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In Between, Sept. 11 - Nov. 13, 2010, opening reception, Thurs. Sept. 23, 5-7 p.m. Part of the proceeds will benefit the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum. Artists will include Betty Ball, Jan Blencowe, Maya Boreen, Roger Hendricks, Gail Ingis-Claus, Will McCarthy, Mary Morant, Jill Nichols, and Karl Soderlund. Betty Ball was born in Charleston, West Virginia, but has lived most of her life in the northeast. She has been working professionally as a designer and as a fine artist since 1978. Currently working with paint or pastel, she is creating landscape and still life compositions either on location or in her Rowayton studio. Ms. Ball’s work is represented in many private collections in the U.S., as she has exhibited at art galleries throughout the northeast, and has won numerous awards for her paintings and pastels. Her life as a fine artist developed following a successful career as a graphic designer. After receiving her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Betty worked as a designer and art director for George Tscherny, Inc. (NY), Pellegrini & Associates (NY), and Meyer Design Associates (CT). Her work was recognized by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, DESi, the Connecticut Art Director's Club, and the NY Art Directors Club; and published in Graphis Magazine, Print Magazine, NY Art Directors Annual, AIGA Annual, and Graphis Annual. She lives with her family in Rowayton, Connecticut. Jan Blencowe graduated from Caldwell College, NJ where she received a BFA in 1984 with concentrations in painting, color and art history. Blencowe’s creative goals include continuing the path forged by the great American landscape painters who so seamlessly merged the grand but temporal beauties of nature with the sublime spirituality present in every living thing. The artist represented the State of Connecticut in the Paint America Top 100 Landscape and Mini Top 50 competitions in both 2006 and 2008. She has exhibited throughout the northeast including the “Landscapes by the Hudson Valley Daily Painters”, Montgomery Row, Rhinebeck, NY, June/July 2009, Lyme Art Assoc. Summer Painting & Sculpture Exhibition, 2008, Connecticut Plein Air Painters Show, Silo Gallery, 2008, New Milford, CT, to name a few. Blencowe currently lives in Clinton, CT. Maya Boreen has been painting for over 25 years. A forth generation painter, she has followed in the footsteps of her mother, a watercolorist, and her grandfather, whose paintings are in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. After studying art and graduating from Dartmouth, she continued her studies at Tufts, The Maryland School of Art, Missouri State College and Silvermine School of Art. Her award-winning paintings have been featured in numerous exhibitions throughout the northeast. Venues have included Vermont Arts & Lifestyles Gallery, Woodstock, VT; Zellner Gallery, Wilton, CT; Rockwell Art & Framing, Wilton, CT; Wilton Library, Wilton, CT; Silvermine Guild Galleries, New Canaan, CT; Red Fox Gallery Georgetown, CT; Ridgefield Library, Ridgefield, CT; and the Newington-Cropsey Foundation Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. Ms. Boreen is a Wilton resident. Roger C. Hendricks has taught Fine Arts courses at the undergraduate and graduate level at Purdue University, The Chicago Art Institute, Purchase College, and Westchester Community College. He holds a B.F.A. from the Cleveland Institute of Art and an M.F.A. from Ohio State University. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums, both nationally and abroad, including the Roberson Art Museum, National Arts Club, Salagundi Club, and the Islip Art Museum. His work, painting and environmental art, has been featured in the New York Times as well as other publications, and it is currently in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mr. Hendricks is a resident of Armonk, N.Y. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Gail Ingis-Claus of Fairfield, CT, has a degree in interior design and studied architecture and design criticism. An accomplished artist and illustrator, Ms. Ingis-Claus has been involved in design, architecture, teaching, and art for more than 35 years. Her career has spanned all aspects of design and art with an emphasis in interior design. She is the founder of the nationally accredited Interior Design Institute, a member of the American Society of Interior Designers and a professor of history of architecture and design. She has also taught at the New York School of Interior Design, Kean College, Union, NJ, Briarcliff Manor, Tarrytown, NY, the University of New Haven, University of Bridgeport, and Fairfield University. Currently, she serves as the Art Director of the Lockwood Mathews Mansion Museum. Ms. Ingis-Claus incorporates her skills of drawing and painting into her illustrative work, fine art and portraits. Her sought-after, award-winning work is represented in private collections, galleries, museums and corporations in the U.S. and abroad including the Fairfield Arts Council, Lyme Association, Madison Art Society, Guilford Art League, Barnes & Noble, the permanent collections of the University of New Haven, and the United States Professional Tennis Association. Her work is represented by Agora Gallery SoHo on-line. All of William McCarthy’s paintings evolve from thumbnail sketches he draws in his basement studio in Hamden, Connecticut. McCarthy said he works on wood board, paper and canvas, using several layers of gesso before priming the surface with cadmium red base. A quick sketch using charcoal is used to lay out the design then the paint is applied. He works in layers, using thinned down oil color, and building on these layers with glazing techniques. Later, colors are adjusted and brought up to completion before final coats of varnish are applied. "Each of these luminous and mysterious images of trees against sky, field, and river evoke a subtle variation of light and atmosphere,” said the artist. “The arrangement of the trees - whether standing in solitude, or in pairs, or in large groupings seem at once inevitable and yet surprising, formal yet accidental.” Light plays an important role in McCarthy’s work. “When I look back over this body of work,” said McCarthy, “I feel it speaks about spiritual places, places that contain a quiet inner light, radiating an ethereal whisper, the places we see every day." McCarthy has won many awards and shown his work in art galleries, at juried exhibitions, and with well-established art associations throughout the U.S. Mary Morant’s work reflects an Old Master style and color palette. Recognizing that realism needs to push the eclectic, Ms. Morant also embraces the plein-air painting and the French Impressionist style with it’s play on color and light. Ms. Morant spent ten years in New York City as an art director on the IBM account at Lord, Geller, Federico, Einstein Advertising. She painted at night at The Art Student’s League under the guidance of David Leffel. In 1990, she moved to Darien, CT with her family and then to Paris in 1996. In Paris, Ms. Morant continued her studies of painting at The Louvre Museum. In 1998, her family was transferred to Holland where she studied portrait painting at The Hague. Since her return to the U.S. in 2001, she continues to paint locally in her studio and with The Holly Pond Painters in Darien where she resides. Exhibitions include solo shows at Tiffany’s/Greenwich, CT; The Bendheim Gallery in Greenwich, CT; Espresso NEAT in Darien, CT; and Patriot National Bank. Group/juried shows include: The Flinn Gallery in Greenwich, CT; Waveny Barn in New Canaan, CT; Soundwaters in Stamford, CT; Darien Library, Darien, CT; Darien Town Hall and the Darien Nature Center, Darien, CT; and the Rowayton Art Center, among others. Morant also won ‘Best in Show’ this year at the 52nd Annual Darien Arts Council Show. She is represented at Geary Gallery in Darien. Her work appears in private collections in GA, NY, CT, MT, France, Switzerland, and Holland. Jill Harrington Nichols is best known for her paintings that depict the beauty of native New England. “My painting is poetry; a lyrical composition of color and light,” the artist said. “When I am painting I am in the moment, thoroughly present and enraptured. I experience a sense of peace, as well as an urgency to capture and share the moment.” Jill has developed her sense of design, color, and composition over the course of 30 years as a commercial artist. Her fine art training includes the Art Students League in New York City, Silvermine Guild in New Canaan, Old Lyme Academy and Gallery 53 in Connecticut, under such noted artists as Charles Reid, Richard Pionk, Bruce Raven, Frank Federico and Jerry Weiss. Jill’s work is featured in many public and private collections, including those of Stonebridge Restaurant in Milford, CT and former Congressman Christopher Shays. Her work has been accepted and awarded in many juried shows. Jill's painting "At the Mark" is currently in the 2010 American Society of Marine Artists North Regional Show, Between the Shining Seas. A two-venue exhibition, the work will be displayed at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc, Wisconsin June 26 through August 22, and the Minnesota Marine Art Museum, September 7 through November 13, 2010. Ms. Nichols resides in Shelton, CT. It is easy to make oneself at home in any one of Karl Soderlund’s paintings. In fact, that is the artist’s intention. To accomplish this, he always provides a soothing place for the mind to focus and rest — a visual element that “breaks through the canvas’ dimensional plane.” Perhaps it is the bow of a boat that appears to lurch toward the viewer, or it’s a sandy path that beckons to a sunny shoreline; whatever the image of interest, to see a Karl Soderlund painting is to become a part of it. Although art was a childhood passion, Karl attended Denison University, where he majored in Economics and settled into a corporate job in San Francisco, early on. Painting was merely a hobby until his company transferred him to New York City where his eyes were opened once again to his artistic potential. Soon after arriving in New York, he left the corporate world to focus solely on his true calling. Soderlund, a resident of Fairfield, CT, furthered his education at the Art Students League in New York City, Yale University and the Silvermine Guild in Connecticut and studied with renowned realist painter, Daniel E. Greene. He currently teaches at the Rowayton Arts Center in Norwalk, CT. Rockwell Art Galleries has six gallery locations in Fairfield County, CT: 1630 Post Rd., Fairfield; 9 Burtis Ave., New Canaan; 470 Main St., Ridgefield; 890 High Ridge Rd., Stamford; 15 Myrtle Ave., Sconset Square, Westport; and 379 Danbury Rd, Wilton. In addition to original fine art, all Rockwell galleries offer custom framing, installation services and in-home and corporate art advisory services. To see the full roster of Rockwell artists, visit www.rockwellartgalleries.com. For those who have already viewed the Mansion and are solely interested in the art exhibit, viewing hours are 12 to 4 p.m. Wed.-Sun. Admission is free. During the season, full tours at the mansion are $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and $6 for children and young adults ages 8-18. Children under 8 are admitted free. Tour hours are 12- 4 p.m., Wed.-Sun. Tours are on the hour, and the last tour is at 3 pm. For information on educational programs, events and rentals, call 203-838-9799 or e-mail info@lockwoodmathewsmansion.com © Copyright by ConnecticutPlus.com |
