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D. Colabella Fine Art Gallery

410 Main Street
Connecticut 06877 Ridgefield
United States
Phone: 203-273-7455
Mobile Ph: 203-273-7455
URL : www.dcolabellafineart.com

Dianna Colabella (Owner/Curator)

Dylan Desmarias (Sales)

About

Founded in 2021 by Dee Dee Perrone Colabella, D. Colabella Fine Art Gallery is a contemporary art gallery. The gallery is a dynamic hub for innovative and emotionally resonant art, specializing in solo and group exhibitions that highlight both emerging and established artists from across the United States. With over 30 years of experience in the arts, Dee Dee Colabella brings a multidimensional perspective to her curatorial practice—blending her background in fine art, education, design, and arts advocacy to shape a gallery program that is as intellectually rigorous as it is visually impactful. Her exhibitions often center on narrative cohesion, underrepresented voices, and cross-disciplinary dialogue, creating space for powerful storytelling and cultural reflection. D. Colabella Fine Art Gallery represents a carefully selected roster of contemporary artists working in a range of mediums including painting, sculpture, photography, and new media. The gallery has participated in prominent art fairs including: Art Market Hamptons Scope Miami Beach And coming next year Scottsdale Art Fair These appearances reflect Colabella’s commitment to building international exposure for her artists while connecting collectors with meaningful, investment-worthy works. As a curator and dealer, Colabella offers bespoke art advisory services, working with private collectors, interior designers, and institutions to source and place high-caliber contemporary art. Her network spans international fairs, artist studios, and auction houses, allowing her to stay ahead of global art trends and advocate for her artists’ long-term value. More than just a gallery, D. Colabella Fine Art Gallery is a creative anchor in Ridgefield's cultural community. It works in tandem with Colabella’s nonprofit, ArtFul Visual Arts Initiative, and her lifestyle publication, 068 Magazine, to elevate the arts, support working artists, and foster public engagement. As Dee Dee Colabella says, "I love the art I represent, and also the artist and their story." This ethos guides the gallery’s mission to present not just art, but the lives and voices behind each piece.

Gregg Emery Colossus

Gregg Emery Bordering

Gregg Emery Reckoner

Gregg Emery More Over

Chris Arnold Curiosity

Chris Arnold Serendipity

About the Artist

In Colossus, Emery builds a monumental circular form through repeated, physical movements of paint across the muslin surface. Concentric lines reveal the individual traces of the brush, while muted blues and grays are interrupted by unexpected passages of peach, green, and pink.
Despite its commanding scale and form, the painting retains a sense of vulnerability and imperfection. Areas of color overlap, disappear, and reemerge, allowing the process itself to remain visible. Colossus embodies Emery’s ongoing exploration of opposing forces—strength and fragility, intention and accident, simplicity and complexity.
In Bordering, Gregg Vance Emery explores the tension between structure and spontaneity through one of his recurring forms: the circle. Layers of saturated blue are physically dragged across the muslin, leaving behind sweeping arcs, exposed brush marks, drips, and moments where the surface is allowed to break apart.

The circular form feels simultaneously deliberate and imperfect—defined enough to establish order, yet disrupted by the unpredictable movement of paint. Through this balance of control and chance, Bordering captures the paradox at the heart of Emery’s work: clarity emerging from complexity and structure continually challenged by the act of making.
In Reckoner, Emery reduces his visual language to a powerful interplay of circular form, color, and gesture. A sweeping arc of deep blue dominates the composition, balanced by passages of warm orange, pale neutrals, and cool gray-blue. The movement of the brush remains unmistakably present, recording both the force and restraint of the artist’s hand.

The work feels at once expansive and carefully contained. Emery allows paint to pool, drag, overlap, and resist the boundaries he creates, leaving elements of the final composition to chance. Reckoner reflects the central tension in his practice: the desire to impose structure while embracing the beauty of what cannot be completely controlled.
In Moreover, Gregg Vance Emery brings his recurring circle and rectangle into a dynamic conversation. Sweeping circular gestures intersect with broad vertical passages of paint, while rhythmic lines created by the brush record the physical movement of the artist across the surface.

Soft peach and cream contrast with layers of blue, teal, and green, creating moments of both harmony and disruption. The composition appears structured at first, yet its irregular edges, shifting forms, and visible marks reveal the role of chance. Moreover becomes an exploration of what happens when order is established, interrupted, and ultimately allowed to evolve.
In Curiosity, Chris Arnold creates a vibrant, immersive garden where flowers, foliage, and organic forms seem to take on personalities of their own. Drawing from cartoon illustration, Impressionism, and Art Nouveau, Arnold combines bold outlines, playful forms, and intricate natural elements to create a landscape that feels both whimsical and wonderfully alive.

As the eye moves through the densely layered composition, new details continually emerge, encouraging the viewer to slow down, look closer, and explore. Beneath its joyful surface, Curiosity reflects Arnold’s deeper connection to environmental awareness and conservation. By giving nature such an animated presence, he reminds us that the natural world is not simply a backdrop, but a complex, resilient, and interconnected living system worthy of our attention and protection.
In Serendipity, Chris Arnold celebrates the unexpected beauty and abundance found in the natural world. A profusion of flowers and foliage fills the canvas, where bold, expressive blooms emerge from a richly layered garden of color, line, and organic form. Influenced by cartoon illustration, Impressionism, and Art Nouveau, Arnold gives each element its own distinctive character while allowing the composition to flow together as a vibrant living environment.

The title reflects the experience of discovery within the work—the pleasure of encountering something beautiful when you least expect it. Beneath its playful energy, Serendipity speaks to Arnold’s larger interest in environmental awareness, reminding us of the extraordinary diversity and resilience that can be found when we pause long enough to notice the natural world around us.