Hartford Art School Faculty Exhibition 2009

September 17, 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

September 3, 2009

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?

gallery view

Hanging in progress, the gallery a mess.

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New paintings by Cat Balco.

Fred Wessel

Another impressive egg tempera painting by Fred Wessel.

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Our installers, hard at work.

Jimmy Rhea

A new piece by Jimmy Rhea.

Chuck Primeau and Dennis Nolan

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

May 8, 2009

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.

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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

March 16, 2009

See all photos from the exhibition on our Flickr page.


Nancy Graves Exhibition Announced

March 16, 2009

Esthetic Dominance, 1989

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

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

November 24, 2008

September 17, 2008 through November 2, 2008

View the full set here: 2008 Faculty Exhibition


Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art

May 7, 2008

Beyond Green Links

April 24, 2008

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

March 5, 2008

See all photos from the exhibition on our Flickr page.


PostDec Panel Discussion

January 30, 2008

Better late than never!  The pictures are finally in from the PostDec panel discussion that was held on December 6, 2007 in the Koopman Commons at the Hartford Art School.

It was standing room-only as PostDec artists Joyce Kozloff, Jesse Lambert, Renee Petropoulos, Suzanne McClelland, and Robert Kushner discussed art, art-making, and the evolution of Pattern and Decoration.

Gallery Director Zina Davis moderated the panel as the five artists discussed ideas and answered questions from the audience, then proceeded to the Joseloff Gallery or a brief reception.

Thank you to everyone who attended the discussion and those who donated their services to make the evening a success.  Thank you to Sam Ekwutzel for recording the discussion, and to Roger Castonguay for taking the lovely photographs.  An a big thank you to all of the artists for attending and participating in such an interesting and engaging panel discussion.