CROWN GALLERY @ METRO
Art + DESIGN
Local interior design professionals team up with Metro Art Studios artists to create a showcase of fine art and interior design in the Crown Gallery at Metro Art Studios to benefit a local organization making a difference in Bridgeport. Each designer features one artist in our version of a “white room challenge”, showing off their design aesthetic and style while highlighting how well fine art works as a focal point.
This year's exhibit supports Team Woofgang & Co which provides job-skills and vocational training for disabled adults who have aged out of public school system support with a dog cookie production facility in Bridgeport and a retail location in Fairfield. We are delighted to support this transformative organization.
Participating artists include:
Nancy Bardach, Roy Cacek, Manal Deeb, Charles Douthat, Susan Dumas, Charlotte Easterling, Barry Jordan, Vince Quevedo, Margaret Roleke, Suzanna Schlemm, Rosalind Shaffer, Susan L Smith, Jeff Smudde, Susan Taylor Murray, and Joan Wheeler
October 4 through October 25, 2025
2025 Designers
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Ariane deBraux Triay of La French Goose
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Tricia Izzo & Carolyn Kron of Shelter Interiors
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Nichole Samuel of Goddess Interiors
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Alicia Sanda Tiberio of Alicia B Designs
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Evelina Socha of Pink Lemon Interiors
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Debra Spindler Pinals of Spinpin Creative
CROWN GALLERY
Hours: Thursday through Saturday
12 PM - 4 PM
& by appointment
COMING SOON
MARGINS OF MEMORY
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 7, 1 to 3 PM
Exhibit runs from August 9 to September 20, 2025
The Crown Gallery at Metro Arts Studios is proud to present Margins of Memory, an exhibit which brings together five international artists who currently reside in New York but span five different countries of origin, offering a global yet deeply personal meditation on memory and healing through the expanded mediums of print, papermaking, collage, and installation.
In a world increasingly marked by displacement, fragmentation, and collective grief, these artists turn to the tactile intimacy of works on paper—etchings, monoprints, handmade pulp, and experimental processes—as a way to trace the fragile imprints of memory: personal, ancestral, and imagined.
Despite vast cultural and geographical distances, each artist finds a shared language in the medium itself. Printmaking, with its cycles of layering, pressing, and repetition, echoes the rituals of remembering and forgetting. The handmade sheet becomes an archive; the printed image, a gesture of reclaiming.
Participating artists include:
Emilie Houssart, Holland/UK
Hayoon Jay Lee, South Korea
Anette Millington, USA
Malgorzata Oakes, Poland
Sariah Park, USA
Xuewu Zheng, China
Regular Gallery Hours: Thursday through Saturday
12 PM - 4 PM
& by appointment