The Rowayton Arts Center will present awards for paintings by some of Fairfield County’s finest artists during an opening reception for its “Just Paint: Oil and Acrylic Art” exhibit from 4-6p.m. on Sunday, August 15 (Susan O’Shea, exhibit chair). The award winners will be selected by artist Wendy Nylen of Westport. The RAC gallery at 145 Rowayton Avenue is open from Noon-5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and from 1: -4 p.m. on Sundays. Admission is free. The exhibit will continue through September 6.
Wendy Nylen is a portrait and landscape artist working in pastel, watercolor, acrylic and oils. Her works have been shown at Paint and Clay Club in New Haven, Faber Birren Color Show in Stamford, The Quick Center at Fairfield University, The Discovery Museum and City Lights Gallery in Bridgeport, and the Friends of Hall-Brooke Annual Mother's Day Show in Westport. Nylen, an artist and Westport native with an art history degree from Harvard University, owns Picture This/Nylen Gallery in Westport. She managed Picture This from 1990 to 1999 and returned as gallery owner in December 2007. During the interim, she worked in digital printing at Image Works of Westport with Don Sigovich and Mark Bunger making fine art giclées. She also studied with Jakki Kouffman and David Dunlop at Silvermine Guild Arts Center, where she received a scholarship from the Pastel Society of America. The reception at RAC on August 15 is free and open to the public.
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