Join us at Artspace for our exciting summer exhibitions including:
"Pretty Things: Confronting Sensuousness"
Explores the role of sensuousness in contemporary art. Ten artists
employ diverse materials in innovative ways to entice us with artworks
that project a seductive allure. While exploring the potential of rich
colors, patterns, and surfaces, these works also promote unexpected
encounters with subject matter that ranges from the attractions of
consumer products to the realms of biography, science, and geopolitics.
"In Case of Loss Please Return to Paradise"
An installation by Fredo CondeOn view in Gallery 3, Conde combines
painting, drawing and sculpture to collectively form a narrative
expressing Conde’s disillusionment with the excesses of consumerism
and his subsequent regression into escapism. Conde’s mixed media
installation built from DVDs, cardboard shipping boxes, spray paint and
found objects, chronicles a fabricated utopia guarded from the advances
of consumption and its inevitable demise.
"Put Together"
Last fall Jeffrey Walkowiak, Director of the Sara Meltzer Gallery in
New York, visited over 400 artist studios during Artspace’s City-Wide
Open Studios Festival 2007. His selection of five artists articulate
concurrent and relevant issues in today's
artworld. Brian Huff's collection of collages, using segments from
children's books and newspapers, look at the loss of innocence and
inevitable nature of mortality. Phil Lique's large installation,
consisting of assembled creatures constructed from building materials
and found objects, illustrate the ongoing battle between the natural
and man-made worlds. Kari Britta Lorensen's fabric, wax and steel
sculptures address issues of the body, skin, gender and containment.
Drew Nemetz, inspired by graffiti and pop art icons, has created his
own visual language on the walls of the gallery, informed by the work
of advertising, design and media imagery framed by ornate antique
frames. Dorothy Powers addresses issues of gender and the body in a
series of photographically based works inspired by the depiction of
middle eastern woman in the media.
"Things I've Seen"
Student Curator Simeon Durham, of the Hyde Leadership Academy, selected
the work of two artists from the Artspace Flatfile, Robert Knight and
Andrew Hogan, for his exhibition, Things I've Seen. Robert Knight’s
colorful photographs playfully expose the personal space of the
bedroom, creating a portrait of the person who lives there by capturing
the objects contained in their most private space. Andrew Hogan pushes
the standards of lighting practices in documentary photography in his
series, 12 Images of New Haven at Dusk and After. Each photograph
captures an intimate view of New Haven we rarely take time to notice,
when the city is slowing down for the night.
All Ages Hours:
12–6pm Tue–Thurs
12–8pm Fri–Sat
CLOSED Sun–Mon
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