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.

MOTHER GOOSE RE-IMAGINED

Sponsored by the Friends of Greenwich Library "Mother Goose Re-Imagined" opened December 6, 2012 with a huge reception... artists, authors, families and children came to celebrate the opening of this wonderful new show featuring the Children's Book Illustrator Group of New York (CBIG).


CBIG was founded in 1987 by a group of  Brooklyn children's book illustrators.  Now with more than 50 members this versatile group has experience in children's publishing, editorial illustration, commercial design, animation, fine art and teaching art.

The new and re-imagined illustrations of the classic Mother Goose stories in a wide range of  mediums - collage, watercolor, oil, pen and ink and photography adorn the bright yellow walls of the gallery and will be on exhibit through January 16, 2013.  Accompanying the work on the walls will be the original rhymes and "re-imagined" texts by some of the artists.

Curators for the show include Jamee Becker, Martha Deegan and Linda Butler all members of the
Flinn Gallery art committee - a volunteer committee that selects, hangs and curates six different exhibitions a year in the gallery.  The curators have also created a cozy reading corner in the gallery for this particular show featuring a multitude of Mother Goose books - so bring the children in to read and see the work.

On January 6 beginning at 1pm there will be an artist talk, demonstration and docent tour.
Meet some of the artists and discover the inspiration and personal connections behind the work on exhibit with a special art demonstration by artist Roberta Rivera.  Artists Lisa Lavoie, Marilyn Papas, Roberta Rivera, Clare Pernice, H. Ruth Karpes and Donna Miskend, President of CBIG will participate.

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

 

Welcome to our new Flinn Gallery Eblog... we have been out of the picture for awhile getting our new website up and online.

We are online again with a whole new look.  You can now scroll through the site and see everything new about the Flinn. Our archives - alphabetical and chronological - will introduce you to the amazing  artists who have exhibited for over eighty plus years.
Check our 2012-2013 season calendar for exhibits and artists talks, view our new Artist Submission form to apply online or download and print to send.  Read the history of the gallery and also  how you can join the Art Committee.  We also welcome your email comments and questions about the artists, their work and our openings.

Our current exhibit is " Water, Water Everywhere ".  This exhibit opened on September 6th to kick off our 2012-0213 season and if you haven't seen it - get over to the library and meet us at the top of the stairs before it closes Wednesday October 17th at 5pm.

 "Water..." features six artists: John Harris, Gary Hall, Michele C. Kishita, Roger Kizik, Brechin Morgan and Suzanne Howes-Stevens.

John Harris's work explores water's physical properties - reflection, turbidity,rhythm and pattern that make up its unique viewing experience.  The result is a series of peaceful and hypnotic paintings.

Gary Hall's black and white photograph landscape prints are exquisite views of Vermont and the Adirondacks.

Michele C. Kishita a Philadelphia-based artist,synthesizes her childhood memories of rural Pennsylvania and her experiences living in Japan into mixed media landscapes.  Her recent work is inspired by the serenity of Milton Avery's ocean series and Katsushika Hokusai's waterfalls and waves.

Roger Kizik's art has graced the Flinn walls before.  His art has always ranged between the abstract and representational because he has always loved art and nature equally.  Roger imbues his work with  great wit and and humor.

Brechin Morgan grew up near the water for most of his life.  In 1998 he left Block Island on his 27 ft.cutter rigged sailboat Otter and sailed single-handed around the world.  The paintings in this exhibit come from his voyage covering 32,000 miles and 32 countries!

Suzanne Howes-Stevens finds inspiration for her paintings during canoe trips among Connecticut's marshes, rivers and swamps. Here she captures the shifting elements of land and water interacting with the sky and light.

Six very different artists with six beautifully different perspectives on water.



Our next exhibit will be "9 x 9 x 3: Textile Study Group of NY" a show that is travelling throughout the United States.  The opening reception is October 25th from 6-8pm and the show will run through November 28, 2012.  This juried exhibit features an engaging selection of 52 works of fiber art each designed to fit in a 9x9x3 inch wooden box.  The works display a wide range of fiber skills including stitching, spinning, beading, knotting, weaving, basketry, felting and paper-making.

Public Faces, Private Stories: Emma Dodge Hanson

May 16, 2011

Yesterday in the Greenwich Library's Meeting Room when the day was very monotone in shades of gray, photographer Emma Dodge Hanson talked fluidly about her brilliant black and white portraits from her book, Solo showcasing her portraits and interviews of best known women in the music world, to some of the war veterans and survivors of the Battle of Stalingrad when she travelled to Russia last year.

Emma also showed photos from her book, Faces of Layla, an orphanage in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Breaking away from her normal medium of black and white photography, Emma shot these photos in color to truly show the vividness of the orphanage and sense of hope instead of  the austerity and bleakness of the situations. The author David Guterson wrote of this book "... complex web of light and life that animates these resilient and heartbreakingly beautiful children. These photos offer up the grief, delight, perseverance that are so pervasive at Layla House."

Emma talked about her five Rules for a good photo - composition, tones, the moment, the story and the personal investment. For instance, look closely at Sheryl Crow in this photo. You know she is a serious female rock vocalist and has a tough side to her. But, you can see and feel the softness and tenderness  that was taken in a brief moment.  Emma always tries to distract the person's thinking from the photo shoot so that they will be relaxed and "in the moment." She may ask them about a child, or something funny that happened to them in the past, just something to get their mind off of being photographed.

Professionally, Emma always has her digital camera ready to capture the moments that are so fleeting and unexpected.  She also revealed that she doesn't use any photo software programs to change anything in her photos. And, her favorite time to shoot when the natural light is perfect - an hour before sunset. 

While in Russia last year, Emma experienced the tales of torture, death and grief from some of the 49 survivors of the Battle of Stalingrad ( a major battle of World War II in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in southwestern Russia. It took place between July 17, 1942 and  February 2, 1943)  Even though Emma was unable to understand the Russian language, she understood their gestures, facial expressions and tears when retelling their life stories.

To see life through the camera lens is to see life's events for a moment but captured forever.