By Kathryn Boughton

The old is being made new again in Litchfield with two venerable buildings being transformed into art galleries. Artur Matuszewski, owner and operator of amArtHouse at 1062 Bantam Road and Craig Connelly and Liz Donohue, owners of Alofft Gallery at 41 West Street, are collaborating to revitalize a previously quiet gallery scene.

by Kathleen Hulser

Bristling with urban attitude, Robert Jessel’s expressivist paintings deploy flowers, apples, trees, cars, buildings and gothamites as occasions for bold composition and exuberant color. In many paintings, Nature stands facing the viewer with her hands on her hips, ready to talk back in an assertive language of shapes.

by Jo Ann Jaacks

A colonial home built in 1755 has found a new life as a contemporary art gallery. Artur Matuszewski, owner of the new amArtHouse gallery, was born in Poland and emigrated to Manhattan where he studied fine art, eventually finding his calling in curating large art shows in New York and Europe.

by Marina Hadley

Drive along the meandering roads of Connecticut, deep in the forested landscape, crest over a little hill, and you will find nestled in a dip a beautifully restored white clapboard colonial house bracketed by several statuesque metal sculptures in its grounds. This is amArtHouse, Artur Matuszewski’s new contemporary art gallery, cleverly disguised within a historic building that has stood there since 1755.

By Clementina Verge

“Art is defining and all encompassing,” declares Art Matuszewski, founder of amArtHouse in Bantam. “There is no civilization without it. No architects. No engineers. We can’t develop without art. It opens our imagination, connects, explains, clarifies, and inspires our human need to continue creating.”