The April 2010 featured presenter was artist Gerald Saladyga discussing the themes of his new paintings, how he arrived at them, and the medium and techniques he uses.
Gerald lives in Hamden with a studio in downtown New Haven. He received a teaching degree from Southern Connecticut State University and studied art at the Art Student’s League in New York City.
He recently received two grants from Connecticut Commission on Art and Tourism, the state’s One Percent for the Arts and Weir Farm Trust Visiting Artists Program. He is a member of the Silvermine Guild of Artists and Art/Place.
Saladyga has exhibited extensively in his 30 year career throughout Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York City. Most recently, he showed his work at Sacred Heart University; University of Connecticut in Stamford; University of Bridgeport; Connecticut Commission on the Arts Gallery in Hartford; Artspace and Kehler Liddell Gallery in New Haven; 22 Haviland St. Gallery in Norwalk; Art/Place in Fairfield; and Silvermine Guild in New Canaan, where he also served on its board of Directors and co-chair of the Gallery Committee.
His work can be found in many public and private collections, in Connecticut and New York City.
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