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Jun 12, 2020 10:50 am
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Bush.
A tree’s roots crawl across a sewer grate. A fetching white bird named Murphy cocks its head for the camera. Stars unfold over a wire fence.
These and many other photographs by New Haven-based photographer Joy Bush comprise “Where I Go Is What I See” — the first exhibition for City Gallery’s reopening from quarantine on Saturday, June 13. The photographs are selected from pictures Bush has taken on daily walks of about four miles for the past five years.
“It became a practice for me,” Bush said, of “figuring out what I wanted to show.”
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Thomas Breen |
May 27, 2020 3:02 pm
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Lamont, Elicker polish off mozzarella, tomato, and basil.
Gov. Ned Lamont and Mayor Justin Elicker took advantage of the state’s recent resumption of outdoor, sit-down dining to partake in a time-honored tradition among state Democratic politicos: a power meal at Portofino’s.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 9, 2020 12:08 pm
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Tom Peterson
Dreamscape 11.
Balconies bathed in dark light under a red sky. A pale streetlight in a neon atmosphere. A window flashing yellow under an angled roof and a black cloud. These are among the images in Tom Peterson’s “Dreamscapes,” a series of photographs that take over City Gallery on Upper State Street until March 29, with an opening reception on March 12.
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Maya McFadden |
Feb 26, 2020 5:01 pm
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Sixty students from St. Francis & St. Rose of Lima School had an icy start to their morning Wednesday, getting in a skating trip to the Ralph Walker Skating Rink before it temporarily closes mid-March.
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Allan Appel |
Feb 25, 2020 9:45 pm
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The future Mulberry Jam site, State and Bradley Street, at the base of I-91 overpass, looking southwest.
The land for a future“Mulberry Jam” parklet on State Street near Bradley, which neighbors are trying to retrieve from disuse and long DOT neglect, got a big boost Monday night.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 19, 2020 1:15 pm
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Etcetera Collaborative
Arabesque.
True to its name, Arabesque dances. It’s a mixed media collage of human figures and architectural forms, pairing up, falling apart, melting in and out of one another. The piece reflects the method used to create it. It’s a piece arising from the work of the Etcetera Collaborative, a group of eight artists who created pieces together in the 1980s — and had a hand in creating City Gallery on Upper State Street.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 14, 2020 1:13 pm
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William Frucht
Rhinoceros House 1.
A dirty bowl next to a post covered in peeling paint. Natural forms, of leaves or coral, ready to float into space. Heaving waves under heavy winds. These three distinct artistic viewpoints are part of the same exhibit at City Gallery on upper State Street until Jan. 26.
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Thomas Breen |
Dec 10, 2019 3:39 pm
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The proposed new Mulberry Jam greenspace. Below: Ming Thompson, John Martin, and Keith Appleby at the prospective future park site.
A fenced-in, overgrown, and overlooked pocket of state-owned land that sits in the shadow of I‑91 may soon transform into a lush communal greenspace, thanks to the vision — and labor — of a volunteer group of East Rock neighbors.
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 10, 2019 1:21 pm
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Jennifer Davies
Threading My Way.
Threading My Way is a textile in the act of creating itself. Patches of color give way to others. The ends tatter off at the top, as if the yarn hasn’t been fully spun. And then there’s the netting, falling in a wild pattern until it snakes off into a loose thread at the end.
It’s a fitting introductory piece to “Casting a Net,” an exhibition of fiber works by artist Jennifer Davies — now running at City Gallery on Upper State Street through Dec. 29 — that celebrates the art of discovery.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 21, 2019 8:46 am
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Michael Zack
The silhouettes themselves seem to shimmer against their shifting backgrounds, as if everything is in motion. In the image to the left, two figures are running while another seems to be turning toward them. In the image to the right, a crowd of figures stands together while another stands alone. Both images seem like stills in a film — but what stories do they tell? Are the figures on the left running toward or away from the other figure? Are they friends or a threat? And on the right, is the man standing alone because he’s a leader or an exile? Or something else altogether?
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 18, 2019 7:35 am
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Tsering Dorje
Two Tibetan Red Guards.
The young woman in the photograph is intent, concentrating. Is her face set in resolve? Or is there doubt behind her eyes?
It’s 1966, in Tibet, and she’s a member of the Red Guard — the soldiers charged with submitting the people of Tibet to China’s horrifically destructive Cultural Revolution, and in the process, erasing history.
Yet here’s a photograph of it, making history. It’s part of Forbidden Memory, a fascinating exhibit of photographs by Tsering Dorje, a soldier in the Red Army who took pictures of the Cultural Revolution as it was happening, offering a very rare glimpse into one of the darkest moments of the 20th century — a glimpse that curator William Frucht, on Wednesday, could use to help students from Audubon Street’s Atlas Middle School explore cultural memory, how repressive governments sometimes try to erase it, and how it can be preserved and maintained.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 13, 2019 7:36 am
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Nancy Mooslin and Susan Newbold
Royal Palm and City Tree.
Two trees stand side by side, their shapes and surfaces rendered in energetic detail. They’re dark against the dazzling lights that seem to pass through them. Knowing that these vibrant images are part of a collaborative exhibit by two artists — Nancy Mooslin and Susan Newbold — the viewer might think that the resemblances happened because the artists traded notes, or possibly even worked with their easels side by side. The truth is that the artists’ work is even more intertwined. Mooslin, who is based in California, and Newbold, who is based in New Haven, are old friends. And they decided to collaborate not only by making pieces that worked well together, but by working on the very same pieces together. Both trees are the products of both their hands.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 16, 2019 12:20 pm
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Tom Peterson
Beach II.
It’s not your typical beach photograph. For starters, you can’t see the beach. All you see is a wash of blue sky — and then, below, a jagged white fence, but abstracted just enough that it takes the eye a minute to see it for what it is. Tom Peterson’s Beach II is more like a painting than a photograph, and that’s part of the point.
Joe Jadach in his tent under I-91. Below: A city notice ordering the homeless to vacate their encampments under the highway overpass.
Joe Jadach has lived in a tent under the I‑91 overpass behind the Ralph Walker Skating Rink for the past seven months.
Now that the city has ordered the clearing out of his and a handful of other Goatville homeless encampments, Jadach is packing up his belongings and getting ready to move … where? He’s not sure. But he has survived outdoors this long, and figures he can last a bit longer until he lands a stable job and apartment.
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Brian Slattery |
May 21, 2019 12:01 pm
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William Frucht
Tools, Humberstone and Window, Humberstone.
A room with no lights on, the only illumination coming from the windows. Tools hang on the walls. A window rotting in its frame. An abandoned wheelbarrow baking in the sun. These and many other images are the result of travels photographer William Frucht made to South America, where he turned his camera to the things people left behind.
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Markeshia Ricks |
May 13, 2019 1:54 pm
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Oak Haven Chef Kevin Wolcott inside the new mobile kitchen.
The farm-to-table dining experience Oak Haven Table & Bar brought to Upper State Street six years ago will be pulling up to farms, festivals, and fairs this summer.
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Markeshia Ricks |
May 2, 2019 10:25 am
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Dubuque, who fell in love with edible cookie dough in Texas.
Dan Dubuque is used to the curious look of disbelief on people’s faces when they walk into his new State Street shop and learn that unlike at their mom’s kitchen table, they can eat the cookie dough.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 17, 2019 12:08 pm
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Nancy Eisenfeld
Circumstances Beyond Control.
The wall to the left draws your eye as soon as you enter City Gallery on Upper State Street. It’s covered floor to ceiling with artwork. In one sense, the works are abstract, studies of light and shade, colors that sometimes contrast and sometimes fade into each other. They’re explorations of what pigments can do. In another sense, though, they can be read as mimicking natural forms. Some could be patterns in frozen ice. Others could be portraits of moving liquid, or the details of a column of billowing smoke, the fire sparking underneath.
Martin with Atelier Cue’s Ioana Barac beneath the overpass.
These old grey concrete and frequently graffitied highway underpass walls won’t remain that way much longer.
That’s thanks to grants that the Upper State Street (Business) Association (USSA) and other neighborhood partners just received to spruce up the concrete with light and color, design and art, and remind folks of how it used to be before the highway sliced the area in two.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 19, 2019 1:11 pm
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Tom Peterson
Hidden Mysteries 6 and Hidden Mysteries 7.
At first, artist Tom Peterson’s images, entitled Hidden Mysteries, could be abstract textures of black and white, possible rendered by computer, a pattern of repeating fractals. Then it becomes clear: they’re actually photographs of the surface of water in low light. They’re natural patterns made into more intentional shapes by the act of photographing them and processing those images.
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Karen Ponzio |
Feb 11, 2019 8:35 am
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Adam Matlock and Chris Cretella.
Almost exactly a year ago musician Conor Perreault was at Never Ending Books starting a new experimental music series, which at the time did not have a name.
As of this past Saturday it still did not, but it was flourishing and filled with the types of musicians and music that can be difficult for some to label as well.
“I’m always trying to make it more free,” said Perreault, who also in this past year became co-organizer of the Elm City Noise festival. “I’m always encouraging people to let out what they’re holding back.”
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 13, 2019 11:29 pm
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Roberta Friedman
Hot Stuff.
Roberta Friedman’s Hot Stuff, true to its name, blazes with whirls and streaks of bold color, lancing across the paper. Here and there are corrosive interruptions that crackle with their own energy. It’s the product of a process using hot wax on a steel plate that required Friedman to work fast and embrace accidents — and allowed her a chance to express her current state of mind.
