Valley Art Gallery Seeking Your Scariest Work

 

Downtown Art Gallery Hosting High School Artists

New Exhibit to Debut

Valley Arts Council Grand Opening

Valley Gallery to Host Local High Schools' Artwork

Photographer's Work at Ansonia Opera House to be Published

ANSONIA - I’m proud and honored to learn that my set of six images entitled, “The Dressmaker’s Daughters,” photographed in the Ansonia Opera House in Ansonia, CT, has been selected for publication in Seeing in Sixes, a volume of art photography that will be available this fall from Lenswork Publishing.

Seeing in Sixes is the idea of Brooks Jensen who created Lenswork Magazine to explore the potential of photography as an art form. Over many years of pu...blication Lenswork has become for serious photographers what Aperture Magazine was to an earlier generation.

Seeing in Sixes was born from Brooks Jensen’s belief that book format is an ideal way to present and enjoy art photography. “Sixes,” refers to six photographs set across three page spreads with whatever captions or bit of text might add to the fun. This format provides a container, as rigorous as haiku or perhaps sonnet form are to poetry. In it the photographer may place six images, no more or less, that make a coherent whole.

I’m eager to see the other 49 “Sixes” in the finished book. The selection of photographers in the magazine is always eclectic and consistently excellent. I expect no less here. I'm proud to have been included in the first such effort and thankful to colleagues who looked at drafts of the finished submission.

“The Dressmaker’s Daughters,” tells the imagined life stories of four of the dressmaker’s 24 daughters... in six images.

Those interested in learning about or subscribing to Lenswork Magazine or who are interested in purchasing a copy of Seeing in Sixes, here is a link to the Lenswork site:
http://www.lenswork.com

(Information is from Photographer Emery Roth II)

Opening reception at Derby gallery draws crowd

Exhibit features work of photographer, painter

 

Pictured at Saturday's reception, from left: Valley Arts Council President Rich DiCarlo of Derby, Russell Chartier of West Haven, owner, Chartier An Arts Venue, photographer Carli Freeman of New Haven, portrait artist Kimberly Sessa of Greenwich and Chartier's wife, Jill Treadwell, gallery manager. They are standing in front of one of Sessa's paintings.


My husband and I attended an opening reception Saturday night at Chartier An Arts Venue,  an experimental multimedia gallery that opened in December at 35 Elizabeth St., Derby.  
It is  next door to the Valley Arts Council's Gallery@37.  
  
The photos and artwork now on exhibit there evoke a variety of emotions. 
Freeman's series of black and white photos, "Me Without You," shows a young woman seemingly lost after a breakup. 
 

"You Smell Like Chaos" by Carli Freeman / Submitted photo

Sessa's graphic paintings spotlight the horror of abuse against women. 

Sessa's vibrant oil portrait, "Christine and Katie Mae," immediately caught my eye.

I recommend visiting Chartier An Arts Venue and the Gallery@37 in downtown Derby. 
You won't be disappointed. 

In a snap, Ansonia boy takes photo of Register photographer

Caleb DeLeone, 5, of Ansonia "borrowed" Register photographer Peter Casolino's camera and took a photo of him in the Ansonia Target store Monday morning. Caleb was one of 15 children who received $80 gift cards to go on a back-to-school shopping spree. The assistance was coordinated through The  Salvation Army of Ansonia. Nationwide, 12,000 needy children received the $80 gift cards, store officials said. Photo by Patricia Villers