Original Prints by Bryan Nash Gill and Sally Frank to be exhibited at Audubon Greenwich - October 1 to 31
From Saturday, October 1 through Sunday, October 30, 2011, the work of Litchfield County artist Bryan Nash Gill and Westchester County artist Sally Frank will be presented at the Kiernan Hall Nature Art Gallery at Audubon Greenwich, located at 613 Riversville Road. Trees: Inside and Out is an exhibition of monotypes, lithographs and relief prints that presents an intimate portrait of one of nature’s most fundamental elements. Both artists are strongly influenced by the countryside of their upbringings and of their current homes. Wood and trees are their common theme, although each artist has an original take on his/her subject matter.
"Bryan and I are fortunate to live in places that are away from the concrete jungle, where we can delve into the relationships we have with trees," said Sally Frank. "Both our work is about looking closely at and below the surface of the gentle giants that surround us."
An artists reception for Trees: Inside and Out will take place on Sunday, October 9 from 3-5 PM. For more information, call Audubon Greenwich at 203-869-5272.
Sculptor and printmaker Bryan Nash Gill has shown his work at exhibitions and galleries across the United States and abroad including the Spencertown Academy Arts Center in New York, the Guy Flichy Gallery in Dubai, UAE, the Danese Gallery in New York City, and at the Spring Island Nature and Trust in Okatie, South Carolina. Gill is a two-time recipient of the Individual Artist grant from Connecticut Commission on the Arts as well as a California fellow. His studio is located in New Hartford, Connecticut, where he works mainly with bronze, wood and hundreds of found objects. Presently, Gill is preparing for two solo exhibitions coming early next year. In January, his work will be exhibited at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and in April at the Tina Goodwin Fine Art gallery in Denver, Colorado. A monograph of his relief prints will be published by Princeton Architectural Press in April 2012.
Sally Frank's original prints and drawings have been exhibited in Connecticut, New York and Florida since 1992. She is represented by The White Gallery in Lakeville, Connecticut and in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In 2009, she was a recipient of an artist residency from Weir Farm Arts Center in Wilton, Connecticut. Recent exhibitions include one woman shows at Rockwell Galleries in Ridgefield, Connecticut and Weir Farm National Historic Site in Wilton, Connecticut. In January 2012, she will exhibit her work in a two-woman show with Wendy Shalen at the Curtis Gallery in New Canaan, Connecticut. Frank works out of her studio in North Salem, New York and at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, Connecticut.
The Audubon Center in Greenwich opened in 1942 as the National Audubon Society’s first environmental education center in the United States on land donated by Eleanor Clovis Reese and H. Hall Clovis. The 295-acre sanctuary has approximately seven miles of trails that lead to a hardwood forest, old fields, lake, streams and vernal ponds.
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself.
- William Blake, 1799, The Letters
