Gallery and Studio – Arts Journal

Profiles • Visual Arts

Christopher “Daze” Ellis and the Evolution of Graffiti

by Benedict Carrizzo

Profiles

Arthur French: Esteemed Actor, Director and Educator

by Roger Parris

Visual Arts

Armando Guiller
Into Alignment

by Joaquin Badajoz

Profiles

Youth Onstage!

by All Stars Project

Profiles

Megumi Yamada

by Marina Hadley

Poetry

Autumn Dusk

by Laura Rutland

Profiles • Visual Arts

Practice Makes Perfect:
The Art of Christian Chavant

by Sebastien Aurillon

Visual Arts

A Metaphor for Our Time

by Christine Graf

Films

“Drive”
The Longest of the Best

by Woody Sempliner

Profiles

Janet Mitchell:
In Our Own Words and Voices

by Marina Hadley

Editorial

Wishing you all a healthy, happy and successful 2021!
Fall 2020 Issue
In this issue, we have continued our journey of diversity. Gallery&Studio has always taken a broad and inclusive view. We continue this trend with a diversity of art organizations, genres, ages, cultures, and styles. We hope you enjoy this month’s collection of articles. For a quick overview of our industry
see the full editorial

Art in Quarantine

abstract expressionist painting with multi-colored splashes and dots

Manon
Casimir-Sainton

child like image of a street scene with shops, apartments and vehicles

Arlene
Finger

abstratc painting in a grid, predominatly blue

Bob
Leonard

painting on a wall - an abstract of pale, grey, tan and white patches that look fluffy. There is one black oblong with a white cross in the center of the painting with a few other random shapes and objects

Robert
Kingston

grey statue with its shadow on the wall

Elaine
Weiner-Reed

duplicated imagr of a woman with her hands raised, to create a wave effect in blue, becoming paler with each row going back

Katie Duffy
McGeehin

Geometric abstract with pale colors and black.

Stephen
Cimini

Black and white drawing of a medical professional piecing a coronavirus-looking globe with a stick.

Vismaya
Vasudevan

abstract faded yello and red lines on paper on pinstripe cloth

Terri
Fraser

abstract painting

Victor
Grauer

surrealist image of a field of metal framed beds spaced apart for social distancing. One figure sits on a bed in the center of the image, with head bowed, and hand clasped, bare feet and two blue items next to the feet. the figure is wearing white pants and a blue coverall.

June
He

Colorful abstract work showing a seated, masked humanoid

Kaye
Freeman

Drawing of a blue dream catcher surrounded by blue circular designs on a black background.

Dulcie
Dee

Marrakech art work framed

Sebastien
Aurillon

impressionistic painting of a shoreline with water to the right of the shore on the left and along the background.

Shelley
Haven

A chainlink fence - through which you see a metal hooped back white chair on a derelict empty lot, with the skyline of New York seen from Brooklyn/Queens

Giedrius
Jokubauskis

Dennis
Elleflot

Isabelle
Ribot

Photo of daffodils growing out of the ground, surrounded by fallen magnolia blossom petals

Cody
Franchetti

photograph of the artist looking sad with hands dipped in black covering her face

Akiko
Suzuki

Drawing of a red fox

Heather
Levy

abstract work with many shapes tumbling down the image.

Yvonne
Rossetti

abstract textural collage on a white background. Multi-colored with strong reds, grey, brown predominating

Myrna
Minter Forster

black and white image of a woman lying on the ground, wearing jogging pants and sports bra, with pink blossoms on two opposite corners.

Grace
Plimpton-Sims

Black and white pencil drawing of an alien like entity with bulbous ends and tenticles around the center

Adrián
Carranza

photograph of a opaque plastic female body form lying on the grass. The torso form is scattered with large cyrstal like shapes.

Bridget
Howard

bright painting of a buddah like person with a red bald head, beaded necklae, yellow jacket, blue pants and a large belly

Jim
Charette

black and white abstract work with columns of numbers in the bavkground, a mainly red and cream Russian poster an a small negative image of a girl.

Nadi
Adatepe

Black and white painting of a human form curled up inside an opaque egg on a dark background.

Anki
King

Abstract mixed media including digital work. Four oddly shaped blanks of varing sizes with random images and colors, laid on a discolored sandy floor

Nancy
Perry

An aboriginal style image, densely packed with people, birds and animals mainly in flue and yellow

Daniel
Fenelon

black and white phtograph of an inside corner, with rays of sun hitting the two walls and the corner.

Brian
Auerbach

a church with flying buttresses in a large open piazza, with a few tourists around the edge

Martin
Rich

Collage on an varigated orange backcground with Da Vinci's drawings, a photograph of the statue of David, by Michaelangelo, and drawings of prehistoric pre-homo sapiens

Mikel
Frank

Abstract expressionist work in white black and beige.

Mira M
White

Very colorful flowers

Fotini
Christophillis

soft pyramid like origami sculptures of thick brushed material. strapped with gold string and brass pins with notted heads

Renee
Cuny

mixed media abstract image hinting at a face.

Lydia
Hershauer

digitally edited photograph of fluffy dense clouds in the skies and a hill a barren brown hill with dynamic striations and frozen flows

Barry
Guthertz

a crowd of people in outline only except for the top half of a person's head with a health insurance card for John Doe on their forhead. Work painted on newspaper

Ed
McCormack

a high top sneaker with green loaces and bronze colored wings. An outline of thr Silver Surfer is on the top of the sneaker. on the background which is divided into three horizontal strips, have foot prints, on watermarked, striped and granite looking backgrounds

Timothy
Tyree

Painting of a congregation

Gina
Petrone

Photograph of a beautiful blue sky with puffy white clouds, verdent trees a pond with clouds relfected in it and pond weed on the edges.

Alyssa
Meadows

Abstract work of white, blue, black and mixed colors of brushes of paint that look like waterfalls at all different angles.

Marti
Garaughty

abstract painting with lilac and yellow background, multicolored lines and shapes overlaid .

joshuagabriel

painting of a forest of trees with orange leaves, very green undergrowth and blue skies in the background

Shy
Raguso

abstract surrealist many headless figures cavorting around with various blobs of color floating around and plant like bodies. the color palette is bronze orange, brown and green

Betina
Jung

abstract work with many figures in a storm of colors, mainly brown background as a sky and a multi-colored sea at the bottom. Clown like figure riding a cloud, a michaelangelo-esque pointing had in the sky and many other figures.

David
Jenowe

Digital image of a blossomming tree with COVID19 buds

Veyron
Pax

A surrealist image of limbs without a torso or head. 3 black outlined butterflies are spaced out on a background of blue, grey and pink, some of which is dripping fown the canvas

Cagney
King

pencil drawing of a bald headed person iwth a face mask covering the lower half of the face. The mask has HOPE written on it.

Jean Antoine
Hierro

abstract digital work of space like vista with a lot of debri and a planet like body at the top of the painting

Stefania Carrozzini

A black and white photograph of two dogs tied to a railing - six feet apart.

Jim
Lustenader

Abstract work with a sun, stars, flowers, hearts, a couple embracing and multi colored swirls

Anne
Rudder

childish felt tip abstract work of a collage like image with a wide range of felt tip pack color palette

Amy
Rosenfeld-Kass

colorful pastel colored scene with cats and a woman in a dress, on a patterened background

Mark
Kurdziel

abstract work predominantly using orange, blue and black, florescent and electric sytle

Keith
Morant

Portrait of a girl

Chanit
Roston

Glen Rogers

Hannah
Mallaby

Christie
Cruise

painting of blue water, lillypads and greeen shoreline

Don
Gropman

colorful abstract images and a masked head overlaid a black and white architectural drawings of a street with buildings

Alvaro
Sánchez

Room for thought: Are all the tears of the world enough? a scull on a pile of colored sponges against a red background and a black table with pools of water

R. Wayne
Parsons

A large whtie candle like shape made of splaster stood on a flat cake stand with a red rose drooping over the top.

Sydney
Valiquet

pencil drawing of a naked man crouched on a halved seashell floating on a paved surface, in front of a draped cloth with a starry sky behind him.

Seth
Keller

Alex
Landry

childish ink drawing of the artist at the center bottom of the image, with an easle, painters palette, other furnitre, a window and a sun(?) With the words: "I will sepnd time alone and know this is temporary"

Kayley
Isaacson

a cottage on the hill full of daffodils and many bare trees

Folly
Rogers

Photograph of a woman's torso partially covered with cloth and with one breast uncovered

Anthony
Buscaino

Digital images of a street of London overlaid. There is a red double decker bus, pedestrians, cars and buildings

Fabrizio
Bellanca

Family portrait in the garden with all wearing masks

Ian
Mesa-Jonassen

Surrealist painting with a staircase, triangular base, pink cone, pink wire, box, ribbon, on a blue background

Alex
Berdysheff

An abstract grid of four vertical rectangles with blue, yellow, black, grey and white colors.

Miss Ellen Ruth
Levy

OIl painting of two women in a shell

Molly
Rose Strugatz

blackand white drawing of a naked woman sat crosslegged on a stool, gripping her abdomen while looking away to her right.

Jezzelle
Kellam

Brightly colored portrait of Lady Gaga. A black frame edge is visible above and to the left of her head. The letters 4 U GAGA are littered below and to the right of her head.

Jed
Williams

a stamp-like image on the yin and yang symbol looking like a coronovirus. Red Zomia Post is written in text as nwell as the title of the piece. Edges are scollopped like a stamp

Alexander
Limarev

still life pastel painting of a flower plant in yellows and pale pink

Mary
Moross

portrait of a person in color pencils

Lou
Patrou

Blue surgical glove on th e ground with fallen petals scattered over it

Renee
Khatami

Abstract painting in shades of read and a little yellow. The word vulnerable is hidden by paint in a web like wash over the word.

NJ
Weaver

Street scene in Madrid

Tomas
Castaño

portrait of a woman with black hair and red lipd wearing an exotic headress and necklace, both with circular decorations

Marylu
Downing

Crumpled photo paper of a green landscape, hills and blue skies

Paul
Neale

photography of lush green countryside and mountains in the background with a bus in the middle of the image seen through a lens arch.

Victor
Santos

Abstract work - predominantly pink, yellow and brown paint strokes

Sheila
Hecht

painting of an older man who is sitting on one of two hairs outside a butcher's store names Albanese Meats & Poultry. The store front is old fashioned.

Jeff
Tocci

photo of a mix of flowers with a black background

Cecilia
Mignon

textured blue painting with darker paint dripping down the center of the piece

Lena

4 film strips with images of people

Janet
Stafford

Self portrait in black watercolor. head and shoulders with shoulder length hair with bangs shadowing the face

Hanne
Rivrud

two robbins on branches with red berries with a snowy background

Emily
Shih

abstract painting of a face - closeup of eyes, nose and mouth

Anthony
Newton

Surrealist painting with many elongated faces with eyes looking sideways .

Lindsey
Roth

photo of a person with a mint green plastic shopping bag walking in front of an empty shop front with an awning. The photo is taken from up high across the street through slits. In the photo is a one way sign and a crossing signal

Jesse
Skupa

Monologue for a crisis

Paul
Beaudoin

Painting or two people standing and one sitting out of doors. They are all wearing casual clothes and sunglasses.

Luong
Thai

Features

blue tongue with a sugarsnake pendant

Features • Music

Sugar Snake Is Having As Much Fun As Possible

by Anaïs Schindler

Brown and purple ceramic relief, 16 x 15 x 2.5

Features • Visual Arts

Tribute To The Architecture Of The Past

by Christine Graf

different colored shapes on paper

Features • Visual Arts

Mystery And Layers Inform Renée Khatami’s Art

by Christine Graf

Picture from the movie a girl holding an umbrella looking at a shrine

Features • Films

“Weathering With You”—When It Rains, It Pours

by Sebastien Aurillon

“Untitled ”(Cracked Watermelon), ca. 1890, Oil on canvas - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Features • Visual Arts

Charles Ethan Porter: African-American Still-Life Painter

by Bobbie Leigh

Museums

GALLERIE D’ITALIA MILAN photograph of interior by author

Museums

From the Clay to the Algorithm. Art and Technology

by Stefania Carrozzini

Figure 1. William James Aylward (1875-1956). Variant of “The Clipper’s Home Was In South Street,” frontispiece for “The Clipper-Ship and Her Seamen,” by W. J. Aylward, Scribner’s Magazine, April 1917. Oil on canvas. 30 1/8 × 24 1/8 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Beverly P. Hoffman in memory of her husband, Howard E. Hoffman, 2019.

Museums

“Let us imagine ourselves back among the handsome ships.”

by Mary F. Holahan Ph.D.

Museums

Fairy Tales to Nursery Rhymes: The Michael and Esther Droller Collection of Picture Book Art

by Mary F. Holahan Ph.D.

Poetry

Portrait of author, sitting with a notebook open in her hand. She is wearing a grey turtleneck with a pendent on a chain. She has shoulder length hair and is wearing glasses

Poetry

Autumn Dusk

by Laura Rutland

two elegant masks and figures standing together looking over their shoulders to the viewer, wearaing abstract dresses and blue jackets with a fan motif on the shoulder. background in blue and red. cropped image of original

Poetry

Self Portrait Next to
Frida Kahlo

by Leslie Neustadt

portrait of woman in a misty abstract background

Poetry

Planting Seeds in a Dark Time

by Linda Leedy Schneider

Visual Arts

Profiles • Visual Arts

Christopher “Daze” Ellis and the Evolution of Graffiti

by Benedict Carrizzo

artist in front of windows and behind his orange sculpture

Visual Arts

Armando Guiller
Into Alignment

by Joaquin Badajoz

Profiles • Visual Arts

Practice Makes Perfect:
The Art of Christian Chavant

by Sebastien Aurillon

7 totem like wooden elongated rectangular pieces - laid out in a row

Visual Arts

A Metaphor for Our Time

by Christine Graf

paiting and collage abstract work in blues, browns and blacks

Visual Arts

Danièle M. Marin:
A Poet of Paint

Installation of 2000 mixed media paper circles sewn together creating a curtain

Visual Arts

The Many Talents of
Liz Curtin

by Christine Graf

Films

Photo of the two men by their van, showing some of the technical seup inside the van.

Films

“Drive”
The Longest of the Best

by Woody Sempliner

Black and white film still of two men in coats, one with a hat, walking away from the viewer, down a town street, strewn with lots of paper

Films

“Sátántangó”
The Best of the Longest

by Woody Sempliner

Picture from the movie a girl holding an umbrella looking at a shrine

Features • Films

“Weathering With You”—When It Rains, It Pours

by Sebastien Aurillon

Features • Films

Review: “Velvet Buzzsaw”, a Comedy-Horror Movie Set in the Art World.

by Sebastien Aurillon

Dance

Photograph of a couple dancing with people looking on

Dance

The Tango Tangle Social Club

by Carolyn Mitchell

Two constumed dancers, one in a red costume and the other in blue

Dance • Features

The Latest Out Of Chicago: Hiplet Ballerinas

by Marina Hadley

Photograph of two dancers

Dance

Gibney: The Beating Heart

by Trina Mannino

Dance

A Martha Graham Masterclass with Oliver Tobin

by Marina Hadley