Fairfield, CT - Art/Place Gallery invites the public to a reception for “Spanning Time”, the artwork of members, Diane Pollack and Toby Michaels, on Sunday, April 5 at 3 to 5 pm. The show can be seen from March 30 to April 26 from 12-5 every day at 70 Sanford Street in Fairfield. See www.artplacegallery.org or call 646-258-6912. Art/Place is a non-profit, artist-run gallery. It has been in existence for more than 35 years and features a new show by one or two members every month and several group shows a year.
Much of her works on paper feature both machine and hand sewing, an acknowledgment of ancestral tasks, as well as the practical feature of securing the parts of each project together. The sewing also provides elegance of line. She incorporates printmaking, collage and sewing in all of the works seen.
Pollack has exhibited widely in Connecticut, New York and Arizona. She serves as a curator at the Kershner Gallery in Fairfield, and is a member of the Artists Collective of Westport, the consortium of Fairfield County Art Galleries in Libraries, The Ridgefield Guild of Artists, the Carriage Barn in New Canaan, and is an associate member of the Nest in Bridgeport. She has a BA from SUNY, and has studied widely with master printmakers, book and mixed media artists.
TOBY MICHAELS was an art teacher in the Westport, Weston and Darien school systems. With a Masters Degree In Art Therapy and Counseling, she initiated an Art Therapy program at Norwalk Hospital's Department of Psychiatry. After working there for 17 years, she became an art therapist at Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan. At the same time, she was an adjunct professor of Art Therapy at Quinnipiac College.
Michaels Is now a full-time artist who uses geometric shapes, colors and lines in her abstracts in a metaphoric way. She says, "Making art for me becomes a doorway into self-knowledge, allowing for a deep connection to a Higher Source, the basis of all creativity."
Michaels is a member of the Artist Collective of Westport, and her work is in the Westport Schools Permanent Art Collection and in many private collections. She exhibited widely in the Northeast and she has won numerous awards. She has also appeared on Cablevision's "'Creative Women Today" and was featured in the award-winning PBS film "Years in the Making", a documentary that celebrates late-life creativity.