Site-specific show in hard-drinking, arty New Canaan

Sculpture by Jeremy Holmes to be shown in his show at Heather Gaudio Fine Art, New Canaan, Conn., starting Feb. 10. 

His site-specific bentwood installations fill voids of unused space. He works with the shapes of walls and ceilings to create what he calls “abstract wood sculptures.” His work emphasizes his preoccupation with materiality.

East view of Church Hill, the central part of New Canaan (1836), by John Warner Barber

New Canaan, which is not on Long Island Sound, looks more like an old New England town than does much of the rest of Fairfield County. Much of it is bucolic and it has drawn many writers and artists to live there. It also has had the reputation of being a hard-drinking town, for youths and adults and, unfair or not, a reputation for having a surplus of spoiled rich kids.