'Color-Centric' -- Opening Reception for Four Artists at Sorelle Gallery

Sorelle Gallery celebrates the spring season in its latest exhibition entitled COLOR-CENTRIC: Miranda Girard, Rafaella Laroche, Rob Longley.

The show will be on display at Sorelle’s New Canaan location from April 16 to May 5. An upbeat opening reception featuring live music, signature cocktails, and an artist “meet-and-greet” will take place Thursday, April 1, from 5 to 8 p.m.

Contemporary and traditional styles converge and blossom in this visually intriguing show perfectly aligned with the colors of spring.

Modern-day impressionist Rob Longley uses varied styles in his paintings to fulfill his creativity. He states, “…my more ‘contemporary’ work satisfies a part of me that my ‘traditional’ work does not. But I still find my ‘traditional’ work gratifying… so after much thought, I decided to work at both.” His nighttime urban paintings glow with long strokes of crimson and indigo, while thickly-painted sunlight illuminates his traditional waterscapes.

Miranda Girard blends a classically trained Studio Escalier style with an impressionistic love of texture and palette knife in her portraits, landscapes, and still lifes. A subtle rainbow of color is found throughout many of her works – especially in skin, sky, and water. Girard searches for obscure hues in all she paints, sometimes exaggerating certain colors to push a narrative or mood.

Reverie, romance, and timelessness are words that come to mind when viewing Rafaella Laroche’s carefully constructed photographs. A dew-kissed dried rose, an elegant ballet dancer, the bend of a model’s spine – Laroche, an avid poet, brings poetic knowledge to her photography by turning everyday, standard subjects into breath-catching icons.