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The Drawing Room Gallery Opening Events

Thursday, January 31, 2013

: Thursday, January 31, 2013

Cos Cob, CT

Photographs by Elaine Ubiña and Cara Gilbride

The Drawing Room Gallery, Private Preview Party for Members of the Design Trade

On Thursday, January 31, Design professionals gathered at The Drawing Room Gallery for an intimate affair and sneak peak, of the group show, “Homeland: Contemporary Approaches to Contemplating the Landscape”, which opened to the public on February 2 and runs through April 2. The evening’s invite-only event gave members of the design trade and their special clients, a first-look at the vibrant, and energetic exhibit, which featured the mixed media works of Darthea Cross, paintings by Michele Kishita and Cameron Schmitz and photographs by Jeremy Saladyga and Chris Macan. The Drawing Room Gallery is a new, contemporary art gallery that exhibits original fine art, featuring the work of local and national contemporary artists with rotating, curated group exhibits, with a dynamic mix of painting, drawing, photography & sculpture.

www.thedrawingroomartgallery.com

Cameron Schmitz, Victoria Lyon, Jeremy Saladyga

Lindsey Taylor, Giovanna Giordano

Gordon and Jan Hiltz and Michael Larock

Kenleigh Larock, Jill Kralovenec

Jeremy Saladyga and Cameron Schmitz

Saturday, February. 2, 2013

The Drawing Room Gallery, Opening Reception of “Homeland”

The Drawing Room Gallery celebrated its second exhibition with a packed house filled with artists, collectors and art enthusiasts, on the evening of February 2nd, for the Gallery’s Opening Reception of “Homeland: Contemporary Approaches to Contemplating the Landscape”. The opening reception was a festive evening, honoring the work of five talented artists featured in the exhibit: Darthea Cross (Maynard, MA), Michele Kishita (Philadelphia, PA), Chris Macan (Newtown Square, PA), Jeremy Saladyga (New Fairfield, CT) and Cameron Schmitz (Brattleboro, VT). Throughout the gallery, these artists revealed their own distinctive approaches to interpreting the landscape, and together presented intriguing juxtapositions of photographic and painterly approaches to the subject. Departing from the traditional notions and representations of the landscape, the artists’ contemplative and colorful visions of the landscape provided Gallery’s viewers with metaphors for memory, utopia, and our ever-changing global ecology. Whatever the viewers’ interpretation, it was clear that this show’s opening reception provided a rich subject for lively conversation and high spirits throughout the entire night!

“Homeland” will remain open until April 2, 2013. The Drawing Room Gallery is open Mon-Sat., 10am-5pm. www.thedrawingroomartgallery.com. Owners: Kenleigh & Michael Larock, Gallery Curator & Director: Cameron Schmitz, Gallery Assistant: Jill Kralovenec.