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  • 1:00 pm-5:00 pm
    02/01/2020

    Arts Center East is celebrating all forms of wearable art! From textiles to jewelry to hats and jackets. See this one-of-a-kind exhibit while it’s on display!

    Exhibit Dates: January 19–February 8
    Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 1:00–5:00pm

    Sponsored by

     

    Exhibit juror, Fran Curran is the Creative Director and chairman of the Board of the Artisan Weaving Center. She grew up in England and has a degree in Texitile design and painting. On coming to the USA she attended Wesleyan University Ct with a concentration in printmaking. Her passion turned to weaving and she taught weaving at Wesleyan Potters for 25 years and also many workshops and classes throughout New England. In 2008 along with other weavers she opened the Hartford Artisan Weaving Center in Hartford CT. She has exhibited widely and been awarded Weaver of distinction status by both the Handweavers Guild of Ct and the New England Weavers Seminar.

    Exhibit juror, Autumn Kasan is a Connecticut-based designer specializing in luxurious shoes that re hand-sculpted by American master artisans, bringing high-end, European-style craftsmanship back to the U.S. Autumn designed and constructed her first shoe in kindergarten, and created her first necklace in elementary school.  Her parents encouraged her passion for design, creative arts and fashion throughout her childhood, which led to her Bachelor of Applied Arts in Apparel Merchandising & Design along with a double major in Entrepreneurship.

    After college, Autumn interned as a design assistant to a luxury clothing designer and style assistant for celebrity stylists. She also spent several years learning the art of making shoes, taking shoe design courses and hand-making shoes and jewelry. She expanded her knowledge of leather goods and jewelry design, while discerning the distinctions between what’s trendy and what’s classic in the luxury market.

    Autumn is founder of AutumnMarie.com, an online boutique inspired by her mother Phyllis Marie, that offers a curated collection of jewelry, accessories, gifts, and home items handcrafted by makers and artisans across the globe.

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  • 1:00 pm-5:00 pm
    02/05/2020

    Arts Center East is celebrating all forms of wearable art! From textiles to jewelry to hats and jackets. See this one-of-a-kind exhibit while it’s on display!

    Exhibit Dates: January 19–February 8
    Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 1:00–5:00pm

    Sponsored by

     

    Exhibit juror, Fran Curran is the Creative Director and chairman of the Board of the Artisan Weaving Center. She grew up in England and has a degree in Texitile design and painting. On coming to the USA she attended Wesleyan University Ct with a concentration in printmaking. Her passion turned to weaving and she taught weaving at Wesleyan Potters for 25 years and also many workshops and classes throughout New England. In 2008 along with other weavers she opened the Hartford Artisan Weaving Center in Hartford CT. She has exhibited widely and been awarded Weaver of distinction status by both the Handweavers Guild of Ct and the New England Weavers Seminar.

    Exhibit juror, Autumn Kasan is a Connecticut-based designer specializing in luxurious shoes that re hand-sculpted by American master artisans, bringing high-end, European-style craftsmanship back to the U.S. Autumn designed and constructed her first shoe in kindergarten, and created her first necklace in elementary school.  Her parents encouraged her passion for design, creative arts and fashion throughout her childhood, which led to her Bachelor of Applied Arts in Apparel Merchandising & Design along with a double major in Entrepreneurship.

    After college, Autumn interned as a design assistant to a luxury clothing designer and style assistant for celebrity stylists. She also spent several years learning the art of making shoes, taking shoe design courses and hand-making shoes and jewelry. She expanded her knowledge of leather goods and jewelry design, while discerning the distinctions between what’s trendy and what’s classic in the luxury market.

    Autumn is founder of AutumnMarie.com, an online boutique inspired by her mother Phyllis Marie, that offers a curated collection of jewelry, accessories, gifts, and home items handcrafted by makers and artisans across the globe.

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  • 1:00 pm-5:00 pm
    02/06/2020

    Arts Center East is celebrating all forms of wearable art! From textiles to jewelry to hats and jackets. See this one-of-a-kind exhibit while it’s on display!

    Exhibit Dates: January 19–February 8
    Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 1:00–5:00pm

    Sponsored by

     

    Exhibit juror, Fran Curran is the Creative Director and chairman of the Board of the Artisan Weaving Center. She grew up in England and has a degree in Texitile design and painting. On coming to the USA she attended Wesleyan University Ct with a concentration in printmaking. Her passion turned to weaving and she taught weaving at Wesleyan Potters for 25 years and also many workshops and classes throughout New England. In 2008 along with other weavers she opened the Hartford Artisan Weaving Center in Hartford CT. She has exhibited widely and been awarded Weaver of distinction status by both the Handweavers Guild of Ct and the New England Weavers Seminar.

    Exhibit juror, Autumn Kasan is a Connecticut-based designer specializing in luxurious shoes that re hand-sculpted by American master artisans, bringing high-end, European-style craftsmanship back to the U.S. Autumn designed and constructed her first shoe in kindergarten, and created her first necklace in elementary school.  Her parents encouraged her passion for design, creative arts and fashion throughout her childhood, which led to her Bachelor of Applied Arts in Apparel Merchandising & Design along with a double major in Entrepreneurship.

    After college, Autumn interned as a design assistant to a luxury clothing designer and style assistant for celebrity stylists. She also spent several years learning the art of making shoes, taking shoe design courses and hand-making shoes and jewelry. She expanded her knowledge of leather goods and jewelry design, while discerning the distinctions between what’s trendy and what’s classic in the luxury market.

    Autumn is founder of AutumnMarie.com, an online boutique inspired by her mother Phyllis Marie, that offers a curated collection of jewelry, accessories, gifts, and home items handcrafted by makers and artisans across the globe.

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  • 1:00 pm-5:00 pm
    02/07/2020

    Arts Center East is celebrating all forms of wearable art! From textiles to jewelry to hats and jackets. See this one-of-a-kind exhibit while it’s on display!

    Exhibit Dates: January 19–February 8
    Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 1:00–5:00pm

    Sponsored by

     

    Exhibit juror, Fran Curran is the Creative Director and chairman of the Board of the Artisan Weaving Center. She grew up in England and has a degree in Texitile design and painting. On coming to the USA she attended Wesleyan University Ct with a concentration in printmaking. Her passion turned to weaving and she taught weaving at Wesleyan Potters for 25 years and also many workshops and classes throughout New England. In 2008 along with other weavers she opened the Hartford Artisan Weaving Center in Hartford CT. She has exhibited widely and been awarded Weaver of distinction status by both the Handweavers Guild of Ct and the New England Weavers Seminar.

    Exhibit juror, Autumn Kasan is a Connecticut-based designer specializing in luxurious shoes that re hand-sculpted by American master artisans, bringing high-end, European-style craftsmanship back to the U.S. Autumn designed and constructed her first shoe in kindergarten, and created her first necklace in elementary school.  Her parents encouraged her passion for design, creative arts and fashion throughout her childhood, which led to her Bachelor of Applied Arts in Apparel Merchandising & Design along with a double major in Entrepreneurship.

    After college, Autumn interned as a design assistant to a luxury clothing designer and style assistant for celebrity stylists. She also spent several years learning the art of making shoes, taking shoe design courses and hand-making shoes and jewelry. She expanded her knowledge of leather goods and jewelry design, while discerning the distinctions between what’s trendy and what’s classic in the luxury market.

    Autumn is founder of AutumnMarie.com, an online boutique inspired by her mother Phyllis Marie, that offers a curated collection of jewelry, accessories, gifts, and home items handcrafted by makers and artisans across the globe.

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  • 1:00 pm-5:00 pm
    02/08/2020

    Arts Center East is celebrating all forms of wearable art! From textiles to jewelry to hats and jackets. See this one-of-a-kind exhibit while it’s on display!

    Exhibit Dates: January 19–February 8
    Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 1:00–5:00pm

    Sponsored by

     

    Exhibit juror, Fran Curran is the Creative Director and chairman of the Board of the Artisan Weaving Center. She grew up in England and has a degree in Texitile design and painting. On coming to the USA she attended Wesleyan University Ct with a concentration in printmaking. Her passion turned to weaving and she taught weaving at Wesleyan Potters for 25 years and also many workshops and classes throughout New England. In 2008 along with other weavers she opened the Hartford Artisan Weaving Center in Hartford CT. She has exhibited widely and been awarded Weaver of distinction status by both the Handweavers Guild of Ct and the New England Weavers Seminar.

    Exhibit juror, Autumn Kasan is a Connecticut-based designer specializing in luxurious shoes that re hand-sculpted by American master artisans, bringing high-end, European-style craftsmanship back to the U.S. Autumn designed and constructed her first shoe in kindergarten, and created her first necklace in elementary school.  Her parents encouraged her passion for design, creative arts and fashion throughout her childhood, which led to her Bachelor of Applied Arts in Apparel Merchandising & Design along with a double major in Entrepreneurship.

    After college, Autumn interned as a design assistant to a luxury clothing designer and style assistant for celebrity stylists. She also spent several years learning the art of making shoes, taking shoe design courses and hand-making shoes and jewelry. She expanded her knowledge of leather goods and jewelry design, while discerning the distinctions between what’s trendy and what’s classic in the luxury market.

    Autumn is founder of AutumnMarie.com, an online boutique inspired by her mother Phyllis Marie, that offers a curated collection of jewelry, accessories, gifts, and home items handcrafted by makers and artisans across the globe.

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  • 3:42 pm-6:00 pm
    02/13/2020

    Each year Arts Center East displays an exhibition of photography. It continues to be one of our most popular exhibits. Artists are welcome to submit their original work for jurying!

    View and download the prospectus here.

    Drop-off Dates:
    Thursday February 13, 3:00–6:00pm
    Friday February 14, 3:00–6:00pm
    Saturday, February 15, 10:00am–2:00 pm

    Pick-up of Unaccepted Work:
    Tuesday, February 18, 3:00–6:00pm
    Wednesday, February 19, 3:00–6:00pm

    Opening Reception: Sunday, February 23, 12:00–2:00pm

    Exhibit Dates: February 23–March 14
    Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 1:00–5:00pm

    End of Show Pick-up:
    Monday, March 16, 3:00–6:00pm
    Tuesday, March 17, 3:00–6:00pm

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  • 3:42 pm-6:00 pm
    02/14/2020

    Each year Arts Center East displays an exhibition of photography. It continues to be one of our most popular exhibits. Artists are welcome to submit their original work for jurying!

    View and download the prospectus here.

    Drop-off Dates:
    Thursday February 13, 3:00–6:00pm
    Friday February 14, 3:00–6:00pm
    Saturday, February 15, 10:00am–2:00 pm

    Pick-up of Unaccepted Work:
    Tuesday, February 18, 3:00–6:00pm
    Wednesday, February 19, 3:00–6:00pm

    Opening Reception: Sunday, February 23, 12:00–2:00pm

    Exhibit Dates: February 23–March 14
    Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 1:00–5:00pm

    End of Show Pick-up:
    Monday, March 16, 3:00–6:00pm
    Tuesday, March 17, 3:00–6:00pm

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  • 3:42 pm-6:00 pm
    02/15/2020

    Each year Arts Center East displays an exhibition of photography. It continues to be one of our most popular exhibits. Artists are welcome to submit their original work for jurying!

    View and download the prospectus here.

    Drop-off Dates:
    Thursday February 13, 3:00–6:00pm
    Friday February 14, 3:00–6:00pm
    Saturday, February 15, 10:00am–2:00 pm

    Pick-up of Unaccepted Work:
    Tuesday, February 18, 3:00–6:00pm
    Wednesday, February 19, 3:00–6:00pm

    Opening Reception: Sunday, February 23, 12:00–2:00pm

    Exhibit Dates: February 23–March 14
    Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 1:00–5:00pm

    End of Show Pick-up:
    Monday, March 16, 3:00–6:00pm
    Tuesday, March 17, 3:00–6:00pm

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  • 10:00 am-2:00 pm
    02/16/2020

    Each year Arts Center East displays an exhibition of photography. It continues to be one of our most popular exhibits. Artists are welcome to submit their original work for jurying!

    View and download the prospectus here.

    Drop-off Dates:
    Thursday February 13, 3:00–6:00pm
    Friday February 14, 3:00–6:00pm
    Saturday, February 15, 10:00am–2:00 pm

    Pick-up of Unaccepted Work:
    Tuesday, February 18, 3:00–6:00pm
    Wednesday, February 19, 3:00–6:00pm

    Opening Reception: Sunday, February 23, 12:00–2:00pm

    Exhibit Dates: February 23–March 14
    Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 1:00–5:00pm

    End of Show Pick-up:
    Monday, March 16, 3:00–6:00pm
    Tuesday, March 17, 3:00–6:00pm

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  • 12:00 pm-2:00 pm
    02/23/2020

    Each year Arts Center East displays an exhibition of photography. It continues to be one of our most popular exhibits. Artists are welcome to submit their original work for jurying!

    View and download the prospectus here.

    Drop-off Dates:
    Thursday February 13, 3:00–6:00pm
    Friday February 14, 3:00–6:00pm
    Saturday, February 15, 10:00am–2:00 pm

    Pick-up of Unaccepted Work:
    Tuesday, February 18, 3:00–6:00pm
    Wednesday, February 19, 3:00–6:00pm

    Opening Reception: Sunday, February 23, 12:00pm–2:00pm

    Exhibit Dates: February 23–March 14
    Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 1:00–5:00pm

    End of Show Pick-up:
    Monday, March 16, 3:00–6:00pm
    Tuesday, March 17, 3:00–6:00pm

    Sponsored by

    About the Jurors

    Exhibit juror Ellen Carey is an educator, independent scholar, guest curator, photographer and lens-based artist, whose unique experimental work (1974-2018) spans several decades. Her early work Painted Self-Portraits (1978) were first exhibited at Hallwalls, one of the first artists-run alternative space, home to the Buffalo avant-garde — Robert Longo and Cindy Sherman — and led to a group exhibit The Altered Photograph at PS 1, another avant-garde institution. The visionary curator, Linda Cathcart, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (AKAG) selected Carey’s work for this exhibition as well as The Heroic Figure, which presented thirteen American artists for the São Paulo Biennale including: Cindy Sherman, Nancy Dwyer, Julian Schnabel and David Salle, portraits by Robert Mapplethorpe; South/North American tour (1984-1986).

    In 1983, The Polaroid Artists Support Program invited Carey to work at the Polaroid 20 X 24 Studio. Her Neo-Geo, post-psychedelic Self-Portraits (1984-88) were created, followed by her stacked photo-installations Abstractions (1988-95). Her pioneering breakthrough in Polaroid sees her Pull (1996) fol-lowed by her Rollback (1997) naming her Polaroid practice Photography Degree Zero (1996-2018). She investigates minimal and abstract images with Polaroid’s instant technology partnered with her innovative concepts, often using only light, photography’s indexical, or none, emphasizing zero. Her photogram work is darkroom-based and camera-less; it parallels her Polaroid less-is-more aesthetic under her umbrella con-cept Struck by Light (1992-2018). When Carey works in the color darkroom, no light is allowed except upon exposure. Carey has worked in a variety of cameras and formats: Polaroid SX-70 and Polaroid PN film; black/white to color; 35mm, medium, and large format. Her experimental images see a range of gen-res and themes; they are one-of-a-kind. Underscored by concepts around light, photography’s indexical and properties specific to the medium – silhouette; shadow; negative – in color, Carey often uses RGBYMC, photographic color theory, as a point-of-departure in palette, adding context and content, citing the history of color photography, especially the work of Anna Atkins, the first women photographer, the first in color.

    Site-specific monumental installations in Polaroid include Mourning Wall of 100 grey negatives at Real Art Ways (2000), also exhibited in Part-Picture (2015) at The Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art (MoCCA); Self-Portrait @ 48 at Connecticut Commission for the Arts (2001); the gigantic Pulls XL that used the Polaroid 40 X 80 camera (shortly dismantled, never re-assembled) for her MATRIX #153 exhibit (2004-05) at The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (www.wadsworthatheneum.org) in their prestig-ious MATRIX program. Dings & Shadowsare often huge color photogram installations, one seen at The Benton Museum of Art, another at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). Caesura (2016) is a photogram that introduces visual breaks in color; caesura is Greek or Latin for pause: in word (poetry) or sound (music). Her images use color theory — RGBYMC — as palette and conceptual point-of-departure, using light, photography’s indexical, as it — blends, bends, breaks — across the paper. What remains are vertical bands, dividing the rectangle in half, white is the break or pause, in the composition; its “ caesura” or cut, dramatic black signals too much light, colors overlap as well. Zerogram re-names the traditional photo-gram; many published in her first artist’s book “Mirrors of Chance: The Photograms of Ellen Carey”.

    Photography Degree Zero (1996-2018) names her large format Polaroid 20 X 24 lens-based art, which she began using in 1983 under the Polaroid Artist Support Program. Struck by Light (1992-2018) finds her parallel practice in the darkroom with the camera-less photogram, a process from the dawn of the medium, discovered in the 19th century by William Henry Fox Talbot, both photogram and the phrase drawing with light continue today. Her experimental investigations into abstraction and minimalism, partnered with her innovative concepts and iconoclastic art making, often use bold colors to create new forms. Color and light is the link between her two practices; light, photography’s indexical, is used a lot or a little or none at all; its absence or zero.

    Pictus & Writ (2008-2018) finds the artist’s tradition of writing on other artists. Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective at MASS MoCA, with Yale University Press, published the book Sol LeWitt:100 Views with 100 new essays; Color Me Real is Ellen Carey’s contribution. Her Man Ray essay on her discovery of his “hidden” signature in his black and white photograph (1935) titled Space Writings (Self-Portrait) sees an edited version At Play with Man Ray published in Aperture. On her own work In Hamlet’s Shadow, published in The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation exhibit/book/tour (2012-13); Mary-Kay Lombino, Curator, Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College.

    Ellen Carey’s work has been the subject of 55 one-person exhibitions in museums, alternative spaces, uni-versity, college and commercial galleries (1978-2018) – highlights: Dings, Shadows and Pulls, Amon Carter Museum of American Art (ACMAA); Photography Degree ZeroMatrix#153 Wadsworth Athene-um Museum of Art; Mourning Wall Real Art Ways; femme brut(e) Lyman Allyn Art Museum; Struck by Light Saint Joseph University; Ellen Carey: SurveyICP/NY; upcoming retrospective titled Struck by Light: The Experimental Photography of Ellen Carey, Burchfield – Penney Art Center (BPAC), received funding (30K) from Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (NY, NY) for 2020.

    Her work seen in hundreds of group exhibitions (1974-2020) in museums, alternative spaces, university and college galleries, non-profits and commercial venues; highlighted in permanent collections of over 60 photography and art museums: The Albright-Knox Art Gallery (AKAG), The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (ACMAA), George Eastman Museum (GEM), Museum at the Chicago Art Institute, Fogg Museum at Harvard University, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Britain Museum of American Art (NBMAA), Norton Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), Whitney Museum of American Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Yale Uni-versity Art Gallery while corporate collections include: Banana Republic and JP Morgan Chase Collection; noted private include: The LeWitt Foundation and Sir Elton John Collection. Exhibitions, solo and group, include: books, catalogues, brochures, artist talks, reviews, lectures etc: www.ellencareyphotography.com.

     

    Exhibit juror Rita Lombardi is currently the Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of Connecticut and resides in Providence, Rhode Island. She received her MFA from The University of Connecticut and her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

    She has been the recipient of grants and scholarships, including the Innovative Teaching grant from the Wellin Museum, travel grants from the University of Connecticut and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, was the recipient of the John Renna Arts Scholarship, National Endowment for the Arts. She was an artist-in-residence at the School of Visual Arts in NY and at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT.

    Her work has been in solo exhibits at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Museum, the Cogar Gallery, the Spirol Gallery, and the Dirt Palace as well as group shows in museums and galleries nationally; Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Louisville, and throughout New England.

    She has been published in both print and online publications, including F-Stop Magazine, The Curated Fridge, Afield Magazine, Redivider Literary Journal, and Blank Canvas Magazine. Her photographs can be found in private and public collections and is represented in the Boston Drawing Project flat files.

  • 12:00 pm-2:00 pm
    02/23/2020

    Eureka Gallery
    The Artwork of Steven Uccello.

    Opening Reception:February 23, 12:00–2:00pm
    Exhibit Dates:     February  23–March 14
    Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 1:00–5:00pm

    Falling Shadows by Steven Uccello

    I think of What Leaves, What Remains as a homage to classic stories of growing up, self-discovery, and running away. I centered my lens not only on the individual but the places around them; both when they are present and absent. I wandered away from a purely linear storyline because, like trying to remember our own past experiences, our memories ebb and flow between the vivid and the fragmented. I find that, in recalling my own past, the strongest imagery can sometimes be the most commonplace scenes that are simply recontextualized in the moment.

    Different photographic techniques, mediums, and genres also aid in encapsulating memory and one’s own thoughts. The series includes landscape photography, architectural photography, surveillance, postcards, intimate Polaroids, still lives, and even forensic photography. By keeping myself open to all these possible strategies I find it builds out the world and ideas I want to showcase.

    We all had to grow up and find ourselves. To some, being themselves may have felt like an insurmountable achievement. My goal for the series is to enable the audience to empathize with the character. Even if our experiences of becoming an adult differ from one another, art and storytelling form a language to understand other people’s own lives.

     

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  • 1:00 pm
    02/26/2020

    Each year Arts Center East displays an exhibition of photography. It continues to be one of our most popular exhibits. Artists are welcome to submit their original work for jurying!

    View and download the prospectus here.

    Drop-off Dates:
    Thursday February 13, 3:00–6:00pm
    Friday February 14, 3:00–6:00pm
    Saturday, February 15, 10:00am–2:00 pm

    Pick-up of Unaccepted Work:
    Tuesday, February 18, 3:00–6:00pm
    Wednesday, February 19, 3:00–6:00pm

    Opening Reception: Sunday, February 23, 12:00pm–2:00pm

    Exhibit Dates: February 23–March 14
    Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 1:00–5:00pm

    End of Show Pick-up:
    Monday, March 16, 3:00–6:00pm
    Tuesday, March 17, 3:00–6:00pm

    Sponsored by

    About the Jurors

    Exhibit juror Ellen Carey is an educator, independent scholar, guest curator, photographer and lens-based artist, whose unique experimental work (1974-2018) spans several decades. Her early work Painted Self-Portraits (1978) were first exhibited at Hallwalls, one of the first artists-run alternative space, home to the Buffalo avant-garde — Robert Longo and Cindy Sherman — and led to a group exhibit The Altered Photograph at PS 1, another avant-garde institution. The visionary curator, Linda Cathcart, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (AKAG) selected Carey’s work for this exhibition as well as The Heroic Figure, which presented thirteen American artists for the São Paulo Biennale including: Cindy Sherman, Nancy Dwyer, Julian Schnabel and David Salle, portraits by Robert Mapplethorpe; South/North American tour (1984-1986).

    In 1983, The Polaroid Artists Support Program invited Carey to work at the Polaroid 20 X 24 Studio. Her Neo-Geo, post-psychedelic Self-Portraits (1984-88) were created, followed by her stacked photo-installations Abstractions (1988-95). Her pioneering breakthrough in Polaroid sees her Pull (1996) fol-lowed by her Rollback (1997) naming her Polaroid practice Photography Degree Zero (1996-2018). She investigates minimal and abstract images with Polaroid’s instant technology partnered with her innovative concepts, often using only light, photography’s indexical, or none, emphasizing zero. Her photogram work is darkroom-based and camera-less; it parallels her Polaroid less-is-more aesthetic under her umbrella con-cept Struck by Light (1992-2018). When Carey works in the color darkroom, no light is allowed except upon exposure. Carey has worked in a variety of cameras and formats: Polaroid SX-70 and Polaroid PN film; black/white to color; 35mm, medium, and large format. Her experimental images see a range of gen-res and themes; they are one-of-a-kind. Underscored by concepts around light, photography’s indexical and properties specific to the medium – silhouette; shadow; negative – in color, Carey often uses RGBYMC, photographic color theory, as a point-of-departure in palette, adding context and content, citing the history of color photography, especially the work of Anna Atkins, the first women photographer, the first in color.

    Site-specific monumental installations in Polaroid include Mourning Wall of 100 grey negatives at Real Art Ways (2000), also exhibited in Part-Picture (2015) at The Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art (MoCCA); Self-Portrait @ 48 at Connecticut Commission for the Arts (2001); the gigantic Pulls XL that used the Polaroid 40 X 80 camera (shortly dismantled, never re-assembled) for her MATRIX #153 exhibit (2004-05) at The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (www.wadsworthatheneum.org) in their prestig-ious MATRIX program. Dings & Shadowsare often huge color photogram installations, one seen at The Benton Museum of Art, another at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). Caesura (2016) is a photogram that introduces visual breaks in color; caesura is Greek or Latin for pause: in word (poetry) or sound (music). Her images use color theory — RGBYMC — as palette and conceptual point-of-departure, using light, photography’s indexical, as it — blends, bends, breaks — across the paper. What remains are vertical bands, dividing the rectangle in half, white is the break or pause, in the composition; its “ caesura” or cut, dramatic black signals too much light, colors overlap as well. Zerogram re-names the traditional photo-gram; many published in her first artist’s book “Mirrors of Chance: The Photograms of Ellen Carey”.

    Photography Degree Zero (1996-2018) names her large format Polaroid 20 X 24 lens-based art, which she began using in 1983 under the Polaroid Artist Support Program. Struck by Light (1992-2018) finds her parallel practice in the darkroom with the camera-less photogram, a process from the dawn of the medium, discovered in the 19th century by William Henry Fox Talbot, both photogram and the phrase drawing with light continue today. Her experimental investigations into abstraction and minimalism, partnered with her innovative concepts and iconoclastic art making, often use bold colors to create new forms. Color and light is the link between her two practices; light, photography’s indexical, is used a lot or a little or none at all; its absence or zero.

    Pictus & Writ (2008-2018) finds the artist’s tradition of writing on other artists. Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective at MASS MoCA, with Yale University Press, published the book Sol LeWitt:100 Views with 100 new essays; Color Me Real is Ellen Carey’s contribution. Her Man Ray essay on her discovery of his “hidden” signature in his black and white photograph (1935) titled Space Writings (Self-Portrait) sees an edited version At Play with Man Ray published in Aperture. On her own work In Hamlet’s Shadow, published in The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation exhibit/book/tour (2012-13); Mary-Kay Lombino, Curator, Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College.

    Ellen Carey’s work has been the subject of 55 one-person exhibitions in museums, alternative spaces, uni-versity, college and commercial galleries (1978-2018) – highlights: Dings, Shadows and Pulls, Amon Carter Museum of American Art (ACMAA); Photography Degree ZeroMatrix#153 Wadsworth Athene-um Museum of Art; Mourning Wall Real Art Ways; femme brut(e) Lyman Allyn Art Museum; Struck by Light Saint Joseph University; Ellen Carey: SurveyICP/NY; upcoming retrospective titled Struck by Light: The Experimental Photography of Ellen Carey, Burchfield – Penney Art Center (BPAC), received funding (30K) from Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (NY, NY) for 2020.

    Her work seen in hundreds of group exhibitions (1974-2020) in museums, alternative spaces, university and college galleries, non-profits and commercial venues; highlighted in permanent collections of over 60 photography and art museums: The Albright-Knox Art Gallery (AKAG), The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (ACMAA), George Eastman Museum (GEM), Museum at the Chicago Art Institute, Fogg Museum at Harvard University, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Britain Museum of American Art (NBMAA), Norton Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), Whitney Museum of American Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Yale Uni-versity Art Gallery while corporate collections include: Banana Republic and JP Morgan Chase Collection; noted private include: The LeWitt Foundation and Sir Elton John Collection. Exhibitions, solo and group, include: books, catalogues, brochures, artist talks, reviews, lectures etc: www.ellencareyphotography.com.

     

    Exhibit juror Rita Lombardi is currently the Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of Connecticut and resides in Providence, Rhode Island. She received her MFA from The University of Connecticut and her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

    She has been the recipient of grants and scholarships, including the Innovative Teaching grant from the Wellin Museum, travel grants from the University of Connecticut and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, was the recipient of the John Renna Arts Scholarship, National Endowment for the Arts. She was an artist-in-residence at the School of Visual Arts in NY and at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT.

    Her work has been in solo exhibits at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Museum, the Cogar Gallery, the Spirol Gallery, and the Dirt Palace as well as group shows in museums and galleries nationally; Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Louisville, and throughout New England.

    She has been published in both print and online publications, including F-Stop Magazine, The Curated Fridge, Afield Magazine, Redivider Literary Journal, and Blank Canvas Magazine. Her photographs can be found in private and public collections and is represented in the Boston Drawing Project flat files.

  • 1:00 pm-5:00 pm
    02/26/2020

    Eureka Gallery
    The Artwork of Steven Uccello.

    Opening Reception: Sunday, February 23, 12:00–2:00pm
    Exhibit Dates:     February 23–March 14
    Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 1:00–5:00pm

    Falling Shadows by Steven Uccello

    I think of What Leaves, What Remains as a homage to classic stories of growing up, self-discovery, and running away. I centered my lens not only on the individual but the places around them; both when they are present and absent. I wandered away from a purely linear storyline because, like trying to remember our own past experiences, our memories ebb and flow between the vivid and the fragmented. I find that, in recalling my own past, the strongest imagery can sometimes be the most commonplace scenes that are simply recontextualized in the moment.

    Different photographic techniques, mediums, and genres also aid in encapsulating memory and one’s own thoughts. The series includes landscape photography, architectural photography, surveillance, postcards, intimate Polaroids, still lives, and even forensic photography. By keeping myself open to all these possible strategies I find it builds out the world and ideas I want to showcase.

    We all had to grow up and find ourselves. To some, being themselves may have felt like an insurmountable achievement. My goal for the series is to enable the audience to empathize with the character. Even if our experiences of becoming an adult differ from one another, art and storytelling form a language to understand other people’s own lives.

     

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  • 1:00 pm
    02/27/2020

    Each year Arts Center East displays an exhibition of photography. It continues to be one of our most popular exhibits. Artists are welcome to submit their original work for jurying!

    View and download the prospectus here.

    Drop-off Dates:
    Thursday February 13, 3:00–6:00pm
    Friday February 14, 3:00–6:00pm
    Saturday, February 15, 10:00am–2:00 pm

    Pick-up of Unaccepted Work:
    Tuesday, February 18, 3:00–6:00pm
    Wednesday, February 19, 3:00–6:00pm

    Opening Reception: Sunday, February 23, 12:00pm–2:00pm

    Exhibit Dates: February 23–March 14
    Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 1:00–5:00pm

    End of Show Pick-up:
    Monday, March 16, 3:00–6:00pm
    Tuesday, March 17, 3:00–6:00pm

    Sponsored by

    About the Jurors

    Exhibit juror Ellen Carey is an educator, independent scholar, guest curator, photographer and lens-based artist, whose unique experimental work (1974-2018) spans several decades. Her early work Painted Self-Portraits (1978) were first exhibited at Hallwalls, one of the first artists-run alternative space, home to the Buffalo avant-garde — Robert Longo and Cindy Sherman — and led to a group exhibit The Altered Photograph at PS 1, another avant-garde institution. The visionary curator, Linda Cathcart, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (AKAG) selected Carey’s work for this exhibition as well as The Heroic Figure, which presented thirteen American artists for the São Paulo Biennale including: Cindy Sherman, Nancy Dwyer, Julian Schnabel and David Salle, portraits by Robert Mapplethorpe; South/North American tour (1984-1986).

    In 1983, The Polaroid Artists Support Program invited Carey to work at the Polaroid 20 X 24 Studio. Her Neo-Geo, post-psychedelic Self-Portraits (1984-88) were created, followed by her stacked photo-installations Abstractions (1988-95). Her pioneering breakthrough in Polaroid sees her Pull (1996) fol-lowed by her Rollback (1997) naming her Polaroid practice Photography Degree Zero (1996-2018). She investigates minimal and abstract images with Polaroid’s instant technology partnered with her innovative concepts, often using only light, photography’s indexical, or none, emphasizing zero. Her photogram work is darkroom-based and camera-less; it parallels her Polaroid less-is-more aesthetic under her umbrella con-cept Struck by Light (1992-2018). When Carey works in the color darkroom, no light is allowed except upon exposure. Carey has worked in a variety of cameras and formats: Polaroid SX-70 and Polaroid PN film; black/white to color; 35mm, medium, and large format. Her experimental images see a range of gen-res and themes; they are one-of-a-kind. Underscored by concepts around light, photography’s indexical and properties specific to the medium – silhouette; shadow; negative – in color, Carey often uses RGBYMC, photographic color theory, as a point-of-departure in palette, adding context and content, citing the history of color photography, especially the work of Anna Atkins, the first women photographer, the first in color.

    Site-specific monumental installations in Polaroid include Mourning Wall of 100 grey negatives at Real Art Ways (2000), also exhibited in Part-Picture (2015) at The Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art (MoCCA); Self-Portrait @ 48 at Connecticut Commission for the Arts (2001); the gigantic Pulls XL that used the Polaroid 40 X 80 camera (shortly dismantled, never re-assembled) for her MATRIX #153 exhibit (2004-05) at The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (www.wadsworthatheneum.org) in their prestig-ious MATRIX program. Dings & Shadowsare often huge color photogram installations, one seen at The Benton Museum of Art, another at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). Caesura (2016) is a photogram that introduces visual breaks in color; caesura is Greek or Latin for pause: in word (poetry) or sound (music). Her images use color theory — RGBYMC — as palette and conceptual point-of-departure, using light, photography’s indexical, as it — blends, bends, breaks — across the paper. What remains are vertical bands, dividing the rectangle in half, white is the break or pause, in the composition; its “ caesura” or cut, dramatic black signals too much light, colors overlap as well. Zerogram re-names the traditional photo-gram; many published in her first artist’s book “Mirrors of Chance: The Photograms of Ellen Carey”.

    Photography Degree Zero (1996-2018) names her large format Polaroid 20 X 24 lens-based art, which she began using in 1983 under the Polaroid Artist Support Program. Struck by Light (1992-2018) finds her parallel practice in the darkroom with the camera-less photogram, a process from the dawn of the medium, discovered in the 19th century by William Henry Fox Talbot, both photogram and the phrase drawing with light continue today. Her experimental investigations into abstraction and minimalism, partnered with her innovative concepts and iconoclastic art making, often use bold colors to create new forms. Color and light is the link between her two practices; light, photography’s indexical, is used a lot or a little or none at all; its absence or zero.

    Pictus & Writ (2008-2018) finds the artist’s tradition of writing on other artists. Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective at MASS MoCA, with Yale University Press, published the book Sol LeWitt:100 Views with 100 new essays; Color Me Real is Ellen Carey’s contribution. Her Man Ray essay on her discovery of his “hidden” signature in his black and white photograph (1935) titled Space Writings (Self-Portrait) sees an edited version At Play with Man Ray published in Aperture. On her own work In Hamlet’s Shadow, published in The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation exhibit/book/tour (2012-13); Mary-Kay Lombino, Curator, Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College.

    Ellen Carey’s work has been the subject of 55 one-person exhibitions in museums, alternative spaces, uni-versity, college and commercial galleries (1978-2018) – highlights: Dings, Shadows and Pulls, Amon Carter Museum of American Art (ACMAA); Photography Degree ZeroMatrix#153 Wadsworth Athene-um Museum of Art; Mourning Wall Real Art Ways; femme brut(e) Lyman Allyn Art Museum; Struck by Light Saint Joseph University; Ellen Carey: SurveyICP/NY; upcoming retrospective titled Struck by Light: The Experimental Photography of Ellen Carey, Burchfield – Penney Art Center (BPAC), received funding (30K) from Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (NY, NY) for 2020.

    Her work seen in hundreds of group exhibitions (1974-2020) in museums, alternative spaces, university and college galleries, non-profits and commercial venues; highlighted in permanent collections of over 60 photography and art museums: The Albright-Knox Art Gallery (AKAG), The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (ACMAA), George Eastman Museum (GEM), Museum at the Chicago Art Institute, Fogg Museum at Harvard University, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Britain Museum of American Art (NBMAA), Norton Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), Whitney Museum of American Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Yale Uni-versity Art Gallery while corporate collections include: Banana Republic and JP Morgan Chase Collection; noted private include: The LeWitt Foundation and Sir Elton John Collection. Exhibitions, solo and group, include: books, catalogues, brochures, artist talks, reviews, lectures etc: www.ellencareyphotography.com.

     

    Exhibit juror Rita Lombardi is currently the Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of Connecticut and resides in Providence, Rhode Island. She received her MFA from The University of Connecticut and her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

    She has been the recipient of grants and scholarships, including the Innovative Teaching grant from the Wellin Museum, travel grants from the University of Connecticut and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, was the recipient of the John Renna Arts Scholarship, National Endowment for the Arts. She was an artist-in-residence at the School of Visual Arts in NY and at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT.

    Her work has been in solo exhibits at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Museum, the Cogar Gallery, the Spirol Gallery, and the Dirt Palace as well as group shows in museums and galleries nationally; Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Louisville, and throughout New England.

    She has been published in both print and online publications, including F-Stop Magazine, The Curated Fridge, Afield Magazine, Redivider Literary Journal, and Blank Canvas Magazine. Her photographs can be found in private and public collections and is represented in the Boston Drawing Project flat files.

  • 1:00 pm-5:00 pm
    02/27/2020

    Eureka Gallery
    The Artwork of Steven Uccello.

    Opening Reception: Sunday, February 23, 12:00–2:00pm
    Exhibit Dates:     February 23–March 14
    Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 1:00–5:00pm

    Falling Shadows by Steven Uccello

    I think of What Leaves, What Remains as a homage to classic stories of growing up, self-discovery, and running away. I centered my lens not only on the individual but the places around them; both when they are present and absent. I wandered away from a purely linear storyline because, like trying to remember our own past experiences, our memories ebb and flow between the vivid and the fragmented. I find that, in recalling my own past, the strongest imagery can sometimes be the most commonplace scenes that are simply recontextualized in the moment.

    Different photographic techniques, mediums, and genres also aid in encapsulating memory and one’s own thoughts. The series includes landscape photography, architectural photography, surveillance, postcards, intimate Polaroids, still lives, and even forensic photography. By keeping myself open to all these possible strategies I find it builds out the world and ideas I want to showcase.

    We all had to grow up and find ourselves. To some, being themselves may have felt like an insurmountable achievement. My goal for the series is to enable the audience to empathize with the character. Even if our experiences of becoming an adult differ from one another, art and storytelling form a language to understand other people’s own lives.

     

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  • 1:00 pm
    02/28/2020

    Each year Arts Center East displays an exhibition of photography. It continues to be one of our most popular exhibits. Artists are welcome to submit their original work for jurying!

    View and download the prospectus here.

    Drop-off Dates:
    Thursday February 13, 3:00–6:00pm
    Friday February 14, 3:00–6:00pm
    Saturday, February 15, 10:00am–2:00 pm

    Pick-up of Unaccepted Work:
    Tuesday, February 18, 3:00–6:00pm
    Wednesday, February 19, 3:00–6:00pm

    Opening Reception: Sunday, February 23, 12:00pm–2:00pm

    Exhibit Dates: February 23–March 14
    Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 1:00–5:00pm

    End of Show Pick-up:
    Monday, March 16, 3:00–6:00pm
    Tuesday, March 17, 3:00–6:00pm

    Sponsored by

    About the Jurors

    Exhibit juror Ellen Carey is an educator, independent scholar, guest curator, photographer and lens-based artist, whose unique experimental work (1974-2018) spans several decades. Her early work Painted Self-Portraits (1978) were first exhibited at Hallwalls, one of the first artists-run alternative space, home to the Buffalo avant-garde — Robert Longo and Cindy Sherman — and led to a group exhibit The Altered Photograph at PS 1, another avant-garde institution. The visionary curator, Linda Cathcart, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (AKAG) selected Carey’s work for this exhibition as well as The Heroic Figure, which presented thirteen American artists for the São Paulo Biennale including: Cindy Sherman, Nancy Dwyer, Julian Schnabel and David Salle, portraits by Robert Mapplethorpe; South/North American tour (1984-1986).

    In 1983, The Polaroid Artists Support Program invited Carey to work at the Polaroid 20 X 24 Studio. Her Neo-Geo, post-psychedelic Self-Portraits (1984-88) were created, followed by her stacked photo-installations Abstractions (1988-95). Her pioneering breakthrough in Polaroid sees her Pull (1996) fol-lowed by her Rollback (1997) naming her Polaroid practice Photography Degree Zero (1996-2018). She investigates minimal and abstract images with Polaroid’s instant technology partnered with her innovative concepts, often using only light, photography’s indexical, or none, emphasizing zero. Her photogram work is darkroom-based and camera-less; it parallels her Polaroid less-is-more aesthetic under her umbrella con-cept Struck by Light (1992-2018). When Carey works in the color darkroom, no light is allowed except upon exposure. Carey has worked in a variety of cameras and formats: Polaroid SX-70 and Polaroid PN film; black/white to color; 35mm, medium, and large format. Her experimental images see a range of gen-res and themes; they are one-of-a-kind. Underscored by concepts around light, photography’s indexical and properties specific to the medium – silhouette; shadow; negative – in color, Carey often uses RGBYMC, photographic color theory, as a point-of-departure in palette, adding context and content, citing the history of color photography, especially the work of Anna Atkins, the first women photographer, the first in color.

    Site-specific monumental installations in Polaroid include Mourning Wall of 100 grey negatives at Real Art Ways (2000), also exhibited in Part-Picture (2015) at The Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art (MoCCA); Self-Portrait @ 48 at Connecticut Commission for the Arts (2001); the gigantic Pulls XL that used the Polaroid 40 X 80 camera (shortly dismantled, never re-assembled) for her MATRIX #153 exhibit (2004-05) at The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (www.wadsworthatheneum.org) in their prestig-ious MATRIX program. Dings & Shadowsare often huge color photogram installations, one seen at The Benton Museum of Art, another at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). Caesura (2016) is a photogram that introduces visual breaks in color; caesura is Greek or Latin for pause: in word (poetry) or sound (music). Her images use color theory — RGBYMC — as palette and conceptual point-of-departure, using light, photography’s indexical, as it — blends, bends, breaks — across the paper. What remains are vertical bands, dividing the rectangle in half, white is the break or pause, in the composition; its “ caesura” or cut, dramatic black signals too much light, colors overlap as well. Zerogram re-names the traditional photo-gram; many published in her first artist’s book “Mirrors of Chance: The Photograms of Ellen Carey”.

    Photography Degree Zero (1996-2018) names her large format Polaroid 20 X 24 lens-based art, which she began using in 1983 under the Polaroid Artist Support Program. Struck by Light (1992-2018) finds her parallel practice in the darkroom with the camera-less photogram, a process from the dawn of the medium, discovered in the 19th century by William Henry Fox Talbot, both photogram and the phrase drawing with light continue today. Her experimental investigations into abstraction and minimalism, partnered with her innovative concepts and iconoclastic art making, often use bold colors to create new forms. Color and light is the link between her two practices; light, photography’s indexical, is used a lot or a little or none at all; its absence or zero.

    Pictus & Writ (2008-2018) finds the artist’s tradition of writing on other artists. Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective at MASS MoCA, with Yale University Press, published the book Sol LeWitt:100 Views with 100 new essays; Color Me Real is Ellen Carey’s contribution. Her Man Ray essay on her discovery of his “hidden” signature in his black and white photograph (1935) titled Space Writings (Self-Portrait) sees an edited version At Play with Man Ray published in Aperture. On her own work In Hamlet’s Shadow, published in The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation exhibit/book/tour (2012-13); Mary-Kay Lombino, Curator, Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College.

    Ellen Carey’s work has been the subject of 55 one-person exhibitions in museums, alternative spaces, uni-versity, college and commercial galleries (1978-2018) – highlights: Dings, Shadows and Pulls, Amon Carter Museum of American Art (ACMAA); Photography Degree ZeroMatrix#153 Wadsworth Athene-um Museum of Art; Mourning Wall Real Art Ways; femme brut(e) Lyman Allyn Art Museum; Struck by Light Saint Joseph University; Ellen Carey: SurveyICP/NY; upcoming retrospective titled Struck by Light: The Experimental Photography of Ellen Carey, Burchfield – Penney Art Center (BPAC), received funding (30K) from Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (NY, NY) for 2020.

    Her work seen in hundreds of group exhibitions (1974-2020) in museums, alternative spaces, university and college galleries, non-profits and commercial venues; highlighted in permanent collections of over 60 photography and art museums: The Albright-Knox Art Gallery (AKAG), The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (ACMAA), George Eastman Museum (GEM), Museum at the Chicago Art Institute, Fogg Museum at Harvard University, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Britain Museum of American Art (NBMAA), Norton Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), Whitney Museum of American Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Yale Uni-versity Art Gallery while corporate collections include: Banana Republic and JP Morgan Chase Collection; noted private include: The LeWitt Foundation and Sir Elton John Collection. Exhibitions, solo and group, include: books, catalogues, brochures, artist talks, reviews, lectures etc: www.ellencareyphotography.com.

     

    Exhibit juror Rita Lombardi is currently the Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of Connecticut and resides in Providence, Rhode Island. She received her MFA from The University of Connecticut and her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

    She has been the recipient of grants and scholarships, including the Innovative Teaching grant from the Wellin Museum, travel grants from the University of Connecticut and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, was the recipient of the John Renna Arts Scholarship, National Endowment for the Arts. She was an artist-in-residence at the School of Visual Arts in NY and at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT.

    Her work has been in solo exhibits at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Museum, the Cogar Gallery, the Spirol Gallery, and the Dirt Palace as well as group shows in museums and galleries nationally; Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Louisville, and throughout New England.

    She has been published in both print and online publications, including F-Stop Magazine, The Curated Fridge, Afield Magazine, Redivider Literary Journal, and Blank Canvas Magazine. Her photographs can be found in private and public collections and is represented in the Boston Drawing Project flat files.

  • 1:00 pm-5:00 pm
    02/28/2020

    Eureka Gallery
    The Artwork of Steven Uccello.

    Opening Reception: Sunday, February 23, 12:00–2:00pm
    Exhibit Dates:     February 23–March 14
    Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 1:00–5:00pm

    Falling Shadows by Steven Uccello

    I think of What Leaves, What Remains as a homage to classic stories of growing up, self-discovery, and running away. I centered my lens not only on the individual but the places around them; both when they are present and absent. I wandered away from a purely linear storyline because, like trying to remember our own past experiences, our memories ebb and flow between the vivid and the fragmented. I find that, in recalling my own past, the strongest imagery can sometimes be the most commonplace scenes that are simply recontextualized in the moment.

    Different photographic techniques, mediums, and genres also aid in encapsulating memory and one’s own thoughts. The series includes landscape photography, architectural photography, surveillance, postcards, intimate Polaroids, still lives, and even forensic photography. By keeping myself open to all these possible strategies I find it builds out the world and ideas I want to showcase.

    We all had to grow up and find ourselves. To some, being themselves may have felt like an insurmountable achievement. My goal for the series is to enable the audience to empathize with the character. Even if our experiences of becoming an adult differ from one another, art and storytelling form a language to understand other people’s own lives.

     

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  • 1:00 pm
    02/29/2020

    Each year Arts Center East displays an exhibition of photography. It continues to be one of our most popular exhibits. Artists are welcome to submit their original work for jurying!

    View and download the prospectus here.

    Drop-off Dates:
    Thursday February 13, 3:00–6:00pm
    Friday February 14, 3:00–6:00pm
    Saturday, February 15, 10:00am–2:00 pm

    Pick-up of Unaccepted Work:
    Tuesday, February 18, 3:00–6:00pm
    Wednesday, February 19, 3:00–6:00pm

    Opening Reception: Sunday, February 23, 12:00pm–2:00pm

    Exhibit Dates: February 23–March 14
    Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 1:00–5:00pm

    End of Show Pick-up:
    Monday, March 16, 3:00–6:00pm
    Tuesday, March 17, 3:00–6:00pm

    Sponsored by

    About the Jurors

    Exhibit juror Ellen Carey is an educator, independent scholar, guest curator, photographer and lens-based artist, whose unique experimental work (1974-2018) spans several decades. Her early work Painted Self-Portraits (1978) were first exhibited at Hallwalls, one of the first artists-run alternative space, home to the Buffalo avant-garde — Robert Longo and Cindy Sherman — and led to a group exhibit The Altered Photograph at PS 1, another avant-garde institution. The visionary curator, Linda Cathcart, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (AKAG) selected Carey’s work for this exhibition as well as The Heroic Figure, which presented thirteen American artists for the São Paulo Biennale including: Cindy Sherman, Nancy Dwyer, Julian Schnabel and David Salle, portraits by Robert Mapplethorpe; South/North American tour (1984-1986).

    In 1983, The Polaroid Artists Support Program invited Carey to work at the Polaroid 20 X 24 Studio. Her Neo-Geo, post-psychedelic Self-Portraits (1984-88) were created, followed by her stacked photo-installations Abstractions (1988-95). Her pioneering breakthrough in Polaroid sees her Pull (1996) fol-lowed by her Rollback (1997) naming her Polaroid practice Photography Degree Zero (1996-2018). She investigates minimal and abstract images with Polaroid’s instant technology partnered with her innovative concepts, often using only light, photography’s indexical, or none, emphasizing zero. Her photogram work is darkroom-based and camera-less; it parallels her Polaroid less-is-more aesthetic under her umbrella con-cept Struck by Light (1992-2018). When Carey works in the color darkroom, no light is allowed except upon exposure. Carey has worked in a variety of cameras and formats: Polaroid SX-70 and Polaroid PN film; black/white to color; 35mm, medium, and large format. Her experimental images see a range of gen-res and themes; they are one-of-a-kind. Underscored by concepts around light, photography’s indexical and properties specific to the medium – silhouette; shadow; negative – in color, Carey often uses RGBYMC, photographic color theory, as a point-of-departure in palette, adding context and content, citing the history of color photography, especially the work of Anna Atkins, the first women photographer, the first in color.

    Site-specific monumental installations in Polaroid include Mourning Wall of 100 grey negatives at Real Art Ways (2000), also exhibited in Part-Picture (2015) at The Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art (MoCCA); Self-Portrait @ 48 at Connecticut Commission for the Arts (2001); the gigantic Pulls XL that used the Polaroid 40 X 80 camera (shortly dismantled, never re-assembled) for her MATRIX #153 exhibit (2004-05) at The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (www.wadsworthatheneum.org) in their prestig-ious MATRIX program. Dings & Shadowsare often huge color photogram installations, one seen at The Benton Museum of Art, another at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). Caesura (2016) is a photogram that introduces visual breaks in color; caesura is Greek or Latin for pause: in word (poetry) or sound (music). Her images use color theory — RGBYMC — as palette and conceptual point-of-departure, using light, photography’s indexical, as it — blends, bends, breaks — across the paper. What remains are vertical bands, dividing the rectangle in half, white is the break or pause, in the composition; its “ caesura” or cut, dramatic black signals too much light, colors overlap as well. Zerogram re-names the traditional photo-gram; many published in her first artist’s book “Mirrors of Chance: The Photograms of Ellen Carey”.

    Photography Degree Zero (1996-2018) names her large format Polaroid 20 X 24 lens-based art, which she began using in 1983 under the Polaroid Artist Support Program. Struck by Light (1992-2018) finds her parallel practice in the darkroom with the camera-less photogram, a process from the dawn of the medium, discovered in the 19th century by William Henry Fox Talbot, both photogram and the phrase drawing with light continue today. Her experimental investigations into abstraction and minimalism, partnered with her innovative concepts and iconoclastic art making, often use bold colors to create new forms. Color and light is the link between her two practices; light, photography’s indexical, is used a lot or a little or none at all; its absence or zero.

    Pictus & Writ (2008-2018) finds the artist’s tradition of writing on other artists. Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective at MASS MoCA, with Yale University Press, published the book Sol LeWitt:100 Views with 100 new essays; Color Me Real is Ellen Carey’s contribution. Her Man Ray essay on her discovery of his “hidden” signature in his black and white photograph (1935) titled Space Writings (Self-Portrait) sees an edited version At Play with Man Ray published in Aperture. On her own work In Hamlet’s Shadow, published in The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation exhibit/book/tour (2012-13); Mary-Kay Lombino, Curator, Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College.

    Ellen Carey’s work has been the subject of 55 one-person exhibitions in museums, alternative spaces, uni-versity, college and commercial galleries (1978-2018) – highlights: Dings, Shadows and Pulls, Amon Carter Museum of American Art (ACMAA); Photography Degree ZeroMatrix#153 Wadsworth Athene-um Museum of Art; Mourning Wall Real Art Ways; femme brut(e) Lyman Allyn Art Museum; Struck by Light Saint Joseph University; Ellen Carey: SurveyICP/NY; upcoming retrospective titled Struck by Light: The Experimental Photography of Ellen Carey, Burchfield – Penney Art Center (BPAC), received funding (30K) from Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (NY, NY) for 2020.

    Her work seen in hundreds of group exhibitions (1974-2020) in museums, alternative spaces, university and college galleries, non-profits and commercial venues; highlighted in permanent collections of over 60 photography and art museums: The Albright-Knox Art Gallery (AKAG), The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (ACMAA), George Eastman Museum (GEM), Museum at the Chicago Art Institute, Fogg Museum at Harvard University, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Britain Museum of American Art (NBMAA), Norton Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), Whitney Museum of American Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Yale Uni-versity Art Gallery while corporate collections include: Banana Republic and JP Morgan Chase Collection; noted private include: The LeWitt Foundation and Sir Elton John Collection. Exhibitions, solo and group, include: books, catalogues, brochures, artist talks, reviews, lectures etc: www.ellencareyphotography.com.

     

    Exhibit juror Rita Lombardi is currently the Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of Connecticut and resides in Providence, Rhode Island. She received her MFA from The University of Connecticut and her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

    She has been the recipient of grants and scholarships, including the Innovative Teaching grant from the Wellin Museum, travel grants from the University of Connecticut and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, was the recipient of the John Renna Arts Scholarship, National Endowment for the Arts. She was an artist-in-residence at the School of Visual Arts in NY and at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT.

    Her work has been in solo exhibits at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Museum, the Cogar Gallery, the Spirol Gallery, and the Dirt Palace as well as group shows in museums and galleries nationally; Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Louisville, and throughout New England.

    She has been published in both print and online publications, including F-Stop Magazine, The Curated Fridge, Afield Magazine, Redivider Literary Journal, and Blank Canvas Magazine. Her photographs can be found in private and public collections and is represented in the Boston Drawing Project flat files.

  • 1:00 pm-5:00 pm
    02/29/2020

    Eureka Gallery
    The Artwork of Steven Uccello.

    Opening Reception: Sunday, February 23, 12:00–2:00pm
    Exhibit Dates:     February 23–March 14
    Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 1:00–5:00pm

    Falling Shadows by Steven Uccello

    I think of What Leaves, What Remains as a homage to classic stories of growing up, self-discovery, and running away. I centered my lens not only on the individual but the places around them; both when they are present and absent. I wandered away from a purely linear storyline because, like trying to remember our own past experiences, our memories ebb and flow between the vivid and the fragmented. I find that, in recalling my own past, the strongest imagery can sometimes be the most commonplace scenes that are simply recontextualized in the moment.

    Different photographic techniques, mediums, and genres also aid in encapsulating memory and one’s own thoughts. The series includes landscape photography, architectural photography, surveillance, postcards, intimate Polaroids, still lives, and even forensic photography. By keeping myself open to all these possible strategies I find it builds out the world and ideas I want to showcase.

    We all had to grow up and find ourselves. To some, being themselves may have felt like an insurmountable achievement. My goal for the series is to enable the audience to empathize with the character. Even if our experiences of becoming an adult differ from one another, art and storytelling form a language to understand other people’s own lives.

     

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