GALLERY 195

Gallery 195, a gallery exhibit in partnership with the Arts Council of Greater New Haven and First Niagara, is located at 195 Church Street (across from the New Haven Green) on the fourth floor. The exhibit can be viewed during bank hours. Two-person exhibitions are mounted quarterly and are coordinated by the Arts Council.

CURRENT EXHIBITION
September 14 to December 9, 2011

The Arts Council of Greater New Haven presents an exhibition of works by Connecticut artists Sharon Butler and Geoffrey Detrani at Gallery 195 at First Niagara Bank, 195 Church St., 4th floor, New Haven. The exhibition will be on display during bank hours from September 14 through December 9, 2011. An artists’ reception is scheduled for Tuesday, September 13, from 5 to 7pm. The public is invited to attend.

The exhibit will feature work by Sharon Butler and Geoffrey Detrani. Butler uses a juxtaposition of brilliant color against stark backgrounds to evoke the linear state of natural life; many of her pieces are first inspired by the shape of everyday objects. Detrani depicts images of the natural world in explosive colors and “in a state of flux”, in an effort to capture the beauty of the world, but also its fleeting and entropic nature.

Sharon Butler is an artist and writer; her grants and awards include a Connecticut Artist fellowship, Vermont Studio Center residency grant, and Connecticut State University research grants. Sharon is an art professor for Eastern Connecticut State University and also maintains the award-winning art blog Two Coats of Paint, as well as contributing to numerous other publications. Her work has been included in galleries and exhibitions around the world.

Geoffrey Detrani is an artist, writer, and poet from Hamden, CT. Geoffrey’s work has been featured in numerous collections and galleries and has been the featured artist for such publications as The New England Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Artscope Magazine. Geoffrey has received multiple grants and awards such as the 2006 Chashama Visual Arts Studio Award and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation residency grant. He is a contributing writer for the New Haven Advocate and a teacher in New Haven, CT.

For more information about this exhibition and Gallery 195 at First Niagara, call the Arts Council at (203) 772-2788.

Geoffrey Detrani	Sharon Butler

Artists' Opportunity
If you would like to be considered for a two-person exhibition at Gallery 195, please send images, résumé and bio to: Arts Council of Greater New Haven, 70 Audubon Street, New Haven, CT 06510. For more information, call Debbie Hesse at 203-772-2788 or email dhesse [at] newhavenarts.org.

Past Gallery 195 Exhibits
Schmaltz & Waterman
Waters & Wulke
Cron & Hocker
Crowley & Lage
Marks & Majoros
Billups & Miller
Dubicki & Peterson
Craig & Lustenader
Tremaine & Wolfe
Kindilien & Moskowitz

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