Gallery and Studio – Arts Journal

Events

Western Connecticut
State University
MFA Thesis Exhibition 2021

Profiles

Unsay Their Names

by Derek Kannemeyer

Events

“Sparkle”

Poetry

Antidote for Grief

by Linda Leedy Schneider

Visual Arts

A Gentle Augur of Seasons

Music

Can’t Stop The Music

by Rachelle Masters

Profiles

My Bicycle, My Movie Theater, My Imagination

by Shelly Reuben

Visual Arts

Going Way Beyond Comfort Zone

Visual Arts

Divining Dreamscapes

Profiles

How I (Almost) Learned To Live Without Photoshop

by Oscar Masciandaro

Ed McCormack

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of
Ed McCormack, Founder of Gallery&Studio.

Ed McCormack was born in 1943 in the Lower East Side of New York City. Read more...

Fundraiser - Calendar Competition

We are excited to share with our creative readers the opportunity to be part of a full color hanging calendar for 2022! We will feature one artist each month and one additional for the cover. The winners of this competition will be selected by the Board of Directors. Our aim is to use the calendar to promote the artists and their works via a network of selected galleries, museums, curators, collectors, and art communities. For more information and to submit work for the competition, please click here.

Art in Quarantine

Alvaro
Sánchez

A barren landscape with many metal-framed beds spaced apart. A lone figure in the center sits on a bed while looking down.

June
He

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

Nicholas
Berdysheff

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 human figure curled up inside of an opaque white egg on a dark background.

Anki
King

Pyramid-like origami sculptures of thick material strapped with gold string and brass pins with knotted heads.

Renee
Cuny

Woman holding a boy in her arms - painting.

Linda
Pierson

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

Marylu
Downing

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

Dennis
Elleflot

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

Shelley
Haven

Drawing of a red fox

Heather
Levy

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

Matthew
Turov

abstract expressionist painting with multi-colored splashes and dots

Manon
Casimir-Sainton

A long-haired girl in color wearing a blue mask in a black and white old-style NY subway.

Valerie
Patterson

A red page sits on multiple things behind it.

Michael
Ainsworth

Black and white photograph of a person in an overcoat and pants standing on the side of the road by a lamp post.

Carol
Julien

Poised at the Precipice

Deborah L. Staunton

A shirtless person wearing a headwrap facing a headboard and curtains in a room.

Christie
Cruise

A variety of pond foliage and autumn leaves floating on water.

Susan
Laing

Marrakech art work framed

Sebastien
Aurillon

Scantily clad woman with her left hand over her head and clutching at her hair looking to her left.

Ashleigh
Alexandria

Colorful abstract work showing a seated, masked humanoid.

Kaye
Freeman

Donald Trump holding a head of Trump with a small man in front of him adorned with the symbols of American Life.

Robert
Cenedella

Black and white photograph of the side of a barn with an American flag painted onto it.

Robert
Kalman

Abstracted aboriginal-style work packed with people, birds, and animals mainly in blue and yellow.

Daniel
Fenelon

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

An older man sits on a chair outside an old-fashioned storefront named “Albanese Meats & Poultry.”

Jeff
Tocci

A woman wears a white dress and a hat with a red cross on it. There are American flags as wings on her shoulders.

Linda
Dujack

Abstract lines and paint strokes.

Dellamarie
Parrilli

A person with a sad expression has her hands, which are covered with black paint, covering her face.

Akiko
Suzuki

4 film strips with images of people

Janet
Stafford

Painting of a multi-colored Buddha-like figure with a beaded necklace, yellow jacket, and a large belly.

Jim
Charette

two people's shadows walking in water

Yuichiro
Shibata

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

Cody
Franchetti

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

Alex
Berdysheff

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

Abstract representation of a sun-like shape with many different patterns.

R.d.H.

A woman with black hair, a lace shawl, cracks from her chest up to her face, and no eyes stands against a dark background.

Ashley
Rang

An abstract image of a person face along with many colors and textures.

Claudia
Furlani

Two birds on branches with berries with a snowy background.

Emily
Shih

Global Art
Project

A chain link fence with a metal white chair behind it in an empty lot, with the skyline of New York seen in the background.

Giedrius
Jokubauskis

A black and white image of a woman lying on the ground, wearing sweats and a sports bra, with pink blossoms around her.

Grace
Plimpton-Sims

Digital image of a blossoming tree with COVID19 buds

Veyron
Pax

Surgical glove with geometric and organic pattern.

Guillaume
Saur

A woman sews flowers onto a material with various objects behind her.

Hira
Kazmi

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 expressionist painting containg a heart, wheel with spokes, writing, strokes, with blue and sandy colors

Sonja
Kobrehel

Abstract colors and patterns.

Isabelle
Ribot

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

Jim
Lustenader

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

painting of blue water, lillypads and greeen shoreline

Don
Gropman

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

Syporca
Whandal

A person stands in front of an empty storefront with an awning next to a “One Way” sign seen through a slit in a gate.

Jesse
Skupa

A piece of paper, on pinstripe cloth, with abstract faded yellow and red lines on it.

Terri
Fraser

Abstract work vaguely reminiscent of torn fabric with a flower pattern.

Minya
Mikic

Mixed-media abstract image hinting at a face.

Lydia
Hershauer

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

A wooden household shelf filled with screens, purity tassels, a rising sun, alter, rope, greenery, and stones.

Joseph
Fox

Abstract multicolored smudges diagonally across the page against a pale washed background.

Melissa
Wang

sculpture of a child writing on colored tiles sitting at the foot of a concrete wall

Helle
Rask Crawford

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

OIl painting of two women in a shell

Molly
Rose Strugatz

A forest of trees with orange leaves, green undergrowth, and blue skies in the background.

Shy
Raguso

Abstract painting with blues, greens and purple swathes

Katharine
Dufault

A young girl with dark hair, wearing a bikini, sits on a yacht with her legs crossed.

Diana
Mullman

Portrait of a girl

Chanit
Roston

Street scene in Madrid

Tomas
Castaño

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

Rosemarie
Penhallow

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

Tina
Morris

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

Keith
Morant

Abstract painting with reds, green, purple, with 3 black circles.

Joann
Donatiello

abstract paper and paint in black, red,white and beige

Carl
Heyward

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

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

Hanne
Rivrud

Portrait of a woman with lively hair made of dynamic colors moving across the painting in different directions.

Esther
Barend

A large white candle-like shaped sculpture with a rose on top sits on a flat circular metallic board.

Sydney
Valiquet

Abstract multi-colored collage on a plain background.

Myrna
Minter Forster

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

Katie Duffy
McGeehin

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

Adrián
Carranza

Painting of a verdant bank by water. Two kangaroos are in the picture, one is about to drink from the water, another is on itd back in a canoe which had been drawn half out of the water onto the bank.

Cheryl
Hochberg

Painting of a cowboy on a horse in the background with a young calf in the foreground.

Melchor
Moore

Painting of a cat rolling around on the floor

Nemo
Librizzi

Collage of woman with a glass in her hand.

Denise
Adler

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

Martin
Rich

Multi-media piece with shadow on the wall.

Kathryn
Hart

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

A human-like form dressed in plaid with a cat's head, holding another cat’s head. They stand in plants with cat heads.

Hanae
Sasaoka

Abstract collage with some of a face shown in the center of the work.

Bernice
Sokol Kramer

Mutli-colored flowers against a blue sky.

Fotini
Christophillis

A skull on a pile of colored sponges. The image reads “Room for thought: Are all the tears of the world enough?”

R. Wayne
Parsons

Textured blue painting with darker paint dripping down the center of the piece.

Lena

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

Dulcie
Dee

abstract mulit-colored mono print looking like a collage with craps of color floating on a foggy background

Basha
Maryanska

brown and white acrylic painting

Jean Marc
Calvet

A nude figure opens their arms towards a dark landscape with their back facing the audience.

Glen
Rogers

Painting of flowers in a field.

Eleanore
O’Sullivan

A crowd of people in outline only except for the top half of a person's head with a health insurance card on their forehead.

Ed
McCormack

Museums

Museums

VOLCANO! at the PAM

by Dr. Bill Thierfelder

Painting of a man at a door

Museums

Winter Tales

by Mary F. Holahan Ph.D.

A gallery space with an organically patterned wall, paintings, and a sculpture with foliage in the center of the room.

Museums

Adventurous Experiments

by Mary F. Holahan Ph.D.

Poetry

Poetry

Antidote for Grief

by Linda Leedy Schneider

Poetry

An Illuminated Poem by Ed McCormack

by Ed McCormack

Portrait of a woman with glasses sitting with a notebook open in her hand.

Poetry

Autumn Dusk

by Laura Rutland

Visual Arts

Visual Arts

A Gentle Augur of Seasons

Visual Arts

Going Way Beyond Comfort Zone

Visual Arts

Divining Dreamscapes

Visual Arts

Home as the Soul of Art

by Christine Graf

Abstract image of the galaxy with a purple haze over a dark sky and lots o stars and planets.

Visual Arts

Roz Dorlen: Dazzling Visions, Vastly Captured

Drawing of Wonder Woman wielding a lasso with the Batmobile and Wayne Manor in the background.

Visual Arts

“Today’s Feelings with Yesterday’s Headlines”

by Marina Hadley

Films

A car with other mechanical objects behind it.

Films

On Remembering and Remembering Dreams

by Woody Sempliner

Wooden poles creating a structure with clothes hanging on it. Clouds and mountains are seen in the background.

Films

Film’s Poetic Subconscious

by Woody Sempliner

Two men by their van, showing some of the technical setup 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

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

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