Galerie SoNo

Galerie Sono invites you to attend our spring themed exhibition entitled The Landscape Show featuring new oil paintings by popular American realist Dennis Sheehan including Fall Afternoon 30″ h x 40″ w pictured here.

The show also includes new paintings by Craig Mooney and Margaret Gerding. We are also pleased to offer a fine collection of Wolf Kahn pastels for a limited time.

We are also excited to introduce you to a new gallery artist, Richard Riverin, whose landscapes are luminously colorful, textural and pastoral images you definitely have to see. The show runs through May. We hope you will stop in.

As a rule, Claude Villani never gets any business at his Galerie Sono from passersbys who stop and ponder the art on display in the windows of his Norwalk exhibition venue. But there was a memorable exception.

“It happened one time,” said Villani, laughing at the recollection. “A guy saw a $25,000 Anne Packard painting and he said, ‘I’ll take that one in the window.’”

And not unlike the deep-pocketed customer, Villani’s presence in the Fairfield County art scene could be seen as something of an exception to the long-standing rule of what sells.

“When I opened in 1999, I had a number of friends who had galleries in Greenwich and New Canaan and Westport, and a lot of it was traditional art,” he said. “It is what I used to say was ‘the dog with the pheasant in its mouth’ paintings. And I said that I was going to focus on contemporary art and they said, ‘Good luck with that in Connecticut.’”

Housed within a 6,000-square-foot space at 123 Washington St. in the heart of Norwalk’s SoNo district, the gallery is an [Read more…]