Bruce S. Kershner Gallery Opening Reception: "Moving Lines"

The Bruce S. Kershner Art Gallery Committee invites the public to a reception for its current exhibit, "Moving Lines," on Thursday, October 27, from 5:30-7:30pm in the Gallery at Main Library.  The show features work by artists Mary Manning and Charles Douthat; the artists will speak at the reception at 6:15pm.  The show can be viewed from October 15 through December 10 during regular Library hours.

Mary Manning has been a lifelong artist and a resident of Darien for 40 years. A graduate of Marymount Manhattan College, she has continued her education with studies in graphic design at The School of Visual Arts.  Her monotypes and mixed media works have won many awards in area shows.  Mary says, "I am a visual artist who works with diverse media and processes, ranging from printmaking to alcohol inks to vintage fabric dying. On exhibit in the show are monotype collages and others with fabric, paper, bark, and other found materials...they can be arranged and rearranged in nearly infinite combinations.  I like to think that the viewer will interact with these pieces, entering the "conversation" and perhaps mentally rearranging them." 

Charles Douthat is a self-taught painter working within the traditions of abstract expressionism and lyrical abstraction. He is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of California who began painting ten years ago. He has exhibited his work in group shows at the Artists Collective of Westport, the Westport Art Center, and the Wilton Library, among other places.  Charles states, "I paint in acrylics, usually on large canvases but sometimes on recycled surfaces... In a painting's early stage I may create an appealing shape or line or color combination which I'll want to save...but strangely, only when I sacrifice this attractive area by painting on or over it does something original get released, something which belongs both to the painting's physical presence and my feelings that are seeking expression."