\n Rockwell Art Galleries in Ridgefield features artists Amb er Maida from Naugatuck and California\, Shelby Head from Madison\, and El isa Keogh from Norwalk from August 9 – October 27. The public is invited t o an opening reception on Thursday August 23rd from 5:30- 7:30pm. The event is free and open to the public. Rockwell Art and Framing of Ridgefield is located at 470 Main Street\, Ridgefield\, CT 06877. Phone 203-894-8000.
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\n\n Amber Maida’s paintings are internationally collected and represented by galleries throughout the US\ , Canada\, and the UK. She has been featured at the White Space in New Hav en\, Station Gallery NYC\, AIRS New Haven\, The Housatonic Museum of Art i n Bridgeport\, The Silvermine Guild of Art in New Canaan\, and The Gallery at Black Rock now known as Gallery 305K in Bridgeport.
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\n\n Her mixed media paintings involve a tactile counter-environment that expresses myth and uncovers the mystery hidden within reality. She juxtap oses dualities - fragility/strength\, ancient/contemporary\, external/inte rnal - to exploit a tension where balance and meaning collide to form a co herent inner vision.
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\n\n Her materials are carefully c hosen and strongly symbolic. Her work contains recurring motifs and materi als including golden labyrinths\, fluid backdrops\, crackled textures\, vi ntage books\, silks\, feathers\, eggshells\, and line drawings of suspende d worlds. Her intent is for the images to take viewers deeper within their own realm of realization.
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\n\n Sh elby Head studied sculpture at Pratt Institute in the MFA program . She has extensive experience working as a professional mold maker and wa x technician for several art foundries in New Mexico and for sculptor Tom Otterness in New York City. She built models and supervised model makers f or stop motion animation television commercials and music videos during th e 1980’s. In 1994\, Head began working as a professional sculptor. She has exhibited widely and is represented in numerous private and corporate col lections.
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\n\n Elisa Keogh is an award-winning artist and designer who currently works with photogr aphy and encaustic mediums.
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\n\n Born in England and ra ised in Belfast\, Northern Ireland during the height of political unrest\, Keogh explored many different art forms as a student. At 19\, she came to the United States and studied photography and graphic design at The Schoo l of Visual Arts and Parsons School of Design. Keogh enjoyed a successful career in graphic design in NYC\; starting out as a layout artist with the corporate design firm Hershell George Graphics and later accepting a posi tion with Arista Records as Studio Manager where she oversaw the productio n of all artwork for the label. She was subsequently promoted to Art Direc tor for the label where she worked with many talented musicians. Her cover design for Annie Lenox’s Diva album was nominated for a Grammy in 1993\, and poster design for the alternative rock band The San Francisco Seals wa s placed in the permanent design collection of the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York.
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\n\n Since 2005\, Keogh has devoted herself to her fine art\, developing and exhibiting her experimental photographs a nd more recently\, her encaustic paintings. Her works have been featured t hroughout Connecticut at venues including the Silvermine Guild of Artists (New Canaan)\, the Housatonic Museum of Art (Bridgeport)\, the Westport Ar ts Center (Westport)\, the Ridgefield Guild of Artists (Ridgefield)\, SPAG (Norwalk)\, 22 Haviland Street Gallery (Norwalk)\, the Rowayton Arts Cent er (Norwalk) and the Carriage Barn Art Center (New Canaan). She lives and maintains her studio in Norwalk\, CT.
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