Meet the Artists Reception: Saturday August
19, 2:00 - 4:00 pm
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Marian Doherty - Sailboat
oil pastels 13" x 17" framed
Artist’s
Statement – Marian Doherty
Water:
- ebbs and flows
- represented by Yin, the female quality
- fluid, shimmery, silky
- with waves that comfort
(like being in the womb)
- reflects various colors of light from the sky
Marian
Doherty was born in The Bronx. She received her BA in Arts Administration
from
Lehman College CUNY, and studied Painting & Sculpture at
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn.
Her home and Studio are located in Milford, CT.
Marian Doherty - Snug
in Harbor
oil pastels 13" x 17" framed
Marian Doherty - Thru
Car Window
oil pastels 13" x 17" framed
Marc Chabot - Survival
of the Fittest
Brush & Ink Drawing on warm white wove paper 13" x
17"
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Artist’s
Statement – Marc Chabot
Marc Chabot is an artist, curator, lecturer and
private dealer in 19th -21st century American and European original
prints and works on paper. He is based in Southbury, CT. In 1990,
he founded Marc Chabot Fine Arts with a gallery website and exhibits
at art fairs up and down the east coast, also documenting the
forgotten printmakers of CT. Since 1998 he has been curator of
the Natalie Van Vleck
(1901-1981) collections at the Flanders Nature Center and Land
Trust, which she founded, located in Woodbury. In 2018 at the
Mattatuck Museum, along with the Flanders Art Committee, he curated
a retrospective exhibition with catalogue of her modernist works
and objects, documenting her pioneering environmentalism and land
preservation. Since 1989, Mr. Chabot has taught and run figure
drawing and printmaking classes at the Washington [CT] Art Association.
He has lectured extensively on many American artists, especially
those with ties to Connecticut.
For this exhibit Mr. Chabot has chosen several
brush pen ink drawings on paper from imagination of the past
20 years. Mysterious, animated environments seek to engage the
viewer in their own visual adventure, asking themselves, where
is this taking me? The
centuries old Asian traditions of landscape brush painting and
our own 20th century traditions of surrealism and abstraction
have informed the artist’s choices. The absence of color
focuses attention on the rhythm, velocity and dynamic pulse
of line, and the
evolving forms and interactions they suggest. What emerges provides
a time and place for contemplation with forces at work, with
entities and events taking place, for the viewer to engage with
and think about.
Marc
Chabot - Nose in a Bad Neighborhood
Sumi Pen Ink Drawing, 13" x 14"
Armando
Erba - Serbian Child
acrylic on canvas 12" x 16"
Artist’s Statement
– Armando Erba
Armando Erba is a
composer, actor, painter, and well-known, acomplished performance
artist
in New Haven, where he was born in 1957. His works are deeply
informed by his personal
creative mind and wide comprehensive study and knowledge of
world literature.
Mr. Erba did a year of paintings in San Franscisco in 1997,
these pieces are his results.
Armando Erba - Women
of Saigon (Ho Chi Min City)
acrylic on canvas 14" x 18"
