Experiments and Non-sequiturs

PAINTINGS BY Steven DiGiovanni

May 6, 2026 to June 6, 2026

Artwalk Artcrawl Wednesday — May 6, 5–8 PM
Artist reception — May 8, 6–8 PM

Join us May 6, 6–8 PM for the artcrawl, and May 8, 6–8 PM for the artist reception. See new work, meet the artist, Light refreshments provided. Free and open to the public.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday 10-5 PM

ARTIST STATEMENT

Experiments and Non-sequiturs describes a group of paintings that are not linked by any particular theme or method. Each one was it's own project, irrespective of what preceded it and what was likely to follow. Several were generated by an affection for the subject. Others were attempts to frame an otherwise inchoate psychic state. If there were, perhaps, a unifying aspect of this group of paintings, it might be "attitude" and my attraction to things that are analog and tactile.

About the Artist

Steven DiGiovanni is a New Haven–based painter and educator. He is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and the Maryland Institute College of Art, and currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at Southern Connecticut State University and Norwalk Community College. His work is included in the collections of the Yale University Art Gallery and the New Britain Museum of American Art.

DiGiovanni’s practice is informed by an early experience observing his father’s work as a safety engineer and forensic consultant in the 1970s. His father documented accident sites for civil litigation through Polaroid photography—images of fractured environments such as broken stairs, cracked sidewalks, and intersections marked by disruption. These photographs, often stark and uncomposed, carried an implicit narrative of vulnerability and human fragility.

Although those original photographs are no longer available, they continue to inform DiGiovanni’s visual thinking. Many of his works are based on photographs taken in his Westville neighborhood in New Haven, as well as images from travels in Japan, including Nagoya and Tokyo.

Through this lens, his work navigates the space between the detached clarity of forensic observation and the more fluid, poetic construction of place and narrative.