Discover WINTER LIGHT at City Gallery in January

City Gallery’s January exhibit illuminates the darkest month of the year with its take on WINTER LIGHT featuring the work of photographer William Frucht, painter Joyce Greenfield, and printmaker Barbara Harder. The show runs Friday, January 9 - Sunday, January 26, with an Open Reception scheduled for Thursday, January 9 from 5-7PM.

What unites the work of these three distinct artists is their preoccupation with light: how it illuminates form, how it creates and expresses mood, drama, or playfulness, and how it changes with time and season. Greenfield is especially interested in landscape, both natural and humanly altered, although she paints interiors as well. Frucht’s work for WINTER LIGHT is entirely concerned with interiors under natural light, in which he finds a kind of elegiac spirituality. Harder’s prints and mixed media work display the intimate and organic effects of light. Her rich, active surfaces, often filled with translucent shapes and layered tones, are occasionally jolted by unexpected color and collision of forms.

Frucht is a photographer based in Danbury and has been a member of City Gallery since 2016. His work has been exhibited in many venues in Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania, and in private collections in the U.S. and abroad. Most recently, he curated the exhibit Forbidden Memory, featuring the work of the Tibetan photographer Tsering Dorje, at City Gallery in October 2019.

Greenfield has studied art making at Creative Arts Workshop, Paier College of Art, SCSU, Washington State U, and with several recognized local and national artists. Her work has been exhibited by the Lupine Gallery (Monhegan Island, ME), Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven Hospital, AARP Foundation, and the Stamford Art Association, among others. She is a signature member of the Connecticut Watercolor Society.

Barbara Harder heads the Printmaking Department at the Creative Arts Workshop, and teaches at Quinnipiac University. She has been a guest lecturer/instructor at the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art, a visiting artist at Connecticut College, a consultant and instructor for the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, and a curator of numerous printmaking exhibitions. She exhibits internationally, most prominently at the Kyoto City Museum in Kyoto, Japan, the De Cordova Museum in Lincoln, MA, the University of Hawaii in Hilo, and the University of Connecticut in Stamford and Storrs, CT. She is the recipient of numerous awards, most recently the Bitsie Clark Grant for Artists, and is represented in many private, corporate and museum collections.

WINTER LIGHT is free and open to the public. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are Thursday - Sunday, 12 noon - 4pm or by appointment. Closed December 26. For further information please contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, www.city-gallery.org.