Watercolorist Penny Chiusano and Photographer Steve Gabris Exhibit at the Chalfonte Hotel
07/06/2008 - 2:00p.m. to 07/06/2008 - 4:00p.m.
Art
Free
CAPE MAY, NJ — The work of New York watercolorist Penny Chiusano and Photographer Steve Gabris will be on exhibit at The Chalfonte in Cape May for the entire month of July in the Hotel’s Magnolia Room. The Exhibit Opening and Wine and Cheese Reception takes place on Sunday, July 6th from 2:00 to 4:00 pm and is free and open to the public.
Chuisano, a perennial artist-in-residence at the Chalfonte, produces work which is both irresistible and unmistakable. Using transparency and bright color to portray her subjects with insight and light, and usually there is a funny or ironic caption within the work. Her primary purpose is to remain true to human form in all its foibles and help the viewer achieve recognition and humor. When Chiusano's work is hung on the expanse walls of the Chalfonte's Magnolia Room, there is brightness, humor and laughter as patrons clamber to look at her latest work and read her latest quotes.
Chuisano, a long-time guest of the Hotel, studied at Winthrop College in South Carolina, and after a 30 year hiatus from formal art work, traded in her flight attendant’s wings for her brushes and easel. A member of the Mamaroneck Artists Guild and the Pelham Art Forum, Chuisano has exhibited her rich and serene work in galleries throughout New York and and private collections across the country.
Photographer Gabris, a family friend of Chiusano's, visited Cape May and fell in love with the light and shadows that the architecture offered. He vacillates between traditional daylight shots and low light abstract shots, playing with the two extremes. The extremes make Gabris' work appear to be shot by different people altogether, like looking at the phtographic equivalent of Monet and Rockwell.
Educated in Pelham, NY, Gabris began to explore the country with his camera during his college years. At the University of Buffalo and Arizona, Gabris variously studied film and photography finally getting his degree in Archaeology.
