SEPTEMBER 2010
ISSUE ...
33rd Annual Juried Show
Upstairs Gallery
Festive Home
1st Member Juried Show
123 Solo Guild Shows
ARTalks
Classes
Open Studio
Membership
EXHIBITS: Main Gallery
33rd Annual Juried Show
Sept 26 - Oct 31, 2010
Festive Home: Objects for Living & Giving
Nov 19 - Dec 24, 2010
1st Annual Juried MEMBER Show
Jan 25 - Feb 25, 2011
Plein Air/Poetry Exhibition
Mar 5 - 26, 2011
Bedlam - Member Show (unthemed)
April 3 - 16, 2011
Continuum: Gender Identities
April 30 - June 3, 2011
3rd Annual Juried Cameraworks
June 11 - 30, 2011
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EXHIBITS: Upstairs Gallery
EDEN COMPTON
Sept 15 - Oct 15, 2010
Space Available. Call the Guild
Oct 15 - Nov 15, 2010
MARIA POOSIKIAN
Jan 15 - Feb 14, 2011
SUZANNE ASHLEY
Feb 15 - Mar 14, 2011
Space Available. Call the Guild
Mar 15 - April 14, 2011
NANCY MOORE
Apr 15 - Jun 14
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EXHIBITS: Satellite Gallery
Showing through Sept 2010:
- Susi Laura Massage: Paola Lazzaro
- Nature's Temptation: Rachel Volpone
- Cellar XV: Connie Freidman
ARTalks
@ the Ridgefield Library
Sun, Oct 17, 2pm: Inside the Painter's Studio with artist and author Joe Fig. Sun, Nov 14, 2pm: Hidden in Plain Sight - The Whittemore Collection & the French Impressionists with author Ann Smith.
Sun, Jan 9, 2pm: Political Cartooning with Martin Kozlowski and colleagues. Sun, Mar 13, 2pm: Art in the Garden with landscape designer Craig Studer.
Sun, Feb 21, 2pm: Goldsmithing Through the Ages with goldsmith and enamelist Lessley Burke. Back to Top CLASSES
ABSTRACT EXPLORATION
Conceptual and stylistic develop-
ments will be emphasized. Students looking to fine tune their work, progress to the next level, or just have a great time are all welcome. Bring canvasses, paper, brushes, paints - anything that will enhance your creative spirit.
Instructor
Dan Becker holds an MFA from Dartmouth and a BS in Painting from
Skidmore College. He has been teaching art for many years.
Fridays - beginning Sept 10th 10:30am - 1:30 pm (5 sessions)
$170 members/$200 non-
members; drop-in fee $40.
Please contact the Guild at 438-8863 to register.
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Member News &
OPPORTUNITIES
OPEN STUDIO @ THE GUILD
The Guild's upstairs studio will be available on Thursdays and Sundays from 12:30-3:30 for OPEN STUDIO for a flat fee of $20 per artist. Please call the Guild to reserve a spot.
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CALLING
ALL ARTISTS
The Ridgefield Arts Council is gearing up for its Cultural Arts Festival on Oct 2, (Raindate: Oct 16) in Ballard Park from 10am-5pm. The Guild will be participating in the event and will have a tent with tables and easels set up for anyone who would like to demonstrate their art. You are invited to spend the whole day, or just an hour or two, hanging out, painting, working in clay, collage, or your medium of choice as we enjoy a nice fall day.
If you would like to join us please email rgoa@sbcglobal.net. We look forward to seeing you there!
GRAPHIC TEAM SEEKS PHOTOSHOP ADULT/STUDENT
(Will train) to help out with Ridgefield Chamber of Commerce project. Great opportunity to learn Photoshop, get your name out there and work with a great group of people. Call the Guild for more information.
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Volunteer
OPPORTUNITIES
Contact Mary Louise O'Connell at mloconnell@sbcglobal.net or Joan Isaac at the Guild (203.438.8863) for volunteer information or click for volunteer opportunities.
Time to
RENEW?
Is your membership up-to-date? NEW TO THE GUILD -- Memberships may now be renewed on the Guild website RGOA.ORG via PAYPAL. Call the Guild at 203.438.8863 with any questions.
Thank you for your support!
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The Guild's
MISSION
Ridgefield Guild of Artists is a regional and community-based art
organization that promotes the visual arts and arts education by providing high quality gallery space for exhibitions, art
classes for children and adults, opportunities for
artist-in-residency programs, and art lectures on-site and in
collaboration with other cultural organizations.
Thanks to our SPONSORS
- Capital Investment Marketing
- Events Party & Rentals
- Nature's Temptations
- Ridgefield Magazine
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33rd Annual Juried Show
 Opening Reception:
Sunday, September 26
2-4pm
Refreshments will be served.
This year's show, juried by noted New
York City artist
and teacher Steven
Assael, features a rich variety of work from 47 artists from the CT and the New York area. On display will be beautiful sculptures, intricate and precise graphite drawings, oil and acrylic paintings in many styles, mixed media works, as well as print and photographic pieces. We are also pleased to exhibit a drawing and an oil painting by the juror, Steven Assael.
And, the winners are ... (click here for a list of 2010 Juried Show winners)
The Juried Show had 359 entries this year, and 54 pieces of art were selected for the show. Many, many wonderful works of art came in during the four days of receiving, and we wish that we all could have been accepted for this show.
Please be sure to pick up all unaccepted art this weekend, September 18 & 19, from 11-5pm. We can't guarantee the safety of art work left later than this weekend as we will be preparing the galleries and hanging the show.
Please join us at the opening on Sunday, Sept 26 from 2-4pm.
Each
year, the juried show is produced by an army of volunteers. From
writing articles to setting up tables and tents, to helping
bring in art work. Volunteers manage this very important event for the
guild. Without these wonderful helpers, this show would not go on. So, thank you to all who helped this year!
Co-Chairs: Mary Louise O'Connell and Lisa Penny
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Upstairs Gallery
Exhibit: Town & Country
Works by Eden Compton Town & Country features a selection of recent pastel and
oil paintings of rainy cityscapes, urban interiors and rural landscapes by
artist Eden Compton. "My current
compositions are concerned with creating mood and atmosphere by using unique lighting
situations as a design element.
Slick reflections on wet city streets, glowing interior scenes and the
unique backlit brightness of a summer morning are some of my favorite types of
light which are depicted in the exhibit."
Eden Compton is originally from Ridgefield, Connecticut and currently divides her time between the Northeast, Florida and the Caribbean. She and her husband have lived aboard a sailboat for many years traveling extensively in the Caribbean and along the Eastern coast of the US.
Click here for more info on Town & Country.
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 Upcoming: Festive Home 2010Objects for Living & Giving
RGA MEMBER OPPORTUNITY
CALL FOR ART
DECORATOR'S CHOICE
DEADLINE OCTOBER 10, 2010 (No submission fee for RGA Members)
This year's Festive Home: Objects for Living and Giving will feature up to ten decorating teams who will install vignettes throughout the Guild's main floor galleries. Thousands of visitors come through our gallery during this holiday show. We advertise extensively and have extended visitor hours.
This year we would like to offer an artworks image book to our decorators. They will select work from this image book to be incorporated in their vignettes. RGA Members may submit either color Xerox or photographs of available 2-or 3-dimensional work. Up to 4 images may be submitted and must not be larger than 8.5 x11".
On the back of each image, please indicate the dimensions, title, medium and price as well your name and telephone number. Please mail images to RGA, ATTN: DECORATOR'S CHOICE, PO Box 552, Ridgefield, CT 06877 or drop off during normal business hours. DEADLINE for images is October 10, 2010.
All submitted artwork must be for sale--the traditional 40% commission to the Guild will apply. The Decorating Team will review submissions and you will be contacted by October 25 if selected. All artwork must be delivered by November 7, 2010 ready to hang. There is NO fee for RGA members' art work submissions; however, any craft submissions must follow the Festive Home prospectus guidelines and include the $10 application fee.
STENCIL PROJECT & AFFORDABLE ART IN UPSTAIRS GALLERY DURING FESTIVE HOME
Creative Director Kim Hanna is working on the annual stencil project. This year's image will be the iconic Ridgefield Fountain. Artists wishing to paint and donate the 9x12 stenciled canvas can use any medium -- it is also not necessary to 'color within the lines'. These canvases should be ready for pick up in the next few weeks. Watch for our e-mail blast.
Artists who donate these stencils are able to bring in art work for sale to be placed in the Upstairs Gallery. For one donated fountain canvas, one work may be brought in for the Upstairs Gallery. For two+ donated fountain canvases, two works (max.) may be brought in. These Upstairs Gallery works must be ready to hang and must be affordably priced under $500. Size is limited to no larger than 16 inches in either direction (including the frame).
For more information call the Guild at 203.438.8863
Click here for a Festive Home PROSPECTUS.
Click here for a Festive Home ENTRY FORM.
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Upcoming: JURIED MEMBER SHOW
January 29 - February 25, 2011
January 2011 will kick off our very first Juried MEMBER Show. We are very excited to announce that Lee Weber, gallery owner of Weber Fine Arts located in Greenwich, CT and Scarsdale, NY will be our juror.
Visit her site at www.weberfineart.com.
Click here for Juried MEMBER Show prospectus.
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JUROR: Helaine Posner
Jan 21-Feb 19, 2012
Ridgefield Guild of Artists is accepting applications for the first annual 123 Guild Solo Show. This show is designed to identify and support emerging and mid-career artists working in the Northeast region.
Up to 3 artists will be selected to exhibit a body of work at the Guild's main gallery space in Jan 21-Feb 19, 2012. Winners will be announced by Feb 28, 2011, and will be given a year to continue to work towards their show. The Creative Director will work with the selected artists to determine which works will be exhibited. All submissions must be postmarked Jan 28, 2011 or hand-delivered by Jan 31, 2011.
Click here for more info and a 123 Solo prospectus.
About the Juror
Helaine Posner is Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York. Posner was Curator, then Director of the University Gallery at the University of MA, Amherst (1981-88) and Chief Curator of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC (1988-90). From 1991-98, she was curator of the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA where she organized exhibitions of contemporary art and wrote the accompanying catalogues for such projects as Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation (1998) and The Masculine Masquerade (1995) (both MIT Press). In 1999, she was U.S. Co-commissioner for the Venice Biennale where she organized an installation by artist Ann Hamilton. In 2001, she curated Kiki Smith: Telling Tales for the International Center of Photography, NY, and is the author of a monograph on the artist published by The Monacelli Press (2005). Posner is curator of the first mid-career survey of the work of Lorna Simpson which traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Miami Art Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY in 2006-2007. She is co-author, with Nancy Princenthal, Eleanor Heartney, and Sue Scott, of After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art published by Prestel (2007). Posner was curator of Tania Bruguera: On the Political Imaginary, the first Roy R. Neuberger Exhibition Prize recipient in 2010, and is organizing the upcoming exhibition The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991.
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