OCTOBER EXHIBIT

September 24, 2024

Open Studios @ City
16 City Gallery Members Part of New Haven Open Studios Events

City Gallery is excited to be part of the annual Open Studios event being held throughout New Haven during the month of October. All 16 City Gallery artists will participate in OPEN STUDIOS @ CITY, on view from October 4 through October 27. There will be an Opening Reception on Saturday, October 5, 2-4 p.m., as well as Artist Talks featuring:

Rita Hannafin & Catherine Lavoie, Sunday, October 13, 2-4 p.m.
Joy Bush & Phyllis Crowley, Sunday, October 27, 2-4 p.m.

For more than 20 years, City Gallery has served as a collective of innovative contemporary artists from the New Haven area. It is a member-run gallery featuring a wide range of visual media: painting, sculpture, photography, papermaking, fiber art, printmaking, and mixed media.

OPEN STUDIOS @ CITY is a chance to see the work of City Gallery’s newest members painter Robert Jacoby, textile artist Catherine Lavoie, and painter Sue Rollins, along with:

Judy Atlas - painter
Meg Bloom - sculptor
Joy Bush - photographer
Phyllis Crowley - photographer
Jennifer Davies - fiber artist
Roberta Friedman - painter
William Frucht - photographer
Joyce Greenfield - painter
Rita Hannafin - textile artist
Barbara Harder - printmaker
Sheila Kaczmarek - sculptor
Kathy Kane - painter
Tom Peterson - photographer

City Gallery’s exhibits rotate on a monthly schedule, giving the community an opportunity to see works by many artists in a variety of styles throughout the year. In addition, the gallery occasionally hosts work by guest artists who help to make New Haven a vibrant regional center for the arts. These shows include MOSAIC, the summer show by a group of Yale School of Architecture graduates; Spaces Within, the 2023 Summer Invitational featuring artists Susan Clinard, Shaunda Holloway, and Linda Mickens; and Karen Klugman’s Upper State Street 1978: At the Height of Its Decline in 2022.

In an effort to showcase the diversity and talent of the local arts community, City Gallery offers a scholarship program that provides full gallery membership for two years to emerging artists who may not have the resources to become a part of a collective, member-run gallery.

The members of City Gallery are carefully selected for their accomplishments as artists, their ability to commit to maintaining a successful member-run gallery, and their fit with the group. All have distinguished resumes and have exhibited widely, and many also teach in the New Haven artistic community.

Additional Open Studios 2024 events are being held at Creative Arts Workshop, Eli Whitney Museum Barn, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, Erector Square, Highwood Square, Institute Library, Kehler Liddell Gallery, Marlin Works, NXTHVN, and in West Haven and Westville. Information on all of the events can be found at erectorsquarestudios.com, or download the NHOS Map here.

The Open Studios @ City exhibit and events are free and open to the public and run October 4 – October 27, 2024. There will be an Opening Reception on Saturday, October 5, 2-4 p.m., as well as Artist Talks featuring Rita Hannafin & Catherine Lavoie on Sunday, October 13, 2-4 p.m., and Joy Bush & Phyllis Crowley on Sunday, October 27, 2-4 p.m.. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m. or by appointment. For further information please contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, www.city-gallery.org.

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SEPTEMBER EXHIBIT

August 17, 2024

ABSTRACTIONS, New Work by Judy Atlas at City Gallery in September

City Gallery is pleased to present ABSTRACTIONS, a collection of new work by member artist Judy Atlas. The show runs September 6 – September 29, with an Opening Reception on Sunday, September 8 from 2-4 p.m. The artist will be in the Gallery on Saturday, September 28 to meet with visitors and answer questions.

There are two approaches in creating abstract art: representational abstractions which have some reference to physical reality, and nonrepresentational abstractions, which are more intuitive in approach and process, involving exploration and discovery.

There are examples of both of these approaches in ABSTRACTIONS. Atlas's Mykonos paintings are representational, inspired by the natural beauty on the islands of Greece. While her collages and other paintings are great examples of nonrepresentational abstractions.

For the collages, Atlas “deconstructed and tore apart some of my old paintings and monotypes and used these pieces to reconstruct the new abstract art pieces.” In a separate series of paintings, she explores the use of lines, color, shapes and texture to intuitively create an expression of sensations, emotional and physical.

Atlas has studied with Lora Lee Bell, Graziella De Solodow and Barbara Harder at the Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven, and also attended intensive workshops with Steve Aimone in Maine. She taught painting, abstraction, and collage classes at the Creative Arts Workshop for 20 years and has recently retired from teaching. Her work has been included in numerous solo, group, invitational and juried shows in Connecticut. She has been a member of City Gallery since 2008.

The ABSTRACTIONS exhibit is free and open to the public. It runs September 6 – September 29, with artist events on Sunday, September 8 and Saturday, September 28. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. For further information please contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, www.city-gallery.org.

Colorplay

Reconstruct 1

Mykonos 2

Mykonos 1

In Solitude

AUGUST EXHIBIT

July 16, 2024

MOSAIC: City Gallery August Invitational includes Yale School of Architecture Graduates and NXTHVN Mobile Exhibit

For its summer invitational, MOSAIC, City Gallery welcomes Yale School of Architecture graduates Uzayr Agha, Ariel Bintang, and Ethnie Xu, with a special mobile appearance by NXTHVN and cARTie. The show runs August 2 - August 25, with an Opening Reception on Saturday, August 10 from 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.

The summer invitational is always an exciting exhibit at City Gallery, welcoming diverse multigenerational artists from the varied cultures and ethnicities that comprise the greater New Haven community. MOSAIC came about as after creative conversations between artist and architect Ethnie Xu, Gallery members Roberta Friedman and Sue Rollins, and NXTHVN’s Student Program Manager Jay Kemp. The result is an exhibit that features a range of painting, mixed media, collage, and ink and print work.

In addition, as part of the exhibit’s Opening Reception on August 10, NXTHVN & cARTie will present The Legacy. This mobile exhibition, centered around the theme of “legacy,” includes artistic contributions from NXTHVN’s 2023-2024 apprentices, as well as residents of the Hanna Gray home that highlight the concept of generational legacy.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Uzayr Agha (born 1995) is an architectural designer and painter from Karachi, Pakistan. He holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from the Yale School of Architecture and has previously studied at Georgetown University and Bennington College. Agha integrates architectural conventions with painting to challenge traditional methods of architectural representation. Primarily through painting and mixed media, he experiments with various surfaces such as canvas, wood, and textiles, merging architectural elements with painterly techniques, creating analogies that reflect the fluidity of memory and identity.

Ariel Bintang (born 1999) is an architectural designer from Jakarta, Indonesia. He holds a Master's degree in Architecture from the Yale School of Architecture and has previously studied at Melbourne University. To synthesize the two fields, Ariel utilizes the language of painting to generate a dialogue with a building and vice versa. His work 18 colours is a series of small painting exercises created as a way to study methods of occupying abstract colours.

Ethnie Xu (born 1997) is a Chinese New Zealander artist and architect living between New Haven and New York. With a MArch and MBA from Yale, she creates ink and print works that explore the connections between cities and their inhabitants, capturing the dynamic essence of urban life as seen in her works 0.2 Miles Apart and Telephone Booth.

MOSAIC offers an opportunity to see the work of these three distinct artists and to learn more about their approaches to and practice of art. The exhibit is free and open to the public. It runs August 3 - August 25, with an Opening Reception on Saturday, August 10 from 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. For further information please contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, www.city-gallery.org.

JULY EXHIBIT

June 25, 2024

PRAXIS: An Exhibition of Clay Sculpture, Collage, and Paintings

By definition, Praxis means “the process by which a theory, lesson or skill is enacted, embodied, realized, applied, or put into practice.” It is the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practicing ideas. In City Gallery’s July show, artists Roberta Friedman, Joyce Greenfield, Sheila Kaczmarek, and Kathy Kane share the theories, lessons, and skills they each use in their work, which encompass a wide range of styles, materials, and applications. PRAXIS will be on view at City Gallery from July 5 – July 28, with a Closing Reception on Sunday, July 28, 2-4pm.

Of her work in this show, Bobbi Friedman explains: “There are always new discoveries and ways to play with light and textures. The spontaneity of the printing process on a hot surface, the vibrancy of encaustic wax paints, and the richness of oil pigments and cold wax produce a cacophony of color and expression.”

Painter Joyce Greenfield relies on the practice of observation for her work. “I spend time observing elements in live intense sessions of looking at my subjects in person, and in sketches, videos and photographs.”

For painter Kathy Kane, inspiration often comes from bright colors and the use of unconventional tools, while painter and clay sculptor Sheila Kaczmarek’s finds hers in an ever-present fascination with nature and its fantastic and other worldly forms. “I try to present a doorway through which the viewer is invited to enter and come away with some questions and new way of looking at life.”

PRAXIS is an opportunity to see the work of these four distinct artists and to learn more about their approaches to and practice of art. The exhibit is free and open to the public. It runs July 5 – July 28, with a Closing Reception on Sunday, July 28, 2-4pm. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. City Gallery follows New Haven City’s mask mandate policy. For further information please contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, www.city-gallery.org.