Works By Newtown Artists In NYC Exhibits

Two residents of Newtown are currently having their art featured in exhibitions at galleries in New York City.

Stephanie Adam celebrated the opening on April 6 of “Cultivating Color: Recent Paintings” at Ezair Gallery. The exhibition, Ms Adam says, “involve images from the Medieval age. The paintings are quite different from the ones show at Booth Library and City Lights Gallery [in Bridgeport, where she was part of a multi-artist exhibition late last year]. These paintings are much larger and bolder.”

Ms Adam is known for her brightly-colored, carefully composed canvases. Many of her paintings include tracings of antique tools and other abstract and representational images that appear to dance around the borders of the always-square paintings.

“Cultivating Color” is on view until April 30. Ezair Gallery is at 905 Madison Avenue in New York City; telephone 212-628-7828 or visit www.EzairGallery.com.

Glenn Kessler, who works out of his Old Road Studios, is among the 13 artists with work included in “Painting = Poetry — ut pictura poesis.” The exhibit at Sherry French Gallery, 601 West 26th Street in New York City, is on view until April 23.

The annual “Painting=Poetry” exhibition offers representational artwork. “The paintbrush and the pen … unite to form a contemporary realist art collection that embodies the joined workings of the mind and sould,” according to the gallery’s website.

The show description continues: “In this symbiosis of painting and poetry, participating representational artists [were] given the opportunity to utilize these two art forms as vehicles toward a broader horizon and … invite the viewers to join them on this enchanting ride through their realistic painting.”

In many of his works, Mr Kessler romantically portrays the Connecticut coastline. Calves Pasture, Sherwood Island, Niantic and Sprite Island are among the locales depicted in Mr Kessler’s beautifully rendered oil paintings.

His works capture a day at the shore, with sunbathers and their umbrellas set against the peace and solitude of the shoreline. His renderings of clouds are particularly atmospheric and sensitively capture the fleeting nature of time.

He has exhibited extensively in museums and galleries including New Britain Museum of American Art, The Mattatuck Museum, Pound Edge Museum, The Slater Museum and The Salmagundi Club.

This is his second representation in a Sherry French Gallery show this year.