Kershner Art Gallery Reception: "Color Play"

The Bruce S. Kershner Art Gallery Committee invites the public to a reception for its current show, "Color Play: The Art of Earl Granville Killeen, Dionne Pia, and Emily Teall."  The reception will be held in the Kershner Gallery at Main Library, 1080 Old Post Road,  from 5:30-7:30pm on Thursday, February 10, 2022.  "Color Play" runs from February 5 to April 2 during Library hours.

Earl Grenville Killeen
After service in the Navy, Earl attended The Art Students’ League of New York during the 1970s.  A resident of Clinton, CT since 1981, Earl continues to be active in the arts community, having initiated the Shoreline Arts Alliance’s Annual Juried Show for regional high school students and annual Founder’s Award to be shared by an art teacher and a student.  He is the author of The North Light Book of Acrylic Painting Techniques and the recipient of Individual Artist’s grants from The Connecticut Commission on the Arts and The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts , as well as an Artist’s Fellowship Award from the Connecticut Office of the Arts.

Earl has exhibited in many area galleries and museums. In 2016, a cancer diagnosis led him to paint with a passion and persistence that produced over forty watercolors in less than a year, and he is currently working on his seventh series. He has received awards for his art from New Britain Museum of American Art, the New Haven Paint and Clay Club, and others.

Dionne Pia
Dionne is a floral designer and manager of Floral Petals in Bedford Hills, New York and is a Weston resident. She received a BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design and spent a year in Rome, Italy attending the European Honors Program. Her career path includes photo editing for the travel industry, graphic design, floral design, and marketing – producing logos, brand awareness, brochures, stage designs, and illustrations – and fulfilling fine art commissions.

Dionne’s artwork has been included in numerous juried and invitational shows in CT and NY, both in solo shows and individual ones and is represented in private collections throughout the USA. Her career path includes photo editing for the travel industry, graphic design, floral design, and marketing – producing logos, brand awareness, brochures, stage designs, and illustrations – and fulfilling fine art commissions.

Emily Teall
Emily Teall has a BFA in visual arts from Cornell University and an MA in human rights studies from Columbia University. She is a Riverside, Connecticut-based multimedia artist with particular interests in installation art and oil painting.  She also currently teaches visual art courses to 5th-12th graders at Fusion Academy in Greenwich. She says, “I am especially passionate about combining human rights with the arts and with art education.”

Emily is a Norwalk Art Space resident, where she exhibits in group shows and at their outdoors sculpture garden. She has also shown in numerous area group shows.