Gallery and Shop Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 9:30am to 5:00pm |
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Greetings!
Happy spring!
As we enter the season of renewal, we're looking forward to the warmer weather and the pop of spring colors!
Mother's Day is on its way! If mom has celebrated a great accomplishment, or has a collection of her favorite things, bring us the items and let us create a custom shadowbox to display them proudly for a lifetime. We also offer gift certificates.
We'd love to welcome you to the gallery this month to see the all-new exhibit, "Elemental Reflections," featuring the magnificent landscapes of Vermont artist, Laurie Alberts. This exciting showcase will be on display through April 29.
Plus, now's the time for that spring cleaning. Don't forget your oil paintings and frames! We'll clean and restore them to their former glory.
We hope to see you at the gallery this month!
Sincerely,
Anne & Tom Geary
(203) 655-6633
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What a fun custom framing project! Framed jerseys for the Colby College Women's Lacrosse Team, just in time for their end-of-season ceremony.
"When tasked with framing 11 college seniors' lacrosse jerseys in two weeks, I thought it was an impossible task...."
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If you're interested in purchasing this painting, please call us at 203-655-6633.
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Featured April Artist
Geary Gallery proudly presents
"Elemental Reflections," featuring the enchanting
naturescapes of Laurie Alberts.
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“In Laurie Alberts’s landscape paintings, color saturation penetrates the viewer like an elemental experience of love. Often paradoxically wavering between clarity and mood, they’re suffused as much with sensations as they are depictions of light, shadow, reflection, time, and space. While they might be “about” trees, rivers, clouds, and grasses, they are equally about seeing emotion in images free of the burden of narrative.”
— Alice Fogel, former Poet Laureate of New Hampshire and author of Nothing But, considerations on abstract expressionism
About Laurie Alberts
From a very early age, Laurie Alberts found solace and adventure in the woods and fields of northern New England. When she wasn’t outdoors she was drawing, painting, and writing stories.
After publishing eight books of fiction, a memoir and embarking on a career teaching creative writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts, Hampshire College, and the University of New Mexico, Alberts realized she’d left painting behind far too long. Once she returned to painting, she never looked back.
As an adult returning to art, she took classes, attended workshops, and studied one-on-one with celebrated oil painters including Rosemary Ladd, Julia Jensen, Charlie Hunter, Pam Ingalls, Mary Giammarino, Michelle Dunaway, Mary McGloughlin, and others.
Contemporary painters who have influenced Alberts’ vision include the landscape abstractors Julia Jensen, John Lacey, and Carlos San Millan. Although Alberts’ own work remains more grounded in recognizable imagery than some of these artists she admires, they inspire her to continue finding new approaches and new equivalents to the physical world around her.
Alberts frequently uses cold wax medium with her oil paints because it increases luminosity and its thickness and malleability allow for scraping, scratching, and the overlay of colors and textures. She finds its very imprecision creates possibilities – directions she might not have intended, images unforeseen, paths she wants to follow.
Alberts resides on forty acres in southern Vermont and winters in a couple of vintage Airstream campers in the Red Rock Canyons of the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico. She and her husband, Thomas O’Neill, raised their daughter in both places and still live completely off the grid.
Alberts states, "Because I row my 26’ single scull on a wild section of the Connecticut River, the river, in its various seasons and permutations, often appears in my paintings. I consider rowing and painting complementary: hard work, joy, and a sense of expansion from being immersed in the light and shapes of a real place I make my own through painting."
Gallery Location & Hours
Geary Gallery is open to the public Wednesday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and is located at 576 Boston Post Road, Darien, CT 06820. For more information, call (203) 655-6633 or visit our website: https://gearygallery.com.
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A Custom Shadowbox to Celebrate Mom's Special Accomplishments or Favorite Collection! |
This Mother's day, let us create a custom shadowbox, perfect to honor a mom's favorite collection, amazing achievement, or cherished special event. No challenge is too great for Accent Picture Framing, known as the area experts in framing everything from important certificates, diplomas, and photos, to 3D objects. Bring us these treasured memories and learn why our custom frames and shadow boxes stand the test of time.
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Bring Your Oil Paintings Back to Life! |
If you have an oil painting that needs to be cleaned or repaired, or a frame that's chipped or broken, bring it to Accent Restoration and give it new life! Our projects hang in leading galleries, museums, historical societies and private residences throughout Fairfield County.
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Your One-Stop Shop for Unique Gifts! |
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Treat Yourself or a Loved One to a Custom Portrait |
Whether you choose a portrait of your family, pet, home, or favorite vacation spot, Geary Gallery's Custom Portrait Service makes it easy and affordable. Our portrait artists are chosen for their mastery of their mediums. View the portfolios of our portrait artists. For more information, contact us at (203) 655-6633.
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A Special Gift of a Geary Gallery Gift Certificate
Deciding on an art piece can be a very personal choice. If you're considering giving someone a work of art but you're not sure which piece to choose, take the guesswork out of giving with a gift certificate. Our gift certificates can be used towards any of our original artwork, custom frames, shadow box framing, frame or oil painting repair, or a custom original portrait.
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We Deliver Your Art to Your Car
We've offered curbside pickup for years, to help parents with babies and small children who are unable to easily leave their car. Just call from your car when you're in the gallery parking lot to pick up your work, and a gallery employee will bring it to you. Call (203) 655-6633.
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Geary Gallery and Accent Picture Framing were founded in 1984, and today are Fairfield County's preeminent art gallery and frame shop, featuring an extensive collection of original artwork, and custom framing services. With four elaborate display rooms, Geary Gallery maintains an ambitious exhibition schedule to showcase both Connecticut-based artists with national reputations as well as well-known artists from along the Eastern seaboard. The public can enjoy a new show virtually every five weeks. The Gallery also offers a Custom Original Portrait Service, which matches their favorite artists with customers wishing to commission an original portrait of their family, an individual, pet or home. With an extensive inventory of over 2,000 corner samples, Accent Picture Framing and Restoration is a service that is highly regarded for its master framing techniques as well as precision art restoration services for leading museums, auction houses, and historical societies. |
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For more information about Geary Gallery and Accent Picture Framing, call (203) 655-6633 or visit our website.
Store hours:
Wednesday - Saturday
9:30am to 5:00pm
Visit us at
576 Boston Post Road
Darien, CT 06820
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