Art/Place Gallery Two-Member Show - Reception Sept. 10

Fairfield, CT -- Art/Place Gallery members Alice Katz and Art Gerstein will be exhibiting there in their third show together called “Art’s Animals and Alice’s People” from August 28 to October 1. The reception is Sunday, September 10  at  2-5 pm, and the artists will talk about their work at 3:30 pm. and again talk on Thursday, September 21 at 1:00 pm. Art/Place Gallery is located at 70 Sanford Street in Fairfield. and is open every afternoon See www.artplacegallery.org or call 203-259-8026.
 
Art Gerstein is a digital photographer and a Reiki practitioner living in Norwalk. He began taking photos as a child, became assistant to a photo-journalist and was production still photographer for Stanley Kubrick’s special effects director for Universal Studios in 1990. In 1997, he started moving away from film in favor of newly introduced digital camera technology.  

He has exhibited in Florida, where his work received the Florida West Arts New Direction Award for Artistic Achievement. Locally, he has shown at area galleries, libraries, and at Fairfield University Bookstore. He is currently a member of SPAG in Norwalk. 

The impressionistic color pieces he has produced on paper, canvas and aluminum are a continuation of what he learned working with photographic films.  His latest work combines aspects of impressionism and animal portraits taken at the Norwalk Aquarium, the Sanibel Island Preserve in Florida, the Galapagos Islands and his own pets. He says, “The current look and feel of my art now resembles painting, even though I start with digital photographs.  My goals include provoking deep contemplation, relaxation/excitation and bringing healing with color and with Life Force Energy.  My art is thematic, bringing to the surface the hidden universe I perceive, with depth and feeling that make many viewers want to reach out and feel the surface of the art. These unique portraits push the envelope by utilizing aspects of abstraction and virtual textures.”  

Alice Katz is a Fairfield psychotherapist, teacher, author, and artist. She spent many years teaching art to children and to adults before becoming a psychotherapist in private counseling. She taught continuing education classes on anger management and compulsive eating issues and is the author of books on these subjects. 

Alice has been making art her entire life using fabric, paper, paint, and found objects to create papier mache sculptures, wall hangings, paintings, collages, and photomontages. Her work has been shown in many galleries and museums in Connecticut and is in private collections in Connecticut, New York, and Massachusetts. It was featured several times on cable television. She is the Program Chair of the Fairfield County Arts Association and is a curator for the Bruce S. Kershner Gallery.

This show includes her work in a variety of wide variety of styles and mediums, all depicting people. She says, “I aim to create a pleasing and interesting composition with color, shapes, and texture. Good design is more important to me than the subject matter. All of my work is an interpretation of some image I see, often without color. The medium I choose for each is the one that I believe will best depict it.”
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