A Week of Enchantment

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.

Hartford Art School Faculty Exhibition 2009

Click on any picture to see it larger.  The exhibition will be on display through October 4, 2009.

See more photos on our Flickr page: Hartford Art School Faculty Exhibition 2009

Faculty Show Sneak Peek

The 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.

Nancy Graves in the News

There have been two recent mentions of the Nancy Graves exhibition in the media lately, did you see them?

On April 19, Alan Bisbort of the Hartford Advocate wrote a wonderful review of the show on his Blogbort page titled Nancy Graves, Real Inspired in which he began:

One of the most colorful, engaging and, yes, fun art exhibitions of the year may fly beneath your radars, if you’re not careful.

It is “Nancy Graves: Inspired Vision”, at the Hartford Art School’s Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford.

Thanks, Alan. I think we’d have to agree.

Then on May 3 we had another wonderful surprise.  Did you happen to see the front page of the Arts section in last Sunday’s Republican-American newspaper?  Tracey O’Shaughnessy wrote a lovely article about Nancy Graves and a review of our exhibition.  If you didn’t get a chance to see it in full-color in the paper, please visit Tracey’s website to read the story.

(Photo featured in the Republican-American article courtesy of Roger Castonguay, Jr. of The Defining Photo LLC.)

Goldfarb Student Exhibition 2009

See all photos from the exhibition on our Flickr page.

Nancy Graves Exhibition Announced

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.

2008 Faculty Exhibition

September 17, 2008 through November 2, 2008

View the full set here: 2008 Faculty Exhibition

Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art

See the full set here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joseloffgallery/sets/72157604344108826/

Installation photos by David Stansbury Photography

Beyond Green Links

Last night, the Hartford Art School design department hosted a lecture by graphic designer, University of Illinois assistant professor, and founder of the “green” graphic design resource site renourish, Eric Benson. The presentation was interesting and thought-provoking, as is the site renourish. I encourage everyone, not just graphic designers, to visit and look around.

And while I’m on the subject of linking, and since Mr. Benson put the idea in my head, below are links to the websites of the artists and artist groups that make up Beyond Green. Learn more about the artists, their projects, and how you can help out and go Beyond Green.

Allora & Calzadilla: http://www.gladstonegallery.com/allora_calzadilla.asp

Free Soil: http://www.free-soil.org/

JAM: http://www.noonsolar.com/ (Their spring line of solar bags will be coming out sometime this month!)

Learning Group: http://www.learningsite.info/

Brennan McGaffey: http://www.intermodseries.org/
Temporary Services: http://www.temporaryservices.org/

Nils Norman: http://www.dismalgarden.org/

People Powered: http://www.peoplepowered.org/

Dan Peterman: http://www.andrearosengallery.com/artists/dan-peterman/

Marjetica Potrc: http://www.potrc.org/

Michael Rakowitz: http://www.michaelrakowitz.com/

Frances Whitehead: http://www.lisasettegallery.com/artistsP-Z/Whitehead.htm

WochenKlausur: http://www.wochenklausur.at/index1.php?lang=en

Andrea Zittel: http://www.zittel.org/

And of course, the link that brought Beyond Green to the Joseloff Gallery, Independent Curators International. Thank you to iCI for making this traveling show possible.

Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art will be at the Joseloff Gallery through June 10, 2008.

The 20th Annual Alexander A. Goldfarb Student Exhibition

See all photos from the exhibition on our Flickr page.