If you walk into the ArtPlace Gallery this month, you might not be able to shake the feeling youre being watched. Dozens of eyes stare at you from the walls, each from a face locked in the center of a photograph.
Thats the idea behind "Face Book 2010," one of two new exhibits in the gallery this month. Shelton photographer David Pressler took pictures of dozens of faces of people, animals and even inanimate objects and assigned each a humorous title or caption. Some are clearly staged, like Prescription Glasses for Insight, a shot of a optometrist with pill bottles protruding from his glasses. Others were found, like Face of a Nuthead, which features an apes face painted and carved onto a nut shell.
You have to be a bit over the top to appreciate this, said Martha Bjoza-Reinkin, a painter from Greenwich. [Pressler] has the most marvelous sense of humor." Bjoza-Reinkin, like Pressler, is a member of a local artists co-operative artists who own and run the gallery. They feature two exhibits each month from different members of the group, with each artist preparing a show every two to three years. The gallery, located next to the Community Theater on Unquowa Road, is free to view every Tuesday through Saturday.
In the second gallery is work from Arle Sklar-Weinstein of Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. Sklar-Weinstein's works are entirely with cloth, and show two art styles in this months exhibit: fabric collages, which look like paintings from a distance, and yarn sculptures that dangle from the ceiling with intertwining helixes.
Both collections will be in the gallery until the end of the month, but there are two special events this month. On Sunday, May 2, there is an opening reception with members of the co-operative from 3 to 5 p.m. And on Wednesday, May 12 from noon to 1 p.m. Pressler and Sklar-Weinstein will speak and answer questions about their work.
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