Summer Show At

Gregory James Gallery

NEW MILFORD — Gregory James Gallery is presenting its newest group exhibition, “Summer Art Show 2004,” through Saturday, August 29. The show features new work by many of the gallery’s celebrated artists including Bill Rice, Christopher Magadini, and Edward Martinez.

The show also includes the work of Anda Styler, Danielle Wexler, Patrick Purcell and Rick Daskam, while welcoming special guest artists Michael Patterson of Roxbury and Roger Kastel of LaGrangeville, N.Y.

Michael Patterson’s modernistic watercolor and oil paintings celebrate the movement of community life and music. The artist says his major artistic influences have come from his grandfather, the renowned painter Howard Ashman Patterson, as well as from Caravaggio and Picasso.

Mr Patterson has made numerous journeys to countries such as Greece, Italy, Spain, Ireland and France, as well as many cities throughout the U.S. These travels have deeply informed his paintings.

Roger Kastel attened Art Students League in New York City. The greater part of his art education and training came from Frank J. Reilly. He also studied with Edwin Dickinson, Sidney E. Dickinson and Robert Beverly Hale.

While Mr Kastel was still an art student at ASL, he had his first published work for Pocket Books in the 1960s. Another of his early works, a piece that has been used for many years, won first place for the National Board of Fire Underwriters.

He has illustrated for most of the major publishing houses. Included among the more than 1000 book and magazine illustrations that Mr Kastel has done are the world-renowned movie posters for Jaws and The Empire Strikes Back. His work has also been included in the book 200 Years of American Illustration, as well as The Illustrator in America 1860–2000.

Gregory James Gallery, at 27 Main Street in New Milford, can be contacted by calling 860-354-3436. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 10 am to 6 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm, and Sunday from 11 am to 4 pm.