Saturday opening reception for "Making Room" at Institute Library

The Institute Library
847 Chapel St., New Haven, (203) 562-5045 
Making Room: Ten Interpretations
Oct. 6—Nov. 3, 2012.
Reception: Sat., Oct. 6, Noon—2 p.m.

Press release from Institute Library

Ten contemporary artists integrate their work into a 186 year-old space, emphasizing historic integrity while exploring new connections. The artwork exists between two and three dimensions, is site-specific and responds to the issues of material ingenuity, color, architecture and reductivist aesthetics. Making Room was curated by Suzan Shutan.

Exhibiting artists are Richard Bottwin (NY), Melanie Carr (CT), Kevin Daly (CT), Robert Gregson (CT), Adam Lister (VA), Faber Lorne (CT), Debra Ramsay (NY), Karen Schifano (NY, see image), Paul Theriault (CT) and Jill Vasileff (CA). The show will be on display from Oct. 6 through Nov. 3. There will be an artists' reception on Sat., Oct. 6, from noon to 2 p.m.

City-Wide Open Studios starts this weekend; opening Friday night

Artspace
City-Wide Open Studios
50 Orange St, New Haven, (203) 772-2709
City-Wide Open Studios
Sept. 25—26, 2010: Erector Square
Oct. 2—3, 2010: New Haven Neighborhoods & Artspace Underground
Oct. 9—10, 2010: Alternative Space
Gallery 1 & 2: Festival Exhibit
Gallery 3: Bernd Krauss: Hortus Conclusus
Gallery 4: Meredith Nickie: Deploy Black
Gallery 5: Ilona Anderson: Dwell
Gallery 7: Taryn Wells: Inbetween Worlds
Sept. 24—Oct. 23, 2010
Opening Reception and CWOS Festival Kickoff Party: Fri., Sept. 24, 5—8 p.m.

Press release

This year's Open Studios promises exciting events and interactive demonstrations, plus the return of the Alternative Space!

This Fri., Sept. 24, from 5—8 p.m., we'll be kicking things off the right way with an opening bash for our Festival Exhibit at Artspace, 50 Orange Street, New Haven!

Wine and light refreshments will be provided, and DJ Nate Dizzy of EULA will provide a soundtrack as eclectic as the works and installations on display. We're especially grateful to our reception sponsor, the Opici Wine Company of Connecticut.

The Festival Exhibit features representative works from over 200 participating artists. It will be on display in Galleries 1 and 2 through Oct. 23.

Also opening that night will be four exciting gallery exhibits.

In Gallery 3, Bernd Krauss (Web)has constructed his Hortus Conclusus, a situational site-specific installation comprised of materials culled from our basement. Gallery 4 contains Deploy Black, a new series of works by Meredith Nickie (Web) exploring scenes of subjugation. Dwell by Ilona Anderson is a series of drawings assembled into fragmented wall installations intended to simultaneously disorient and engage the viewer; it is on view in Gallery 5. Finally, in Gallery 7, Taryn Wells' (Web) Inbetween Worlds uses the self-portrait to explore themes of race and identity. These exhibits will be on display until October 30.

And in case you missed them, there are still two exciting installations on display from this past summer. Particular Heights is an interactive, site-specific installation in the Lot at Chapel and Orange, developed by artists Paul Theriault (Web) and Siebren Versteeg (Web). Tag and Repeat X2 is the collaborative project of master artist Cat Balco (Web) and the Summer Apprentice program, and it is on display in both the Lot and the Long Wall of gallery. These will be on display until Oct. 30, too!

While you're in the neighborhood, be sure to check out two exciting satellite events. The first is Micro-Fest!, hosted by our neighbors at Project Storefronts where demonstrations and musical performances will be ongoing from 5—8 p.m. The second is WPKN's ArtFest 2010 Preview Party at Erector Square, from 7—10 p.m. ArtFest 2010 takes place at Erector Square in tandem with City-Wide Open Studios' first weekend.

September 25—26: Visit Erector Square

If you can't make the opening reception and festival kick-off, don't worry. There's still plenty more to do. The weekend of Sept. 25—26 is focused at Erector Square, where we have several interactive demonstrations scheduled. On Sat., Sept. 25, at 1 p.m. Kerri Sancomb and Jeff Mueller will offer the opportunity to make and take home a small poster book designed by Dexterity Press and printed on a Universal I Vandercook press (12 noon—5 p.m.). From 1—1:30 p.m., and from 3—3:30 p.m., they'll give an artist talk covering the history of the business. The press will run all day. (Sat., Building 7, 2nd floor, room 2)

From 4—5 p.m., Irene Miller (Web) will give a demonstration of photographic transfer techniques with works on paper. On Sun., Sept. 26, Gerald York (Web) will conduct a live portrait painting session from 12:30—1:30 p.m. He's still looking for volunteers, so if you're interest please send a headshot our way! Finally, Maria-Lara Whepley will demonstrate the ancient method of painting with hot wax from 3—4 p.m. Studios will be open from 12—5 p.m. both days.

October 2 - 3: Explore New Haven's neighborhoods...And go Underground!

The second weekend of City-Wide Open Studios will take us through studios across the New Haven area, with an emphasis on the west side of New Haven on Sat., Oct. 2, and the east side on Sun., Oct. 3. You'll be able to explore studios on your own, or participate in guided bike tours led by the Devil's Gear. These will begin at 12:30 pm and leave from their new location at 151 Orange Street, in the rear of the 360 State Street building. Again, studios will be open from 12 noon—5 p.m. on both days.

After you're done checking out studios on Oct. 2, be sure to stop back at Artspace for the return of the Artspace Underground! The first Underground of this school year is packed with local talent and features performances by Fake Babies and If Jesus Had Machine Guns, with a live build by Silas Finch (Web). The Underground series is curated by Madison Moore, with cocktails by 116 Crown. The event runs from 8—11 p.m., and admission is $5. Please, dress to impress.

October 9—10: The Alternative Space returns!

Finally, we're proud to announce the return of the Alternative Space! The Alternative Space gives artists who do not yet have a studio the opportunity to show their work, and provides space for exciting installations as well. It's an aspect that's unique to Artspace's City-Wide Open Studios, helps to make it one of the largest events of its kind in its country. This year, the Alternative Space is located at 196—212 College Street. We'll be opening our doors Oct. 9—10, from 12 noon—5 p.m.

If you're interested in visiting City-Wide Open Studios, you can always download and print a .pdf of our guide. If you're an artist who's participating in City-Wide Open Studios, you can download our artist toolbox. We'd also encourage you to check out some of the exciting opportunities and calls for artists that we currently have posted. And be sure to check out our City-Wide Open Studios blog for a few different angles on the festivities as they unfold.

City-Wide Open Studios is presented by TD Bank this year. We're also grateful for the support of several other sponsors, including the New Haven Advocate, Yale University, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Alliance Bank, City of New Haven Department of Economic Development, MacWorks LLC, and Jordan Caterers.

Hello My Name is Gallery opening Saturday night

Hello My Name Is Gallery
838 Whalley Ave., Apt. 4, New Haven
More songs for the Broken Hearted: New paintings by Hannah Barnes and Craig Olson
Diode Therapy: New work by Paul Theriault
Sept. 6—28, 2008.
Opening reception: Sat., Sept. 6, 6:30—10 p.m.

Press release

Hello My Name is Gallery is pleased to announce two exhibitions opening on Sept. 6. In the first floor gallery Hello presents new paintings by Hannah Barnes and Craig Olson. The exhibition, titled More Songs for the Broken Hearted, presents new paintings that explore the communicative inadequacy, specificity and transcendence of language and form.

Craig Olson creates paintings that use reference points to topography, landscape painting and op art in a dizzying combination that at once attracts and repels the viewer into distant lands and strange voids. In "Border Beneath the Sun," Olson sets up an optically shifting pattern of black and white lines that barely conceals an ephemeral, ominous mist of primary reds and blues. These two conflicting zones present opposing form languages that echo the myriad contradictory ways we organize and define the way we see the world around us.

Barnes' work uses forms culled from memory and specific experiences to craft paintings that are, as Barnes' put it, "objects with lives, accumulations of being and becoming." Barnes' work springs from the sense of loss and heartache that arises from a sense of geographic displacement. In Barnes' paintings everywhere is nowhere, and nowhere is everywhere.

Upstairs, in the second floor gallery, Hello presents Diode Therapy, a new exhibition of sculptures and digital prints by Paul Theriault. Paul Theriault's work uses a variety of sources and materials to reflect the ephemerality of information and virtual space. In "Black and Light," Theriault takes a now common source of information—digital images—and reduces it to its core. The end result is a textured void of pixels that howls like an old dial-up modem.

More songs for the Broken Hearted: New paintings by Hannah Barnes and Craig Olson and Diode Therapy: New work by Paul Theriault will both be on view from Sept. 6—Sept. 28. There will be an opening reception on Sept. 6 from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. Hello My Name is Gallery is open Mon—Sat. by appointment, and Sunday from 12—4 p.m. For directions and more information please visit Hello My Name is Gallery.

Our opening is partnered with a music event downstairs, which begins at 7 p.m. ArLoW presents a performance by Welcome, a three-piece electropop group from New Haven. Visit Welcome's Web site for more information. Also taking place that night is the world premiere performance of London-based composer Adam Delacour's (Web) piece "Game-Hate Box" for solo vocalist with DVD accompaniment. The piece will be performed by New Haven vocalist Anne Rhodes (Web). For more information about music at ArLoW, please contact Adam Kubota at adam.kubota [AT] gmail.com