Bruce S. Kershner Gallery announces Dynamic Expressions
Dynamic Expressions
Bruce S. Kershner Gallery • Fairfield Library • 1080 Old Post Rd, Fairfield, CT 06824
August 3, 2024 – September 28, 2024
Reception August 8, 2024
Dynamic Expressions
The Bruce S.Kershner Gallery in the Fairfield Public Library invites the public to the reception for “Dynamic Expressions” on Thursday,August 8 at 5:30 to 7:30 pm. This features art by Michael Parchment, Cindy Bernier. The artists will talk about their work at 6 pm. The show can be seen from August 3 to September 28 during library hours.
Michael Parchment was born in England and is now a Naugatuck resident. He is a graduate of Paier College of Art in Hamden, Connecticut and also studied at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston Jamaica, West Indies.
After working in publishing for many years as a graphic designer and art director, he continues to freelance on various projects as a designer.
Michael works with acrylic, pastels, and colored pencils on canvas and watercolor on a crush paper technique, He creates art of vibrant, spontaneous color, interesting and surreal compositions. His work continues to evolve, and he strives for “total commitment and perfection” to his craft. He has exhibited in many galleries in New Haven and Fairfield Counties in Connecticut, and has work in private collections throughout the United States and abroad.
Michael says, “I want my painting to take you on a journey of peace, harmony, love, light and happiness.”
Cindy Bernier’s artwork reflects her career as a dancer and choreographer. An early member of Joyce Trisler’s Danscompany, she performed and served as artistic director of Kinetikos, New England Dance Theater and Bernier Dance, where she created over 30 works. She began painting in 2017 to explore her life-long work through paint. Her paintings are in private collections in Connecticut, New York, Florida, Arkansas, Washington, New Jersey, California, Switzerland and Italy.
Cindy says she explores paint as movement on canvas. She is fascinated by the process of translating movement dynamics through mark making and layers of color. “As a life-long dancer, my primary awareness has
always been rooted in my body. Not being able to dance as fully as I once did, I found myself exploring my physical memory and using it to create works that connect me to a sense of wonder, exploration and play.
I love exploring paint as movement on canvas – the brush strokes, color, patterns, texture connect me to movement dynamics, emotional and spiritual states. Translating body memory into paintings connects me to a
language where consciousness and paint merge.”
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