Back to Exhibits Page Artists Featured in the March 21, 2002 Exhibit Art Place Quilters: Mary Fichlander & Barabara Judisch Click on the Artist's name to see photo Judy Cuddihee is a fiber artist with former careers in psychology and computer science. Working in fiber and mixed media, she creates 2 and 3 dimensional art objects such as art quilts, wearable art, and “healing critters”. Typically full of vibrant color, her creations are joyous and inspiring. Judy is guided mostly by her dreams and the longings of her own soul. Pieces such as “Cracking Up the Cosmic Egg” and “Just Say “Yes” speak of her humor and optimism. Her current work addresses sexuality, showing its energy and how it is a foundation of human society. Matty Dagradi studied art and painting at Pratt School of Art in Brooklyn before beginning a creative career raising 5 children. Once her youngest began school she resumed her own studies in painting and began teaching arts and crafts and watercolors at adult education programs. She enjoys painting a multitude of subjects. A walk in the woods, a fresh bouquet of flowers, a cluster of grapes, or the pounding elusive surf along the coast, all inspire her to capture the world in watercolors. She prefers to paint outside to feel the light and air she strives to include in her work. She enjoys mixing media and experimenting with different techniques to achieve surprising results. Paul Fappiano has a degree in Fine Arts & Painting. He became interested in pottery because he wanted to create new surfaces to paint on. Paul enjoys working in all types of art media. Basket weaving is another one of his creative outlets. Gerald S. Freedman, M.D., MPH, is chief of Nuclear Medicine in the Department of Radiology. A childhood interest in drawing, painting and crafts evolved into the tactical satisfaction of clay, ceramics and sculpture after medical school. Radiology strengthened his understanding of anatomy and medicine focused his interest on people. Self taught and exposed to the great art of the world by museums, books, auctions and lectures here on campus, he came to admire the works of Rodin and Michelangelo. The Creative Arts Workshop provided an evening, working environment with materials and critical support to create most of these works over the last 30 years. Mary Grant, now at 83, is finding the time to pursue a lifelong interest. Art has always been a hobby of hers but for many years, she did not paint because she had other pressing obligations. She is a member of the Milford Council of Fine Arts and has been honored in local art shows in recent years. Her initial instruction was in oils but of late she has been studying and working in watercolors. Cornelia Kubler Kavanagh’s sculpture attempts to address the connection between human existence and nature. It tries to convey the inherent balance found within organic abstraction and resolved line and form. Her basic approach to sculpture is both intuitive and reductive. Though her preferred medium is stone, when working on plaster or wax for bronze casting, she removes mass to reveal form because she prefers to take away rather than to add. Her objective is to create a body of work that both pleases the eye and nourishes the soul. Barbara Sharp is a locksmith at the Yale School of Medicine. She is a mother of twin girls and took up basketweaving for therapeutic relaxation. She is also a long distance runner and has completed seven marathons. Recently she has submitted her application to be a contestant on the television show Survivor. Mari Gyorgyey, a Hungarian-American artist from New Canaan, is a professional painter, printmaker and designer who carries out specific visions with a humorous and international flair. Trained by the world’s best, including the Rhode Island School of Design, Yale and the Budapest Academy of Art, she combines fine art and design in a contemporary way. The new printing revolution has made it time for design to become more synthesized with art. A new generation, raised on computer images, demands this. And so, Mari Gyorgyey’s time has come. Sharon Hirsch, BFA, is the Associate Costume Shop Manager at Yale Rep/Yale School of Drama and is also a Lecturer in Costume Construction. A photographer and crafter, she likes to combine several crafts into one piece, such as patchwork photography, or, as in a show at Yale Rep this spring, lamp shade sleeves on a Gothic styled dress. She is a member of the Photo Arts Collective, a supportive group of Connecticut photographers. She likes to take color landscape photos in the soft, misty light of dawn and dusk. Her black and white photography wanders afield, from serious winter landscapes to portraits of children and their parents to goofy animal photos. Dawn Krieger, M.B.A. is an Associate Administrator in the Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. An amateur photographer, she has just started using black and white film in addition to color. One of Dawn’s favorite places to visit is North California, where most of the photographs in this collection were taken. Dawn lives in Wallingford Connecticut with her fiancé Tom and dog Oscar. Shepard Parsons, M.Div., is a Pastor and has been serving Center Church on the Green in New Haven for almost eleven years. As a self-taught painter who enjoys the outdoors, much of his work comes from the city and landscapes he loves. For Shepard painting and prayer go hand in hand as each focuses the mind and heart on something beyond oneself. His fascination with color and its effect on the eye and heart permeates his work. The thing he loves most to do is draw and color with his six year old daughter, Charis. Philip Penketh, Ph.D., is an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Pharmacology. A lifelong interest in insects and a more recent interest in computers and digital imaging technology have been combined to create a series of macroscopic images. He frequently takes his digital camera with him on hikes, as he never knows what interesting shot may present itself. Additionally, he has recently expanded his photographic interests to include landscapes. Sandra Scott creates award winning, dynamic, textile art shown in galleries across the United States. Her quilts invite the viewer to celebrate the glory of God’s creation and she hopes that those who enjoy her art will also be aware of the importance of preserving His splendid bounty. Most often her design process is guided by serendipity as she snips and shifts the fabrics, merely the facilitator who brings out the innate beauty of the tools of her trade. Scott says creating a quilt, like living a life, is a blend of joy, tedium, a few tears, enthusiasm and love. Jane Shapiro, B.A., M.A., has spent twenty years as a style designer and consultant for a hand-painted silk clothing and accessory company. Her passion for working with textiles grew, and she began to incorporate a vast number of mediums in her design work. She continually experiments with textures, using her own painting and photography as background. Jane especially loves folk art from all over the world. Her collage work includes contemporary, ethnic, and antique collectibles to enhance dimensional expression. Eiji Yanagisawa, M.D., Clinical Professor of Otolaryngology in the Department of Surgery, has a particular interest in close-up nature photography. He was formally a member of the New Haven Camera Club and currently a member of the Photographic Association of America and Bio-Communications Association. He has held exhibitions at the Hospital of St. Raphael, Temple Surgical Center, Jewish Home for the Aged and Yale University School of Medicine. He is very interested in medical photography and has had exhibited at national meetings including the American Academy of Otolaryngology ­ Head and Neck Surgery, the Biological Photographic Association and John Muir Medical Film Festival. He is the recipient of many awards both for his nature photography and for his medical photography. International Gallery Artists Arthur M. Grossman was educated at New York and Michigan State Universities and is now retired. Arthur is now able to pursue his lifelong enthusiasm for photography. He has traveled extensively and has exhibited many photographs from these travels in group and solo shows in Connecticut and New York galleries. His camera captures and transforms the ordinary into photographs that are unique and personal, with subjects ranging from still lifes and nature scenes to cityscapes and architectural forms. Alain de Lotbinière M.D. is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at Yale. Having traveled extensively throughout South America and Europe he has developed an interest in capturing fleeting moments through photography when nature reveals itself in its uniqueness and raw beauty. To do so demands a special relationship with the subject matter and the patience to wait for those moments to unfold themselves. His hope is that the appreciation of these landscapes will impel others to conserve the precious resources that surround us for the benefit of future. Back to Exhibits Page