The Joseloff Gallery has been in the news! Enchantment has recently been mentioned in the Republican-American newspaper (11/15/09), the Hartford Courant (11/05/09), and even in a segment on WFSB Channel 3’s Better Connecticut with Scot Haney (11/06/09). Visit our press page to read the articles and watch the video.
A Week of Enchantment
November 16, 2009





Thank you to everyone who came out and made our week of Enchantment such a success. Wednesday’s lecture with Julie Heffernan was inspiring and engaging; Thursday’s lecture with Peter Trippi was eye-opening and thought-provoking; and Friday’s panel discussion moderated by Peter Trippi was entertaining and exciting with artists James Gurney, Alison Moritsugu, Graydon Parrish, Patricia Watwood, and the director of the Dahesh Museum of Art, Dr. David Farmer. It was wonderful to see other participating artists including Gail Boyajian and Jennifer Knaus joining the crowds at the lectures and the extremely well-attended opening reception. It was a wonderful week and we can’t thank everyone enough.
Enchantment, the sixth Distinguished Artists Symposium and Exhibition will be on display through January 17, 2010 at the Joseloff Gallery. The gallery will be closed for the Thanksgiving weekend from November 26th through the 30th, and again for the winter break from December 21st through January 4th.
Enchantment Checklist and Press Release
October 12, 2009
Royal Baby, 2009 by Jennifer Knaus
Are you curious about the artwork that will appear in “Enchantment”? Well if you are, just click below to download a PDF exhibition checklist. And just to make sure you’re properly informed, you can even download a PDF version of the exhibition’s press release. Enjoy!
Announcing: Enchantment
October 7, 2009
Enchantment, this year’s Distinguished Artists Symposium and Exhibition, will take place from November 6, 2009 through January 17, 2010 at the Joseloff Gallery.
Enchantment will focus on Romanticism and the figure in academic art with paintings from the late nineteenth century alongside works by contemporary artists who utilize the genre to engage in wider themes.
Lectures will take place on Wednesday November 4 and Thursday November 5 , ending with a symposium panel discussion on Friday November 6, preceding the opening reception. The exhibition will continue through January 17, 2010.
The exhibition will include painters and illustrators who are dedicated, to some degree or another, to the rigors of the academy, characterized by a formal process of copying prints from past masters, drawing from plaster casts, and drawing and painting from a nude model. Strictly speaking, drawing was the foundation of all academic painting; there was a hierarchy of subjects such as history and mythology, with emphasis on detail through an idealized lens.
Others in the exhibition use contemporary methods to embrace and subvert these themes. This includes combining the subject from one masterpiece with the style from another; artists who mine the past to create paintings that reinterpret old themes in today’s visual language; use allegorical references to depict contemporary events; through photography, explore the transition between the authentic work of art and its reproduction; exaggerate the idealization of form and subject using humor and irony; depict recognizable contemporary figures as heroic icons from the past.
A goal of the Distinguished Artists program is to bring artists, historians, and critics to campus to engage in a dialogue with students, faculty and the community related to a particular topic through lectures and discussions held in the days leading up to the opening reception.
Lectures

Julie Heffernan
Wednesday November 4, 2009, 1:30-3:00pm, Wilde Auditorium
Julie Heffernan’s theatrical and opulent paintings reinterpret allegory, portraiture, history painting, and still life with a haunting mystery and ominous beauty.

Peter Trippi
Thursday November 5, 2009, 1:30-3:00pm, Wilde Auditorium
Peter Trippi is editor of Fine Art Connoisseur, a bimonthly magazine for collectors of representational painting, sculpture, drawings and prints — both historical and contemporary. Trippi was director of the Dahesh Museum of Art in New York City between 2003 and 2006.
Symposium
Panel Discussion, “Enchantment Then and Now: Drawing Connections” moderated by Peter Trippi
Friday November 6, 2009, 1:30-3:00pm, Wilde Auditorium
This lively discussion will include a panels of participating artists including James Gurney, Alison Moritsugu, Graydon Parrish, and Patricia Watwood, and the director of the Dahesh Museum of Art, David Farmer.
Opening Reception
The opening of the Enchantment exhibition
Friday November 6, 2009, 5:00-7:00pm, Joseloff Gallery
Would you like a sneak peek of the work that will be in the Enchantment exhibition? Visit our Flickr page: www.flickr.com/photos/joseloffgallery
Faculty Show Sneak Peek
September 3, 2009The work is pouring in and we’ve already had a mention on Courant.com which was quick to point out that we will be showing the work of nearly fifty faculty members. Forty-four to be exact! What a great show. A crowded house of fantastic work. Want to take a peek?

Hanging in progress, the gallery a mess.

New paintings by Cat Balco.

Another impressive egg tempera painting by Fred Wessel.

Our installers, hard at work.

A new piece by Jimmy Rhea.

Work by new adjunct – and recent graduate of the Illustration MFA program at Hartford Art School – Chuck Primeau, alongside a new painting by Dennis Nolan.
And there is so much more I haven’t shown you… I hope you will join us next Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 5pm to see the finished product at the opening reception. Visit our website for more information, or call the gallery at (860) 768-4090.
Summer Closure
July 9, 2009The Nancy Graves crates are on their way out, leaving the gallery empty and dark for the remaining summer months.
The gallery will be closed for maintenance, repair, and our usual summer break from now until September 9th when the Hartford Art School Faculty Exhibition opens at 4:30pm.
Please check back for updates, visit our calendar page to plan your gallery visits for next year, and have a great summer!
Nancy Graves in the News
April 13, 2009
An article about our upcoming Nancy Graves exhibition by Roger Catlin of the Hartford Courant featuring the piece Cobwebbed Corners of the Sky, 1992 appeared on Courant.com on Friday. Check it out: http://www.courant.com/entertainment/events/hc-artweek0409.artapr09,0,1248931.story
Nancy Graves Exhibition Announced
March 16, 2009

Esthetic Dominance, 1989
We are pleased to announce an exhibition of sculpture, paintings, and drawings by the internationally acclaimed artist Nancy Graves (1939-1995). This will be the first comprehensive overview of her work presented in the region. The exhibition opens with a public reception on April 14, 2009 from 6-8pm, and continues through June 28, 2009.
Graves, who died of cancer in 1995, is considered to be one of the most innovative, inspired, and prolific artists of her generation. She is best known for vibrantly painted sculpture collages that combine cast bronze elements inspired by the natural world with objects of every description. Her technique, craftsmanship, and aesthetic vision result in complex and enigmatic structures of layered meaning and provocative beauty.
Paralleling her development as a sculptor are paintings, watercolors, and drawings that possess their own unique language while reflecting her constantly evolving preoccupation with various forms and subjects that resurface in her sculpture.

Equivalent, 1978
The Joseloff Gallery show will include significant examples of work from various phases of her career with sculpture dating from the early 1970s to 1992, over twenty drawings and watercolors, and several large-scale paintings.
Nancy Graves was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She is a graduate of Vassar College and received her MFA from the Yale School of Art in 1964. In the late 1960s, her interest in anthropology resulted in her acclaimed life-sized structures of camels and films shot in Morocco.
This exhibition is funded by the Kohn/Joseloff Foundation and is made possible by the Nancy Graves Foundation.
Please visit www.joseloffgallery.org for more information about the exhibition, and www.nancygravesfoundation.org for more information about the artist.

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