KEHLER LIDDELL GALLERY

873 WHALLEY AVENUE - NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT - 203.389.9555

White

November 15 - December 23, 2012 

Opening reception is Sunday, November 18 from 3 – 6PM

Kehler Liddell Gallery begins the holiday season with a group show inspired by one word, WHITE.  White is the color of possibilities from the mundane, like the stripe on the edge of the road, to the grand, like the white that gives relevance to black in a photograph.  As a subject of KLG artists, white hides, morphs, acts as a shape changer and refuses any type of predictability.

This exhibition has cohesiveness and at the same time refuses to let the viewer settle in or take anything for granted.  There is always a surprise and there is depth and breadth in the work on display. Each painter, sculptor, print maker and photographer began somewhere with white and in the end created something with a more memorable and melodious voice than one would ever expect of white. 

With a nod to the holidays, those who purchase work are invited to take the work at the time of purchase.  The gallery will wrap each purchase.  New work will replace sold work, a reason to visit often over the six weeks of the exhibition.  

Amy Browning and Joeseph Saccio

 October 11-November 11, 2012 

 Opening reception Sunday, October 14, 2012, 3-6pm

Amy Browning: Sounding the Silence

Serious injuries sustained in an automobile accident, last year, forced Amy Browning to consider how she paints and what she paints.  No longer could the artist stand for hours inches away from the wall or easel; she needed to develop a new approach.  Light dawned, and she contemplated the floor.  It became her support.  Amy stretched canvases on the floor and went to work, slowly moving over the surface with brush, bottle, and plastic utensils – anything she could lay my hands on.  Her preferred stance was hovering over the artwork at a height of two or three feet and constantly circling. The mystery appeared, disappeared, re-appeared, and after much struggle and good fortune revealed its hidden reality. Amy Browning’s new work is an exhilarating revelation of order within disorder.  Pre-ordained rules yield to the mysterious needs of the canvas.  What emerged is what was already there before she began – silence.

Joe Saccio: Memory and Transformation

The title and theme for Joe Saccio’s exhibit, MEMORY AND TRANSFORMATION, stems from his discovery when working on a four foot by twenty-foot section of a hollow black oak tree trunk. The artist divided the old hollow trunk into three six foot sections and split each vertically to create three triptychs, or three open books revealing the old tree’s inner life and history. The footprint for each six-foot high book section is seven feet wide by three feet in diameter. The inner, concave surfaces and the outer, convex bark surfaces are transformed in various ways to suggest new, strange growth and life in a tree that refuses to die. Gallery visitors can actually walk into the inner space of the tree and imagine the force and struggle of living, dying and finally regeneration into another form. Joe Saccio has created another large wall sculpture that is an eight feet high variation of the Medusa. In this case the serpents emerge from her mouth and not her hair.

Matthew Garrett and Gerald Saladyga

September 6-October 7, 2012

Opening Reception: Sunday, September 9, 3-6pm.

 

Matthew Garrett, Night Trees, Archival Pigment Print, 2012

Artist’s Choice

June 16th - August 16th

Opening Reception:

Sunday, July 8th, 3 - 6 pm

 Artist’s Choice is a unique exhibition of member artists work paired with the work of guest artists accompanied by a written statement.  Each artist in the show is accomplished.  There is a broad spectrum of work including: painting, sculpture, photography and drawing, wood, stone, metal, paper, ink found objects and more.  Broad spectrums of work and member/guest shows are not unusual. Artist’s Choice is all this and more. It is the personal invitation from one artist to another, the particular pairings, the binding of one artist to another, which leaves the viewer wondering what stirred within the host artist to extend this invitation. The answers are provided by each of the twenty-two Kehler Liddell member artists in highly personal statements, which reveal inspiration and admiration among creative professionals.  It is the statements that moves the exhibition out of the ordinary.

Host artist Gar Waterman reveals Jay Seeley as a ‘fellow hopeless accumulator of stuff’.  “Each object is fecund with the promise of finding a place in his work…. When Jay requested the use of a set of wings from my Tin Man series of sculptures, I was delighted to be able to contribute to his creative process that the result would be mysterious and wonderful…My reconfigured scrap metal sculptures and Jay Seeley’s photographs fuel that interpretive alchemy that we, as artists, all practice as part of our creative process.”

 “Marion Belanger,” writes host artist Keith Johnson, “Is a photographer interested in the concepts of persistence and change, and in the way that boundaries demarcate difference, particularly with regard to the land.”  She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as other notable awards and has an extensive and impressive exhibition history.  Johnson chose Marion, “Because she is a smart, creative well seeing photographer.  The piece she will show was site specific and printed in a non-traditional way.  It will hang from the rafters in the gallery.  She is a good friend and I like her work.”

 The show includes the work of forty-six artists and twenty-three thoughtful statements making sense of the pairings, revealing both host and guest artist and work that surprises, delights and on occasion, confounds. 

Gar Waterman: Tin Flying Man

 Guest Artist - Jay Seeley: Angelee

 Keith Johnson: Carol - Ted - Alice - Doug

Guest Artist - Marion Bellanger: Landfill

"Geographies of Solitude"

Andrew Hogan Photos - Gigi Liverant Paintings

May 24th - June 24th