Bridgeport artist Gus Moran, who paints in a style of abstract landscape, has been widely known in the Connecticut art scene since the 1960’s when he was on the faculty of the Silvermine Art Academy in Wilton, CT, when it was still accredited as one of the leading avant-garde art schools in the US. Moran is active as an installation artist with the Roumanian Cultural Center in New York City. Judith Corrigan teaches Art History at Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport. They have collaborated on art projects for many years, and presently share studio space in a former shipping warehouse along the Housatonic River near downtown Shelton, CT.

"My paintings stem from the imagination," says Moran, "compositions formed by the experiences and emotions of my life. I always begin with something from nature, which can be the figure or a landscape. More is happening at the beginning, then I eliminate some of the form as the painting develops, until what is happening becomes unaware, and the Subconscious takes over, moving things around to enlarge the boundaries of experience.
I want to tell a story, but one which is not obvious, and I get to that point by using recognizable shapes and abstract form."

Judith Corrigan grew up in a small town in the Catskill Mountains on the banks of the Hudson River. "From an early age I strongly connected to the contours of the land and the rhythms of nature," she says. "As a child, I spent summers on my grandmother’s farm in Massachusetts, where the images of majestic and graceful horses captured my imagination." Along with her love of music and dance, these images gave rise to colorful and mysterious paintings of human figures and animals intertwined in the dance of life.
Her interest in pre-history and architecture also inspires her exploration of new forms
and colors in a slowed-down sense time, and a deeper vision of the self.

Mr. Moran recently served artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, and the Nall Art Association in Vence, France. His work has been shown at the Moses Brown School in Providence, and the Ridgefield Arts Center this year; at the Green Art Gallery, the National Art Club, the Rockefeller Gallery, and Ward-Nasse Gallery in New York City;
the Maison Des Artistes, Cagnes Sur Mer, France; also, in Connecticut at Silvermine
Guild, Housatonic Community College, and the John Slade Ely House.

Ms. Corrigan also worked in 1998 at the Maison des Artistes, as well as at the Galerie Nouveau Aurore in Tourrettes, France. Her paintings have recently shown at the Ulla Surland Gallery in Fairfield, and the Silo in New Preston, and at Her Sister’s Gallery in Litchfield; at Silvermine; at the Rockefeller Gallery in NYC; and, at the Station Gallery and Gallery in the Courtyard in Katonah, NY.

The York Square Cinema Gallery
March 27 – May 2, 2000