"Por Oaxaca" opens Satuday, May 24, at Insitute Library

The Institute Library
847 Chapel St., New Haven, (203) 562-5045
Por Oaxaca
May 24—June 21, 2014.
Reception: Sat., May 24, Noon—2 p.m.

Press release from Catalina Barroso-Luque

Por Oaxaca is the end stage of the Postal Art Project organized and curated by the Mexican artist, Catalina Barroso-Luque, who sent a seemingly straightforward photograph taken in Oaxaca, Mexico to a selection of local and international artists in China, Mexico, England and Connecticut and asked them to respond.

The show features works by Phil Lique, Kevin Van Aelst, Isabelle Gressel, Ivan Mendez Vela, Panachai Chaijaratat, Maria Lara Whelpley, Susan McCaslin, Martin Roberts, Justin Rodier, and Sophie Aston.

Artwork by Phil Lique

The responses received were unexpected and varied. The apparent diversity of works stemming from the same image brings out issues of cultural tourism, analog vs. digital technology, image-media mediation over our engagement with reality, cultural aesthetics, and the prevalence of a western hegemony over contemporary artistic production.

Also on view, in the Main Reading Room, is a display of Postales Mestizas, by Catalina Barroso-Luque. The artist has fashioned these small-scale works out of collaged, collected post-cards and other found images, and her own discarded photo-prints. They are an intuitive recycling of the artist's physical and mental imagery that aims to bring into question the boundaries between personal and collective memory.

Artists' reception Saturday, May 4, at Perspectives Gallery at Whitney Center in Hamden

Perspectives: The Gallery at Whitney Center
200 Leeder Hill Rd., Hamden, (203) 772-2788
On Nature
Through Jun. 30, 2013.
Artists' Reception: Sat., May 4, 3—5 p.m.

Press release from the Arts Council of Greater New Haven

The Arts Council of Greater New Haven is pleased to announce On Nature at Perspectives: The Gallery at Whitney Center at 200 Leeder Hill Drive, Hamden, Connecticut, south entrance. An artist reception will take place Sat., May 4, from 3—5 p.m.

On Nature was curated by Debbie Hesse and Steve Olsen. The show includes works by Aspasia Patti Anos, Anna Broell Bresnick, Laurie Flaherty, Michael Galvin, Susan McCaslin, Paulette Rosen, Kyle Skar and Balam Soto.

Artwork by Aspasia Patti Anos

According to Hesse, On Nature—a title taken from the myriad of writings by ancient philosophers from Heraclitus to Parmenides—looks at artists' individual relationships with the natural world.

"Employing a diverse range of styles and media, these eight artists, through observation, invention, interaction and interventions with nature, consider ideas about solitude, preservation, decay and renewal, and our shared responsibility for the environment," Hesse explains.

"About Paper" opens Saturday at Institute Library

The Institute Library
847 Chapel St., New Haven, (203) 562-5045
About Paper: 8 Sculptural Forms
Nov. 17—Dec. 15, 2012.
Reception: Sat., Nov. 17, Noon—2 p.m.

Press release from Institute Library

A new show opens this Saturday at Institute Library in New Haven. About Paper was curated by Howard el-Yasin. Exhibiting artists are Meg Bloom, Giada Crispels, Ryan Cyr, Jennifer Davies, Nancy Eisenfeld, Howard el-Yasin, Susan McCaslin and Noel Sardalla.

There will be an opening reception on Sat., Nov. 17, from noon—4 p.m.

Meredith Miller: detail from "Untitled"