Recent Shows at the Gallery at Still River Editions

Fourteen Threadless Needles
Photographs by Vito Pasquale

January 5 - March 30, 2012
Opening reception Saturday, January 28, 2012 4-6 pm*

*Snow date: Saturday, February 4, 2012, 4 - 6 pm

Vito Pasquale is a photographer and writer from Mount Kisco, NY. He is one of those people who, upon retiring from the full-time job he'd done in corporate America for almost thirty years, began to "peek down, as Frost would call it, 'the road not taken'". In 2008, Pasquale returned to writing after a long hiatus, and in 2009 he began taking photographs that reflected some of the themes in his writing. His book of poetry, Fourteen Threadless Needles, was published in 2011.

Many of Pasquale's photographs are abstracts and photo-manipulations that go beyond taking the world at face value. In his poem, "(Somewhere) After Silence (and) Before Regret", Pasquale refers to ". . .the surprisingly elastic properties of a dream." The photographs dance around that dream-state in the everyday.

Pasquale says about his photographs, "I believe it is healthy to have a casual disregard for authority. In some cases it might even be necessary to have a determined disregard – please don't tell my kids. In any case, the sky that is saturated and yellow, the off-kilter street scene, the blackened hills, the something there is that doesn't love a happy ending, these are the approaches that I take. I believe in the pretty picture, but only if it's very, very pretty, which means it's probably a flower and the bloom is fading away."

Included in the show are several photographs that relate to Pasquale's history in the Danbury area. He grew up in Mount Kisco, NY and his father worked in Danbury until 1966 at a construction company that was located near the site of the train station just up Liberty Street. Coincidentally, this is a short distance from the Gallery at Still River Editions.

The fourteen photographs are connected to poems posted online via QR codes, which viewers can scan using their smart phones, or look at online in the gallery.

Tangents
by Vito Pasquale

If life
didn't
have
tangents,
it wouldn't
have any
direction
at all.

Link to photograph and another poem

Solo Exhibits
"Mount Kisco in 4.8 Seconds" Mount Kisco, New York Public Library, January 2011
"A City of (Second) Guesses" Harrison, New York Public Library, February 2011.

Selected Group Exhibits
Hudson Valley Hospital Center "Art for Health" program, Peekskill, NY June 2011 – January 2012
Westchester Land Trust 2011 group photo show "Heaven on Earth," ArtsWestchester Gallery, White Plains, New York, awarded second prize for the photo "Tulip" (J. Henry Fair, juror), February, 2011

Affordable Art Print Exhibition and Sale
Group exhibition of fine giclée prints

November 1 - December 23, 2011

The Gallery at Still River Editions is pleased to announce its first Affordable Art Print Exhibition and Sale, an invitational group exhibition of fine giclée prints of artwork by fourteen Connecticut artists.

The artists are Betty Christensen (watercolor, Newtown, CT), Grace McEnaney (Newtown, CT), Florence Froeder (watercolor, New Fairfield, CT), Tatiana Golovnya (mixed media, Redding, CT), Nancy Lasar (monotype, Washington Depot, CT), Marge Malwitz (gouache, Brookfield, CT), Adele Moros (acrylic painting, Bethel, CT), Edith Borax-Morrison (ink, Trumbull, CT), Mike Morshuk (mixed media, New Milford, CT), Ruth Newquist (watercolor, Newtown, CT), Banjie Nicholas (egg tempera, Warren, CT), Linda Pickwick (watercolor, Newtown, CT), Vicki Stevens (watercolor, Danbury, CT), and Claire Tuffereau (watercolor, New Fairfield, CT)

Moments of Grace^®: Portraits by Ben Larrabee
August 30 - October 28, 2011

Artists' reception Thursday, September 8, 2011 5:30 - 7:30 pm

Ben Larrabee is a portrait and fine art photographer from Darien, CT.

Ben Larrabee's artist statement:

My goal is to be authentic and honest, not merely different. My approach is based on letting go of expectations and assumptions about how people should look or behave. I want to go past formal poses and pretenses. I want to use the photographic experience as a way of finding truth and connection. My work is not about my camera: I really want to make the camera itself disappear so that I'm performing effortlessly and my subjects are acting naturally unselfconsciously, expressing their spirit and their love for one another.

I am dedicated as an artist to recognizing and recording those fleeting yet memorable glimpses of life that we take for granted, moments every family has but rarely sees revealed in photographs. I call them Moments of Grace®: when two and two equals five; when truth, spirit, love and even humor come together to create a whole that is infinitely greater than the sum of its parts. In addition to portraits I also photograph landscapes and nudes.

Press release for Moments of Grace®: Portraits by Ben Larrabee

Facebook event page for artist's reception on September 8, 2011

Photographs by Keith Johnson and Mark Savoia
June 11 - August 26, 2011

"Kannapolis" © Keith Johnson

"The Bush Presidency" © Mark Savoia

Open House Day, Saturday, June 11, 2011 (in conjunction with Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism)
Special gallery hours 11 am - 4 pm

Artists' reception Thursday, June 23, 2011 5:30 - 7:30 pm

Keith Johnson is a photographic educator and fine artist from Hamden, CT

Keith Johnson's artist's statement

Re: Man(ufactured) Space started in 2004 as a response to the construction in Boston and New Haven; the places I work and live. I am interested in the way that we claim, construct, create and recreate space in the pursuit of development,and attracted to the intermediate stages of projects where the end is not in sight but the form is beginning to show. We do some marvelously goofy things trying to get stuff right. My job seems to be to observe and report. I have photographed the social landscape for 30 years now and I think I am beginning to understand the landscape, the sociology and the beauty of a work in progress. The photographs are printed 24"x30" on Crane Museo Silver Rag using Epson UltraChrome ink, by the artist, in an edition of fifteen with five artist proofs.

Mark Savoia is a fine artist and co-owner of Still River Editions and Connecticut Photographics

Mark Savoia's artist's statement

I have been working on a portfolio of photographs of found curiosities during my travels throughout New England for the past four years. The goal of this new body of work is to evoke not only humor, but the irony visible in encounters with everyday situations. I have a tongue-in-cheek view of Americana and I am constantly looking for evidence that below the surface something is not quite right in this country. It is what visually perplexes me that draws my eye, and then becomes a compelling photograph. Through the camera's selective view, I juxtapose what is considered normal in society against an increasing lack of taste. I am not attempting two-dimensional slapstick, rather satire laced with a few Freudian slips. I attempt to make no judgment when I come across these scenes. I am here to document evidence and if the viewer finds something as humorous as I do, then I have succeeded.

Facebook event page for opening

About the Gallery at Still River Editions

The Gallery at Still River Editions has hosted national and regional photographers and artists since 1989. In spring 2011, after a brief hiatus from exhibiting new work, the gallery returned to hosting shows on a quarterly basis. The Gallery's mission is to show traditional and digital prints of photographs and fine artwork, and to be a center of creativity and connection in the Danbury area.

The Gallery at Still River Editions is open during normal business hours 8:30 am - 5 pm Monday through Friday, and during posted hours for special events. The Gallery does not accept unsolicited submissions at this time.

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