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Emily A. Gordon |
Apr 11, 2018 8:10 am
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Hilton Als and Celia Paul with YCBA Director Amy Meyers.
“I’m going to read a piece today that discusses Celia’s life just as she’s becoming an artist,” said critic Hilton Als to an overflowing auditorium at the Yale Center for British Art, in a lecture about the life and work of British painter Celia Paul. “I thought you might know enough about her from newspaper interviews and the like. Her association with Lucian Freud, her child [with Freud], the years of struggle with security. I thought that I would let others write that, and I would write about the spirit and energy and grace in her paintings, and her lifestyle that led up to all of those things.”
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 10, 2018 7:46 am
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Marjorie Wolfe
Matera.
At first glance the cityscape looks deserted. It could be a ruin of an old city, or one abandoned due to conflict.
But look closer — much closer — and you can see that there are indeed people there. Someone putting out laundry on one of those miniscule rooftops. Someone else on one of the walkways meandering between the buildings.
Marjorie Wolfe’s Matera, situated in the center of the Kehler Liddell Gallery on Whalley Avenue in Westville, is representative of the works in her exhibit, “Far and Wide,” and the paired exhibit “Extended Visions,” featuring work by fellow artist Tom Edwards, on view now until April 22. In both exhibits, the artists explore landscapes and objects that are nearly if not completely devoid of people, but in which the presence of humans is still deeply felt.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 9, 2018 7:47 am
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Shaunda Holloway
Detail from door painting.
A vivid painting stands tall, from the floor to well above the average person’s head, a riot of color and faces, a collage of brushwork, print, and found objects. It depicts chaos, but it’s not chaotic. It has a point to make, and you know that before you see the writing in a small panel of the piece. It’s hard to make out at first. You have to get close to see it. But then the words are plain as day: “If you decide to fly, be the pilot.”
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David Sepulveda |
Mar 29, 2018 7:53 am
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Chorney takes a breather during a painting session.
Though the catchy name for his website and business, BoToDo Art & Photography, is an acronym for “Born to Doodle,” New Haven artist David S. Chorney did not pick up an artist’s brush until 2010. His new solo exhibit, “Let it Flow,” is a testament to just how little the artist relies on the brush to bring full expression to his lively canvasses.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 23, 2018 8:14 am
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Jeanette Compton
Wasps’ Nest, North Branford.
There’s evidence of a wasp infestation at the Ives branch of the New Haven Free Public Library. Evidence that sea levels have risen, and that blue crabs, mussels and whelks have moved into the basement. Evidence that birds have taken roost in the stacks.
Sam Sigg dumped the contents of a bag onto a table, revealing a year’s worth of used pipes, syringes and other drug paraphernalia that he’d collected around the Trinity Church on the Green.
This, he told a room full of neighbors filling a City Hall conference room, was a visual presentation of the New Haven Green.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 20, 2018 8:06 am
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Stephanie Anestis
Dive II.
A boy frozen in time, submerged after a jump into dark water as if in mid-flight. A short history of an ancestor, and how the magic left the family. A corroded Lady Justice standing on top of the world.
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Emily A. Gordon |
Mar 15, 2018 1:31 pm
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She and I, video installation by Aliya Hafiz and Jahnise Bennett.
“Every artist deserves to be seen,” said Luciana McClure at the opening of the group show “Silence Breakers” at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art on International Women’s Day, curated by McClure, co-founder of Nasty Women Connecticut. Most of the artworks in the exhibition — 150 in all — were made by women.
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David Sepulveda |
Feb 23, 2018 4:05 pm
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Taryn Joseph, center, flashes answers and her iPhone.
Career High School student and New Haven Arts and Ideas fellow Taryn Joseph could not have been more animated and excited to share her reaction to a “painful” painting with its creator, artist Rhinold Ponder.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 14, 2018 8:12 am
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Joy Bush
Suspended Disbelief #6.
At first glance, maybe it’s an island on a clear day, reflected in still water. But then you see that no water is that still. The line between the halves is a little too sharp. Then you see that the bottom half isn’t the same as the top half. They’re not halves at all. It’s a land mass floating in midair.
The image is arresting, stunning, fascinating. What is going on?
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 7, 2018 8:52 am
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Laura Marsh
“Last Cigarette: Cabin Fever Series.”
The lips are just graphite on paper, but maybe because of the cigarette dangling from between them, they convey a sense of iconic allure and danger. You want to draw the rest of the face. Maybe it’s a classic dame from a film noir movie. But maybe it’s nothing so stylized as that, just a woman on her lunch break, or waiting for the bus. Or maybe she’s sneaking a smoke after dinner. Whatever it is, neither the allure nor the danger can be shaken.
That kind of forthrightness — and ambiguity — permeate “Lovestruck,” an art exhibition up on the walls of mActivity on Nicoll Street from now until Feb. 28.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 25, 2018 8:51 am
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Lili Chin
Glaciers (erratics).
It’s rocks and trees. But the rocks are defying gravity, the trees are an illusion.
That the trees are just a projection is clear enough. But look closer, and the rocks, which convey so much weight, are actually made from muslin and cheesecloth, wire and glue.
You knew already that the rocks couldn’t actually be rocks. But seeing how it’s done only adds to the intrigue, that the artist — Lili Chin — could make an object so convincing, and then go out of her way to point out that it isn’t real.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 18, 2018 8:38 am
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Katie Jurkiewicz
Detail from Working Hard or Hardly Working
Say you’re in a conference call and you start doodling on the piece of paper in front of you. Say you cover the whole thing with doodles, and start doing that during every conference call.
Or say you’re a commuter at a bus stop and something — a soda can and a plastic bag arranged just so — catches your eye. You take a picture of it with your phone. Say you do this every day. Are you an artist?
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David Sepulveda |
Jan 17, 2018 8:40 am
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InSanaa by J. Keefer. Saudi-led airstrikes on Sanaa Province, Yemen.
In “Aftermath,” a new exhibition at Fred Giampietro Gallery, a painter’s passion is on full display in the conflict images of New Haven artist John Keefer, whose work is being shown with the sculptural creations of artist Kurt Steger — found object-construction hybrids that bear compelling messages in content and in their physical composition.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 15, 2018 8:20 am
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Julie Pereira
Floating Wall #1
At first glance it looks like the paper is still on fire. But it’s just how it was made. To make Floating Wall #1, artist Julie Pereira made layers upon layers of dyed paper, then burned them with incense. The resulting pattern on the paper looks like frozen smoke, like underwater photography, like clouds.
The piece is a fitting formal introduction to “Between Beauty and Decay” — now on view at Artspace on the corner of Crown and Orange until Feb. 24 — as Pereira’s piece seems to capture the exact moment in the exhibition’s title.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jan 12, 2018 9:00 am
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Artist Sara Hope Hill made a flourish with her hands. “Everything is a web,” she said. “Everything is a reflection of each other. I started reading mythology recently, listening on audiobooks, because I think they’re tied to the stories of now. All of those stories are kind of characters, of people you know personified to an extreme. It helps you understand the world around you. Puppetry and doll making help you understand the world around you, and I think many times the mythology ties into the divinity of my work. Porcelain bodies are God’s work. You are working with perfect beings.”
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Cara McDonough |
Jan 11, 2018 1:15 pm
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The Q, in its glory on Pearl Harbor Day.
The light show put on each evening on the Q Bridge is made possible by 548 LED fixtures, each with a 50,000-hour lifespan. It’s Joe Ponzio’s job to make sure they’re running right.
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Allan Appel |
Dec 20, 2017 8:51 am
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Bruckmann’s oil painting “Fish House” has sold.
Painter Frank Bruckmann often puts his intensely colored, evocative scenes on large canvases. But at holiday time, he offers smaller formats — and the works, like those of his colleagues, are selling.
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Allan Appel |
Dec 15, 2017 1:12 pm
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When an artist and a baker get together — when they get along famously, and the artist loves food and the baker loves art — well, an illustrated cookbook can’t be far behind.
The president of Yale College, Timothy Dwight, both educator and minister, delivered an impassioned sermon on the folly, guilt, and mischief of the notorious gentlemans’ practice of dueling in September 1804 — two months late for Alexander Hamilton, who had died that July in his famous duel with Aaron Burr.
The only time in her life Mary Lesser did not make art was was during a four-year-period she was at the Yale Law School and, simultaneously, raising two small boys.
