Art/Place is a non-profit, artist-run gallery at 70 Sanford Street in Fairfield. It has been in existence for more than 40 years. It features a new show by one or two members every month and several group shows a year.

Art/Place Gallery invites the public to a reception for the solo show of work by member, Lina Morielli. The show can be seen from 12-5 every day at 70 Sanford Street in Fairfield from April 1 to April 28, 2024. Please join us for a reception with snacks and complimentary wine and beverages on Sunday April 7 from 2 - 4 PM and see Lina will speak at 3 PM about her work. See www.artplacegallery.org or call 203- 374-9720 or 646- 258-6912.

Lina Morielli was born in Montreal and grew up in Darien, Connecticut. After twenty years living and working in New York City, she moved to Stamford where she was President of the Loft Artist’s Association for and a board member on approximately one dozen nonprofits over the last three decades. She has taught at afterschool and summer art programs and curated exhibitions in the area, including fifteen years of exhibitions in Stamford’s Mayor’s Gallery. Morielli’s experience in art and design includes studies at Parsons School of Design and three decades in New York City designing and editing crafts for Woman’s Day and Family Circle magazines, among others.

Lina’s work has been exhibited widely in Fairfield County, Connecticut and Westchester, NY, and has been featured in solo exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles. Her work has also been exhibited in public spaces as part of the Connecticut Artists Collection as well as several permanent collections at area hospitals and universities including: State Superior Court House, Yale Medical Center, Stamford Health System and Sacred Heart University, College of Education and Healthcare.

Lina says this background informs the tactile nature of her studio practice where, the “immediacy of materials….help me access and express my ideas quickly.” The show features a selection of abstract work from her last series begun at the beginning of the pandemic and also includes her most recent work to date. She states she is “interested in the subconscious, memories that resurface, trauma that lingers and the external forces of world events that determine and influence her creativity.” She references fifty years of art experience using a compilation of markings, symbols and materials that have become her personal language.