‘Strange Fruit,’ In Pottery and Through the Lens: Art Exhibit
by Susan Hood, HARTFORD COURANT.COM
Gourd shapes rendered in clay and still-life arrangements snapped before decay are found in “Strange Fruit,” an exhibition of sensuous works by potter Greg Kuharic and photographer David Halliday at La Motta Fine Art in Hartford.
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Carrots, Entwined
The two artists have sturdy national reputations and have exhibited widely. This year alone the August Vogue, the September Town & Country and the October Gourmet magazines featured Kuharic’s ceramics. Halliday’s photography is in the collections of Banana Republic and the New Orleans Museum of Art, among others, and he received a retrospective at the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans in 2002.
Raised in Ridgefield, Halliday has called the Garden District of New Orleans his base since 1991. He trained as a commercial artist at Syracuse University, but jettisoned all he learned to seek his way as an art photographer. To support himself, he worked as a professional cook in New York City restaurants for a decade, earning enough to attend several intensive photography workshops. Encouraged by lens master Arnold Newman, Halliday embarked on his career.