery, humor or excitement as old collides with new.

Beth Livensperger's focus is on notions of spatial organization.  Objects and how they are arranged or displayed make us question our relationship to public interior settings.  Objects appear and disappear or are bisected to block our view .  Paint inselt becomes a screen or barrier between viewer and image.

Painter Daniel Bohman's seemingly familiar rooms are artificial spaces featuring collaged elements of emotional significance.  He further disorients the viewer by blotting out or masking off areas to become "thought bubbles" that distance us from totally inhabiting his interiors.

The surreal or inexplicable is explored in  Echo Eggebrecht's intimate interiors.  They seem to dipict an event- a scene that is out of order or pushing toward a memory, but doesn't quite make sense.  Filled with painstaking detail of commonplace objects, plants,, and personal symbols, the artist's painted world melds with the viewer's  own narrative.

Roxa Smith infuses the everyday world with extraordinary beauty.  Her richly patterned surface and bold color engulf the viewer.  The hyper-clarity of objects in Roxa Smith's interiors is flattened with a deceptive perspective.  These intricate, domestic spaces signify " home" and its inhabitants, yet the people are absent.

The curators, Tracy McKenna and Kirsten Pitts will present a Gallery Talk with "INTERIORS"  artists on Sunday March 1 at 2pm in the gallery and will be on view through March 11, 2015.

All artwork is for sale with a portion of the proceeds going to The Friends of Greenwich Library.

Gallery Talk

for 

"Reconnecting with Nature"

Sunday January 11, at 2pm

Stop by to meet the artists

Katie DeGroot, Daniel Mosher Long,
Kathleen Vance and Lisa Warren.

"Reconnecting with Nature" opening reception Thursday December 11, 6-8pm

"RECONNECTING WITH NATURE"

opening reception 

December 11, 6-8pm

Katie DeGroot

Dan Mosher Long

Kathleen Vance

Lisa Warren

"Reconnecting with Nature" stems from the idea that we live in a world surrounded by man's creations which may isolate us from nature's vitalizing energy.  The works selected for this exhibit encourage viewers to reawaken their awareness of the powerful influence contained in the earthly rhythms.

Opening Reception Thursday, October 30 6-8pm

Meet the artists!

and 

Gallery Talk with Amanda Means, Dan Nelken and Francine Fleischer

Sunday November 2, at 2pm.

"in focus" features seven artists' visions in photography.

The exhibit is on view through December 3, 2014 - all artwork for sale with a portion of the proceeds of each sale going to The Friends of Greenwich Library. 

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'RELATIVITY'  artist

Riad Miah gave an Artist Talk on September 14, 2014

He discussed the inspiration and process in his paintings.

Riad works in oil paint and Galkyd medium (resin painting medium) ... and approaches his paintings "...much like a scientist approaches his or her research, but he is interested in the aesthetics and process of discovery, rather than in solving a problem."

Stop by the gallery and see Riad's work up close ...along with 3 other artists' work - 

Grace DeGennaro, Karen Kamenetzky and Anne Lilly.

'RELATIVITY' IS ON VIEW THROUGH OCTOBER 22, 2014

The Flinn Gallery presents " RELATIVITY"

On view through October 22, 2014

Riad Miah

Grace DeGennaro

Anne Lilly

Karen Kamenetzky

Riad Miah - " I approach the creation of these paintings somewhat as a scientist approaches his/her research: interested in the aesthetics and the process of discovery rather than solving a problem."  He works in oil paint on square format canvas mounted on wood panel.  Riad will give an Artist Talk on Sunday September 14 at 2pm.

Grace DeGennaro - "My work is informed by my study of ancient uses of pattern, symmetry and iconic symbolism in traditional forms such as Tantric drawings, Navaho weavings and Byzantine mosaics.  Modern interpretations of these vocabularies include geometric abstraction and Robert Lawlor's sacred geometry."

Anne Lilly says of her work - " I use carefully engineered motion to shift and manipulate our perception of time and space."  Employing opposing modalities -analytical and intuitive, rational and emotional her stainless steel sculptures elicit new connections between the physical space outside ourselves and our own private psychological domain.

Karen Kamenetzky - " My fiber wall hangings are inspired by microscopic/cellular imagery... a kind of invented biology zooming in on that fundamental nature of things and bringing it into vision."

'RELATIVITY'

ARTIST TALK 

Riad Miah 

Sunday September 14 at 2pm

"RELATIVITY" artist Riad Miah will be discussing his  beautiful paintings his inspiration and his painstaking process on Sunday September 14 in the gallery at 2pm...All are Welcome!