Standard Space: ‘Your View Is My View’

Standard Space: ‘Your View Is My View’
Photo by Theo Coulombe

Theo Coulombe is a gallery owner, a curator, a teacher at The Millbrook School and a talented photographer in his own right (and a one-time Maine park ranger). The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn., this autumn featured a show of his work (curated by the school’s Terri Moore), but access to the campus has been limited because of the pandemic.

So Coulombe has moved the show back to his own gallery, with an opening scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 18, from 4:30 to 7 p.m.

Standard Space openings tend to be very well-attended and lively; anyone worried about close contact with strangers will be happy to know that there are usually groups of art fans who congregate outdoors as well as indoors. Everyone is also asked to wear a mask.

A focus of the show will be Coulombe’s own landscape photographs, many of them featuring familiar vistas and views from the Northwest Corner of Connecticut. There will also be Coulombe’s collaborative works with contemporary artists including Shantell Martin,  Laksmi Hedemark, Ayana Evans, Tsedaye Mackonan, Signal Corps and Alan Krathaus.

The show is called “Your View is My View II” and it will remain up until Jan. 9.

The gallery is at 147 Main St. on the Green in Sharon, Conn. The website (with images from other, recent shows) is at www.standardspace.net.

Learn more by calling 917-627-3261 or emailing info@standardspace.net

— Cynthia Hochswender

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