Kehler Liddell Gallery is pleased to present three artists in our next exhibition.
Photographs
Hank Paper: NEW INCISIVE MOMENTS
&
Marjorie Gillette Wolfe: WIDE OPEN
Paintings
Chris Ferguson: Labors of Love
May 22 – June 22, 2025
Opening Reception:
Sunday, June 1, 2:00-5:00 pm
Closing Reception:
Sunday, June 22, 2:00-5:00 pm
The title of Hank Paper’s show, New Incisive Moments, comes from the phrase that every street photographer knows from Henri Cartier-Bresson, “The Decisive Moment,”. Pressing the shutter a moment too soon or a moment too late is to miss capturing the image. While Cartier-Bresson’s Decisive Moment deals with time (the perfect moment), Paper’s Incisive Moment deals with space, the mystery, and the story within the frame. “While you may not know the beginning or the end, in each image you know there is a story going on”.
On the other side of the gallery, Marjorie Gillette Wolfe shows her panorama and composite photographs in Wide Open. Wolfe describes the differences between these two photographic types as follows: “Composite photographs are meant to unfold a wide world, where separate images are arranged to form a single view, while panoramas are photographs that lead the observer outside the edges of the single frame. In that blur is more than what our eyes let us see, but that we know is there. This is a way of reading the world that I’ve been exploring for a dozen years”.
In the North Gallery, Chris Ferguson shows his new body of work, Labors of Love, which focuses on portraits and depictions of local people who love the work that they do. Many of these portraits depict people who work in the fields of medicine and scientific research. Other images show places that I’m fond of and beloved family members. I hope that people will come away with an appreciation for those who work hard to help others.
Biographies
Hank Paper a street photographer for over 50 years, describes finding his personal style as “emulating the craziness of Garry Winogrand, the humor of Elliott Erwitt, the warmth of Helen Levitt”. His many solo exhibitions include those at The African American Museum in Philadelphia; Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel; the High Point Historical Museum in North Carolina (Grand Opening Exhibit); The Jewish Museum of New Jersey; the Morgenthal-Frederics Gallery, the Tamarkin Leica Gallery; The Harlem School of the Arts in New York City ; The New Britain Museum of American Art; The Woodstock Museum in New York; and The Mattatuck Museum and the Fairfield Museum.
Marjorie Gillette Wolfe has been a photographer for five decades and was an art teacher for thirty-seven years. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rhode Island School of Design and Master’s degree from Wesleyan University. Wolfe has been a recipient of the Connecticut Artist Fellowship. Her work has been exhibited widely and won numerous awards, including at Rhode Island School of Design, the National Arts Club in New York, at Images over three decades and numerous venues in the Northeast. Her photographs have appeared in various publications, including The New York Times, Art New England, and Camera Arts Magazine. She has exhibited at Kehler Liddell Gallery in New Haven since 2008 and was at the Sargent Gallery on Martha’s Vineyard over the past decade.
Chris Ferguson remembers enjoying drawing ever since he was a small child. During high school, he attended Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, CT, an experience that he says allowed him to explore his creativity in new ways. He then went on to earn a degree in Illustration from Paier College of Art in Hamden, CT, with the intention of embarking on a career in children's book illustration. However, he quickly realized his heart belonged to fine art, and has been painting and exhibiting his work for the last 20+ years. His work has been shown in local venues in and around New Haven, including DaSilva Gallery and Kehler Liddell Gallery. Currently, his primary focus is on local scenery and landscapes.