“A Couple of Ways of Doing Something” Catalog

Our upcoming Chuck Close Exhibition will feature gorgeous, hardbound catalogs, produced by Aperture Foundation.  The catalogs retail for $50, but we will be selling a limited supply of them for $35 on the night of the opening reception (while supplies last).  Don’t miss this amazing opportunity to take home a piece of this stunning exhibition.

If you would like a sneak peek of the catalog, check out this review on Lens Culture.  This paragraph sums it up perfectly:

The portraits hold you in their gaze. Emerging from pitch black darkness, they shimmer silvery and glowing, looming large and hazy except for a sliver of very sharp, shallow focus: perhaps only the glint of one telling eye, and a patch of shining detailed porous skin. They sear you.

This catalog is truly a thing to behold.

Sorry for the Neglect

Its been too long since we’ve updated the Joseloff Gallery blog.  We would like to apologize by offering you bunches of updates coming up in the next couple of days.  Stay tuned!

Faculty Show Closing Soon

Have you been to visit the Hartford Art School Faculty Exhibition yet? If not, you had better hurry, the show closes this weekend. Five more days to see the best of what our phenomenal faculty has to offer. Stop by today and see some amazing artwork. We’re open through Friday from 11-4 and Saturday and Sunday from noon-4.

The gallery will be closed for the next three weeks while we take down the Faculty show, prepare to host National Portfolio Day on November 4th, and then collect artwork for the Alumni Show.

Check your mailboxes for the Alumni Small Works Show opening reception announcement. They will be mailed this week, the reception will be on Friday November 17th from 6-8pm.

The Art You Leave Behind

In addition to having artwork on our walls, we also have a bit of artwork in our guest book. Some people prefer to leave us their names, some like to give their opinions on the show, and some people are just inspired to draw.

Next time you visit the gallery, be sure to sign, (or draw in), our guest book and look through the pages for some of the mini masterpieces like these.

Exhibition Schedule

Have you been wondering what shows are coming up next at the gallery? Well here you are, our remaining shows for the 2006-2007 school year. Please remember that the dates are subject to change and you may want to call the gallery or visit our website to confirm dates and times before heading out.

November 17, 2006 – January 14, 2007
(the gallery will be closed the week between Christmas and New Year’s)
The Hartford Art School Alumni Small Works Exhibition
Opening reception: Friday, November 17th, 6-8pm

February 14, 2007 – March 18, 2007
The Annual Alexander A. Goldfarb Student Exhibition
Opening reception and awards presentation: Wednesday February 14th, 4:30-6:30pm

April 11, 2007 – May 27, 2007
A New Pattern and Decoration
A group show including painting, works on paper, and installation
Opening reception: Wednesday April 11th, 5-7pm

Hartford Art School Alumni Small Works Exhibition

Have you heard the news? Next month, the Joseloff Gallery will be showing the Hartford Art School Alumni Small Works Exhibition.

Open to all alumni of the art school, this exhibition will feature small works, (18″ x 18″ or smaller), and will highlight the work of a few, selected alumni artists. Mark Dion, Annette Lawrence, Annette Lemieux, Hester Stinnet and Peter Waite will all be special guests at the show.

If you are an alumni of the art school, or you know an alumni, we encourage you to spread the word about the show. This is not a juried show, but there is a $25 entry fee. One work per alumni may be entered in any medium that does not need to be projected, or shown on a screen. Artwork may be shipped to the gallery or dropped off in person between November 6 and November 10 from 11am-7pm.

The exhibition will run from Friday, November 17, 2006 through Sunday, January 14, 2007, with an opening reception on November 17 from 6-8pm.

If you would like to enter a piece into the show, please click on the link to the right under the “Entry Forms” heading for the Alumni Small Works Show entry form. If you have any questions or would like more information, please send us an email or call the gallery directly at (860) 768-4090.

2+2: The Talk of New York – Trip 1

What a day! Last week the gallery took a group of enthusiastic art-lovers on a trip to New York as part of the lecture/trip series titled 2+2: The Talk of New York. The weather was perfect, the shows were phenomenal and the group was great!

We visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the show, Cezanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant Garde. What a stunning collection of important works of art, and an interesting lesson on how art dealers influence the market for art and truly make an artist’s career. Vollard was a force in the art world and his incredible influence can be seen in this exhibition.

We also visited the Whitney Museum of American Art for the opening day of their show, Picasso and American Art. A visual overload of mostly large-scale works by Picasso and some of the American artists whose work he influenced. The comparions to Picasso’s work are at times obvious, and other times subtle and quite interesting.

Did you miss out on our first lecture and trip? Don’t worry – there’s another one coming soon! Wednesday, November 1st we will host our second lecture in the gallery focusing on contemporary art. The following week on Thursday, November 9th we will have our second bus trip to New York to visit the Modern Museum of Art. There are still open seats for both the lecture and the trip.

The gallery lectures are free, the bus trips are $100 each, which includes transportation and museum admission. For more information, visit our website, or send us an email with your questions.

The Hartford Art School Faculty Exhibition

On view: September 6 – October 22

The Hartford Art School Faculty Exhibition opened last month with an amazing crowd of enthusuastic faculty, board members, students, alumni and gallery supporters. Thank you to everyone came out to support the faculty and view new works by:

Doug Andersen | Power Boothe | Stephen Brown | Robert Calafiore | Harriet Caldwell | Ellen Carey | Alan Carlstrom | Joe Dal Pra | Jim Duval | Ted Efremoff | Terry Donsen Feder | Susan Finnegan | Donna Forma | Mary Frey | Jenni Freidman | Hirokazu Fukawa | Gilles Giuntini | Lloyd Glasson | Gene Gort | Walter Hall | Deb Kline | Jason Lanka | Jim Lee | Reynard Milici | Dennis Nolan | John Nordyke | Ryan O’Rourke | Carol Padberg | Jeremiah Patterson | Douglas Peltzman | Julie Rivera | Kevin Sepe | Joshua Smith | Mark Snyder | Robert Spahr | Greg Surman | Bill Thomson | Matt Towers | Fred Wessel | John Willis

The Faculty Exhibition will be on display through Sunday October 22, 2006.

Up next: National Portfolio Day, November 4, 2006, 12-4pm.
For more information, contact Bob Calafiore, Assistant Dean, Hartford Art School.

The Joseloff Gallery Blog

Welcome to the new Joseloff Gallery blog. This is the place to find out what’s happening on a weekly basis at the gallery. You’ll find news, events, and opening reception information, as well as some behind-the-scenes tidbits to show you what life is like in our art gallery.

If you would like to sign up to receive opening reception and event information by email, please click this link here, and tell us you would like to sign up. If you would like to be put on our regular mailing list, please use the same link and provide your mailing address.

Thank you for reading and please let us know if you have any comments or questions or if there is anything about the gallery that you would like to know more about.