ANNIE SESSLER, JOHN TODARO and SARAH JAFFE TURNBULL: "NEW WORKS" AT ASHAWAGH HALL

The show will run 10am to 7pm on Saturday, and from 10am to 4pm on Sunday. There will be a reception on Saturday January 18th from 3pm until 7pm. Admission is free and children are welcome.

Ashawagh Hall is located at 780 Springs-Fireplace Road in East Hampton, about three miles north of the village. The hall is within walking distance of the Springs General Store and the Pollock/Krasner House.

Annie Sessler creates works in the Japanese craft tradition of Gyotaku. Along with her husband, she founded East End Fish Prints in 2006. Her art involves direct nature printing with ink using freshly caught fish, octopi, squid and other natural objects. The work is printed on a variety of surfaces including on vintage, recycled and synthetic fabric. Annie's work has been featured in the New York Times, Edible East End, The East Hampton Star and on One King's Lane. There is a continuous display at Noah's in Greenport.





Annie will be exhibiting new hand-embellished pieces incorporating drawn and painted elements into her fish prints. Mixed-media collaged together both abstractly and representationally will be shown alongside her traditional Gyotaku direct prints.





John Todaro studied with master printer Anthony Nobile in the 1970's. He also worked as an assistant to the curator at Sagamore Hill National Historic Site where he catalogued thousands of historic images. His work is widely collected and has been seen in a variety of East End shows since the 1980's. His work has been published by Unicef, the East Hampton Star, the New Yorker, Crain's New York Business, Town and Country and other magazines.





John will be displaying a broad selection of new work with an emphasis on black and white or monochromatic images along a group of new abstractions. In addition, he'll be showing several new collections of "miniatures," images which recall nineteenth century and pictorialist photography, especially as it relates to scale.

Sarah Jaffe Turnbull is a sculptor whose work with clay tends toward the figurative but which is far from "traditional" portraiture. Her work reflects a Zen aesthetic wherein the artist becomes the observer of behavior and expression and beauty and despair are represented equally in the human experience. Her pieces have been shown at the East End Arts Council, at the Celadon Gallery, and at a solo show at the Lear Gallery in Sag Harbor.





Sarah will be fully exploring shape with an eye for both organic and abstract elements. She'll be showing a group of new larger pieces, and will be expanding on her use of metallic glazes. She is quite adept with these glazes and can often convey the sense that one is looking at metal sculpture.





Links to the artist's websites may be found here:

http://eastendfishprints.com/