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Solo Exhibition | Paul Michael Graves

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Pandemic Portraits No. 56, Barbara Leiner, painting, oil on canvas

Sarah Hinckley, The Sun is Fading Into a Passing Dream (1)

Drew King, "Get on the Bus," acrylic, oil on canvas

Pauline Galiana, "Shredded Impression 7," paper collage on Mylar

Reflections VIII, Claudia Mengel, work on paper, monotype

Cynthia Kirkwood, "Two, Red, Pink, and Blue," ink on Fabriano paper

Swimmer in Orange, Geoffrey Moss, mixed media, work on paper, graphite pencil, dry pigments and waxes on paper

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May 22

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"I want to paint like a bird sings." - Claude Monet⁠
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Laura Fayer "Light Matter," 2015, acrylic, Japanese paper on canvas⁠, 36h x 48w in.⁠
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May 21

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More work by Julie Headland coming soon! ‘I’m Fine #15,’ acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 "Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to overcome it." -Nelson Mandela. "King Kong" challenges us to confront our fears, question our prejudices and seek understanding over judgement. #CBCA #cynthiabyrnes #CurateCollaborateCollect #contemporaryart #abstractart #onlineartgallery Cynthia Byrnes Contemporary Art
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May 20

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Loved working with @younghuh! Cynthia Byrnes Contemporary Art ‘Let us help you find something extraordinary’

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May 20

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Studio visit with Mike Filan, poured enamel paint on canvas #CBCA #cynthiabyrnes #CurateCollaborateCollect #contemporaryart #abstractart #onlineartgallery Cynthia Byrnes Contemporary Art ‘Let us help you find something extraordinary’

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May 13

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SPOTLIGHT: Deborah Dancy, "Some Enchanted Evening," 2009, oil pastel, oil stick on paper, 53 h x 63 w in.⁠
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Deborah Dancy is a multi-media abstract artist, whose paintings, drawings, digital photography, and sculptural objects examine and mine abstraction’s potential to move across mediums and materials to explore the concepts of subtly and confrontation. Undercurrents of nuance and tension mark Dancy’s work, as if something is poised to happen. Her paintings and drawings are constructed by tangential linear demarcations and erasures; abutting shapes and colors are inserted to provoke, entice, and disrupt. Sensuous linear gestures glide across the surface until abruptly they collide with the unexpected, creating densely painted fields and minimally suggested forms. Dancy’s work operates in the recognition that moments, meanderings, accidents and process operate best when the beautiful and the disconcerting are combined. ⁠
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Which elements of this piece do you find most beautiful? Which do you find most disconcerting?⁠
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May 8

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IN THE STUDIO with Pauline Galiana⁠
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Abstract artist, Pauline Galiana, sat down with us to discuss her background and artistic practice. Galiana woks in collage and painting to explore the tension between construction and deconstruction. Inspired by color, light and the concept of chaos, she uses shredded papers, documents, notes, and paper artworks – what she refers to as ‘literal leftovers from different stages of [her] own work,’ – as materials for her intricate collages and wall sculptures. Galiana constructs each piece through a meticulous, meditative process of shredding, looping, stitching, ordering and reordering each strip of paper into a collage of color and geometric patterns. Ultimately, Galiana seeks to explore the resilience of the human mind to seek and find meaning and order in entropy.⁠
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May 5

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Spotlight: Barbara Grossman, "Women Reading," 2023, oil on linen, 42 h x 32 w in.⁠
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Barbara Grossman’s paintings and oil stick drawings depict the interplay of women in interiors. They are characterized by intense color, multiple patterns and dynamic spaces which are simultaneously deep and shallow. She is deeply involved in the tension between the dynamics of the luminosity of color and the folding and torque of space that observation and experience reveal. For a long time she has been inventing, using clues from her deep interest in Indian and Middle Eastern imagery. Recent trips to Turkey and Morocco were transformative as she experienced her internal passions. There is an underlying narrative which the viewer is at liberty to determine. ⁠
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What do you think each woman is reading? ⁠
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Apr 30

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"Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty." - John Ruskin⁠
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#CBCAartist @claudiamengelart "Sunday Morning," 2024, multi media on canvas, 48h x 36w in.⁠
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Apr 16

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"Painting from nature is not copying the object, it is realizing one's sensations." - Paul Cezanne⁠
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#CBCAartist Geoffrey Moss, "A Pond" 2021, oil on canvas, 30h x 30w in.⁠
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Image 2: Perry Obee, 'Hatch Valley,' 2022, 6 color lithograph; ed. 4, 12h x 12w in.⁠
Image 3: Richard Bogart, 'Branch Slip,' 2000, oil on linen, 48h x 51w in.⁠
Image 4: Luc Leestemaker, 'Landscape 2008.03,' 2008, cement, pigment powders, acrylic, oil varnish on canvas, 60h x 72w in.⁠
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Apr 10

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Spotlight: James Greco, "Down but Not Out," 2014, latex enamel on birch panel, framed in stainless steel, 24 h x 15 w in.⁠
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James Greco is a Brooklyn-based painter and sculptor whose expressive abstract paintings seek to convey a broad range of emotion. Employing a variety of materials including oil paint, epoxy resin, house paints, and other mixed media, Greco’ process is physical and impulsive – often rotating the canvas or scrubbing away is broad expressive brushstrokes from sections of the canvas before attacking the canvas. Viewing his work as, ‘poems of the human condition,’ Greco states that his art, ‘is born and lives…’ in, “…the space between ugliness and elegance.’⁠
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Does the energy of Greco’s intensely physical process come through the final composition for you? ⁠
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Apr 7

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Spotlight: Vittorio Masoni, "Sweet Dreams," 2010, acrylic on canvas, 16 h x 19.5 w in.⁠
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We need a little bright spot on this Monday morning and Vittorio Masoni’s “Sweet Dreams” does just the trick. The soft pastels and abstract geometry create a soft, cheerful atmosphere that allows the viewer’s eye to wander leisurely from feature to feature. Black elements at the bottom left and top right balance the composition, heightening the respective brightness and delicacy of the colors throughout the piece. Beginning each painting was an impromptu sketch across the canvas, Masoni ‘keeps searching until [he] finds it,” and continually works on each composition until his is satisfied with the composition of shape, color, and space.⁠
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Does this piece feel like a sweet dream to you? Does "Sweet Dream" make you feel a little cheerful too? ⁠
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Apr 1

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Spotlight: Emily Hamilton Laux, "Starry Field One," 2020, cyanotype print on archival hot press paper, 30 h x 22 w in.⁠
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Photographer Emily Hamilton Laux uses foliage such as Queen Ann’s lace blossoms and fern fronds to create her peaceful cyanotype print. Laux crafts a gentle, dreamy scene of dainty blossoms drifting above a meadowy row of blooms amid a solid backdrop of rich Prussian blue. The varying shades of white and light blue create a sense of depth and movement to the piece, as though you too can feel the breeze pushing the lacey flowers through the rich dusky blue. ⁠
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How does Laux's "Stary Field One," make you feel? With spring just around the corner are you starting to see wildflower in your area too? ⁠
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Mar 20

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Spotlight: Brian Walters II, "Orange Burst 2," 2012, reclaimed steel, 18 1/2 h x 12 w in.⁠
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Self-taught Connecticut-based sculptor Brian Walters II creates abstract metal sculptures using raw, reclaimed steel. His work is comprised of salvaged material which he collects throughout his home state. Inspired by the previous function or purpose of each reclaimed piece of metal, Walters highlights the wear and tear acquired by years of service to society. From a flywheel out of a Chevy truck to a piece of rebar that once held a sidewalk together, there is something unique to each individual piece used in his work. His aim as a sculptor is to showcase not only the material being used but the story behind it. ⁠
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What story do you imagine is the story behind this pieces steel?⁠
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Mar 17

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"Green is the prime color of the world, and from that which lovliness arises." - Pedro Calderon de la Barca⁠
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#CBCAartist Joy Moser "Georgia Tree, Dusk," 2011, oil on canvas, 46h x 46w in.⁠
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Image 2: Hugh O'Donnell, "The Green Unraveler II," 2006, oil on panel, 24h x 24w in.⁠
Image 3: George Chaplin, "(P41)New Green 9 3," 2010, pastel on paper, 18h x 19w in.⁠
Image 4: Rachelle Krieger, "Shadows and Light," 2005, oil on linen, 28h x 34w in.⁠
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Mar 13

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Spotlight: Kiyoshi Otsuka, "Yoga," 2016, acrylic on canvas, 30 h x 40 w in.⁠
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Japanese artist, Kiyoshi Otsuka’s bold, abstract paintings seek to portray the beauty and power of nature and our connection to the natural world. Inspired by the New York Botanical Gardens, Otsuka’s organic aesthetic is significantly informed by natural elements, particularly water. Working predominantly in acrylic, his work is informed by the liquidity of the medium. Through controlled gesture, Otsuka created organic, multilayered, curvilinear compositions often comprised of carefully applied drip patterns. Of his practice, Otsuka stated that, ‘I recycle my own ‘ancient’ paintings and these layers of experience meet with the immediate act of painting to accomplish deep color and space, and a tangible impression of natural form.’⁠
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What do you see in Otsuka’s “Yoga”? Do any elements remind you of nature?⁠
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Mar 10

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Spotlight: Rebecca Welz, "Passageways," 2021, blackening on welded steel, 100 h x 59 w x 16 d in.⁠
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Rebecca Welz brings free-hand line drawing off the page with her delicate steel sculpture work. Inspired by natural wonders and ecological processes that combine to give us biodiversity, her work explores the hand that humans have in sustaining or destroying our biodiversity. In this piece delicate, irregular lines branch off and stretch outward like roots spreading through the earth or vines crawling across a facade. Likewise, the organic lines can also appear like cracks spreading through a clean white wall. Using a torch, Welz intuitively bends and twists the steel rods giving a natural impression to each element. Her art grows out of the knowledge of the fragility of our planet and explores the beauty of nature as well as the impact that humans have on our environment. ⁠
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What do you see in this piece? To the creepy lines seems like natural growth or a crumbling construction? Do you see something else entirely?⁠
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Spotlight: David Leventi, "Teatro Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, 2009," 2009, digital chromogenic prints, custom sizes available⁠
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Though David Leventi photographs empty architectural interiors and exteriors, his eye for both meticulous detail and sweeping composition transforms his works into deeply moving portraits of spatial experiences. He pursues vertical and lateral symmetry, which paradoxically creates a flattening of the image and yet gives the viewer the sensation of being enveloped by his photographs’ subjects. Leventi works in series. For “Bjoerling’s Larynx: World Famous Opera Houses” (2007-10), he extensively documented the interiors of world famous opera houses; he took each photograph at center stage exactly where a performer would stand, attempting to allow light to move through his photographs the way a performer’s voice moves through the space.⁠
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Spotlight: George Chaplin, "(S09) Blue Chord," 2014, oil on canvas, 36 h x 36 w in.⁠
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We’re mesmerized by the dramatic gradations of blues in George Chaplin’s "(S09) Blue Chord." A former student of Josef Albers at Yale University, Chaplin’s paintings are abstract and based in color studies. His color field paintings and pastels reflect an objectivity towards subject matter and an exploration of the capacity of color. Inspired by nature and the landscape, Chaplin seeks to convey the serenity and excitement of natural elements such as water and fire which he notes are always the same yet always moving. In his larger oil paintings, Chaplin uses a pallet knife to work and mix colors both on the pallet and on the canvas directly, creating a soft Ombre from one color to the next. Of his paintings, Critic Shirley Gonzales wrote that, “Although he runs through the spectrum of what we usually think of as warm and cool colors, none of Chaplin’s colors are really cool…The color fills the room, vibrates, and seems to fluctuate as if moved by currents of air.”⁠
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Spotlight: Joy Moser, "Cloud Cluster 4," 2012, oil on wood, 12 h x 12 w in.⁠
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Sometimes we just need a break to step outside and gaze at the clouds. Joy Moser began her career as an abstract painter in the late 1950’s but quickly turned her practice to the real world of landscapes which lurked behind her past work. Profoundly influenced by her childhood in the mountains of Pennsylvania, Moser focuses her attention to the investigation and celebration of the infinite variety of tone, color and composition of the landscapes around her. Using her camera as a sketchbook, she searches for images that seem to offer odd structure and “mystery”. She shoots multiple points of view, culls, crops, and mostly discards. The surviving photographs become the catalyst for her paintings and the process is always a mediation between her memories and the image itself.⁠
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"Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life." - Marcel Proust⁠
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#CBCAartist @lauramoretzart "The Chaotic Dance of It All," 2023, acrylic, enamel, pastel, oil paint marker, Aspen river water on raw canvas, 72h x 66w in.⁠
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In the Studio with Pauline Galiana

May 7, 2025

Abstract artist, Pauline Galiana sat down with us to discuss her background and artistic practice.

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In The Studio With Brian Walters II

April 2, 2025

Self-taught Connecticut-based sculptor Brian Walters II sat down with us to discuss his background, career, and what motivates his practice.

In The Studio With Tracey Adams

March 6th, 2025

Tracey Adams virtually sat down with us to discuss her professional background, sources of inspiration, and her creative practice.

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In The Studio With J Henry Fair

Artist Interview

Aerial photographer and environmentalist, J Henry Fair virtually sat down with us to discuss his what he seeks to communicate through his work, how he measures success as a professional photographer and what inspires his work.

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Vantage Points

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In The Studio With Perry Obee

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Mind and Body: Pauline Galiana Solo Show

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Introducing Younghee Choi Martin

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Herbarium

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In The Studio With Donna Forma

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Subject to Change, Photographs by Vicky Stromee

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In the Studio with Santiago Lozano

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CBCA curates a colorful collection for Farrow & Ball’s Virtual Home

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In the Stuido with Will Clift

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In the Studio with Louise Crandell

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Beauty/Destruction

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In the Studio with Sarah Hinckley

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In the Studio with Elena Lyakir

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Introducing David Leventi

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In the Studio with Kaz Strankowski

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In the Studio with Rebecca Welz

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In the Studio with Geoffrey Moss

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Introducing Katrine Hildebrandt

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The D&D’s Spring Market Keynote Event, May 10, 2023

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In the Stuido with Dana Saulnier

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Are We There Yet?

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Design on a Dime Benefit

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Introducing Rebecca Welz

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Introducing Christina Watka

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Introducing Michael Filan

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Normal For Now

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In the Studio with Perry Burns

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Introducing Brian Walters II

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