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Exhibition Synopsis David Borawski, a local independent curator, opened his fifth show at Real Art Ways with Anymore. The show included the work of eight local, regional and national artists working in a variety of media ranging from paint to video. Anymore explored connections between space and time by allowing the artists to bring their personal and social relationships with history to the fore. The inevitable dialogues that ensued informed the work in the exhibition, and the result was the emergence of associations and discoveries that sought to erase the physical and psychological boundaries that pervade how we look at history.

Curator Biography Borawski is an active member of the Connecticut arts community, and in addition to curating exhibitions for Real Art Ways and other contemporary galleries in the region, has produced a number of “do-it-yourself” exhibitions in vacant buildings, factories and storefronts which allow artists more opportunities and a non-traditional venue in which their work can be experienced.

Artists Anymore included work by Diane Ayott, John Beech Colleen Coleman, Max Estenger, Sandra Guze, Jacek Malinowski, Kevin Sipp and Pamela Stockamore.

Diane Ayott, of Boston, seeks through her work to achieve a synthesis between the personal and the pictorial through a series of oil paintings fluent in the language of abstraction. Ayott has taught at Montserrat College of Art, is currently an Assistant Professor of Art Education at Salem State College and has shown extensively in New England and in a variety of national exhibitions.

John Beech, born in Winchester, England and of Brooklyn, NY, is a sculptor and most recently has shown at the Stark Gallery in New York, Alexander Nagle in Toronto, Canada, and TD156 in San Francisco.

Colleen Coleman, an installation artist from New Haven, has shown at the Thoreau Art Gallery at Franklin Pierce College, The Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, CT, and the Pumphouse Gallery in Hartford.

Max Estenger, of New York City, is an installation artist concerned with issues relating to technology, globalism, power, religion and science. Through the exploration of these issues, he comments on his concern over the fate of abstract art. Most recently, Estenger has shown at the Firenze Biennale in Italy, and Steffany Martz in New York City.

Sandra Guze, of Hartford, bases her most recent work on experimentation with the versatile medium of paper. With the creation of new objects, which are subtly reminiscent of objects from Guze’s past, she is able to transcend the object’s visual origins and allow them to take on a separate meaning. Most recently, Guze has shown at the SOHO20 International Exhibition of Women’s Art in New York.

Jacek Malinowski, born in Warsaw, Poland and now living in New York, creates mixed media installations that incorporate concepts of time, space, technology and emotion, work that reflects issues dealing with the manipulation of personal, potentially traumatic experience. Malinowski has shown extensively throughout Poland and the United States, most recently at the Lukacs Gallery in Fairfield, CT in Shame and Humiliation, an exploration of computer generated photography.

Kevin Sipp, of Atlanta, GA, makes work that combines ancient totemic cultural artifacts with modern cultural artifacts to bridge the work methods of the past with those of the future. Most recently Sipp has shown at the Tubman African American Museum in Macon, GA, and the Kubatana Gallery in Atlanta.

Pamela Stockamore, lives and works in Litchfield, and has shown at Gallery Ruth Allemann in Zurich, Switzerland, Grey-McGear Modern in Santa Monica, and Paesaggio Gallery in West Hartford.


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Anymore Exhibition checklist
1. Diane Ayott April/May 1999-2001 Oils, acrylic paint, colored pencil, collage on canvas. 24”x23”
2. Diane Ayott 56 1999-2001 Oils, acrylic paint, colored pencil, collage on canvas. 24”x22”
3. Colleen Coleman Safe House 2001 Wood, cardboard, mirror, rice, silk flowers, steel nails, metal keys, monofilament, cowrie shells. Dimensions variable
4. Max Estenger Perfect Night 1998 Wood, plexiglass, enamel paint on steel. 8”x12”x168”
5. Max Estenger 18241 Colina Norte 1998 Heat transfer on micro-canvas. 5 units: 10”x12” each
6. Sandra Guze Time to Stop Buying Green Bananas (for Wallace) 2001 Sewn paper, found steel shopping cart. 40”x23”x37”
7. John Beech Dumpster/Kit 2000, Plywood, enamel paint. 109”x98”x98”
8. Diane Ayott Untitled 2000-2001, Oils, acrylic paint, colored pencil, collage on canvas. 52”x50”
9. Pamela Stockamore Untitled XXXVII.1 2001, Oil and dry pigment on 100% rag paper. 38”x38”
10. Pamela Stockamore Untitled XXXVII.2 2001, Oil and dry pigment on 100% rag paper. 38”x38”
11. Pamela Stockamore Untitled XXXVII.3 2001, Oil and dry pigment on 100% rag paper. 38”x38”
12. Pamela Stockamore Untitled XXII.5 2001, Oil and dry pigment on 100% rag paper. 22”x22”
13. John Beech Rotating Painting #3 2000, Enamel paint on plexiglass, lazy susan. 6”x27”x29”
14. Sandra Guze Good Love Will Rub Off When I Shake Hands With You 2001, Sewn paper, bricks, monofilament, fabric, rope, found objects: steel bucket, chain, lantern, brushes, leather bag and gloves. Dimensions variable
15. Kevin Sipp Adventures for Sirius B-Boys’ Episode VI: Trial by Fire, 1997-2001, Acrylic paint, colored pencil, turntable, mirror, feathers, cowrie shells, colored beads, vegetables, plumb bob, tape player with sound. Dimensions variable
16. Jacek Malinowski HalfAWoman 2001, Digital color DVD, 14 minutes.