STAMFORD — The Roxbury Arts Group will present “To Build a Home,” an exhibit of artwork by New York artists Katherine Chazwik, Maeve McCool and Polly Shindler that will open from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14 at the Headwaters Arts Center at 66 Main St. in Stamford, and run through April 4.
According to a news release, the exhibit features images of interior and exterior spaces. The work of Chwazik, McCool, and Schindler shows an intimate look at what makes a home, from the objects, memories and emotions that inhabit a place, to the structure that contains them. This work explores questions such as: “Where does safety reside?” “Where do we find shelter?” “And what truly protects us?”
Chazwik’s work “combines printmaking, drawing, and sculpture to construct spaces that reference local architecture,” the release stated Weaving time and space into her pieces, Chazwik “layers imagery in a way that reflects the conflicting feelings we have about places.” Chazwik is a mixed media artist, curator, and art educator living and working in the Capital Region. She studied art and art education at The College of Saint Rose, created Smallbany Gallery in 2020, and tries to teach middle schoolers that anyone can be an artist.
McCool’s installation of found objects, sketches, and ephemera “points towards the passing of time,” the transience of memory, and the impermanence of the treasured objects which make up a home, the release stated. McCool is a visual artist based in Catskill. Her work aims to consider memory, decay, and regrowth through detailed drawings, prints, and mixed media techniques. McCool studies how capitalist production rises and falls and how rural American communities emotionally connect to industry versus nature, and ideas of home, femininity, and loss.
McCool received her BA in fine art and art history from the Corcoran College of Art and Design at the George Washington University in 2018. McCool has had numerous solo exhibits including at Athens Cultural Center, Lexington Arts + Science, Monolight Gallery and Prattsville Art Center, and participated in numerous group exhibitions in New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Washington, D.C.
Shindler’s “paintings are a look into some of our quietest moments. They explore the parts of our world that feel mundane but when cobbled together create a life,” according to the release. Shindler received an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute and a BA in history from University of Massachusetts. Solo exhibits include Windows at Deanna Evans Projects in New York City, Retreat at Ortega y Gasset. Shindler has attended residencies at Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center and Wassaic Project. Polly lives in Millerton.
Free and open to all. For more information, visit roxburyartsgroup.org.