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Greenwich, CT 06830

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Garden
Education
Center

Byram
Shubert
Library

Studio School
Student Show

May 3 - 30, 2012

Reception:
Thursday May 10th, 5:30-7PM

Greenwich Art Society Gallery
299 Greenwich Ave, Second Floor

Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 10am - 5pm

Saturday and Sunday noon - 4pm

Click here to see artwork from the exhibit

Greenwich Art Society
2nd Annual Spring Invitational
at the
Garden Education Center

May 1 - June 29, 2012

Garden Education Center,
130 Bible St., Greenwich, CT

Hours:
Monday- Friday, 10am - 4pm

G.A.S. member/artists exhibiting
their beautiful botanical art works -
Bonnie Figgatt, Nora Galland, Kirk Huffard,
Lauretta Jones, Joseph Kantorski, Christine Lin,
Catherine Ludden, Maria Nihoul, Sharon Poole,
Jeanne Reiner, Regina Rubeo and Junko Sakai.

1st TIME EVENT!!
Byram Shubert Library

"Two Visions"
Sharon Shisler and Elizabeth Vazquez

May 5 - 25, 2012

Byram Shubert Library
21 Mead Avenue, Greenwich
203.531.0426

Hours:
Monday, Wednesday,Friday, Saturday, 9am - 5pm

Tuesday, 10am-6pm
Thursday, Noon-8pm

Greenwich Art Society Member/Artists
Sharon Shisler and Elizabeth Vazquez
are having an exhibit of their artworks,
"Two Visions," at the Byram Shubert Library,
a new exhibition venue for G.A.S.

BARNUM FINANCIAL GROUP

Ingrid Barzel

September through January 2012

BARNUM FINANCIAL GROUP

225 High Ridge Road, Stamford, CT

(office of MetLife)

Open to the public during normal business hours,

Monday through Friday

Nathaniel Witherell

Lynne Arovas, Mixed Media

and
Pam Tucker, Drawing

July and August, 2011

Nathaniel Witherell

70 Parsonage Rd, Greenwich CT

Open 9-5 daily

Artist's Statement Lynne Arovas

I find mixed media/collage to be a very forgiving medium which is in part why I relate and enjoy the process. There is always the possibility to change--recreate. I usually begin by drawing and/or painting many designs, shapes, doodles, and written thoughts onto paper. The materials I gravitate to most are colored markers, pen, paint, crayon, colored paper, and acrylic gloss/matte medium. Once I feel I have enough designs to work with, I start on cutting the drawings (etc.) up, arranging and gluing the pieces to a paper surface then sealing with an acrylic medium. These cutting, pasting, and sealing steps continue many times over which often results in the collage having a tile like quality.

“Energy in order” is one way I would describe my work. Arranging expressive designs of nervous energy in a contained, structured way is for me a very calming and almost meditative experience. There is satisfaction placing “chaos” in order, and excitement combining these contrasting elements into a dynamic composition. My goal for a collage is reached when I am finally content with the color harmony, pattern relation, and dimension created.

Pam Tucker Biography

Pam Tucker, born in Frankfurt, Germany, is a representational painter whose focus is on the figure and portrait.

Her artistic training began at Western Michigan University where she majored in art history. After graduating, she moved to Washington, DC, and later New York City to train as a graphic designer. After working in the design field for several years, Pam relocated to Westchester county to raise her family and develop her fine art.

Pam’s work is based on the academic rigor of the French academic drawing method. Her pieces fuse a precise “sight-size” approach with a modern expressionist aesthetic. She works in oil, watercolor, charcoal and graphite pencil.

Pam is a member of the Reilly League of Artists, located in White Plans, NY. She also docents at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, NY and teaches painting on an international cruise ship line.

A Nervous System by Lynne Arovas

Stephanie by Pam Tucker

Greenwich Hospital Café

"Makes Me Smile"
Solo Art Exhibition of Acrylic
and Mixed Media work on canvas
by Susan Frey Garden

April - July, 2012

Greenwich Hospital Café
5 Perryridge Road

Greenwich, CT

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday 9 to 3

My art education includes the School of Visual Arts, NYC Advertising Art & Design at SUNY Farmingdale, NY Silvermine Art School and the Greenwich Art Society All were great and I learned much about the wonderful world of art!

I have won some Awards in the past few years, while enjoying the local art scene:

Milford Fine Arts Council's Firehouse Art Gallery - Best in Show- October and June 2011 exhibits
New Canaan's Carriage Barn Gallery - 2nd Place, Spectrum exhibit - May 2011
Silvermine Arts Center - 1st Place drawing, annual student exhibit - July 2010
Rowayton Arts Center - 2nd Place-mixed media- April 2010

I am a member, volunteer & exhibitor at Stamford Loft Artists Association since 2009. Please check out the LAA at 845 Canal Street, Stamford.

I would have to say that my Artistic Journey would be: To Have Fun All The Way! Come and join me at the the Garden Café!

Work in "Makes Me Smile" exhibit includes: "Flowers & My Honey Bee" acrylic "New England Neverland" acrylic & mixed media "Big Red Oval" acrylic

I'd like to thank the Greenwich Art Society for making the "Makes Me Smile" exhibit possible.

Susan Frey Panting Garden Cafe SHow 2012

"Flowers & My Honey Bee" by Susan Frey

"New England Neverland" by Susan Frey

"Big Red Oval" by Susan Frey

Customer's Bank

Karen Kalkstein, Mixed Media

September 10 through January 5, 2012

Customer's Bank

601 North Main Street
Port Chester, NY 10573
(914) 417-3200

Open Weekdays 8am-7pm; Sat 8am-2:30pm

This Show is Closed

The Archived Online Gallery is still available

Greenwich Art Society's

Ninety Fifth Annual
Juried Exhibition

JUROR: Marla Prather,
Curator in the Department of Nineteenth Century, Modern and Contemporary Art
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

March 1- April 1, 2012

Reception:
Friday, March 2nd, 6-8 p.m.

The Bendheim Gallery
299 Greenwich Ave.

Gallery Hours:

Monday-Friday 10am - 5pm

Saturday noon - 4pm
Sunday noon - 4pm

Click here to see artwork

from the exhibit

Click here to find out more about

the wonderful vendors who

contributed to our opening reception

This Show is Closed
The archived information is still available.

Coming Full Circle:
The Greenwich Art Society
Celebrates 100
at the Bruce Museum

February 11, 2012 - April 1, 2012

Opening Reception:
Friday, February 10, 2012, 6-8 pm

Bruce Museum
1 Museum Drive
Greenwich, CT 06830-7157

It is not mere coincidence that this year, 2012, marks the 100th anniversary of both the Greenwich Art Society and the Bruce Museum. Their histories in the early decades are closely intertwined and the Museum is delighted to collaborate once again to celebrate these honored milestones.

This exhibition will highlight each decade of the Greenwich Art Society’s history through paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture by the most distinguished members who were exhibiting artists and/or teachers, such as Leonard, Mina Fonda and Dorothy Ochtman; Childe Hassam; Simka Simkhovitch; Margaret Brassler Kane; Ann Chernow; Leo Manso; and up to artists who are currently members or teachers such as Anna Patalano; Lauretta Jones; Douglas More; and Benice Horowitz among others. Many of the works are drawn from the Bruce Museum’s collection.

At the end of the nineteenth century, as wealthy New Yorkers sought to move out of the city, the town of Greenwich was changing from a country village to a stylish suburb with its own established artists’ colony and a growing market for art. Theodore Robinson, John Henry Twachtman and Childe Hassam taught summer art classes at the Bush-Holley House, and Twachtman as well as Leonard Ochtman had settled permanently in Greenwich.

On January 21, 1912, the Cos Cob School artists, as they were known, formed the Greenwich Society of Artists, whose purpose was “the promotion and maintenance of the fine arts and the exhibition of works of art in Greenwich.” Led by Edward Clark Potter and Leonard Ochtman, early Society members included Mina Fonda Ochtman, Matilda Brown, Charles Ebert, George Wharton Edwards, Elmer MacRae and Henry Bill Selden.

At the same time, the fledgling Bruce Museum was looking to open its doors with its first exhibition. The Society responded by turning one wing of the building into an art gallery and held their first show there in September 2012. In fact, until 1926, the Greenwich Society of Artists organized all the Bruce Museum’s art exhibitions with works by GSA members and invitational shows by non-members. The nucleus of the Bruce Museum’s nascent art collection was formed through purchases and gifts from these exhibitions.

In 1956, the Society expanded its mission: “to further art education and to awaken and stimulate interest in arts and crafts in the Town of Greenwich by means of classes, demonstrations, lectures and exhibitions.” The Society became a non-profit organization and changed its name to Greenwich Art Society, opening an art center with classes. The Art Center moved several times until it finally settled in 1981 in Old Town Hall on Greenwich Avenue. To this day, it is a thriving organization with a full program of art classes for adults and children, and several exhibitions for its members as well as open juried shows.

The exhibition Coming Full Circle: The Greenwich Art Society Celebrates 100 at the Bruce Museum is organized by Bruce Museum Director of Exhibitions Anne von Stuelpnagel and Michelle Rudolph of the Greenwich Art Society and art teacher with the Greenwich public schools. The show is supported by the Charles M. and Deborah G. Royce Exhibition Fund

Click here for the Bruce Museum Website