Three new shows open on Nov. 15

Paintings, sculpture, abstracts featured

TORRINGTON — Five Points Gallery, 33 Main St. in downtown Torrington, will open three concurrent solo exhibitions, Stephen Maine’s “New Paintings,” Brigid Kennedy’s “The Morphology of Gratitude” and Ethan Newman’s “Undercurrents.” The three solo shows will run from Nov. 15 through Dec. 22.

In the East Gallery are Stephen Maine’s colossal “New Paintings.” The artist creates his stunning abstracts by using printing plates instead of brushes. “(This) systematic yet intentionally imprecise, indirect production method yields the great pleasure of surprise, while providing a concrete way to think about color, surface and scale,” he said.

A longtime member of American Abstract Artists and the International Association of Art Critics, Maine’s writing has been published in Art in America and ARTnews, among many other publications.

Brigid Kennedy’s “The Morphology of Gratitude” is presented in the TDP Gallery. The recipient of numerous awards, residencies and grants, Kennedy exhibits her sculpture and drawings nationally and internationally. She created the grand-scale black-and-white mudra specifically for this exhibition. “For me, art is a way of entering and engaging with the world, a way of making sense of things that I can

control,” she said.

In the West Gallery are Ethan Newman’s abstract “Undercurrents.” The painter is also a musician, and says his approach to the two disciplines overlap.

“I work quickly and spontaneously, improvising in much the same way I create music, each mark or action informing the next,” he said.

Newman is the winner of the 2017 Five Points Biennial Juried Exhibition, juried by artist Joe Fig. The award for winning the show is this solo exhibit at Five Points Gallery.

The exhibition is sponsored by Thomaston Savings Bank.

An opening reception will be held Nov. 16 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. An artists’ panel discussion in the gallery will be held Dec. 7 at 6:30 p.m. Power Boothe will moderate the discussion.

Gallery hours are Thursdays through Mondays, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and by appointment. There is no admission charge. Five Points exhibitions and educational events are free and open to the public.

For more information about the gallery, visit www.fivepointsgallery.org.

Five Points is supported in part by the Connecticut Office of the Arts.

Contributed photo A painting included in one of three new exhibits at the Five Points Gallery in Torrington. The shows will run Nov. 15 through Dec. 22.