Our featured speaker/presenter: Dave Pressler. He will be speaking about and showing his “Micro Paintings”.

Dave has forty years of experience in design and marketing communications, and has held key design, management and partnership positions with leading consulting firms, consumer product manufacturers and major museums. He holds a degree in Industrial Design from Rhode Island School of Design, with graduate study in Marketing. He has contributed articles to the national design journal, Innovation, spoken at conferences and is the recipient of numerous design awards.

The images in this presentation are created by drawing, painting and incising on a transparent, colorless film. They reflect the original works and the hands-on interaction that takes place between Dave and the mixed media materials with which he paints. In 1967, he experimented with aniline dyes, ground graphite, India ink and resists, and then developed unique techniques for controlling the application and flow of the materials to create images on the film. They are metaphors for birth, growth, decline and regeneration, based on his fascination with the forms and structure of the natural world and its organic forms – from the microcosm of bio-forms to the macrocosm of growth, geological formations and erosion. The artist refers to viewing these images as a visual journey of the mind. He intends them to transport the viewer into fresh ways of looking and seeing.

The meeting will include refreshments and feedback on art brought by members.

Anyone may attend a meeting at no charge before deciding whether or not to join the organization. Call 203/259-8026.

]]> http://fairfieldcountyarts.com/archives/561/feed 0 http://fairfieldcountyarts.com/archives/547 http://fairfieldcountyarts.com/archives/547#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:28:17 +0000 Deirdre http://fairfieldcountyarts.com/?p=547 Please join us on Wednesday, April 11 at 7 pm at Roger Ludlowe Middle School.

Our featured speaker will be Karl Soderlund.

Karl Soderlund, a well-known professional portrait artist, will give a portrait demonstration.

Karl has done portraits of corporate presidents. judges, professional athletes, private individuals, and children. His work hangs in over 250 public and private collections, including Interpublic Companies, Merrill Lynch, Pepsi Cola, and is in the Heisman Trophy portrait collection. His paintings have been featured on television, in magazines and newspapers, and were recently on exhibit in the Pequot Library.

Karl studied at the Art Students League in New York City, Yale University, Silvermine Guild, and with renowned realist painter, Daniel Greene. Karl teaches art at the Rowayton Arts Center. Visit Karl’s website to see more of his work.

The meeting will include refreshments and feedback on art brought by members.

Anyone may attend a meeting at no charge before deciding whether or not to join the organization. Call 203/259-8026.

]]> http://fairfieldcountyarts.com/archives/547/feed 0 http://fairfieldcountyarts.com/archives/539 http://fairfieldcountyarts.com/archives/539#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:42:26 +0000 Deirdre http://fairfieldcountyarts.com/?p=539 Please Join us on Wednesday, March 14th* at 7 pm at Roger Ludlowe Middle School

Our featured speaker will be  Westport artist Miggs Burroughs.

Lenticular image of his mother at 17 and 95 by Miggs Burroughs

The presentation, “From TIME Covers to T-shirts” he says, “explores my unconventional career trajectory, from my first assignment doing covers for TIME magazine in 1974, to current work which includes, among other things, lenticular photography and t-shirts for local events.”

Miggs is a full-time graphic artist who has been serving commercial and non-profit clients throughout Fairfield County since 1972.

Among his more visible creations are the Westport Town Flag, logos for the Levitt Pavilion, the Westport Historical Society, the Westport YMCA, Project Return, every First Night button, as well as hundreds oft-shirts for local races and events. Other designs include a U.S. Commemorative Postage Stamp, and four covers for TIME Magazine – one of which hangs in the Smithsonian Institution along with the Easter Egg he designed for the Reagan White House.

There will be refreshments and a showing of art by members.

*If there is a storm or icy conditions, the school will be closed and there will be no meeting.

]]> http://fairfieldcountyarts.com/archives/539/feed 0 http://fairfieldcountyarts.com/archives/530 http://fairfieldcountyarts.com/archives/530#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:23:30 +0000 Deirdre http://fairfieldcountyarts.com/?p=530 Please Join us on Wednesday, February 8th* at 7 pm at Roger Ludlowe Middle School

Giverny Garden by Millicent Zolan

This meeting will include:

• Art Swap of art items no longer needed to swap with other members: art supplies or art books
• Discussion about replacing Board members who wish to be replaced
• Discussion about finding a venue to exhibit in the Spring as a group
• Feedback session on art by members

There is still time to see our Member’s Art Show at Independence Hall in Fairfield.  The show closes on January 30th.

*  If there is a storm or icy conditions, the school will be closed and there will be no meeting.

The Interior by Alice Katz

WHERE: Independence Hall in Fairfield

DATES: December 1 to January 30

DELIVERY 1 to 3 pieces on Wed., Nov. 30 at 1-3 pm
FEE: $5 per work plus current membership
HANGING Wed., Nov. 30 at 1-4:30 pm
RECEPTION: Thurs., Dec. 8 at 7-9 pm
PICKUP: Mon., Jan. 30 at 3-4:30 pm

ENTRY FORM:

FCAA MEMBER SHOW at Independence Hall in Fairfield. December 1, 2011 to January 30, 2012.

Click for entry form (you may fill this in online before you print)

Our featured speaker will be Leonard Everett Fisher with a survey of his painting and illustration over a period of 71 years.

Sea Songs II by Leonard Everett Fisher

Born in New York City in 1924, a WWII veteran, and Yale graduate,  Leonard Everett Fisher is a longtime Westport resident.

In a career spanning 65 plus years, he has illustrated some 260 books for young readers (authoring 90 of these), designed United States postage stamps, executed paintings for the Norwalk Transit District Building, and created numerous easel works. His paintings, drawings, and illustrations are in collections nationwide including those of the Butler Art Institute, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, Mt. Holyoke and Union Colleges, and Brown University. The Universities of Connecticut, Minnesota, Southern Mississippi, and Oregon maintain significant archives of his works and papers.

Leonard holds many awards from Yale, Catholic Library Association, and University of Minnesota; an Italian Pulitzer painting prize, a National Jewish Book Award, and the Christopher Medal for Illustration.

He is Dean Emeritus of the Paier College of Art and a member of the Low Illustration Committee of the New Britain Museum. He is a founding member of the Westport-Weston Arts Council, past president of the Westport Library Board of Trustees, and recipient of Westport’s Lifetime Achievement Award for the Visual Arts.

Leonard’s art has been seen at the Brandywine River Museum, the Chicago Art Institute, and the Smithsonian National Postal Museum. The International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England includes him in its Y2K compendium, 2000 Outstanding Artists and Designers of the 20th Century.

Refreshments and feedback on art by members will follow.

MEMBERS ART SHOW RECEPTION

Bring appetizer or dessert to share.

Our FEATURED PRESENTER will be  Bridgeport artist, KEVIN CONKLIN. He will show his work and talk about how he has earned a living as an artist.

City Song by Kevin Conklin in oil and oil pastel

Kevin attended Paier College and Massachusetts College of Art. Then, for many years, he was a successful illustrator for numerous advertising, corporate and editorial firms, including Amex, GE, Citicorp, Golf Digest, Tennis Magazine, and many more.  He now is a painter and a frame maker. His oil and oil pastel paintings of cityscapes and landscapes show his fascination with light and shadow and with color. He is inspired by “the beauty and serenity of nature” and by “the dynamic energy of cities”. He says that his “goal is to create paintings infused by the spirit within the subject matter”.

Kevin has shown his paintings in many galleries in New York and Connecticut, including a recent show at the Southport Gallery.

FCAA MEMBER SHOW at Independence Hall in Fairfield. December 1, 2011 to January 30, 2012.  Click for entry form (you may fill this in online before you print)

The featured presenter will be Jak Kovatch. discussing “Sketching/Drawing and Structure Visualization.” He will show pages from his sketchbook because he believes the drawing methods he employs can be useful information for artists. The works he will show were done as part of an Image Ideation process developed over many years and drawn from his imagination.

Jak has been on the faculty of Silvermine for fifteen years, and taught industrial design for many years at University of Bridgeport and at Yale. He has exhibited his paintings, drawings, sculpture, and graphics in more than 700 regional, national, and international museums, universities, and institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art and the National Academy of Design in New York.

The presentation will be followed by refreshments and a feedback session on the artwork of attending members.

Ernest Hemmingway US Postage Stamp by Greg Rudd

Featured presenter: professional artist, Greg Rudd. He will discuss his career as a painter, illustrator and stamp designer.

Greg attended The Illustrators Workshop at Marymount College, where he studied with Gold medal winning artists at The Society of Illustrators in NYC who were inducted into The Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame with others like Norman Rockwell and N.C. Wyeth. His training also involved Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, the New York Academy of Art, and study with portrait painter John Howard Sanden.

Greg’s stamp design of Ernest Hemmingway was included in the United States Postal Service show at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and was selected as one of the best designs put out by the U.S.P.S. between 1960 and 2000. He also exhibited at The American Society of Portrait Artists in New York and at their national exhibition.

Greg has done work for corporations like Pepsi, UPS, The American Stock Exchange, The Los Angeles Times, The Postal Commemorative Society and Golf Digest. He is currently exploring the origin and influences of America’s Founder’s as they created the United States of America for a project called Original American Mind. He has created tee shirt designs for it and is planning to do a very large triptych painting depicting America’s roots and identity.

There will be time for questions, refreshments, and a showing of one work by any attending member.

REMINDER: Lockwood Mathews Art Association Presents: “SUMMER IN FAIRFIELD COUNTY” featuring the artists of the Fairfield Count Arts Association.  The show is open May 7 to August 18.  The Lockwood Mathews Mansion Museum is located at 295 West Avenue Norwalk, CT