March Artists

Artists
Featured in the March 01, 2001 Exhibit

Ghassan Abou-Alfa, M.D. is Instructor of Medicine in the Section of Medical Oncology. For twenty years, Dr. Abou-Alfa has been chasing the moment with his lenses. His collection of 15,000 slides has received several honorable mentions. “Little Things” is a portfolio of fifteen serene moments captured from below sea level to up to 20,000 feet above: little things that show the grandeur and beauty of our cosmos no matter how seemingly insignificant they appear to be.

Lucienne Coifman has been an active weaver for over 20 years. A member of the Handweavers Guild of America and President of the Connecticut Guild, she teaches extensively throughout New England. Breaking with tradition, she emphasizes colors rather than patterns. Finding herself limited by an 8-harness loom, she has developed a technique to pick up designs independently, achieving more flexibility and working beyond the constraints imposed by the loom.

Paul Fappiano delights in pure decorative design. In these “raku” pieces, the focus of each piece is the ornamentation on the surface. The glazing creates a contrasting statement with the quiet black richness of the clay body. Exterior planes of the vessel are integrated with outer design work and are an energetic blend of both. His goal is to engage the eye with a graceful sequence of statements that are pleasing with their strong sense of order.

Ann Langdon is an artist whose work has been a search for a visual representation of the human psyche and spirit, specifically as such images relate to women and their life experiences. In her “moldings” (drawings of actual mold,) she explores her fascination with texture and surface: texture as reflecting something organic; surface as covering over an unseen structure or personality. Here in what we call decay are hills and valleys of another world to which we can “travel” momentarily, or in which we can become lost, found, buried or reborn.

Earl Glusac, M.D., is Associate Professor of Pathology and Dermatology. His work focuses less on the specific rendering of a subject than on the exploratory use of paint and paper. He works abstractly or creates a rendering that allows the viewer to interact subjectively with the work. He enjoys transparent watermedia (watercolor and dilute acrylics) and frequently uses non-traditional paint applicators.

Alan Saslow is a retired hospital pharmaceutical sales representative who volunteers in the Medical Oncology Clinic helping patients and family members to efficiently access medical information via the Internet. Five years ago, he became interested in woodturning and has concentrated his work on segmented vases made from various hard woods. Some of his vases are constructed of more than 150 pieces, glued together under high pressure and then turned on a lathe.

JoAnn Savage is a printer who enjoys combining the highly technical aspects of printing with the creation of individual art objects. Also a painter and potter, her prints benefit from her experience in these other genres. Her work has been seen in national shows, and her prints can be found in private collections from Alaska to Scotland.

Karen Schnitzer is an Administrative Assistant in the Section of Nephrology in the Department of Medicine. She enjoys hiking in the woods and will often spend entire vacations walking in places such as Maine. Karen uses photography as a means to preserve the glorious spectacle of nature encountered along the way, whether from a mountaintop or a highway rest stop.

Wayne O. Southwick, M.D., Professor Emeritus, was Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery at Yale from 1958 to 1979 and continues to work part time. Dr. Southwick began studying sculpture at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts in 1979 under Elisabeth Gordon Chandler, Laci De Gerunday, Michael Lantz and Donald Gale. He also studied under Bruno Lucchesi with whom he began working in terra cotta and bronze. His entry in this exhibit is “The Marathoner”.

Mary Vona is a programmer/analyst at ITS Systems Administration. Her purpose in art is to express intrinsic core feelings that are provoked by a significant thought, place or response to an experience. She works both from memory, capturing pure feeling through imagery, and on-site where the wind, shadows and weather play an integral part in the evolution of the painting. In addition to having paintings in private collections, her scientific illustrations are published in The Early States of Fishes in the California Current Region, 1996.

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