Welcome to the Souterrain Gallery
a dependance of The Wish House
With our new expanded space of the Souterrain Gallery we are aiming to ad a more public exhibit space , meeting place & venue for a variety of concepts to Cornwall in particular West Cornwall's town center that with the Covered Bridge and bucolic setting is a natural attraction for visitors from near and far.
The Space is to convey what a segment of Cornwall is all about, Art and Art on all levels.
We hope and wish to exhibit works by our vast variety of area artists to share their love and pride of inhabiting this part of the world.
Please enjoy!
Souterrain Gallery Hours: Thursday - Sunday 11:00 - 5:00
For recent events please visit: Gallery website
2025
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Moon Zappa & Friends
Friday November 28. 4-6 pm Multi Faceted Exhibit , Book Signing , Tea Opening Party As Moon puts it : Black Friday Madcap Art and Blindbox Wrap with Moon Unit Zappa & friends A whimsical West Cornwall eve to get holiday shopping done early - NOVEMBER 28th aka BLACK FRIDAY - from 4-6pm at the Wishhouse. Be moved and delighted by the works of some of Moon Unit Zappa’s favorite up-and-coming and established artists. Shop local and buy one-of-a-kinds instead of scrolling for BF “deals.” Or just show up and happystare - zero calories for eye candy. The Wishhouse November 28th Black Friday 4-6 pm Yay! Exhibit will be open through the end of the year . |
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Ken Krug - Country Roads & City Streets
April 26. - June 30. Ken Krug is a fine artist, illustrator, and author. He illustrated Michele Obama’s book about the White House Garden and wrote and illustrated the children’s book, No, Silly! which was on the Bank Street College Best Books of 2016 list. His paintings have been exhibited in numerous art shows and were featured on the set of the movie “You Can Count on Me.” Ken Krug is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY www.kenkrug.com Ken spends much of his weekends , summers and other times with his wife Liz Van Doren in Cornwall where the family is deeply rooted . |
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2024
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Suzan Scott
Nature is a State of Mind at The Souterrain Gallery 8.3.-9.29.2024 Image: Summer Fields Meadow 30"x30" acrylic & graphite wash on canvas Suzan Scott – Artist Statement "...as a painter, my language is line and color and shape. They are my tools, they are my voice...made visible. For me, the question is never ‘what am I looking at?’ the question is: ‘what do I see?’ I have created a way of art making that combines my interests in art, nature, and science. Nature informs my work and directs my eye; the effects of light, color and atmospherics feature prominently in my work. New visual information constantly presents itself to me. Close observation and awareness of the moment play a big part in my art practice. The work begins outdoors with simple observations of my environment. Elements of light, color and shape draw my eye, as do perceived patterns and relationships between objects. I often jot down simple notes on the spot to help me recall my impressions. In the studio I'll begin to work from notes and memory to explore my observations. With each sketch, I search for just the right degree of abstraction to allow me a more open interpretation. I often produce a number of small studies, working with a variety of media and a range of scales, in an effort to more fully develop what I’ve seen and experienced. As I work, I often move further and further away from the specifics of the actual subject matter and closer to the experience of being. I rely heavily on visual memory and intuition to create work that is not time or site specific but evocative, specific, only to itself.” July 2024 |
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Joseph Clarke
INCIPIENCE May 25. - July 30. |
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2023 Exhibits
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The Rev. Dr. Mark Bozzuti - Jones and
Dr. Kathy Bozzuti - Jones 10.7.-11.19.2023 Call & Response These paintings and photographs invite the viewer to see with the eyes of the heart and to flow in response to the calls of nature, life, and the divine. Artmaking is our way of responding to these invitations. What is calling to you? The Rev. Dr. Mark Bozzuti-Jones serves as director of Spiritual Formation at Trinity Retreat Center. Artist, poet, social activist, reggae enthusiast, and author of eight books, his most recent books include, Face to the Rising Sun: Reflections on Spirituals & Justice and Absalom Jones: America’s First Black Priest, 2021. Dr. Kathy Bozzuti-Jones is an interfaith minister, essayist, spiritual director, certified mindfulness instructor and contemplative photographer, who has exhibited her photos since 2006 at Trinity Wall Street in New York, as well as in Boston, Washington, and online with ECVA (Episcopalians in the Visual Arts – ECVA.org). |
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Magaly Ohika
Intimate Silence 8.12.23 - 9.24.23 Opening Reception Saturday August 12. 4-6 pm Intimate Silence solo art exhibit featuring O H I K A In my recent newest work I created a series of hand monoprints figurative paintings using inks, and oil paint mix media. Personal pieces based on Intimate Silence, which involves our connection to nature. In our Intimate moments let us silence ourselves and deeply connect with our inner being. Disperse what no longer serves us allowing nature to guide us, to be held by its gentle whispers of answers we seek, the joy and peace. When we fully open our hearts we welcome nature in, and we're both bonded in the same frequency. Artist Statement I've drawn my whole life, My world would crumble if I didn't have paper to draw on. When I was little, I'd sneak into my mother's bedroom and take her nail polish and eyeliner. They were my earliest art materials - but she wasn't too happy about that! The day my mother bought me a box of crayons and paper, I remember how happy I felt. Making Art soon became the way I created a world all for myself. When I create, I explore the deepest, most vulnerable parts of me. When my five-year-old self takes over, that's when we have fun. I trust her, and she guides my process. She knows what to do - even though she's a wild card! It's different every time, and she keeps my imagination alive. We create new worlds and safe spaces for our most tender emotions. I explore a wide range of effects and techniques - working on paper in watercolor, gouache, acrylic, graphite, charcoal, pastel, oil paints, and ink. Magaly Ohika was born in Manhattan's Alphabet City and raised in Spanish Harlem, New York. With a BA and Associates Degree in Fashion Illustration and General Illustration from the Fashion Institute Of Technology, Her professional experience includes toy manufacturers and animators, Tyco, and Just Toys Intl. For more information visit O H I K A itsybitsyspill.etsy.com and Instagram (m.ohika). |
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Matrix You are invited to MATRIX, a series of painted portraits of 15 women, their mothers, and their grandmothers (with relics and mementos from those portrayed) in the Gallery. There will be an accompanying event called Tea and Matriarchy. The participants in the gallery portraits will bring photos and stories to share about their mothers and grandmothers. You are invited to bring photos, too. Tea and cookies will be served . GALLERY OPENING: Saturday, May 27, from 3 to 6 accompanied by the snazzy tunes of Nick & Carol TEA and SYMPATHY: Sunday, May 28 at 4 Open Thursday - Sunday 11-5 |
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Saturday April 22. 3-5 pm join us for a celebration of the works by Sarah Blodget , member of the HCC , Earth Day , Spring and whatever suits your fancy at the Souterrain Gallery !
Meet and Greet the Artists |
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March 4. - April 30.
What We See an exhibit for the Housatonic Camera Club . The show will include photographs of varying styles including still life, landscapes, wildlife, abstracts and drone photography. The show will run through April 30th. The Housatonic Camera Club is composed of members from communities in the tri-state area (Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York) who meet to share their love of photography, their experiences, travels, and expertise, and to educate one another and the public. Members — beginners, advanced amateurs, and professionals — work in prints, film, digital, color, and Black and White mediums.The Housatonic Camera Club meets the third Tuesday of the month from September through June at Noble Horizons in Salisbury, CT. housatoniccameraclub.com |
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2022 Exhibits & Events
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Saturday September 24. 3-6 pm
Please join us for our 25 year anniversary celebration featuring an Artist Reception in our Souterrain Gallery : Bela Selendy Photography Nature's Core Hope is an evolutionary necessity as well as a BBQ by Dan Evans aka Dangerous Dan and the Jazzy Tunes of Carol Leven and Co. About the exhibit : Nature’s Core We are wired to seek life. Hope is an evolutionary necessity. In this diverse presentation, photographer Bela Selendy explores themes of nature, life, transition, death, perception, time and reality. Moving from the figurative to the abstract, organic to material, the disparate but connected themes of the exhibit combine to express and explore zest and melancholy, optimism and despair, the slow movement of time and the capture of a frenetic instant. In bursts of fractal color or tones of earth and rust, Selendy strives to capture the hunger for life in nature’s minute forms, the core striving for continued existence; moves to painterly explorations of the transition to decay, where both sadness and joy are to be found; and finally opens gateways to the imagination in abstract compositions built on man-made elements where nature inescapably emerges in involuntary perception. We are wired to seek life. Bela Selendy is a native of Cornwall who nevertheless spent most of his life elsewhere. Educated at the Hotchkiss School, he continued to the University of Chicago where he studied philosophy, art, sciences, philosophy of art and philosophy of science before moving to Sweden for a few decades and engaging in a number of largely unrelated pursuits, finally returning permanently to Cornwall in 2020, well-timed to peak pandemic. He worked for many years to gain sufficient control of the medium of photography that he could relinquish control and allow randomness, the absence of certainty that underpins what our perception fools us into interpreting as objective reality, to emerge. |
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S A M P L E R
Bound by an interest in craft and materiality, seven artists explore drawing with alternative techniques. The ceramic sculptures of Sam Berenfield harken a nostalgia for childhood that is challenged by the expressive quilts and drawings of Noah Pica, whose work evokes an unflinching humor and sensuality that confront the viewer with color and form. Beautifully sensitive drawings by Krista Young respond to the frenetic and ornate patchwork quilt of Emma Redmond. Elizabeth Schweizer and Stefan Sehringer converse through weaving: material dances in the works of Sehringer, while Schweizer's surreal images develop through the shifting of color and pattern. Cassie Sheedy intertwines two and three dimensions with multimedia wall reliefs in wood and on paper. Together the artists grapple with the anxiety of being young during uncertain times, of finding and forging a place to call their own. Sam Berenfield, sam-berenfield.com Noah Pica, noahpica.com Emma Redmond, emmaredmond.com Elizabeth Schweizer, elizabethschweizer.com Stefan Sehringer, stefansehringer.com Cassie Sheedy, casssheedy.com Krista Young, kristamarieyoung.com |
2021 Exhibits & Events
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Cornwall Artisans Pop-Up shop at the Souterrain Gallery
weekends during the Holiday Season 11-5 starting Friday November 26. -28. and all following Saturday and Sundays till December 19. Nan Bevans , Susan Hellmann , Denise &Jessie Bate , Bianca La Porta , Teresa Pattison ..... Cash & Checks preferred , Masks required 413 Sharon Goshen Tnpk , West Cornwall CT 06796 , T.: 860 672 2969 www.souterraingallery.net |
Amber Maida
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