Come to the Art/Place reception of “SPANNING TIME”, the work of long-time Art/Place Gallery members, Diane Pollack and Toby Michaels, on Sunday, June 26 from 2 to 5 PM. It can be seen from 12-5 pm every day from June 20 through July 17, 2022, 70 Sanford Street, Fairfield CT.

Please join us for a Reception on Sunday June 26 to toast the artists with complimentary beverages and snacks.

Art/Place is a non-profit, artist-run gallery that has been in existence for more than 35 years. It features a new show by one or two members every month and several group shows a year. Members work in a variety of media, styles, themes, and sizes.

This show features the work of two long, time Art/Place Gallery members. It can be seen daily from 12-5 pm.

DIANE POLLACK is a co-founder of the Drawing Studio and the Paperworks Collective in Tucson, Arizona; a member of the Artist Collective of Westport, the Ridgefield Guild, Surface Design Artists, Carriage Barn Guild, and Art/Place Gallery. Her work is in corporate and private collections.

Diane's work is an exploration of personal themes and cross cultural influences-a hybridization of Eastern and Western imagery. Gods, goddesses, women's work, rituals and calligraphy are a constant part of her visual vocabulary.

Often collage, yarns and threads are added to her monoprints to build complexity and to suggest lineal qualities. The typically feminine practice of sewing further emphasizes the idea of women's work and their role in the context of art-making.

TOBY MICHAELS was an elementary school art teacher. When she received a Master’s degree in Art Therapy, she initiated an Art Therapy program for Norwalk Hospital's Department of Psychiatry and practiced there for 17 years. She then led art therapy groups at Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan and was also Adjunct Professor of Art Therapy at Quinnipiac College in Hamden.

Now a full-time artist, Toby says, “As an artist, I work in abstraction, using metaphor, imagining the unseen, the cosmic abundance and boundless energy that exists in our universe and is there for the taking if we are awake to it. While the geometric shapes and squiggles interact, connect, overlap and touch each other harmoniously, I visualize a world in which Love works as a catalyst for change, where humans, like snowflakes, can acknowledge and honor their individuality while embracing, with humility, the idea of the sameness of us all.”