And don’t forget – the Hartford Art School Faculty Exhibition closes this Sunday! Don’t miss it.

We thank you a thousand times over for your patience.

Until then, please feel free to visit our Flickr page for images of the Hartford Art School Faculty Exhibition and the opening reception from September 7.

Opening September 7, 2010 – The Hartford Art School Faculty Exhibition

The fall semester begins the exhibition season at the Joseloff Gallery, and the first show is the Hartford Art School Faculty Exhibition. This exhibition features works by distinguished faculty who teach in ceramics, drawing, illustration, media arts, sculpture, painting, photography, printmaking, visual communication design, and foundation studies.

This year’s exhibition will include new members of the Art School faculty: Jaclyn Conley (painting), Robert Lyons (photography), and Carolyn Muskat.

The exhibition will begin with an opening reception on Tuesday September 7, 2010 from 5-7PM in the Joseloff Gallery, and will run through Sunday October 10, 2010.

Participating faculty include:

Doug Andersen | Cat Balco | Marion Belanger | Daniel Buttrey
Robert Calafiore | Harriet Caldwell | Ellen Carey |Alan Carlstrom
Jaclyn Conley | Andy Deck | Terry Feder | Susan Finnegan
Jenni Freidman | Mary Frey | Hirokazu Fukawa | Gilles Giuntini
Gene Gort | Walter Hall | Dawn Holder | Jim Lee | Robert Lyons
Santanu Majumdar | Rey Milici | Carolyn Muskat | Dennis Nolan
John Nordyke | Ryan O’ Rourke | Carol Padberg | Ruta Parker
Jeremiah Patterson | Natacha Poggio | Jimmy Rhea | Kevin Sepe
Mark Snyder | Bill Thompson | Murray Tinkelman | Matt Towers
John Willis

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 11am to 4pm, and Saturday and Sunday from noon to 4pm.  Admission is free.

Kathy Butterly, Burnt Sugar, 2010, clay and glaze, 4 7/8 x 3 ¾ x 2 7/8 inches. Private Collection. Courtesy of Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York.

How delicious is this work?  This is a recent piece by New York artist Kathy Butterly.  She is one of the Koopman Chairs in the Visual Arts at the Hartford Art School this year.  She and Kansas City ceramic artist, Andy Brayman will be having a show in the Joseloff Gallery this November.  And what a gorgeous show it will be!

Work from Kathy’s recent show “Pantyhose and Morandi”  at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery can be seen here: http://www.tibordenagy.com/exhibitions/kathy-butterly/

Kathy Butterly, Mad Cap Laughs, 2010, clay and glaze, 5 3/8 x 3 3/8 x 3 3/8 inches. Private Collection. Courtesy of Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York.

Our exhibition, “Brayman & Butterly” will run from November 10 through December 19 2010 with an opening reception in the gallery on Tuesday November 9 from 5-7pm.  Kathy Butterly will hold a free public lecture in the Wilde Auditorium preceding the opening reception from 1:30-3pm.  She will also return to campus on Wednesday December 15 for a free evening gallery talk from 5-6:30pm.

Mark your calendars, this is a show you will not want to miss!

Zina Davis Leaves Position as Director of the Joseloff Gallery
Davis leaves a distinguished legacy to the cultural life of
the University of Hartford

West Hartford, CT, May 27, 2010 –Zina Davis will be leaving her position as Director of the Joseloff Gallery after twenty-one years of visionary leadership. Davis, who joined the University of Hartford community in 1989, will leave her position on June 9, 2010.

Davis has served as director of the Joseloff Gallery since 1989.  Since that time, the gallery has developed the reputation as a major showcase for the visual arts through provocative exhibitions and programs featuring internationally acclaimed artists.

“Every exhibition or event Zina Davis has produced or curated, as the director of the Joseloff Gallery has had an inspired sense of elegance. This was her signature for over two decades. Her exhibitions broke new ground, brought national recognition to the Hartford Art School, and enhanced the quality of life at the University of Hartford. Zina leaves a legacy of exceptional experiences and insights into the nature of art that will not be forgotten.”
-Power Boothe, dean, Hartford Art School

Davis was appointed to the University of Hartford in 1989 to lead the University’s newly constructed gallery complex in the Harry Jack Gray Center, and worked closely with architects to finalize design of the Joseloff Gallery’s 3,500 square foot exhibition space.  She was charged with creating an innovative exhibition program to serve the University of Hartford and Hartford Art School communities, as well as reach out to new and diverse audiences with shows by distinguished artists from the U.S. and overseas.

Davis opened the new Joseloff Gallery in the spring of 1989 with the inaugural exhibition, Milton Avery: The Poetic Vision.  Since then she has curated and presented exhibitions for artists such as Mia Westerlund Rosen, Arakawa, Alfred Leslie, Judy Pfaff and Michael Singer, Betye Saar, Josef Albers, Sandy Skoglund and John Coplans, Dennis Oppenheim, Jose Resende, Louise Bourgeois, Charmion von Weigand, Robert Morris, Mark Dion, Keith Sonnier, and Nancy Graves.

In 1993, Davis was also appointed as director of the University of Hartford’s Museum of American Political Life, a facility that displayed and housed a rare collection of presidential campaign material and archives.  The museum closed its doors in 2004.

Her dedicated fundraising and stewardship efforts resulted in grants from the National Endowment for the Arts; donations of artwork to the University; and several key gifts to the Joseloff Gallery and the Hartford Art School.

In 2008, Davis was officially named “University Designer,” a title given by president Walter Harrison to formalize the role she had been filling in an informal capacity for a number of years.  As “University Designer,” Davis worked to coordinate a consistent and distinctive aesthetic approach throughout the campus.  Among other projects, Davis worked on the design of University signage and the distinctive neon yellow-roofed visitor kiosks. She was involved in the design of Alumni Plaza; the gates at the north entrance to campus; and the Dorothy Goodwin Café at the Mortensen Library. She served as designer for the renovation to the 1877 Club Restaurant; oversaw the design of the 12-foot metal and stone structure commemorating Alumni Stadium and Al-Marzook Field; and most recently, was involved in the 2009 renovation and redesign of the main floor of the Gengras Student Union.

Davis’s vision, and most notably, her dedication to the arts and the University as a whole will be greatly missed.

Moving forward, the Joseloff Gallery will be directed by the current gallery manager, Lisa Gaumond, who has managed the daily operations of the gallery since February 2006.

The Joseloff Gallery, a part of the Hartford Art School, is located on the campus of the University of Hartford at 200 Bloomfield Avenue in Hartford, CT.  For more information please visit www.JoseloffGallery.org, email joseloff@hartford.edu or call the gallery at (860) 768-4090.

Zina Davis – Biography

Zina Davis received a bachelor’s of fine arts degree from Beaver College (now Arcadia University), and a master’s of fine arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts.

From 1984-1989 Davis directed Beaver College Art Gallery, and lectured in Visual Fundamentals, Three-Dimensional Design, and Writing Across the Curriculum, a nationally known project originating at Beaver College.

From 1989-2010 Davis directed the Joseloff Gallery–a major regional showcase for the visual arts with exhibitions and catalogues that receive local, national, and international attention.

Zina has a son, a daughter, and four grandchildren.  She lives in Avon, CT.

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The Hartford Advocate

The NPR Picture Show

Thanks to Susan and Claire for your wonderful writing.

Don’t miss out on this amazing show which will be at the Joseloff until June 27, 2010.  Due to popular demand, the sale on exhibition catalogues has been extended.  Normally $50, we’re selling them for $35, while supplies last (as of last counting, we only had 8)!

Don’t miss tonight’s opening reception of “A Couple of Ways of Doing Something” a traveling exhibition from Aperture Foundation featuring photographs by Chuck Close and poems by Bob Holman.

The opening reception will be from 6-8pm, tonight, April 14.  The exhibition will be open regular hours starting tomorrow, April 15.  Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 11am-4pm, and Saturday and Sunday from noon-4pm.

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.