Old Saybrook, Connecticut – Gallery One, a community of mid-career artists who work across a range of styles and in a wide variety of media, returns to The Hallway Gallery at 300 George Street in New Haven. Several new artists have joined Gallery One in recent months: Catherine Christiano, Bette Ellsworth, Suzanne Wind Gaskell, Gray Jacobik, T. Willie Raney, and Hillary Seltzer.  New members’ work will be exhibited along with that of standing members Elizabeth G. Boyd, David Brown, Ashby Carlisle, Mary Fussell, Judith Barbour Osborne, Diana Rogers, Chip Rutan and Jill Vaughn.

A Gallery One exhibit offers viewers an astounding variety of intellectually and visually stimulating experiences.  Its artists are sculptors and painters, and artists who work in a variety of media on paper, including drawing, printmaking and photography. Their work encompasses a range of representational styles as well as the abstract and the non-objective.  Some pieces are concept-driven or socially-targeted, while others are whimsical or governed primarily by gesture or color. Still others incorporate text or elaborate geometrical patterns.  At a Gallery One exhibition, you are as likely to find an artist’s careful rendering of a subject caught in a particular light, such as in the work of Catherine Christiano, as you are to encounter a wholly expressive gestural depiction of the figure, as in the pastels of Bette Ellsworth, or, as in the mixed media works by Gray Jacobik, a work whose objectives are solely material and procedural.

Suzanne Wind Gaskill’s two-dimensional and three-dimensional works incorporate many types of complex patterns: Islamic, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Judaic patterns, as well as traditional geometry. Hillary Steiner Seltzer, who is drawn to abstract subject matter, creates collages inspired by music and the written word, and others that incorporate family images and memorabilia.  T. Willie Raney is a mixed media artist whose work combines collagraph prints, papers and watercolors to create layered statements.

In addition to the more than 40 works that will be on display in the hallways of 300 George Street, small works will be offered for sale during the reception the evening of Friday, December 6, from 5:00-7:00 pm.
 
The Artists of Gallery One exhibit in various locations along the Connecticut shoreline. This coming March they will be exhibiting at The Provenance Center in New London and at Willoughby’s Coffee and Tea in Madison, and in May they will be returning to the Guilford Art Center.  Additional information, the artists and any upcoming exhibitions can be found at www.galleryoneCT.com.