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Lani Irwin, “Castor and Pollux or The Red Tear,” oil on linen, 43¼ by 35½ inches.

Holly Russell, “Cody Chair,” steel, 36 by 16 by 17 inches.

FOR 8/8 BACHELIER CARDONSKY GALLERY W/ 1or 2 CUTS

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KENT, CONN. — The Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery opens a new show on Saturday, August 9, celebrating the gallery’s 20th anniversary. Four tremendously talented women join together, paying tribute to the past in their present work.

Jane Arnold, who lives in New York City, works in clay, creating forms that are gorgeously fired, vibrant and patterned. They are sensual and strong, influenced by ancient cultures.

Lani Irwin is an American living in Italy. She is a painter of quiet, strange figurative narratives; whether grouped or alone, her people are solitary. Like a dream, they are oddly balanced between the surreal and the real worlds.

Holly Russell is Arnold’s sister and this is the first exhibit in which they are paired. Russell’s furniture is daringly inventive, made with materials found on farms, ranches and old rail beds. She welds the old disparate parts together to create a new unified whole, and the results are extraordinary.

Laura Von Rosk is a landscape painter who lives in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. Despite the magnitude of her surroundings, her paintings are small in scale, most no more than 12 inches square. They are intimate works of vast space, with earthy tones that are layered with glazes that glow like amber.

A reception for the artists will be held on Saturday, August 9, from 3 to 5 pm. The show will run through September 7. The gallery is on Main Street. For information, www.BachelierCardonsky.com or 860-927-3129.