"Still/Life" Opens at the NRCA Rotunda Gallery on September 9th

“Still life” usually refers to a work of art that depicts inanimate objects – a bowl of fruit or a vase full of flowers – but this fall the NRCA Rotunda Gallery is exploring a different meaning: Still/Life" (opening September 9th) offers works that reimagine what it means to pause time, to frame the overlooked, and to ask what lives inside stillness?

A collaboration between the New Rochelle Council on the Arts and New Rochelle High School’s arts faculty, the exhibit includes works by 11 artists – Lisa Archigian, Mia Brownell. Suzanne Butler Richardson, Erika Hibbert, Emmanuelle Loiselle, Michael Manning, Moira McCaul, Kristen Osterberg, Christian Salvati, Scott Seaboldt, Ben Quesnel -- at two locations, both the NRCA Rotunda Gallery at City Hall and the Museum of Arts & Culture at NRHS. The exhibit is being curated by Lynn Honeysett and Alexandra Rutsch Brock.

There will be an Opening Reception at City Hall on Tuesday September 9th, from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. A separate reception will be held at the Museum of Arts & Culture at New Rochelle High School on Saturday, October 18th from 11 am to 3 pm as part of ArtsFest.

NRCA Rotunda Gallery chair Lynn Honeysett explains "Still / Life lingers in the quiet spaces—between breath and stillness, presence and absence. Rooted in the still life tradition, the works gathered here reimagine what it means to pause time, to frame the overlooked, and to ask: what lives inside stillness?"

"Drawing on the Yoga Sutras, the exhibition calls for a deeper mode of perception—Pratyakṣa (direct observation), Anumāna (inference), and Āgamāḥ (testimony). The artists ask us to see not only with our eyes, but with memory, intuition, and trust. Still / Life is an invitation to look again—and then again—to discover life in the paused, the passing, and the nearly forgotten."

The NRCA Rotunda Gallery is located in New Rochelle’s City Hall at 515 North Avenue, and open to the public during regular business hours through October 24th. In addition the NRCA Rotunda Gallery will be open to the public on Saturday, October 18th as part of ArtsFest.

The New Rochelle Council on the Arts is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2025: Founded in 1975 its mission is to encourage the study and presentation of the performing and fine arts, and over the years NRCA has sponsored art exhibitions, theatrical productions, dance recitals, film screenings, lectures, spoken word events, concert series and public art. The NRCA Rotunda Gallery was established in 2012 to bring fine arts to City Hall. Find out more about NRCA at www.newrochellearts.org.

The New Rochelle Council on the Arts is proud to be a grantee of ArtsWestchester with funding made possible by Westchester County government with the support of County Executive George Latimer.