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3 WEEKENDS 60+ LOCATIONS 250+ ARTISTS

ARTSPACE’S 15 TH ANNUAL

EXPLORE NEW HAVEN’S HIDDEN GEMS!

THE OFFICIAL
MAP & GUIDE

THE CRYSTAL ANNIVERSARY OCT0BER 5–21 2012

and
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.

HOST COMMITTEE MEMBERS Sincerely,


Morel & Jeff Alexander Dannel P. Malloy
Diane & Walter Ariker Governor
David & Susannah Bailin
George Corsillo & Susan McCaslin
Ellen Eisenberg & Neal Feigenson
Ted Esselstyn & Anne Bingham
Helen Kauder & Barry Nalebuff
Liz & Miles Lasater
Roland Lemar & Anika Singh
Nick Lloyd & Megan Craig
Barbara Pearce & Norm Fleming
Ted Snyder
Matthew Suttor & Dr. Semi Gork
Len Suzio
Barry & Diane Svigals
EVENT CALENDAR
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GRAND OPENING NIGHT THE PLAY HOUSE: BEYOND WHAT WAS
ARTSPACE LOT, 812 CHAPEL STREET

OCTOBER 5 — 21, 2012


OCT. 5 FREE!
In association with Light Artists Making Places (LAMP).
Conceived and Curated by Marianne Bernstein.
The Play House is a transparent, nomadic 8’ X 8’ aluminum cube which
Come for the grand opening reception functions as a studio by day and a four-sided video installation by night.
Designed to activate neglected spaces, an artist interacts with the public
of CWOS, meet all the artists, and inside the cube daily. This interaction is filmed and participants are invited to

stay for a party that spans the whole return and watch themselves projected onto the cube’s exterior each night.

neighborhood! SATURDAYS + SUNDAYS


NOON – 9 PM
WEEKEND 1
Create On9 DARWIN NIX
Locations throughout the Ninth Square WEEKEND 2
KELIY ANDERSON-STALEY
6–8 PM
WEEKEND 3
Create On9 celebrates New Haven’s rich arts scene with MARIANNE BERNSTEIN
LAMP (Light Artists Making Places), Artspace New Haven’s WITH LIBERTY COMMUNITY
City-Wide Open Studios, and a Creative Crawl through New SERVICES CLIENTS
Haven’s Historic Ninth Square. Luminaries outline pathways
through the district, showcasing artists’ light installations
along with creative activities produced by Ninth Square
businesses.
ANOTHER CRYSTAL LAND: A production of Artspace
in collaboration with Franklin Street Works
The Play House: Beyond What Was Curated by Terri C. Smith at the New Haven Register
The Lot, 812 Chapel Street October 20 + 21
5–10 PM
DEBRA BAXTER & MARGOT QUAN KNIGHT • BEN GODDARD • LUCY RAVEN
This modular cube, crystal clear, serves as a temporary ROB SMITH • ROBERT SMITHSON
studio by day and a four-sided, illuminated, projection space
by night.

LAMP: Glow. Reflect. Project.


Light Artists Making Places
Locations throughout the Ninth Square
8–11 PM
Hosted by the City of New Haven Arts, Culture, and Tourism,
Project Storefronts, Artspace, Cafe 9, 9 Arts, Fractured
Atlas, and Umbrella Arts. Debra Baxter and Margot Quan Knight
Screen shot 2010-11-30 at 3.08.48 PM (Quartz), 2012, Digital print on paper
EVENT CALENDAR

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OCT. 6 – 7 OCT. 13 - 14 OCT. 20 - 21
ARTSPACE’S 15TH ANNUAL CITY-WIDE OPEN STUDIOS

PRIVATE STUDIOS 315 PECK STREET NEW HAVEN REGISTER


OPEN 12 – 5 PM OPEN 12 – 5 PM OPEN 12 – 5 PM

OCT. 6 + 7 OCT. 13 + 14 OCT. 20 + 21


LIMITED EDITION PASSPORT OPEN STUDIOS OPEN STUDIOS
MADE BY DEXTERITY PRESS $5 suggested contribution $5 suggested contribution
GET ONE WHILE THEY LAST.
Available at the Opening Reception at Artspace. OCT. 11 PRE-WEEKEND EVENT OCTOBER 21 + 22
FREE!
CURATOR-LED ERECTOR GROUP SHOW
SQUARE PREVIEW TOURS Works by Artspace’s Visual Arts Committee
6-10 PM
STUDIO ON WHEELS
Led by Brooke Davis Anderson, Susan Cahan, Pop in to the delivery trucks in the New Haven
Cathleen Chaffee, or Paul Ha. Tickets are still Register Parking Lot. Artists re-imagine the
available for this exclusive evening to benefit vehicles as sites for roving installations.
Artspace.
$125 for dinner, tour, and dessert 6 PM Ian Applegate and Colin Burke
$45 for tour and dessert 7:30 PM
More information on featured studios and tickets
can be found at www.artspacenh.org/events.

OCT. 12 PRE-WEEKEND EVENT


SPECIAL EVENT FOR ERECTOR
BIKE TOURS SQUARE ARTISTS
12–4 PM Live Stream of Creative Time Summit OCT. 22
THE DEVIL’S GEAR BIKE SHOP 3-6 PM
This pre-weekend party will bring the work ANOTHER CRYSTAL LAND:
151 ORANGE STREET
of prominent artists, activists, and cultural CURATOR TOUR
Take advantage of the beauty of New Haven and
3 PM
experience CWOS by bike! Riders of all levels are producers who tackle issues of wealth inequity
through public discourse to the artists of Erector At the Register, Terri C. Smith, Director of Franklin
welcome on these tours, led by Matt Feiner of
Square. Email jp@artspacenh.org for location & Street Works leads a tour. Featuring artists
the Devil’s Gear Bike Shop. Meet in Pitkin Plaza
more information. Deborah Baxter, Lucy Raven, Robert Smithson, and
between 11:30 AM and 12 PM; tours begin promptly
www.creativetime.org/summit others.
at 12 PM. FREE

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

OCTOBER 5 — 21, 2012


CRYSTAL PALACE FILM/VIDEO FEST
ARTISTS INCLUDE: Abigail Child, New York · Alexander Stewart + White/Light, Chicago · Bobby Abate, New York
Cade Bursell, Carbondale, IL · Cara Levine, San Francisco · Eric Stewart, San Francisco · Filipe Afonso, Lisbon,
Portugal · Jen Cohen, Oakland · Jessica Miller, San Francisco · John Stone, New York · Kathleen Quillian, Oakland
Leigh Orpaz, Tel Aviv · Michael Lasater, South Bend, IN · Patrick Tarrant, London · Rebecca Nijdowski, San Francisco
RKDB, Oakland · Shambhavi Kaul, India/North Carolina · Shana Moulton, Brooklyn · Suzy Poling/Pod Blotz, San
Francisco · Thorsten Fleisch, Berlin
Selections from the Crystal Palace will be screened at Krowswerk Gallery, Oakland, CA on October 13.

BEYOND WHAT WAS


To complement the crystal anniversary, this inaugural CWOS film/video Prints by Darwin Nix
festival features a looping program of crystal-themed, crystallizing, Tintypes by Keliy Staley-Anderson
and multi-faceted videos and films representing artists from around On view in the Project Room at Artspace.
the world. Crystals, including snowflakes, diamonds, ice crystals, and Made possible thanks to the support of the National
gems, appear in abstract and narrative forms taking the cultural, Endowment for the Arts.
scientific, and mathematical associations of crystal as a point of
departure. Organized by Liena Vayzman

SPECIAL SCREENING October 18, 7 pm JOHN/JANE PROJECT


ECA alum Bobby Abate returns to New Haven to discuss his work with the curator after this special screening.
Artspace Artist-in-Residence Giada Crispiels transforms the
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
washrooms with papier-mâché and doodles.

COMING UP NEXT AT ARTSPACE: OPENING NOVEMBER 9, 2012


ALYSE ROSNER: INSTRUCTIONS NOT INCLUDED: TINKER, HACK, TWEAK
LARGE SCALE WORK Organized by Martha Lewis
Harry Philbrick, Curator This exhibition constructs a visual discussion around the creative possibilities of readymade culture.
Long-time Director of the Aldrich It will serve as a forum for re-examining industrial design, our daily environment, and the objects
Museum and now Director of with which we surround ourselves. INI will feature workshops, panel talks, and artists collaborating on
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art projects in and outside the space—it will include such objects as bicycles, clothing, furniture, lighting,
Museum, has followed the evolution of electronics, and demonstrations of new technologies. Featuring Cory Smith and Mary Little. Additional
Rosner’s work for more than ten years. artists selected from the open call to be announced.
photo: Cory Smith
TOOLS BY

AROUND CWOS: OTHER EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS ON VIEW


AZOTH GALLERY 133 Elm Street (Lower Level), New Haven, CT | Artists of Gallery RIVAA, NYC | Oct. 13–Nov. 16, 2012 | Public reception for the artists: Saturday, Oct. 13, 2–4 PM
CITY GALLERY 994 State Street, New Haven, CT | Jennifer Davies, Sensing the Thread | Oct. 4–28, 2012 | Opening Reception: Sat. Oct. 6, 2-5pm | Artists’ Talk: Sun. Oct. 28, 2pm
GIAMPIETRO GALLERY 315 Peck Street, New Haven, CT | Works by Elizabeth Gourlay & Susan Carr | Oct. 12–Nov. 10, 2012 | Opening Reception: Friday, Oct. 12th, 5-8pm
THE GROVE COWORKING SPACE 71 Orange Street, New Haven, CT | David Ottenstein, Almost Nowhere | Oct. 1–Nov. 9, 2012 | 5–8 PM
INSTITUTE LIBRARY 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT | Making Room: Ten Interpretations | Oct. 6–Nov. 3, 2012 | Artists’ reception: Oct. 6, 12–2 PM
NEW HAVEN FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY 133 Elm Street, New Haven, CT | Posters from an Island—4 Artists of Cuba | Sept. 12—Oct. 12, 2012 | 3–5 PM
REYNOLD’S FINE ART 96 Orange Street, New Haven, CT | Robert Reynolds & Mary Black | Oct. 5-27, 2012 | Artists’ Reception: Friday, Oct. 5, 5-8pm

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

6 4 MICHAEL ANGELIS
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
106 SOPHIE ASTON
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
14 ANNA HELD AUDETTE
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
Indicates artist with 39 CHURCH ST., 4TH FLOOR PAINTING 24 EVERIT ST., NEW HAVEN
ARTSPACE’S 15TH ANNUAL CITY-WIDE OPEN STUDIOS

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
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 PAINTING
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
PAINTING
and internal.
I am fascinated by the blur. As humans, we have
instant, intense reactions to images, words,
www.judyatlas.com 287 ANITA BALKUN
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
are brushed, pooled, splattered, and scraped until
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
depth and feeling of movement are established.
ETCHING
www.ScottBryanAndrews.com
My copper plate etchings are mainly subjects from
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.
www.jbarnishprojects.com
ARTISTS Ba– Ch
109 KAREN BARTONE
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
112 PAUL BLOOM
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
115 ADRIEN BROOM
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
116 COLIN BURKE
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OCTOBER 5 — 21, 2012


I am a stone-cold beauty junky. I believe beauty is I work with analog, antique photographic
an essential timeless need for humanity. My 19 ALEXIS BROWN processes to explore the themes of liminal space,
paintings suggest empathy for beauty. In this 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 time, and proximity.
work, Enchanted, I paint the shimmering THE ELI WHITNEY BARN www.colinburkestudio.com
atmosphere and succulent textures of the 920 WHITNEY AVE., HAMDEN
woodland setting of my studio. Here, I indulge in INK
the essence of splendor and how the ordinary 212 ETHAN BOISVERT My subjects are: Lithography, Etching, Silk Screen,
becomes extraordinary. This work offers a retreat 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
and Ink sketchbooks. Subject matter is primarily
into my perception of Eden. PAINTING animals.
www.karenbartone.com I am constantly investigating size and scale,
shrinking or expanding the planes on which I 117 CLAUDINE BURNS SMITH
paint. Using found and created wooden objects 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
instead of canvas I am returning to a past interest CLAY
in the semi-flat, semi-three-dimensional art
work, the place where painting and sculpture 118 HANNA CALCAGNI
meet. Other new works and proposals include 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
small paintings and wall-to-wall-floor-to-ceiling 214 JODI BROWN ACRYLIC/MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER
installations. 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
110 HAYNE BAYLESS OIL
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 www.ethanboisvert.com
Oil paint has a way of crossing over into sculpture;
15 LESLIE CARMIN
STONEWARE 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
its thick, oily consistency makes it capable of being
The trick is not to fool with the material’s inherent 113 JOAN BOMBALICKI very thin, light painting or thick trudges almost
17 ANDERSON ST., NEW HAVEN
desire to be expressive. Hand-building lets me take 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 PENCIL
like molding through clay. I am mainly interested
advantage of clay’s ability to capture gesture and OIL
in figurative art; I enjoy the challenge and the
movement, and its power to record processes. amount of dedication it takes to be able to render 55 JEFF CARTER
Constantin Brancusi wrote in 1927: “Each 8 VITO BONANNO the figure. The figure is great to work with as a 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
material has its own life...we must not try to make 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 subject because it has a way of telling an 14 B GILBERT ST., WEST HAVEN
materials speak our language, we must go with 756 CHAPEL ST., 3RD FLOOR, NEW HAVEN immediate story to the viewer. WOOD
them to the point where others will understand MIXED VISUAL www.westmountgroup.com
their language.” www.vitobonanno.com
www.idewaysstudio.com 61 JEREMY CHANDLER
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
HIGHWOOD SQUARE
943 DIXWELL AVE., HAMDEN
PHOTOGRAPHY
203 BETTY BOYD 25 FRANK BRUCKMANN
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 215 HILLARY CHARNAS
FRIO 372, WEST ROCK AVE., WESTVILLE 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
210 JEFF BECKER SCULPTURE
OIL MULTI-MEDIA
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
www.fbruckmann.com www.hillarycharnas.com
PHOTOGRAPHY 200 LAURA BOYER
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
7 MARY BLACK PHOTOGRAPHY
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
REYNOLDS FINE ART 114 RITA BRIEGER
96 ORANGE ST. 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
ENCAUSTIC ON PANEL ACRYLIC ON PAPER
“Never let reality get in the way of imagination,”
111 MEG BLOOM sums up my approach to art. My work flows with
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 intention, playfulness, and unexplained guidance.
SCULPTURE www.ritabrieger.com
Transformation is often the inspiration for my
work. Finding beauty in the imperfect or imper-
manent and engaging with the process of tran-
sience form the basis of both my two-dimensional
and three-dimensional work. In my work one can
look through layers, see layers peeling away, and
not be sure if something is growing/regenerating
or deteriorating. I am drawn to the ambiguity of 47 JAY BRIGHT
forms. I am interested in chaos that comes out of 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
even the most predictable. WEST COVE STUDIOS
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STUDIO MAP
ARTSPACE OFFERS MANY WAYS TO PLAN YOUR ROUTE TO THE OPEN STUDIOS.
Start at the Main Exhibition at 50 Orange Street, where each participating artist displays one work. The exhibition is organized by
This symbol means that Artspace
has confirmed wheelchair access
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neighborhood, so once a work captures your interest, see if other artists nearby do so as well. Or, check

OCTOBER 5 — 21, 2012


at a studio complex. If you have
out our new online map which allows you to preview the artists’ work and location in a single click of the mouse: questions about access at a private
www.zeemaps.com/pub?group=406158. Once again, we’ve teamed with New Haven’s very own Dexterity Press to offer you a limited- studio, please call Artspace at
edition letterpress passport to bring to each studio. Collect enough stamps, marks, drawings, or other contributions from artists you visit
203-772-2709 and we will contact the
during the first weekend of the festival and you’ll be eligible to win a $250 gift certificate to the Artspace Flatfile and a signed copy of
artist for you.
Crystallography, by poet ChristianBok.

OCTOBER 6 + 7 MILL RIVER 40 JACOB PONGRATZ


265 JUDWIN AVE.
62 PAIER COLLEGE OF ART:
STUDENT + FACULTY GROUP
ARTIST STUDIO LOCATIONS ELI WHITNEY BARN 20 GORHAM AVE.
920 WHITNEY AVE., HAMDEN WEST HAVEN 63 CAT BALCO
114 ARDMORE ST. SUNDAY ONLY
DOWNTOWN 17 KIARA MATOS
WEST COVE PRINTMAKING
1 GIADA CRISPIELS 18 SUSAN CLINARD 111 DESSA DR.
WORKSHOP & GALLERY
50 ORANGE ST. 19 ALEXIS BROWN 64 KEVIN VAN AELST
33 ROXANNE FABER SAVAGE
39 CHURCH ST. 20 SARA THOMAS 72 KIMBERLY VAN AELST
41 ANITA SOOS
4 MICHAEL ANGELIS 42 KATHLEEN THOMA 65 JOSEPH GUDDEMI
3 SILAS FINCH WHALLEY AVE./WESTVILLE 43 JONATHAN WATERS 68 MULBERRY HILL ST.
5 STEPHEN GROSSMAN 21 ANOKA FARUQUE 66 CHRISTOPHER MIR
44 PAUL DAUKAS
213 CENTRAL AVE. SUNDAY ONLY BY APPOINTMENT ONLY (203) 215-9770
2 GERALD SALADYGA 45 SUSAN D’ANGELO
827 WHALLEY AVE. 46 CLAUDIA CRON
6 DAVID OTTENSTEIN 22 HEIDI COUTU 47 JAY BRIGHT FAIR HAVEN
THE GROVE, 71 ORANGE ST. 23 TRACIE CHENG 67 CONRAD DUENKEL
48 ASPASIA PATTI ANOS
7 REYNOLDS FINE ART GALLERY 103 CLINTON AVE.
24 GAR WATERMAN 49 EILEEN EDER
96 ORANGE ST. 68 MORGAN SCHWARTZ
425 WEST ROCK AVE. 50 LAURA GARDNER 276 FRONT ST.
8 VITO BONANO STUDIO
756 CHAPEL ST. 51 KEVIN HARTY 69 BRIAN GILL WENDLER
838 WHALLEY AVE.
52 EVIE LINDEMANN 26A CLIFTON ST.
25 FRANK BRUCKMANN
WOOSTER SQUARE SUITE B 53 BARBARA MARKS 70 WILLIAM MEDDICK
337 SUMMIT ST.
9 MEGAN CRAIG 26 GEORGE CORSILLO 54 DOUGLAS NYGREN
87 UNION ST., UNIT 3. SUNDAY ONLY UNIT 12 77 SUSAN NICHOLS 71 CLYMENZA HAWKINS
185 FRONT ST.
10 JONATHAN WEINBERG 27 SUSAN MCCASLIN 192 THOMAS STAVOVY
251 GREENE ST. UNIT 12 75 MARTY LILLIS
28 MARJORIE WOLFE 14 GILBERT STREET STUDIOS 261 CLIFTON ST.

EAST ROCK 29 MISTINA & LUKE HANSCOM 55 JEFF CARTER


NORTH HAVEN
30 JOANNE WILCOX 56 WILLIE HOFFMAN
11 MAURA GALANTE
860 STATE ST. UNIT 5 57 RYAN CYR 74 LUCIENNE COIFMAN
11 HICKORY HILL RD.,NORTH HAVEN
12 JENNIFER DAVIES 31 JORDAN NODELMAN 58 RACHAEL VATERS-CARR
SUNDAY ONLY
994 STATE ST. UNIT 5 76 DAVID GROSZ
14 ANNA HELD AUDETTE 32 MATTY DAGRADI
24 EVERIT ST., REAR UNIT 5
13 JULIA COASH
HAMDEN OCTOBER 13+14
904 WHALLEY AVE. 4
79 FOSTER ST. HIGHWOOD SQUARE 100–199
34 JOHN KEEFER
15 LESLIE CARMIN 943 DIXWELL AVE.
17 ANDERSON ST. 35 MICHAEL GALVIN
59 KRISTINA ZALLINGER
ERECTOR SQUARE
Only first floor is wheelchair accessible.
910 WHALLEY AVE. 1+1B 60 THUAN VU
NEWHALLVILLE 36 ALAN GREENIER 61 JEREMY CHANDLER
16 ANDREW FRANCIS
91 SHELTON AVE. SUNDAY ONLY
37 SIGRUN MÜLLER
ENTER AT 55 FOUNTAIN ST., 3
OCTOBER 20+21
38 ANN OBERKIRCH 200+
39 CHRIS ENGSTROM ALTERNATIVE SPACE
ARTISTS Ch–De
10 23 TRACIE CHENG
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
1 GIADA CRISPIELS
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
44 PAUL DAUKAS JR.
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
120 ISABELLE DAY
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
WESTVILLE VILLAGE, NEW HAVEN 50 ORANGE ST., (ARTSPACE, GALLERY 7) WEST COVE STUDIOS OIL
ARTSPACE’S 15TH ANNUAL CITY-WIDE OPEN STUDIOS

WATERCOLOR 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 30 ELM ST., WEST HAVEN www.cholakian.com/isabelle


www.cargocollective.com/traciecheng INSTALLATION PRINTMAKING
www.giadacrispiels.com 217 GABRIELA MARGARITA DE JESUS
18 SUSAN CLINARD 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 184 PATRICIA CROKE PAINTING
ELI WHITNEY BARN 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
920 WHITNEY AVE., HAMDEN DRAWING 213 KATHLEEN DEMEO
CLAY 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
www.clinard.org 46 CLAUDIA CRON PRINTMAKING
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 12 JENNIFER DAVIES
WEST COVE STUDIOS 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
30 ELM ST., WEST HAVEN CITY GALLERY SOLO SHOW
OIL 994 STATE ST., NEW HAVEN
This body of work is concerned with the passage of HANDMADE PAPER
time and moments of transformation. These pieces My paintings and drawings refer to natural
intend to suggest that energy and abandonment form—waves, rock faces, leaves. I am attracted to
13 JULIA COASH can coexist simultaneously. The evocation of the surfaces that have been altered by time, erosion, or
121 GEOFFREY DETRANI
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 inner light within these dignified structures is disintegration. My process is to find the image by
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
79 FOSTER ST., EAST ROCK achieved through spray paint, acrylic, oils, and layering and revealing. I like to work
PENCIL, INK, ACRYLIC ON PAPER
PAINTING ink. Texture is achieved by routing deep grooves collaboratively with materials and by crumpling
My work is rooted in the natural world as
into wood signifying the stress modern society has and dyeing, allow the material to make its own
construed by experience, imagination, and
put on the planet. Monoprints and mixed media image before I add my mark, trying to follow the
ideology. I am interested in the tenuous and
explore sober thoughts regarding modern life. lead of the drawing developing before me.
temporary fit with which the things we have built
www.claudiacron.com have accommodated themselves to the fecund and
resurgent force of the natural world. My pictures
74 LUCIENNE COIFMAN suggest landscapes captured in a state of flux,
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 7 ONLY landscapes on the cusp or in the throes of
11 HICKORY HILL RD., NORTH HAVEN explosive generation or devolution, they are
216 RICHARD DAVIS geographies of entropy and zero-sum gain.
FIBER
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 www.geoffreydetrani.com
119 PHYLLIS CROWLEY
26 GEORGE CORSILLO 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 MIXED
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 PHOTOGRAPHY www.ericksondavis.com
838 WHALLEY AVE, #12, NEW HAVEN www.phylliscrowley.com
GRAPHIC DESIGN
57 RYAN CYR
22 HEIDI COUTU 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 14 GILBERT ST., M102, WEST HAVEN
827 WHALLEY AVE, LYRIC HALL BUILDING STAINED GLASS
OIL ON CANVAS 198 LEILA DAW
www.heidicoutu.com 286 JP CULLIGAN
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
DRAWING / PRINTMAKING MIXED MEDIA
www.jpculligan.com Mapping is a way of representing the convergence
of place and movement, a means of imposing
human ideas over the contours of the natural
45 SUSAN D’ANGELO world, a system of filters through which we see the
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
9 MEGAN CRAIG landscape, a process by which we attempt to make
WEST COVE STUDIOS
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 7 ONLY sense of mixed cultural and spatial nonsense. My
30 ELM ST., WEST HAVEN
87 UNION ST., #3, NEW HAVEN structures, installations, paintings, and drawings
COLLAGE
PAINTING map (in some form or other) the course of
www.megancraig.com disasters, travels, myths, confusions, ruminations,
stasis, change, and geological conditions.

32 MATTY DAGRADI
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
WESTVILLE
WATERCOLOR
ARTISTS Do– Fo
122 TONY DONOVAN
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
49 EILEEN EDER
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
221 CAMILLE ESKELL
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
3 SILAS FINCH
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
11
PHOTOGRAPHY WEST COVE STUDIOS DRAWING/PAINTING 39 CHURCH ST., 3H, NEW HAVEN

OCTOBER 5 — 21, 2012


Photography in Ireland was my first work, in a 30 ELM ST., WEST HAVEN SCULPTURE, MIXED MEDIA, COLD CONNECTION
place called Ardoyne, a housing project in North PAINTING 127 CHAD ETTING www.silasfinch.com
Belfast. It was a difficult place to take pictures, I am inspired by light and how it reveals objects 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
people were on-edge, wary, suspicious of a and nature with an endless variety of color and ACRYLIC
stranger. Street scenes, the friends I made, mostly value.
children. I think of myself as an artistic www.eileeneder.com
photographer looking to make expressive, poetic 128 DANIEL EUGENE
pictures from life. For the last five years I’ve taken 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
pictures of the games and fans at a summer PEN & INK 224 JOAN FITZSIMMONS
basketball tournament. 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
www.connecticutweddingphotographer.com 33 ROXANNE FABER SAVAGE PHOTOGRAPHY
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 The work presented in my portfolio meanders
WEST COVE STUDIOS through varying series, but one thing has always
30 ELM ST., WEST HAVEN led to another. I’ve examined the tenuous, ebbing
39 CHRIS ENGSTROM PRINTMAKING, DRAWING
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 boundaries between reality and perception. I’ve
910 WHALLEY AVE., 1B, WESTVILLE asked questions about human relationships, the
PAINTING nature of home, my relationship to nature, and
123 KAREN DOW the significance of the quotidian. The ordinary act
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 of living is endlessly complex and uncertain. It is
ACRYLIC 219 PAM ERICKSON through the ordinary that, for me, the world
www.karendow.com 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 resonates.
MIXED www.joanfitzsimmons.com
199 LINDA DRAZEN www.ericksondavis.com 222 JOHN FALLON
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
WATERCOLOR 126 THEA ERNEST SCULPTURE, WOOD
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
218 THOMAS DREW PEN 129 CATHY FARRELL
My interest in cartooning stems from listening and 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
watching; some of it is autobiographical. There is COLLAGE
PENCILS/COLORED PENCILS
humor, venom, goofiness, and wonder. I draw to I make art for fun and self-expression. I am 201 JANE GILMAN FLEISCHNER
solve mysteries, or at least dig into them. I like the currently a student of abstract collage and 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
124 EMILIA DUBICKI quiet of drawing, clean paper, the scale of the painting. My focus has been primarily on small ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 work, and how it fits in my workspace. Cartooning pieces, but I’ve recently begun an exploration of
PAINTING is a way to wed writing and lines to tell stories. I working larger. I enjoy the order-from-chaos 294 ROBERT FORT
enjoy crafting the words as well as the shapes. nature of collage, the free-form, unfettered nature 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
67 CONRAD DUENKEL of abstraction, and putting the two together. OIL CRAYON
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 www.CathysGardenOfArtfulDelights.blogspot.com Robert Fort has spent a lifetime capturing the
103 CLINTON AVE., FAIR HAVEN
essence of the beautiful world around him. That
BLOWN GLASS
world has included cities, the sea, the suburbs, the
www.fairhavenglass.com sound, the river and the endless parade of lovable
critters that he has captured. Not in jars. With his
125 LAMBERT EDELMANN 220 SUSAN ERNST oil drawings, with photographs, and in words. His
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
goal is to produce work that satisfies the moment
PRINTMAKING PRINTMAKING of creation, and with luck, people.
My art focuses on the twofold nature of Islamic I am happiest and most content when I am taking 21 ANOKA FARUQEE
civilization, both dominating and dominated. My in the colors and forms of nature in its various 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 7 ONLY
paintings and monoprints are inspired by the manifestations. Flowers, trees, birds, butterflies, 213 CENTRAL AVE., NEW HAVEN
millennia-old geometric patterns of Islam. In my and insects surround me. Similarly, working with ACRYLIC
art, the millennia-old geometric designs are color, texture, layers, patterns, paper, paint, www.anokafaruqee.com
distorted and altered to reveal the potential of new pencils, and inks intrigues and engages me.
ways to look at the past without refusing it. I use Combining my love for nature with the mediums
bold colors and alter the lines of the rigid design to of papermaking, drawing, printmaking, and 130 OI FORTIN
distort the perfection. collage, I am able, to some degree, to capture the 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
moments that inspire me.
PRINTMAKING
www.susanernst.blogspot.com
Love what you do, do what you love.
223 JOE FEKIETA Please come and visit my studio.
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 www.oi.fortin.home.comcast.net
OIL PASTEL
www.addalinedesign.com
ARTISTS Fr– Ha
12 16 ANDREW FRANCIS
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 7 ONLY
35 MICHAEL GALVIN
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
228 CRAIG GILBERT
PEN & INK
5 STEPHEN GROSSMAN
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
91 SHELTON AVE., NEW HAVEN 904 WHALLEY AVE, APT#1, NEW HAVEN 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 39 CHURCH ST., NEW HAVEN
ARTSPACE’S 15TH ANNUAL CITY-WIDE OPEN STUDIOS

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.
PRINTMAKING 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
WOOD 232 GEORGE HALE
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
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
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.
DIRECTIONS
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OCT. 5 - 21 OCT. 13 + 14 OCT. 20 + 21
203.772.2709 I-95 I-95 NORTH
Main Exhibition & The Artspace Lot Take exit 48 to I-91 North. Follow the directions from Take exit 6. Merge onto CT 34 W via exit 47. Take Exit
GRAND OPENING NIGHT: I-91, below. 1 to Downtown/New Haven. Drive straight onto N.
Frontage Rd. Turn right on Church. Turn left on Crown.
Oct. 5, 5–8 pm I-91 NORTH Take 2nd left onto College.
Take Exit 5, State St/Fair Haven. At the bottom of the
I-95
ramp, go straight. Take the second right onto Blatchley I-91 SOUTH
Take exit 48 to I-91 North. Follow the directions from
Ave. First left onto Peck St. Take Exit 3, Trumbull St. Turn right on Trumbull. Turn
I-91, below.
left on Temple. Turn right on Crown. Take 1st left onto
I-91 SOUTH
I-91 College St.
Exit 6 onto Willow St. Take a left at the bottom of
Take Exit 3, Trumbull St. Turn left onto Orange. Turn
the ramp, drive under I-91. As you cross State, Willow FROM UNION STATION
left onto Elm. Turn right onto State. Turn right onto
becomes Blatchley. At the next intersection, turn left Go northeast on Union Ave. toward Meadow St. Turn
Crown. See Parking, below.
onto Pack St. left on N. Frontage Rd. Turn right on Church. Turn left
MERRITT PARKWAY on Crown. Take 2nd left onto College.
MERRITT PARKWAY NORTH
Take exit 59 to merge onto CT-69, Whalley Ave. Turn
Take exit 54 to I-95 North. On I-95, take exit 48 to I-91 WALKING FROM ARTSPACE (1.6 MILES)
right onto Whalley and continue for 3 miles. Whalley
North. Follow directions from I-91 North, above. Exit Artspace and head across the street onto Crown
merges into Broadway, which merges into Elm. Take
St. Walk one block and take the first right onto State
Elm to State, turn right onto Crown. See Parking, below. MERRIT PARKWAY SOUTH St. After two blocks, State St. becomes Union Ave. / US
You can take exit 67 or 63, both merge onto I-91 South.
PARKING AT ARTSPACE Route 1. After 0.4 miles, take the first left onto Church
Follow directions from I-91 South, above.
Parking is available in several lots all within a few St. South. After 0.5 miles, take the first right onto
blocks of Artspace, including the LAZ lots on either PARKING Sargent Dr. Walk 0.5 miles to 40 Sargent St.
side of Crown between State and Orange and the There are ample parking lots directly in front of Erector
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ProPark lot in back of Artspace on Crown St.
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driveway on Blatchely Avenue between State and Peck.
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ARTISTS Ha– Ke
233 JAMES HARDY
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
202 ELISSA HINE
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
141 NOE JIMENEZ
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
147 KATHY KANE
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SCULPTURE PRINTMAKING PAINT PAINTING

OCTOBER 5 — 21, 2012


Jim Hardy creates sculptures and illustrations I am currently working with reticulated structures Re-exploring watercolors and experimenting with
whose narratives revolve around faith and social 56 WILLIE HOFFMAN (nets). I was trained as a stone carver. Henry the effect of the reaction of the pigments to each
issues. His sculptures are buildings made out of 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 Moore said, “The first hole made through a piece other, and various paper, is my latest interest. By
wood that house free standing panels on which he 14 GILBERT ST., WEST HAVEN of stone is a revelation.” The idea of holes led me working on a large, bold scale these reactions are
paints people acting out the narrative. Found FURNITURE to thinking about volume and space, which led to most evident. These paintings distill the essence of
materials, cardboard, metal, toys, and electric my focus on paper installations—when installed the landscape and the beauty of paint.
light are also used in the creation of this art. The 289 GRAHAM HONACKER they take up a lot of room, but when archived they
illustrations use wit and humor to captivate the 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 can fit into a small plastic bin. My work focuses on
audience while the sculptures are more solemn in COLLAGE adaptive problem-solving.
nature, evoking a feeling of deep reflection.
www.hardy-art.com 142 KEITH JOHNSON
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
PHOTOGRAPHY 239 KELLEY KAPFER-KAPP
My new work is about extending the photographic 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
document beyond the single print using multiple PAINTING & DRAWING
images. Extended imagery is similar to what a
236 BRIAN HUFF poet might do when combining paragraphs, or a 240 NESTOR KAPLAN
138 SIDNEY HARRIS 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 filmmaker does when splicing film into a 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 COLLAGE OILS
montage. The camera documents better than any
ACRYLIC I want to reflect and comment on the current device the detail and surface of objects, places, and When I start a piece I become obsessive; with a
The Alphabet Series; A to Z. What’s your letter? themes that affect us today with a time that I feel ideas. Time, light, color, and comparison changes rage and motivation that fuels me until I can
led to it—that being the 50’s era of patriotism and during the extended time spent looking. stand back and see my work. A piece can be ever
234 LOUISE HARTER McCarthy politics leading to 60’s rebellion and 70’s www.keithjohnsonphotographs.com changing and I have been known to destroy/alter
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 drug culture…then the cycle back to my work as time passes by. But to be able to let a
CLAY conservatism and the “Me Decade”…back to an piece stand on its own is the most inspiring. Never
era of protest in the 90’s to, finally, current day taught and hate “in the lines.”
51 KEVIN HARTY where all these elements interact and quarrel.
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
WEST COVE STUDIOS
30 ELM ST., WEST HAVEN
FABRIC 143 JILAINE JONES
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
34 JOHN KEEFER
71 CLYMENZA HAWKINS 3D
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
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237 ERIC IANNUCCI 904 WHALLEY AVE., NEW HAVEN
185 FRONT STREET Jilaine Jones.
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 PAINTING
COLLAGE
My current work is on transformations within the ASSEMBLAGE
interior of a woman’s soul from the series, 148 ZACHARY KEETING
WomenFolk of the Undergrond Forest. The 238 NICOLE IOVANNE 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
images I produce are inspirations from faerie/folk 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 PAINTING
tales, fables, and mythology including writers Zora PHOTOGRAPHY Here is the challenge: be brave, struggle to build a
Neale Hurston, Angela Carter, Clarissa Pinkola Illusory Places is a second series of composite vivid document. Courageously push the materials
Estes, Octavia Butler, Oscar Wilde, and James images gathered from historical, natural, and 144 CHRISTOPHER JOY to a surprising place, accept an art of rough
Baldwin. My work will also be featured on renewed spectacle-driven places. Focusing on color and the 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 approximation, of free-improvisation, where
furniture, jars, vases, altar boxes, journals, and archetypal qualities that are inherent in the SCULPTURE careful measurements may be entirely
booklets. objects photographed, these images were inappropriate. If successful, the paintings will
assembled to create an ethereal narrative, perhaps make visual what is within.The scenes are a mash-
personally imagined by the viewer. up of orchestrated mayhem. I fight against
www.nicoleviovanne.info boundaries and obsess over edges.This is an art of
precision and abandon.
www.zacharykeeting.com
145 CLINT JUKKALA
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139 CHAM HENDON PAINTING
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ACRYLIC 140 JULITA JANUSZEWSKA 146 JEAN ALEXANDRE KANDALAFT
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INDIA INK 241 LISA KERESZI
235 SARAH HENDON 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
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PRINTMAKING www.lisakereszi.com
ARTISTS Kh– Li
16 257 KHYAL
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150 JANET LAGE
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196 MARIA LARA-WHELPLEY
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152 MARTHA LEWIS
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DIGITAL IMAGING GRAPHITE, INK ON CANVAS ENCAUSTIC PENCIL
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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

153 LINDA LINDROTH


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293 DEREK LEKA
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151 MARY LESSER


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ARTISTS Li– No
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156 WILL LUSTENADER
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These are representational oil paintings and
mixed media on paper that present the cut-outs as
still life objects placed on minimally rendered
surfaces. The house shapes are of particular
interest to me because they create multiple worlds,
as their shapes reference urban/suburban
dialogues or politics on one level, and literal
245 FABER LORNE tectonics on an altogether formal level. Some
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 necessitate a journey of sorts, while others play off
INSTALLATION of a more kinetic energy of proximity.
Artistic production is for me a space-time favorable www.wlustenader.com
to new negotiations between reality and
perception. Like the unconscious does, I capture
images. The topography of desire is traced by
coupling objects together in order to explore the
mechanisms at work, such as anxiety, alienation,
speech, and perception. Free, euphoric,
incoherent, I joyously redistribute signs and draw
the first lines of my artistic journey by mapping 248 ANDRES MADARIAGA
libidinal intensity through rudimentary materials 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
specific to construction work. MIXED MEDIUM
www.faberstoolbox.com My work has always been about pushing the
boundaries of human expression and inner
strength through painting. Growing up in two
cultures has always been difficult for me, never
fitting into one or the other. Art can surpass any
barrier that society or our own stereotypes can
make, because even though art is a lie, it holds no
lies. It is our one crude judge and also our most
246 KARLEEN LOUGHRAN intimate and pure savior.
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
PAINT 249 DAN MAKARA
www.karleenloughran.com 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
ACRYLIC ON PANEL

31 JORDAN NODELMAN
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WESTVILLE, NEW HAVEN
PHOTOGRAPHY
I am a contemporary, digital photographer. My
247 BETH LOVELL photographs tend toward simplicity and
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
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.

155 REBECCA LOWRY


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OIL PAINTING
ARTISTS Ma– Na
18 250 PARIS MANCINI
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157 FETHI MEGHELLI
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160 IRENE K. MILLER
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162 MARIA MORABITO
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PHOTOGRAPHY MIXED MEDIA PRINTMAKING PAINTING
ARTSPACE’S 15TH ANNUAL CITY-WIDE OPEN STUDIOS

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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PAINTING
www.davidmel.net

251 ARIELA MARTIN 158 CHRISTIAN MILLER


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163 LARRY MORELLI
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PHOTOGRAPHY PAINTING 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 OIL
The task of the artist is paradoxical by nature. He PENCIL
17 KIARA MATOS strives to create all at once the essence of an Moving my hands and creating art in multiple 164 JEFF MUELLER
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 emotional moment to be recreated endlessly in the media is something I believe makes me a whole 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
ELI WHITNEY MUSEUM BARN viewer’s mind. In this sense the artist is defining human being. Ever since I was a little girl, I have PRINTMAKING
920 WHITNEY AVE., HAMDEN the moment of the present to be recreated been moved by my surroundings and have worked www.dexteritypress.com
I have fallen in love with clay and its possibilities. infinitely as far as the mind can imagine. As a to document these in the way my heart sees them.
I work for the pleasure of feeling it and photo captures a precise moment, the artist My main media tend to be portable, such as 37 SIGRUN MÜLLER
transforming it. Whenever I open the kiln after a expresses the event and at the same time conveys pencils, pastels, and small watercolor sets. I draw 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
firing I am always amazed by its magical the sense of that event. everywhere, whether it be in my home studio, at 55 FOUNTAIN ST., # 3, NEW HAVEN
transformation. I am always challenged by its
work, or outside.
uncontrollable conditions. Yet, sometimes, I have
proven myself a very accurate predictor. Only 166 SUSAN NALLY
sometimes! I also work for art and beauty— 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
they feed me I need them. OIL
Currently unknown I think of my still life
159 DENISE MILLER paintings as small reflections of complex
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66/161 CHRISTOHPER MIR relationships. Rendered in oil, they are spare
JEWELRY 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 statements where the distance between objects may
We are an expression of our inner selves. What we LAKE STREET, HAMDEN indicate intimacy or detachment. Some
choose to wear tells the world who we are. Just as 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 participants take precedence, while others are
27 SUSAN MCCASLIN our thoughts shape our destiny, our physical ACRYLIC relegated to supporting roles. The softened edges
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 image shapes our thoughts. In my art, I have bind the objects to the sparse environment, joining
By Appointment only during Passport Weekend.
838 WHALLEY AVE, #12, NEW HAVEN combined both vintage and new materials to the elongated shadows.
Call (203) 215-9770.
GRAPHIC DESIGN create unique, one-of-a-kind accessories of www.susannally.com
expression for the thoughtful individual.
252 S MCGREGOR
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JEWELRY

70 WILLIAM MEDDICK
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337 SUMMIT ST., FAIR HAVEN HEIGHTS
OIL
meddickart.webplus.net
ARTISTS Ne– Qu
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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I believe that drawing is the foundation, basis, and 30 ELM ST., WEST HAVEN PAINTING
jumping-off point for all of the visual arts. PHOTOGRAPHY www.paiercollegeofart.edu 40 JACOB PONGRATZ
Throughout my career as a practicing artist, I 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
have used drawing to flesh out and develop 38 ANN OBERKIRCH 265 JUDWIN AVE., NEW HAVEN
two- and three-dimensional ideas. Certain 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
high-fashion images are repeated in my series of WESTVILLE VILLAGE, NEW HAVEN The major goal in producing my art is to apply a
drawings. Through limiting the focus to OIL primal energy that solidifies my experience as a
accessories, I am able to explore and look closely human to canvas. A fluid approach of spontaneity
at these icons in our social environment. 260 ELLEN PAPCIAK-ROSE and confusion is essential to my finished product.
204 DIANA OFOSU 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
www.alanneider.com It is the reflection of one’s self that matters most,
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 PAINT
SOCIALLY ENGAGED PRACTICE using abstract forms to unbalance any
I am interested in how common visual icons preconceived notions of rationale. What little
and text associations progress into open-ended representations that do exist are merely
259 JUDITH BARBOUR OSBORNE interpretations. My paintings, prints, and
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 adaptations of the primary idea into more fully
cut-outs draw on situational instances which developed forms.
MIXED MEDIA bring another set of visual possibilities to www.jacobpongratz.com
As an artist working with texts, I am interested mind. The cheeky paintings are playful (like
256 RAHEEM NELSON in ways of knowing. I am continually returning a word game). At first glance, and with the
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 to the space where they meet. It is from this knowledge of the artwork title, immediate
IPAD ILLUSTRATION process that I gather inspiration from kinetic, understanding (often with accompanying
sensory, emotional, psychological, intellectual, laughter) is felt by the viewer. The twist, deeper
and spiritual information. I make these aspects of meaning, is individual.
non-visual reality visible, as if staining the wind. I www.ellenpapciakrose.com
therefore consider the time I spend in my studio to
261 CALEB PORTFOLIO
be a form of research into consciousness. 169 SOPHIA PETERS 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
www.jboart.com 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 VIDEO
OIL PAINTING
77 SUSAN NICHOLS 6 DAVID OTTENSTEIN I paint from photographic images to create 170 MARK PREVITT
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 fragmented portraits to express a visual, 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
WEST COVE STUDIOS 71 ORANGE ST., NEW HAVEN emotional, and psychological element of METAL SCULPTURE
30 ELM ST., WEST HAVEN PHOTOGRAPHY disconnect. It also provides a dreamlike state I try pretty hard.
PRINTMAKING, DRAWING I consider myself an observer of the landscape–the of memory, inner reflection, and nostalgia. www.previttmetalworks.com
Often the interaction of ground and process spark natural, the built, and the somewhere in between. The figures reveal moments gone unnoticed. I
my images. I’m not partial to one over the other. My use line to tie the fragments together, which
observations, and the images which record them, 205 ELIZABETH PROTZMAN
give the painting a sense of symbolism, 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
reflect my curiosity about the landscape. My rhythm, and depth. My paintings express
photographs address the human imprint on the ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
domesticity through showing the existence
land. My intent is not to judge–neither to and relationships of people who inhabit one’s
condemn nor to celebrate–but to point out, to say, environment. 171 DERRICK QUEVEDO
“hey, take a look at this.” www.sophiapeters.com 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
www.davidottenstein.com WATERCOLOR
167 MARGOT NIMIROSKI Painting, like daydreaming, is a much more
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 colorful way to process reality and observation;
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS unlike daydreaming, it makes actual enduring
This year I started painting abstract seascapes. I objects out of ephemeral imagination (and
live on Branford Harbor and spend much of my inspires alliteration).
time boating with my husband. I fell in love with www.derrickquevedo.weebly.com
the water when I was a teenager and moved to
New Jersey from central Illinois. It is always 168 LIZ PAGANO
beautiful. My hope is that my paintings bring 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
others the sense of calm and beauty that I feel. PRINT/MIXED MEDIA
www.margotnimiroski.com Accidental beauty inspires me. I love looking at
textures and how they reveal a history. I am always
searching for unexpected possibilities. My work
magnifies moments—capturing movement,
sometimes reactions or fusions. The part I can’t
control keeps me chasing/searching/moving. My
process is about exploring interactions of chance
and control, coincidence and intent.
www.lizpagano.com
ARTISTS Qu– Sc
20 290 MICHAEL QUIRK
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264 VALERIE RICHARDSON
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267 CYNTHIA RUBIN
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173 KERRI SANCOMB
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SCULPTURE OIL/MIXED DIGITAL PRINT PRINTMAKING
ARTSPACE’S 15TH ANNUAL CITY-WIDE OPEN STUDIOS

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
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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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PAINT CURATOR-LED
STUDIO VISITS

OCTOBER 5 — 21, 2012


GLASS PAPER I am a painter. When my time is too fractured, I
From the collaboration between Liz Pagano, a make photographs which have to do with
175 DANA SCINTO New Haven print and mixed-media artist, and painting. I teach with video and make it. This
Hayne Bayless, a potter in Ivoryton, Sideways & portfolio consists in still digital photography (very JOIN US THURDAY, OCTOBER 11
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WOOD Askew was created where paper and clay collide to current) and video stills (from videos that have for an intimate, thought-
My work evokes unexpected changes in my produce artful illumination. Hayne does the soundtracks). When I do commissioned work, I provoking evening of art and
identity. Within my mind a possibility emerges; a metalwork for the lampshade frames, creates the think of it as site-specific work made under specific
base and then electrifies it. Liz then does her thing circumstances of place and client’s desire
conversation to benefit Artspace
nascent longing for anarchy in my well-controlled
life. Due to the vast possibilities of accident, or creating the material for the shades and puts them interacting with my artistic eye and disposition. & City-Wide Open Studios. Begin
fortune, I am able to find expression without together. your night with a seated dinner
control. A lesson in my true powerlessness makes with wine hosted by Artspace
me an artist. Layers, mixtures, and colors become
not a conscious choice, but surrender to
Board Member Fred Giampietro
intemperance. at his gallery in Erector Square.
www.danascinto.com
273 MARK ST. MARY After dinner, join one of four
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PHOTOGRAPHY
art-world experts for studio
271 KYLE SKAR
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 “All that’s visible springs from causes intimate to visits of a hand-picked selection
INSTALLATION you.”–Dogen. I strive to create a sense of presence, of Erector Square artists whose
capturing a mood through the intersections of
light, form, and color. While the representational
work has caught the curators’
206 MELISSA SLATTERY eyes. The evening will end on a
176 JOHN SCULLY 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 works beget a narrative, the abstract pieces are
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 PAPER more intensely emotionally evocative, allowing the high note with a lively discussion
viewer’s fantasy to shape the experience. It has of the studio visits over
PRINTMAKING
more to do with the value of light and shadow
195 KATHLEEN SMITS than with the actual subject. dessert and coffee back at the
191 VALERIE SELDON 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 www.saintvisions.net Giampietro Gallery.
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 OIL ON CANVAS
PHOTOGRAPHY I create what makes me feel good—whether it is Tickets range from $45–$125.
Val Seldon manages programs for folks with peaceful, colorful, or curious. My paintings focus
disabilities during the day and carries her camera on changing skies and the colors created in the Visit www.artspacenh.org for
with her at all times, for that just-in-case moment. clouds and the landscape. My inspiration comes information and to reserve your
For Val “seeing things,” especially things with from the endless skies I have seen—no two alike seat.
color, has always been important to her. Photogra- and a million colors to see, reflected in shapes of
phy seems to be her best mode of expression. Take moisture, water, and land. My photography led me 178 RANDALL STANTON
a moment to enjoy her images. into digital media and computer applications. It’s
CHOOSE YOUR GUIDE:
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a different process. DRAWING 1. Susan Cahan: Associate Dean for
177 LISA SHOGLOW www.kcsmitsgallery.com
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 the Arts at Yale College
274 JEFFREY STARKES
ENCAUSTIC 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
My paintings, whether encaustic, watercolor, 2. Cathleen Chaffee: Horace W.
OIL
acrylic, digital, or photographic, are attempts to The elements of human culture and society form Goldsmith Assistant Curator of
embody ongoing interior dialogues reflecting psy- the basis of my abstract compositions. Bits and Modern and Contemporary Art at
chological states of mind and experience. Trans- pieces from everyday life, or patterns that suggest
lucent, layered, obscured, embedded, scarred, they 41 ANITA SOOS the Yale University Art Gallery.
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 the rhythms and structures of our social order, are
explore personal themes: Identity/Disappearance, combined with arbitrary or freeform backgrounds.
WEST COVE STUDIOS 3. Paul Ha: Director of the List Center
Control/Submergence, Angst/Joy, and shadows of My intention is to explore the dynamic tensions
family history that linger as present forces. 30 ELM ST., WEST HAVEN for Visual Arts at the Massachusetts
OIL that are created when organization and control,
of varied degrees, are superimposed on the amor- Institute of Technology.
The movements of life are reflected in water all
around me. Oceans, pools, streams, lakes, rivers. I phous natural world.
4. Brooke Davis Anderson: Former
am continually struck by the notion that the chaos
in nature is perfectly ordered. The quality of light, 192 THOMAS STAVOVY Deputy Director of Curatorial
the movement of the water, the time of day, low 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 Planning at the Los Angeles County
tide, high tide, wind, calm, sun, rain, clouds, WEST COVE STUDIOS
30 ELM ST., WEST HAVEN
Museum of Art (LACMA).
storm. These all converge into a single moment
that is singular, never to be repeated. DRAWING
I use process to generate an image. My concerns
are the relation of one form to another and to the EVENT COMMITTEE
edge of the image field. Cassandra Albinson • Eileen Eder • Fred
Giampietro • Barbara Marks • Shannon
Stewart
ARTISTS St– Th
22 185 KATE STEPHEN 275 MICHAEL STOCK 181 PAUL THERIAULT

WHAT
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
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

IS I feel free when I am creating jewelry. My motiva-


tion is to use the form of creation as meditation
my passion for bright primary colors, pop art, and
mythical creatures, is a driving force behind my
based and of a tactile nature. I often combine
these two divergent mediums through a process

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
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
280 BRIAN WALTERS
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
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I enjoy the camera’s ability to accurately I work in a variety of media, including; paint, I am exploring the working methods of early My work is comprised of salvaged material sourced
capture the moment and reflect the vision of collage, photography, and print making, to name portrait photographers whose equipment was not locally. There is something unique and personal
what I see. I have learned not just to document a few.I cover a range of concepts and subjects, but of today’s standards. I am working in a small to each individual piece of metal used in my
but to apply the creative aspects of composition I always work with and around the human form, studio with limited available light, which forces work. I highlight the rust, peeling paint, gouges,
and the freedom offered with digital image specifically with juxtaposition against hard line my subjects to hold still, and due to the length of and other defects in the material that have been
processing. My themes are inspired by the and geometry. I like to contrast the soft and the exposure, not smile. I make the eyes the most acquired by years of service to society. My aim as a
landscapes, be they urban or rural, and the malleable with the cold and immutable. My style important point in each frame letting other sculptor is to showcase not only the material being
imagery captured in reflective surfaces, is best characterized as figurative and illustrative. I sections fall out of focus. I believe that the eyes are used but the story behind it.
weathered and worn structures, as well as the typically make use of the written word. our truth-meters. www.behnkedoherty.com
beauty and fragility found in nature. www.cavanaria.com
www.artistsimaging.com 24 GAR WATERMAN
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
425 WEST ROCK AVE., NEW HAVEN
SCULPTURE
266 UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN A combination of observation of natural
SETON GALLERY phenomena, sensual devotion to the tactile
58 RACHEL VATERS CARR possibilities of material, and a model maker’s
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
VARIOUS MEDIA tinkering sensibility of fabricating from bits
276 DAVID K THOMPSON 15 GILBERT ST., WEST HAVEN inform my work. During a formative year in Tahiti
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 SCULPTURE /WALL-RELIEF from the age of 9 to 10, my daily contact was with
MIXED-TECHNIQUE ON PAPER www.vaters-carr.com the lush reefs of the South Pacific, with their
My art analyzes cartography, landscape, hydrodynamic fish, rays, sharks, and corals, and
machinery, propaganda, documents, and other 277 FREDERICK VELARDI with the exotic flora of the Polynesian landscape.
forms of æstheticised nationalism; it attempts 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 www.garwaterman.com
to delineate psychological geographies and to ACRYLIC
229 RITA VALLEY
redefine ‘reality’ in its absurdity. By the
3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
juxtaposition and deliberate misuse of 207 MARGA VELDHUIZEN
LIFE
geography, scientific aesthetics, and political 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
semiotics with found-object readymades, my CLAY (SCULPTURE)
work questions classification, the existential
nature of identity, and even the notion of art
60 THUAN VU
itself.
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 43 JONATHAN WATERS
www.studiodavidk.com 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
HIGHWOOD SQUARE
943 DIXWELL AVE., HAMDEN SCULPTURE
64 KEVIN VAN AELST OIL PAINT www.jonathanwatersart.com
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 www.landscapes.thuanvu.com
111 DESSA DRIVE, HAMDEN
PHOTOGRAPHY 278 MARAH JUNE WALLACH
www.kevinvanaelst.com 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
PHOTOGRAPHY

279 TRACY WALTER FERRY 10 JONATHAN WEINBERG


3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21 1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
SCULPTURE 251 GREENE ST., NEW HAVEN
Genetically modified organisms can be made from ACRYLIC
plants, animals, or even microorganisms. I
72 KIM VAN AELST explore what would happen if the order within
A friend of mine asked, “Why don’t you paint
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7 naked women?” I replied, “Would you ask Matisse
these organisms was disrupted. In creating these why he doesn’t paint naked men?” I paint naked
111 DESSA DRIVE, HAMDEN
newly found objects, I combine materials that are men because I am attracted to them. I purposely
PAINTING
not typically put together. I create new beings, then pose men in positions that are traditionally
deconstruct them and use the parts for new reserved for women. To the degree that men are
sculptures. It is work similar to that of a scientist painted nude in the history of art they are usually
in a lab. shown standing and active—not in repose, and
www.tracywalterferry.com not vulnerable the way they are in my paintings.
ARTISTS WE– Z

24 69 BRIAN WENDLER
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
30 JOANNE WILCOX
1 PASSPORT | OCT. 6 + 7
186 DON WUNDERLEE
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
189 ROBERT ZOTT
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14
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
2 ERECTOR SQUARE | OCT. 13 + 14 3 ALTERNATIVE SPACE | OCT. 20 + 21
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

OCTOBER 5 — 21, 2012


ALTERNATIVE SPACE HOST S/N/L SPEED/NETWORKING/LIVE! THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE CWOS 15 GUEST CURATORS ARTSPACE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The New Haven Register Kenise Barnes, Owner, Kenise Barnes WHO MADE S/N/L A GREAT SUCCESS Marianne Bernstein Barbara Pearce, Chair
Fine Art, LLC Sinclaire Marber Terri C. Smith Bill Kalinowski, Treasurer
MEDIA SPONSORS Daniel Belasco, Freelance Curator, New Lisa Molomot/Videography Liena Vayzman Cassandra Albinson, Secretary
The New Haven Register York Katie Stone Jeff Carter
Marianne Bernstein, Independent Nadia Westenberg ESSAYIST Kathleen DeMeo
Eileen Eder
RADIO SPONSOR Curator, Philadelphia Hank Hoffman
Fred Giampietro
WPKN Sharon Butler, Blogger/Critic, Two Coats THE PLAYHOUSE COULD NOT HAVE
Betsy Henley-Cohn
of Paint HAPPENED WITHOUT IDENTITY & DESIGN David Leffell
SPONSORS Elinor Buxton, Independent Curator THE HELP OF Leslie Kuo Nick Lloyd
City of New Haven Office of Economic Elizabeth DeRose, Frmr. Assistant Susan Smith, Barbara Harder, Kate with: Barbara Marks
Development Curator, Yale University Art Gallery & Paranteau, & Creative Arts Workshop Ming Bai, Intern Bruce McDermott
PhD Candidate at the Graduate Center Joe Banks & Bruce Wujcik of Svigals & Tahlia Townsend
Connecticut Commission on Culture & George Corsillo/Design Monsters
CUNY Partners Caroline Wharton
Tourism (Limited Edition Print)
Amy Wrzesniewski
First Niagara Bank Foundation Pamela Franks, Deputy Director for Baley Boccitto Dexterity Press (Passport)
Collections & Education, Yale University John Bradley
Greater New Haven Community
Art Gallery
Megan Mangun (Erector Square Preview ARTSPACE VISUAL ARTS COMMITTEE
Foundation Branford College Master’s Office Tour Invitation)
Fred Giampietro, Owner, Giampietro Johanna Bresnick, Chair
National Endowment for the Arts Chairigami & Zach Rothholz Star Hill Studio (Official CWOS Guide) Kwadwoe Adae
Gallery, New Haven
Yale University Tom Duffy Geoff Detrani
Hope Ginsburg, Artist and Assistant
Professor in the Department of Liberty Community Services staff & BOOKKEEPING Debbie Hesse
NEW HAVEN REGISTER TEAM Painting & Printmaking, Virginia clients Colin Burke Todd Jokl
Matt DiRienzo Carter Hayes Willard Lustenader
Commonwealth University Robert Orr
Mary Kate Bzdyra Lisa Magson Meredith Miller
Steve Holmes, Curator, Bass Museum, Paul Theriault & Michael Galvin Michael McElderry
Rick Bolognese Miami and Cartin Collection, Hartford
Gregory Ferine Yale Day of Service students MAIN EXHIBITION CREW Kerri Sancomb
Richard Klein, Curator, Aldrich Win Davis Jean Scott
Lynda Mettler JP Culligan
Contemporary Art Museum Rashmi Talpade
Colin Thompson Master Printer Cindy Ettinger Andrew Francis
Al and his trucks Petrushka Bazin Larsen, Curator and Paul Theriault
Marianne Bernstein Martha Lewis Erika Van Natta
Tom Wiley, Digital First Program Manager, The Laundromat
Noe Jimenez
Joe Miller, Digital First Project, Brooklyn
IN KIND AND OTHER SPECIAL Chris Schweitzer
Keyjo Lee, PhD Candidate, Art History/ Shelly Stevens
ARTSPACE STAFF
BIKE TOURS African American Studies, Yale THANKS Helen Kauder, Executive Director
The Devil’s Gear Bike Shop University Marion Cherrone, Slocum & Sons ADDITIONAL PHOTO CREDITS Michael Galvin, Visual Arts Coordinator
Matt Feiner & Dave Kahn Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Independent EC Schroeder, Doreen Powers, & the Leslie Kuo & Gallery Manager
Rosemary Lennox Curator, New York staff of the Beinecke Library Mia Orsatti Martha Lewis, Curator of Education
Frank Mitchell, Adjunct Curator, Rachel Bernsen Shannon Connors, Communications &
MARKETING, PROMOTION, & Amistad Center for Arts & Culture Margaret Bodell, Kelly Murphy, & Vivian ARTSPACE INTERNS Community Outreach Coordinator
OUTREACH Sarah Murkett, Founder and Owner, Nabeta Moses Balian JP Culligan, City-Wide Open Studios
Bruno Baggetta & Market New Haven Murk & Co., New York Kathy Telman, Erector Square Joy Daniels Coordinator
Margaret Bodell John O’Donnell, Adjunct Professor, Roy Smith, West Cove Studios Bryant Davis
Southern Connecticut State University Erin Desmond
Bill Brown, Eli Whitney Museum Shannon Stewart
Cynthia Reeves, Owner, Cynthia Reeves Caleb Hendrickson
Lauren Levy Jeff Carter, WestMount Sinclaire Devereux Marber
Gallery, New York
Ed Stannard, Angela Carter, and the Maegan McElderry Minh Nguyen
Anna Rogulina, Assistant Curator, New
staff of the New Haven Register New Haven Mineral Club Lucy Topoloff
Britain Museum of American Art
Chris Ortwein, On9 Kyle Skar & Dave Coon Jeremy Wolin
Terri Smith, Director, Franklin Street Nadia Westenberg
Yale School of Managment Team: Works Liang Guo
Justine Chan, Matt Losch, & Lily Roh
Lexi Lee Sullivan, Assistant Curator, Joe’s Paint (for the parachute fabric)
Shannon Connors DeCordova Chris Schweitzer, Connie Razza, Bradley
Christina Vassalo, Executive Director, Daniels, Laura Noe, & Artspace’s regular
FluxFactory, New York weekday volunteers
Liena Vayzman, Curator, Crystal Palace
Film/Video Festival, New Haven

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