Thursday, April 16, 2015

Spring News: Gwyneth Leech Solo Exhibition in Norwalk, CT


Gwyneth Leech Cup installation , ARTWorks Gallery on the Green, Norwalk, CT

After an epically long and snowy winter it is fantastic to finally see flowers blooming and trees budding all over New York City! And it has been a pleasure to be traveling up to Norwalk CT, where Spring is coming on apace, to prepare for my upcoming solo exhibition, Gwyneth Leech: Themes and Variations, at ARTWorks on the Green gallery. The gallery is located at 60 East Avenue in a handsome house adjacent to Saint Paul's on the Green church where, with its abundance of flowering lawns and trees, the grounds look particularly lovely at this time of year. 


The exhibition marks ten years since I completed a commission from Saint Paul's on the Green to paint the 14 stations of the cross. I am delighted to be showing paintings and works on paper representing several bodies of artwork from the intervening period, including an installation of cups hanging over four of the the floor-to-ceiling windows in the gallery.

The reception is next Tuesday, April 21st from 6:30-8:00PM. If you are in the neighborhood please join me, or tell any CT folk you know to come by!

For more information about the exhibition click here.
 
In an unexpected development, rare prints by my grandfather, Michael J. Gallagher, a well-known WPA-era printmaker, are concurrently on view at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking also in Norwalk CT! The CCP is located at 229 West Avenue and the exhibition, WPA*JOBS, is open now through May 23rd.
CCP website: http://contemprints.org/
For more about the prints of Michael Gallagher click here.



Gwyneth Leech Cup Artworks, 2010-2015
 







Gwyneth Leech: Themes and Variations 
Paintings and Works on Paper, 2004-2015

April 21st - May 26th.
Opening reception: 6:30-8:00 PM, on Tuesday April 21st.
All welcome.

ARTWorks Gallery on the Green at 60 East Avenue,  Norwalk CT 06851 
(on the grounds of St. Paul's on the Green church)  
Free and open to the public.

Mon-Fri. 9-5
Sat. 10- 1 
Sun. 10-11 and 12-1
 

Gwyneth Leech, Reflected City, oil on wood panel, 2010-15 







Commemorating 10 years since New York City artist, Gwyneth Leech completed her striking contemporary stations of the cross for Saint Paul’s on the Green in Norwalk, CT, ARTWorks Gallery on the Green will host a solo show of the artist’s paintings and works on paper from April 21st – May 26th, 2015. The artist will be showing selections from several bodies of work, representing a decade of development since undertaking the commission in 2004.

-A selection from a series of oil portraits on canvas and wood panel called "Perfect Families", 2006-2010.

-A selection from an ongoing series of oils on wood called "Reflected City", 2010-2015.

-A suspended cup installation from her ongoing cup artwork series, 2010-2015.


For more information about the exhibition click here.