by | Oct 27, 2024 2:12 pm | Comments (0)
Flow No. 2 by Jill Harrington Nichols
Divine Cosmos
Clare Gallery
St. Patrick – St. Anthony Church
Hartford
Oct. 24, 2024
The Clare Gallery at St. Patrick – St. Anthony Church in downtown Hartford has become one of my favorite places to view visual artwork, so a new exhibit is always a treat.
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Craig Blankenhorn Photos
A city cigarette smoker captured by Blankenhorn... could it be Mr. Big?
“Shadows and Reflections” by Craig Blankenhorn
The SPACE Art Gallery
749 S. 8th St.
Philadelphia
Oct. 17, 2024
The silhouette of a cigarette-smoking man caught my eye — after Craig Blankenhorn’s camera captured his shadow.
I felt like I was wandering through a noir film set when I last visited The SPACE Art Gallery, where Blankenhorn — a veteran still photographer who’s worked on superlatively iconic television shows like Sex and The City, The Sopranos, and Succession — is displaying his personal artwork for the first time in a solo exhibit titled “Shadows and Reflections.”
Continue reading ‘Sopranos' Still Photographer Searches For Drama In The Shadows’
by | Oct 20, 2024 11:40 am | Comments (0)
Red Revolver 0274 by Peter Brown
Memories Misused
Real Art Ways
Hartford
Oct. 15, 2024
Photographer Peter Brown has transformed a harrowing experience into a mind-bending display of resilience and recovery with Memories Misused at Real Art Ways.
Continue reading ‘The Hell We’ve Allowed Ourselves To Fall Into’
by | Oct 18, 2024 11:56 am | Comments (0)
zb reeves photo
American stories, plural.
American Artists, American Stories
Philbrook Museum of Art
Tulsa
Through December 29, 2024
When people talk about being American, they’re inevitably talking about the flavor of American that they themselves are. Being an American is different for the recently-arrived Hmong mother of two than it is for the white suburban housewife whose British ancestors colonized Native land. So much is America the melting pot it claims to be that to say “American” tends to beg several qualifiers of description.
Continue reading ‘Philbrook’s New Show Gets Much Of America Right’
by | Oct 16, 2024 11:33 am | Comments (0)
Allan Greenier
Allan Greenier
On display, in Allan Greenier’s show at Westville’s Mitchell library.
by | Oct 14, 2024 11:51 am | Comments (0)
Karen Ponzio photos
A multicolored fabric sculpture created by Kat Wiese seemed to float between the trees that framed one entrance to the Eli Whitney Barn. At the other entrance, visitors were greeted by the vibrant bodies and faces painted in vivid colors by artists Jasmine Nikole on the left and Darnell“Saint” Phifer on the right.
The music of R&B legends, courtesy of DJ Q‑Boogie, could be heard from everywhere, boosting the vibe of each and every artistic creation as Amplify The Arts entered its second year at the storied Hamden location and third year in total, continuing its mission — as reiterated on Sunday by organizer Karimah Mickens — of presenting a space for especially BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and young artists.
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Agustín Maes photos
Melanie Walas in her Teletubby jacket, Mercury 20 Gallery.
Oakland Style
Fourth Wall Gallery, Manna Gallery, Mercury 20 Gallery, Slate Contemporary Gallery, Uptown Fine Art
25th St. between Broadway and Telegraph Avenue
Oakland
Oct. 12, 2024
A habitué of thrift shops, flea markets, and similar bazaars near and far, artist Melanie Walas is attracted to stuffed animals and toys she finds at the discount emporia she visits. “I feel bad because they’re abandoned,” she said of the items she collects. “They were once loved by someone.”
A few years ago Walas imagined incorporating the stuffed playthings into clothing. She began integrating the discarded playthings — often deconstructing their parts — by sewing them onto garments that seemed to match the clothes’ character. The result are wonderfully whimsical wearables that are eye-catchingly quirky and hilariously fun. The jacket she wore at Mercury 20 Gallery as part of Oakland Style, “A Celebration of Art, Fashion, Music, Cuisine & Culture,” pictured above, featured plush toy Teletubbies in red, green, and yellow. Her kind of thinking turns the corner from merely humorous and enters the realm of outright awesome.
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Victor Smith: "If my heart had not been broken, if I had not been in so great distress, if I had not decided to express my hurts through my paintings, I probably would never have been discovered."
People chatted in the corners among the sculptures. One viewer shared a long moment with a figure in a boat. People exchanged waves and hugs. It was all part of New Haven Open Studios’s second weekend, which encompassed Amplify the Arts in East Rock, but reached to the Gilbert Street studios in West Haven as well, where artists threw open their doors — as they will again next weekend, Oct. 19 and 20, in Erector Square and MarlinWorks, and in Westville, NXTHVN, and elsewhere the weekend after that, Oct. 26 and 27.
by | Oct 11, 2024 10:11 am | Comments (0)
Robert De Matteo
The diptych, by Robert De Matteo, offers two shapes that strongly echo each other, but are from quite different models. The one on the left is easier to identify right away, as a brain scan from an MRI. The image on the right, though, might require a look at the title. Sure enough, it’s drawn from a satellite image of Charles Island, off the coast of Silver Sands State Park in Milford, the sandbar that connects it to the mainland at low tide clearly visible. The visual pun is funny. The idea that the forms would mirror each other closely says something a little deeper, about recurring patterns in nature, perhaps about how we aren’t as separate from our environment as we might like to think.
Charles Island On My Mind is just one of a panoply of small works that are part of“Glorious Index,”“a tactile, miniature visual compendium exhibition” running at the Institute Library on Chapel Street through Dec. 15 that also introduces the artist-run New Haven Open Studios, the month-long, city-spanning celebration of visual arts running through the end of October. Designed by Bailey Murphy, the show includes the work of no less than 50 artists, many of whom will be opening their studios at events this weekend and for the rest of the month at various locations around town.
by | Oct 10, 2024 11:00 am | Comments (0)
Rita Hannafin
Rita Hannafin’s Float hangs in the midst of City Gallery’s latest show on Upper State Street, a quilt of bright, shifting colors, surprising shapes, dynamic contrasts, and ultimately, cohesion.
It’s an apt encapsulation of City Gallery’s October show. Normally, City Gallery’s monthly shows feature one or two of its member artists. For this month, through Oct. 27, all 16 of the gallery’s member artists are participating in a show, which is itself part of New Haven Open Studios, a month-long celebration of visual arts loosely centered around Erector Square’s warren of artist studios but in fact stretching from one side of New Haven to the other, and this year, into surrounding towns as well.
by | Oct 9, 2024 10:21 am | Comments (0)
Pennywise as a scarecrow, presented by the Hochdorfer familer
29th Annual Scarecrows Along Main
Main Street
Old Wethersfield
Oct. 8, 2024
There’s nothing like a nice walk on a crisp fall day, and Wethersfield has turned the fall tradition into a walk on the wild side with its annual “Scarecrows Along Main” celebration and competition.
by | Oct 9, 2024 9:59 am | Comments (0)
Morning Has Broken, by Peggy McShea Smolack, watercolor
Newington Art League Art Show
Lucy Robbins Welles Library
Newington
October 8, 2024
It’s not often that I get two great experiences at one location, but I was fortunate to find that in addition to offering fascinating talks, the Lucy Robbins Welles Library has a gallery space where they display the creations of local artists.
by | Oct 7, 2024 6:08 pm | Comments (0)
Nora Grace-Flood Photo
"Art Car" taken from "Vanadu" palace in Maryland.
Where I Learned To Look: Art From The Yard
Institute of Contemporary Art
118 S. 36th St.
Philadelphia
Oct. 4, 2024
Clark Bedford moved his ancient, trash-packed Volkswagen out of his Maryland driveway — and into a contemporary art gallery.
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Ancient Food and Flavor
Penn Museum
3260 South St.
Philadelphia
Oct. 1, 2024
I looked down at 6,000-year-old strawberry seeds, elderly corn kernels and dried llama jerky preserved behind glass — and felt my stomach growl for a feastful future.
