Gallery 195 artists' reception on Tuesday evening

Gallery 195
195 Church St., 4th floor (NewAlliance Bank), New Haven, (203) 772-2788
Phyllis Crowley & Janet Lage
Through Nov. 13, 2009
Artists' reception: Tues., Sept. 15, 5—7 p.m.

Press release

The Arts Council of Greater New Haven presents an exhibition of works by Connecticut artists Phyllis Crowley and Janet Lage at Gallery 195 at NewAlliance Bank, 195 Church St., 4th floor, New Haven. The exhibition will be on display during bank hours from Aug. 17 through Nov. 13, 2009. An artists' reception is scheduled for Tuesday, September 15, from 5—7 p.m. The public is invited to attend.

This exhibition showcases photography by Phyllis Crowley and paintings by Janet Lage.

Photographer Phyllis Crowley's work has been exhibited Connecticut, and in Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Her work was included in the Arts Council-curated 2007 Player's Lounge Invitational Exhibition at the Pilot Pen Tennis tournament in New Haven. Also that year, Crowley's work was featured in Roadside Attractions, a group show presented by the Arts Council. In 1995 and 1999, Crowley received Artist Fellowship awards from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts.

Janet Lage's work has been exhibited throughout Connecticut, as well as in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island. In 2007, Lage won an award at the 78th Connecticut Women Artists Open Juried Exhibition, and, in 2003, received the 74th Annual Connecticut Women Artists Speedball Award. Her work has been featured in Studio Visit magazine.

Opening this evening at eo art lab in Chester

eo art lab
69 Main Street, Chester, (860) 526-4833
Janet Lage: Hose Me
July 1—Aug. 2, 2009
Opening reception: Fri., July 3, 6—9 p.m.

Press release

Janet Lage’s work takes its form as she experiences the world within the gap between seeing and knowing. Lage has developed a vocabulary of marks, materials, textures, and colors that are symbolic expressions of the residue of life. She sees the paint as a living thing with inclinations of its own and she opens herself up to collaborate with it. Calligraphic lines and irregular edges are born from the rawness of nature and contemporary culture. Drawing inspiration from life’s curious daily events and scenes, she synchronizes the intertwined existence of order and disorder. Her work positions itself loosely between representation and abstraction in search of this expression.

Lage absorbs her surroundings and takes nothing for granted. She finds worth and meaning in the mundane as well as the exotic. Her work expresses the parallel realities of life’s scenes and events. In this way, her work is affirming and positive, giving weight to the seemingly insignificant as well as the momentous, providing a model for our travels.

Hose Me, an exhibition of Lage's paintings, will open this evening at eo art lab from 6—9 p.m.