Gallery Café

The Moviehouse Gallery Café:
The Gallery Café was opened in 1981 to present exhibitions of two dimensional art to the local community. We offer a menu of Coffee, Chocolate and Tea in a relaxing, cozy space. Our art is crafted by the finest locally sourced Artists and we offer fresh, locally sourced Sweets.

The Gallery Café is open every day to enjoy before, during or after a movie.
We have evolved over the years and in September 2010 we were selected as the Best Hipster Hangout by Hudson Valley Magazine readers. We are open whenever The Moviehouse is open, but you do not have to go to the movies to see the current Exhibit or have a cup of Hot Chocolate.

Submit Your Art:
We encourage artists interested in submitting their work to contact us at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or to call our office at 860-435-2897. We look for art that has a close connection to our region.

Group Exhibits:
We are always open to collaborations with regional non-profit arts organizations to curate exhibits. Contact us at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

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Current Exhibit: Summertime

Summertime features works by Don Perdue; a nationally honored photographer, with works in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, Ann Getsinger;whose oil paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries and hang in hundreds of homes. Patricia Beard; the author of nine nonfiction books and hundreds of nationally published magazine articles as well as water color artist, Mita Corsini Bland whose work appears in Sister Parish Design, David Braga; water color artist George Shattuck; represented by The Iris Gallery of Fine Art Photography; Boston, MA and Aspen, CO, Jessica Tcherepnine;represented in collections internationally, including those at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, in Pittsburgh; the British Museum (Natural History), Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library, Shirley Sherwood Collection, in London; and the Benois Family Museum, Peterhof, St. Petersburg, Russia., Susan Rand; fine art painter who has held exhibitions throughout the East Coast, and Leslie Anderson; fine art painter based in Sedgwick, Maine

Past Exhibit: Observing the Observer

On August 17, 2012, The Moviehouse Gallery will open an exhibition of art by Diane Love to run through November 1, 2012.

Observing the Observer includes Love’s candid photographs from her series: Observing the Observer, and also a series of her one of a kind printed paintings, or “monoprints”.


Observing the Observer, according to Love, “is my voyeur’s view of people immersed in the world of art.”


Using black and white film, printed on canvas and stretched like a painting on wood stretchers, Observing the Observer incorporates Diane’s interest in both photography and painting. The photographs are bordered with black as if lifted from a contact sheet, numbers and all. With film fast vanishing Diane pays homage to the medium of film.

Love photographed the series in museums in Europe and the United States. Looking in the Rain was taken at the Fondation Maeght in France. On the Bench, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. These limited edition photographs range in size from 40 × 30 up to 72 × 60 inches.

Past Exhibit: Susan Dorazio: ‘Horses in Motion’

Susan Dorazio is a versatile artist, accomplished in the use of oils, watercolor and pen and ink. All of the paintings selected, in watercolor or oil, depict horses in various forms of action, including racing, jumping, driving, and dressage. Her work is praised for its blending of light and color and for capturing the spirit of the moment.


Susan has gained International Acclaim for her ability to capture the spirit, energy and personality of her subjects. Whether depicting racehorses thundering toward the finish line, foxhounds leading the hunt or portraying a favorite pet, she seeks the unique qualities of each subject.


Many requests for her talents as a portrait painter are in competition with the demand for her paintings of equine and sporting events as well as New England landscapes. She has been Published in the Equine Journal, Saddle & Bridle, Draft Horse Journal, Chronicle of the Horse, and with Macmillan Publishing in New York, just to name a few.


Ms. Dorazio’s work can be viewed during regular theater hours through August 15, 2012.


“I have always loved drawing and painting from an early age on. It is my obsession.” – Susan Dorazio


“Everyone with an interest in country life and pursuits should have one of her paintings in his or her collection.” -Sarah Luke, Millbrook, NY,


“She has won a loyal and enthusiastic following of collectors who treasure her works for their deftness of line, blending of light and colors, and soft appealing rendition of the beauty of the standardbred horse and authentic settings of the race track. Her mastery of the watercolor medium is impressive…”-Stan Bergstein, Executive Vice President, Harness Tracks of America


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Past Exhibit: The Freewheelin Bob Dylan

Come see our Current Exhibit: ‘The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’ photographs by: Don Hunstein

The exhibit, which has recently completed a successful run in London, is a photographic portrait of the legendary rock icon by Columbia Records photographer and Sharon resident Don Hunstein.

Mr. Hunstein worked closely with Bob Dylan in the early 1960s when his star was on the rise and who now is considered to be one of the most influential figures of the 20th century; the photographs are an intimate and touching body of work. Included in the exhibit is the legendary 1963 album cover image,‘The Freewheelin’ , which brought Dylan international fame and launched his career.

The exhibition includes images of Dylan recording ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ which is considered to be the best and most important of his albums including the tracks ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ and ‘Desolation Row’ as well as images of Dylan rehearsing for concerts and in repose. Hunstein’s images capture the young Dylan and his intrepid spirit of counter-culture which resonated the world over.

Past Exhibit: All About Earnest

Past Exhibit: tweet mother of mary what have we wrought

Artist Reception Saturday, May 28th, 5:00 to 7:00 PM

Peter J. Ketchum’s work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institute, The Norfolk History Museum and Colby College. Five works were included in “35 Artists of North America,” curated by Thomas Krens, the former head of the Guggenheim. It has been shown at the Brooklyn Museum, The Bushnell, The Springfield Museum of Fine Art, The Discovery Museum, and the former Guggenheim SOHO. The artist has shown in solo and group shows in Boston and New York, including TNC Gallery, Exit Art, Lumina, MetroPictures, SOHO 20, HERE, the Williamsburg (Brooklyn) Art Center, Bachelier/Cardonsky, Moviehouse Studio Gallery (almost home base!) and the Charter Oak Cultural Center. He was selected a Saatchi (London) Online TOP 10 Artist and was a finalist in Artslant’s Artist of the Month.

Peter Ketchum’s greeting cards are sold worldwide by Artists to Watch. Ketchum is the curator of the TNC Gallery, one of the oldest and largest alternative galleries in New York City.

Peter J. Ketchum lives in Norfolk, CT with wife Robin, a platoon of mice, and the ghost of Eden Riggs.

Past Exhibit: Robert F. Haiko A PhotoGraphic Exhibition

Robert Haiko is the Senior Faculty Member at The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut where he is chairman and founder of the Photography and Film Department and co-director of the Tremaine Gallery. He was a guest teaching fellow at Yale University and taught courses at the University of Hartford Art School in the 1970’s.
Mr. Haiko has a BFA from Boston University, did graduate work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design. His work has been exhibited widely including exhibits at The New Britain Museum of American Art, The Lyman Allyn Museum in New London, the Midtown-Y Gallery in New York, Boston University and Yale University. He received grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and was a MacDowell Colony fellow.
Mr. Haiko’s photographic work is represented in the collections of several museums including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester; the Polaroid Collection; the Minor White Archive at Princeton University; and the Paul Strand Archive at Aperture.

Past Exhibit: Joel Schapira: planes and other flights of fancy

Joel Schapira

Nearly twenty years ago, the artist took a course called Painting from the Inside Out from Rosemary Starace. For five years, he studied with Rosemary who later became his student for a short while—-life is grand, that way. During those years, he was mentored by her teacher, Chuck Morey. The artist then studied with Margot Trout for a few years and learned mostly to see. He also learned to work big like his hero, Gulley Jimson, the painter in The Horse’s Mouth by James Cary. From Peter London, the artist has lately learned to draw closer to his own nature.

The artist had a studio in Millerton, N.Y. from 1997 to 2003, where he painted large in a large space. He has since gone home, where in more intimate surroundings, he has been exploring the small space that no longer confines. Now 63, this Lakeville, Ct. resident and father of three, welcomes the opportunity to share with his neighbors, the work he is doing.

In 2004, the artist helped invent the artgarage, an after school drop in open studio for students at Housatonic Valley Regional High. One of his greatest pleasures is helping out there.

Past Exhibit: Christopher Pouler

Christopher Pouler
Drawings & Paintings

Christopher Pouler has been living and working in Lakeville, Connecticut for the past 10 years where he splits his time between his art and designing sets for the broadcast industry.
He works in oil paints, pencil and oil pastels. These works explore the human condition and how we each attempt to find meaning and connection in the joys, struggles and suffering that we and others encounter in this increasingly complex world.

Past Exhibit: IMMERSION

“IMMERSION” An Exhibit of Landscape Paintings by Hudson Valley Artist Dean Nicyper Exhibit runs to April 8, 2010

Mr. Nicyper studied art at Marlboro College in Vermont and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He played jazz saxophone professionally for nearly ten years and now, in addition to his creative art work, is a practicing lawyer focusing extensively in the area of art law.

His paintings reflect the open airiness of the world out of doors, including large broad-view landscapes and wildlife subjects, revealing a his own vision of the natural world in a style derived in part from plein air techniques.

“I also endeavor to give the viewer a sense of the place depicted so that the image reflects the aura of the place rather than a literal depiction of it. Simultaneously, I strive to allow unreal and often fantastical elements to reveal themselves differently to, and be interpreted differently by, different viewers. My hope is that when a viewer concentrates on a painting for a minute, the viewer can become immersed in both the reality of the place and the viewer’s own perception of the place beyond its physical elements”.

Color, light and atmosphere dominate his work, many of his landscape subjects are areas around the Hudson Valley near his New York home. “Often it is the light on or behind an object that visually transforms the object’s character and significance, enabling a viewer to see and sense something more than the object itself”.

His work has been exhibited in New York, Connecticut and Vermont.
The Moviehouse exhibit can be viewed anytime during theater operating hours until April 8, 2010.

Past Exhibit: Diane Love

Past Exhibit: Michael Mark

Wax Work

PRESS RELEASE

Opening at the Moviehouse Gallery on December 17th and running until Februrary 24th is a show of new encaustic paintings by Michael Mark.

Encaustic paint involves the mixture of pigment, wax and occasionally resins or oils. These elements are melted, applied and manipulated in a warmed liquid state by a variety of different tools. After the paintings are complete, the entire surface is heated until the components of the painting fuse together forming a solid surface. Although Egyptians and Greeks used this cumbersome technique in a spectacular manner, it has fallen out of fashion for many centuries. Various devices of the 20th, such as the heat gun and electric frying pans, have made working in this medium easier.

Recently, Michael has focused on the deliberate act of making signs or symbols. These take the form of light and orbs, indicative of our transient existence, here today and perhaps gone tomorrow. He exposes the beauty of a single smudge or stroke in these unusual constructed paintings. The Romantic tradition of Turner’s combustions, Monet’s lilies and Albert Pinkham Ryder’s skies come to mind when viewing this work

Michael maintains studios in Millerton, NY and Melbourne, Australia – where he is studying for a PhD in Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts. Michael’s research involves the location, acquisition, refinement and ultimately painting with, earth pigments. His most recent show (pictured below) consisted of work painted on linen using gloved hands.

ARTIST STATEMENT
Text from Albert Pinkham Ryder
1848 – 1917
Painter
American

Try as I would, my colors were not those of nature. My leaves were infinitely below the standard of a leaf, my finest strokes were coarse and crude.

The old scene presented itself one day before my eyes framed in an opening between two trees. It stood out like a painted canvas-the deep blue of a midday sky-a solitary tree, brilliant with the green of early summer, a foundation of brown earth and gnarled roots.

There was no detail to vex the eye. Three solid masses of form and color-sky, foliage and earth-the world bathed in an atmosphere of golden luminosity. I threw my brushes aside;they were to small for the work in hand. I squeezed out big chunks of pure, moist color and taking my palette knife, I laid on blue, green, white and brown in sweeping strokes.

As I worked I saw that it was good and clean and strong. I saw nature springing into life upon my dead canvas. It was better than nature, for it was vibrating with the thrill of a new creation. Exultantly I painted until the sun sank below the horizon, then I raced around the fields like a colt let loose, and literally bellowed for joy.Albert Pinkam Ryder.

Past Exhibit: Danielle Mailer

An Exhibit of paintings, collage and acrylic mixed media on canvas, entitled “Body Language”, A Celebration of the Female Form by Danielle Mailer is featured at The Moviehouse Studio Gallery In Millerton, NY, through July 14, 2005.

The artwork conjures up her Latin-Jewish background in all of its vibrancy and color. The paintings, designating the female as cat, as Goddess, hidden away or center stage, all reflect an intimate landscape. A woman’s landscape that promises a Surrealistic terrain of cornucopia, chile peppers, trombones and skulls. A tapestry weave that incorporates personal symbols and narratives dealing with contemporary issues of womanhood, and in a larger scope, issues of modern day society.

Mailer, a teacher at Indian Mountain School, counts Matisse, Kahlo, Chagall, Nolde and Klimt among her influences. She also credits her parents, Peruvian painter Adele Morales, writer Norman Mailer, and jazz musician Peter McEachern as powerful sources of inspiration.

Over the last twelve years Mailer has shown her work in numerous galleries in Connecticut and beyond. Her exhibitions include both group and one woman shows at: Beaux Arts Gallery, Woodbury CT., Bachelor Cardinsky Gallery, Kent CT., The Silo, Washington CT., The Washington Art Association, Washington CT., Ellen Harris Gallery (Provincetown, Ma.), Signatures Gallery, Boston, MA., The Wisdom House, Litchfield CT., and New Arts Gallery, Litchfield, CT. Recently Mailer was invited to showcase her work in a group show in Chelsea, NYC., at the Blue Mountain Gallery. She also last year opened her own gallery in Goshen CT., Danielle Mailer Gallery, where she has an ongoing exhibit of her current work. As former associate art director of Artnews, she has also worked as a graphic designer, and recently sold a painting to Random House Books’ to be used for the cover art of the book titled “The Heart of a Family”.

Her work is collected by the Rockefeller Foundation and also by the renowned movie director, Milos Forman. She lives in CT. with her partner musician Peter McEachern and their three children.

Past Exhibit: Arthur Kvarnstrom

Artists Statement

Past Exhibit: F. Pieter Lefferts

Sudden Skies’, presents a series of pastel paintings depicting the changing celestial light of the sky and its relationship to the landscape. Pieter says, “I paint to explore the vibrant patterns and elemental moods of nature. I’m driven to give expression to my experience of this life around me, wherever I am. I find my greatest inspiration in the sublimity of the Adirondacks, and in the beauty of the Hudson Valley and Northwest Hills that make the stage for daily life.”

The Artist trained at the Art Students League of New York in the academic style of the Boston School, the American descendant of French and English traditions. Pieter says, “I’m grateful to have had grounding in traditional techniques. It is the departure point for exploration and improvisation with my expression. It’s parallel to the music I play. There is form, yet part of the joy is being able to take a theme and extend it beyond its typical boundaries. I accomplish that with color. With this show I’ve kept most of my rendering apparent while using color to generate a sense of the marvelous in everyday.”

During the 1990’s Pieter traveled the world as Tour Manager for the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, providing him with encounters with legends of jazz and blues, while seeing first-hand the cultural treasures of Japan and Europe. “Having grown up in a musical family it’s natural for me to bridge the relationship between music and art. They share the same language, the language of color. When I play music I am intensely involved with sonic color, as such, when I paint I am building on lyrical qualities in my visual compositions.”

Pieter is an award winning artist, muralist and art educator and has exhibited throughout the region at galleries including Ruth and Skitch Henderson’s Silo Gallery in New Milford, CT. His Adirondack themed art was chosen for the 2000 Winter Goodwill games at the Olympic Museum in Lake Placid, NY, followed by an Adirondack Art Fund grant for artistic excellence. He has received grants from the Seherr-Thoss Foundation in Litchfield, CT and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts for his work as a muralist, guiding students in mural making, for which he received the Friend of Education Award by the Connecticut Region One School Board. Today Pieter teaches drawing and painting at the Farmington Valley Art Center in Avon, CT and I.S.183, The Art School for the Berkshires, in Stockbridge, MA. His educational programs and residencies include the New Britain Museum of American Art and the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, CT, where his summer workshops take advantage of the museum’s gardens and world-class collection of Impressionist masterpieces.

There will be an opening reception for the artist on Sunday, April 30, from 11:00AM to 1:00PM, to which the public is invited. Mr. Leffert’s artwork can be viewed at The Moviehouse Studio Gallery, 48 Main Street, Millerton, New York, during regular theater hours now through June 15, 2006.