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September, 2010

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Event:

'Earth & Sky' Exhibit

Date:

September 21st to October 27th, 2010.

Location:

Mercy Gallery at Loomis Chaffee School

Contact:

Jennifer McCandless

The aspects of landscape including time, perspective, form, color, light and transition, are the focus of a mixed media gallery called "Earth & Sky" that will kick off the season at the Sue and Eugene Mercy Jr. Gallery, on Tuesday, September 21. The gallery is located in the Richmond Art Center on the campus of The Loomis Chaffee School. The exhibition will run through October 27.

Four artists, working individually in painting, sculpture, and photography, blend together in a unique perspective of the natural world around us. They include:

Leila Dawes, a mixed media sculpture artist with recent public projects at Bradley International Airport, Courtland Seymour Wilson Library in New Haven, Winsted Library on the campus of Northwestern Connecticut State, and the DeCordova Museum, among other places. A former instructor at the Massachusetts College of Art, Ms. Dawes states that she is "fascinated by mapping, as a way of representing the convergence of place and movement, as a means of imposing human ideas over the contours of the natural world, as a system of filters through which we see the landscape." Her current emphasis is on cataclysmic disasters, ruins evoking civilizations past and future, and the remains of fragile human endeavors on the surface of the planet.

Photographer Keith Johnson received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and has more than 20 years teaching including stints at the Maine Media Workshop and Jackson Hole Art Association. He is the recipient of two Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowships. Johnson's work moves the viewer beyond the single print to the use of multiple images. "The camera documents better than any device the detail and surface of objects, places, and ideas, but sometimes the involvement with an idea goes on to look at multiple facets," he says, while comparing his work to early 20th century cubist painters.

John Mullin's work asks the viewer to consider if it is factual evidence or illusory appearance. "My photographic work presented for the Mercy Gallery show is defined by the night. I approach the landscape at nighttime with awe and an awareness that such places where people are seldom present nonetheless reflects the psychodrama of human existence." Mullin has a unique photographic background - he received his MFA in Photography in 1990 from Rhode Island School of Design and his wide experience includes a stint as famed photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson's personal assistant. Mullin taught college and university students for 12 years before coming to Loomis Chaffee, where he teaches Photography and Filmmaking.

The Weather Project is an ongoing body of work developed by painter Suzan Scott, which enables her to explore her lifelong interests in art, nature, and science. "I am a painter. I paint sky. I wonder at its beauty and am awed by its complexity. In the field, I use direct observation, photography, personal notations, weather statistics, and digital recordings. Then, in my studio, I explore the process of production through manipulation of physical materials, drawing, painting in, painting out, layering, re-drawing, and glazing," she states. Scott is a graduate of Central Connecticut State University and her studio is in New Haven's Erector Square. She is a member of Connecticut Women Artists and the Women's Caucus for Art and also a member of the Canton Artists' Guild, Kent Art Association, Artwell Gallery and Artists in Real Time. Scott has exhibited widely and her work is in numerous corporate and private collections. Scott is the former owner and gallery director of Small Walls Gallery in Hartford and has worked as an art consultant in the Greater Hartford area.

There will be an opening reception on Tuesday, September 21 from 6:45 8:45 p.m. The public is invited to attend the opening reception and view the exhibitions during regular gallery hours. The Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr. Gallery is located in the Richmond Art Center on the campus of The Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Connecticut. The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 7:30 9 p.m. and Sunday afternoon from 1 4 p.m. There is no admission charge. Please note that the gallery is closed during school vacations. For additional information, call the Richmond Art Center Information Line, 860-687-6030 or visit www.mercygallery.org.

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