NEWS: FALL 2006
Gallery News
An Army Floods Hilles Gallery
This year’s August Installation, The Golden Years, showcases
over 40 of John Fleming’s whimsically painted metal sculptures,
all created from found objects. Fleming is a longtime student
of CAW sculpture department head, Ann P. Lehman. The installation
is viewable 24 hours a day from outside the Hilles Gallery while
CAW is closed in August.
CAW to Feature Two Shows in One
The CAW Faculty/Guest Artist Show will
feature two exhibitions in the Hilles Gallery from September 15
- October 13, with an opening reception on Friday, September 22,
from 5-7 pm.
A Landscape of Things Transformed, featuring Fethi Meghelli
and K. Levni Sinanoglu, will present a variety of work ranging
from large oil paintings and collages to more intimate drawings
and prints. Born of both solitude and community, Meghelli and
Sinanoglu's images return past journeys and distant memories to
a timeless and compelling present.
Memory, Mapping and Meaning will feature Christine Darnell,
Sue O'Donnell, and Kirsten Nelson. For these artists, art is an
investigation of being. Each employs their work to remember moments
and events in their own lifetimes. Overall, the work addresses
a greater memory and touches upon that in between space, which
is recognized as familiar.
Particular Places Proves Painting to
be 'Alive'
After selecting 122 works out of over
1200 submissions, juror of Particular Places, Bernard Chaet, pronounced,
“Painting is alive.”
The national exhibition included paintings by 107 artists from
across the country, whose tremendous diversity and creativity
prove that painting is still alive. Artists are continuing to
find fresh and innovative ways to express themselves by applying
paint on surfaces. Mr. Chaet, William Leffingwell Professor of
Painting Emeritus, Yale University School of Art, intentionally
selected a large number of diverse works to create a “crowded”
exhibition because he wanted the “many languages to talk
to each other.”
New Haven Register art critic Judy Birke reviewed the show, commenting
on the “wonderful installation” of such an exhibition.
“Covering a broad definition of contemporary painting, the
presentation includes large works and small works in a wide range
of styles and influences that speak cogently to each other of
particular places in particular ways,” she said.
The two prizewinners selected to share a two-artist show at CAW
in 2007 were Erin Raedeke of Martinsberg, WV and Robert J. Anderson
of Rockport, MA. Special Mention was awarded to three New Haven
artists: Howard Fussiner, Constance LaPalombara and Peter Ziou.
CAW is also pleased to report that one of thirteen Honorable Mentions
was awarded to Amanda Durant, a faculty member in the CAW Painting
and Drawing Department. Participants Ann R. Langdon is a member
of the CAW Board of Directors, Josephine S. Robinson is a CAW
faculty member, and Deirdre Schiffer is a student at CAW.
CAW Welcomes New
Staff Member
Creative Arts
Workshop is proud to announce that Vassiliki Giannopoulos is our
new Director of Public Relations. A New Haven native, Vasso received
a Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College, where she majored
in Studio Art and minored in Computer Science. She joined Creative
Arts Workshop in January as a professional intern following a
yearlong teaching fellowship in Athens, Greece. While there, she
also spent time traveling within Greece and to neighboring countries.
She now splits her time with Creative Arts Workshop and Gallery
ONE in Old Saybrook, CT. Vasso is excited to be a part of Creative
Arts Workshop and looks forward to meeting members of the art
community.
Jolynne Roorda will continue to work on designs for CAW’s
major events from England, where she and her husband now reside.
Featured Faculty
ANN P. LEHMAN - SCULPTURE
Sculpture department head Ann P. Lehman has had an active role
with Creative Arts Workshop since the start forty five years ago.
She was in the original band of creators, president of the board
for the first four years, and has taught metal sculpture ever
since. Ann said, “One could rightly say that CAW has been
a large part of my life,” and vice versa.
Ann loves making sculpture, most importantly in metal, because
it is so strong, permanent, beautiful, and malleable. The act
of welding, brazing, or cutting metal with powerful machines continues
to give her a charge. She is interested in making the hard material
seem soft and move in unexpected ways that make the viewer wonder.
She had very good training in her youth and now tries new techniques
and technology.
“Teaching at CAW is a joy because of wonderful students
that come and mostly stay, sometimes a very long time,”
Ann said. Her mission is to teach students to see differently,
three dimensionally, and to learn new techniques. She has developed
a unique sculpture curriculum that approaches sculpture through
the materials and the ways of working them. Introducing different
materials and techniques stimulates all kinds of ideas. In addition
to the regular CAW classes, Ann also teaches this to Yale undergraduates.
Ann has had over fifteen solo exhibitions and countless others.
At this stage in her career, she works almost entirely on commission,
having just completed a six foot copper tree and before that,
180 award trophies for the University of New Haven. Other important
parts of her life are her family and horses, and travel.
GRAZIELLA PATRUCCO DE SOLODOW
- DRAWING & PAINTING
Graziella Patrucco de Solodow has been a teacher at Creative Arts
Workshop for twenty years, offering a remarkably wide variety
of instruction, ranging from architectural rendering to how to
write and illustrate children’s books.
“I love working with the students of CAW, who, among all
those I’ve taught at many schools and colleges during forty
years, are the most motivated and engaged,” she said. Graziella
has been one of CAW’s most recognized and beloved teachers
of painting, watercolor in particular and with emphasis on the
floral kingdom. An axiom of her teaching is that to represent
well, one must observe well.
Even as a child in Argentina, she was drawn to the world of nature.
Only later, while living in Peru, did she embark on a career as
an artist where she received an M.F.A. from the Escuela Nacional
de Bellas Artes. It wasn’t until coming to the United States
that she united these two passions. In fact, Graziella almost
backed into what would become her chief line of work. After receiving
a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University, she taught
herself watercolor in order to paint flowers, which were to be
used for botanical art. More than 1200 of her designs have been
printed.
Watercolors by Graziella belong to several museums, including
the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge, England) and the Hunt Institute
for Botanical Documentation (Pittsburgh). She has exhibited in
the Americas and in Europe, including CAW and Cambridge University.
Recently, she had a joint show of her own and her students’
work at the New Haven Lawn Club and is looking forward to another,
with a former student, at CAW in 2008.
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