An extraordinary exhibition featuring stunning photographic images of birds, mammals and sea life engaging in their natural habitats. Vivid color, amazing action moments and the sheer beauty of the natural world are all masterfully captured by this talented, award-winning filmmaker, expeditionist and dedicated environmentalist.
FLYWAY OF LIFE, Wildlife Photography by Tomas Koeck
The Geary Gallery of Darien proudly presents its May exhibition, "The Palette in Bloom," featuring the lush, joyful florals and abstract paintings of artist, Lori Eubanks. Her exhibit runs May 1 - 31. All are welcome and admission is free. The Geary Gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and is located at 576 Boston Post Road, Darien, CT 06820. For more details, call (203) 655-6633 or visit our website: www.gearygallery.com.
Lori Eubanks' vibrant florals and abstracts, "The Palette in Bloom” at the Geary Gallery in Darien CT
“Here is where finally opposites come together, I see a surprising purity. Stone is the depth, metal the mirror. They do not conflict…” —Isamu Noguchi
While the renowned sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) is best known for his work in stone, he consistently explored new materials and methods during his wide-ranging career. He first experimented with aluminum in the 1950s and later with galvanized steel, creating a series of twenty-six sculptures in collaboration with Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles in 1982–83. In this body of work, each sheet of metal is cut with a plasma torch and then dipped into boiling zinc, resulting in sculptures that are subtly patterned and highly reflective, resembling pebbles in a stream or the epidermal layer of skin.
Writing about the unique materiality of his sculptures, Noguchi described metal as a mirror in opposition to “stone [as] depth.” His galvanized steel sculptures achieve formal unity while also exploring conceptual dualities between the traditional and modern, fine art and design, and industry and nature. As a Japanese American artist working in the United States, Noguchi negotiated his own feeling of in-betweenness throughout his oeuvre. The galvanized steel editions synthesize this dual aspect of his identity, utilizing steel—a distinctly American material—while also integrating the Japanese craft of origami through cut and folded metal shapes.
Featuring a selection of nine galvanized steel sculptures, the exhibition is organized into thematic groupings that underscore the paradoxes of the artist’s work in metal. In the first, Noguchi imparts inanimate forms with human qualities, complicating the relationship between flesh and steel, body and mirror. Man-made material is transformed into representations of mountains, fruit, and sky in the second grouping, reflecting Noguchi’s belief that, in modernity, industry and nature are intertwined. A final trio of works reveals Noguchi’s ongoing interest in abstraction, bringing theoretical and spiritual ideas, weight and weightlessness, and past and present into visual dialogue. Through these sculptures, Noguchi explores ways of belonging in between such imagined oppositions. Indeed, the polished steel surfaces entangle objects, spaces, and people in a network of cast reflections, inviting visitors to contemplate Noguchi’s life, his practice, and themselves.
Isamu Noguchi: Metal the Mirror is curated by Julia Mun, Curatorial Associate, with support from Ashley Holland, Curator and Director of Curatorial Initiatives, and Javier Rivero Ramos, Assistant Curator. The presentation at the Bruce is organized by Margarita Karasoulas, Curator of Art.
Isamu Noguchi: Metal the Mirror is organized by Art Bridges.
Isamu Noguchi: Metal the Mirror
For the final exhibition of its 2024-25 season, the Flinn Gallery is pleased to present Elemental: Work by Boston Sculptors Gallery Artists. The show runs from May 8 to June 18 and features the work of 13 artists from the Boston Sculptors Gallery. The sculptors in the exhibition work with a wide range of materials – clay, fabric, metal, plastic, wood, and mixed media – and their artwork ranges in height from three inches to over eight feet.
While the sculptures encompass a wide range of materials, sizes, and techniques, they were selected with a unifying theme in mind – Elemental. This word has multiple meanings, which range from primitive or basic to the four elements of nature to the chemical elements from which many of the objects are created. Visitors to the Gallery will see artwork that can be grouped into four elemental categories: Beginnings, Organisms, Earth, and Water.
The artists are all inspired by the beauty and fragility of the natural world along with our connections to and impact upon it. For Mo Kelman,“water is the ideal subject to reflect on the laws that govern nature as it ceaselessly advances and embarrasses our every effort to keep it at bay.” In Lagoon, Kelman merges an abstracted body of silk water with bamboo structures that ensemble towers or bridges. Artist Jessica Strauss has three pieces in the exhibition from her Packing for Mars series. In Missing You, Blue Planet, and No More Polar Ice Cap, human figures gaze at images of Earth. The sculptures express “black humor, longing, and regret” as Strauss looks toward a “future when humans must flee a devastated Earth to settle on far flung and arid worlds.”
Several artists use traditional domestic crafts such as crochet, embroidery, and sewing in innovative ways. In her three sculptures Ascent, Larvae, and Nests, Michelle Lougee crochets post-consumer plastic bags into monumental sculptures, which “examine the relationships between humans, plastic, and nature amidst irreversible environmental changes”. Cascading from the ceiling, Keri Straka’s “Soft Cell Division” is composed of stuffed and sewn textiles. According to Straka, “the suspended sculpture is evocative of the ebb and flow of human life as mirrored in the blooming of a single cell.” Her sculpture, “Portal: Past” is made of multiple wooden embroidery hoops of varying sizes with water-color painted fabric embedded with a wide range of materials to represent dividing cells and biological cycles.
Since the majority of sculptors are women, it is only natural that some artwork addresses feminine sensibilities, and as mentioned, domestic life. Ellen Schön has four ceramic pieces in the exhibition. Two of her pieces – Five Hills Font and Lotus Pod – are part of her Wellspring Series. For Schön, “the pieces in this series explore the ceramic vessel as a wellspring or womb. They are meant to evoke sources of life-whirlpools, fonts, pods, seed of hope, as well as the landscape of the female body.” Several of Jodie Colella’s sculptures are ceramic and one incorporates fabric. According to Colella, her three pieces – Offspring, Seeds, and Attempts at Conviviality Exhaust Me – “comingle rigid forms with fibers to create vessels containing the stories that embody domestic life.”
Elemental is curated by Flinn Gallery committee members, Barbra Fordyce and Nancy Heller. It will include over 40 works of art by the following Boston Sculptors Gallery artists:
Jodie Colella (clay, fiber, stone, and mixed media), Carrie Crane (mixed media),
Anna Kristina Goransson (felt and wool), Mo Kelman (silk, wood, and mixed media), Michelle Lougee (crocheted plastic and wire), Ellen Schön (stoneware and fired-clay), Julia Shepley (mixed media), Keri Straka (fabric and mixed media), Jessica Strauss (mixed media), Margaret Swan (aluminum), Nora Valdez (limestone), Leslie Wilcox (steel screen and mixed media), and Andy Zimmerman (wood).
The Flinn Gallery is a non-profit organization sponsored by Friends of the Greenwich Library. The Gallery welcomes visitors daily Monday to Saturday, 10-5pm, Thursday until 8pm, and Sunday 1-5pm, and is located on the second floor of the Greenwich Library, 101 West Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, CT.
The Boston Sculptors Gallery (BSG) was founded in 1992 by 18 artists as a venue for contemporary sculpture. It is located in Boston’s SoWa arts district and has 38 member artists from Boston and New England. There is a natural kinship between the Flinn and Boston Sculptors Galleries. Both are nonprofit entities that are volunteer-run and operated with support from a part-time staff member.
Events:
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 8 from 6-8pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, June 7 from 2-3pm.
Elemental: Work by Boston Sculptors Gallery Artists
The Greenwich Art Society is pleased to announce its 108th Annual Juried Exhibition, at the Bendheim Gallery at 299 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich, CT. Exhibition dates are May 8th thru June 8th. There will be an opening reception and awards ceremony on Saturday May 8th from 5:15 - 6:30 PM. An online digital and virtual gallery will be available on our website, www.greenwichartsociety.org . All work will be for sale.
JUROR: Kelly Long is an art worker and writer currently serving as Senior Curatorial Assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, where she has worked with the Photography Acquisitions Committee since 2017), developed exhibitions across mediums, including Rachel Harrison Life Hack (2019), Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith (2023, and a forthcoming exhibition focused on surrealism and the 1960’s. Most recently, she curated Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe and the Last Gullah Islands (2024), and Trust Me (2023), a group exhibition exploring the role that vulnerability plays in forging connection, and the overlapping lives and loves of photography’s creators, viewers, and caretakers. Previously, she has held curatorial and teaching positions at the George Eastman Museum and at the University of Rochester. Her writing has appeared in the catalogues for Chiharu Shiota: The Hand Lines and Gail Thacker: Fugitive Moments, and in publications such as InVisible Culture and MOSSFLOWER. She holds a B.A. in art history from Vassar College, and an M.A. in visual and cultural studies from the University of Rochester, where her research focused on the engagement of postmodern and contemporary art with housing, exploring notions of being and belonging, access, and ownership in the art of our time.
AWARDS : Cash and other awards totaling over $2000 will be presented at the opening reception.
108th Annual Juried Exhibition at the Bendheim Gallery
Please join us at Silvermine Galleries on Saturday May 17th from 5 - 7pm for the opening reception of the Fiber 2025 Exhibition.
This international exhibition seeks to showcase the best of contemporary fiber art that reflect the breadth of functional or non-functional works that use fiber and/or fiber art techniques in traditional or innovative ways. Artwork in this exhibition may be made from natural or high tech materials that reference fiber and that blur the lines between art, architecture and craft.
The exhibition will run from May 10th through June 19th, 2025.
It will be accompanied by two small exhibitions curated by browngrotta arts: Masters of the Medium: CT and Mastery and Materiality: International.
Fiber 2025 Exhibition at Silvermine Galleries
Heather Gaudio Fine Art is pleased to present Martin Kline: The World In All Its Plenitude, the artist’s fifth solo exhibition at the gallery. The public is invited to attend an opening reception on Saturday, May 3, 4-6pm, and the exhibition will remain on view through June 14th. A fully illustrated catalogue with an essay written by art critic and poet Carter Ratcliff accompanies the exhibition.
“…ever since he made his first mature work, Kline has felt free to make paintings that are not flat and sculptures that are powerfully pictorial. He is not just inventive. He is reliably – startlingly – original.” [1]
The show brings together thirty-nine works executed between 1997 and 2025, surveying Kline’s long-standing engagement with encaustic. Kline’s output has consistently been one of working in series, creating several paintings, drawings and sculpture surrounding a theme or idea. At times he has revisited these themes to expand his material investigations, technical mastery and visual explorations. The distinguishing motif in the paintings and sculptures presented in this show, regardless of the year or series they belong to, is that they all share in the color blue. Arguably one of the favorite colors on the spectrum, blue has for millennia captivated the human eye and carried a special allure for its symbolic and emotive qualities. From ancient China and Egypt to the Celtic times, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and Baroque periods, from the Industrial Revolution and the nineteenth century to the modern and contemporary era, blue has fascinated artists, musicians and writers. Sourced from cobalt, lapis lazuli, indigo, ultramarine and other materials, blue can transform into varying hues: cyan, navy, turquoise, aqua, midnight blue, sky blue, royal blue and aquamarine.
Kline’s nimble use of the color takes its hue and shade ranges in different directions, accentuating its characteristics and evocative nature with his adroit use of encaustic. Whether applied in flat bold brushstrokes, dripped or layered to create textured surfaces, Kline modulates the color and manipulates the material to create a vast range of visual experiences. Some grided paintings are structures that take on a retro feel with lighter and darker tones and hues, such as Blue Order and Blue and White Impression. The brushstrokes create a patchwork of tetris-like tiles seeming to compete for space. A mixture of values and tones in other panels such as Blue Grid are not as delineated and appear to meld into one another. These networks are transformed into more complex systems in Blue Mosaico (Tondo) and in the camo-bot series such as Patchwork Blue and Camo Bluebot.
Razzle Dazzle may be visually related to the latter two but is also part of another seminal body of work by the artist, the Hammock paintings. In this large panel, Kline’s line of enquiry comes from a narrative referenced in Leo Steinberg’s essay “Other Criteria.” In it, he touches on the 19th century artist Thomas Eakins’ addressing the question whether painting and sculpture should have the same moral standing as traditionally defined manual labor, and not just be considered an activity of leisure or pleasure. Kline’s Hammock paintings are created on actual canvas service hammocks, some dating back to WWII, that the artist has collected over the years. Razzle Dazzle, with its honey-combed surface and blue color patterns, camouflages the hammock on the panel, keeping the object used for work and /or leisure not readily apparent.
Audiences familiar with Kline’s artistic trajectory will enjoy viewing the deep, midnight blue, almost black The Prussian Blues (II), an encaustic on linen that would be a precursor to an important series in Kline’s oeuvre, the white linen, or Tabula Rasa, paintings. Other works on view include the artist’s signature additive layered Bloom, Jewel, and Leda paintings, with their surfaces so textured they become quasi sculptural, where shadow plays an important part in the visual engagement. When does a textured painting become a sculpture? The coup de grâce that drives this concept home is Diagonal Blue Growth on Canvas, a painting the artist cast into a unique bronze and finished with a rich blue patina to make it look like a painting.
About Martin Kline
Kline has had a prolific career as a painter, sculptor and draughtsman and his works have been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad. His works are in many notable public and private collections, including The Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Brooklyn Museum and the Morgan Library in New York City; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; the Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Albertina, Vienna; The Museum of Fine Art, Houston; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Ohio University, Athens; the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain; Triton Foundation, Belgium; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, among others. Kline lives and works in upstate New York.
About Carter Ratcliff
American critic and poet Carter Ratcliff has published writings on art for The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Guggenheim Museum; the Royal Academy of Arts, London; Maxxi Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome and many other institutions. He has contributed to notable art publications such as Art in America, Art Forum, Art News, Arts, Tate, and Art Presse, as well Vogue, Elle, and New York Magazine. Books include The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art, Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art, and monographs on Andy Warhol, John Singer Sargent, Georgia O’Keeffe, Gilbert & George among others. His books of poetry include Fever Coast, Give Me Tomorrow and Arrivederci, Modernismo. Born in Seattle, Ratcliff lives and works in upstate New York.
Heather Gaudio Fine Art specializes in emerging and established artists, offering painting, works on paper, photography, and sculpture. The gallery provides a full-range of art advisory services, from forming and maintaining a collection, to securing secondary market material, to assisting with framing and installation. The focus is on each individual client, selecting art that best serves his or her vision, space, and resources. The six exhibitions offered every year are designed to present important talent and provide artwork appealing to a broad range of interests. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday; 10:30am to 5:30pm; and by appointment.
[1] Carter Ratcliff, “Martin Kline: The World in All Its Plenitude”, 2025, Martin Kline, exhibition catalogue
"Martin Kline: The World In All Its Plenitude"
This exhibition presents highlights from the collection of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, which explores the impact of the Irish Famine of 1845-1852 through artwork produced by eminent Irish and Irish-American artists of the past 170 years. The works on view in the exhibition will include paintings by late 19th- and early 20th‐century artists like James Brenan, Daniel Macdonald, James Arthur O'Connor and Jack B. Yeats, as well as sculptures, paintings, and works on paper by contemporary artists including John Behan, Rowan Gillespie, Brian Maguire, and Hughie O'Donoghue. The exhibition is presented by Quinnipiac University and the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield Exhibition.
An Gorta Mór: Selections from Ireland's Great Hunger Museum
We are pleased to announce our next On View feature, highlighting original landscape paintings by South Carolina-based artist Karin Olah on the main wall of Sorelle Gallery. The Feature will open Saturday, May 10, 2025. Visitors will have the opportunity to view new work by Karin, with light refreshments on opening day.
Inspired by the colors and light of coastal landscapes, Karin Olah creates multi-layered paintings with acrylic paint, hand-dyed fabric, and vintage textiles. Karin’s subject matter ranges from seascape to abstract expressionism to a dreamy place in-between.
Karin combines her obsession with textiles and quilts, a background in fashion design in NYC, a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, and an ever-growing fabric collection to add layers of texture to her work. She is a recipient of the Lowcountry Artist of the Year Award and an Artist-in-Residence at Palmetto Bluff. Her work has been on the cover of Charleston Magazine and featured in Southern Living, House & Garden Magazine, and American Contemporary Art Magazine. Her work is in public collections at Mayo Clinic Florida, Medical University of South Carolina, Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center, JW Marriott, The Ritz-Carlton, Ponte Vedra Inn and Club, and Ilya Corporation in Japan. Originally from Lancaster Country, Pennsylvania, Karin has lived in Charleston, South Carolina since 2003. Karin enjoys going to the beach, playing golf, being silly with her daughters, and chasing after a naughty labradoodle named Charlie.
"Fabric is something that evokes an emotional response," Olah says. "Soft materials can make us feel calm, relaxed, cozy, and safe. I use textiles in my paintings to suggest a connection between the beautiful places in nature and the comforting touch of a well-loved quilt. Inspiration for my subject matter comes from cloud watching at the beach, the stripes of ocean waves on the horizon, a patchwork of farm fields, the meandering thread of a creek through the marsh, and quiet time at the lake. My interpretations of landscapes focus on color and mood more than realism. In these dreamscapes, the brushstrokes are fabric."
Karin's paintings will be on view through Saturday, May 31st.
This On View feature is free and open to the public during gallery hours, Tuesday through Saturday 11:00am - 5:00pm. Street parking is available.
On View: Karin Olah
The GR Art Gallery presents:
Ellen Gordon
“A Creative Journey II”
April 4th, 2025 – May 30th, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 5th from 4 PM – 7 PM
“A Creative Journey II”” is Ellen Gordon’s first solo exhibit at the GR Art Gallery. This exhibition is a retrospective of paintings and drawings by the artist created since 2009. In 2009 Ms. Gordon had her first solo exhibition entitled “A Creative Journey” at the Stamford Mayor’s Gallery. The exhibit will be on display from April 4th thru May 30th. Gallery hours are Wednesday - Saturday from 12-6 pm and from Sunday 12-4. Any time by appointment, 203-274-7497.
The GR Art Gallery will host a reception to celebrate the artist on Saturday April 5th from 4 – 7 PM. The public is invited.
Ellen Gordon is a Stamford, CT-based award-winning mixed media artist. The colors and patterns in her artwork are roller coaster rhythms of fences, grids, and fractured geometries – a kind of mapping. She guides us along a journey of the personal narrative through landscaped layers of abstraction and portraiture. Playful and speculative, the rhythms remain determinedly open-ended and essentially borderless. An un-plotted story with unbounded possibilities. Over the past two decades, Gordon’s work has evolved through many phases, but her main body of work centers on figurative collages - intimate yet colorful portrayals of a woman in her own thoughts, providing the viewer a window into honest moments with a series of striking and bold women. Her most recent work has been a transition into the abstract patterns, experimenting with geometric shapes and inverted forms in color palettes evoking various states of mind.
Ms. Gordon has been active in the local arts for many years. She currently serves on the board of The Greenwich Art Society and The Connecticut Women Artists. Ms. Gordon is a commissioner of The City of Stamford’s Cultural Arts and Culture Board. She is the former Executive Director of the Loft Artists Association and was Co President of the Stamford Art Association.
In 2022, Ms. Gordon became the curator of the Mayor's Art Gallery in Stamford, CT.
The GR Art Gallery is located at 1086 Long Ridge Road, Stamford, CT 06903. Gallery hours are Wednesday - Saturday from 12-6 pm and from Sunday 12-4. Any time by appointment, 203-274-7497. Parking is available and the building is handicap accessible.
"A Creative Journey II", Ellen Gordon at the GR Art Gallery
A new show at the Rowayton Arts Center (RAC), “Community Sponsored Awards,” will be on view May 18 through June 15, 2025. The artwork in this exhibition will feature local scenes by RAC Exhibiting Members with cash awards thanks to individuals and merchants in the area. This year's awards have been made possible by the support and generosity of the following: All Seasons Marine Works, Arden’s Rowayton, Brendan’s 101, Cucina Daniella, Darien Rowayton Bank, E.R. Salvatore Associates, Fairfield County Bank, Avery and Rob Flowers, Gway Printing, HTG Investment Advisors, Images of Old Greenwich, Kim and Gil Kernan, Rowayton Wine Shop, Sails American Bar & Grill, Seaside Delights, The Bait Shop Marine Services, The Restaurant at Rowayton Seafood, Whitebridge Wines & Spirits and William Raveis/Tammy Langalis.
The opening reception on Sunday, May 16 from 4 pm to 6 pm is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 12 to 5 pm plus Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 1 pm.
RAC celebrates the study, creation and appreciation of the arts through classes, exhibitions and events open to all in the community. For over 60 years, this nonprofit organization has been a cultural gem in Rowayton, CT. The gallery and art school overlook the scenic Five Mile River at 145 Rowayton Avenue with space for regional artists to exhibit their art and a classroom for workshops and classes at all levels offered to children and adults. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
Rowayton Arts Center "Community Sponsored Awards" Show
Did you know that herbal tea isn’t actually tea?
Explore the distinction between tea — the beverage made from steeping leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant— and tisanes, caffeine-free herbal infusions commonly called “herbal tea” with Grace Farms Tea Expert Frank Kwei. Taste hot and cold versions of different herbal blends while learning the origins of herbs and the different methods of preparation.
Journey into the World of Tea is a series of tranquil and in-depth explorations of tea offering guests a taste of notable varietals from cultures around the world, with demonstrations and more.
Journey into the World of Tea
If you are struggling with stress, an over-active mind and want to find a new perspective on how mindfulness and meditation can help in navigating the challenges of your everyday life, then join Prabha Makayee as she guides you through the steps of meditation. See what you can accomplish by taking responsibility over what kinds of thoughts you think. With just one second, one breath and one thought of changing your perspective you can realign your well-being to a more peaceful, happy mindset.
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Mindfulness Meditation For Adults
Our eight-week session of SPRING 2025 DRAMA ARTS CLASSES for kids, teens and adults is now available on our website! Classes begin April 19, 2025, and take place after school, evenings and weekends at The Sterling Farms Theatre Complex, 1349 Newfield Avenue in Stamford, Connecticut: a professional facility with two theatre spaces and three studio classrooms. Our faculty consists of local, professional artists and arts educators dedicated to creative enrichment in the community. Classes are offered in acting, improv, sketch comedy, musical theatre, dance, on-camera, AND MORE!
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Curtain Call, Inc. is Stamford, Connecticut's longest-running and only nonprofit, theatre-producing company, offering year-round, live, theatrical productions, concert events, and educational workshops. Voted Best Local Theatre Group 10 years in a row by Fairfield County Weekly's Annual Reader's Poll, and Best Performing Arts Group 12 years in a row by StamfordPlus Magazine. Recipient of the 2011 2011 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Culture and Tourism and the 2016 ACE Award for Excellence in the Arts.
Curtain Call's Spring 2025 Theatre Arts Classes for Kids, Teens, and Adults
Pequot Library is pleased to host Fairfield Public Schools’ Town-wide Art Show once again this year. The Advanced Placement (AP) exhibition will feature selections from Fairfield Ludlowe and Fairfield Ward High Schools in the Perkin Gallery. Art from Fairfield’s three middle schools and 11 elementary schools will be featured in the auditorium and the Reading Room.
Join us for a reception on Wednesday, May 28 from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
May 16-30: Advanced Placement Exhibition
May 23-30: Middle and Elementary School Exhibition
During library hours | In person
Fairfield Public Schools’ Town-wide Art Show | Reception
Whether you're a seasoned grandmaster or a beginner eager to learn, this event offers an opportunity to test your strategic prowess. Engage in friendly matches, improve your chess skills, and enjoy intellectual challenges in a welcoming and inclusive environment!
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Chess - All Ages
Join us for a fun and relaxed evening in the textile studio! Whether you want to mend a favorite piece of clothing, stitch some custom embroidery on an everyday purse, knit, crochet, or start a simple project with friends, instructor Chelsea Danburg will guide you through the process. Bring your works-in-progress or project ideas and we'll take care of the rest! Sessions are 2 1/2 hours long and open to all skill levels (ages 18+).
Designed to be a social evening, this is the perfect opportunity to gather a group of friends, learn something new, create fun projects, and connect. Unleash your creative side! Students are welcome to bring snacks to enjoy & share with the group.
Fiber & Friends
Welcome to the Taste of Hope fundraising event to benefit Healing Hearts! Join us for a fun-filled evening of delicious food and community support at Break Thru Family Fitness. This in-person event is your chance to make a difference while enjoying various tasty treats. Come with friends and family to help Healing Hearts continue its important work.
Healing Hearts mission is to provide programs designed to encourage peer interaction, promote fitness, and support independence for teens and young adults. The 8th annual Taste of Hope fundraiser will have an outdoor and indoor selection of fun activities! The outdoor portion of the fundraiser includes a DJ from T&T Entertainment, Lunch Lady Gerri's food truck, entertaining clowns, popular characters like Spider-Man & Ironman, face painting services, Stamford PD, and more! The indoor portion of the fundraiser includes several types of cuisine available, live music (by popular demand once again, The Bards will be performing), silent auction, and a wine-tasting event for adults. Please join us!
P.S- Additional parking is available: Front Parking Lot and Union Memorial Church Parking Lot.
Additional free outdoor events:
Betty Kelly Camlin of Bodywise By Betty and The Hoop Girls" will be on site providing HOOP dance lessons for everyone, kids and adults, boys and girls. “HOOPERS WHIRL THE WORLD” OUR MOTTO IS “HOOPERS" everywhere ( Hoop Girls & Supa Hoopa's) WHIRL THE WORLD” With a big H - for HAPPY boys, girls and adults all ages and abilities will have a whirl of a time, getting happy & fit, while burning calories hooping it up to their favorite pop tunes using beautifully designed handmade dance hoops. Hooping is an excellent form of exercise, self-expression, and creativity. It improves fitness, stamina, and endurance; strengthens the core; and improves hand-eye coordination, proprioception, balance, and motor skills. Hoop Dance Fitness is also a phenomenal stress reducer. The endorphins flow, and the smiles widen with each new Hoop Tick you master. You want to wear sneakers and either shorts or leggings to perform well. Dresses and sandals are not advised.
Taste of Hope fundraising event to benefit Healing Hearts
🌷🌺🌸 Step into an unforgettable Spring Soirée filled with connection, cocktails, and the company of extraordinary women. ✨
This special event is co-hosted by two powerhouse women’s organizations: The Women’s Networking Group of Fairfield County and Strong Savvy Women.
✨ Here’s what’s in store:
✅ Connect with dynamic, like-minded women from diverse backgrounds
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Don’t miss this opportunity to be in the room with extraordinary women.
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📅 May 28th | 6:30 PM
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Spring Soirée - Hosted by Women's Networking Group & Strong Savvy Women
Please join us to celebrate the launch of bestselling author Annabel Monaghan's newest novel, It's a Love Story. This brilliant tale of love, nostalgia, and self-discovery (with the most incredible cast of characters) will make you laugh, cry, and squeeze your friends and loved ones even tighter. Bring your friends and your book clubs! Anyone who has been to an Annabel launch event at Athena knows what a special evening of laughter, community, and joy lies ahead...buy your tickets now. This will SELL OUT.
Your ticket includes a copy of the book, wine, seltzer, and a light dessert.
About It's a Love Story:
“Poignant, funny, and bingeable, Annabel Monaghan writes five star reads.” —Abby Jimenez
From the USA Today bestselling author of Nora Goes Off Script, a novel about a former adolescent TV actress-turned-Hollywood producer whose “fake it till you make it” mantra sets her on a crash course with her past, forcing her to spend a week on Long Island with the last man she thinks might make her believe in love.
Love is a lie. Laughter is the only truth.
Jane Jackson spent her adolescence as “Poor Janey Jakes,” the barbecue-sauce-in-her-braces punch line on America’s fifth-favorite sitcom. Now she’s trying to be taken seriously as a Hollywood studio executive by embracing a new mantra: Fake it till you make it.
Except she might have faked it too far. Desperate to get her first project greenlit and riled up by pompous cinematographer and one-time crush Dan Finnegan, she claimed that she could get mega popstar Jack Quinlan to write a song for the movie. Jack may have been her first kiss—and greatest source of shame—but she hasn’t spoken to him in twenty years.
Now Jane must turn to the last man she’d ever want to owe: Dan Finnegan. Because Jack is playing a festival in Dan’s hometown, and Dan has an in. A week in close quarters with Dan as she faces down her past is Jane’s idea of hell, but he just might surprise her. While covering up her lie, can they find something true?
About Annabel Monaghan:
Annabel Monaghan is the USA Today bestselling and Library Reads Hall of Fame author of Summer Romance, Same Time Next Summer, and Nora Goes Off Script, as well as two young adult novels and Does This Volvo Make My Butt Look Big?, a selection of laugh-out-loud columns that appeared in The Huffington Post, The Week, and The Rye Record. She lives in Connecticut with her family. Her novels have been translated into twenty languages.
Celebrate the Launch of "It's a Love Story" with Annabel Monaghan!
Citywide Student Art Show At The Norwalk Art Space
Featuring artwork by students in the Norwalk Public Schools K-12th grade.
Citywide Student Art Show
March 29 through June 1
Reception: Thursday, April 10, 6-8 pm, in the Trefz Forum; click here for more information. (Reception kicks off at 6 pm, followed by a conversation between 5iveFingaz and Miggs Burroughs at 7 pm.) Click here for more on VersoFest 2025!
In the Sheffer Gallery: Visual Verses
Visual Verses is an immersive art exhibit that merges the expressive power of visual art with the profound impact of language. Each painting in this collection is paired with original phrases crafted to evoke thought, emotion, and reflection. The artwork transcends traditional boundaries, using bold colors and dynamic compositions to amplify the messages embedded within the text. This fusion of imagery and words invites viewers to engage not only with the aesthetics but also with the deeper narratives and meanings behind each piece.
At its core, Visual Verses carries a strong social conscience, addressing themes of justice, equality, and human connection. The text-based elements of the exhibit deliver positive messages meant to inspire, uplift, and provoke meaningful conversations. Through this harmonious blend of art and language, the exhibit aims to spark awareness and foster a sense of community, encouraging viewers to reflect on their role in shaping a more compassionate and just world.
In the South Gallery: Interactive Community Participation Mural
This Interactive Community Participation Mural will be designed by 5ive, with members of the community to help fill it in on Saturday, April 5, from 10 am to 2 pm during the VersoFest 2025 Weekend Kickoff Celebration hosted by 5ive (also featuring DJs and other fun fare for the whole family!) This exhibit will invite the viewer to participate in the making of the artwork, interacting with the canvas and materials so that both tactile processes and community contribution are as much a part of the piece as the art itself.
In the Jesup Gallery: Graffiti Art Mural
More information regarding scheduled mural participation times and 5ive’s Jesup Gallery exhibit is forthcoming. Stay tuned and join in on the fun at VersoFest 2025!
In addition to his art exhibits, 5iveFingaz will also be leading two back-to-back sessions of his Verso University course Graffiti 101: Finding Your Voice as a Graffiti Artist on Saturday, April 5.
About 5iveFingaz
5iveFingaz is a visionary artist whose work seamlessly bridges the realms of street art, contemporary expression, and social consciousness. Renowned for his distinctive fusion of bold visuals and thought-provoking text, 5iveFingaz crafts pieces that resonate deeply with audiences, challenging them to reflect on both personal experiences and broader societal issues. His signature style often features vibrant colors juxtaposed with powerful, concise phrases that speak directly to the heart of human experience, exploring themes of love, resilience, unity, and justice. Emerging from a background rich in urban culture and creative exploration, 5iveFingaz honed his artistic voice through a unique blend of trained and self-taught techniques and active community engagement. His art transcends traditional canvases, finding life on walls, public spaces, and unconventional surfaces, transforming everyday environments into platforms for inspiration and dialogue. The artist’s work has garnered global attention not only for its striking aesthetic appeal but also for its profound ability to connect with diverse audiences on an intimate level.
At the core of his practice lies the "Love More Than Ever" movement, a heartfelt initiative that underscores the importance of uplifting one another with kindness and understanding. 5iveFingaz’s unwavering commitment to positive messaging and social awareness drives his creative process, with each piece serving as a rallying cry for change. His work urges viewers to reflect on their roles in fostering a more compassionate and equitable world. Through exhibitions, collaborations, and public art projects, he amplifies voices that are often unheard, using art as a powerful tool for empowerment and community building. As his influence continues to grow, 5iveFingaz remains steadfast in his mission to spark meaningful conversations and inspire action, solidifying his place as a transformative figure in the contemporary art scene.
5iveFingaz Art Exhibits at VersoFest 2025
An extraordinary exhibition featuring stunning photographic images of birds, mammals and sea life engaging in their natural habitats. Vivid color, amazing action moments and the sheer beauty of the natural world are all masterfully captured by this talented, award-winning filmmaker, expeditionist and dedicated environmentalist.
FLYWAY OF LIFE, Wildlife Photography by Tomas Koeck
The Geary Gallery of Darien proudly presents its May exhibition, "The Palette in Bloom," featuring the lush, joyful florals and abstract paintings of artist, Lori Eubanks. Her exhibit runs May 1 - 31. All are welcome and admission is free. The Geary Gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and is located at 576 Boston Post Road, Darien, CT 06820. For more details, call (203) 655-6633 or visit our website: www.gearygallery.com.
Lori Eubanks' vibrant florals and abstracts, "The Palette in Bloom” at the Geary Gallery in Darien CT
The Glass House, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is pleased to present Barbara Kasten: Structure, Light, Land. For five decades, Chicago-based artist Barbara Kasten has created photographs and sculptural installations that reorient our sense of perception and explore the dynamic relationship between space, material, and form. Her artistic influences are deeply rooted in modernist architecture, the principles of Constructivism, and the interdisciplinary legacy of the Bauhaus, particularly the photograms of László Moholy-Nagy and Lucia Moholy.
“Placing my work in and around The Glass House campus is an opportunity for me to take on a canonical modernist site. Each of the structures on the grounds is like a monument to one of many aesthetic phases of architectural history. Abstraction allows us to consider possibilities that are not the norm,” said Barbara Kasten.
Structure, Light, Land features Kasten’s work from multiple series, including Architectural Sites, Collisions, and Progressions, as well as new iterations of digital projections, cyanotypes, and sculptures. With a striking interplay of light, color, and form, Kasten’s work infiltrates the grounds of The Glass House and responds to the site’s varied built environment and landscape.
In the Brick House (1949), Kasten’s brilliantly hued Architectural Site 1, June 10, 1986–featuring the Philip Johnson-designed Lipstick Building (1986) in Manhattan–resonates with the ’80s postmodern interior of the Reading Room, which includes two 1986 Feltri Chairs designed by Gaetano Pesce. Five new cyanotypes by Kasten line the building’s serene 1949 hallway, illuminated by the circular skylights above.
Kasten’s new installation of fluorescent acrylic I-beams, modeled after the structural components of the Glass House, will be interspersed throughout the Sculpture Gallery (1970). The seven-foot-long beams respond to the site’s permanent collection of works by Frank Stella, John Chamberlain, Robert Morris, George Segal, and Michael Heizer. The intervention brings attention to the structure’s exposed I-beam twenty feet overhead and responds to the gallery’s interior patterning of ever-changing natural light and winding staircases.
The Painting Gallery (1965) features three works: a photograph from the Collision series and two sculptural Progressions. Situated near Stella’s shaped canvases, Kasten’s fluorescent forms extend the narrative around post-painterly abstraction across mediums and into the present moment.
Da Monsta (1995), the last building Johnson designed at The Glass House, was named following a conversation between Johnson and the critic Herbert Muschamp. It was inspired in part by German Expressionism, an unrealized museum design by Frank Stella, and the work of Frank Gehry. Kasten’s Sideways Corner (2016/2025), a video projection of three-dimensional cubes in primary colors, activates the warped and torqued walls.
The exhibition is curated by Cole Akers, Curator at The Glass House.
Special thanks to Bortolami Gallery, New York.
Barbara Kasten: Structure, Light, Land
The 2025 Glass House tour season begins on April 17, 2025. Tickets are available now! All tours include access to the newly restored Brick House. Following an extensive restoration project , we are excited to share this essential design element of the site and its history with you!
The Glass House 2025 Tour season opens April 17th - December 15th
The Greenwich Art Society is offering:
INTERMEDIATE and ADVANCED ACRYLIC LANDSCAPE PAINTING
11 THURSDAYS
April 10 – June 19
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Program Description
Students will take their own photos as a point of inspiration to create their own interpretation rather than a copy. From their photos, students will produce a value sketch to learn how to SEE the values. The value sketch will be the guide for the painting. They will also learn how to set up a palette for landscape painting. Students will learn to see and express color, values and the illusion of depth. Classes will include lectures, demonstrations, as well as individual instruction. If you are new to the class, please bring a drawing or painting as a sample of your skill level to the first class.
Max. 8 students.
Joseph Fama studied at the School of Visual Arts and the Reilly League of Artists. Cesare Borgia was his teacher. Fama earned a bachelor’s degree from Iona College. He’s a member of the American Artist Professional League, Oil Painters of America and American Impressionist Society, Inc. His work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and has won numerous awards.
Fama has served as an Art Director for several advertising agencies in New York City and worked with clients and copywriters in developing concepts and visual images for ads and T.V. commercials.
The Greenwich Art Society is offering INTERMEDIATE and ADVANCED ACRYLIC LANDSCAPE PAINTING
“Here is where finally opposites come together, I see a surprising purity. Stone is the depth, metal the mirror. They do not conflict…” —Isamu Noguchi
While the renowned sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) is best known for his work in stone, he consistently explored new materials and methods during his wide-ranging career. He first experimented with aluminum in the 1950s and later with galvanized steel, creating a series of twenty-six sculptures in collaboration with Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles in 1982–83. In this body of work, each sheet of metal is cut with a plasma torch and then dipped into boiling zinc, resulting in sculptures that are subtly patterned and highly reflective, resembling pebbles in a stream or the epidermal layer of skin.
Writing about the unique materiality of his sculptures, Noguchi described metal as a mirror in opposition to “stone [as] depth.” His galvanized steel sculptures achieve formal unity while also exploring conceptual dualities between the traditional and modern, fine art and design, and industry and nature. As a Japanese American artist working in the United States, Noguchi negotiated his own feeling of in-betweenness throughout his oeuvre. The galvanized steel editions synthesize this dual aspect of his identity, utilizing steel—a distinctly American material—while also integrating the Japanese craft of origami through cut and folded metal shapes.
Featuring a selection of nine galvanized steel sculptures, the exhibition is organized into thematic groupings that underscore the paradoxes of the artist’s work in metal. In the first, Noguchi imparts inanimate forms with human qualities, complicating the relationship between flesh and steel, body and mirror. Man-made material is transformed into representations of mountains, fruit, and sky in the second grouping, reflecting Noguchi’s belief that, in modernity, industry and nature are intertwined. A final trio of works reveals Noguchi’s ongoing interest in abstraction, bringing theoretical and spiritual ideas, weight and weightlessness, and past and present into visual dialogue. Through these sculptures, Noguchi explores ways of belonging in between such imagined oppositions. Indeed, the polished steel surfaces entangle objects, spaces, and people in a network of cast reflections, inviting visitors to contemplate Noguchi’s life, his practice, and themselves.
Isamu Noguchi: Metal the Mirror is curated by Julia Mun, Curatorial Associate, with support from Ashley Holland, Curator and Director of Curatorial Initiatives, and Javier Rivero Ramos, Assistant Curator. The presentation at the Bruce is organized by Margarita Karasoulas, Curator of Art.
Isamu Noguchi: Metal the Mirror is organized by Art Bridges.
Isamu Noguchi: Metal the Mirror
For the final exhibition of its 2024-25 season, the Flinn Gallery is pleased to present Elemental: Work by Boston Sculptors Gallery Artists. The show runs from May 8 to June 18 and features the work of 13 artists from the Boston Sculptors Gallery. The sculptors in the exhibition work with a wide range of materials – clay, fabric, metal, plastic, wood, and mixed media – and their artwork ranges in height from three inches to over eight feet.
While the sculptures encompass a wide range of materials, sizes, and techniques, they were selected with a unifying theme in mind – Elemental. This word has multiple meanings, which range from primitive or basic to the four elements of nature to the chemical elements from which many of the objects are created. Visitors to the Gallery will see artwork that can be grouped into four elemental categories: Beginnings, Organisms, Earth, and Water.
The artists are all inspired by the beauty and fragility of the natural world along with our connections to and impact upon it. For Mo Kelman,“water is the ideal subject to reflect on the laws that govern nature as it ceaselessly advances and embarrasses our every effort to keep it at bay.” In Lagoon, Kelman merges an abstracted body of silk water with bamboo structures that ensemble towers or bridges. Artist Jessica Strauss has three pieces in the exhibition from her Packing for Mars series. In Missing You, Blue Planet, and No More Polar Ice Cap, human figures gaze at images of Earth. The sculptures express “black humor, longing, and regret” as Strauss looks toward a “future when humans must flee a devastated Earth to settle on far flung and arid worlds.”
Several artists use traditional domestic crafts such as crochet, embroidery, and sewing in innovative ways. In her three sculptures Ascent, Larvae, and Nests, Michelle Lougee crochets post-consumer plastic bags into monumental sculptures, which “examine the relationships between humans, plastic, and nature amidst irreversible environmental changes”. Cascading from the ceiling, Keri Straka’s “Soft Cell Division” is composed of stuffed and sewn textiles. According to Straka, “the suspended sculpture is evocative of the ebb and flow of human life as mirrored in the blooming of a single cell.” Her sculpture, “Portal: Past” is made of multiple wooden embroidery hoops of varying sizes with water-color painted fabric embedded with a wide range of materials to represent dividing cells and biological cycles.
Since the majority of sculptors are women, it is only natural that some artwork addresses feminine sensibilities, and as mentioned, domestic life. Ellen Schön has four ceramic pieces in the exhibition. Two of her pieces – Five Hills Font and Lotus Pod – are part of her Wellspring Series. For Schön, “the pieces in this series explore the ceramic vessel as a wellspring or womb. They are meant to evoke sources of life-whirlpools, fonts, pods, seed of hope, as well as the landscape of the female body.” Several of Jodie Colella’s sculptures are ceramic and one incorporates fabric. According to Colella, her three pieces – Offspring, Seeds, and Attempts at Conviviality Exhaust Me – “comingle rigid forms with fibers to create vessels containing the stories that embody domestic life.”
Elemental is curated by Flinn Gallery committee members, Barbra Fordyce and Nancy Heller. It will include over 40 works of art by the following Boston Sculptors Gallery artists:
Jodie Colella (clay, fiber, stone, and mixed media), Carrie Crane (mixed media),
Anna Kristina Goransson (felt and wool), Mo Kelman (silk, wood, and mixed media), Michelle Lougee (crocheted plastic and wire), Ellen Schön (stoneware and fired-clay), Julia Shepley (mixed media), Keri Straka (fabric and mixed media), Jessica Strauss (mixed media), Margaret Swan (aluminum), Nora Valdez (limestone), Leslie Wilcox (steel screen and mixed media), and Andy Zimmerman (wood).
The Flinn Gallery is a non-profit organization sponsored by Friends of the Greenwich Library. The Gallery welcomes visitors daily Monday to Saturday, 10-5pm, Thursday until 8pm, and Sunday 1-5pm, and is located on the second floor of the Greenwich Library, 101 West Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, CT.
The Boston Sculptors Gallery (BSG) was founded in 1992 by 18 artists as a venue for contemporary sculpture. It is located in Boston’s SoWa arts district and has 38 member artists from Boston and New England. There is a natural kinship between the Flinn and Boston Sculptors Galleries. Both are nonprofit entities that are volunteer-run and operated with support from a part-time staff member.
Events:
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 8 from 6-8pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, June 7 from 2-3pm.
Elemental: Work by Boston Sculptors Gallery Artists
The Greenwich Art Society is pleased to announce its 108th Annual Juried Exhibition, at the Bendheim Gallery at 299 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich, CT. Exhibition dates are May 8th thru June 8th. There will be an opening reception and awards ceremony on Saturday May 8th from 5:15 - 6:30 PM. An online digital and virtual gallery will be available on our website, www.greenwichartsociety.org . All work will be for sale.
JUROR: Kelly Long is an art worker and writer currently serving as Senior Curatorial Assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, where she has worked with the Photography Acquisitions Committee since 2017), developed exhibitions across mediums, including Rachel Harrison Life Hack (2019), Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith (2023, and a forthcoming exhibition focused on surrealism and the 1960’s. Most recently, she curated Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe and the Last Gullah Islands (2024), and Trust Me (2023), a group exhibition exploring the role that vulnerability plays in forging connection, and the overlapping lives and loves of photography’s creators, viewers, and caretakers. Previously, she has held curatorial and teaching positions at the George Eastman Museum and at the University of Rochester. Her writing has appeared in the catalogues for Chiharu Shiota: The Hand Lines and Gail Thacker: Fugitive Moments, and in publications such as InVisible Culture and MOSSFLOWER. She holds a B.A. in art history from Vassar College, and an M.A. in visual and cultural studies from the University of Rochester, where her research focused on the engagement of postmodern and contemporary art with housing, exploring notions of being and belonging, access, and ownership in the art of our time.
AWARDS : Cash and other awards totaling over $2000 will be presented at the opening reception.
108th Annual Juried Exhibition at the Bendheim Gallery
IN-PERSON EVENT
Thursday, 5/29/25, 10am-12pm
COST:
- Member: $25
- Non-Member: $50
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Please join us at Silvermine Galleries on Saturday May 17th from 5 - 7pm for the opening reception of the Fiber 2025 Exhibition.
This international exhibition seeks to showcase the best of contemporary fiber art that reflect the breadth of functional or non-functional works that use fiber and/or fiber art techniques in traditional or innovative ways. Artwork in this exhibition may be made from natural or high tech materials that reference fiber and that blur the lines between art, architecture and craft.
The exhibition will run from May 10th through June 19th, 2025.
It will be accompanied by two small exhibitions curated by browngrotta arts: Masters of the Medium: CT and Mastery and Materiality: International.
Fiber 2025 Exhibition at Silvermine Galleries
Heather Gaudio Fine Art is pleased to present Martin Kline: The World In All Its Plenitude, the artist’s fifth solo exhibition at the gallery. The public is invited to attend an opening reception on Saturday, May 3, 4-6pm, and the exhibition will remain on view through June 14th. A fully illustrated catalogue with an essay written by art critic and poet Carter Ratcliff accompanies the exhibition.
“…ever since he made his first mature work, Kline has felt free to make paintings that are not flat and sculptures that are powerfully pictorial. He is not just inventive. He is reliably – startlingly – original.” [1]
The show brings together thirty-nine works executed between 1997 and 2025, surveying Kline’s long-standing engagement with encaustic. Kline’s output has consistently been one of working in series, creating several paintings, drawings and sculpture surrounding a theme or idea. At times he has revisited these themes to expand his material investigations, technical mastery and visual explorations. The distinguishing motif in the paintings and sculptures presented in this show, regardless of the year or series they belong to, is that they all share in the color blue. Arguably one of the favorite colors on the spectrum, blue has for millennia captivated the human eye and carried a special allure for its symbolic and emotive qualities. From ancient China and Egypt to the Celtic times, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and Baroque periods, from the Industrial Revolution and the nineteenth century to the modern and contemporary era, blue has fascinated artists, musicians and writers. Sourced from cobalt, lapis lazuli, indigo, ultramarine and other materials, blue can transform into varying hues: cyan, navy, turquoise, aqua, midnight blue, sky blue, royal blue and aquamarine.
Kline’s nimble use of the color takes its hue and shade ranges in different directions, accentuating its characteristics and evocative nature with his adroit use of encaustic. Whether applied in flat bold brushstrokes, dripped or layered to create textured surfaces, Kline modulates the color and manipulates the material to create a vast range of visual experiences. Some grided paintings are structures that take on a retro feel with lighter and darker tones and hues, such as Blue Order and Blue and White Impression. The brushstrokes create a patchwork of tetris-like tiles seeming to compete for space. A mixture of values and tones in other panels such as Blue Grid are not as delineated and appear to meld into one another. These networks are transformed into more complex systems in Blue Mosaico (Tondo) and in the camo-bot series such as Patchwork Blue and Camo Bluebot.
Razzle Dazzle may be visually related to the latter two but is also part of another seminal body of work by the artist, the Hammock paintings. In this large panel, Kline’s line of enquiry comes from a narrative referenced in Leo Steinberg’s essay “Other Criteria.” In it, he touches on the 19th century artist Thomas Eakins’ addressing the question whether painting and sculpture should have the same moral standing as traditionally defined manual labor, and not just be considered an activity of leisure or pleasure. Kline’s Hammock paintings are created on actual canvas service hammocks, some dating back to WWII, that the artist has collected over the years. Razzle Dazzle, with its honey-combed surface and blue color patterns, camouflages the hammock on the panel, keeping the object used for work and /or leisure not readily apparent.
Audiences familiar with Kline’s artistic trajectory will enjoy viewing the deep, midnight blue, almost black The Prussian Blues (II), an encaustic on linen that would be a precursor to an important series in Kline’s oeuvre, the white linen, or Tabula Rasa, paintings. Other works on view include the artist’s signature additive layered Bloom, Jewel, and Leda paintings, with their surfaces so textured they become quasi sculptural, where shadow plays an important part in the visual engagement. When does a textured painting become a sculpture? The coup de grâce that drives this concept home is Diagonal Blue Growth on Canvas, a painting the artist cast into a unique bronze and finished with a rich blue patina to make it look like a painting.
About Martin Kline
Kline has had a prolific career as a painter, sculptor and draughtsman and his works have been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad. His works are in many notable public and private collections, including The Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Brooklyn Museum and the Morgan Library in New York City; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; the Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Albertina, Vienna; The Museum of Fine Art, Houston; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Ohio University, Athens; the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain; Triton Foundation, Belgium; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, among others. Kline lives and works in upstate New York.
About Carter Ratcliff
American critic and poet Carter Ratcliff has published writings on art for The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Guggenheim Museum; the Royal Academy of Arts, London; Maxxi Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome and many other institutions. He has contributed to notable art publications such as Art in America, Art Forum, Art News, Arts, Tate, and Art Presse, as well Vogue, Elle, and New York Magazine. Books include The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art, Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art, and monographs on Andy Warhol, John Singer Sargent, Georgia O’Keeffe, Gilbert & George among others. His books of poetry include Fever Coast, Give Me Tomorrow and Arrivederci, Modernismo. Born in Seattle, Ratcliff lives and works in upstate New York.
Heather Gaudio Fine Art specializes in emerging and established artists, offering painting, works on paper, photography, and sculpture. The gallery provides a full-range of art advisory services, from forming and maintaining a collection, to securing secondary market material, to assisting with framing and installation. The focus is on each individual client, selecting art that best serves his or her vision, space, and resources. The six exhibitions offered every year are designed to present important talent and provide artwork appealing to a broad range of interests. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday; 10:30am to 5:30pm; and by appointment.
[1] Carter Ratcliff, “Martin Kline: The World in All Its Plenitude”, 2025, Martin Kline, exhibition catalogue
"Martin Kline: The World In All Its Plenitude"
This exhibition presents highlights from the collection of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, which explores the impact of the Irish Famine of 1845-1852 through artwork produced by eminent Irish and Irish-American artists of the past 170 years. The works on view in the exhibition will include paintings by late 19th- and early 20th‐century artists like James Brenan, Daniel Macdonald, James Arthur O'Connor and Jack B. Yeats, as well as sculptures, paintings, and works on paper by contemporary artists including John Behan, Rowan Gillespie, Brian Maguire, and Hughie O'Donoghue. The exhibition is presented by Quinnipiac University and the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield Exhibition.
An Gorta Mór: Selections from Ireland's Great Hunger Museum
We are pleased to announce our next On View feature, highlighting original landscape paintings by South Carolina-based artist Karin Olah on the main wall of Sorelle Gallery. The Feature will open Saturday, May 10, 2025. Visitors will have the opportunity to view new work by Karin, with light refreshments on opening day.
Inspired by the colors and light of coastal landscapes, Karin Olah creates multi-layered paintings with acrylic paint, hand-dyed fabric, and vintage textiles. Karin’s subject matter ranges from seascape to abstract expressionism to a dreamy place in-between.
Karin combines her obsession with textiles and quilts, a background in fashion design in NYC, a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, and an ever-growing fabric collection to add layers of texture to her work. She is a recipient of the Lowcountry Artist of the Year Award and an Artist-in-Residence at Palmetto Bluff. Her work has been on the cover of Charleston Magazine and featured in Southern Living, House & Garden Magazine, and American Contemporary Art Magazine. Her work is in public collections at Mayo Clinic Florida, Medical University of South Carolina, Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center, JW Marriott, The Ritz-Carlton, Ponte Vedra Inn and Club, and Ilya Corporation in Japan. Originally from Lancaster Country, Pennsylvania, Karin has lived in Charleston, South Carolina since 2003. Karin enjoys going to the beach, playing golf, being silly with her daughters, and chasing after a naughty labradoodle named Charlie.
"Fabric is something that evokes an emotional response," Olah says. "Soft materials can make us feel calm, relaxed, cozy, and safe. I use textiles in my paintings to suggest a connection between the beautiful places in nature and the comforting touch of a well-loved quilt. Inspiration for my subject matter comes from cloud watching at the beach, the stripes of ocean waves on the horizon, a patchwork of farm fields, the meandering thread of a creek through the marsh, and quiet time at the lake. My interpretations of landscapes focus on color and mood more than realism. In these dreamscapes, the brushstrokes are fabric."
Karin's paintings will be on view through Saturday, May 31st.
This On View feature is free and open to the public during gallery hours, Tuesday through Saturday 11:00am - 5:00pm. Street parking is available.
On View: Karin Olah
The GR Art Gallery presents:
Ellen Gordon
“A Creative Journey II”
April 4th, 2025 – May 30th, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 5th from 4 PM – 7 PM
“A Creative Journey II”” is Ellen Gordon’s first solo exhibit at the GR Art Gallery. This exhibition is a retrospective of paintings and drawings by the artist created since 2009. In 2009 Ms. Gordon had her first solo exhibition entitled “A Creative Journey” at the Stamford Mayor’s Gallery. The exhibit will be on display from April 4th thru May 30th. Gallery hours are Wednesday - Saturday from 12-6 pm and from Sunday 12-4. Any time by appointment, 203-274-7497.
The GR Art Gallery will host a reception to celebrate the artist on Saturday April 5th from 4 – 7 PM. The public is invited.
Ellen Gordon is a Stamford, CT-based award-winning mixed media artist. The colors and patterns in her artwork are roller coaster rhythms of fences, grids, and fractured geometries – a kind of mapping. She guides us along a journey of the personal narrative through landscaped layers of abstraction and portraiture. Playful and speculative, the rhythms remain determinedly open-ended and essentially borderless. An un-plotted story with unbounded possibilities. Over the past two decades, Gordon’s work has evolved through many phases, but her main body of work centers on figurative collages - intimate yet colorful portrayals of a woman in her own thoughts, providing the viewer a window into honest moments with a series of striking and bold women. Her most recent work has been a transition into the abstract patterns, experimenting with geometric shapes and inverted forms in color palettes evoking various states of mind.
Ms. Gordon has been active in the local arts for many years. She currently serves on the board of The Greenwich Art Society and The Connecticut Women Artists. Ms. Gordon is a commissioner of The City of Stamford’s Cultural Arts and Culture Board. She is the former Executive Director of the Loft Artists Association and was Co President of the Stamford Art Association.
In 2022, Ms. Gordon became the curator of the Mayor's Art Gallery in Stamford, CT.
The GR Art Gallery is located at 1086 Long Ridge Road, Stamford, CT 06903. Gallery hours are Wednesday - Saturday from 12-6 pm and from Sunday 12-4. Any time by appointment, 203-274-7497. Parking is available and the building is handicap accessible.
"A Creative Journey II", Ellen Gordon at the GR Art Gallery
A new show at the Rowayton Arts Center (RAC), “Community Sponsored Awards,” will be on view May 18 through June 15, 2025. The artwork in this exhibition will feature local scenes by RAC Exhibiting Members with cash awards thanks to individuals and merchants in the area. This year's awards have been made possible by the support and generosity of the following: All Seasons Marine Works, Arden’s Rowayton, Brendan’s 101, Cucina Daniella, Darien Rowayton Bank, E.R. Salvatore Associates, Fairfield County Bank, Avery and Rob Flowers, Gway Printing, HTG Investment Advisors, Images of Old Greenwich, Kim and Gil Kernan, Rowayton Wine Shop, Sails American Bar & Grill, Seaside Delights, The Bait Shop Marine Services, The Restaurant at Rowayton Seafood, Whitebridge Wines & Spirits and William Raveis/Tammy Langalis.
The opening reception on Sunday, May 16 from 4 pm to 6 pm is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 12 to 5 pm plus Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 1 pm.
RAC celebrates the study, creation and appreciation of the arts through classes, exhibitions and events open to all in the community. For over 60 years, this nonprofit organization has been a cultural gem in Rowayton, CT. The gallery and art school overlook the scenic Five Mile River at 145 Rowayton Avenue with space for regional artists to exhibit their art and a classroom for workshops and classes at all levels offered to children and adults. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
Rowayton Arts Center "Community Sponsored Awards" Show
ABOUT CREATIVE CAFE
Welcome to Creative Cafe, at HAYVN for those seeking a break from work or a productive way to unwind after the day. Here, you can delve into creative play and self-expression through visual arts, writing, or any medium you prefer. While creativity is often linked with the arts, it's also crucial for entrepreneurial thinking and innovation.
Our cafe encourages a collaborative atmosphere where ideas are shared freely and projects can blossom through teamwork. Whether you drop in for a brief visit or linger longer, you'll find a space designed for brainstorming, collaboration, and exploration. Bring along a project you are working on, or come open to improvise with writing and drawing materials we'll have on hand. Get ready to engage, collaborate, and unleash your creativity at Creative Cafe!
CREATIVE CAFE: Dance: Boost Your Mood + Energy + Create Art
with Asami Green, Intuitive Visual Life Artist at Asami LLC
and Andrea Anderson, Emotional Wellness Family Manager
Come dance and learn how to boost your mood + feel more energized on a regular basis!
Featuring Andrea Anderson, an Emotional Wellness Family Manager. Improve your energy + mood with dancing. Combined with Mindful art with words, quotes and colors with Asami Green, an Intuitive Life Artist and Reiki Master.
When we dance, we can shift from feeling heavy + tight and bothered, to light, relaxed and energized.
Join us for 30 mins of dance, followed by time + space to create whatever you feel inspired to create or write, with the materials we have on hand!
IN-PERSON AT HAYVN: Thursday, 5/29/25, 4:30pm-6:30pm
- HAYVN Members: Free with code on members portal. For help accessing members portal please email questions@hayvn.com
- Non-members: $10
MORE ABOUT CREATIVE CAFE
Art is healing because it guides you to stimulate the connection between your mind, body, heart, and soul. Even the simplest creative process promotes self-expression for healing, wellness, coping, personal changes, and growth. Reconnect with your creativity through self-expression with colors, shapes, and textures.
ABOUT ANDREA ANDERSON
Andrea is a Health + Emotional Wellness Family Manager, Conscious Parenting Consultant + Author. Helping parents feel calm, their kids + teens feel calm and families feel more at peace + lovingly connected.
Connect with Andrea:
- AndreaChapmanAnderson.com
- IG @Andreachapmananderson
ABOUT ASAMI GREEN
Born in Japan and raised in New York City, Asami blends her multicultural upbringing into a profound appreciation for the spiritual connections we share with our environment. Her work, spanning painting, Reiki, and meditation, invites an ethereal connection to the universe.
As she embarks on a new journey as an Artist in Residence at EXISTENCE, she is honored, humbled and excited to share her healing art globally. Through her vibrant colors, dynamic textures, and kinetic motions, Asami's art offers an immersive experience that fosters introspection and reflection. Each piece embodies a personal journey of healing and growth, aiming to evoke a conscious and personal connection with her audience.
Connect with Asami Green: Website, Instagram, LinkedIn
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Creative Cafe: Dance: Boost Your Mood + Energy + Create Art
BPS presents its 1st district-wide talent show May 29 at the historic Klein Memorial! HS: 5–6 PM, K–8: 6:30–8 PM. Don’t miss it! ✨
District Talent Show: A Spring Showcase of the Arts
From left to right, top to bottom. Frederic Edwin Church, Our Banner in the Sky, c. 1861. Oil on canvas. Fine Art Museums of San Francisco. Banks Violette, Not Yet Titled (Flag Edition), 2010. Marines of the 28th Regiment of the Fifth Division planted an American flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on Feb. 23, 1945. Joe Rosenthal/Associated Press. Barbara Kruger, Untitled, 1991. Photographic silkscreen/vinyl. Courtesy Mary Boone Gallery.
“O Say Can You See”: Artists Reimagine the Flag, a gallery talk with Dr. Robin Jaffee Frank on May 29, 2025 from 6-7pm.
Free for MoCA Members; $10 General Admisison
In conjunction with Banks Violette’s fraught representations of the American flag in MoCA CT’s solo exhibition, join Dr. Robin Jaffee Frank for a historical investigation of Old Glory as an iconic and ubiquitous symbol in American art and culture. Join Dr. Robin Jaffee Frank for a historical investigation of Old Glory as an iconic and ubiquitous symbol in American art and culture. Artists have incorporated its graphic stars and stripes into their work to achieve aesthetic ends, critique social and political inequalities, celebrate freedom and democracy, support and mourn our troops, and express despair and hope. For many American citizens, as well as people around the world, our flag is a uniquely powerful and complex symbol of nationhood.
An independent curator, Robin Jaffee Frank has organized numerous exhibitions at museums throughout the US, lectured extensively, and published widely on American visual culture from the colonial through contemporary periods. She formerly served as Chief Curator and Curator of American Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, and Senior Associate Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. Robin holds a PhD in the history of art from Yale University.
Gallery Talk: “O Say Can You See”: Artists Reimagine the Flag
Practice drawing the human figure at our Open Figure Drawing Sessions! Every week, a live model is available for you to sketch freely at our studio. Sessions are 3 hours and open to all skill levels, 18 and over. Bring a drawing pad and something to draw with, easels are available on a first come first serve basis!
You can purchase sessions individually or as part of a package. A single session costs $30, but when you sign up for 4 or more, you’ll receive a $20 discount.
Figure & Form: Open Sketch with Live Model
Join us for JUSTICE IN BLOOM, AWARE's fundraiser to send children to summer camp through the Center for Family Justice! Let's come together as a community to create unforgettable memories for deserving kids.
The Center for Family Justice provides services victims of domestic violence, sexual violence, human trafficking, and child abuse.
- No Rain Date: Event will move inside if needed.
- Parking: Park on Woody Lane & enter through the garden gate on right side of house.
- Attire: Casual chic.
- Timing: Cocktails & Lite Bites 6pm - 8pm, AWARE & CFJ Speakers 7pm.
JUSTICE IN BLOOM
Looking to meet someone new in a fun, accessible, and judgment-free space?
This speed dating night is for men and women ages 21–35 with physical or developmental disabilities who are interested in heterosexual connections.
🔹 For individuals with physical or developmental disabilities
🔹 Ages 21–35
🔹 Heterosexual pairings (men meeting women, women meeting men)
Whether you're looking for love or just want to meet new people in a respectful setting, you're welcome here.
**To participate, you must first complete the application form below.
Submitting the form is required for consideration and does not guarantee a spot.**
If accepted, you’ll receive an email with a promo code and instructions to unlock your private ticket and complete payment through Eventbrite.
Only accepted participants with a valid access code will be able to reserve a spot.
Speed Dating for Adults with Physical & Developmental Disabilities
After work outdoor sound bath meditation
Event: After work outdoor sound bath meditation
Come join us for a relaxing sound bath meditation in the serene setting of Pomerance Park. Unwind after a long day at work and connect with nature as you immerse yourself in the soothing sounds of crystal singing bowls. Let go of stress and tension, and leave feeling rejuvenated and centered. No experience necessary, just bring a yoga mat or blanket to sit on. We can't wait to see you there!
After work outdoor sound bath meditation
Join us for the PROJECT MUSIC Finale Concert on Thursday, May 29 at 6:00 PM at the King Performing Arts Center in Stamford, CT. This special event will feature performances from all PROJECT MUSIC students, showcasing the hard work and progress they’ve made throughout the year. For the first time, some students will also perform solo pieces with piano accompaniment. Guest artist Suki Guerrier will join us on piano for this exciting evening. The concert is open to the public, all ages are welcome, and tickets will be available at the door for $5.
PROJECT MUSIC Finale Concert
Live DJ Reggae Dub Set Performances. Staring Legacy DubwiseCT, Featuring Vassell Meka, alongside Dj Justo. Performances start at 7pm.
Reggae Dub Set
Come play music, recite poetry, tell a story, or show off another talent!
Keep in mind this is an all ages event in a public venue. We trust you to make good choices about appropriate material.
This is an LGBTQIA+ inclusive and welcoming event series. No cover fee but minimum one drink purchased required (show Molten some love, y’all!)
Performance slots are assigned on a first come, first served basis IN PERSON. No times will be held or assigned before the event starts. Get there early to grab your spot!
Open Mic Night – Hosted by Bethel CT Pride & Molten Java
Born 27 May 1948, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Copland was a part of the vibrant music scene in Philadelphia as a saxophonist before going to New York where he met John Abercrombie and also played with Chico Hamilton, and others. He experimented with the electric alto but gradually became dissatisfied with the direction his music was taking and, leaving New York, quit playing the sax in order to study piano. He was gone for almost a decade but upon his return to the jazz world in the mid-80s his piano playing was a revelation, his own vividly original style firmly in place. As a sideman he played with Bob Belden, Jane Ira Bloom, Joe Lovano, Tim Hagans, James Moody, Wallace Roney and many others.
But his career as a sideman in the Apple was relatively short-lived; Copland began recording and touring in trio with Gary Peacock and Billy Hart (At Night/Sunnyside, Paradiso/Soul Note) In the nineties, his reputation spread owing to three legendary recordings with the Savoy label, which put him on the road in an All-Star quintet (Randy Brecker, Bob Berg, and Dennis Chambers), and later in quartet with guitarist John Abercrombie, Drew Gress, and drummer Hart.
Copland has enthralled audiences not only in trio and as a solo pianist, but also as a duo partner without peer—as attested by his duo recordings with Greg Osby (Night Call, Round and Round/Nagel-Heyer) and Gary Peacock (What It Says/Sketch).
Pianist Marc Copland closes out May "Festival of Pianos"
We are so excited to host our second CTPP event at Bar Rosso in Stamford, CT! This is a great event to mingle and get to know other perinatal professionals in the field. If you attended our first event, Spread the Love, this past February you already know you can expect to make great connections and promote your business. This is a great opportunity for those that could not make Spread the Love to hang out with us at Bar Rosso!
You can expect raffle and light bites included in the ticket purchase. As always bring your business cards or any other marketing materials to share the amazing work you do!
CTPP Spring Fling @BAR ROSSO
Welcome to the MomsalonPod Live Broadcast Celebration - The Ultimate Mom's Night Out! Join us at the Content Studio of Westport for a fun-filled event where moms and those who support them, can come together to celebrate, unwind and enjoy a few laughs. Tickets for this in-person event will feature a live broadcast, 2 drink tickets, tapas, a few surprises and plenty of opportunities to connect with other moms. Don't miss out on this exciting celebration of all things motherhood!
MomsalonPod Live Broadcast Celebration
Citywide Student Art Show At The Norwalk Art Space
Featuring artwork by students in the Norwalk Public Schools K-12th grade.
Citywide Student Art Show
March 29 through June 1
Reception: Thursday, April 10, 6-8 pm, in the Trefz Forum; click here for more information. (Reception kicks off at 6 pm, followed by a conversation between 5iveFingaz and Miggs Burroughs at 7 pm.) Click here for more on VersoFest 2025!
In the Sheffer Gallery: Visual Verses
Visual Verses is an immersive art exhibit that merges the expressive power of visual art with the profound impact of language. Each painting in this collection is paired with original phrases crafted to evoke thought, emotion, and reflection. The artwork transcends traditional boundaries, using bold colors and dynamic compositions to amplify the messages embedded within the text. This fusion of imagery and words invites viewers to engage not only with the aesthetics but also with the deeper narratives and meanings behind each piece.
At its core, Visual Verses carries a strong social conscience, addressing themes of justice, equality, and human connection. The text-based elements of the exhibit deliver positive messages meant to inspire, uplift, and provoke meaningful conversations. Through this harmonious blend of art and language, the exhibit aims to spark awareness and foster a sense of community, encouraging viewers to reflect on their role in shaping a more compassionate and just world.
In the South Gallery: Interactive Community Participation Mural
This Interactive Community Participation Mural will be designed by 5ive, with members of the community to help fill it in on Saturday, April 5, from 10 am to 2 pm during the VersoFest 2025 Weekend Kickoff Celebration hosted by 5ive (also featuring DJs and other fun fare for the whole family!) This exhibit will invite the viewer to participate in the making of the artwork, interacting with the canvas and materials so that both tactile processes and community contribution are as much a part of the piece as the art itself.
In the Jesup Gallery: Graffiti Art Mural
More information regarding scheduled mural participation times and 5ive’s Jesup Gallery exhibit is forthcoming. Stay tuned and join in on the fun at VersoFest 2025!
In addition to his art exhibits, 5iveFingaz will also be leading two back-to-back sessions of his Verso University course Graffiti 101: Finding Your Voice as a Graffiti Artist on Saturday, April 5.
About 5iveFingaz
5iveFingaz is a visionary artist whose work seamlessly bridges the realms of street art, contemporary expression, and social consciousness. Renowned for his distinctive fusion of bold visuals and thought-provoking text, 5iveFingaz crafts pieces that resonate deeply with audiences, challenging them to reflect on both personal experiences and broader societal issues. His signature style often features vibrant colors juxtaposed with powerful, concise phrases that speak directly to the heart of human experience, exploring themes of love, resilience, unity, and justice. Emerging from a background rich in urban culture and creative exploration, 5iveFingaz honed his artistic voice through a unique blend of trained and self-taught techniques and active community engagement. His art transcends traditional canvases, finding life on walls, public spaces, and unconventional surfaces, transforming everyday environments into platforms for inspiration and dialogue. The artist’s work has garnered global attention not only for its striking aesthetic appeal but also for its profound ability to connect with diverse audiences on an intimate level.
At the core of his practice lies the "Love More Than Ever" movement, a heartfelt initiative that underscores the importance of uplifting one another with kindness and understanding. 5iveFingaz’s unwavering commitment to positive messaging and social awareness drives his creative process, with each piece serving as a rallying cry for change. His work urges viewers to reflect on their roles in fostering a more compassionate and equitable world. Through exhibitions, collaborations, and public art projects, he amplifies voices that are often unheard, using art as a powerful tool for empowerment and community building. As his influence continues to grow, 5iveFingaz remains steadfast in his mission to spark meaningful conversations and inspire action, solidifying his place as a transformative figure in the contemporary art scene.
5iveFingaz Art Exhibits at VersoFest 2025
An extraordinary exhibition featuring stunning photographic images of birds, mammals and sea life engaging in their natural habitats. Vivid color, amazing action moments and the sheer beauty of the natural world are all masterfully captured by this talented, award-winning filmmaker, expeditionist and dedicated environmentalist.
FLYWAY OF LIFE, Wildlife Photography by Tomas Koeck
The Geary Gallery of Darien proudly presents its May exhibition, "The Palette in Bloom," featuring the lush, joyful florals and abstract paintings of artist, Lori Eubanks. Her exhibit runs May 1 - 31. All are welcome and admission is free. The Geary Gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and is located at 576 Boston Post Road, Darien, CT 06820. For more details, call (203) 655-6633 or visit our website: www.gearygallery.com.
Lori Eubanks' vibrant florals and abstracts, "The Palette in Bloom” at the Geary Gallery in Darien CT
The Glass House, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is pleased to present Barbara Kasten: Structure, Light, Land. For five decades, Chicago-based artist Barbara Kasten has created photographs and sculptural installations that reorient our sense of perception and explore the dynamic relationship between space, material, and form. Her artistic influences are deeply rooted in modernist architecture, the principles of Constructivism, and the interdisciplinary legacy of the Bauhaus, particularly the photograms of László Moholy-Nagy and Lucia Moholy.
“Placing my work in and around The Glass House campus is an opportunity for me to take on a canonical modernist site. Each of the structures on the grounds is like a monument to one of many aesthetic phases of architectural history. Abstraction allows us to consider possibilities that are not the norm,” said Barbara Kasten.
Structure, Light, Land features Kasten’s work from multiple series, including Architectural Sites, Collisions, and Progressions, as well as new iterations of digital projections, cyanotypes, and sculptures. With a striking interplay of light, color, and form, Kasten’s work infiltrates the grounds of The Glass House and responds to the site’s varied built environment and landscape.
In the Brick House (1949), Kasten’s brilliantly hued Architectural Site 1, June 10, 1986–featuring the Philip Johnson-designed Lipstick Building (1986) in Manhattan–resonates with the ’80s postmodern interior of the Reading Room, which includes two 1986 Feltri Chairs designed by Gaetano Pesce. Five new cyanotypes by Kasten line the building’s serene 1949 hallway, illuminated by the circular skylights above.
Kasten’s new installation of fluorescent acrylic I-beams, modeled after the structural components of the Glass House, will be interspersed throughout the Sculpture Gallery (1970). The seven-foot-long beams respond to the site’s permanent collection of works by Frank Stella, John Chamberlain, Robert Morris, George Segal, and Michael Heizer. The intervention brings attention to the structure’s exposed I-beam twenty feet overhead and responds to the gallery’s interior patterning of ever-changing natural light and winding staircases.
The Painting Gallery (1965) features three works: a photograph from the Collision series and two sculptural Progressions. Situated near Stella’s shaped canvases, Kasten’s fluorescent forms extend the narrative around post-painterly abstraction across mediums and into the present moment.
Da Monsta (1995), the last building Johnson designed at The Glass House, was named following a conversation between Johnson and the critic Herbert Muschamp. It was inspired in part by German Expressionism, an unrealized museum design by Frank Stella, and the work of Frank Gehry. Kasten’s Sideways Corner (2016/2025), a video projection of three-dimensional cubes in primary colors, activates the warped and torqued walls.
The exhibition is curated by Cole Akers, Curator at The Glass House.
Special thanks to Bortolami Gallery, New York.
Barbara Kasten: Structure, Light, Land
The 2025 Glass House tour season begins on April 17, 2025. Tickets are available now! All tours include access to the newly restored Brick House. Following an extensive restoration project , we are excited to share this essential design element of the site and its history with you!
The Glass House 2025 Tour season opens April 17th - December 15th
“Here is where finally opposites come together, I see a surprising purity. Stone is the depth, metal the mirror. They do not conflict…” —Isamu Noguchi
While the renowned sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) is best known for his work in stone, he consistently explored new materials and methods during his wide-ranging career. He first experimented with aluminum in the 1950s and later with galvanized steel, creating a series of twenty-six sculptures in collaboration with Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles in 1982–83. In this body of work, each sheet of metal is cut with a plasma torch and then dipped into boiling zinc, resulting in sculptures that are subtly patterned and highly reflective, resembling pebbles in a stream or the epidermal layer of skin.
Writing about the unique materiality of his sculptures, Noguchi described metal as a mirror in opposition to “stone [as] depth.” His galvanized steel sculptures achieve formal unity while also exploring conceptual dualities between the traditional and modern, fine art and design, and industry and nature. As a Japanese American artist working in the United States, Noguchi negotiated his own feeling of in-betweenness throughout his oeuvre. The galvanized steel editions synthesize this dual aspect of his identity, utilizing steel—a distinctly American material—while also integrating the Japanese craft of origami through cut and folded metal shapes.
Featuring a selection of nine galvanized steel sculptures, the exhibition is organized into thematic groupings that underscore the paradoxes of the artist’s work in metal. In the first, Noguchi imparts inanimate forms with human qualities, complicating the relationship between flesh and steel, body and mirror. Man-made material is transformed into representations of mountains, fruit, and sky in the second grouping, reflecting Noguchi’s belief that, in modernity, industry and nature are intertwined. A final trio of works reveals Noguchi’s ongoing interest in abstraction, bringing theoretical and spiritual ideas, weight and weightlessness, and past and present into visual dialogue. Through these sculptures, Noguchi explores ways of belonging in between such imagined oppositions. Indeed, the polished steel surfaces entangle objects, spaces, and people in a network of cast reflections, inviting visitors to contemplate Noguchi’s life, his practice, and themselves.
Isamu Noguchi: Metal the Mirror is curated by Julia Mun, Curatorial Associate, with support from Ashley Holland, Curator and Director of Curatorial Initiatives, and Javier Rivero Ramos, Assistant Curator. The presentation at the Bruce is organized by Margarita Karasoulas, Curator of Art.
Isamu Noguchi: Metal the Mirror is organized by Art Bridges.
Isamu Noguchi: Metal the Mirror
For the final exhibition of its 2024-25 season, the Flinn Gallery is pleased to present Elemental: Work by Boston Sculptors Gallery Artists. The show runs from May 8 to June 18 and features the work of 13 artists from the Boston Sculptors Gallery. The sculptors in the exhibition work with a wide range of materials – clay, fabric, metal, plastic, wood, and mixed media – and their artwork ranges in height from three inches to over eight feet.
While the sculptures encompass a wide range of materials, sizes, and techniques, they were selected with a unifying theme in mind – Elemental. This word has multiple meanings, which range from primitive or basic to the four elements of nature to the chemical elements from which many of the objects are created. Visitors to the Gallery will see artwork that can be grouped into four elemental categories: Beginnings, Organisms, Earth, and Water.
The artists are all inspired by the beauty and fragility of the natural world along with our connections to and impact upon it. For Mo Kelman,“water is the ideal subject to reflect on the laws that govern nature as it ceaselessly advances and embarrasses our every effort to keep it at bay.” In Lagoon, Kelman merges an abstracted body of silk water with bamboo structures that ensemble towers or bridges. Artist Jessica Strauss has three pieces in the exhibition from her Packing for Mars series. In Missing You, Blue Planet, and No More Polar Ice Cap, human figures gaze at images of Earth. The sculptures express “black humor, longing, and regret” as Strauss looks toward a “future when humans must flee a devastated Earth to settle on far flung and arid worlds.”
Several artists use traditional domestic crafts such as crochet, embroidery, and sewing in innovative ways. In her three sculptures Ascent, Larvae, and Nests, Michelle Lougee crochets post-consumer plastic bags into monumental sculptures, which “examine the relationships between humans, plastic, and nature amidst irreversible environmental changes”. Cascading from the ceiling, Keri Straka’s “Soft Cell Division” is composed of stuffed and sewn textiles. According to Straka, “the suspended sculpture is evocative of the ebb and flow of human life as mirrored in the blooming of a single cell.” Her sculpture, “Portal: Past” is made of multiple wooden embroidery hoops of varying sizes with water-color painted fabric embedded with a wide range of materials to represent dividing cells and biological cycles.
Since the majority of sculptors are women, it is only natural that some artwork addresses feminine sensibilities, and as mentioned, domestic life. Ellen Schön has four ceramic pieces in the exhibition. Two of her pieces – Five Hills Font and Lotus Pod – are part of her Wellspring Series. For Schön, “the pieces in this series explore the ceramic vessel as a wellspring or womb. They are meant to evoke sources of life-whirlpools, fonts, pods, seed of hope, as well as the landscape of the female body.” Several of Jodie Colella’s sculptures are ceramic and one incorporates fabric. According to Colella, her three pieces – Offspring, Seeds, and Attempts at Conviviality Exhaust Me – “comingle rigid forms with fibers to create vessels containing the stories that embody domestic life.”
Elemental is curated by Flinn Gallery committee members, Barbra Fordyce and Nancy Heller. It will include over 40 works of art by the following Boston Sculptors Gallery artists:
Jodie Colella (clay, fiber, stone, and mixed media), Carrie Crane (mixed media),
Anna Kristina Goransson (felt and wool), Mo Kelman (silk, wood, and mixed media), Michelle Lougee (crocheted plastic and wire), Ellen Schön (stoneware and fired-clay), Julia Shepley (mixed media), Keri Straka (fabric and mixed media), Jessica Strauss (mixed media), Margaret Swan (aluminum), Nora Valdez (limestone), Leslie Wilcox (steel screen and mixed media), and Andy Zimmerman (wood).
The Flinn Gallery is a non-profit organization sponsored by Friends of the Greenwich Library. The Gallery welcomes visitors daily Monday to Saturday, 10-5pm, Thursday until 8pm, and Sunday 1-5pm, and is located on the second floor of the Greenwich Library, 101 West Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, CT.
The Boston Sculptors Gallery (BSG) was founded in 1992 by 18 artists as a venue for contemporary sculpture. It is located in Boston’s SoWa arts district and has 38 member artists from Boston and New England. There is a natural kinship between the Flinn and Boston Sculptors Galleries. Both are nonprofit entities that are volunteer-run and operated with support from a part-time staff member.
Events:
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 8 from 6-8pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, June 7 from 2-3pm.
Elemental: Work by Boston Sculptors Gallery Artists
The Greenwich Art Society is pleased to announce its 108th Annual Juried Exhibition, at the Bendheim Gallery at 299 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich, CT. Exhibition dates are May 8th thru June 8th. There will be an opening reception and awards ceremony on Saturday May 8th from 5:15 - 6:30 PM. An online digital and virtual gallery will be available on our website, www.greenwichartsociety.org . All work will be for sale.
JUROR: Kelly Long is an art worker and writer currently serving as Senior Curatorial Assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, where she has worked with the Photography Acquisitions Committee since 2017), developed exhibitions across mediums, including Rachel Harrison Life Hack (2019), Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith (2023, and a forthcoming exhibition focused on surrealism and the 1960’s. Most recently, she curated Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe and the Last Gullah Islands (2024), and Trust Me (2023), a group exhibition exploring the role that vulnerability plays in forging connection, and the overlapping lives and loves of photography’s creators, viewers, and caretakers. Previously, she has held curatorial and teaching positions at the George Eastman Museum and at the University of Rochester. Her writing has appeared in the catalogues for Chiharu Shiota: The Hand Lines and Gail Thacker: Fugitive Moments, and in publications such as InVisible Culture and MOSSFLOWER. She holds a B.A. in art history from Vassar College, and an M.A. in visual and cultural studies from the University of Rochester, where her research focused on the engagement of postmodern and contemporary art with housing, exploring notions of being and belonging, access, and ownership in the art of our time.
AWARDS : Cash and other awards totaling over $2000 will be presented at the opening reception.
108th Annual Juried Exhibition at the Bendheim Gallery
Please join us at Silvermine Galleries on Saturday May 17th from 5 - 7pm for the opening reception of the Fiber 2025 Exhibition.
This international exhibition seeks to showcase the best of contemporary fiber art that reflect the breadth of functional or non-functional works that use fiber and/or fiber art techniques in traditional or innovative ways. Artwork in this exhibition may be made from natural or high tech materials that reference fiber and that blur the lines between art, architecture and craft.
The exhibition will run from May 10th through June 19th, 2025.
It will be accompanied by two small exhibitions curated by browngrotta arts: Masters of the Medium: CT and Mastery and Materiality: International.
Fiber 2025 Exhibition at Silvermine Galleries
Heather Gaudio Fine Art is pleased to present Martin Kline: The World In All Its Plenitude, the artist’s fifth solo exhibition at the gallery. The public is invited to attend an opening reception on Saturday, May 3, 4-6pm, and the exhibition will remain on view through June 14th. A fully illustrated catalogue with an essay written by art critic and poet Carter Ratcliff accompanies the exhibition.
“…ever since he made his first mature work, Kline has felt free to make paintings that are not flat and sculptures that are powerfully pictorial. He is not just inventive. He is reliably – startlingly – original.” [1]
The show brings together thirty-nine works executed between 1997 and 2025, surveying Kline’s long-standing engagement with encaustic. Kline’s output has consistently been one of working in series, creating several paintings, drawings and sculpture surrounding a theme or idea. At times he has revisited these themes to expand his material investigations, technical mastery and visual explorations. The distinguishing motif in the paintings and sculptures presented in this show, regardless of the year or series they belong to, is that they all share in the color blue. Arguably one of the favorite colors on the spectrum, blue has for millennia captivated the human eye and carried a special allure for its symbolic and emotive qualities. From ancient China and Egypt to the Celtic times, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and Baroque periods, from the Industrial Revolution and the nineteenth century to the modern and contemporary era, blue has fascinated artists, musicians and writers. Sourced from cobalt, lapis lazuli, indigo, ultramarine and other materials, blue can transform into varying hues: cyan, navy, turquoise, aqua, midnight blue, sky blue, royal blue and aquamarine.
Kline’s nimble use of the color takes its hue and shade ranges in different directions, accentuating its characteristics and evocative nature with his adroit use of encaustic. Whether applied in flat bold brushstrokes, dripped or layered to create textured surfaces, Kline modulates the color and manipulates the material to create a vast range of visual experiences. Some grided paintings are structures that take on a retro feel with lighter and darker tones and hues, such as Blue Order and Blue and White Impression. The brushstrokes create a patchwork of tetris-like tiles seeming to compete for space. A mixture of values and tones in other panels such as Blue Grid are not as delineated and appear to meld into one another. These networks are transformed into more complex systems in Blue Mosaico (Tondo) and in the camo-bot series such as Patchwork Blue and Camo Bluebot.
Razzle Dazzle may be visually related to the latter two but is also part of another seminal body of work by the artist, the Hammock paintings. In this large panel, Kline’s line of enquiry comes from a narrative referenced in Leo Steinberg’s essay “Other Criteria.” In it, he touches on the 19th century artist Thomas Eakins’ addressing the question whether painting and sculpture should have the same moral standing as traditionally defined manual labor, and not just be considered an activity of leisure or pleasure. Kline’s Hammock paintings are created on actual canvas service hammocks, some dating back to WWII, that the artist has collected over the years. Razzle Dazzle, with its honey-combed surface and blue color patterns, camouflages the hammock on the panel, keeping the object used for work and /or leisure not readily apparent.
Audiences familiar with Kline’s artistic trajectory will enjoy viewing the deep, midnight blue, almost black The Prussian Blues (II), an encaustic on linen that would be a precursor to an important series in Kline’s oeuvre, the white linen, or Tabula Rasa, paintings. Other works on view include the artist’s signature additive layered Bloom, Jewel, and Leda paintings, with their surfaces so textured they become quasi sculptural, where shadow plays an important part in the visual engagement. When does a textured painting become a sculpture? The coup de grâce that drives this concept home is Diagonal Blue Growth on Canvas, a painting the artist cast into a unique bronze and finished with a rich blue patina to make it look like a painting.
About Martin Kline
Kline has had a prolific career as a painter, sculptor and draughtsman and his works have been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad. His works are in many notable public and private collections, including The Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Brooklyn Museum and the Morgan Library in New York City; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; the Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Albertina, Vienna; The Museum of Fine Art, Houston; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Ohio University, Athens; the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain; Triton Foundation, Belgium; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, among others. Kline lives and works in upstate New York.
About Carter Ratcliff
American critic and poet Carter Ratcliff has published writings on art for The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Guggenheim Museum; the Royal Academy of Arts, London; Maxxi Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome and many other institutions. He has contributed to notable art publications such as Art in America, Art Forum, Art News, Arts, Tate, and Art Presse, as well Vogue, Elle, and New York Magazine. Books include The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art, Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art, and monographs on Andy Warhol, John Singer Sargent, Georgia O’Keeffe, Gilbert & George among others. His books of poetry include Fever Coast, Give Me Tomorrow and Arrivederci, Modernismo. Born in Seattle, Ratcliff lives and works in upstate New York.
Heather Gaudio Fine Art specializes in emerging and established artists, offering painting, works on paper, photography, and sculpture. The gallery provides a full-range of art advisory services, from forming and maintaining a collection, to securing secondary market material, to assisting with framing and installation. The focus is on each individual client, selecting art that best serves his or her vision, space, and resources. The six exhibitions offered every year are designed to present important talent and provide artwork appealing to a broad range of interests. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday; 10:30am to 5:30pm; and by appointment.
[1] Carter Ratcliff, “Martin Kline: The World in All Its Plenitude”, 2025, Martin Kline, exhibition catalogue
"Martin Kline: The World In All Its Plenitude"
This exhibition presents highlights from the collection of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, which explores the impact of the Irish Famine of 1845-1852 through artwork produced by eminent Irish and Irish-American artists of the past 170 years. The works on view in the exhibition will include paintings by late 19th- and early 20th‐century artists like James Brenan, Daniel Macdonald, James Arthur O'Connor and Jack B. Yeats, as well as sculptures, paintings, and works on paper by contemporary artists including John Behan, Rowan Gillespie, Brian Maguire, and Hughie O'Donoghue. The exhibition is presented by Quinnipiac University and the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield Exhibition.
An Gorta Mór: Selections from Ireland's Great Hunger Museum
We are pleased to announce our next On View feature, highlighting original landscape paintings by South Carolina-based artist Karin Olah on the main wall of Sorelle Gallery. The Feature will open Saturday, May 10, 2025. Visitors will have the opportunity to view new work by Karin, with light refreshments on opening day.
Inspired by the colors and light of coastal landscapes, Karin Olah creates multi-layered paintings with acrylic paint, hand-dyed fabric, and vintage textiles. Karin’s subject matter ranges from seascape to abstract expressionism to a dreamy place in-between.
Karin combines her obsession with textiles and quilts, a background in fashion design in NYC, a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, and an ever-growing fabric collection to add layers of texture to her work. She is a recipient of the Lowcountry Artist of the Year Award and an Artist-in-Residence at Palmetto Bluff. Her work has been on the cover of Charleston Magazine and featured in Southern Living, House & Garden Magazine, and American Contemporary Art Magazine. Her work is in public collections at Mayo Clinic Florida, Medical University of South Carolina, Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center, JW Marriott, The Ritz-Carlton, Ponte Vedra Inn and Club, and Ilya Corporation in Japan. Originally from Lancaster Country, Pennsylvania, Karin has lived in Charleston, South Carolina since 2003. Karin enjoys going to the beach, playing golf, being silly with her daughters, and chasing after a naughty labradoodle named Charlie.
"Fabric is something that evokes an emotional response," Olah says. "Soft materials can make us feel calm, relaxed, cozy, and safe. I use textiles in my paintings to suggest a connection between the beautiful places in nature and the comforting touch of a well-loved quilt. Inspiration for my subject matter comes from cloud watching at the beach, the stripes of ocean waves on the horizon, a patchwork of farm fields, the meandering thread of a creek through the marsh, and quiet time at the lake. My interpretations of landscapes focus on color and mood more than realism. In these dreamscapes, the brushstrokes are fabric."
Karin's paintings will be on view through Saturday, May 31st.
This On View feature is free and open to the public during gallery hours, Tuesday through Saturday 11:00am - 5:00pm. Street parking is available.
On View: Karin Olah
The GR Art Gallery presents:
Ellen Gordon
“A Creative Journey II”
April 4th, 2025 – May 30th, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 5th from 4 PM – 7 PM
“A Creative Journey II”” is Ellen Gordon’s first solo exhibit at the GR Art Gallery. This exhibition is a retrospective of paintings and drawings by the artist created since 2009. In 2009 Ms. Gordon had her first solo exhibition entitled “A Creative Journey” at the Stamford Mayor’s Gallery. The exhibit will be on display from April 4th thru May 30th. Gallery hours are Wednesday - Saturday from 12-6 pm and from Sunday 12-4. Any time by appointment, 203-274-7497.
The GR Art Gallery will host a reception to celebrate the artist on Saturday April 5th from 4 – 7 PM. The public is invited.
Ellen Gordon is a Stamford, CT-based award-winning mixed media artist. The colors and patterns in her artwork are roller coaster rhythms of fences, grids, and fractured geometries – a kind of mapping. She guides us along a journey of the personal narrative through landscaped layers of abstraction and portraiture. Playful and speculative, the rhythms remain determinedly open-ended and essentially borderless. An un-plotted story with unbounded possibilities. Over the past two decades, Gordon’s work has evolved through many phases, but her main body of work centers on figurative collages - intimate yet colorful portrayals of a woman in her own thoughts, providing the viewer a window into honest moments with a series of striking and bold women. Her most recent work has been a transition into the abstract patterns, experimenting with geometric shapes and inverted forms in color palettes evoking various states of mind.
Ms. Gordon has been active in the local arts for many years. She currently serves on the board of The Greenwich Art Society and The Connecticut Women Artists. Ms. Gordon is a commissioner of The City of Stamford’s Cultural Arts and Culture Board. She is the former Executive Director of the Loft Artists Association and was Co President of the Stamford Art Association.
In 2022, Ms. Gordon became the curator of the Mayor's Art Gallery in Stamford, CT.
The GR Art Gallery is located at 1086 Long Ridge Road, Stamford, CT 06903. Gallery hours are Wednesday - Saturday from 12-6 pm and from Sunday 12-4. Any time by appointment, 203-274-7497. Parking is available and the building is handicap accessible.
"A Creative Journey II", Ellen Gordon at the GR Art Gallery
A new show at the Rowayton Arts Center (RAC), “Community Sponsored Awards,” will be on view May 18 through June 15, 2025. The artwork in this exhibition will feature local scenes by RAC Exhibiting Members with cash awards thanks to individuals and merchants in the area. This year's awards have been made possible by the support and generosity of the following: All Seasons Marine Works, Arden’s Rowayton, Brendan’s 101, Cucina Daniella, Darien Rowayton Bank, E.R. Salvatore Associates, Fairfield County Bank, Avery and Rob Flowers, Gway Printing, HTG Investment Advisors, Images of Old Greenwich, Kim and Gil Kernan, Rowayton Wine Shop, Sails American Bar & Grill, Seaside Delights, The Bait Shop Marine Services, The Restaurant at Rowayton Seafood, Whitebridge Wines & Spirits and William Raveis/Tammy Langalis.
The opening reception on Sunday, May 16 from 4 pm to 6 pm is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 12 to 5 pm plus Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 1 pm.
RAC celebrates the study, creation and appreciation of the arts through classes, exhibitions and events open to all in the community. For over 60 years, this nonprofit organization has been a cultural gem in Rowayton, CT. The gallery and art school overlook the scenic Five Mile River at 145 Rowayton Avenue with space for regional artists to exhibit their art and a classroom for workshops and classes at all levels offered to children and adults. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
Rowayton Arts Center "Community Sponsored Awards" Show
Food Trucks on the River, an exciting two-day festival will take place on Friday, May 30th, from 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM, and Saturday, May 31st, from 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM at Veterans Memorial Park in Downtown Shelton. In case of inclement weather, a rain date is set for Sunday, June 1st.
This popular event will feature 25+ food trucks per day, offering a variety of delicious cuisines, alongside our New Belgium Bar serving craft brews, wine, specialty cocktails, and mocktails, sponsored by New Belgium Brewing Company and LoveLou Wines. Attendees can explore a curated selection of handmade artisan vendors, enjoy live music, and partake in family-friendly activities throughout the weekend.
This free-to-attend event welcomes all, with a suggested donation of $5 per person to help support future community programming.
Kicking off the weekend, on the Main Stage on Friday, May 30th, Connecticut’s top musical talent will take the spotlight:
- Midnight Anthem
- Elizabeth Ashkins & Nathaniel Hintz
- Jason Ingriselli & The Miles North
On Saturday, May 31st, the Listening Lounge @ New Belgium Bar will showcase: The Bargain, Frank Viele, Laura Clapp, Eddie Seville and Simone Marie.
Families can enjoy a full days of entertainment with programming including:
- 18-hole Mini Golf free for all attendees
- Family Yoga w/ Yellow Yoga
- Plus face painting, glitter tattoos, and henna
As an added attraction, Earthship Studios will be offering flash tattoos both days.
The Annual LGBTQ Pride Flag Raising Ceremony will take place on Saturday, May 31st at 2:00 PM at the Derby-Shelton Rotary Pavilion in partnership with the City of Shelton.
Food Trucks on the River
Join us for an evening of good food, good company and the sounds of Mullett & Badboy!
Barnum Festival Concert & Food Truck Festival: MULLET & Badboy
Welcome to The Wedding Singer! Get ready for a night of laughter, love, and 80s music. Join us at New Canaan High School on Friday and Saturday, May 30-31 for a performance you won't forget. Watch our talented cast bring this beloved romantic comedy to life on stage.
The Wedding Singer takes us back to a time when hair was big, greed was good, collars were up and a wedding singer might just be the coolest guy in the room. Based on the hit Adam Sandler movie, The Wedding Singer's sparkling new score does for the '80s what Hairspray did for the '60s. Just say yes to the most romantic musical in twenty years.
It's 1985, and rock star wannabe, Robbie Hart, is New Jersey's favorite wedding singer. He's the life of the party until his own fiancée leaves him at the altar. Shot through the heart, Robbie makes every wedding as disastrous as his own. Enter Julia, a winsome waitress who wins his affection. As luck would have it, Julia is about to be married to a Wall Street shark, and, unless Robbie can pull off the performance of a decade, the girl of his dreams will be gone forever.
The Wedding Singer
The Sweet Remains
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Their songs easily appeal to fans of modern folk-rockers like Ray Lamontagne and John Mayer. However, it is their lush harmonies, that distinguish tSR from the throngs of guitar-toting troubadors and harken back to super-groups of the 60's and 70's like CSN, the Eagles, Simon & Garfunkel.
The Sweet Remains
If you love Steely Dan / Genesis / Tears for Fears / Kansas / Bowie Then you would Love this Band. Seasoned Musicians Performing Music that gives you Goosebumps and you will Jump out of your seats! Please like us on Facebook and follow us from show to show!
ELEMENT 115
Citywide Student Art Show At The Norwalk Art Space
Featuring artwork by students in the Norwalk Public Schools K-12th grade.
Citywide Student Art Show
March 29 through June 1
Reception: Thursday, April 10, 6-8 pm, in the Trefz Forum; click here for more information. (Reception kicks off at 6 pm, followed by a conversation between 5iveFingaz and Miggs Burroughs at 7 pm.) Click here for more on VersoFest 2025!
In the Sheffer Gallery: Visual Verses
Visual Verses is an immersive art exhibit that merges the expressive power of visual art with the profound impact of language. Each painting in this collection is paired with original phrases crafted to evoke thought, emotion, and reflection. The artwork transcends traditional boundaries, using bold colors and dynamic compositions to amplify the messages embedded within the text. This fusion of imagery and words invites viewers to engage not only with the aesthetics but also with the deeper narratives and meanings behind each piece.
At its core, Visual Verses carries a strong social conscience, addressing themes of justice, equality, and human connection. The text-based elements of the exhibit deliver positive messages meant to inspire, uplift, and provoke meaningful conversations. Through this harmonious blend of art and language, the exhibit aims to spark awareness and foster a sense of community, encouraging viewers to reflect on their role in shaping a more compassionate and just world.
In the South Gallery: Interactive Community Participation Mural
This Interactive Community Participation Mural will be designed by 5ive, with members of the community to help fill it in on Saturday, April 5, from 10 am to 2 pm during the VersoFest 2025 Weekend Kickoff Celebration hosted by 5ive (also featuring DJs and other fun fare for the whole family!) This exhibit will invite the viewer to participate in the making of the artwork, interacting with the canvas and materials so that both tactile processes and community contribution are as much a part of the piece as the art itself.
In the Jesup Gallery: Graffiti Art Mural
More information regarding scheduled mural participation times and 5ive’s Jesup Gallery exhibit is forthcoming. Stay tuned and join in on the fun at VersoFest 2025!
In addition to his art exhibits, 5iveFingaz will also be leading two back-to-back sessions of his Verso University course Graffiti 101: Finding Your Voice as a Graffiti Artist on Saturday, April 5.
About 5iveFingaz
5iveFingaz is a visionary artist whose work seamlessly bridges the realms of street art, contemporary expression, and social consciousness. Renowned for his distinctive fusion of bold visuals and thought-provoking text, 5iveFingaz crafts pieces that resonate deeply with audiences, challenging them to reflect on both personal experiences and broader societal issues. His signature style often features vibrant colors juxtaposed with powerful, concise phrases that speak directly to the heart of human experience, exploring themes of love, resilience, unity, and justice. Emerging from a background rich in urban culture and creative exploration, 5iveFingaz honed his artistic voice through a unique blend of trained and self-taught techniques and active community engagement. His art transcends traditional canvases, finding life on walls, public spaces, and unconventional surfaces, transforming everyday environments into platforms for inspiration and dialogue. The artist’s work has garnered global attention not only for its striking aesthetic appeal but also for its profound ability to connect with diverse audiences on an intimate level.
At the core of his practice lies the "Love More Than Ever" movement, a heartfelt initiative that underscores the importance of uplifting one another with kindness and understanding. 5iveFingaz’s unwavering commitment to positive messaging and social awareness drives his creative process, with each piece serving as a rallying cry for change. His work urges viewers to reflect on their roles in fostering a more compassionate and equitable world. Through exhibitions, collaborations, and public art projects, he amplifies voices that are often unheard, using art as a powerful tool for empowerment and community building. As his influence continues to grow, 5iveFingaz remains steadfast in his mission to spark meaningful conversations and inspire action, solidifying his place as a transformative figure in the contemporary art scene.
5iveFingaz Art Exhibits at VersoFest 2025
The Geary Gallery of Darien proudly presents its May exhibition, "The Palette in Bloom," featuring the lush, joyful florals and abstract paintings of artist, Lori Eubanks. Her exhibit runs May 1 - 31. All are welcome and admission is free. The Geary Gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and is located at 576 Boston Post Road, Darien, CT 06820. For more details, call (203) 655-6633 or visit our website: www.gearygallery.com.
Lori Eubanks' vibrant florals and abstracts, "The Palette in Bloom” at the Geary Gallery in Darien CT
The Glass House, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is pleased to present Barbara Kasten: Structure, Light, Land. For five decades, Chicago-based artist Barbara Kasten has created photographs and sculptural installations that reorient our sense of perception and explore the dynamic relationship between space, material, and form. Her artistic influences are deeply rooted in modernist architecture, the principles of Constructivism, and the interdisciplinary legacy of the Bauhaus, particularly the photograms of László Moholy-Nagy and Lucia Moholy.
“Placing my work in and around The Glass House campus is an opportunity for me to take on a canonical modernist site. Each of the structures on the grounds is like a monument to one of many aesthetic phases of architectural history. Abstraction allows us to consider possibilities that are not the norm,” said Barbara Kasten.
Structure, Light, Land features Kasten’s work from multiple series, including Architectural Sites, Collisions, and Progressions, as well as new iterations of digital projections, cyanotypes, and sculptures. With a striking interplay of light, color, and form, Kasten’s work infiltrates the grounds of The Glass House and responds to the site’s varied built environment and landscape.
In the Brick House (1949), Kasten’s brilliantly hued Architectural Site 1, June 10, 1986–featuring the Philip Johnson-designed Lipstick Building (1986) in Manhattan–resonates with the ’80s postmodern interior of the Reading Room, which includes two 1986 Feltri Chairs designed by Gaetano Pesce. Five new cyanotypes by Kasten line the building’s serene 1949 hallway, illuminated by the circular skylights above.
Kasten’s new installation of fluorescent acrylic I-beams, modeled after the structural components of the Glass House, will be interspersed throughout the Sculpture Gallery (1970). The seven-foot-long beams respond to the site’s permanent collection of works by Frank Stella, John Chamberlain, Robert Morris, George Segal, and Michael Heizer. The intervention brings attention to the structure’s exposed I-beam twenty feet overhead and responds to the gallery’s interior patterning of ever-changing natural light and winding staircases.
The Painting Gallery (1965) features three works: a photograph from the Collision series and two sculptural Progressions. Situated near Stella’s shaped canvases, Kasten’s fluorescent forms extend the narrative around post-painterly abstraction across mediums and into the present moment.
Da Monsta (1995), the last building Johnson designed at The Glass House, was named following a conversation between Johnson and the critic Herbert Muschamp. It was inspired in part by German Expressionism, an unrealized museum design by Frank Stella, and the work of Frank Gehry. Kasten’s Sideways Corner (2016/2025), a video projection of three-dimensional cubes in primary colors, activates the warped and torqued walls.
The exhibition is curated by Cole Akers, Curator at The Glass House.
Special thanks to Bortolami Gallery, New York.
Barbara Kasten: Structure, Light, Land
The 2025 Glass House tour season begins on April 17, 2025. Tickets are available now! All tours include access to the newly restored Brick House. Following an extensive restoration project , we are excited to share this essential design element of the site and its history with you!
The Glass House 2025 Tour season opens April 17th - December 15th
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“Here is where finally opposites come together, I see a surprising purity. Stone is the depth, metal the mirror. They do not conflict…” —Isamu Noguchi
While the renowned sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) is best known for his work in stone, he consistently explored new materials and methods during his wide-ranging career. He first experimented with aluminum in the 1950s and later with galvanized steel, creating a series of twenty-six sculptures in collaboration with Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles in 1982–83. In this body of work, each sheet of metal is cut with a plasma torch and then dipped into boiling zinc, resulting in sculptures that are subtly patterned and highly reflective, resembling pebbles in a stream or the epidermal layer of skin.
Writing about the unique materiality of his sculptures, Noguchi described metal as a mirror in opposition to “stone [as] depth.” His galvanized steel sculptures achieve formal unity while also exploring conceptual dualities between the traditional and modern, fine art and design, and industry and nature. As a Japanese American artist working in the United States, Noguchi negotiated his own feeling of in-betweenness throughout his oeuvre. The galvanized steel editions synthesize this dual aspect of his identity, utilizing steel—a distinctly American material—while also integrating the Japanese craft of origami through cut and folded metal shapes.
Featuring a selection of nine galvanized steel sculptures, the exhibition is organized into thematic groupings that underscore the paradoxes of the artist’s work in metal. In the first, Noguchi imparts inanimate forms with human qualities, complicating the relationship between flesh and steel, body and mirror. Man-made material is transformed into representations of mountains, fruit, and sky in the second grouping, reflecting Noguchi’s belief that, in modernity, industry and nature are intertwined. A final trio of works reveals Noguchi’s ongoing interest in abstraction, bringing theoretical and spiritual ideas, weight and weightlessness, and past and present into visual dialogue. Through these sculptures, Noguchi explores ways of belonging in between such imagined oppositions. Indeed, the polished steel surfaces entangle objects, spaces, and people in a network of cast reflections, inviting visitors to contemplate Noguchi’s life, his practice, and themselves.
Isamu Noguchi: Metal the Mirror is curated by Julia Mun, Curatorial Associate, with support from Ashley Holland, Curator and Director of Curatorial Initiatives, and Javier Rivero Ramos, Assistant Curator. The presentation at the Bruce is organized by Margarita Karasoulas, Curator of Art.
Isamu Noguchi: Metal the Mirror is organized by Art Bridges.
Isamu Noguchi: Metal the Mirror
For the final exhibition of its 2024-25 season, the Flinn Gallery is pleased to present Elemental: Work by Boston Sculptors Gallery Artists. The show runs from May 8 to June 18 and features the work of 13 artists from the Boston Sculptors Gallery. The sculptors in the exhibition work with a wide range of materials – clay, fabric, metal, plastic, wood, and mixed media – and their artwork ranges in height from three inches to over eight feet.
While the sculptures encompass a wide range of materials, sizes, and techniques, they were selected with a unifying theme in mind – Elemental. This word has multiple meanings, which range from primitive or basic to the four elements of nature to the chemical elements from which many of the objects are created. Visitors to the Gallery will see artwork that can be grouped into four elemental categories: Beginnings, Organisms, Earth, and Water.
The artists are all inspired by the beauty and fragility of the natural world along with our connections to and impact upon it. For Mo Kelman,“water is the ideal subject to reflect on the laws that govern nature as it ceaselessly advances and embarrasses our every effort to keep it at bay.” In Lagoon, Kelman merges an abstracted body of silk water with bamboo structures that ensemble towers or bridges. Artist Jessica Strauss has three pieces in the exhibition from her Packing for Mars series. In Missing You, Blue Planet, and No More Polar Ice Cap, human figures gaze at images of Earth. The sculptures express “black humor, longing, and regret” as Strauss looks toward a “future when humans must flee a devastated Earth to settle on far flung and arid worlds.”
Several artists use traditional domestic crafts such as crochet, embroidery, and sewing in innovative ways. In her three sculptures Ascent, Larvae, and Nests, Michelle Lougee crochets post-consumer plastic bags into monumental sculptures, which “examine the relationships between humans, plastic, and nature amidst irreversible environmental changes”. Cascading from the ceiling, Keri Straka’s “Soft Cell Division” is composed of stuffed and sewn textiles. According to Straka, “the suspended sculpture is evocative of the ebb and flow of human life as mirrored in the blooming of a single cell.” Her sculpture, “Portal: Past” is made of multiple wooden embroidery hoops of varying sizes with water-color painted fabric embedded with a wide range of materials to represent dividing cells and biological cycles.
Since the majority of sculptors are women, it is only natural that some artwork addresses feminine sensibilities, and as mentioned, domestic life. Ellen Schön has four ceramic pieces in the exhibition. Two of her pieces – Five Hills Font and Lotus Pod – are part of her Wellspring Series. For Schön, “the pieces in this series explore the ceramic vessel as a wellspring or womb. They are meant to evoke sources of life-whirlpools, fonts, pods, seed of hope, as well as the landscape of the female body.” Several of Jodie Colella’s sculptures are ceramic and one incorporates fabric. According to Colella, her three pieces – Offspring, Seeds, and Attempts at Conviviality Exhaust Me – “comingle rigid forms with fibers to create vessels containing the stories that embody domestic life.”
Elemental is curated by Flinn Gallery committee members, Barbra Fordyce and Nancy Heller. It will include over 40 works of art by the following Boston Sculptors Gallery artists:
Jodie Colella (clay, fiber, stone, and mixed media), Carrie Crane (mixed media),
Anna Kristina Goransson (felt and wool), Mo Kelman (silk, wood, and mixed media), Michelle Lougee (crocheted plastic and wire), Ellen Schön (stoneware and fired-clay), Julia Shepley (mixed media), Keri Straka (fabric and mixed media), Jessica Strauss (mixed media), Margaret Swan (aluminum), Nora Valdez (limestone), Leslie Wilcox (steel screen and mixed media), and Andy Zimmerman (wood).
The Flinn Gallery is a non-profit organization sponsored by Friends of the Greenwich Library. The Gallery welcomes visitors daily Monday to Saturday, 10-5pm, Thursday until 8pm, and Sunday 1-5pm, and is located on the second floor of the Greenwich Library, 101 West Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, CT.
The Boston Sculptors Gallery (BSG) was founded in 1992 by 18 artists as a venue for contemporary sculpture. It is located in Boston’s SoWa arts district and has 38 member artists from Boston and New England. There is a natural kinship between the Flinn and Boston Sculptors Galleries. Both are nonprofit entities that are volunteer-run and operated with support from a part-time staff member.
Events:
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 8 from 6-8pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, June 7 from 2-3pm.
Elemental: Work by Boston Sculptors Gallery Artists
Please join us at Silvermine Galleries on Saturday May 17th from 5 - 7pm for the opening reception of the Fiber 2025 Exhibition.
This international exhibition seeks to showcase the best of contemporary fiber art that reflect the breadth of functional or non-functional works that use fiber and/or fiber art techniques in traditional or innovative ways. Artwork in this exhibition may be made from natural or high tech materials that reference fiber and that blur the lines between art, architecture and craft.
The exhibition will run from May 10th through June 19th, 2025.
It will be accompanied by two small exhibitions curated by browngrotta arts: Masters of the Medium: CT and Mastery and Materiality: International.
Fiber 2025 Exhibition at Silvermine Galleries
A new show at the Rowayton Arts Center (RAC), “Community Sponsored Awards,” will be on view May 18 through June 15, 2025. The artwork in this exhibition will feature local scenes by RAC Exhibiting Members with cash awards thanks to individuals and merchants in the area. This year's awards have been made possible by the support and generosity of the following: All Seasons Marine Works, Arden’s Rowayton, Brendan’s 101, Cucina Daniella, Darien Rowayton Bank, E.R. Salvatore Associates, Fairfield County Bank, Avery and Rob Flowers, Gway Printing, HTG Investment Advisors, Images of Old Greenwich, Kim and Gil Kernan, Rowayton Wine Shop, Sails American Bar & Grill, Seaside Delights, The Bait Shop Marine Services, The Restaurant at Rowayton Seafood, Whitebridge Wines & Spirits and William Raveis/Tammy Langalis.
The opening reception on Sunday, May 16 from 4 pm to 6 pm is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 12 to 5 pm plus Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 1 pm.
RAC celebrates the study, creation and appreciation of the arts through classes, exhibitions and events open to all in the community. For over 60 years, this nonprofit organization has been a cultural gem in Rowayton, CT. The gallery and art school overlook the scenic Five Mile River at 145 Rowayton Avenue with space for regional artists to exhibit their art and a classroom for workshops and classes at all levels offered to children and adults. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
Rowayton Arts Center "Community Sponsored Awards" Show
The Greenwich Art Society is offering:
YOUNG ARTISTS IN THE STUDIO, AGES 6-8
with OLGA KLYMYK
10 SATURDAYS
April 12 – June 21 (Except May 24)
10:30 am to 12:00 pm
Program Description
This class will explore new approaches to creativity with children. Using drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, and sculpture children will learn new skills and improve on old ones as they experiment with new media and different techniques. To reinforce their understanding, children will learn about important artists who are either historically significant or are forerunners in contemporary art. Come join in and stretch your imagination in a relaxed, fun environment. Materials supplied.
Instructor
Olga Klymyk
Olga Klymyk was born in the fall of 1977 in the Ukraine and grew to become a talented creative artist. A graduate of Arts & Crafts College in Kociv, she majored in Monumental Art, then completed graduate studies in graphics at University Stefanyke at Ivano-Frankivst, in the Ukraine.
After teaching art on the college level, painting murals in commercial buildings, consulting as an interior designer, as well as selling her art in retail stores, Olga emigrated to the USA in 2006 to continue exploring career opportunities.
She became a US citizen in 2011, and actively engages in a variety of work experiences to provide income for her and her teenage daughter living in Stamford, Ct. Olga gives private art instruction and teaches at the Ukrainian school. Although she has moved on from her membership, Ms. Klymyk spent the last few years as an active member of the Stamford based Loft Artists Association, now in its 40th year.
Olga is painting more, creating a new series, and pursuing new opportunities to exhibit and sell her growing collection of watercolor art that now consists of more than 30 pieces all professionally presented and ready to complete interiors.
The Greenwich Art Society is offering Young Artist in the Studio on Saturday mornings!
Heather Gaudio Fine Art is pleased to present Martin Kline: The World In All Its Plenitude, the artist’s fifth solo exhibition at the gallery. The public is invited to attend an opening reception on Saturday, May 3, 4-6pm, and the exhibition will remain on view through June 14th. A fully illustrated catalogue with an essay written by art critic and poet Carter Ratcliff accompanies the exhibition.
“…ever since he made his first mature work, Kline has felt free to make paintings that are not flat and sculptures that are powerfully pictorial. He is not just inventive. He is reliably – startlingly – original.” [1]
The show brings together thirty-nine works executed between 1997 and 2025, surveying Kline’s long-standing engagement with encaustic. Kline’s output has consistently been one of working in series, creating several paintings, drawings and sculpture surrounding a theme or idea. At times he has revisited these themes to expand his material investigations, technical mastery and visual explorations. The distinguishing motif in the paintings and sculptures presented in this show, regardless of the year or series they belong to, is that they all share in the color blue. Arguably one of the favorite colors on the spectrum, blue has for millennia captivated the human eye and carried a special allure for its symbolic and emotive qualities. From ancient China and Egypt to the Celtic times, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and Baroque periods, from the Industrial Revolution and the nineteenth century to the modern and contemporary era, blue has fascinated artists, musicians and writers. Sourced from cobalt, lapis lazuli, indigo, ultramarine and other materials, blue can transform into varying hues: cyan, navy, turquoise, aqua, midnight blue, sky blue, royal blue and aquamarine.
Kline’s nimble use of the color takes its hue and shade ranges in different directions, accentuating its characteristics and evocative nature with his adroit use of encaustic. Whether applied in flat bold brushstrokes, dripped or layered to create textured surfaces, Kline modulates the color and manipulates the material to create a vast range of visual experiences. Some grided paintings are structures that take on a retro feel with lighter and darker tones and hues, such as Blue Order and Blue and White Impression. The brushstrokes create a patchwork of tetris-like tiles seeming to compete for space. A mixture of values and tones in other panels such as Blue Grid are not as delineated and appear to meld into one another. These networks are transformed into more complex systems in Blue Mosaico (Tondo) and in the camo-bot series such as Patchwork Blue and Camo Bluebot.
Razzle Dazzle may be visually related to the latter two but is also part of another seminal body of work by the artist, the Hammock paintings. In this large panel, Kline’s line of enquiry comes from a narrative referenced in Leo Steinberg’s essay “Other Criteria.” In it, he touches on the 19th century artist Thomas Eakins’ addressing the question whether painting and sculpture should have the same moral standing as traditionally defined manual labor, and not just be considered an activity of leisure or pleasure. Kline’s Hammock paintings are created on actual canvas service hammocks, some dating back to WWII, that the artist has collected over the years. Razzle Dazzle, with its honey-combed surface and blue color patterns, camouflages the hammock on the panel, keeping the object used for work and /or leisure not readily apparent.
Audiences familiar with Kline’s artistic trajectory will enjoy viewing the deep, midnight blue, almost black The Prussian Blues (II), an encaustic on linen that would be a precursor to an important series in Kline’s oeuvre, the white linen, or Tabula Rasa, paintings. Other works on view include the artist’s signature additive layered Bloom, Jewel, and Leda paintings, with their surfaces so textured they become quasi sculptural, where shadow plays an important part in the visual engagement. When does a textured painting become a sculpture? The coup de grâce that drives this concept home is Diagonal Blue Growth on Canvas, a painting the artist cast into a unique bronze and finished with a rich blue patina to make it look like a painting.
About Martin Kline
Kline has had a prolific career as a painter, sculptor and draughtsman and his works have been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad. His works are in many notable public and private collections, including The Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Brooklyn Museum and the Morgan Library in New York City; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; the Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Albertina, Vienna; The Museum of Fine Art, Houston; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Ohio University, Athens; the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain; Triton Foundation, Belgium; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, among others. Kline lives and works in upstate New York.
About Carter Ratcliff
American critic and poet Carter Ratcliff has published writings on art for The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Guggenheim Museum; the Royal Academy of Arts, London; Maxxi Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome and many other institutions. He has contributed to notable art publications such as Art in America, Art Forum, Art News, Arts, Tate, and Art Presse, as well Vogue, Elle, and New York Magazine. Books include The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art, Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art, and monographs on Andy Warhol, John Singer Sargent, Georgia O’Keeffe, Gilbert & George among others. His books of poetry include Fever Coast, Give Me Tomorrow and Arrivederci, Modernismo. Born in Seattle, Ratcliff lives and works in upstate New York.
Heather Gaudio Fine Art specializes in emerging and established artists, offering painting, works on paper, photography, and sculpture. The gallery provides a full-range of art advisory services, from forming and maintaining a collection, to securing secondary market material, to assisting with framing and installation. The focus is on each individual client, selecting art that best serves his or her vision, space, and resources. The six exhibitions offered every year are designed to present important talent and provide artwork appealing to a broad range of interests. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday; 10:30am to 5:30pm; and by appointment.
[1] Carter Ratcliff, “Martin Kline: The World in All Its Plenitude”, 2025, Martin Kline, exhibition catalogue
"Martin Kline: The World In All Its Plenitude"
This exhibition presents highlights from the collection of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, which explores the impact of the Irish Famine of 1845-1852 through artwork produced by eminent Irish and Irish-American artists of the past 170 years. The works on view in the exhibition will include paintings by late 19th- and early 20th‐century artists like James Brenan, Daniel Macdonald, James Arthur O'Connor and Jack B. Yeats, as well as sculptures, paintings, and works on paper by contemporary artists including John Behan, Rowan Gillespie, Brian Maguire, and Hughie O'Donoghue. The exhibition is presented by Quinnipiac University and the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield Exhibition.
An Gorta Mór: Selections from Ireland's Great Hunger Museum
We are pleased to announce our next On View feature, highlighting original landscape paintings by South Carolina-based artist Karin Olah on the main wall of Sorelle Gallery. The Feature will open Saturday, May 10, 2025. Visitors will have the opportunity to view new work by Karin, with light refreshments on opening day.
Inspired by the colors and light of coastal landscapes, Karin Olah creates multi-layered paintings with acrylic paint, hand-dyed fabric, and vintage textiles. Karin’s subject matter ranges from seascape to abstract expressionism to a dreamy place in-between.
Karin combines her obsession with textiles and quilts, a background in fashion design in NYC, a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, and an ever-growing fabric collection to add layers of texture to her work. She is a recipient of the Lowcountry Artist of the Year Award and an Artist-in-Residence at Palmetto Bluff. Her work has been on the cover of Charleston Magazine and featured in Southern Living, House & Garden Magazine, and American Contemporary Art Magazine. Her work is in public collections at Mayo Clinic Florida, Medical University of South Carolina, Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center, JW Marriott, The Ritz-Carlton, Ponte Vedra Inn and Club, and Ilya Corporation in Japan. Originally from Lancaster Country, Pennsylvania, Karin has lived in Charleston, South Carolina since 2003. Karin enjoys going to the beach, playing golf, being silly with her daughters, and chasing after a naughty labradoodle named Charlie.
"Fabric is something that evokes an emotional response," Olah says. "Soft materials can make us feel calm, relaxed, cozy, and safe. I use textiles in my paintings to suggest a connection between the beautiful places in nature and the comforting touch of a well-loved quilt. Inspiration for my subject matter comes from cloud watching at the beach, the stripes of ocean waves on the horizon, a patchwork of farm fields, the meandering thread of a creek through the marsh, and quiet time at the lake. My interpretations of landscapes focus on color and mood more than realism. In these dreamscapes, the brushstrokes are fabric."
Karin's paintings will be on view through Saturday, May 31st.
This On View feature is free and open to the public during gallery hours, Tuesday through Saturday 11:00am - 5:00pm. Street parking is available.
On View: Karin Olah
An extraordinary exhibition featuring stunning photographic images of birds, mammals and sea life engaging in their natural habitats. Vivid color, amazing action moments and the sheer beauty of the natural world are all masterfully captured by this talented, award-winning filmmaker, expeditionist and dedicated environmentalist.
FLYWAY OF LIFE, Wildlife Photography by Tomas Koeck
The Greenwich Art Society is pleased to announce its 108th Annual Juried Exhibition, at the Bendheim Gallery at 299 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich, CT. Exhibition dates are May 8th thru June 8th. There will be an opening reception and awards ceremony on Saturday May 8th from 5:15 - 6:30 PM. An online digital and virtual gallery will be available on our website, www.greenwichartsociety.org . All work will be for sale.
JUROR: Kelly Long is an art worker and writer currently serving as Senior Curatorial Assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, where she has worked with the Photography Acquisitions Committee since 2017), developed exhibitions across mediums, including Rachel Harrison Life Hack (2019), Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith (2023, and a forthcoming exhibition focused on surrealism and the 1960’s. Most recently, she curated Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe and the Last Gullah Islands (2024), and Trust Me (2023), a group exhibition exploring the role that vulnerability plays in forging connection, and the overlapping lives and loves of photography’s creators, viewers, and caretakers. Previously, she has held curatorial and teaching positions at the George Eastman Museum and at the University of Rochester. Her writing has appeared in the catalogues for Chiharu Shiota: The Hand Lines and Gail Thacker: Fugitive Moments, and in publications such as InVisible Culture and MOSSFLOWER. She holds a B.A. in art history from Vassar College, and an M.A. in visual and cultural studies from the University of Rochester, where her research focused on the engagement of postmodern and contemporary art with housing, exploring notions of being and belonging, access, and ownership in the art of our time.
AWARDS : Cash and other awards totaling over $2000 will be presented at the opening reception.
108th Annual Juried Exhibition at the Bendheim Gallery
Celebrate and support the LGBTQ+ community at our FREE parade and celebration!
Saturday, May 31, 2025 from 12-5PM
Event Schedule:
12 PM - Parade Check-In & Line Up (across from Bethel Train Station)
12:30 PM - Sidewalk Parade Starts
1:00 PM – 5 PM - Celebration begins!
Sidewalk parade followed by flag raising, music, food, artists, vendors, kids activities, and more in downtown Bethel, CT!
Bethel Municipal Center
Rain or Shine
*FREE!* *Family friendly!*
Info on marching in parade: https://bethelctpride.com/march/
Bethel CT Pride Parade & celebration
Experience the highlights of the Bruce Museum’s exhibitions during a guided tour that is free with museum admission. No reservations are required but capacity is limited to twenty people on a first-come, first-served basis. Please check in with the front desk if you wish to join. Tours depart from the bottom of the staircase in the Grand Hall.
Exhibitions Highlights Tours - Saturdays
The Loft Artists Association (LAA) is excited to announce its Annual Spring Juried Exhibition, titled “ ZING”. The exhibition will be on display at the Loft Artists Gallery from April 26 through June 8, 2025, with an opening reception and awards ceremony on Saturday, April 26 from 4:00 – 6:00 PM. The Gallery located at 575 Pacific Street in Stamford, CT is open weekends from 1:00 – 4:00 PM. Beth Gersh Nešić, visiting juror and independent curator, invited artists to submit works that celebrate joy, positivity, excitement, good energy, and humor. This “ZING” should communicate directly to the viewer through color, line, form, composition, and/or content. It should move hearts and minds viscerally, intellectually, cognitively, and/or spiritually.
ZING!- Our Annual Spring Juried Exhibition
Talmadge Hill Community Church welcomes you to our annual spring concert, Harmony on the Hill. It is our wish to bring harmony to our world through the gift of music by the talented musicians who are part of our special community. We’ll be offering a selection of piano, flute, guitar and vocals, ranging from folk and rock to jazz and classical.
Performances by Rob Silvan, Michael Crouch, John Ragusa, Griffin House, Emma House and The Darlings (Cathleen Morgan, Katherine Silvan, Jeanette Osborne, accompanied by Nick Trautmann on guitar and upright base).
PROFESSIONAL BIOS
Rob Silvan is a jazz musician, composer and music educator. Rob has recorded a wide variety of original music over six albums. For forty years Rob has taught classical, jazz, blues, popular music, improvisation and composition. He is the Music Director at the Talmadge Hill Community Church and the founder of KEYS in Bridgeport, CT.
John Ragusa is a New York-based professional flautist, teacher and co-founder of blues duo Mulebone. He plays conch shell, cornet, tin whistle and every kind of flute, as well as chiming in on harmony vocals.
Griffin House is an American singer-songwriter and storyteller. Touring and making records for over 20 years, he has a discography that includes over 13 albums.
TICKET PRICE $30
For entry, please show your ticket on your phone or present a hard copy.
Harmony on the Hill
Join us for a night of good food, good company and the sounds of Hazzard County & Southern Fried
Barnum Festival Concert Night & Food Truck Festival: Hazzard County
Join us for an unforgettable evening at Keys to Empowerment: A Dueling Piano Charity Night! This high-energy fundraiser will be a night of music, dancing, laughter, and giving back. At Ready to Empower, we believe mental health is the foundation for strong communities. Join us for Keys to Empowerment, to raise funds for vital mental health services for women in need and launch our groundbreaking initiative to support educators through mental wellness - Ready EmpowerEd. Together, we’ll empower women, educators, and communities to thrive!
When: Saturday, May 31, 2025. 6pm-10pm
Where: The Ponus Club, Stamford, CT
Tickets:
- Early Bird Ticket - $135 (Early Bird Special Ticket Price is till May 9th, 2025)
- Educator Tickets - $120 (Discounted ticket for all educators - principals, teachers, etc.)
- Regular Ticket Price - $145
- Door Ticket Price - $150
- Sponsorships Available
Honorees: This year, we are honoring two extraordinary educators who have made a lasting impact on their students and championed mental health:
💛 Lisa Saba-Price – Principal of Westover Magnet School & a Connecticut Choose Love Ambassador , recognized for cultivating a culture of caring, connection, and compassion in education.
💜 James Geisler – Executive Director of Wellness Services at Sacred Heart University, mental health advocate , and author of Thrive Year One: The Essential Mental Health Workbook for First-Year College Students.
Learn more about our Honorees here - https://www.readytoempower.org/news--events/announcing-our-2025-local-empowerers-honorees
Entertainment by Flying Ivories: The incredible Flying Ivories will take the stage with two pianos, performing crowd-favorite songs all night long. Sing along, dance, and even request your favorite tunes to make the night uniquely yours!
Food & Drinks: Enjoy delicious food and drinks while you take in the show and connect with others who share your passion for making a difference.
Why We’re Raising Funds: All proceeds from ticket sales and sponsorships will support our two impactful programs:
- Ready Empowerment Program : Providing women with access to mental health services, therapy, human rights education, job training, and more.
- Ready EmpowerED Program : A groundbreaking initiative supporting educators through mental wellness programs, helping them thrive as they empower the next generation.
Sponsorship Opportunities: Looking to make an even greater impact? Sponsorships are available and offer a fantastic way to support these programs while showcasing your business or organization.
There are sponsorships available as well:
“Key” Sponsor: $1,600
- Logo prominently displayed on event materials
- VIP private table with premium seating for 10 guests
- Recognition in media coverage and on our website
- Opportunity to introduce a performance or speaker
Encore Sponsors: $1,300
- Logo featured on event materials
- VIP private table with premium seating for 8 guests
- Recognition in media coverage and on our website
- Verbal acknowledgment during the event
Harmony Sponsor: $1,050
- Logo featured on event materials
- Reserved seating for 6 guests
- Recognition in event program and on our website
- Verbal acknowledgment during the event
Melody Sponsor: $750
- Logo included on event materials
- Reserved seating for 4 guests
- Recognition in event program and on our website
- Verbal acknowledgment during the event
Note Sponsor: $500
- Name listed on event materials
- Reserved seating for 2 guests
- Recognition in event program and on our website
- Verbal acknowledgment during the event
Get ready for an evening of lively entertainment as two talented pianists go head-to-head, playing your favorite tunes and taking song requests. Bring your friends and family to enjoy a unique musical experience while supporting a great cause. We look forward to seeing you!
Keys to Empowerment: A Dueling Pianos Charity Night 2025
Welcome to the Harmony Lodge 200th Anniversary celebration! Join us at 13 Oenoke Ridge for a special in-person event commemorating two centuries of history and tradition. We invite you to be a part of this milestone occasion as we honor our past, celebrate the present, and look forward to the future. Come together with fellow members and friends for a night of dinner, drinks, and dancing. Let's make this anniversary a memorable one! See you there!
Harmony Lodge 200th Anniversary
Are you looking for an exciting speed dating event in Stamford, CT? Look no further! Our CT Singles gatherings offer an opportunity for up to 13 rapid-fire dates in a lively atmosphere. Since our inception in 2003, we've successfully united singles, leading to over 85 marriages, numerous blossoming relationships, and even some delightful little ones!
We're dedicated to authenticity – we verify each participant's ID! Expect to engage with matches whom you share interests with and experience genuine chemistry.
Here's how it works: Singles pair off for 4-6 minutes of one-on-one conversation. If a spark ignites, jot it down on your scorecard. Once the time is up, the gentlemen rotate to the next table, allowing for an engaging evening of mingling until everyone has met. The next day, you’ll get an email detailing your CT Speed Dating matches, which consist of both mutual interests and one-way connections (those who expressed interest in you, even if you didn’t return the favor).
Speed Dating CT Ages 30s & 40s
The British Rock Show delivers an electrifying live experience, celebrating all the legendary hits from the golden age of British Rock!
The British Rock Show
Citywide Student Art Show At The Norwalk Art Space
Featuring artwork by students in the Norwalk Public Schools K-12th grade.
Citywide Student Art Show
The Glass House, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is pleased to present Barbara Kasten: Structure, Light, Land. For five decades, Chicago-based artist Barbara Kasten has created photographs and sculptural installations that reorient our sense of perception and explore the dynamic relationship between space, material, and form. Her artistic influences are deeply rooted in modernist architecture, the principles of Constructivism, and the interdisciplinary legacy of the Bauhaus, particularly the photograms of László Moholy-Nagy and Lucia Moholy.
“Placing my work in and around The Glass House campus is an opportunity for me to take on a canonical modernist site. Each of the structures on the grounds is like a monument to one of many aesthetic phases of architectural history. Abstraction allows us to consider possibilities that are not the norm,” said Barbara Kasten.
Structure, Light, Land features Kasten’s work from multiple series, including Architectural Sites, Collisions, and Progressions, as well as new iterations of digital projections, cyanotypes, and sculptures. With a striking interplay of light, color, and form, Kasten’s work infiltrates the grounds of The Glass House and responds to the site’s varied built environment and landscape.
In the Brick House (1949), Kasten’s brilliantly hued Architectural Site 1, June 10, 1986–featuring the Philip Johnson-designed Lipstick Building (1986) in Manhattan–resonates with the ’80s postmodern interior of the Reading Room, which includes two 1986 Feltri Chairs designed by Gaetano Pesce. Five new cyanotypes by Kasten line the building’s serene 1949 hallway, illuminated by the circular skylights above.
Kasten’s new installation of fluorescent acrylic I-beams, modeled after the structural components of the Glass House, will be interspersed throughout the Sculpture Gallery (1970). The seven-foot-long beams respond to the site’s permanent collection of works by Frank Stella, John Chamberlain, Robert Morris, George Segal, and Michael Heizer. The intervention brings attention to the structure’s exposed I-beam twenty feet overhead and responds to the gallery’s interior patterning of ever-changing natural light and winding staircases.
The Painting Gallery (1965) features three works: a photograph from the Collision series and two sculptural Progressions. Situated near Stella’s shaped canvases, Kasten’s fluorescent forms extend the narrative around post-painterly abstraction across mediums and into the present moment.
Da Monsta (1995), the last building Johnson designed at The Glass House, was named following a conversation between Johnson and the critic Herbert Muschamp. It was inspired in part by German Expressionism, an unrealized museum design by Frank Stella, and the work of Frank Gehry. Kasten’s Sideways Corner (2016/2025), a video projection of three-dimensional cubes in primary colors, activates the warped and torqued walls.
The exhibition is curated by Cole Akers, Curator at The Glass House.
Special thanks to Bortolami Gallery, New York.
Barbara Kasten: Structure, Light, Land
The 2025 Glass House tour season begins on April 17, 2025. Tickets are available now! All tours include access to the newly restored Brick House. Following an extensive restoration project , we are excited to share this essential design element of the site and its history with you!
The Glass House 2025 Tour season opens April 17th - December 15th
“Here is where finally opposites come together, I see a surprising purity. Stone is the depth, metal the mirror. They do not conflict…” —Isamu Noguchi
While the renowned sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) is best known for his work in stone, he consistently explored new materials and methods during his wide-ranging career. He first experimented with aluminum in the 1950s and later with galvanized steel, creating a series of twenty-six sculptures in collaboration with Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles in 1982–83. In this body of work, each sheet of metal is cut with a plasma torch and then dipped into boiling zinc, resulting in sculptures that are subtly patterned and highly reflective, resembling pebbles in a stream or the epidermal layer of skin.
Writing about the unique materiality of his sculptures, Noguchi described metal as a mirror in opposition to “stone [as] depth.” His galvanized steel sculptures achieve formal unity while also exploring conceptual dualities between the traditional and modern, fine art and design, and industry and nature. As a Japanese American artist working in the United States, Noguchi negotiated his own feeling of in-betweenness throughout his oeuvre. The galvanized steel editions synthesize this dual aspect of his identity, utilizing steel—a distinctly American material—while also integrating the Japanese craft of origami through cut and folded metal shapes.
Featuring a selection of nine galvanized steel sculptures, the exhibition is organized into thematic groupings that underscore the paradoxes of the artist’s work in metal. In the first, Noguchi imparts inanimate forms with human qualities, complicating the relationship between flesh and steel, body and mirror. Man-made material is transformed into representations of mountains, fruit, and sky in the second grouping, reflecting Noguchi’s belief that, in modernity, industry and nature are intertwined. A final trio of works reveals Noguchi’s ongoing interest in abstraction, bringing theoretical and spiritual ideas, weight and weightlessness, and past and present into visual dialogue. Through these sculptures, Noguchi explores ways of belonging in between such imagined oppositions. Indeed, the polished steel surfaces entangle objects, spaces, and people in a network of cast reflections, inviting visitors to contemplate Noguchi’s life, his practice, and themselves.
Isamu Noguchi: Metal the Mirror is curated by Julia Mun, Curatorial Associate, with support from Ashley Holland, Curator and Director of Curatorial Initiatives, and Javier Rivero Ramos, Assistant Curator. The presentation at the Bruce is organized by Margarita Karasoulas, Curator of Art.
Isamu Noguchi: Metal the Mirror is organized by Art Bridges.
Isamu Noguchi: Metal the Mirror
A new show at the Rowayton Arts Center (RAC), “Community Sponsored Awards,” will be on view May 18 through June 15, 2025. The artwork in this exhibition will feature local scenes by RAC Exhibiting Members with cash awards thanks to individuals and merchants in the area. This year's awards have been made possible by the support and generosity of the following: All Seasons Marine Works, Arden’s Rowayton, Brendan’s 101, Cucina Daniella, Darien Rowayton Bank, E.R. Salvatore Associates, Fairfield County Bank, Avery and Rob Flowers, Gway Printing, HTG Investment Advisors, Images of Old Greenwich, Kim and Gil Kernan, Rowayton Wine Shop, Sails American Bar & Grill, Seaside Delights, The Bait Shop Marine Services, The Restaurant at Rowayton Seafood, Whitebridge Wines & Spirits and William Raveis/Tammy Langalis.
The opening reception on Sunday, May 16 from 4 pm to 6 pm is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 12 to 5 pm plus Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 1 pm.
RAC celebrates the study, creation and appreciation of the arts through classes, exhibitions and events open to all in the community. For over 60 years, this nonprofit organization has been a cultural gem in Rowayton, CT. The gallery and art school overlook the scenic Five Mile River at 145 Rowayton Avenue with space for regional artists to exhibit their art and a classroom for workshops and classes at all levels offered to children and adults. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
