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ARTSPACE’S 15 TH ANNUAL
THE OFFICIAL
MAP & GUIDE
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FRIENDS of
ARTSPACE
Artspace and the Host Committee welcome you to City-Wide Open Studios 2012
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DEAR FRIENDS, DEAR FRIENDS,
ARTSPACE’S 15TH ANNUAL CITY-WIDE OPEN STUDIOS
It is with tremendous pleasure and pride that I welcome you to the 15th edition of Welcome to City Wide Open Studios (CWOS)! For fifteen
City-Wide Open Studios. Each October, Artspace’s festival turns the New Haven years, Artspace has promoted the work of New Haven
area into a mecca for visual artists and our Official Map and Guide offers you, artists. The next three weekends will be full of creative
the visitor, the chance to make your pilgrimage. This year’s event, our first with a activity and I encourage you to attend as many events as
thematic imprint, has invited artists to make new work to help mark our crystal you can. I am very pleased that the City’s Department of
anniversary. We hope you’ll be on the lookout for their special efforts—from X-ray Arts, Culture, and Tourism is again able to partner with
crystallography to transparent plexi-glass pop-up cubes—spanning projects inside the CWOS. Our LAMP (Light Artists Making Places) festival is the perfect complement
studios, at the hub exhibition at Artspace, throughout the Alternative Space, and even to Artspace’s crystal anniversary celebration!
outdoors. Congratulations to Helen Kauder and her team who have worked so hard to bring
I look forward to this time each year to discover new members of our community and CWOS to life. Thank you for all that you do. I would also like to thank all of the
to connect them to the work that artists are already doing in making New Haven a participating artists; your talents and skills are commendable!
better place. More than ever, City-Wide Open Studios is a time to forge connections Vivian Nabeta
with local artists, with fellow supporters of culture and cities, and to revel in the wide Director of Arts, Culture, and Tourism
diversity of approaches toward art-making being taken now. City of New Haven
We could not have arrived at this 15th anniversary without the support of the
hundreds of artists who believe in Artspace and its mission; without the immense DEAR FRIENDS,
dedication of the Artspace staff; and without the support of generous hosts, donors, On behalf of the State of Connecticut, it is my great
and sponsors. I owe a special thanks to Artspace’s Board, whose sustained enthusiasm pleasure to welcome all who are gathered for the 15th
for this program serves to enrich the lives of countless citizens of Greater New Haven. annual City-Wide Open Studios celebration.
Thank you all. Connecticut communities are an inspirational and inviting
—Helen Kauder, Executive Director setting for artists to live and work. We have a long and rich
tradition in the arts and recognize the important contribution art makes to our cities
and towns.
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, HONORARY CHAIR
LEADERSHIP CIRCLE CO-CHAIRS I applaud the work of the Host Committee, Board of Directors, volunteers, sponsors,
Eileen & Andy Eder and especially the artists who have made City-Wide Open Studios possible. My best
Seth Brown & Yve Ludwig wishes for a successful event.
stay for a party that spans the whole return and watch themselves projected onto the cube’s exterior each night.
THE PLAY HOUSE: BEYOND WHAT WAS THE PLAY HOUSE: BEYOND WHAT WAS THE PLAY HOUSE: BEYOND WHAT WAS
12–9 PM | OPENING NIGHT: Oct. 5, 5–10 PM 12–9 PM 12–9 PM
The Lot, 812 Chapel Street The Lot, 812 Chapel Street The Lot, 812 Chapel Street
Darwin Nix, abstract etchings. FREE Keliy Anderson-Staley, tin types. FREE Marianne Bernstein, with Liberty Community
Services clients. FREE
EVENT CALENDAR
OTHER EXHIBITIONS AT ARTSPACE ON VIEW THROUGH OCT. 21 5
Artspace receives general exhibition support from the Andy Warhol Foundation, the City of New Haven Office of Economic Development, Connecticut Office of the Arts, the Greater New
Haven Community Foundation, and Friends of Artspace.
ARTISTS A– Ba
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14 ANNA HELD AUDETTE
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crystallizing work. NEW HAVEN In recent collages I have spliced painted elements OIL
OIL PAINT into rearranged interiors culled from vintage “Bet- My paintings comment on the melancholy beauty
WEEKEND KEY www.breckfess.com ter Homes and Gardens” magazines. I feel that found in relics of our recent industrial past. The
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 each room plays host to an unknowable source of relics remind us that, in our rapidly changing
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 disquiet. Having spent a period of time introduc- world, the triumphs of technology are just a
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 ing the painted gesture into small scale collage, I moment away from obsolescence. Yet these
am now introducing collage principals into larger remains of collapsed power have a strength, grace,
paintings. I am painting house plants and other and sadness that is both eloquent and
domestic ephemera–overlaying the imagery by impenetrable. Transfigured by time and light,
100 PHILLIP ALEXANDER repainting and erasing the canvas many times. which render the ordinary extraordinary, they
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 48 ASPASIA PATTI ANOS www.sophieaston.co.uk form a visual requiem for the industrial age.
FABRIC/PAPER 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
WEST COVE STUDIOS 107 LANI ASUNCION
101 CORINA ALVAREZ DELUGO 30 ELM ST., WEST HAVEN 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 MIXED MEDIA VIDEO
MIXED MEDIA PAINTING These prints, from the series Branford Supply In their use of Hawaiian and Japanese
I love the challenge involved in capturing the Pond extend my ongoing concerns with domestic, folk-histories as well as the landscapes of rural
essence of an object, mood, feeling, person, or interior, and familiar terrains. The Supply Pond, Connecticut and my upbringing overseas and
place using a circle or a sphere, with a minimalist nearby my home, has been a place of escape and across the South in the United States, my videos 63 CAT BALCO
approach. In my work I demonstrate my contemplation for me for many years, and I have are a transference of experience woven into a 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 7 ONLY
interaction with the world around me—from the taken hundreds of photographs of its seasonal visual language of new personal histories. I 114 ARDMORE ST., HAMDEN
natural environment to social consciousness, and changes, growth, and decay. My interest lies in the explore the parallels of painting and video, trying PAINTING
everything in between. I am drawn to texture, dynamic interplay between residue and mark, to ask the question in each work how a video can My large-scale patterned wall paintings begin as
color, and shape as they help me to describe my evidence and response, memory remade by have the same presence as a painting. small abstract paintings of forms and rhythms.
observations and experiences. memory—clarity arrived at through chance and www.laniasuncion.com These small, gestural, colorful first paintings are
www.corinadotdash.com complication. derived from my loose observation of natural
forms. I make these preliminary paintings quickly
to create works that, to me, come close to depicting
the beginning of a life or the awakening of a
moment of great joy. Their simple geometric
compositions connect them to ancient symbols of
108 JUDY ATLAS fertility, life, the sun, and growth.
102 HIL ANDERSON 288 IAN APPLEGATE 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 www.catbalco.com
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PHOTOGRAPHY MIXED/VIDEO I am an abstract artist. My paintings, monotypes,
and collages are interpretations of the patterns,
103 SCOTT ANDREWS rhythms, colors, shapes, and movements found in
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 nature and everyday life. My work relates to places
and landscapes, both real and imagined, external
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I am fascinated by the blur. As humans, we have
instant, intense reactions to images, words,
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thoughts, people’s expressions, sounds, etc. so 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
165 JOHN ARABOLAS COLLAGE
quickly that we often don’t understand what 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
happened until the moment has passed; my goal is DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY, MULTIMEDIA
to make you feel that reaction. I nearly always
layer a work with only two or three raw colors that
104 AMY ARLEDGE
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depth and feeling of movement are established.
ETCHING
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nature. My focus is strictly on the subjects, so often 209 JANICE BARNISH
I present them in solitude to emphasize their 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
individual character and essence. I hope that my INSTALLATION
etchings are a small reminder of the elegant This work uses true stories and real objects as its
harmony in nature. Through printmaking, I also medium. It’s based on the idea that up until a few
like to explore abstracts. Abstracts allow me to centuries ago art was bad engineering, used to
expand my range of expression and enable me to solve problems, like ensuring fertility, good crops,
experiment with new techniques. or a place in heaven. I believe the job of the artist
www.amyarledge.com is still to try and solve problems science can not,
like death and helping lost birds find their way
back on course.
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109 KAREN BARTONE
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112 PAUL BLOOM
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115 ADRIEN BROOM
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122 TONY DONOVAN
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49 EILEEN EDER
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221 CAMILLE ESKELL
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PHOTOGRAPHY WEST COVE STUDIOS DRAWING/PAINTING 39 CHURCH ST., 3H, NEW HAVEN
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 Craig is known as “that bubble guy,” a tag he re- PAINT
131 KATHRYN FRUND My most recent work, the Apollo and Daphne ceived for his works entitled FLOW. In those pieces, www.sgrossman.net
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 series, uses the end of the Greek myth as a starting hand drawn “bubbles” were drawn to capture a
PAINTING point to explore the many ways in which we are flowing feeling. FLOW TO… is a continuation
My paintings and assemblages are inquiries into connected to each other and the natural world. of those works. The bubbles were simplified and
the intricate triangular relationship between www.galvinmichael.com whittled down to one; a perfect circle. These new
nature, science, and spirituality; they are spacial works are brush and ink circles with an inspira-
ecotones. It is through the movement of paint and 50 LAURA GARDNER tion from the enso circles of Zen calligraphy. Each
reconfiguration of objects and materials that the 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 piece is one of its kind.
finished panel begins to heal, bridge, and restore WEST COVE STUDIOS 76 DAVID GROSZ
itself. The work becomes a spiritual as well as 30 ELM ST., WEST HAVEN 230 ROBIN GILMORE 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
material exploration into the nature of our WATERCOLOR 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 14 GILBERT ST., WEST HAVEN
relationships and presence in the landscape. MIXED MEDIA/JEWELRY FURNITURE, WOOD
www.kathrynfrund.com I believe as artists we have the ability and responsi-
bility to create a voice for what is true to the nature 65 JOSEPH GUDDEMI
of our universe. It gives the viewer an opportunity 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
to explore the creative process and find some 68 MULBERRY HILL ST., HAMDEN
connection to themselves. Sometimes the creative WOOD, METAL, PLASTIC
133 CHRIS GARDNER process inspires me to move in various directions
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 with paint or assemblage using found objects or to 137 SARAH GUSTAFSON
PHOTOGRAPHY focus on the subject matter through the magnified 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
193/225FRANCINE FUNKE www.chris-gardner.com inspection of the camera lens. PAINTING/MIXED MEDIA
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 www.etsy.com/shop/madeinbridgeport
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 134 PETER GARDNER 231 ELLEN HACKL FAGAN
DIGITAL COMBINES 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
www.franartstudio.com OIL ON CANVAS PAINTING
I started painting as a way of approaching the Through an interactive game, viewers select
spiritual through an act of creation. Finding the the color(s) that best represent each note in the
higher power is like trying to find the perfect familiar Do Re Mi musical scale. Documenting
line–spiritual perfection can be attempted, their responses in the form of photographs and
surrounded, sketched, and stroked, almost never 36 ALLAN GREENIER notes in journals, I have distilled the data that
achieved; but the central truth–the perfect line– 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 has been gathered and have been painting series
11 MAURA GALANTE can be suggested to the imagination. Like the core WESTVILLE, NEW HAVEN based on these findings. The paintings introduce
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 of a poetic metaphor, the truth, the line, is PRINTMAKING a wonderful completion to this pseudo-scientific
CHRISTOPHER MARTIN’S RESTAURANT revealed. My works are in nature mystical and investigation and celebrate painting and color and
860 STATE ST., NEW HAVEN metaphysical. 135 ROBERT GREGSON the breadth of their communicative potential.
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132 JEAN GALLI My work is a hinge between artist and audience. 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 The pieces are invitations to be involved. By being MIXED
ACRYLIC/OIL able to turn a panel, plywood wall constructions
Faces are my passion; I imagine them in bold give the viewer permission to touch the piece and
strokes of color and light. Though faces remain 226 GREG GARVEY thus become an active player. Geometric grids
29 MISTINA & LUKE HANSCOM
my passion, in recent years I have expanded my 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
allow the work to be rearranged in a variety of
subjects to include figurative and wildlife COMPUTER-BASED DIGITAL VIDEO INSTALLATIONS 1175 STATE ST., #212, NEW HAVEN
ways thus never actually being “finished”–or
paintings. My goal is always to draw viewers in, Good art should look as if there was some struggle PHOTOGRAPHY
frozen into one single image. The work is
create a feeling when they look at the colors, the in its making. Good art is not easy to make. It continually reinterpreted and refreshed through
texture, and the expressions—the whole transcends ideas. Good art should be a little con- those who encounter it. 190.5 BARBARA HARDER
composition reaching out to inspire imagination, troversal. Good art has a little bit of magic in it. www.bobgregson.com 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
create a mood, and ultimately tell a story. PRINTMAKING
www.jeanbronsongalli.com Based on observations of nature, I use the process
227 MEG GIANNOTTI
of printmaking to transform the images via
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installations with unusual juxtapositions. Some
RECYCLED /UPCYCLED ART
images dance across the wall on angular wood
reliefs, while others are printed on translucent,
136 KEN GRIMES billowing paper. The dialogue of disparate yet
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 related imagery offers the viewer both a sense of
OIL energy and serenity and invites one to explore the
singularity of form and see into surprising new
spaces.
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Salutes the
15th Annual
City-Wide Open Studios (CWOS)
For all their years of service
and support of the
New Haven community
Contributing to a
Strong New Haven
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ARTISTS Ha– Ke
233 JAMES HARDY
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202 ELISSA HINE
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141 NOE JIMENEZ
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147 KATHY KANE
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SCULPTURE PRINTMAKING PAINT PAINTING
I combine a disciplined, formal painting process I paint for the dialogue. Making art is the manifest My work explores the realm of inventions and
149 JAIME KRIKSCIUN with the raw spontaneity of chance and intuition. I part of an ongoing conversation. My immediate inventors, borrowing elements from engineering
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 approach each piece with an understanding of a goal within the picture space is to merge figurative diagrams, floor plans, patents, maritime charts,
GLASS physical image and allow internal forces of moments with personal geometric awareness. My and other types of informational drawing. These
I use the copper foil method of stained glass perception and impulse to collide with the external exploration and understanding of the images get combined into sprawling hybrid
construction in building my pieces. My body of forces of possibility and playfulness. My work relationships and identities of point, line, and constructs, using formats derived from religious
work consists of panels of stained glass meant to remains driven by the materiality of paint. grid—although abstract (and often duplicitous) diagrams such as Mandalas and Tantric drawings.
filter light, depicting everyday objects rendered in Language found its way into my work and dances ‘structures’ we impose on an organic world - serve I have begun to invoke plant and insect forms,
glass. Many of my window designs are framed alongside. Text serves to energize the physicality of as starting points for work. Oil, wax, graphite, and structures and surfaces, as my mechanisms
within salvaged window panes. My work is the painted surface. charcoal are vehicles of choice. mutate into something hovering between the
composed of a wide variety of glasses, from www.janetlage.com organic and the constructed.
machine rolled, to handblown, to glass no longer www.marthalewis.com
in production, to pieces rescued from old
churches.
www.flickr.com/photos/jaksdesigns
197 HANNAH LECKMAN
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CERAMICS
I work primarily on the wheel, although I enjoy 75 MARTY LILLIS
some handbuilding and sculptural detail on 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
pottery as well. I love what is round, what swirls, 261 CLIFTON ST.
like music. My work tends to be functional, AIRBRUSH, ACRYLIC
because I want my objects to be useful as well as
beautiful. I make plates and bowls, vases and 52 EVIE LINDEMANN
candlesticks, casseroles, and goblets. The variety 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
and scope of work in clay is almost endless and I WEST COVE STUDIOS
am always experimenting. 30 ELM ST., WEST HAVEN
PRINTMAKING
31 JORDAN NODELMAN
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WESTVILLE, NEW HAVEN
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I am a contemporary, digital photographer. My
247 BETH LOVELL photographs tend toward simplicity and
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minimalism. I am particularly drawn to
WATERCOLOR compositions that often go unnoticed. My
Jane Hirshfield writes: “There is more and more photographs bring the viewer into the world they
I tell no one, strangers nor loves. This slips into move through each day but rarely stop to
the heart without hurry, as if it had never been.” investigate or look to see. My recent body of work
I draw from my daily life: weather, errands, and has been taken at various locations around North
family. I record visually arresting clouds, people America and the Caribbean.
lost in concentration, or random patterns in www.jmnphoto.com
puddles or shadows; but not neccesarily the events
you would recall if someone asked about your day.
www.parismancini.net All my work is about the human condition. For My work is influenced by Post Minimalism and My abstract compositions are inspired by the visual
the last two years, I have been mainly focusing on Neo-Geo and focuses on the geometry of circles, power of marks, lines, and rhythms of written
53 BARBARA MARKS large installations: the Boat People series and the rectangles, squares, and stripes as conceptual languages found in ancient cultures, in the streets
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 Celebration of Life series. In order for me to make structure to a series of individual ideas. Layering and on the walls of my native Italy, and in
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 the installations I have been doing large drawings, forms relationships and mark-making can detail everyday life. I am also intrigued by the marks
WEST COVE STUDIOS painting, and using found objects. I have also patterns that are experiential in life. found in handwriting and signatures, since they
30 ELM ST., WEST HAVEN been painting and drawing on different fabrics, My newest series concentrates on minuscule reflect our individuality. I enjoy deconstructing
OIL and learning the techniques of assemblage, with details in the electron-microscopic and cellular handwriting to isolate and freely reassemble their
www.barbaramarks.com surprising and beautiful results. studies of the invertebrate eye influenced by elements to create an abstract “portrait of the
www.fethimeghelli.com Kandinsky’s series Several Circles. This new work mind.”
is a commentary on visual deterioration. www.morabitoart.com
253 DAVID MEL www.irenekmiller.com
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255 ALAN NEIDER
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54 DOUGLAS NYGREN
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62 PAIER COLLEGE OF ART
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211 ALEXANDRA PHILLIPS
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Latitude 41.3 Project: My work is frequently How do we navigate the natural world of elements
voyeuristic, surreptitiously watching other people’s both large and small? My work is an investigation 269 NOEL SARDALLA
lives from afar. I’m just starting to play around of plankton, the tiniest bits of underwater life, and 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
with an idea where I would “travel” around the of mountains, the largest of the natural elements PAPER & MONOFILAMENT
world, via the internet, along New Haven’s latitude that surround us. What are the cultural influences
of 41.3 degrees, which goes through Portugal, that shape how we experience nature? Stone walls,
Spain, Corsica, Italy, Albania, Macedonia, Greece, narrow streets, dusty roads, magnificent buildings,
262 CHRIS RANDALl Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, all of these are part of our visual lives and affect
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, China, North what we bring to nature.
PHOTOGRAPHY Korea, and Japan. www.cbrubin.net
I like to take pictures...a lot. www.valerierichardson.com
www.chrisrandallphotos.com 172 JOSEPH SACCIO 291 MARTHA SAVAGE
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263 THOMAS REGNER SCULPTURE METAL & NON-METALLIC MATTER
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 My sculptures are in a variety of sizes and MIXED MEDIA COLLAGE
My art combines the scientific and the artistic materials. The majority of my work uses natural I cut up and rearrange, sew and glue paper from
aspects of my personality to play and experiment materials, primarily wood, and found objects, magazines, books, die-cuts, and other material.
265 STEPHEN RODRIGUEZ joined together in a primitivistic manner, The recombinations represent my ironic point of
with the natural world. I explore the beauty and
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 expressing personal feelings associated with myth view. Pictorial elements blend in unnatural ways
richness of natural phenomena, my ability to
STONEWARE POTTERY and ritual, loss and rebirth. The often brutal form and are visually engaging. The small books are
control natural phenomena, and the limitations of
I make stoneware and porcelain pottery reflecting and meaning of these solemn works are in made to be handled and appreciated for their
that control. My current work utilizes water
and inspired by the classic forms which the history contrast to the highly colored, brash, and textural and mechanical qualities. Equally odd are
condensation as a medium. Made entirely of water,
of ceramics has presented to me, particularly the ironically humorous style of those pieces the handmade greeting cards.
the condensation images are ephemeral,
ancient Asian, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese constructed of synthetic materials.
evaporating and reappearing in response to
pottery. The course, or path, on which one
temperature and humidity.
embarks, within the confines of a certain
www.thomasregner.com
tradition, are many-fold and History is always
presenting itself in a new light. This is the
challenge that provokes me towards new works in
clay.
www.stephenrodriguezpottery.com 174 MARK SAVOIA
268 RUTH SACK PHOTOGRAPHY
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ENCAUSTIC PAINT I have a tongue-in-cheek view of Americana and I
My latest work has been about insides and am constantly looking for evidence that below the
outsides. I choose elements of each, such as what’s surface something is not quite right in this
above and below the skin of people and animals. country. It is what visually perplexes me that draws
Outsides are expansive and insides are heavily my eye, and then becomes a compelling
detailed. During my open studio time at the Alter- photograph. Through the camera’s selective view, I
native Space I intend to create encaustic paintings juxtapose what is considered progress in our
about crystals: their shapes, structures, uses, and throwaway society against an increasing lack of
outer appearances. These will be spontaneous taste. I am not attempting two-dimensional
works on paper using encaustic and monotype slapstick, but rather satire laced with a few
techniques. Freudian slips.
www.laughingcamera.com
2 GERALD SALADYGA
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
39 CHURCH ST., NEW HAVEN
PAINTING
I consider myself a landscape painter, but not in
the traditional sense. My gaze went from looking
outwards to looking back and within the 270 MARCUS SCHAEFER
landscape. I imagined landscapes as viewed from 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
beyond the planet looking back on to it, and from METAL & NON-METALLIC MATTER
within it looking out. As a painter, I believe, one I define my art as Predystopian. Art that evokes a
can no longer rely on 19th century formulas for future that never was and art that acknowledges
painting landscapes that lack the encroachment the human tendency towards nostalgia for past
of sprawl, pollution, and natural and human days that were not so good when they were hap-
devastation. pening. Consequently every generation tends to
www.geraldsaladyga.com have those that think their world is on the brink of
collapsing into a dystopia even though mankind
has ever managed to stagger forwards despite the
occasional backslide.
www.aberrant-tech.deviantart.com
ARTISTS Sc– St
68 MORGAN SCHWARTZ 105 SIDEWAYS & ASKEW, 272 CHRISTINA SPIESEL
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276 FRONT ST., NEW HAVEN
A COLLABORATION
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3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
PAINT CURATOR-LED
STUDIO VISITS
WHAT
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3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 PRINTMAKING DIGITAL
ARTSPACE’S 15TH ANNUAL CITY-WIDE OPEN STUDIOS
JEWELRY The blending of science and nature, together with My work engages in processes which are digitally
ARTSPACE?
and as a means to interpret my creative inspira- work. I believe in producing art that is affordable most adequately described as recycling, wherein
tion in the form of beautiful adornments. My work and accessible to everyone. My catalog ranges an object is physically constructed, photographed,
looks for the harmony in chaos, the comfort in from basic and simplistic forms printed on a and digitized. Once digitized, the image is
asymmetry, and the freedom within restriction. t-shirt, to more complex images that are worthy of deconstructed and introduced as a digital palette
Artspace is a dynamic non-profit The macro and micro worlds of nature are always galleries and museums. I strive to create pieces from which I create a print. I allow for further
organization whose mission is to a driving force behind my work, especially the that have a timeless appeal, while still confluence by utilizing printing techniques, which
overwhelming power and wonder of the sea. maintaining cultural relevancy. create a sense of texture within a two-dimensional
connect contemporary artists, audi- www.etsy.com/shop/stockboydesigns?ref=si_shop space.
ences, and resources; to catalyze 179 KEVIN STEVENS www.paultheriault.biz
artistic activities; and to enrich art 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
MIXED MEDIUM 42 KATHLEEN THOMA
experiences and activate art spaces. I view art as the individual expression during the 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
Artspace has helped thousands process of getting from a blank ground to a WEST COVE STUDIOS
finished work of art. This being so, the finished 30 ELM ST., WEST HAVEN
of emerging artists develop their product is really never the end result. It is only an PRINTMAKING-MONOTYPE
careers through exhibition, teaching, experience to be applied to the next voyage, 180 RASHMI TALPADE My work uses abstract patterns, shapes, and color
eliminating what did not work and carrying 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 to tell a non-verbal story. I use brilliant color
and commissioning opportunities.
forward that which did. When I apply this DRAWING contrasted with somber or dark tones to create
Our programs give visual artists philosophy to my painting, each painting As a photographer my work reflects my space and movement. I have a story line in my
unparalleled visibility, training and hopefully becomes a springboard for the next. surroundings in minute detail. My photographs head as I create, which starts with my choice of
www.artbykevinstevens.com evolve into photo collages of dense, reconstructed colors in most cases. Mood is very much a part of
income, and are designed to foster landscapes which speak of history, humanity, and my work, as it is often my emotional state which
appreciation for the vital role that our place in it. The collages then metamorphose determines the color choices.
artists play in improving the com- into drawings of everyday objects creating an www.KathleenThoma.com
optical play of visual depth. Geometric forms and
munity. clean sharp lines, juxtaposed on a background of
multi-layered geometric paper shapes, merge
We need your help! Please consider abstraction with realism to build an environment
contributing to Artspace to help that comments upon consumerism and
replenishment. 194 REGINA THOMAS
keep our gallery and programs run- 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
www.rashmi.NeoImages.net
ning. Your gift is fully tax deductible WEST COVE STUDIOS
and can be mailed to Artspace at 30 ELM ST., WEST HAVEN
PAINTING
50 Orange Street, New Haven, CT
06510. You may also make dona-
tions online at www.artspacenh.org/
donate.asp.
Want to get involved in other ways? 20 SARA THOMAS
Know how to hang artwork, paint 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
ELI WHITNEY MUSEUM BARN
walls, drive a truck, answer phones, 920 WHITNEY AVE., HAMDEN
HELP US SUP PRINTMAKING
smile, talk enthusiastically, or shake PORT
hands? Want to help us persuade THE ARTIST
local businesses to be more sup- S
WHO PARTIC
portive of exhibiting artists? Want IPATE
to help us organize our archives and IN CWOS.
photographs? We would love for you Consider a w
ork from the
to spend some time lending a hand Main Exhibitio
n for your
at Artspace. holiday or bi
rthday
present need
s.
For more information about our
volunteer projects and events con-
tact shannon@artspacenh.org.
ARTISTS Th– We
182 ROBERT THOMAS
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292 GRACE TURMAN
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
183 CATHERINE VANARIA
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280 BRIAN WALTERS
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PHOTOGRAPHY DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY STEEL SCULPTURE
24 69 BRIAN WENDLER
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30 JOANNE WILCOX
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
186 DON WUNDERLEE
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189 ROBERT ZOTT
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26 CLIFTON ST., NEW HAVEN WESTVILLE VILLAGE, NEW HAVEN PAINTING SOUND
ARTSPACE’S 15TH ANNUAL CITY-WIDE OPEN STUDIOS
PAINT CELL PHONE PHOTOS ON CARD CATALOG CARDS While making a painting I try to keep myself open My recent work combines elements of traditional
I believe a life in art is one of continual learning The Call to Everyone is an exhibition of over 600 to intuition and trust. Painting is an inventive Delta blues (guitar and vocals) with elements of
and I am always occupied with the study of it. discarded library catalog cards that have been process. Any time I start with a fully realized idea I performance art. Each of the original songs
When I approach my subject I try to empty my repurposed as canvases for cell phone photos. invariably run into a wall and the whole process incorporates mechanical or electronic devices that
mind and respond to prompts from the subject, Participants from all over Connecticut, along breaks down, and I guess that is what it is about. alter the voice, emit sounds, or provide
the painting, and from within, always with an eye with more than 20 cities around the U.S. and 12 The search to fill that void with a visual construct opportunities for visual interaction. Devices such
to simplifying shapes while distilling colors and countries, have printed their photos on discarded that represents order in the time/space/memory as a nautical speaking tube, Morse code generator,
impressions. I view this work as evidence of an catalog cards and due date cards from local continuum. and a music box made from a flight recorder from
interior dialog. libraries. www.wunderleearts.com a 737 aircraft make reference to communication
www.briangillwendler.com www.thecalltoeveryone.com at a distance and function as metaphors for
isolation.
196.5 BEN WESTBROCK 283 GLENN WILLIAMS www.robertzott.com
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CERAMICS ACRYLIC PAINT
My goal is to make good art as I define it. Good art
190 KAREN WHEELER should speak to the viewer. It should sing and
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 move you. Good art is timeless. 187 DAN YAGMIN JR
www.livepaint.org 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
MIXED MEDIA
WATERCOLOR
My mixed media assemblages merge traditional
materials and methods with digital techniques. I
enjoy the ancient art of papermaking equally with 258 YALE UNIVERSITY, OFFICE OF
using the latest version of Photoshop. Both THE PRINTER
handmade papers and digital collages are 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
combined with my drawings, richly textured PRINT
painted surfaces, and found objects to create my
work. My objective for the viewer has always been 284 LINDA WINGERTER 188 GERALD YORK
to provide a sense of visual joy. 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
www.karenart.com FOUND OIL PAINT
I am a figurative representational artist and I
28 MARJORIE WOLFE focus on creating portrait drawings, paintings, and
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 sculptures for private individuals and institutions.
WESTVILLE VILLAGE, NEW HAVEN I serve a very wide range of clients and welcome
PHOTOGRAPHY inquiries regarding commissioning a portrait
drawing, painting, or sculpture.
285 JEFF WRENCH www.geraldpyork.com
281 ELIZABETH WHITE 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 ACRYLIC PAINTING
SCULPTURE I am looking for serendipity—the happy accidents
that come from unexpected but compelling
282 CHRISTA WHITTEN juxtapositions of color, shape, and texture. To
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 encourage this, I often use found materials such
GOUACHE as wallpaper and work from instinct with heavy
brush strokes and intuitive color choices. If I am 59 KRISTINA ZALLINGER
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
208 JIM WHITTEN successful, I hope the viewer might reconsider
943 DIXWELL AVE., UNIT N, HAMDEN
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 themself, those around them, or their
surroundings—and look again at mundane ACRYLIC
POETRY
aspects of their world with fresh eyes. www.kristinazallinger.com
www.noisician.com
THANK YOU!
We are most grateful to all of the organizations, businesses, and individuals
who have helped make this year’s City-Wide Open Studios possible. 25