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From “Swimsuit Girl” To Chair Siblings

by Lesha Daley | Oct 16, 2006 10:48 am

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Eight-five artists showed their work, in the space where they make it, at the opening weekend of Artspace’s City-Wide Open Studios this weekend, at Erector Square. Lisa Keskinen showed her artwork for the sixth time at Artspace’s Open Studios.  Keskinen’s job as an architect is what inspires her art, such as her painting “Flat Fold,” which she is selling for $1,800.

The artists’ exhibits covered a large variety of art including paintings, pottery, photography, collages, sculptures, and furniture.


(Click here for information on Open Studios, which runs through Oct. 29.)

p(clear). Caitlin Rueter makes her art sculptures from plaster and pigment, and builds up the sculpture’s form with color.  “Swimsuit Girl” is Rueter’s favorite sculpture.

p(clear). One of the featured potters in Open Studios, Louise Harter, has been a potter in the New Haven area since 1998.  Harter uses earth tones and original glazes on her pottery.

p(clear). First-year Open Studios artist Dawn Rudd, uses paint, paper and wax to create her art.  One of Rudd’s most time consuming art peices is called “Spirits Gather”; she is selling this painting for $2,000.

p(clear). Artist Gerald P. York does painting of mainly life subjects.  York uses charcoal and oil paint for paintings.  Pictured is a painting done with charcoal in 1991 of Rebecca Berry, who is the goddaughter of a good friend.

p(clear). Willard Lustenader constructs his art with two approaches—the observation of natural light, and how color works on his subjects.  Lustenader usually works on five or six paintings at a time.  The above painting took the artist about a month, working on the project two or three days a week.

p(clear). Offering something different to the art show, Victoria Branch showed off her exhibit of chairs.  Branch started having a interest in chair art about five or six years ago.  The artist finds chairs anywhere she can and sometimes they are dropped off at her door.  Pictured is “Three Sisters and a Brother.”

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