Artist Event with Laituri, Yanovskaya and Winn, by Haven Gallery on Jun 27, 2021 23:17:17 GMT 1, Artist Event with Calvin Laituri, Rebecca Yanovskaya and Jamie Winn

Saturday July 10th, 2-6pm



Please join us for an in person artist event with Calvin Laituri, Rebecca Yanovskaya and Jamie Winn as we inaugurate their new exhibitions at Haven Gallery.

All three artists will be present.



Event Rules due to Covid:

Properly worn masks and social distancing are required.

There is no restroom available for use at the gallery at this time. Please note that public restrooms are available at the Harbor as well as in the multiple restaurants on Main St.

We thank you for your understanding and cooperation.



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Calvin Laituri, "Ruin and Renascence"



Haven Gallery is pleased to present “Ruin and Renascence", a collection of new ink works from New England artist Calvin Laituri, for his second solo show at Haven Gallery. “Ruin and Renascence” is a series that chronicles an ongoing narrative reminiscent of the cyclical nature of life. Buildings once teeming with life and function, as commonly found throughout the US and abroad, now appear as lonely mammoths in rural landscapes. Each structure finds itself accompanied by a silhouetted canine who reinvigorates our interest in the delicate sensibility of these places and their lost functions. A shadow of the past or ghost of the future, this guide connects us to these periods of time to remind us that despite the imminent denouement of all life, existence is reborn. A nod to the slow but sure moment of time, reminding us not to forget our past and relish in the beauty of these times, places and their functions.



Laituri’s work is made up of highly skilled line work, built from a push and pull approach where ink is laid down on his clayboard medium, and carved out with sharpened tools, resulting in highly defined and meticulous strokes reminiscent of a cross hatching technique. Each drawing cultivates its monochromatic palette to emphasize the artists control of values, contrast, mood and narrative, as inspired by printmakers and artists of the past. This dichotomy of technique serves as an accentuation of the artists play on dualities throughout his work.



Artist Statement:



The heart of New England is riddled with fading remnants of a regional vernacular. Born from a time when news travelled at a canter, these distinctive local shapes in the built environment once arose naturally. The inherent value in such structures is their innocent response to climate, their natural setting, regional identity, and local material. To live in coexistence with the chapters of seasons was a necessity. "Ruin and Renascence" tells the story spanning the solstices in a region along the Connecticut River, following a black hound as an allegory of Winter amidst various timber-framed artifacts that epitomize the area.



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Rebecca Yanovskaya



Rebecca Yanovskaya is a freelance illustrator working in the fantasy realm. She frequently illustrates mythological stories, natural forces, and aesthetically strong characters. Rebecca's influences include decorative arts, neoclassical and Pre-Raphaelite arts, and theatrical costuming. Despite most artists in her genre using digital and traditional painting tools, she has made the choice to construct her pieces with ballpoint pen and gold leaf. As one of the only primarily ballpoint pen artists working in fantastic realism, her work is easy to identify. A combination of epic scope and moody atmosphere define her signature style, in what can be described as the "Art of the Sublime".



Clients: Royal Canadian Mint, Princessa Productions, Easton Press, Magpie Games



Rebecca is a graduate of the Illustration program at Sheridan College. She lives and works in Gardner, Massachusetts.



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Jamie Winn, “Mechanical Menagerie"



Haven Gallery is pleased to present New Orleans based Jamie Winn for her first solo show “Mechanical Menagerie” at the gallery. “Mechanical Menagerie” features twelve automata (moving art) or dioramic sculptures depicting animals during their nocturnal outings as they fly, hunt and leap throughout nightfall. Winn’s sculptures are whimsically narrative and invite the viewer to take part in the often private meanderings of furry and feathered beings. Each sculpture combines the artists realist watercolor technique with her inventive engineering of gears, pulleys and belts, to make animated stories that mimic the natural movements of her animal sitters. Winn combines these practical applications of the animal kingdom with spooky aesthetics as graveyards and lonesome homes to create a surrealist play on storytelling.



ABOUT JAMIE WINN



Jamie Winn is a painter and accomplished tattoo artist based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her striking mixed media automata pieces combine crank shafts and customized light sources into multilayered watercolor paintings on wood. Winn’s macabre style resonates with a wide range of influences including traditional tattooing, principles of animism, vintage aesthetic, magical realism, Louisiana culture, as well as her family lineage of engineers and clockmakers. Her narrative work is both eerie and humorous, often reanimating deceased creatures, portraying vulnerable animals exploring the night, mischievous sheet-covered ghosts haunting abandoned houses, melancholy maidens of the age of spiritualism, and undead skeletons ringing their own coffin bells. Jamie Winn’s work is a harmonic celebration of mechanics, mortality, the supernatural, beauty, tragedy, and storytelling. In her own words, it is “a reminder of just how strange the world can get”.

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