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May 12, 2022 8:44 am
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Inside the Sandbox — a new space for art events at the Arts Council of Greater New Haven on Audubon Street — there’s a small garden growing, made not of plants, but fiber. There are ropes of vines fashioned from T‑shirts, leaves of pressed polyethylene, mossy mats of yarn. The project, titled “Unclassified,” is the work of artist Yolanda Davis, who, as the Arts Council’s artist in residence, started it in the fall. It now hangs in the Sandbox space like an enormous divider, a waterfall of foliage. Soon it will be taken down. And to Davis, it still isn’t really complete.
"The guy keeps winning": The late Winfred Rembert in the Newhall Street apartment where he made the magic happen.
Estate of Winfred Rembert / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Looking for My Mother, 2019; reprinted in Chasing Me To My Grave.
Lillian Rembert dropped her mail sack on Shelton Avenue to see why her phone was blowing up with alerts — to discover that her late father won a Pulitzer Prize.
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Brian Slattery |
May 11, 2022 8:37 am
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Davies.
The surface of Jennifer Davies’s Blue Accord, part of “In Mind and Hand” — a show of Davies’s work up now at City Gallery on State Street through May 29 — is a panoply of textures, and not just visual ones. There are the endless variations on indigo, wrought by applying the dye in unpredictable ways. But look closer, and you can tell the material itself has a tactile life of its own, sometimes punctuated by string. Davies may be a visual artist by training, but her art appeals to more than one of the senses.
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Brian Slattery |
May 9, 2022 8:22 am
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El-Yasin and Shutan.
New Haven-based artists Suzan Shutan and Howard el-Yasin have a vision of creating an art treasure hunt across the state of Connecticut. It’s about opening up private spaces. It’s about pushing back and against commercialism and oppression. But it’s also about having fun, exploring where we live, and tapping into the sense kids have that maybe, just maybe, there’s an adventure to be had around the next corner if we just know where to look.
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Brian Slattery |
May 3, 2022 8:33 am
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Florian Carle, Martha Lewis, Jason Bischoff-Wurstle.
In Martha Lewis’s illustrations, the stacked spirals of wires and other metal pieces have no obvious sense of scale. They could be of a structure the size of a skyscraper, or the miniature contents of a vacuum tube. In this, the pieces of technology rendered in Lewis’s sketches echo the theories and the math that underpin them. They’re parts of quantum computers used at the Yale Quantum Institute, and the sketches — as well as some of the computers themselves, plus the tools employed to keep them running — are part of “The Quantum Revolution: Handcrafted in New Haven,” an art exhibit that shows how the current wave of innovation in computing connects seamlessly to New Haven’s long industrial past of inventors creating breakthroughs not through climatic moments of “Eureka!,” but by getting their hands dirty and figuring things out.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 28, 2022 8:35 am
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Frank Bruckmann
Skull Right.
A skull is so synonymous with death that our brains make it into a cliché, but Frank Bruckmann’s painting gets us to look through the symbol to the object itself — the shapes of the teeth, the perhaps unexpected delicacy of the animal’s cheekbone and jawbone. Bruckmann is, in short, inviting us to slow down.
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Randy Laist |
Apr 27, 2022 8:14 am
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A piece exploring resonant frequencies; plucking a string makes a cymbal vibrate, and striking a cymbal makes a string vibrate.
The Earth vibrates at a frequency of 7.8 Hertz. Tuning forks can be used to tell time. A stretched-out Slinky can be used to produce a Star Wars-style laser-blast sound.
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Courtney Luciana |
Apr 25, 2022 4:29 pm
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Eric Vidro.
Eric Vidro was headed to Chapel Street Monday morning during his morning shift — as a budding clothing designer — before his third-shift gig in a factory.
The latter pays the bills. The former fuels his dreams.
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Karen Ponzio |
Apr 25, 2022 8:54 am
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Mural by Rose Martin in the newly remodeled Three Sheets.
Questlove pondering musical notes in mixed media. Three womxn expressed in acrylics. A snarling yet sparkling cat out of hell.
These were all part of the return of longstanding monthly event “Art in the Back,” at Three Sheets this past Saturday night. Though on this evening it did not include the “music in the front” portion — in which bands once played as part of the opening — the promise of it was in the air.
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Apr 20, 2022 3:57 pm
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Eddi M. photographs Alina ...
... in flower-filled Wooster Square Park.
Wooster Square’s cherry blossoms served as a fitting seasonal backdrop Wednesday morning — for a photographer aiming to turn the trees’ ephemeral beauty into immortal crypto wealth.
Alison Cofrancesco's painting of the Pinskymobile.
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Artist+lawyer+truck on Sherman.
Alison Cofrancesco brought iconic New Haven storefronts — including mobile ones — to canvas, then reconnected with the humans behind them in real life.
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Karen Ponzio |
Apr 12, 2022 9:05 am
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Anne:Gogh
The concept of time has had its way with all of us in the past two years, leading many to redefine its more linear aspects and reimagine a new framework. On Saturday night five poets made their way through Artspace New Haven to pose and present their own interpretations of time, influenced and inspired by the “Dyschronics” exhibit currently displayed there, as well as Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. The event was part of One City, One Read, an ongoing International Festival of Arts and Ideas program series that continues now through June throughout New Haven, focusing on Butler’s all-too-prescient novel.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 8, 2022 9:25 am
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Lewis.
Here Come Swords. I Married a Ranger. Heaven Has Claws. Goodness Had Nothing to Do with It. All through the pandemic — and for years before that — these curious titles were hiding in plain sight on the shelves of the Institute Library, before being plucked off by a staff member, volunteer, or patron for inclusion in “Cover Story II: Return to the Stacks,” the latest art exhibit in the Chapel Street library’s gallery that invites viewers, once again, to judge books by their covers, though this time with a twist.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 5, 2022 8:58 am
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The colorful digital artwork on the walls brought sparks of light to the space at Never Ending Books. In one piece, swirls of darkness and fluorescence together ripped across an undulating landscape. In another, the dark forms of buildings, lit from within by explosions of brightness, melted into one another, suggesting vastness and a riotous amount of life. In still another, the forms of leaves and pale branches draped across the view of a passing stream. They and many others are part of visual artist and musician Shula Weinstein’s show “The Sun Rises on a Coastal Town,” running now at the State Street spot for the next few weeks.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 31, 2022 9:14 am
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Matthew Garrett
Acorn.
It’s just a picture of an acorn, but the lens makes all the difference. Under Matthew Garrett’s eye — and, apparently, his phone — the seed becomes a landscape of detail. The bed that it lies on brims with life. It’s a study of an intricate surface we don’t pay attention to very often, but given its subject, it’s also an image about possibility, the chance for vast growth.
Published illustrations (above) by New Haven's Merle Nacht (pictured below), subject of a new career retrospective at Merwin's Art Shop.
Frank Rizzo/ New Haven Arts Paper
One summer day in 1985, the illustrator Merle Nacht boarded a Metro-North train at Union Station, and carried with her a big dream and a portfolio of anxiety.
Her goal was to arrive where few freelance artists ever find themselves: on the list of regular cover artists for the prestigious New Yorker magazine.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 25, 2022 9:33 am
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Clockwise from upper left: ECOCA board members Suneet Talpade, Jeanne Criscola, Debbie Hesse, Jeanne Ciravolo.
The Ely Center of Contemporary Art is officially buying the John Slade Ely House, the Elizabethan mansion on Trumbull Street that has served as a hub for the New Haven visual arts community since 1961. It’s purchasing the building from ACES for $800,000, fending off a bid from a developer for the same price.
“All the people that have been supportive of us are ecstatic that we’re in this position,” said Jeanne Criscola, ECOCA’s board president.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 24, 2022 9:19 am
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Mark Rothko
Untitled.
It’s only the form of it, the broad bands of color, that might give away that the painting above is by Mark Rothko, famous for his much more abstract work. The faces, the shapes of waves, of limbs, the fact that there are lines at all, aren’t Rothko’s style at all — or at least not the style we know him for. It’s all too tempting to map the general narrative of art history in the 20th century, from representational to abstract art, onto Rothko’s own personal history. In that context, we might think this is a painting Rothko made early in his life, before he discovered abstraction. We’d be wrong — he made it a year before he died. We think of Rothko and his contemporaries as abstract painters, but they were more than that. The story is more complicated.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 17, 2022 9:02 am
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Sarah Schneiderman
The State of Health Care in the United States of America #4.
The title of Sarah Schneiderman’s piece at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art on Trumbull Street — The State of Health Care in the United States of America #4 — makes the target of the artist’s intentions clear, and it gets at something about the overall effects of certain aspects of our healthcare system, creating a country awash in prescription medication and, as recent high-profile lawsuits have shown, far too many addicts in the process. But Schneiderman’s piece also gets at something even broader than that. Its depiction of the flag itself It aptly illustrates the way the past couple years has seen the nation change shape, bending and warping, struggling to turn into something else under the most fractious politics seen in a long time. Schneiderman kept her eyes on her intended subject, but touched on something deeper as well.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 9, 2022 8:54 am
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Since its first exhibition opened in March 2020 — and despite the pandemic — NXTHVN has managed to mount show after show that makes great use of its wide gallery walls, whether it’s by nearly covering them or using their white space to make distance between the pieces. Its latest exhibit is the first to give the viewer a sense of having entered and perhaps become a part of the art on display, the first to impart a feeling of bringing people somewhere else, if only for a little while.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 2, 2022 4:55 pm
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Ely Center board members Rashmi Talpade, Valerie Garlick, Jeanne Criscola, and Debbie Hesse.
The Ely Center of Contemporary Art is busy not just putting art on its walls — but looking for the money to keep the walls themselves. It has two weeks.
