Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut Announces Unique Installation by New Haven Artist

From Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut:

DANBURY, CT - "The work I do is a form of landscape that explores the relationships that living beings have with nature. I explore the subject of Shelter. Whether the coat hanging beside the rock or the layering of ink dyed newspaper, I am interested in putting elements together that express the experience of natural environment and how we and all living beings look to nature for shelter", says New Haven artist, Susan McCaslin.

Sheltered, an installation by the artist, will open at the Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut's @287 Gallery & Meeting Place, 287 Main Street, Danbury, on Friday, November 11th, with a free reception to the public from 5:30pm to 8:00pm. The exhibition, which Executive Director Lisa Scails says is a "determined turn toward immersive and evocative art as we conclude our 10th anniversary year", will run through Friday, February 3rd, 2017. The exhibition is made possible, in part, through the generosity of the Savings Bank of Danbury and Brio Tuscan Grille.

Susan continues, "I work in various media, but best by building a random inventory of objects from which I create site specific installations. Paper is my preferred material: paper mache rocks and boulders; paper mache treated coats; cards representing twigs of the wintered trees; paper mache detritus as dried leaf litter...all hand made objects that are found together in different relationships at one time or another." With a Bachelor's of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute and a Master's of Liberal Studies from Wesleyan University, Susan has gone on to explore the concept of Shelter with Shelters, Caves and More at Bridgeport's Discovery Museum and installations throughout Connecticut and New York. In 2012, she was awarded an Artist Fellowship Grant from the Connecticut Office of the Arts (COA), Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD).

The @287 Gallery & Meeting Place is open 10:00am to 4:00pm Thursday and Friday, 11:00am to 3:00pm on Saturday. For more information, call the Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut at (203) 798 0760 or visit artswesternct.org.

Images via the Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut.