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 "Music Stands" (Photograph: from Warwick Middle School Series) / Bill Cifuni In addition to Robert Dente’s show downstairs, two others opened on Friday, April 22, at Gallery on the Green.
Jon M. Eastman is in the Spotlight Gallery with creations he says were influenced by the likes of “constructivism, dada, art deco, abstract expressionism, pop culture, flea markets, 1950′s design and the ‘green’ or ‘upcycling’ movement.”
According to Eastman, “My work is essentially a hybrid of making art and collecting ‘junk’ or, more specifically, found objects and discarded materials. I’m just as inspired by a vintage paint scraper or television tube as seeing a Jackson Pollock painting; the challenge is to put these elements together and make a new statement.”
Mari Skarp and photographer Bill Cifuni are sharing space in the big room upstairs.
“Over the last three years, my art practice has embraced and integrated both textual research and material investigations into the complex subject of memory,” Skarp says. “My work is influenced by the possibility that memory may have no specific form, and is full of endless possibilities and interpretations.”
Cifuni says he has “always had an interest and appreciation of the past, and much of my artwork is carried by a sense of history, time and place; how they unfold and have us reflect upon our collective memories. The photos and videos I create revolve around two themes: the subtle narrative description of our experiences that materialize within our world, and the threshold of time where these specific moments reside.”
Gallery on the Green is open on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m. The three shows currently on display run through May 22.
To check out some of the art currently on display upstairs at Gallery on the Green, click on any of the six images below and use the arrow left or arrow right button at the bottom of the larger image that pops up. To return to this page, click on the full image you are viewing.
 Robert Dente talks about where he came from, where he has been, and where he is now -- both as a person and an artist -- shortly before the opening reception for his show, "Robert Dente: Apparitions, Milestones & Reflections From A Visual Odyssey," Saturday evening, April 23, at Gallery on the Green. Dente's show is the annual Maxwell Shepherd Memorial Invitational Exhibition at the gallery. This show and two others upstairs run through May 22. Gallery on the Green is open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m. Photo: dotCANTON
 Andrea Lam. Photo: Greg Barrett Andrea Lam will perform works by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Enrique Granados, Nigel Westlake and Sergey Prokofiev in a Shepherd Music Series recital at the Collinsville Congregational Church, 7 South St., on Sunday, May 8, at 4 p.m. Admission is free.
Lam, a native of Sydney, Australia, was a semifinalist in the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and has performed more than 60 times with major symphony orchestras, as well as countless solo and chamber music recitals in Australia, America, Hong Kong and Japan. Most recently she was guest soloist with the Sydney Symphony and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. This will be her second solo performance in the Shepherd Series.
Lam holds degrees from the Yale School of Music and the Manhattan School of Music, and is currently an artist with Astral Artists (Philadelphia) and Patrick Togher Artists (Australia). She released her recording debut in 2010, a performance of two Mozart concertos with the Tasmanian Symphony.
A reception and an opportunity to meet Lam will follow the Collinsville concert.
Lam’s appearance is being made possible by a gift from Rona Thomas of Canterbury, Australia, a close friend and colleague of Maxwell Shepherd.
The Maxwell Shepherd Memorial Arts Fund is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the fine and performing arts. Tax-deductible donations, including employer matching gifts, can be sent to MSMAF, Inc., c/o Collinsville Savings Society, P.O. Box 197, Collinsville, CT 06019. To contact the Shepherd Fund, write to MSMASF Inc., 16 South St., Collinsville, CT 06019, call 860-693-2762, or e-mail awkendra@yahoo.com.
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 "Seaside Cottages With Distant Storm" / Robert Dente Robert Dente’s “Apparitions, Milestones & Reflections From A Visual Odyssey,” a presentation of the Maxwell Shepherd Memorial Arts Fund, opens at Gallery on the Green at 1 p.m. on Friday, April 22.
Dente will give a gallery talk, “Liberation of the Spirit Through Art,” on Saturday, April 23, at 5 p.m. before the opening reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Both are free and open to the public.
 "Hilltop Gap" / Robert Dente In conjunction with the exhibition, which runs through May 22, the Shepherd Fund is offering a two-day workshop with Dente, beginning with a purview on Thursday, April 28, at 7 p.m., which will include a preliminary media demonstration for workshop participants.
The first of the two workshops, “Drawing: Still Life, Figure and Landscape,” is scheduled for Saturday, April 30, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The second,
“Painting: Still Life Figure, and Landscape,” is set for Saturday, May 7, also from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The workshops will be held at the Canton Public Library, 40 Dyer Ave. The cost for the workshops is $300 per person and is limited to 10 participants. For reservations and information, please contact Walter Kendra, president of The Maxwell Shepherd Memorial Arts Fund, at 860-693-2762. The deadline for reservations is Monday, April 25.
Dente is best known for his atmospheric landscapes. His exhibition at Gallery on the Green will include a selection of paintings, sculptures and prints created over four decades.
Dente received his bachelor’s degree in fine arts, magna cum laude, from the Hartford Art School, University of Hartford. He continued his professional studies at the Hartford Graduate Center/Rensselaer Hartford and at the Barbieri Center of Rome, Trinity College, Italy.
Gallery on the Green is open Fridays through Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m. or by appointment. More information can be obtained at the gallery’s website, www.galleryonthegreen.org, or by calling 860-693-4102.
The Maxwell Shepherd Memorial Arts Fund is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the fine and performing arts. Tax-deductible donations, including employer matching gifts, can be sent to MSMAF, Inc., c/o Collinsville Savings Society, P.O. Box 197, Collinsville, CT 06019. To contact the Shepherd Fund, write to MSMASF Inc., 16 South St., Collinsville, CT 06019, call 860-693-2762, or e-mail awkendra@yahoo.com.
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Suzan Fox will be offering a six-week course on egg tempera painting at Gallery on the Green beginning on Monday, April 25. The cost is $60 for each three-hour session, plus a one-time fee of $20 for supplies, including gessoed panel, pigments and eggs.
The course is designed to show all the basics, from starting to completing a painting in egg tempera. Students will learn to grind and blend pigments into egg yoke, creating brilliant colors that will be layered onto gessoed panels to produce luminescent pieces.
Registration is required by April 18. Saturday classes are available. Suzan Fox can be reached at 860-626-7187 or at suzanfox@att.net.
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 Members of Allongé Dance Variations. Photo: Ron Compton April is shaping up as an exciting month for Allongé Dance Variations, starting with a “Spring Dinner Fundraiser,” and concluding with two performances of “Once. Again. Now. A Reflection and Celebration,” the company’s fifth anniversary dance concert.
Canton resident Alison Bogatay, the founder and artistic director of Allongé, says the dinner will be held at well-known O’Rourke’s Diner in Middletown from 6 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 7, with performances of the dance concert scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, April 22 and 23, at the Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford.
Bogatay says the four-course, gourmet meal at O’Rourke’s, 728 Main St. in Middletown, is $45 per person (BYOB), and includes tax, gratuity and a welcome glass of sparkling wine. Reservations can be made by calling Bogatay at 860-693-3290.
Tickets for the two, 90-minute performances at Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Ave. in Hartford, are $18 for general admission, and $10 for students, senior citizens, and members of the Charter Oak Cultural Center and Let*s GO Arts! Tickets can be obtained by calling the center at 860-249-1207.
In two nights of eclectic dance and music that Bogatay says embraces “community and collaboration,” Allongé will present 35 professional and emerging artists from Greater Hartford. Among them, according to Bogatay, will be four students from the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford who will dance to “Let the Sunshine In” from the Broadway musical “Hair.”
For more about Allongé Dance Variations, including information about menu options for the dinner at O’Rourke’s, click here to visit the company’s website.
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 Jacqueline Gaztambide at home with "Camaraderie II" from her Impressions series. Photo: dotCANTON Jacqueline Gaztambide had a serious interest in art as a young girl growing up in San Juan. Predominantly self-taught, she studied briefly in Switzerland at the age of 15 and later in Puerto Rico with local artists.
But when she got married and began to raise a family, Gaztambide put that passion on hold — for about 36 years. Only in the last four years has she allowed herself to fully reconnect with something she clearly loves to do.
 "Nebula I" (Space Series II) / Jacqueline Gaztambide “Some people go through life and don’t find where their passion is,” Gaztambide said Friday, Feb. 25, in her West Hartford home. “Mine was dormant for a while. Finally I said, ‘I want to do this.’ ”
About two dozen of Gaztambide’s paintings will be hanging in the first- and second-floor hallways at Canton Town Hall through the months of March and April. She describes her style as “abstract impressionism.” It’s a style, she says, that’s anchored in nature, the universe and life experiences.
Visitors will notice that the look of Gaztambide’s work changes significantly from series to series. But they’ll also make note of a common thread. As she puts it, “I’m all about color and texture.”
Gaztambide, who lived in Glastonbury for about 18 years before moving to West Hartford on 2005, is a member of the West Hartford Art League and the Canton Artists’ Guild. In addition to the town hall show, her work is also on display at the Noah Webster House in West Hartford. It’s her second solo show there, and it runs through the end of March.
“Camaraderie II” and “Nebula I,” above, and the images in the gallery below are expected to be part of Jacqueline Gaztambide’s two-month show at Canton Town Hall. To check out larger versions of the images below, click on any of the nine and use the arrow left or arrow right button at the bottom of the larger image that pops up. To return to this page, click on the full image you are viewing.
Click here for Jacqueline Gaztambide’s website.
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