Faculty & Friends: The Creative Arts Workshop

Creative Arts Workshop
80 Audubon Street
New Haven, CT
(203)562-4927

An Impulse to Order: Michael Mancari and Rachael Wren
Faculty/Guest Artist Show
Through October 17, 2008
Closing Reception: Thursday, October 16, 5 -8 pm

The Figure: Corinne McManemin and Jerry Weiss
Faculty/Guest Artist Show
Through October 17, 2008
Artists Talk: Wednesday, October 1, 12:30 pm
Artists Talk: Wednesday, October 8, 12:30 pm
Closing Reception: Thursday, October 16, 5 -8 pm

Featuring an updated version of Seurat’s dot strategy, the images in Rachael Wren’s small-scale paintings emerge from a grid of pastel-hued pixel-like forms, hovering between architecture and atmosphere. Michael Mancari’s loud, large-scale paintings use pixel-like forms, too, but the overall effect of the layered, fragmented imagery is of entropy rather than coalescence.

In the upstairs gallery, Jerry Weiss’s portrait paintings and Corinne McManemin’s bronze figurative sculptures remind me of the artwork I used to see at my parents conservative friends’ houses when I was growing up: stolid yet accomplished.