Join stone carver Michael Angelicola of Terryville for a discussion of traditional hand-carving techniques and early New England headstone carving. Register here (one person per form): https://forms.gle/oegTQgt81nL2qdNA9
Free to all. 6-7pm
Terryville Public Library
238 Main Street
Terryville, CT 06786 United States
Erick Johnson: Passages
A Solo Exhibition at Furnace – Art on Paper Archive
Opening: Saturday, June 7, 4 – 6 pm
Furnace – Art on Paper Archive is pleased to present Passages, a solo exhibition of new works by artist Erick Johnson. This latest body of work explores color as a threshold—an ever-shifting visual language of movement, transition, and transformation.
At the heart of Passages is the idea that color is both a fixed presence and an unfolding experience, much like the Zen teaching from The Gateless Gate: “When you try to grasp it, you lose it. When you no longer try, it is there.”
This paradox mirrors Johnson’s approach—his compositions vibrate with shifting relationships, yet they settle into a profound harmony when fully absorbed. His work does not seek to define color but to invite the viewer into its passage, embracing the impermanence and fluidity of visual experience.
“Color is an evolving conversation,” says Johnson. “Each form is a portal, a way of moving through a visual space that is both structured and fluid. Passages is about that journey.”
A seasoned painter with a deep commitment to abstraction, Johnson’s practice builds on the traditions of modernist color theory while carving a distinct, contemporary path.
Passages will be on view at Furnace – Art on Paper Archive in Falls Village, CT, from June 7 through July 6.
Opening reception: Saturday, June 7, 4 – 6 pm
For press inquiries, images, or further information, please contact:
www.furnace-artonpaperarchive.com
About Erick Johnson
Erick Johnson is a New York-based artist whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. His vibrant abstractions explore the relationships between color, structure, and perception, engaging with the traditions of modernist painting while pushing the boundaries of form.
About Furnace – Art on Paper Archive
Located in Falls Village, CT, Furnace – Art on Paper Archive is a contemporary gallery dedicated to works on paper. Through innovative exhibitions and programming, the space fosters dialogue around the role of drawing, printmaking, and mixed media in contemporary art.
107 Main Street, Falls Village, CT 06031
Gallery hours Saturday & Sunday 11 am – 4 pm.
Lov Art is pleased to announce WEFAN, an exhibition of textile and fibre-based art, opening May 24, 2025, at The Hughes
Memorial Library in West Cornwall, Connecticut. The show will run through June 28th.
Bringing together twelve artists whose practices span generations and geographies, WEFAN explores the woven form as both structure and symbol, expressing themes of interrelation and connectivity through this tactile medium. Artists include: Dorothy Gill Barnes,
Julia Bland, Dee Clements, Dominic DiMare, Marion Hildebrandt, Kat Howard, Sue Lawty, Norma Minkowitz, Judy
Mulford, Ed Rossbach, Maris Van Vlack, and Masako Yoshida. Each engages the intimate materiality of fiber with
remarkable ingenuity, pushing the notion of weaving into new territories of form and meaning.
The title of the show draws from Old English, a language dating back to the 5th century. The word wefan meant “to
weave,” and this etymology underscores the exhibition’s focus: to trace the enduring resonance of woven forms across
time, culture, and material practice.
Set within the historic charm of The Hughes Memorial Library in West Cornwall, WEFAN offers an immersive encounter with material and making, a compelling invitation to reflect on the ties that bind
us.
Free and Open to the Public
For opening hours, please check @_Lov_Art on IG
The Hughes Memorial Library
35 Lower River Road
West Cornwall, CT 06796
Mark your calendar and ready your totes—the seasonal Washington farmers market will soon be returning to The Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens beginning May 24! Your Saturdays are about to get a whole lot fresher with the bounty that comes from the fields, greenhouses and kitchens of Litchfield County’s best growers and makers.
Enjoy locally grown veggies, freshly baked breads and pastries, pasture-raised meats, artisanal cheeses, delectable dairy, scrumptious seafood and more. The market also features fresh-cut flowers and handmade pet food, too. Rotating musicians will also be performing during many of our farmers markets.
Catch the market every Saturday from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm through November 22.
Follow the market on Instagram at @washingtonctfarmersmarket for the latest news and updates.
The Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens
One Green Hill Road
Washington Depot, CT 06794
https://judyblackpark.org/farmers-market
St Andrew’s Music in the Nave Concert Series Presents
MOZART OPERA HIGHLIGHTS
Saturday May 17th at 3:00 PM
Tickets $25/pp
Event Location
St Andrew’s Parish
1 North Main Street
Kent, CT 06757
https://bit.ly/MOZART2
Join us for Duck Day at Ripley!
11:00 AM-3:00 PM
A fun-filled, educational day for all ages featuring:
• Live raptor show by Skyhunters in Flight (2 PM)
• Reptile programs by Riverside Reptiles (11:30 AM & 1 PM)
• Rubber Duck Derby Race (12 PM)
• Face painting & hands-on activities
• Conservation games & educational exhibits
• Nature-inspired vendors
• Explore our aviaries & endangered waterfowl
• …and so much more!
$10 per person | Kids 12 & under + Members FREE
Celebrate nature, conservation, and community with us
Ripley Waterfowl Conservancy
55 Duck Pond Rd
Litchfield , CT 06759
https://onecau.se/_8t9nd1
Embellished Notifications by British textile designer and fiber artist Kate Lewis offers an analog interpretation of the messages and notifications we receive digitally from various apps, brands and the outside world in general.
Conceived as an “antidote to the news” this series of work aims to capture the good feelings and happiness these digital messages offer, carrying those emotions and momentary dopamine triggers into the future.
“I thought about the relationship our phones have with brands, how we receive information digitally and which brands and phrases exactly gave me that hit of dopamine,” Kate says. “These notifications have become integral to our modern lives, with food deliveries, take out, online dating, transport…”
With a nod to traditional cross-stitch samplers, these colorful and slightly subversive hand made works aim to lift your spirits, and will look great in your kitchen.
Please join us Saturday, March 17th between 4-7PM for a conversation between Kate Lewis and curator, cultural journalist and podcast host Emily McElwreath.
For more information about the opening and exhibit email: [email protected]
or send us a DM on Instagram
@itspeggymercury
For more information about Kate Lewis:
@katelewisstudio
katelewisstudio.com
For more information about Emily McElwreath:
@emilymcelwreath_art
@theartcareer
mcelwreathadvisory.com
Peggy Mercury
Kent Barns
9 Maple Street, Unit 2
Kent, CT 06757
http://peggymercury.com
Please join us from 12PM to 3PM as we welcome Neada Deters, founder of LESSE Skincare, to Peggy Mercury. Neada will be on hand to demonstrate the benefits of Gua Sha, the importance of SPF, and introduce you to a customized skin ritual from LESSE.
Please email [email protected] for more information or DM on Instagram @itspeggymercury
Peggy Mercury
KENT BARNS
9 Maple Street, Unit 2
Kent, CT 06757
https://peggymercury.com
Rowland Scherman ’55 photo exhibition opens April 12 at Perakos Gallery, featuring 150 powerful black-and-white images.
5:30 – 7:30 PM
Thomas S. Perakos Arts and Community Center
Butler Dormitory, Washington
“Rowland Scherman ’55: Peace, Protest, and Promise,” a stunning retrospective exhibition featuring more than 150 black-and-white photographs by Rowland Scherman ’55, opens Saturday, April 12, and will remain on view through June 8, 2025, in the Perakos Family Cares Art Gallery of the Thomas S. Perakos Arts and Community Center. An opening reception and gallery talk with the artist will be held April 24 from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. The gallery is open to the public free of charge. Parking is available in the Upper Parking Lot with a limited number of accessible parking spaces directly outside TPACC. Please see the Campus Map for details.
Please join us for a closing reception for CLOSED CIRCUIT, a solo show of new paintings by Queens, NY based artist Mike Picos.
Closed Circuit is a suite of 9 paintings. Each painting’s surface is covered with an algorithmically generated maze with inlaid images drawn from the artist’s personal archive of digital artifacts. The solitary tree in Evergreen is a screen capture taken within a hardware emulator program running a Nintendo DS video game from the Pokémon franchise. Town and City contains a blocky, abstracted Main Street of colorful facades, sourced from an archive of ANSI graphics, 16-bit illustrations made in text editing software that were popular among users of online bulletin boards in the 90s. The suburban home with its clear blue sky and green grass setting in Single Family is clip art extracted from an outdated copy of WordPad, Microsoft’s defunct free word processing software.
The paintings in this series begin as a set of multi-layered, infinitely scalable vector graphics. Each graphic is sent to a plotter, which cuts a stencil its exact shape and dimensions, creating a pixel-perfect analog copy. While the forms in these paintings are nameable—tree, house, truck, robot—the processes used to render them point to the histories of hard-edge geometric abstraction, from Op-Art to Neo Geo. The physical properties of acrylic paint allow for the creation of dense, tactile surfaces, whose visible strata highlight the painting as a built object, in stark contrast to its immaterial digital origins.
The maze alludes to a process of searching at multiple orders of magnitude. The algorithm that generates the maze searches the grid cell-by-cell, constructing walls and passages as it progresses. A viewer engages in a similar searching process by finding their way to or from the embedded images, through the passageways and across the painting’s surface. It can be understood as the thing itself, a puzzle to be solved with the eye, or as a schematic for something at the scale of architecture to be traversed with one’s whole body. The maze can also be seen through time, as an abstraction of a narrative arc, with the disorienting twists, turns, and false starts that come before a resolution.
Mike Picos is an artist and educator living and working in Queens, NY. He received a BFA in Studio Art from Cornell University and an MAT in Art Education from Queens College, CUNY. After completing his MAT, Picos worked as an art teacher at a public high school in NYC. In 2019, he co-founded RAD Group, an artist reading and discussion group, with artist Dan Fig, organizing monthly meetings and critiques. In 2024, Picos received his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art.
Jennifer Terzian Gallery
3BB South Street
Litchfield
1pm-4pm
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