"Dreamy" show opens Tuesday at Gallery at Whitney Center in Hamden

Perspectives: The Gallery at Whitney Center
200 Leeder Hill Rd., Hamden, (203) 772-2788
Dreamy
Oct. 9—Nov. 30, 2012.
Opening reception: Tues., Oct. 9, 5-7 p.m.

Press release from the Arts Council of Greater New Haven

Perspectives—The Gallery at Whitney Center presents Dreamy, a collaboration between the Whitney Center and the Arts Council of Greater New Haven.

Curated by Debbie Hesse and Steven Olsen, Dreamy includes works by Stephen Grossman, Rachel Hellerich, Lisa Hess Hesselgrave, Jaime Kriksciun, Kristina Kuester-Witt and Margaret Roleke.

Dreamy will be on view through Nov. 30. There will be an opening reception for Dreamy on Tues., Oct. 9, from 5—7 p.m.

"Five Course Meal" exhibit artists' reception Tuesday at Katalina's in New Haven

Katalina's Cupcake Shop
74 Whitney Ave., New Haven, (203) 891-7998
Five Course Meal
Through Nov. 2, 2012.
Artists' reception: Tues., Sept. 18, 5—7 p.m.

Press release

The Arts Council of Greater New Haven presents Five Course Meal, an exhibition of works by Connecticut artists Joan Fitzsimmons, Laura Barr, Alexis Neider, Barbara Marks, and Lisa Hess Hesselgrave.

The exhibition will take place at Katalina’s cupcake shop at 74 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, and will be on display from Sept. 10—Nov. 2, 2012. Katalina’s is open to the public during business hours, Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

An artists’ reception is scheduled for Tues., Sept. 18, from 5—7 p.m. The public is invited to attend. Refreshments and light appetizers will be served, including cupcakes, of course!

The exhibit will feature artwork that revolves around the theme of food, including colorful and playful paintings of indulgent breakfasts and black and white photographs of emptied glasses. The exhibition, curated by our Director of Artistic Services & Programs, Debbie Hesse, brings together all the abundance and the lack that the theme summons within all of us, roughly three times a day.

This exhibition will also complement the Arts Paper’s September issue “The Art of Food,” which will highlight local culinary talent, delve into international eating trends, discuss food documentaries, and goes behind-the-scenes in the article “The Ballet of Service.”

Hesselgrave show opens Sunday at Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library

Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library
146 Thimble Islands Rd., Stony Creek, (203) 562-4927
Close to Home: New Work by Lisa Hess Hesselgrave
May 9—Jun. 2, 2010
Opening reception: Sun., May 16, 4—6 p.m.

Press release

Close to Home: New Work by Lisa Hess Hesselgrave will be on exhibit from May 9 through June 2, 2010 at the Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library in Stony Creek. There will be an artist's reception on Sun., May 16 from 4—6 p.m.

A regular on the New Haven art scene, this show is the first time Hesselgrave has exhibited on her home turf of Stony Creek, CT.

Inspired by the view from a favorite window, the pieces in this series of dusky landscapes evoke the road to home or the road away from home.

Using oils and pastels, the artist has recorded a keenly-observed landscape from a favorite window. Hesselgrave's familiarity with the immoveable shapes of her view has allowed her to focus on the continually changing qualities of color and light. An exercise in restraint, the darkest of the nighttime images employ barely perceptible shifts in color, yet manage to reveal suggestions of houses, trees and road.

Hesselgrave's long regarded skill of representing the human figure is transferred here. Most of these images are unpeopled, yet the human presence is suggested by the comforting familiarity of a roofline or the amber glow of a window. Precise in color, nuanced in form, these finely crafted works haunt the viewer with images at once solid and ephemeral.

Lisa Hess Hesselgrave has been exhibiting her work throughout the greater northeast since graduating from the Yale School of Art in 1985. Hesselgrave's work is represented by the Kehler Liddell Gallery in New Haven. She has been awarded residencies at the Millay Colony for the Arts in 2002 and 1992 and at the Seaside Institute, in 1996. Hesselgrave is on the faculty of Gateway Community College in New Haven.