Gallery and Studio – Arts Journal

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

Visual Arts

The Many Talents of
Liz Curtin

by Christine Graf

Editorial

Summer 2020 Issue
We are happy to be able to bring you our third issue of Gallery&Studio arts journal. Covid19 and the consequent shutdown resulted in the unfortunate cancellation of the Spring 2020 issue, but we are back on track with a Summer issue reflecting on all that has happened during these tumultuous months with special written and visual contributions. See full article

Art in Quarantine

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

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

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

Folly
Rogers

black and white photograph of a person in an over coat and pants standing on the side of the road by a lamp post. There is a large black drain cover by the lampost too.

Carol
Julien

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

Fabrizio
Bellanca

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

Face with sunglasses refleccting a convertible

Joe
Chierchio

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

Brian
Auerbach

Alex
Landry

Portrait of a woman created from four canvases

Lars
Winther

abstract painting

Victor
Grauer

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

Shelley
Haven

Dennis
Elleflot

surealist portrait of woman without eyes, black hair, a lace shawl amd cracks from her chest up the right side of her face, against a wine colored background.

Ashley
Rang

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

Bridget
Howard

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

Abstract work - predominantly pink, yellow and brown paint strokes

Sheila
Hecht

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

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

Lena

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

Screen print of Frida Kahlo overlaid with vaguely horizontal swathes of colors that are someone reminsicent of the rainbow.

Tina
Morris

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

two robbins on branches with red berries with a snowy background

Emily
Shih

Abstract work of blacks, pinks and greys, with lines strocking upwards in an hourglass shape. in the lower half there is photograph of a person's face and spread hands peering through a window in a darkened room

Madeleine
Wories

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

Naomi
Teppich

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

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

Anki
King

Abstract painting with blues, greens and purple swathes

Katharine
Dufault

Isabelle
Ribot

photographic cartoons about people in New York. "An original tapestry woven frorm the fabric of New York Day in the Life Stories & Published Our Town NYC Coic Book Reality Narratives, Art Illustrations and Photography Photoons.

Peter
Pereira

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

Image of a person wearing a gas mask with an idustrial background, seen through broken glass.

Nicholas
Berdysheff

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

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

Rosemarie
Penhallow

Astract work in tones from white/grey and brown/black. Swathes of color, overlaid and textured paint

Jerry
McLaughlin

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

Jim
Lustenader

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

Woman holding a boy in her arms - painting.

Linda
Pierson

photo of a mix of flowers with a black background

Cecilia
Mignon

painting of a variety of pond folliage and autumn leaves floating on water and just below the surface

Susan
Laing

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

Robert
Kalman

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

Image of flower

Michael
Fellows

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

domestic scene of a woman sewing flowers on material

Hira
Kazmi

Christie
Cruise

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

joshuagabriel

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

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

Alex
Berdysheff

Family portrait in the garden with all wearing masks

Ian
Mesa-Jonassen

Christine
Graf

Digital image of a blossomming tree with COVID19 buds

Veyron
Pax

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

Adrián
Carranza

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

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

mixed media abstract image hinting at a face.

Lydia
Hershauer

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

Marylu
Downing

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

Cody
Franchetti

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

Mary
Moross

A photograph of a couple standing together wearing medial masks

Eva
Lewarne

4 film strips with images of people

Janet
Stafford

Kathryn
Hart

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

Renee
Khatami

Painting of a cat rolling around on the floor

Nemo
Librizzi

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

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

Matthew
Turov

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

Anthony
Newton

Allan
Einhorn

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

Keith
Morant

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

Anthony
Buscaino

portrait of a person in color pencils

Lou
Patrou

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

Alvaro
Sánchez

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

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

Mark
Kurdziel

Abstract expressionist work in white black and beige.

Mira M
White

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

Abstract painting - very brightly colored celestial-like imagery with fragments floating

Asya
Abdrahman

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

photograph of a scantilly clad black woman with her left hand over her head and clutching at her hair looking to her left

Ashleigh
Alexandria

abstratc painting in a grid, predominatly blue

Bob
Leonard

brown and white acrylic painting

Jean Marc
Calvet

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

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

Peter
Welch

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

Daniel
Fenelon

a black and white image of a family of 5 holding hands on the sidewalk under a towering forest of buildings

Catherine
Chaillout

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

Myrna
Minter Forster

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

Joann
Donatiello

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

Jezzelle
Kellam

Nude bodies of a woman and man

Vivian
O’Shaughnessy

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

abstract painting on a pale washed background - strong smudges of greens, browns, blues and white in a bottoom heavy hourglass shape diagonally across the page from top left to bottom right

Melissa
Wang

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

A man doing a backward flip off a wooden platform that has the word NO DIV(ing) written on it, into the sea

Norm
Borden

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

Pilar
Jimenez

abstract work with many shapes tumbling down the image.

Yvonne
Rossetti

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

Anne
Rudder

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

abstract faded yello and red lines on paper on pinstripe cloth

Terri
Fraser

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