Cultural Alliance of Western CT hosts new @287Gallery exhibit

Continuing its highly admired art exhibitions at @287 Gallery & Meeting Place, the Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut, will feature Emerging Journey:The Artwork of Tina Corbelle-Sturges, opening Friday, April 29th and running through Friday, July 22nd. Accompanying her show will be sculpted works by Eric Camiel. "I've chosen to join 2D and sculptural installation in each @287 exhibition, and will continue to do so from now on," says Lisa Scails, Executive Director of the Cultural Alliance. "It's such a touchy-feely thing, and in the end, the mix becomes a wonderful, radiant collaborative experience."

"In this, the Cultural Alliance's tenth year, @287 has become an invaluable creative hub in downtown Danbury. To exhibit such artists as Tina Corbelle-Sturges and Eric Camiel, with the support of our community's stakeholders, is an honor, and we've been pleased that so many come to understand that a community must have art, and art must have a community." The exhibition is made possible, in part, through the generosity of the Savings Bank of Danbury and Brio Tuscan Grille. 

Tina Cobelle Sturges is best known for her radiant, colorful, and approachable paintings that blend small brush strokes with pointilistic technique to animate the canvas and bring country and city landscapes to life. Her unique impressionist and folk art style reflects her dedication to a bright palette, one that "bends, whispers, sings, shouts," notes Ms. Scails. She paints equally successfully reflecting the sensitivity of small town life on a New England Main Street or the busy urban streetscapes of New York City, in both cases, embracing the cadence and harmony of the scene as it comes alive through paint, brush and canvas. Tina grew up in Ridgefield, CT, with her father, internationally known and prolific artist Charles Cobelle, who is regarded as one of the last links to the Open Line School of Paris and who studied with Chagall and Dufy, the influence noticeably evident in Tina's work. The title of the show reflects new abstract works that will debut at @287 and Tina's continued dedication to her creative "journey."