"Narratives" Fethi Meghelli and Debra Roinestad |  | |
The Combined Talents of Artists Fethi Meghelli and Debra Roinestad are on exhibit in their new show Narratives at Good News Cafe & Gallery
WOODBURY, CT "Local Connecticut Artists Debra Roinestad and Fethi Meghelli s new show Narratives will be running from November 11 through January 13 at the Good News Cafe and Gallery, 694 Main Street South, Woodbury.
Good News Cafe will welcome Meghelli and Roinestad at an opening reception at the restaurant from 3 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, November 15. The public is cordially invited to meet the artists, view their exhibition, and learn more about her works while enjoying complimentary hors d'oeuvres and wine.
Fethi Meghelli's mixed media work will be on display in the main dining room, while Debra Roinestad's digital photo collages will be showing in the restaurant's Radio Room. Narratives as the show is titled, is a dialogue between the two artists collage inspired imagery. Meghelli's work focuses on mixing mediums, combining many materials and creating contradictory realities within. Whereas, Roinestad's digital collages are photo based works that use contradiction to add life, humor and dignity to otherwise bleak surroundings. Both have art historical connections to early collage with imagery that references Dadaism, the Harlem Renaissance and Pop Art. The hard edges of Roinestad s work create an excellent dialogue with Meghelli's expressionist style.
Debra Roinestad has worked as a graphic designer for over twenty years. Roinestad has a degree from the School of Visual Arts and a passion for photography. She has created covers for many major publishers and magazines including Popular Photography and Vogue Patterns. Her love of photography and photo collage is brought to life when she altars dismal scenes with enhanced natural beauty. It is through these new images that Debra Roinestad is able to portray universal themes such as beauty and life in order to unify a saturated and decaying society.
Meghelli s work draws similarly from the busyness of life. Drawing from experience, the artist creates emotionally charged works full of gesture and cohesion. Social contradictions and alternate realities become the vocabulary to pieces that delve into his psyche. It is within the works own language that the artist's acute social observations can be found. In recent years his focus has been on mixed media pieces, layering material as a major component of the social contradictions that he depicts. Meghelli's style is referential to both dada and surrealist collage works, while holding its own place in the contemporary art world.
The two person show, Narratives, recent works by Fethi Meghelli and Debra Roinestad at the Good News Caf and Art Gallery offers its viewers any interesting journey into various aspects of contemporary collage and social contradiction. Narratives is a truly unique exhibit of two artists connected by concepts and separated by style and craft.
Good News Cafe & Gallery is open from 11:30 am to 10 pm daily; closed Tuesdays and open from 12pm to 10pm Sundays.
The November 15 reception from 3 to 5 pm is free and open to the public.
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