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Susan Kurnit works Atria Darien August 2019

Pet Portraits, Landscapes, Still Lifes on Display, Reception Thursday, Aug 8

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Artist Susan Kurnit’s pet portraits, landscapes and still life paintings will be on display this month at the Gratia Gillespie Art Gallery at Atria Darien for the month of August. A reception for Kurnit will be held from 5 to 7 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 8 at the gallery. — an announcement from Atria Darien

Here’s Kurnit’s description of her career and work:
I graduated college with a B.A. in cultural anthropology and my intent was to stay an additional semester and study art, but life threw me a curve. I was offered a fabulous job first as a magazine editor at Mademoiselle and then as Fashion Director of Seventeen Magazine for a total of 10 years.

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Robert Zelnick artwork

This and Other Works by Artist Robert Zelnick on Display in July at Atria Darien

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You’re invited to see works by artist Robert Zelnick, now on display every day through July in the Gratia Gillespie Art Gallery at Atria Darien, 50 Ledge Road. — an announcement from Atria Darien
Here’s a statement from the artist:
The largest portion of my life, before moving to Connecticut, was spent as a classical musician. Shortly after moving back east from California I attended a class at Silvermine for absolute beginning artists, and was thrilled when I discovered I could make a decipherable representation of an object or drawing for the first time, not counting stick figure drawings from childhood. I was determined to continue onward with my new found attraction, and have continued taking classes both at Silvermine and at Lapham in New Canaan. I endeavor in both pencil and oil, to create images that suggest a mood, a direction, a feeling.

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May Art Exhibit Features Paintings by Nobu Miki and Her Art Students; Reception Thursday

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Darien artist Nobu Miki will have an art show with her Darien Senior Center students at Gratia Gillespie Art Gallery at Atria Darien throughout May. Atria will host an artists’ reception from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 2. — an announcement from Atria Darien
Nobu has been teaching an acrylic painting class every Monday at the Darien Senior Center, and her students have created many artworks. They will display some of their favorite artworks alongside Nobu’s works, which will include Nobu’s new paintings and glassworks. “I have very creative senior artists in my class, and I’m always amazed with their creativity and passion,” Nobu said.

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Joseph Lamorte Atria Darien

Atria Darien Exhibits Works by Joseph Lamorte, Opening Reception on Thursday, April 4

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Atria Darien Senior Living will showcase the works of local artist Joseph Lamorte, a career artist involved in advertising as an illustrator and art director. A gallery opening and wine reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m., Thursday, April 4, at Atria Darien, 50 Ledge Road. His work, appearing in newspapers and magazines, has at times received national awards. Lamorte currently teaches watercolor and oil painting at the Darien Arts Center. Joseph trained at Cooper Union and The New School in New York City and at the Silvermine College in Connecticut.

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Art from Feb 2019 exhibit at Atria Darien

Opening Reception for Three Area Artists Featured This Month at Atria Darien

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Celebrate these three area artists in exhibition at Atria Darien, 50 Ledge Road, with a gallery opening and wine reception on Thursday, Feb. 7, from 5 to 7 p.m.

— an announcement from Atria Darien

Merion Frolich  is a member of Rowayton Arts Center, Connecticut Women Artists, Stamford Art Association and New Canaan Center for Arts. She has been in a number of local shows, including Women Artists at Discovery Museum, Mavis Fenner at Rowayton Arts, Spectrum, John Slade Ely House and Rowayton Co-op Nursery Show and Atria Darien. “I love the interplay of light and dark, line against space in painting,” Frolich says. “Water gives me great opportunity to juxtapose space and light and shapes.