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Suzanne Howes-Stevens, “Still Water #20, 2007, oil on map on panel, 18 by 18 inches.

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BACHELIER CARDONSKY SHOWS ‘TIME AND PLACE’ SEPT. 8 w/1 cut

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KENT, CONN. — The Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery, opens an exhibition, “Time and Place,” on Saturday, September 8, with a reception for the artists from 3 to 5 pm. Three painters will be featured: Stephen Coyle, Kirill Doron and Suzanne Howes-Stevens, along with sculptor Anne Huibregtse. The show is on view through October 7.

Coyle was well reviewed in ARTnew as “a master of making the familiar appear unfamiliar.” His banal subjects, houses and highways, have a bewitching stillness and a sense of mystery. They seem stopped in time. Since 1982, he has shown extensively in New York, California and New England.

Doron, a Russian artist who emigrated here in 1981, has shown in this gallery for 17 years. The New York Times devoted a full-page to his work, calling him a “magic realist.” His paintings are rendered with realism and glowing light.

Howes-Stevens paints landscapes of New England in transparent layers of oils that drip and flow, much like her waterways. Underlying the paint are maps that she imbeds in each canvas, seeing them as “metaphors for our connection to the earth and our journeys across it.”

Huibregtse is a sculptor whose weighty subject is the cow. “My work is about cows and it is not about cows,” she says. “I play with time, perspective and changing point of view…” Her bronze cows are graceful and lyrical in deep, rich patinas.

The Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery is on Main Street. For information, 860-927-3129, or www.bacheliercardonsky.com.