Gallery and Studio – Arts Journal

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

Profiles

Chronicles from a
Suspended City

by Stefania Carrozzini

Dance

The Tango Tangle Social Club

by Carolyn Mitchell

Visual Arts

Danièle M. Marin:
A Poet of Paint

Editorial

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

a storybook character with a pointed blue hat with a sparkle/pompom on the end of the point, arms akimbo holding a large ring, wearing a skirt and red shoes laced up the calv

Cheryl
Finfrock

Kathryn
Hart

abstract painting

Victor
Grauer

Claudia
Furlani

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

sculpture of ribbed conch shell like shape. Glazed in dark brown/black and lighter colors with a pink tinged inner part

Naomi
Teppich

Abstract work - predominantly pink, yellow and brown paint strokes

Sheila
Hecht

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

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

Alvaro
Sánchez

abstract expressionist painting with multi-colored splashes and dots

Manon
Casimir-Sainton

Wood and metal sculpture of a three wheeled crowned animal-like figure.

Rosemarie
Penhallow

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

Keith
Morant

Family portrait in the garden with all wearing masks

Ian
Mesa-Jonassen

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

Jim
Charette

Three elephant walking in long grass in Kenya

Lesa
Walker

watercolor painting of a black and white old-style NY subway interior with a long haired girl in color wearing a blue shirt, blue mask, striped pink and white skirt and blue sneakers.

Valerie
Patterson

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

Hanne
Rivrud

domestic scene of a woman sewing flowers on material

Hira
Kazmi

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

Abstract work with a gold circle in two inner rings, the top half is mainly white with flue and red splashes and bottom half is red with some black

Mouhamed
Ndiaye

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

painting with a white background circle in the center of the painting with an abstract image of a person on a vehicle. There are splashes of colors in the circle. The outside is red and yellow radiating out from the white circle

Michael
Ainsworth

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

Loosey
Hughes

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

joshuagabriel

Abstract painting with blues, greens and purple swathes

Katharine
Dufault

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

Marti
Garaughty

abstract digital image - colorful and busy detailed abstract images

Ilka
Scobie

sepia toned black and white photograph of a young girl with dark hair, wearing a bikin, sitting on a yacht with her legs crossed

Diana
Mullman

photograph of a woman's face with red paint and a nose ring on a black background

Syporca
Whandal

Image of flower

Michael
Fellows

A photogrpah of piece of string tacked to the wall with hooped clips holding a map of East Berlin and a list that says my friends, my friends, my friends, my firends, my friends, road trips, swiiming, signed R

Merih
Akman

Allan
Einhorn

Marrakech art work framed

Sebastien
Aurillon

abstract paper and painting collage with a half hidded woman's face in the center of the work.

Bernice
Sokol Kramer

Geometric abstract with pale colors and black.

Stephen
Cimini

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

Anthony
Newton

Poised at the Precipice

Deborah L. Staunton

geometric architectural design, heavy with white or light tan lines, giving the impression of a large wine-colored building in the foreground with a brown track behind it and perhaps a formal gren garden or roads.

Astrid
Witt

Photograph of a the inside of a rustic hut with rays of sun crossing the front of the lens. A wooden bench is piled with bed linens, and a wooden ledge is full of books, jars and vases.

Barbara
Schneider

abstract or surrealist alien imagery using blues, purples, cream, yellow and brown. strange creatures and shapes

Pilar
Jimenez

photo of a mix of flowers with a black background

Cecilia
Mignon

A black and white photograph of a field of wheat with a small house in the far left corner

Peter
Welch

surrealist image of a human like form dressed in green and black plaid with a cat's head, in a forest of cactus like images, holding another cat head. There are three other cat heads at the feet of the figure.

Hanae
Sasaoka

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

Brian
Auerbach

abstract work with dark blue swathe at the bottom 1/4, orange swathe at second 1/4 from bottom. Mainly one and yellow splashs of color on top 1/2

Shawn
McNulty

A wavy palm tree on paper with a blue bird flying above it, all hung on a door

Janis
Anton

Abstract image of various small white outlined shapes on a black background. The shapes are conentrated at the top left and cascade down.

Claude
Smith

A satirical and political image of a small Mke Pence standing in front of Donald Trump holding a head of Donald Trump in his right hand and adorned with symbolism of the United States and American Life.

Robert
Cenedella

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

Marylu
Downing

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

Arlene
Finger

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

Painting of a congregation

Gina
Petrone

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

Miss Ellen Ruth
Levy

Drawing of a red fox

Heather
Levy

Woman's portrait with lively hair with dymanic colors moving across the painting with blues and browns the predominant colors

Esther
Barend

Described as abstract informal by the artist. In 3 horizontal parts, small people, robots and other characters, on surfaces/planets covered in colorful dots.

Teruhisa
Tahara

Face with sunglasses refleccting a convertible

Joe
Chierchio

Monologue for a crisis

Paul
Beaudoin

Emeline
Callaway

Photograph of 3 round squashes/pumpkins of green/orange/white colors, laid on a cloth

Müberra
Bülbül

circles looking like bubbles on an opaque screen over an image of a girl standing on a train platform, overlook by another person.

Susumu
Ohira

Guillaume
Saur

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

Daniel
Fenelon

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

Painting of a cat rolling around on the floor

Nemo
Librizzi

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

Hannah
Mallaby

geometric abstract painting with orange, blues, yellow, and various shades of beige amongst other colors

Matthew
Turov

Dennis
Elleflot

Abstract expressionist work in white black and beige.

Mira M
White

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

Myrna
Minter Forster

collage of woman with a glass in her hand

Denise
Adler

A photograph of a couple standing together wearing medial masks

Eva
Lewarne

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

Alex
Berdysheff

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

Paul
Neale

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

abstract painting with a woman's face at the bottom of the image, a neon image of the word love, bright colored swathes of paint, including drips

Eddy
Bogaert

Alex
Landry

brown and white acrylic painting

Jean Marc
Calvet

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

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

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

Renee
Cuny

abstract painting mainly of reds, some green and purple with 3 black rings

Joann
Donatiello

A small household shelf for Shinto gods. Kamidama is literally a god shelf. A wooden upright box filled with Japanese spiritual synbolism - screen, purity tassels, a rising sun, alter, rope, grennery and stones.

Joseph
Fox

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

Vismaya
Vasudevan

Black and white photograph of the side of a barn, on which an American flag has been painted

Robert
Kalman

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

Luong
Thai

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

Statue of a smiling young man in a trilby hat, winter gloves and cravat lounging in a garden chair, with a bottle of corono beer in his hand. He is surrounded with greenery, a metal fence and ski stocks.

Lee
Day

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

Shy
Raguso

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

abstratc painting in a grid, predominatly blue

Bob
Leonard

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

The World Takes A Breath

Thomas
Pickarski

4 people in a painting

Karina
Sala

Very colorful flowers

Fotini
Christophillis

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

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

oil painting of pink flowers on black branches in a blue and white bowl with chinese like characters drawn on the bowl, on a peachy/pink tablecloth

Visual Arts

“Still life is the touchstone
of painting”

by Mary F. Holahan Ph.D.

The wore Recession is drawn as large three dimentional shapes. The rest of the drawing is filled with wild geometric shapes, robots and figures.

Visual Arts

Competition Winner
Teruhisa Tahara

by Marina Hadley

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